TONY STARK has the Dark Knight in his sights, as “The Avengers” takes care of business in both the present and the past. “The Avengers” grossed $55.1-million to win its third straight weekend domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Marvel film pulled in more than the weekend’s three biggest newcomers combined: “Battleship” ($25.4-million), “The Dictator” ($17.4-million) and “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” ($10.5-million). Final numbers are expected Monday. Read full article > >

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‘THE AVENGERS’ WINS 3rd WEEKEND: Highest-grossing Disney film ever sinks ‘Battleship,’ chases history

It’s time to embrace the present, argues John Gray

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A Point of View: Live for today

Act 1 begins with them being committed. “Whatisthisplace?” an actress asks during a rehearsal of “Past, Present, Future: A performance that challenges perceptions, attitudes and the words used to describe what it is to be normal.” The actress’s words tumble together, but the rehearsal audience can understand her. What they don’t know is that at one time she could not speak well at all. Now look at her, in the spotlight. Projecting. Read full article > >

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Intellectually disabled actors challenge what it means to be “normal”

Act 1 begins with them being committed. “Whatisthisplace?” an actress asks during a rehearsal of “Past, Present, Future: A performance that challenges perceptions, attitudes and the words used to describe what it is to be normal.” The actress’s words tumble together, but the rehearsal audience can understand her. What they don’t know is that at one time she could not speak well at all. Now look at her, in the spotlight. Projecting. Read full article > >

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Intellectually disabled actors challenge what it means to be “normal”

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, is looking ahead to Web 3.0, even as he juggles a myriad of commitments to the present-day Internet.

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Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Has Become the Go-To Guy of Tech

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, is looking ahead to Web 3.0, even as he juggles a myriad of commitments to the present-day Internet.

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Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Has Become the Go-To Guy of Tech

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, is looking ahead to Web 3.0, even as he juggles a myriad of commitments to the present-day Internet.

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Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Has Become the Go-To Guy of Tech

It’s your lucky day, Sarah Palin: Mitt Romney will skip the Iowa straw poll in mid-August, his team announced on Thursday. The decision confirms what many had already suspected: that Romney would rather present himself as a pragmatic businessman than…

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“It was a beautiful revolution,” the man in the beret says one night over dinner. “A beautiful revolution.” On other lips, those words might ring campy and downright spoof-goofy a la Woody Allen in “ Bananas .” But the man in the beret pulls it off, as he has for decades. At 86, Ernesto Cardenal can still muster passion for revolutions past and future. It’s the present that confounds Nicaragua’s cosmic poetic stylist, a towering figure in Latin American literature absorbed in the winter of his life with a kind of eco-poetics swirling with the earthly evils of greed, corruption and exploitation. Read full article > >

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Ernesto Cardenal, poet and Catholic priest, still causes controversy at age 86

Evidence suggests that the present highly intensive counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan is not succeeding, MPs say.

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Hit makers of the present got the awards, the strobe lights, the rhinestones and the video razzle-dazzle. And titans from the 1960s got some respect on the 53rd annual Grammy Awards show.

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Critic’s Notebook: A Mix of Genres and Generations

American education has peaked. Accept it. It has serious SYSTEM problems, and the present crop of reformers is making those problems worse. We’re not going to get the schools we need by doing longer and harder what we’ve been doing for the last 150 years. read more

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Has American Education Peaked?

He should know pursuing prophecy is a recipe for forfeiting the present.

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Kevin McCarthy: A Republican watching for executive overreach

Thousands of convicted UK prisoners are to get the right to vote following a European ruling that the present ban, dating from 1870, is unlawful.

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