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Former Rep. Charlie Wilson dies

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N.Y. Gov. Paterson: "I'm black, I'm blind, and I'm still alive"

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Morgan Freeman: Making Mandela sexy

Don't give in to media-inspired fatalism

"The Bag Lady Papers": How to lose money and alienate people

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My love for oysters isn't a sexy love, but it is love

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Army Corps critic sues La. university over firing

Colbert heads to Olympics

Good news on jobless claims

How David Paterson brought it all on himself

Colbert proves global warming doesn't exist

Iran proclaims new success in uranium enrichment

Remembering, and reclaiming, the Islamic revolution

Judd Gregg's never-ending healthcare tease

Proposed autism diagnosis changes anger "Aspies"

British designer Alexander McQueen found dead

John Mayer: A black woman responds

"Working in the Shadows": America's dirty food jobs

GOP stalwart Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart to retire

California gets off the gurney

Don't turn your womb into a "boom-boom room"

New ways to read Salon

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