December 2011
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Obama Makes It Official: Suspected Terrorists Can... →
From the Atlantic Wire:
Today I have signed into law H.R. 1540, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.” I have signed the Act chiefly because it authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, crucial services for service members and their families, and vital national security programs that must be renewed. In hundreds of...
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_______ is the new ________?
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NYTimes: The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made →
A Nous la Liberte (1932)
About Schmidt (2002)
Absence of Malice (1981)
Adam’s Rib (1949)
Adaptation (2002)
The Adjuster (1991)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Affliction (1998)
The African Queen (1952)
L’Age d’Or (1930, reviewed 1964)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, reviewed 1977)
A.I. (2001)
Airplane! (1980)
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JUMP...
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The Best Tumblrs We've Ever Seen, This Year →
newshour:
Great list
nationaljournal:
NJ didn’t make the list, but 2012 will be our year! At least, The Atlantic will be receiving lots of Edible Arrangements in an attempt to sway their judgement in our favor. It helps that they work one floor below.
Disclaimer: Ryan Gosling VS Puppy did make the list & happens to be a NJ newsroom favorite.
Humbled again. Thank you Atlantic Wire.
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United States as a global power: new world... →
The Guardian Editorial:
The time has long since past when it became fashionable to talk about a new world order. The collapse of the Soviet Union provided an opportunity to fashion one. But instead of using that opportunity to create a new security architecture in Europe, Nato expanded eastwards as the military anchor for democracy promotion. Not content to have seen off one global military...
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Films Selected to the 2011 National Film Registry →
Allures (1961)
Bambi (1942)
The Big Heat (1953)
A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment (1963)
The Cry of the Children (1912)
A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
El Mariachi (1992)
Faces (1968)
Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Growing Up Female (1971)
Hester Street (1975)
I, an Actress (1977)
The Iron Horse (1924)
The Kid (1921)
The Lost...
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“Half of all the films in the Silent era were written by women. All of the top...”
– These Amazing Shadows, streaming on Netflix
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Roger Ebert: I'll tell you why movie revenue is... →
1. Obviously, the absence of a must-see mass-market movie. […]
2. Ticket prices are too high. […]
3. The theater experience. […]
4. Refreshment prices. […]
5. Competition from other forms of delivery. […]
6. Lack of choice. Box-office tracking shows that the bright spot in 2011 was the performance of indie, foreign or documentary films [this has arguably been...
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“There’s little of more importance to the future of our country and our...”
– J. F. Kennedy as quoted by his daughter, Caroline, at the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors
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“There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.”
— Warren Buffett
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.”
— Elizabeth Warren
think-progress: 11 Quotes From 2011
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More than this... you know, there's nothing.
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Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter →
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