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Today’s must-reads are at work on Columbus Day:
- “Is Columbus Day Sailing Off the Calendar?” [WSJ]
- Obama’s speech on gay equality was “highfalutin bullshit” [Sullivan/The Atlantic]
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell protects bigots [WaPo op ed]
- Great Recession Landmark: 100 failed US banks [NYTimes]
- Nobel Prize in economics goes to Americans Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom, the first woman win the award [BBC]
- George Soros invests a cool billion in clean tech [FT]
- “Yes We Can (Get Republicans to Support Climate Bill)” [NYTimes op ed]
- Obama should earn that Nobel at the Copenhagen Climate Conference [MoJo]
- The White House goes on the offensive against Fox News [TPM]
- Iran sentences three post-election protesters to death [AP]
- Armenia and Turkey sign a peace deal and reopen their border for the first time since 1993 [Reuters]
- The dangers of drudgery: bad jobs are killing people [The Economist]
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin defends the controversial Google Books project [NYTimes op ed]
- Listen to Michael Jackson’s final single, the appropriately titled “This Is It” [Bitten and Bound]
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