Author: DXO
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“I could do that in my sleep”
Lots of people brag about being so adept at doing something that they could do it in their sleep. Bush is so good at kowtowing to the religious right when the stakes are low that he can do it in his sleep. Mr. Bush, who returned to Washington from his Crawford ranch on Sunday, was…
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There Are Signs the Tide May Be Turning on Iraq’s Street of Fear
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: March 21, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq – Nearly two years after American troops captured Baghdad, Haifa Street is like an arrow at the city’s heart. A little more than two miles long, it runs south through a canyon of mostly abandoned high-rises and majestic date palms almost to the Assassin’s Gate,…
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New Look at Mies
The Chicago Sun-Times has a piece about the temporary de-obstruction of the IBM Building while the old Sun-Times building has been razed and before the Trumpalicious Tower is raised. Here’s an excerpt: The IBM building at 330 N. Wabash has been there for decades, but never before have we seen famed architect Mies Van Der…
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Idea: News Photo Time Montage
Ebbers With Woman Originally uploaded by juggernautco. This application would automatically obtain images taken at the same news event by multiple photographers and display them in an AJAX application that allows the user to array them in any order they want. The idea is that the images could be displayed in some logical…
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DevCorp North offers computer classes in Rogers Park
DevCorp North, a great neighborhood organization in the Rogers Park neighborhood here in Chicago, has a mission to "improve the business and economic climate of Rogers Park through business, community and economic development." One of the ways they do that is bilingual computer classes in English and Spanish. Here’s their announcement: DevCorp North is happy…