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Backing Becks Dont Knock The Soccer Stars Talents
David Beckham spent six years in the U.S. with the LA Galaxy before returning to Europe earlier this year. The most unforgiving criticism in sport is directed at any athlete who fans believe is celebrated too excessively above his true talent level -- especially those stars who are gloried because they're such pretty people. To wit: As David Beckham retires, so much attention is ...
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Protect rights of women girls with disabilities
Angela was 11 years old when a court in Australia ordered that her uterus be removed. Why? Because Angela has Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder resulting in severe intellectual and physical impairments, and epilepsy. A judge decided that it was in her "best interests" to have a hysterectomy. The decision to start a family is a deeply personal one, and one that these days is often ...
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Minnesota adoptees lack equal access to personal history
Two seemingly unrelated stories in the news - marriage equality and Angelina Jolie’s preventive mastectomies - have a connection for some Minnesotans. Many members of state’s adoption community have sought for decades to regain the right of adult adoptees to have access to their original birth certificates. Our attempts to restore this right, which was taken away in the 1940s under ...
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Angelina Jolie and knowing our genetic risks
Last week, I decided I wanted a Reuben sandwich, and I was missing sauerkraut. For my Reubens, not just any sauerkraut will do. So I got in my car, strapped myself in, drove to the co-op that carries it and paid an ungodly amount for The Best Sauerkraut In The World. I got home, laid out my ingredients, and started drooling at the prospect of my delicious, most-craved Reuben. And then I ...
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Minnesota Legislatures 2013 legacy Why
Mark Dayton and DFL leaders are wasting little time to extol their "accomplishments" of this year’s legislative session. We, not surprisingly, have a different take and a lot of questions. Why did legislators raise permanent taxes by more than $2 billion to resolve a $627 million short-term deficit? They could have adopted a balanced approach by going through the budget line by ...
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Movie Review
Sinister
For all of its foreboding, shadowy atmosphere and jump-from-the-dark scare moments, Scott Derricksons Sinister is at its core the story of a Faustian bargainand you know those never turn out well. The Faust in this instance is Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke), a true-crime writer who hit the to ... ...
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Editorial cartoons May 21-31 2013
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Fangirls feel sorry for "Jahar," the nickname he used as a Twitter handle and that is now part of dozens of hashtags (#FreeJahar is a favorite), Facebook pages and Tumblr ...
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Somalias Displaced The Reform Test
"They don’t care about us," the Somali woman told us. "They don’t rescue us when the women are crying for help." She was describing the people who controlled her camp for displaced people in the capital city, Mogadishu. In fact, the voices of Somalia’s displaced have been regularly ignored, and often actively silenced. It is an important time to listen to ...
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Minneapolis police chiefs troubling lack transparency
Minneapolis police chief, she told the Star Tribune Editorial Board that her priorities for the department included transparency. In fact, the motto "Commitment, Integrity, Transparency" appears on most correspondence from her office. Earlier this month, she faced one of her first big tests in community relations. Two Minneapolis police officers were shot and two young men died ...
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Editorial How to help tornado victims
The devastation caused by Monday’s massive tornado through parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs calls upon Washingtonians to lend a helping ...
Reported in the press
Nothing will ever completely replace playing the game I love, however I feel like I'm starting a new adventure and I'm genuinely excited about what lies ahead. I'm fortunate to have been given many opportunities throughout my career and now I feel it's my time to give back.
David Beckham
The world's best known footballer was speaking after formally announcing his retirement.
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Hotel Sofitel, New York City
This at the time of my stay was one of the newest hotels in New York, and merited a review ...
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