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Weekend Words: Cell
The Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 that your cell shouldn't land you in a cell.
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Weekend Words: Coffee
Last weekend's Weekend Word was tea; this week, equal time for coffee.
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Weekend Words: Tea
This week, the Tea Party reared its ugly head and Eric Cantor is singing the blues.
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Weekend Words: Rights
Two-hundred twenty-five years ago today, James Madison proposed twelve amendments to the United States constitution. Three and a half months later, ten of the twelve were ratified, and have since become known as the Bill of Rights.
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Weekend Words: Cash
This week the Guardian reported that a Dutch man who received brain implants to treat "a severe form of obsessive compulsive disorder" has developed "a sudden and powerful love for the music of Johnny Cash."
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Weekend Words: Multiple
Good news for a change: this week, Hyperallergic's Jillian Steinhauer covered the opening of McNally Jackson's Picture Room on Mulberry Street in Manhattan, a new shop "devoted to prints, editions, posters, and art and artists’ books."
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Weekend Words: Forget
The European Union wants Google to learn how to forget.
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Weekend Words: Foster
After fierce opposition from scholars, writers, critics and the public, the New York Public Library announced this week that it has reversed its plan, developed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Norman Foster (aka Lord Foster of Thames Bank), to revamp its landmark Beaux-Arts building on Fifth Ave
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Weekend Words: Move
The Whitney Museum will soon be moving to its new location near the High Line, and the Metropolitan Museum will be moving its modern and contemporary art collection into the Whitney's historic Marcel Breuer building.
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Weekend Words: Action
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court took the country another step further to the right with its affirmation of Michigan's state constitutional amendment banning race-based affirmative action at its public universities, a move eerily foretold by one of our more progressive ex-presidents.
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Weekend Words: Water
On Thursday, the Guardian reported that officials in Portland, Oregon, plan to flush millions of gallons of drinking water "for the second time in less than three years because someone urinated into a city reservoir."
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Weekend Words: Hundred
On Thursday, New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, passed his hundredth day in office, telling an audience in the Great Hall of Cooper Union, “Grass-roots politics, neighborhood politics, tells us that the people are almost always ahead of their leaders.”