Monday, January 10th, 2011
The Russian playwright Anton Chekhov had a rule: if you show a gun in the first act, by the time the curtain falls, it has to go off. For weeks and months, that gun, the weapon of angry rhetoric and intemperate rabble rousing, has been cocked and loaded in plain view on the American stage; Saturday morning outside a shopping mall in Tucson, Arizona, it went off again and again and again. read more
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Michael Winship | Hate Speech, the Right’s Magic Bullet
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
England’s Ashes hero Andrew Flintoff brings down the curtain on his cricket career, following medical advice.
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Ashes hero Flintoff quits playing
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