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Tribute video of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, using mixed clips of the best scenes from both movies.
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Everyone seems to be going batty over the big Wikileak data dump. • How media is visualizing the ‘Cablegate’ • Reuters...
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While there are some things that liberals and conservatives will never agree about, there are many things that we already all agree on....
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Each year, the FT offers up their view of dozens of the best books of the year — in Business, History, Art, Biography, etc. Here is...
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The foreclosure mess has now entered a new phase, courtesy of the US Bankruptcy courts. The Trustees are forcing institutions to prove...
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