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...always get a sense of personal truth, humility and passion. A sense of humor, a sense of rock 'n' roll and a raconteurism once solely the domain of tribal chiefs. But chief comes from chieftain. And that's just not an American word. Boss? Now that comes from boss man, and if this guy ain't the boss...man, nobody is. • Sean Penn, writing about Springsteen in 2008's TIME 100 issue...
...friended me today.” Not words you expected to hear five years ago, or even five months ago. Recently, the 40+ crowd has begun to invade Facebook, previously the domain of young adults, with the eagerness and awe of a baby-boomer learning to use the DVR for the first time. In their wake, they leave behind wall posts endearingly perfect in their grammatical construction and signatures with their full name (just in case you missed it next to their photo thumbnail...
...current consensus (if such a thing even exists) is that Stonehenge was used as a burial site. Archaeologists have found skeletal remains at the site dated to a 500-year period beginning in 3000 B.C. One dubbed the site a "domain of the dead" and say the bodies found likely belong to a select group of elite ancient people. It's the most solid evidence yet, but it doesn't preclude Stonehenge having a dual purpose as an astrological calendar or as a religious site. The only thing certain is that as the sun rises and sets to mark another...
...light on any government and lends support to accusations of dubious motives. Indeed, the British High Court, which reviewed the material in question, asserted that it was “difficult to conceive that a democratically elected government could possibly have any rational objection to placing into the public domain such a summary of what its own officials reported as to how a detainee was treated by them” and stressed that the report involved “no disclosure of sensitive intelligence matters...
...their post-P-I careers. Environment reporter Robert McClure is developing an outlet devoted to news across the American West and eventually, he hopes, western Canada. "It is a venture aimed at doing investigative, environmental and narrative journalism - for all kinds of platforms," he says. He has purchased the domain name TrueWest.info and already has 10 people onboard. His wife, Seattle-based freelance journalist Sally Deneen, has been working with several P-I reporters to develop the Seattle Post Globe, a site, she says, that will be devoted to keeping alive what she calls the scrappy, underdog spirit...