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29 min ago | US News & World Report

Obama Foreign Policy Inaction Proves Costly in Benghazi and Syria

Dr. Lamont Colucci is an associate professor of politics at Ripon College, recent Fulbright scholar to the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, and author of The National Security Doctrines of the American Presidency: How they Shape our Present and Future , among other books.

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East, Charles Dickens, Opinion

Mon May 20, 2013

9NEWS

'Bates Motel' gets ready to check out with season finale

A&E's hit series Bates Motel is winding up its first season with a creepy season ending cliff-hanger Monday night.

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Related Topix: Psycho, Horror Movies, Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock

DFW Catholic

Mark 9:14-29 I Do Believe, Help My Unbelief

Someone from the crowd came to Jesus and said, "Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit.

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Related Topix: C. S. Lewis

411mania.com

The Big Screen Bulletin 05.20.13: Star Trek Into Darkness Stuns the Box Office

Welcome to the Big Screen Bulletin ! My name is Steve Gustafson and this is where we hit the big movie news from the weekend and anything else going on in the world of Hollywood! I was able to have a quick chat with Farrah Abraham this week.

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Related Topix: Star Trek Into Darkness, Teen Mom, Entertainment, Television, Star Trek, The Equalizer, Movies

Bellingham Herald

Barbra Streisand to receive honorary PhD in Israel

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem said Monday it was granting the singer the degree because of her concern for human rights and dedication to Israel and the Jewish people.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Celebrities, Barbra Streisand, Shimon Peres

The Orlando Sentinel

How to talk like Yoda on Talk Like Yoda Day

In Orlando, it seems like there's always a reason to celebrate the "Star Wars" films.

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Related Topix: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Entertainment, Television, Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies

Jerusalem Post

Streisand to receive honorary Hebrew U doctorate

Streisand, the iconic Jewish-American singer and actress, will be presented with the degree at a ceremony on June 17 during the Hebrew University International Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Celebrities, Barbra Streisand, Shimon Peres,

hosted Blogcritics | Blogcritics

Book Review: W.A.R.P. Book One: The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer

What is about the Victorian era that fascinates so many modern writers these days? Not only are people setting novels in the time period, a whole sub-genre of science fiction/fantasy has developed out of it, steampunk. While the stories are set in England of the 19th century, anachronistic elements from our time period are introduced to create a kind of alternate history.

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Related Topix: Eoin Colfer, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US News

Examiner.com

'Star Trek Into Darkness' review

Film and characters are property of Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions, K/O Paper Products, Skydance Productions, and their related affiliaties.

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Related Topix: Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek

Sun May 19, 2013

Salt Lake Tribune

SLC honors 3 firefighters trapped in deadly 1943 blaze

The Salt Lake Tribune) On Sunday, May 19, 2013, Salt Lake City firefighters paid a special tribute to three firefighters who lost their lives 70 years earlier during the Victory Theater fire.

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, UT, Fire, Al Jolson

The Daily Beast

Zade Rosenthal/ParamountIs J.J. Abrams Lost in Space?The man behind...

The man behind the new Star Trek and Star Wars movies is mixing genres, botching continuity and ignoring solid science.

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Wars

The Tennessean

Napa Valley: Five free things to do in California's wine country

Love the lush and lovely Napa Valley but hate how expensive it can be? You're not the first.

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Related Topix: Robert Louis Stevenson, Calistoga, CA, Napa, CA, St. Helena, CA, Yountville, CA

TheCelebrityCafe

Tumblr Tutorial: Movies

Movies are a big part of the Tumblr-verse. And Tumblr bloggers know how to use them to their hilarious advantage - referencing them for jokes and quoting them on irrelevant posts.

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Related Topix: Watches, Harry Potter

The Star Online

No chance for an Inferno

Hyped worldwid e: Dan Brown's Inferno was released with all sorts of gimmicks around the world last Tuesday; in Amsterdam, women dressed as 'plague doctors' presented the book at the Amsterdam Central Station.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Dan Brown, Authors, Books, World News, India, Italy

National Public Radio

Ghost Ships, Murders, Bird Attacks: Stories To Keep You Awake

I'd seen the movies before reading the stories - Nicolas Roeg's masterful version of "Don't Look Now" featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie; and Alfred Hitchcock's strangely flat-footed and clunky version of "The Birds" - so I thought I knew what to expect from Daphne du Maurier's fiction.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Donald Sutherland, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, The Birds, Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock, Julie Christie

Free Republic

19 Obvious Reasons Why 'Star Wars' Is Better Than 'Star Trek'

Navigation: use the links below to view more comments. first 1-50 , 51-100 , 101-124 next last Neat topic for sure.

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Related Topix: Star Wars, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Sat May 18, 2013

New York Daily News

When lyrics get lost in the song

The well overdue wakeup call, which struck me like a bolt last month, came courtesy of a surprising source - the smart and funny one-man show "Buyer & Cellar." The play by Jonathan Tolins, which wrapped its run at the Rattlestick and reopens at the Barrow Street Theatre June 18, is inspired by Barbra Streisand's meticulously curated shoppes - built ... (more)

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Related Topix: The Way We Were, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Celebrities, Barbra Streisand, Michael Urie, Entertainment

Examiner.com

Auditions: Deaf and hearing actors for Pennington Players's 'Big River'

The Pennington Players will hold auditions for the musical "Big River," Roger Miller and William Hauptman's Tony Award-winning adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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Related Topix: Roger Miller, Country, Mark Twain

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

Ben Affleck hosts tonight's 'Saturday Night Live' finale: Talk about it here

There are so many talking points for SNL 's 38th season finale that I hardly know where to begin! Maybe it'll help to organize them as a list: 1. Tonight marks Ben Affleck's fifth time hosting Saturday Night Live , which grants him membership to SNL 's storied Five-Timers Club.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Steve Martin, Pop/Rock, Justin Timberlake

Mail on Sunday

National Geographic's 2013 Traveler Photo Contest: Stunning entries...

Every year National Geographic asks the world's adventurers to enter their epic photographs into its Traveler Photo Contest - and each year the submissions prove stunning.

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Related Topix: Tradewest, National Geographic, Video Games, Photography, Arts