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A year of hope and fear
Each year, as we did last month, we bring you Project Censored’s top 10 stories largely missed by the mainstream media.
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Morbid milestones and magnificent memories
In the span of four months this past summer, five former neighbors of the 16-home block where I grew up in Barbourmeade died. Bryan Sumner, 83, of Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Privacy in peril
If you’ve got a feeling that somebody’s watching you, the good news is that you’re not paranoid.
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A victory for empathy
Now that the game is over, let not the larger lessons be lost amid the shouting. Obama won partly because he showed the electorate more empathy than did Mitt Romney.
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Stop raping my brain
With a scant week remaining till Decision ’12, I’m poised to declare some winners and wieners. Political comedians and critics deserve le grand prix.
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A sublime sexual revolution
Two winners emerged from last Thursday’s vice presidential debate in Danville: Centre College and moderator Martha Raddatz.
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A wicked sister bridge
When the early 21st-century history of Louisville is written, if the Ohio River Bridges Project proceeds as planned, I can already hear the official refrain: “Mistakes were made.&r
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Savannah’s amazing grace under fire
In this sparse space, it would be impossible to convey the maturity, courage and empathy of a young sexual-assault victim who prevailed despite a hostile prosecutor and a proposed penalty more suit
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‘Midlands’ gate magnified
I underestimated a bad idea whose time I feared was nigh. It’s worse than I knew. But dissent is more fierce than I fancied — and maybe committed enough to triumph.
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Pimping the VA
It’s a decision that will live in infamy — counterintuitive, scandalous, batshit crazy. After what U.S. Sen.
