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The sight of a man in a glowing, skintight suit might make some people roll on the floor laughing (ROFL). But the “Tron Guy” was a subject of academic debate over the weekend at the first-ever “ROFLCon,” a...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Conference Celebrates Internet Pop Culture | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

Democrats are fed up. They’ve now been given several manufactured, make-or-break Tuesdays, and yet the primary churns on. Now things better turn more exciting, or we’ll switch to the ballgame.This ennui must stem from the penny-ante poker that the major news...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Worth Watching | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

Continents have become classifications of convention, rather than strict geography. If continents were simply “continuous bodies of land,” as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, there would be only four—America, Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, and Australia. Since that is not the case...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: A Continent Divided | 4/27/2008 | See Source »

That would mean that for the first time since 1972, the party could open its national convention without a nominee-designate. Right now the fate of the Florida and Michigan delegations rests with the party's rules and bylaws committee, a group of fewer than 100 party regulars who are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me How This Ends? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

Harry Reid, whose caucus includes both contenders, also wants the nominee resolved before the party convention.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Players | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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