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Late Night Hip Hop: Xzibit, "What U See Is What U Get"

by Open Thread  ::  Filed Under Music and Culture  ::  May 3rd, 2008 @ 2:00 am EST

What's on your jukebox?

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Open Thread: Dalai Lama's Envoys in China, Grand Theft Economy, Bernstein

by Open Thread  ::  Filed Under Daily Briefing  ::  May 2nd, 2008 @ 4:58 pm EST

The Dalai Lama's envoys head to China for a meeting with the government, the first since protests broke out in March.

Stirling Newberry on the economy. Yes, in case you were wondering he's still brilliant.

Plus, we're fucked.

Peter Bernstein has witnessed just about every financial crisis of the past century.

As a boy, he watched his father, a money manager, navigate the Depression. As a financial manager, consultant and financial historian, he personally dealt with the recession of 1958, the bear markets of the 1970s, the 1987 crash, the savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980s and the 2000-2002 bear market that followed the tech-stock bubble.

Today's trouble, the 89-year-old Mr. Bernstein says, is worse than he has seen since the Depression and threatens to roil markets into 2009 and beyond — longer than many people expect.

What's on your innertubes?

 

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I Get Up Early: The Assassination of Medgar Evers

by Open Thread  ::  Filed Under Daily Briefing  ::  May 2nd, 2008 @ 7:00 am EST

This is an open thread.

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Late Night Hip Hop: Declaime, "Exclaim the Name"

by Open Thread  ::  Filed Under Daily Briefing, Special Topics  ::  May 2nd, 2008 @ 2:00 am EST

What's on your jukebox?

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I Get Up Early: RFK

by Open Thread  ::  Filed Under Daily Briefing  ::  May 1st, 2008 @ 7:00 am EST

I'm beginning a daily video series on great leaders from the past and present. We do so much talking in the blogosphere about tactics, and so little about the real elements of leadership and principle. These selections aim to correct that. Today we begin with Robert F. Kennedy and "The Mindless Menace of Violence." Feel free to use this post as an open thread.

- Alex Thurston

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