The Week That Was (Absolutely subliminal message-free version)
May 16, 2008
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From the Have Another Cigarette-oric Department, president George W. Bush took a sideswipe at Barack Obama yesterday for the presumed "appeasement" a President Obama would make to demands from Nigerian president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua for eight gold medals for his country at the 2008 Olympic Games {editor: please insert subliminal...
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$86 million-plus: Trip(tych) out on that
May 15, 2008
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Francis Bacon's take on Prometheus and the Orestia, the minimalistically entitled "Triptych, 1976" was sold at Sotheby's last night for a sweet $86.28 million. The large sum of money - the biggest ever garnered by a Bacon work - earned the auction house just over $10.3 million with the previous...
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What's in a (popular) name?
May 14, 2008
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The Social Security Administration has released its annual list of the most popular baby names, and there appears to be no end to the American reign of King Jacob (most popular boy's name since 1999) and Queen Emily (most popular girl's name since 1996).
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