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Blog | Daniel Politi
Tropical Storm Isaac Forces Republicans To Shift Convention Plans
Sunday, August 26, 2012, at 5:15 PM EDT

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Neil Armstrong, First Man To Walk on the Moon, Dies at Age 82
Saturday, August 25, 2012, at 5:30 PM EDT

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Romney Says It's "Sad" How Democrats Are Trying To Tie GOP To Akin on Abortion
Sunday, August 26, 2012, at 5:02 PM EDT

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Syrian Government Accused of Carrying Out Massacre Near Capital, Killing Hundreds
Sunday, August 26, 2012, at 3:41 PM EDT

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Obama: Romney Is Now Locked Into "Extreme Positions" on Social, Economic Issues
Saturday, August 25, 2012, at 2:50 PM EDT

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
What Does Apple's Big Victory Against Samsung Mean for Consumers?
Saturday, August 25, 2012, at 12:14 PM EDT

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Former S.C. Governor Mark Sanford To Wed Argentine Girlfriend
Saturday, August 25, 2012, at 3:34 PM EDT

 
Blog | Josh Voorhees and Daniel Politi
All Bystanders Shot Outside Empire State Building Were Hit By Police Fire
Saturday, August 25, 2012, at 1:00 PM EDT

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Explosion at Venezuela Refinery Kills 39
Sunday, August 26, 2012, at 1:00 PM EDT

 
Blog | Josh Voorhees
Todd Akin Holds Friday Presser To Repeat What He Already Said Monday, Tuesday, ...
Friday, August 24, 2012, at 5:38 PM EDT

 
Jurisprudence | Amanda Frost
What the Supreme Court Did This Summer
Friday, August 24, 2012, at 4:04 AM EDT
Do the justices really deserve a three-month vacation?
 
Map of the Week | Chris Kirk
Where's Obama?
Friday, August 24, 2012, at 8:18 AM EDT
A map of the candidate's campaign events in red states, blue states, and campaign battlegrounds.
 
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His Grief, And Ours

Leon Wieseltier | New Republic | 24 August 2012

Against Paul Ryan, a "morally insolvent", mendacious, mean-spirited, narrow-minded man led astray by Ayn Rand. "The ideal of self-reliance in America has always been attended by a corollary of indifference to others, of nastiness" Comments

Riddled With Irregularity

Philip Ball | Prospect | 22 August 2012

"Recent scientific studies propose that language 'universals' aren’t simply prescribed by genes but arise from the interaction between the biology of human perception and the bustle, exchange and negotiation of human culture" Comments

David Foster Wallace On The Brink of 'Infinite Jest'

DT Max | Daily Beast | 19 August 2012

Portrait of a troubled genius. “I am a pathetic and very confused young man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searingly envious of any young man producing pages that I consider suicide a reasonable option" Comments

Are You A Hero Or A Bystander?

Sue Shellenbarger | WSJ | 21 August 2012

What makes one person risk their life to save another from an impending train crash? Or to catch a baby falling from a building? Psychologists believe that specific character traits reveal a propensity for bravery Comments

The Lancashire Witches 1612-2012

Robert Poole | Public Domain Review | 22 August 2012

Revisiting Pendle witch trials of 1612. It all began when John Law had a stroke, while arguing with a young lady. He later accused her of being a witch. The evidence of two children led to arrest of 19 others. And a mass execution Comments

Lunch With The FT: Ian McEwan

Caroline Daniel | FT | 24 August 2012

Amusing, touching, surprisingly intimate conversation digging deep into novelist's childhood and youth. Parents gave his brother away for adoption. Arrived in London as a literary mouse. “How did I become a lion? By roaring!" Comments

Foreign Box Office: 'Expendables 2' Poised to Repeat as No. 1 Film Overseas

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Box Office Report: Anti-Obama Doc Beats New Films With $6.3 Mil on Eve of GOP Convention

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The film is already the top documentary of 2012 and the No. 6 political doc of all time; holdover "The Expendables 2" tops the box office for the second weekend in a row.

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Cheat Sheet - Neil Armstrong: A Modest Man on the Moon

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Today: Hurricane Isaac Delays the Republican National Convention , In Syria: ‘Kill, Kill, Kill’ , Romney Turns Focus to Convention
Cheat Sheet: Morning

August 26, 2012
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Give him the moon landing, sure, but astronaut Neil Armstrong's bigger accomplishment was showing Americans how to accept honest humility, writes Daniel Stone. Plus, see photos of Armstrong’s space odyssey.

Stormy

As the tropical storm churns toward Tampa, party officials had little choice but to cancel the Monday kickoff of the Republican National Convention. Howard Kurtz on why the media wouldn’t cover it anyway.

CARNAGE

A Syrian activist said the regime’s marching orders are to ‘kill, kill, kill’ a day after more than 400 people were reported dead in the nation’s escalating violence. That number includes more than 200 people found dead in Daraya, a suburb near the capital of Damascus. “Daraya is being targeted because it is closest to the capital, and it is one of the first cities that revolted against the Assad regime,” said a spokeswoman for the Local Coordination Committees, an activist group. “Deep down, they know they are failing,” the spokeswoman said of efforts to quash the rebels, “but they want to destroy as much as possible before it is over.”

RNC

Due to receive the Republican Party’s nomination in Tampa this week, Mitt Romney turned voters’ attention to President Obama’s own convention appearance, scheduled for the first week of September. “I can almost read his speech now,” the Republican candidate said. “It will be filled with promises and tell people how wonderful things are.” After repeated distractions over the course of the last week, including a comment that alluded to false theories regarding the president’s birthplace, Romney said he was ready to get back to the issues. “It’s not his words the people have to listen to, it is his actions and his record,” he said of Obama.

BOX OFFICE

Now Bully knows what it feels like to get pushed around. The documentary chronicling grade-school lunch-money grabbers has lost the top-earner spot to 2016: Obama’s America, a conservative take on the president’s record led by commentator Dinesh D’Souza and John Sullivan. The film grossed $2.2 million Friday after expanding to theaters nationwide just as Republicans and reporters began to pour into Tampa for the GOP’s national convention. The film is expected to make about $6 million overall for the weekend.


DISASTER
Venezuelan Refinery Explodes
Chavez orders probe.
WIKILEAKS
Ecuador: Britain Won’t Raid Embassy
Where Julian Assange took refuge.
COLLISION
Chinese Bus Crash Kills Dozens
After crashing into methanol tanker.
TIN-FOIL HATS
Cranks See UFOs, Little Green Men
In Mars footage.
MEATBALL
MTV Report: Snooki Has a Boy
First child for the ‘Jersey Shore’ star.
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