This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Time Magazine
1-7-14
Call it the 50 Shades of Grey effect.
Source: TIME Magazine
1-8-14
On 50th anniversary of LBJ speech.
Source: New York Times
1-5-14
Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Stature Carries ‘12 Years a Slave.’
Source: New York Times
1-8-14
Sophie Lillie and Agnes Peresztegi will serve on a panel chaired by Germany’s former
deputy state minister for culture.
Source: New York Times
1-8-14
Cholera experts praised the work, although they disagreed about what it proved about the disease’s recent history.
Source: New York Times
1-9-14
In a world as multipolar today as Europe in the early 20th century, the implications go far beyond academic debate
Source: Washington City Paper
1-8-14
The festival will be moving to the
Walter E. Washington Convention Center in 2014.
Source: The Guardian
1-8-14
Professor finds cache of previously unpublished letters by author of Frankenstein, written between 1831 and 1849.
Source: Associated Press
1-8-14
Thee 88-year-old man was charged with participating in the 1944 massacre of the French village Oradour-sur-Glane.
Source: NYT
1-7-14
They were never caught, and the stolen documents that they mailed anonymously to newspaper reporters were the first trickle of what would become a flood.
Source: WaPo
1-7-14
The former defense secretary describes a contentious relationship between the president and his top aides about Afghanistan war strategy and policies.
Source: New Scientist
1-3-14
Forensic analysis of a prehistoric skull gives the UK's most iconic monument a human face.
Source: inSerbia
1-5-14
The letter was drafted by an Austro-Hungarian general Oskar Potiorek, governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Source: McClatchy DC
1-6-14
John Rizzo, a former CIA general counsel, says Bush's claim that he was informed about waterboarding from the first is not true.
Source: Huffington Post
1-7-14
The newly-recovered Dutch vessel pre-dates Captain Cook by more than 50 years.
Source: Nature
1-7-14
The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table.
Source: New York Times
1-7-14
The FBI offices in Philadelphia were burglarized forty years ago today.
Source: Salon
1-5-14
Manly P. Hall, the president's occult guru, believed the United States was a society that had been planned and
founded by secret esoteric orders to spread enlightenment and liberty.
Source: NYT
1-3-13
“For 63 years, I lived with the stigma of being a traitor. The truth is I helped save South Korea during one of its most critical times.”
Source: NYT
1-3-13
New light cast on an era that shaped Britain for decades, crushing the power of labor unions and establishing an ideological reverence for market forces.
