The Courthouse Ring - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/10/the-courthouse-ring
Sheriff Tate brings the news to Finch, and persuades him to lie about what actually happened; the story will be that Ewell inadvertently stabbed himself in the scuffle. Sometimes whites trusted the word of black men whose families they had known for generations over the sworn testimony of white women whose backgrounds were unknown or (even worse) known and despised
http://www.economist.com/node/7830218
And they are investing in free daily papers, which do not use up any of their meagre editorial resources on uncovering political corruption or corporate fraud. The rush is almost unseemly, largely because the internet is a seductive medium that supposedly matches buyers with sellers and proves to advertisers that their money is well spent
http://phish.com/news/
Anyone with a LivePhish+ subscription can stream the show right now from the LivePhish App or you can purchase from LivePhish.com and stream via the free App (in your Stash). Phish returns to Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, NY read more Apr 1, 2015 Summer 2015 Lawn Tickets Available In Real Time For those of you who want to pick up lawn tickets and avoid the public on sales this week, we have a limited quantity of lawn tickets available for select shows on the Summer Tour including Mountain View, Austin, Atlanta, Cuyahoga Falls, East Troy, Raleigh, Columbia, and Commerce City (tickets in the stands)
The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) - Photos - The Big Picture - Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/the_year_2008_in_photographs_p.html
(Carlos Gutierrez) 2Kartoula, 14, a refugee from Sudan's western Darfur region, enters a distribution centre to receive monthly food rations at Djabal camp near Gos Beida in eastern Chad, June 5, 2008. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/11/26/how-miriam-careys-u-turn-at-a-white-house-checkpoint-led-to-her-death/
Suddenly, Farkas hears sirens and, through the viewfinder, sees the black Infiniti pull onto the sidewalk at the foot of the Lawn and stop, its bumper close to the bollards. Amy added that she seemed better after receiving counseling and medication, and was tapering off the medication in accordance with a one-year treatment plan
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/qatar-nepal-workers-world-cup-2022-death-toll-doha
After it was published, Qatar said it would reform the kafala system that keeps workers tied to their employer, and better enforce laws that require contractors to provide humane living conditions and ban them from seizing passports. Photograph: Supplied A series of stories in the Guardian have shown that migrant workers from Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere were dying in their hundreds
http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/
Intel, which would supply the Atom CPUs to power the device, has assisted us repeatedly with engineering and partner advice, and gave us pricing that was ridiculously generous given our projected first year sales volumes. A major multi-billion dollar retail partner has been patiently working with us for months, giving advice on manufacturing partners and offering to sell the CrunchPad at a zero margin to help us succeed in the early days
http://www.wsj.com/articles/five-years-after-first-bailout-greece-back-on-the-brink-1430504437
When Europe and the International Monetary Fund first agreed to bail Greece out on May 2, 2010, the plan was to return Greece to growth and bond markets within three years
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/the-death-of-the-artist-and-the-birth-of-the-creative-entrepreneur/383497/
No climactic masterwork of deep maturity, no King Lear or Faust, but rather many shifting interests and directions as the winds of market forces blow you here or there. Artists will inevitably spend a lot more time looking over their shoulder, trying to figure out what the customer wants rather than what they themselves are seeking to say
The GOP Faces Years in the Wilderness After 2012 Election Losses - The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/26/the-gop-faces-years-in-the-wilderness-after-2012-election-losses.html
Tucker, a founder of The Monkey Cage blog, where political scientists grapple insightfully with politics, observed that 2012 was two presidential elections rolled into one. And 65 percent in the exit polls favored immigration reform with a path to citizenship.All this leaves Republicans out there on a demographic cliff with women, Hispanics, and young people
Did Tony die at the end of The Sopranos?: David Chase finally answers the question he wants fans to stop asking - Vox
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/27/6006139/did-tony-die-at-the-end-of-the-sopranos
Yet somehow these creators following their own passions came together to serve Chase's vision that, as he wrote to me in an e-mail, "Nature is part of Our Universe and Our Universe is part of Nature and there could well be more universes or mirror universes." Coulter is more aware than most about this other side of Chase. Welles' magic, Bunuel's real-looking dreams, Poe's sand that keeps flowing through our fingers no matter what we try to do to stop it, are the inspirations for the cut to black
http://science.time.com/2013/11/01/oceans-warming-faster-than-they-have-over-past-10000-years/
In addition, according to the comment by the editor of Science, "The findings support the view that the Holocene Thermal Maximum, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age were global events, and they provide a long-term perspective for evaluating the role of ocean heat content in various warming scenarios for the future."You forgot to mention that the pacific ocean has been much warmer over most of the last 10,000 years. Maybe your experience is different and you never got more than 3 feet offshore and faced inland all the time.Perhaps, instead of shooting from the hip with utterly invalid comparisons, you'd actually look up something to really understand what the hell you're talking about for a change
Nick Jonas and Olivia Culpo Split After Almost Two Years Together
http://www.etonline.com/news/166209_nick_jonas_and_olivia_culpo_split_after_almost_two_years_together/
Rumors of a split have surrounded the former couple recently, especially since the good-looking pair hasn't been seen together since the 2015 Billboard Music Awards on May 17
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/07/why-stephen-king-spends-months-and-even-years-writing-opening-sentences/278043/
It's the story about this guy who comes to town, and uses grudges and sleeping animosities among the townspeople to whip everyone up into a frenzy of neighbor against neighbor. A novel's voice is something like a singer's -- think of singers like Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan, who have no musical training but are instantly recognizable
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/09/-sp-north-carolina-teenager-suspicious-death-lennon-lacy
Everybody in his neighbourhood appears to have a story about how he would make a beeline to shake their hand, or offer to help them out by moving furniture or anything else that needed doing. The Knights had lost one of the most promising players; his tight-knit family was thrown into despair; and a question echoed around the streets of the tiny town of Bladenboro, North Carolina: what had happened to Lennon Lacy? The last person known to have seen Lacy alive was his father, Larry Walton
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