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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The greatest holiday film ever made was not Jimmy Stewart's It's A Wonderful Life, from 1946, but the 1955 black comedy We're No Angels. Its three stars--Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray--play escaped convicts from Devil's Island who hide out in the home of a naive family running a local haberdashery. The trio set out to rob the family, but end up defending them against their evil and wealthy...
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
If we were like angels, blameless and freely able to exercise perfect self-control, we would not need rules or regulations. Why, then, do we have so many laws and statutes? Because of man’s wickedness, for he is constantly overflowing with evil; this is why a remedy is required. . . .
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nanopolitan (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Rashmi Bansal has a story in JAM about how this brand new institution under the IIM banner is being undermined from the top. The troubles appear to start almost right from the appointment of a non-academic as Director. [ Aside: Just the other day, I linked to the first chapter ( pdf ) of Amanda Goodall's Socrates in the Boardroom : Why Research Universities Should be Led by Top Scholars . While academics...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Text messages from press row . . . Text messages from press row . . .
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Halos Heaven (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
More photos » by Julie Jacobson - AP Browse more photos » A couple of days ago I received "The Bill James Handbook" in the mail (from ACTA Sports ). For those of you who are unfamiliar with the handbook, it's 95% stats with a little commentary thrown in. Earlier, I posted what the handbook had projected for the 2010 Angels, but here are a few other things I found interesting:...
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The Right Rant (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Last night was of course Guy Fawkes Night, or Bonfire Night, or Fireworks Night. It's Guy Fawkes Night to me though as it is all about Guy Fawkes. In my youth (the 1970's) we kids/teenagers used to build giant bonfires in the week building up to Guy Fawkes Night. We would go around people's houses knocking the doors and asking them if they had anything for the bonfire and they'd always give us old...
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From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The dire forces of Aosoth are clearly not the type to shake your hand and parlay; their chosen form of communication is to cut your throat, chug a sanguine sampling, and then offer you forth as some demonic sacrifice. One of France's more grinding, venomous exports, they offer nothing but cruel, Satanic inspired hostility. Far more Arkhon Infaustus than Peste Noire , they just hammer the piss out of...
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Dohiyi Mir (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Members of the House are up in arms about the Goldstone report which notes that both sides of the Gaza War committed crimes. So I wrote to Congressman Peter Welch: I was pleased to see that you are not among...
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Movie Moxie (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Dir: Neil Jordon (The Good Thief, The Crying Game, We're No Angels) Source Material: Interview with the Vampire novel by Anne Rice Cast: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater USA , 1994 Seen: Revisited October 24, 2009 on DVD Reason to Review: Vampathon: Vampire Film Marathon * This is where we get to vamp films where I have very strong memories of seeing...
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Halos Heaven (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
More photos » by Mark J. Terrill - AP Browse more photos » Angels get pushed to edge -- latimes.com "It's very disappointing -- this is not how I wanted to pitch today," Kazmir said. "I wasn't getting ahead of hitters, and when I got behind, I wasn't attacking the zone. It was ball one, ball two, get a strike here and there and try to work back into counts. That's not how...
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CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
This is why the Yankees gave $161 million to CC Sabathia. His dominant outing in New York's 10-1 thrashing of the Angels puts the Bombers on the verge of the World Series and CC in Yankees' lore, Scott Miller says.
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CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
This is why the Yankees gave $161 million to CC Sabathia. His dominant outing in New York's 10-1 thrashing of the Angels puts the Bombers on the verge of the World Series and CC in Yankees' lore, Scott Miller says.
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River Ave. Blues (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
I hate posting this, I really do. An Angels blog — acting in the typical Angels fan manner of, “everyone else is cheating except the Angels, and the Angels always get screwed more than other teams” — claimed it was “pretty conclusive” that Mariano Rivera spit on a baseball. Never mind that it was right [...] Post from: River Ave. Blues A New York Yankees blog A non-story...
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
In my post about last night's playoff game between the Yankees and Angels, I referred to the latter team as the California Angels. What a gaffe! As many readers have reminded me, this team became the Anaheim Angels years ago and now is officially known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. It should be obvious that I'm not a true fan of modern baseball. I more or less tuned it out after the 1994 strike....
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The Common Room (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. Federalist No. 48 [8] If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies...
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