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Archive for September 27th, 2009

MRM #18

Posted by Dennis Shiraev on September 27, 2009

- Ithaca tops the list of best college towns in America after being identified with the optimal “sketchy bar to student” ratio. Here’s the real article, by the way.

- In case you missed it, here’s the background for the video below of former Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay dancing on ABC.

- Irving Kristol, the “godfather of neoconservatism,”  died on September 18.

- Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, writes an editorial about the lessons President Obama can learn from Bush about warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan.

- Here’s the most comprehensive article detailing the story of Roman Polanski, acclaimed director of my personal favorites Chinatown and the Pianist.  Unfortunately he had no Nicholson-esque PI work to tell him Feds were waiting for him in Zurich.

- George Will on the relevance of the upcoming Florida Senatorial elections.

- Gitmo’s doors open just a liiiitle bit more…

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