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April 26, 2007 08:46 AM EDT --
From Borat to Jon Stewart and beyond, Jewish humor is alive and kvelling.
On Point spoke about Jewish humor today with William Novak and Moshe Waldoks, the authors of the 25th edition of "The . . .
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May 31, 2007 10:43 AM EDT --
Fifty years ago, marriage and divorce rates in America were roughly equal among all classes and races. Not anymore. Not even close. When headlines this month announced divorce rates were down to their . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
How thirsty is America for bottled water? Pretty darned thirsty.
Every week of the year we now move a billion bottles of water from ground to gullet in ships and trains and trucks. That's the equivalent . . .
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August 16, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
It’s been a summer of violent and gut-wrenching crime reports in America. From execution-style shootings in Newark to New Orleans and Oakland and home invasion in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut, . . .
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July 19, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
When "No Child Left Behind" became the law of the land for American public schools in 2001, George W. Bush was riding high and the idea of holding schools accountable for student performance . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
Here's the reality of the race for the GOP's '08 presidential nomination. Mitt Romney won the Iowa straw poll but still draws just 13 percent in national polls. McCain is on the ropes. Fred . . .
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May 08, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
Novelist, essayist, poet and all-around London super-critic Clive James has been a fixture of Britain's cultural thrust and parry for decades. Now he's out with a warning for the world, at least . . .
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June 12, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
When Roy Blount, Jr. goes looking for the soul of America, he doesn’t find it in the “heart” of the South or the “mind” of the North. He finds it in those places where . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:04 AM EDT --
Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam is a self-described full-on liberal who worries a lot about community in America. He made his name in the 1990s with his finding that hordes of Americans were, . . .
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July 02, 2007 11:20 AM EDT --
Across the country today, American schools and educators are still trying to figure out the full implications of last week's big Supreme Court ruling on race and school assignments.
A half century . . .
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August 16, 2007 11:12 AM EDT --
Thirty years ago today, Elvis Presley --King of Rock ‘n Roll -- died in Memphis, at his home, Graceland, a drugged and bloated mess. The end wasn't pretty. Too many drugs and peanut . . .
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July 31, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
Less than a week after leaving rehab, police arrested actress Lindsey Lohan for driving drunk and possessing cocaine. Britney Spears has also made headlines for seeking treatment. Robert Downey, Jr. has . . .
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June 27, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Back in the 1970s, the CIA gathered up its most embarrassing secrets, its most shameful skeletons, and tagged them the “family jewels." "Family Jewels" is, of course, a funny thing . . .
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