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President Obama weighed in on the growing controversy surrounding a Florida pastor who has said he will burn copies of the Quran the upcoming anniversary of 9-11. The President said that notion goes against American ideals.
Each week until the election, I'm posting some of the questions I'm trying to answer based on news of the week or something that's come up in my reporting. In the following weeks, I'll try to answer some of these questions. Feel free to weigh in with answersâor with more political questionsâat slatepolitics@gmail.com or in the comments section below. Here are this week's questions
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Gmail - Politics - United States - Etiquette - Recreation
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Actually, Nate, from the uninformed fan's perspective, I think the myth of the happy action hero has been crumbling over the past decade or so. From Bill Belichick on down, the coaches and general managers have been ever more willing to demonstrate that the players are cogs in a systemâor assets on a roster, always fungible and always ready to be revalued.
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Bill Belichick - sport - National Football League - NFL - Football
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan made headlines by replacing the leaders of his security forces on Wednesday. He's not the first Nigerian political leader to have an auspicious name: Lucky Igbinedion was the governor of Edo state. Jonathan's wife is named Patience Jonathan. Are Nigerian names always so loaded?
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Nigeria - Goodluck Jonathan - Lucky Igbinedion - Africa - President of Nigeria
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The worst thing about I'm Still Here (Magnolia Pictures) is the fact that it exists. I'm fairly indifferent to the debate about the precise degree to which this "documentary" is a hoax. (The end titles include a writing creditâa clue that we're not exactly in cinema vérité territory.) Yes, it seems likelyâincontrovertible evenâthat the director, Casey Affleck, and his brother-in-law, Joaquin Phoenix (who also produced), cooked up this idea together and massaged real events in such a way as to provide subject matter for their movie. But the central reason they did soâbecause Phoenix was undergoing a self-destructive, drug-enabled mental breakdown that made for juicy mockumentary fodderâmakes the whole stunt pretty difficult to stomach.
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Joaquin Phoenix - Casey Affleck - Magnolia Pictures - Mockumentary - Hoax
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No greater pride befalls a scholar, a thinker, a journalist, a business executive, or other writer than to have a party thrown in honor of the publication of his book. A book party is like a wedding, a birthday party, a baptism, a prom, a class reunion, and a bar mitzvah all rolled up into one. For authorial self-esteem, the only things that can possibly top a book party is a book reading that's videotaped and broadcast by C-SPAN or a Charlie Rose interview.
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Bar and Bat Mitzvah - Judaism - Business - Charlie Rose - Journalist
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Stanley McChrystal's Yale syllabus is leaked online; FOX News won't cover the Quran burning; Iraqi candid-camera show frays nerves; more kids are being raised by their grandparents.
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Photographs from the aftermath of 9/11.
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Flags - Recreation - Theme Parks - Six Flags - United States
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A few months ago, I got fed up with my computer. This is not unusual for me. The slightest computing hiccups annoy me, and at the time my two-year-old machine seemed farther gone than a cartoon drunk. In truth, there was nothing wrong with the computer. The problem was meâI'd outgrown it. I'm neither a gamer nor a designer, and I'm a cheapskate, so I've always tried to buy moderately powered machinesâjust enough computer for my office-worker needs. The trouble is, I tend to use these cheap computers in ways that the manufacturers never intended.
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Personal computer - Hardware - Michigan - Business and Economy - Mobile computing
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