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Parsing The New York Times’ Paywall Plans: The Rumors, The Realities, and The Catch-22

Daily Intel’s Gabriel Sherman posted a report today with sources noting that the New York Times is “close to announcing” the return of an online content paywall .

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Parsing The New York Times’ Paywall Plans: The Rumors, The Realities, and The Catch-22

Gonzales evades criminal prosecution

The Justice Department has concluded that there is insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for allegedly misleading Congress about the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program. The decision was first disclosed yesterday by Murray Waas in a little-noticed posting on the blog of New York Magazine

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In the brain, seven is a magic number

Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from a mental grocery list is not a sign of mental decline; in fact, it's natural. Countless psychological experiments have shown that, on average, the longest sequence a normal person can recall on the fly contains about seven items.

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Obama to unveil plan to add troops in Afghanistan

War-weary Americans will support more fighting in Afghanistan once they understand the perils of losing, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday, announcing he was ready to spell out war plans virtually sure to include tens of thousands more U.S. troops

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Is Jho Low Just a Front for the Real Money?

Taek Jho Low , a 20-something Wharton grad has been making headlines as big-spender who drops hundreds of thousands at New York’s clubs and flies starlets to Vegas. But sources now say he is a surrogate for someone more secretive. Since summer people in the nightclub industry had been talking about a big spending arms dealer who was keeping them afloat with his profligate spending

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Greenspan: ‘If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big’

U.S. regulators should consider breaking up large financial institutions considered “too big to fail,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said

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Cost to get one gallon of gas to combat vehicles in Afganistan: $400

The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan. The statistic is likely to play into the escalating debate in Congress over the cost of a war that entered its ninth year last week. Pentagon officials have told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee a gallon of fuel costs the military about $400 by the time it arrives in the remote locations in Afghanistan where U.S

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Paul Rodriguez Rushed to Hospital

Filed under: Nurse! TMZ has learned comedian Paul Rodriguez was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Washington, D.C. today ..

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White House lashes out at Glenn Beck, Fox News ‘lies’

In another sign that the Obama administration is increasingly willing to take on its media critics directly, the White House blog has published a comparison of Fox News “rhetoric” versus “reality” on the issue of President Obama’s support for Chicago’s Olympic bid. The statement went so far as to use the expression “Fox lies.” “Last night Fox News continued its disregard for the facts in an attempt to smear the Administration’s efforts to win the Olympics for the United States,” the White House blog entry begins.

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The Other Videos Of The Year

Just in time for the VMAs, we introduce you to some under-the-radar clips, in Bigger Than the Sound.

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The Other Videos Of The Year