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December 19, 2005

12:23
Critically acclaimed, publicly adored musician Beck is out of the closet as a longtime Scientologist. Could this be what's made him so interesting all along?
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12:23
In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, one woman's story of suffering, survival and eventual rescue.
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12:23
The New York Times doesn't have a good explanation for why it waited until after the 2004 election to print a devastating report against the White House.
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12:23
Actress Felicity Huffman of 'Desperate Housewives' opens up about playing a woman in the middle of a gender reassignment in the new road flick 'Transamerica.'
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12:23
From sperm to zygote to fetus to baby, isn't it time we brought some precision to the language of the reproductive rights debate?
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12:23
In his new book, Hadji Williams details his experiences as a Black man surviving in corporate America. Amidst real-life examples of corruption and discrimination, he also shares a blue print for changing it all from the inside out.
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December 16, 2005

15:15
Paranoid and frightened, the anti-immigrant group that calls itself the Minutemen mourn the American dream, patrolling the Mexico-U.S. border in their SUVs.
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Bush's vision that Iraq will become a launching pad for a new era of peace among the nations in the region ignores what is actually taking place on the ground.
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If you are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. The guessers are in charge -- the haters of information.
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In a new memoir, the son of a priest and a nun discusses the messy meeting of sex and Catholicism.
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It's a little silly to call for 'complete victory' without acknowledging that the war itself is not going well.
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It looks like the ugly days of government paranoia and official lawbreaking are making a comeback.
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Moyers addresses the Bush administration's obsession with secrecy and its bullying and manipulation of PBS.
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The film 'Brokeback Mountain' is a cinematic example of a fast-dying phenomenon: love stories of tragic proportions.
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It's a little silly to call for 'complete victory' without acknowledging that the war itself is not going well.
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15:15
Polish hip hop talks about familiar themes -- unemployment, poor schools and an unsympathetic, underpaid police.
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December 15, 2005

16:08
Can you spare $25 bucks? Thanks to a new nonprofit, a few clicks of the mouse lets you loan it to a small business halfway across the world.
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16:08
Grassroots groups that mobilized for the 2004 elections may have failed to defeat Bush, but they're still making waves across the country.
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16:08
The focus of the Hong Kong round for rich western nations is to squeeze every drop of money they can out of developing countries in water privatization deals.
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The latest: Breaking: a dog comes out of the green room ... Globalizations colliding ... Breaking: Tidal change in the “architecture of the global trading systemâ€
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