February 2012
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A classic love story: Boy meets girl, girl’s father sabotages boy’s fire trick. You know the drill.
Watch the new video for Cults’ “You Know What I Mean.”
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One of the great things about this era of the game, though — it goes along with...
– The epic warfare of the Rafael Nadal-Novak Djokovic Australian Open final - Grantland
Great writing by Brian Phillips at Grantland.
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One of these days men’s tennis is going to get boring again. There will be...
– Jason Gay: Why Tennis Rules the Earth - WSJ.com
There’s a group of supremely talented athletes at the top of men’s tennis right now. The incredible ability they possess is perhaps only surpassed by their collective sportsmanship and determination to keep improving themselves.
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ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for...
– My Guantánamo Nightmare - NYTimes.com
Lakhdar Boumediene on the seven years he was held at Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial (via Jason Kottke)
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The language of S&M is also now part of the eurozone discourse. The joint...
– Angela Merkel has the whip hand in an orgy of austerity
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“Cold pavement indeed
the night you died,
murdered;
but the airborne drop...
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THE tragedy of Stephen Lawrence’s murder and his family’s long battle for justice has been captured in a new work by the poet laureate.
Carol Ann Duffy’s poem was published yesterday and is simply titled Stephen Lawrence.
Poet laureate captures family’s fight for justice
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