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- One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- **Suleiman also said the government will announce several political reforms within days, with the priorities of fighting unemployment and abolishing corruption.**
- **But men were a no-go until now.**
- **Terry McAuliffe from seeking another consecutive term.) But Northam too intends to highlight his record on progressive issues as he lays the groundwork for 2017.**
- **My point is that if allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire is the biggest tax increase in history, one that Republicans claim would decimate a still-fragile economy, then surely expiration of a payroll tax holiday would also constitute a massive tax increase on the working people of America.**
- **Democratic FCC officials argue that major TV companies around the country are using "joint sales agreements" to undermine the agency's media-ownership caps.**
- The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.
- Nudist colonies shun fig-leaf couture.
- **Tom has varicose veins.**
- **An estimated 500 Americans have their names on no-fly lists. Thousands more are targeted for enhanced screening by the Automated Targeting System algorithm used by the Transportation Security Administration.**
- Jim liked driving around town with his hazard lights on.
- **Shown in the map above:**
- **Everybody liked Tom.**
- Toddlers feeding raccoons surprised even the seasoned park ranger.
- **This is a sad one, folks.**
- **Her blog has been taken down but is still in Google's cache, as Buzzfeed noted.**
- **But it’s about weakness, too.**
- **Republicans find themselves on fertile soil when tying Democrats to an unpopular president in their quest for just four seats.**
- **Powell’s key example is the Irish Republican Army, which was a Catholic organization insofar as it used Catholic identity for political ends, cultivating a sense of Irish Catholic nationalism to fight for the ejection of the British from Northern Ireland and for political union with their Catholic brethren to the south.**
- There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
- **I don't know, but I'm going to find out.**
- **As a narrative of damage control takes hold, it’s becoming clearer what mistakes the studio has made in trying to roll out an entire cinematic universe—and how it can turn things around for the future.**
- **Money, even at par, never carried more of happiness with it than did those promises of a dead government to pay.**
- **They developed the map below.**
- Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
- **We'll let The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates take it from here: These people are almost always dealt with by a conductor or other passengers.**
- **I could help her.**
- **Cultural critics love hypothesizing about hipsters.**
- **But that doesn't change the basic fact, known to all, that Arabs happened to be living on the West Bank when Israel arrived.**
- **military operations by clothing complaints in legal-sounding arguments.**
- **With the press of a button, she appears out of darkness, sitting with one ankle over the other, in a woven dress and sandals, traces of coca leaf still on her lips, her hair braided finely, with a wrinkle in one cheek where her shawl touched it.**
- **Someone should do a study—they could call it their magnum bropus," Oxford writes.**
- It was a question of which of the two she preferred. On the one hand, the choice seemed simple. The more expensive one with a brand name would be the choice of most. It was the easy choice. The safe choice. But she wasn't sure she actually preferred it.
- **The Guardian traveled to Daraya to survey the damage after there were reports of a massacre there.**
- **I was told that I should sleep at least seven hours a day.**
- **But even worse than this malign neglect is House Republicans' plan to cut food stamps amidst our quiet depression.**
- **The Middle East is totally destabilized, a total and complete mess.**
- **But I think it was better-suited for a time when people lived close together, [when] people didn’t move around so much.**
- **But skepticism about exports among Democrats like Wyden, and in some cases outright opposition, means that any legislative changes are quite unlikely any time soon.**
- **A gruff Christian man whose chicken coop is modeled after the Sistine Chapel taught me to love history.**
- **New urban buildings have a smaller carbon and watershed footprint than new rural buildings.**
- **She recounts her life in the honest and funny way that she presents her dishes in her series and cookbooks.**
- **Lowercase, I guess we should say, because that's not whatshould drive the debate.**
- **Officially, the Israel Defense Forces say that the attacks on 34 "terror targets" were retaliation for earlier rocket attacks launched from Gaza into southern Israel.**
- **They cut themselves on the first knife they get or they treat college like a four-year party because they have no idea why they're there except that it's the next thing to do and if you go to college then you get a job.**
- **If you decide to follow her -- and you should -- be prepared for an overload of beautiful pictures and terrific, timely news updates.**
- **A well-regarded FEMA chief, Craig Fugate, is working overtime after a spate of nasty tornadoes.**
- **But digital timeline tools, he says, could revolutionize how a journalist records, researches, and ultimately relates a story such as the El Salvador rebellion.**
- **The plan will include some loophole-closing reforms, though the details of the package are not yet clear.**
- **You can read the rest here.**