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Black, white and read: All over? .Our intrepid crime columnist/blogger Peter Hermann ventured into new territory yesterday: a Baltimore County elementary school's career day. Keep reading for his hilarious (and humbling) account of trying to interest kids in a newspaper. Tickets.

Big Academic is Watching You: Digital Surveillance at Universities San Francisco.I have heard a couple of professors say that some students are so ingenious when it comes to cheating on tests that the profs feel they should give the students credit for their resourcefulness, even while they fail them on the tests. University administrators, however, are taking a harder stance when it comes to another common form of cheating on campuses: music piracy. Higher stakes in music.

Should Michelle Obama's booty be off-limits? Ticket.On Tuesday, Salon ran a story by columnist and Essence contributing writer Erin Aubry Kaplan called "First Lady Got Back." In the story, Kaplan expresses her liberation at seeing a black woman of power and beauty - with what pop culture has come to refer to as a "boo-tay," one of the greatest signifiers of African-American womanhood there is - in the White House. The piece generated, well.

Zeitgeist, Up! Tina's 'Beast' Celebrates Launch at Meatpacking District Burger Joint Black Kids at San Francisco."We're having a lot more fun than we did on Liberty Island!" said Tina Brown, the czarina of The Daily Beast, at her Web site's launch party.ast night in the Meatpacking District. No, it didn't quite have the extravagance, say, of that 1999 Talk launch party on Liberty Island, where more than 800 movie stars and celebrities.&.mdash;invites went out to everyone from Henry Kissinger to Madonna.&.mdash;mingled.

The Obamas on "60 Minutes" Black Kids tickets.I hope everyone caught the Obamas on "60 Minutes" last night. It was a pinch-yourself interview with both the president-elect and his wife, during which it seemed far too good to be true that two such smart, relatable, incisive and direct people are just a few months away from taking up residence on Pennsylvania Avenue. Below were some of my very favorite moments of the interview as well as clips.

Disco. Inst. tries to hustle Texans [Thoughts from Kansas] .Rob Crowther, Artist's conception Rob Crowther, Artist's conception The Disco. Inst. is in a tizzy. No, it's more than a tizzy, it's all-out Disco. Inferno! Spokesman Rob Crowther writes: Liberal Darwin Activists Spin Push-Poll in Attempt to Water Down Science Standards.The liberal Darwin lobby group Texas Freedom Network has just published a push-poll of scientists titled, "Survey of Texas Facu. San Francisco ticket broker.

If we want more representative MPs, we need to start talking about class .In some circles, the fashion among politicians for pinching Barack Obama's magical rhetoric is now known as the Yes We Can-wagon. Last week it was Harriet Harman's turn to climb aboard - though in fairness, there was at least some superficial logic in her use of Obama's name. In the wake of the election of the first black president, she announced a decisive move on the representation of women. ticket brokers.

Michael Tomasky: It's OK: Obama can care for poor kids as well as his own .Of all the charges hurled at liberalism in America since the 1970s, few have proven as potent as the allegation of "liberal hypocrisy". The typical liberal, it is said, lives a life of ease and sanguinity and asks the average working Joe (they're always Joes in America, hence the resonance of Joe the Plumber, whose actual name was Samuel) to make sacrifices so that liberal notions about society.tickets.