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Label, label, who's got a label?

I keeping seeing labels. They're everywhere... peeking out at me from around the corner... tip-toing up behind me to tap me on the shoulder... snuggled in my closet... hiding under the bed... leaping off of buildings and into my car...

The Game is the Game

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David Kurtz is puzzled over Hillary's attempts to bring Obambi "down to Earth" in ways that also highlight her own shortcomings:

The attacks are intended to bring down Obama's positives, to knock him off his pedestal. But it's hard to see how they raise Hillary's. Her argument, boiled down, is: "He's no better than me." (Or perhaps

Voting Left Me Blah

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I voted this morning. Not really excited about it. In fact, I felt a bit depressed as I walked into the Tennessee School for the Blind and not just because I thought about how sad it is that the students there can’t appreciate the pretty snowflake clings that the teachers had affixed to the classroom windows.

Mr. Cole, You've Said It All

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And Republicans wonder why they're in such trouble with voters....

To the Editor:

Mitt Romney says that the solution to our country's massive health-care problems is for everybody to buy coverage. He implies that it would be "the American way" for hospitals to turn away those "freeloaders" who don't.

The Metro Council, with the support of significant downtown business groups, has made it a crime to panhandle.

To Plan, Or Not to Plan

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When I meet with prospective students and tell them about all of the cool features of our program, they inevitably ask me one question: "OK, but are you going to teach me how to write a business plan?"

We set business plans up on a pedestal as if it is the holy grail of entrepreneurship. Just look at BusinessWeek.com's most recent special issue on entrepreneurship -- it is all about business plan

What Do a USC student and a Stanford Student Have in Common?

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They both got into USC

I think we’ve made it abundantly clear how we feel about USC here at Making It Rain.

But especially after they were knocked off of their ivory [bleep] pedestal in the largest point spread upset in the history of Division 1 football by the Mighty Mensans of Leland Stanford Junior University, I thought perhaps a graphic reminder was in order:

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