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Truthfully, this article should have been titled The Nine Best and One Worst 'Don't Think Twice' Covers, but because of the modern hegemony of S.E.O., the title had to include the word Ke$ha, who has just recorded her version of the song for the upcoming Dylan cover album Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International. The four disk album includes 76 tracks recorded by a cornucopia of artists, such as Adele, Pete Townshend, Lenny Kravitz, Natasha Bedingfield and Bad Religion.

Walt Disney was not a controversial figure during his lifetime. But after his death in 1966, historians began putting forth a variety of disquieting revelations about him: The animator and studio chief had testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, it turned out, and he may have been an FBI informant. He was allegedly […]

Alan Reynolds

To hear President Obama tell it, Republicans in Congress “actually said ‘no’ to cutting taxes for middle class families.” The deal he struck a year ago was to keep the Bush tax cuts through 2012 in exchange for a one-year reduction in employee payroll taxes — the levies that fund Social Security and Medicare — to 4.2% from 6.2%. The year is up and the President hopes to renege on the deal. He now wants to cut the payroll tax in half — to 3.1% — and Congress is expected to vote on it this week... Читать дальше...

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