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Slate V: Obama on Iraq: "Time to Turn the Page"
1 Sep 2010 at 2:38am
In a speech to the nation, President Barack Obama says whether you supported the war in Iraq or opposed it, it's time to turn the page.
Prosecutors can ask for a five-year sentence for Illinois' ex-governor.
by Harlan J. Protass
2 Sep 2010 at 9:36pm
After the public spectacle surrounding the arrest and trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the jury's decision to hang on 23 of 24 charges has largely been viewed as an embarrassing failure for Patrick Fitzgerald, Chicago's top federal prosecutor. The editorial boards of the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, among others, have suggested that a retrial crosses the line from prosecution to persecution and would be a huge waste of public resources. Still, government lawyers declared that there would be a rematch, and the judge overseeing the case scheduled it for the beginning of next year.

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Chicago - Patrick Fitzgerald - Rod Blagojevich - Government - United States
An exclusive look at the artwork of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
by Tim Fitzsimons
2 Sep 2010 at 8:45pm
An exclusive look at the artwork of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base - United States - Prison - Guantanamo Bay - Barack Obama
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2 Sep 2010 at 8:45pm
The Slatest: Afternoon Edition
2 Sep 2010 at 8:18pm
Direct Mideast peace talks get started; political "guru" predicts GOP will win House but not Senate; Burger King set to go private; Google says Steve Jobs lied about Android numbers.

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Palinisms: Did she really say that?
by Jacob Weisberg
2 Sep 2010 at 7:51pm
"Wow,media goofballs rearing heads this wk,big time!Wonder what's up?Taking the cake:ink re:Bristol=a diva? Silly;obviously have nvr met her"?Tweet, Sept. 1, 2010.

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Bristol Palin - Levi Johnston - Bristol - Home - Cake
The broadening backlash against American Islam.
by William Saletan
2 Sep 2010 at 5:20pm
Two months ago, Rick Lazio, the leading Republican candidate for governor of New York, challenged his Democratic opponent,�Andrew Cuomo, to investigate a proposed Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero. When Cuomo replied that the issue was religious freedom, Lazio insisted that his concerns�were strictly about who would fund the project�and what its imam had said about 9/11. "It's outrageous, honestly, that Andrew Cuomo is raising [the] issue of religion here," Lazio�told a TV interviewer. "This is about security."

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Andrew Cuomo - Rick Lazio - United States - Republican - New York
A review of Kristin Hersh's memoir, Rat Girl.
by Marisa Meltzer
2 Sep 2010 at 2:54pm
When Kristin Hersh was 18 years old, her indie rock band Throwing Muses recorded its first album, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and she became a mother for the first time. In Hersh's new memoir, Rat Girl, based on her diary, she chronicles an extraordinary year. I'm willing to bet that there are very few budding teen rock stars who have to figure out how to avoid the smoke in clubs, how to position their guitars over swollen bellies, and what maternity clothes are best for headlining concerts. (Hersh says '50s style dresses, if you were wondering.) Her original journal entries appear to have been fleshed out with dialogue in the published version, plus there are vignettes from her early childhood and snippets from her songs inspired by real-life events.

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Kristin Hersh - Bipolar disorder - Throwing Muses - Indie rock - Musical ensemble
I changed my mind and now want to have a child, but my husband won't hear of it.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:50pm
Get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week; click here to sign up. Please send your questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.)

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Slate - Dear Prudence - Philanthropy - Video Games - Games
Play Lean/Lock and test your skills as a political pundit.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:47pm
Test your powers of political forecasting.

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Slate - United States - Video Games - Games - Programming
Welcome to Slate Labs: Experiments with multimedia journalism.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:45pm
Experiments with multimedia journalism.

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Journalism - Education - Media - Multimedia - Business
The editorial lessons taught by the now-dead gunman who took hostages at the ...
by Jack Shafer
2 Sep 2010 at 3:20am
Rarely in my long, sweet life as a press critic have I knocked a newspaper or a news channel or a magazine for "over-covering" a subject. Oh, I may have sighed and changed the channel when I had heard just about enough about the unsolved disappearance of Natalee Holloway or the swift-boat business or the birther stuff. But my instincts have long been to judge the quality of the work of my peers and worry less about its conciseness.

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Discovery Channel - Natalee Holloway - Television - Newspaper - Arts
George Clooney plays a professional assassin in The American. Are there full-...
by Brian Palmer
2 Sep 2010 at 2:39am
In the new movie The American, George Clooney plays a mysterious professional assassin. The American got the Explainer wondering?are there people in the real world who commit murders for a living?

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George Clooney - United States - Assassination - Arts - Drama
How the original Preppy Handbook changed my life.
by June Thomas
2 Sep 2010 at 2:08am
You can't blame Lisa Birnbach for revisiting her greatest hit, The Official Preppy Handbook, which climbed the best-seller lists in 1980. But True Prep, a sequel that arrives in bookstores next week, doesn't compare. It simply isn't helpful enough.

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Official Preppy Handbook - Lisa Birnbach - True Prep - Preppy Handbook - United States
Joan Rivers shoots down the stars on Fashion Police.
by Troy Patterson
2 Sep 2010 at 1:00am
Fashion Police (E!) trailed in the wake of Emmy coverage as if bringing up the rear in a parade of tall ships and, also, as if diving for the ultimate morsels shaken from a chum bucket. The title is a misnomer. There was no police presence. In capturing their photo evidence, the lens men of the celebrity press had already rounded up the suspects, and the eyes arrested the unusual. The function of this red-carpet wrap-up was judicial, and it would more accurately be called Fashion Hanging Judges. Its panel convened to deliberate tired silhouettes, brassiere miscalculations, and similar human atrocities. Joan Rivers was chief justice and senior executioner.

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Joan Rivers - Fashion Police - Fashion - Emmy Award - Police

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