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2013/05/22 18:19
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On Monday, we wrote a post explaining that “No, the federal government does not profit off student loans” (as the original headline put it). A number of people have pushed back at that conclusion,...
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2013/05/19 06:31
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If we haven’t done it ourselves, we’ve known people who have, it seems: taken a vacation mostly to photograph a vacation, not really looking at what’s there, but seeing everything through the...
2013/05/16 14:40
2013/05/16 14:40
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The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Amazon's U.K. unit racked up sales of $6.5 billion last year, but only paid $3.7 million in corporate taxes (which is...
2013/05/12 06:30
2013/05/12 06:30
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Nebraska's Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate from 2004-06, offers “American Life in Poetry,” a column on contemporary poetry. It's a difficult task to accurately imagine one's self back into childhood....
2013/05/07 04:00
2013/05/07 04:00
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Mother’s Day was founded by Anna Jarvis in 1908, and while this holiday occurs once a year, you can still appreciate mom year-round. Here are five mobile apps great for commemorating the importance of...
2013/05/01 23:22
2013/05/01 23:22
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Gaithersburg resident Blessed Sheriff took second place in a poetry contest Tuesday night, beating more than 375,000 students from across the country. Sheriff, a Richard Montgomery High School...
2013/04/30 14:33
2013/04/30 14:33
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Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company had a very good New York morning Tuesday with three of its ensemble members scoring 2013 Tony nominations: Tracy Letts and Amy Morton for their work in Edward...
2013/04/29 19:53
2013/04/29 19:53
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WASHINGTON — When Taribo Osuobeni was 11 or 12, he came home from a reading event at the library in tears. Osuobeni had a stammer, and his efforts to read in front of others left him deeply...
2013/04/29 10:13
2013/04/29 10:13
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In the first chapter of "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer," a book Christian Wiman wrote in the wake of a bone marrow transplant to treat his incurable blood cancer, he introduces us...
2013/04/24 19:21
2013/04/24 19:21
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Story last updated at 4/24/2013 - 2:17 pm Alaskan to participate in National Poetry Out Loud semifinal Tong Thao from Palmer will be the first student competing at the Poetry Out Loud National...
2013/04/19 05:13
2013/04/19 05:13
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Early in his speech in Boston on Thursday, President Barack Obama summoned up a piece of poem. "It was a beautiful day to be in Boston," he told the congregation in the cathedral, remembering Monday,...