Trailer for The Bourne Legacy.
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Observers: Edwards case doomed from start
A jury’s refusal to convict John Edwards was less a redemption of the former White House hopeful than a rejection of the Justice Department’s boldest attempt to make an example of someone in the name of enforcing campaign finance laws.
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How the Edwards prosecution stumbled
The outcome is a told-you-so moment for many who ridiculed the case from its outset.
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AP ‘napalm girl’ photo from Vietnam War turns 40
For Tariq Jehangir Khan:
In this June 8, 1972 file photo, crying children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places as South Vietnamese forces from the 25th Division walk behind them. A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. From left, the children are Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, who lost an eye, Phan Thanh Phouc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc, Kim Phuc, and Kim’s cousins Ho Van Bon, and Ho Thi Ting.
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc snuggles her son Thomas, 3, as her husband Bui Huy Toan looks on in their apartment in Toronto, Canada, May 25, 1997. Kim Phuc’s left arm shows evidence of the burns she suffered on June 8, 1972, when her village in Vietnam was hit by napalm bombs dropped by South Vietnamese warplanes acting on U.S. orders.
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This undated file photo shows Vietnam veteran John Plummer with Pham Thi Kim Phuc. Pham was the little girl screaming and running naked from a napalm attack in Vietnam in the famous 1972 photo that won the Pulitzer Prize for AP photographer Nick Ut. Plummer was the officer who ordered the napalm strike.
More here in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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The Green Lantern Is Gay!
Alan Scott comes out at DC, Marvel has a same-sex marriage. Why are comics diversifying? By Melissa Leon.
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Your Brain on Bath Salts
Most bath salts contain a synthetic designer drug that can induce a mind-rattling hallucination—but they’re unlikely to unleash an epidemic of cannibalism, says Dr. Kent Sepkowitz.
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Before He Was Green Lantern, He Had a Boyfriend
The coming issue of “Earth 2” will introduce readers to the boyfriend of Alan Scott, and the beginning of Scott’s journey toward becoming the Green Lantern.
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Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi denies reports of a prostitution scandal – blaming a “jealous rivalâ€
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi has strongly denied reports she earned $100 million by having sex with disgraced politician Bo Xilai — and astonishingly, sources close to…
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The Charts That Should Accompany All Discussions of Media Bias
They are the ones presented this morning by John Sides, drawing on Pew analyses of positive, negative, and neutral press coverage of all Republican candidates and of President Obama through this past year.
Here’s the trend in coverage of Mitt Romney. The solid line means “positive” stories (in Romney’s case, about his business record or primary-election successes); the dotted line means “negative” stories (for Romney, about Bain-related layoffs or campaign-trail gaffes); and “neutral” stories are left out.
Main theme: Romney endured more negative-than-positive coverage in much of 2011, during the intense primary debates and negative ads, but has had much more positive-than-negative coverage through this year.
Now, here is comparable coverage of President Obama:
Main point: President Obama has always had more negative-than-positive coverage through the past year.
Here is how the two charts look when combined:
Main point: At no time in the past year has coverage of President Obama been as positive as that of Governor Romney. Indeed, at no time in the past year has it been on-balance positive at all.
You can argue that negative coverage of the administration is justified. You can argue that incumbents are — and should be — held to a tougher standard, since they have a record to defend. But you can’t sanely argue that the press is in the tank for Obama, notwithstanding recent “false equivalence” attempts to do so.
One more chart from Pew:
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Ledes from May Jobs Report
AP: “U.S. employers created 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate ticked up. The dismal jobs figures could fan fears that the economy is sputtering.” Bloomberg: “American employers in May added the smallest number of workers in a year and the unemployment rate unexpectedly increased as job-seekers re-entered the […]
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