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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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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
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.
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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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
CNN:
Iraq veteran's remarkable recovery 7 photos — Murphy served two tours in Iraq with the Army's 101st Airborne Division's 187th Infantry Regiment. — Hide Caption 2 of 7 — Murphy patrols the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq, in an undated photo. — Hide Caption 3 of 7
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Patterico's Pontifications
Susan Edelman / New York Post:
No pay, no play! Poor kids banned from school carnival — PS 120 in Queens held its fun-day carnival for students whose families could shell out $10 - but banished those of modest means to the auditorium. — No party for the poor. — PS 120 in Flushing held a carnival for its students on Thursday …
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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New York's PIX11:
Lindenhurst family receives racially charged letter in mailbox, told to leave town … LINDENHURST, N.Y. (PIX11)- Suffolk County police are investigating a possible hate crime targeting an African-American family in Lindenhurst. — Ronica Copes, a resident of the suburban neighborhood …
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New York Times:
Republican Rivals Skirt Specifics on Plans to Fight ISIS — Lindsey Graham and Rick Santorum want to deploy 10,000 American troops in Iraq as part of a coalition with Arab nations against Islamic State militants, and will settle for nothing less than “destroying the caliphate,” in Mr. Graham's words.
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Tom Boggioni / Alternet:
WATCH: Virginia Cop Uses Pepper-Spray, Taser on Unresisting Black Man Having Stroke — He says he did nothing wrong. — Saying he did nothing wrong, a Virginia police officer resigned from the Fredricksburg Police Department after body-cam video showed him using his Taser, and then pepper-spray …
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