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John Boehner Right to Sound Alarms on Losing the House - U.S. News & World Report (blog)


John Boehner Right to Sound Alarms on Losing the House
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
But Speaker Boehner is right to sound the alarm. The time for Republican candidates to redouble efforts at fund-raising and organization building is now, while neither presidential campaign has captured the momentum. Waiting could be dangerous--which ...

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We Told You So - Truthdig


We Told You So
Truthdig
For those of us on the outside, it was hard to know whether the insiders understood what was coming. And so it seemed a good idea to raise an alarm. But here you confront the Cassandra paradox: if you predict disaster, no one believes you.

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Science Weekly podcast: Time warped - The Guardian


Science Weekly podcast: Time warped
The Guardian
What about waking up JUST before the alarm clock goes off? or at the right time even if youve forgotten to set the alarm clock at all .... we seem to have a very accurate internal clock. Any research on this? Dzoni said: "we seem to have a very ...


2015: Alaafin warns Jonathan over moves by politicians to capture S'West - Daily Sun


2015: Alaafin warns Jonathan over moves by politicians to capture S'West
Daily Sun
“It is, however, an unfortunate paradox of history that 50 years after the 1962 event, some people want to 'celebrate' its golden jubilee by recasting the same play in the political theatre of the country. It is true but normal for some people to be ...

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Blackburn Rovers facing their nightmare scenario - The Guardian (blog)


The Guardian (blog)
Blackburn Rovers facing their nightmare scenario
The Guardian (blog)
Hunt's long letter could not have sounded the alarm more directly about the seriousness of Rovers' dysfunction: "I feel I must now write to you to ask you to make some significant changes to save the club," he wrote, "perhaps from relegation but also ...

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Pacific tilting west to PNG – and Super Power rivalry - Scoop.co.nz (press release)


Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Pacific tilting west to PNG – and Super Power rivalry
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
If this was a news release by a geologist, alarm bells would be ringing around the Pacific and international scientific community. But retitle it “Pacific politics tilting to PNG” and the alarm bells would be ringing in Samoa, Tonga and the Cooks (as I ...

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Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices - The Guardian


The Guardian
Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices
The Guardian
We all face the same paradox. We faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all of it for free … and then we buy back the results of our labour at outrageous prices. "The system is absurd ...

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Review by Chris Vaughan - Metapsychology


Review by Chris Vaughan
Metapsychology
The more effectively dependent people are on one another, the more independent and daring they become -- the 'dependency paradox'. The authors urge us to recognize that our attachment needs are legitimate: that we shouldn't feel bad for depending on ...


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