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Myles Ma / New Jersey Online:
Famed ‘A Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash, wife killed in taxi crash, police say — File photo: Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash (right) and his wife Alicia sit on a coach inside their inside their home in 2009. Nash, a senior research mathematician at Princeton University …
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Erica Goode / New York Times:
John F. Nash Jr., Mathematician Whose Life Story Inspired ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86 — John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose decades-long descent into severe mental illness …
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CNN:
‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash, wife killed in car crash — 1994: John Nash talks about the future of mankind 01:08 — Story highlights — (CNN)John Forbes Nash Jr., the Princeton University mathematician whose life inspired the film “A Beautiful Mind,” and his wife died …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Driving Uber Mad — WASHINGTON — ON a reporting expedition to Los Angeles recently, I realized I could stop renting cars. — I would never again have to brave the L.A. freeway behind the wheel. I would never have to obsess, like the characters in the “Saturday Night Live” skit …
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Las Vegas tycoon Sheldon Adelson to face graft accusations in US court — The owner of Sands casino fails in his attempt to have allegations of links to Chinese organised crime aired in Macau — A judge in Las Vegas has ruled that a lawsuit involving accusations of graft and organised crime ties …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
US court to hear suit accusing Adelson of graft in China
US court to hear suit accusing Adelson of graft in China
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
'Don't let the secular progressives drive God out,' Carson tells GOP — GOP presidential contender Ben Carson on Saturday urged conservatives to remain resolute when government challenges their religious liberties. — “Don't let the secular progressives drive God out of our lives,” …
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Ben Carson: 'Don't Let The Secular Progressives Drive God Out Of Our Lives'
Ben Carson: 'Don't Let The Secular Progressives Drive God Out Of Our Lives'
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Raw Story
Justin S. Vaughn / New York Times:
The Making of a Great Ex-President — Though deeply engaged in his presidency — battling for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and against ISIS — Barack Obama is also casting an eye beyond Jan. 20, 2017, when his post-presidency begins. We've learned that his presidential library will be in Chicago …
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Althouse
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Can Feingold come back from defeat? — By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel — For almost two decades, Russ Feingold had a winning image in Wisconsin politics — the liberal maverick. He galvanized Democrats, won independents and made small but critical inroads among Republicans.
Nafeez Ahmed / Medium:
Secret Pentagon report reveals West saw ISIS as strategic asset — Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion’ … A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch …
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Los Angeles Times:
After Senate vote, NSA prepares to shut down phone tracking program — Hours after the Senate balked at reauthorizing the bulk collection of U.S. telephone records, the National Security Agency began shutting down a controversial program Saturday that senior intelligence and law enforcement officials …
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Ohio Gov. John Kasich — This is a rush transcript and will be updated. It may contain errors. — JONATHAN KARL, HOST: Joining us now, Ohio Governor John Kasich. — Governor Kasich, there's a lot of tension we're seeing in Cleveland over this verdict.
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Tolerant Jeweler Who Harbored an Impure Opinion of Same-Sex Marriage — I — n the American Conservative yesterday, Rod Dreher related the following story: … One could be forgiven for wondering how we are all supposed to keep up. Last month, as Indiana's rather tame religious-freedom legislation …
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Ed Driscoll and The Gateway Pundit