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...Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present Edited by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber Simon & Schuster, 208 pages...
Near the end of a four-hour-plus hearing, Lyman "Scott" Wostrel gave a grown man's choked testimony of the experience of abandonment. His mother gave him up at 14, he said. "It doesn't matter what a person says. The action speaks: I don't love you. Any kid can figure that out," he said. Wostrel is urging lawmakers to limit the law to newborns...
...negative publicity is having an effect on both companies and individuals. Scott Eckern, artistic director of the California Musical Theatre in Sacramento, whose $1,000 donation was listed on ElectionTrack, chose to resign from his post this week to protect the theater from public criticism. Karger says a "soft boycott" his group had started against Bolthouse Farms - which gave $100,000 to Prop. 8 - was dropped after he reached a settlement with the company. Bolthouse Farms was to give an equal amount of money to gay rights political causes. The amount ultimately equaled...
...Either way, it is clear that he will have to come up with a solution quickly. "Guantánamo Bay, for most people, is a lightning rod for everything that's wrong with the United States," says Scott Silliman, a law professor at Duke University and director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. "I'm not sure Obama would be able to back away from his campaign pledge...
...everyone in attendance said they agreed with Castellanos on the extensive use of fear in campaigns. “The way that campaigns use [fear] is out of context. To instigate fear, they have to exaggerate something that’s really not there,” Scott H. Reed ’12 said. But Velo-Arias shared his firsthand observation of fear tactics. “One of the reasons why Cuban Americans generally vote Republican is there’s a fear of big government and fear of change,” he said...