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The details surrounding the assassination of Benazir Bhutto are still murky. A former Bhutto aide said that officials charged with her government were “dismissive” about her security requests. NPR said she was aware of the risks, but wanted to campaign anyway. The presidential candidates here are already offering up their perfunctory condolences; Slate’s John [...]
It was mostly symbolic: New Jersey hasn’t actually executed someone it’s sentenced to death in more than forty years. But its decision to repeal the death penalty last week was still a seismic political event. The decision emboldened anti-death penalty lawmakers in other states like Nebraska and Maryland. (Four other states where [...] Some high rollers at Sony thought so much of Michael Mays, a filmmaker from one of L.A.’s roughest neighborhoods, that they donated $25,000 worth of film for his next movie, “Trouble.” He hopes to have “Trouble” wrapped by February when he turns eighteen. [NYT] I wanna see this when it drops to see [...] So Mitt Romney, after being questioned as to whether his pops really marched with MLK, said that he meant they did so “in a figurative sense.” Said dNA over @ J&J: “Romney’s campaign is also saying that reports of Romney being with Salt-and-Pepa and Heavy D up in the Limousine were also not [...] I wanted to shout out Racialicious’s best blog entries from 2007, which spawned some great discussions about race and the media from last year. (You’ll need to scroll down; they’re on the panel to the right). |
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