Archive for May 1st, 2007
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Netroots Rising
Jonathan Chait has a massive cover story in The New Republic today about the netroots and the new progressive movement, which manages to both flatter its subject and rip into it at the same time. The story is also very, very smart — a masterful narrative about the rise of the left’s new political leadership […]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Monkeys Who Talk With Their Hands
Stories like this really make you wonder how much of your life is your own and how much belongs to the species.
From the Reuters story on new research into the use of hand-gestures in primates:
“Gestures are used across a wide range of contexts whereas most facial expressions and vocalizations are very narrowly used for one […]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
The Ballad of Deborah Jean
The alleged D.C. madam looks to be facing some rather damning testimony against her:
Among them are several women prepared to testify that they were prostitutes who worked for Palfrey’s firm, Pamela Martin & Associates. There also are men who, though they would prefer she plead guilty and leave their names out of it, will testify […]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
The Admissions Game
Via Yglesias and Drum, I see Michael Winerip complaining about how the students he interviews for admission to Harvard never get in, and then using that as a launching pad for some broader thoughts about the competitiveness of the college application process. It’s a nice, seasonal little essay, but his claim that only one of […]
