In a yet to be published letter to Advertising Age in response to its publication of the Top Ten Ad Songs of the Year, The Apollo Project's Paul Horn makes the convincing argument the songs are nothing more than a representative playlist one might find on a Brooklyn-based hipster music blog.

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Karen Russo, Sac Union Columnist

Published January 8, 2009, 7:32 pm, The Sacramento Union

Yesterday – up until late afternoon – the terrorists focused their attention on Ashkelon and Ashdod, so Beersheba was quiet, up until about 4:30, anyway, when a Grad missile hit somewhere near Ben Gurion University of the Negev. I only know that because someone who was near there told me.

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Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador

Published January 8, 2009, 5:46 pm, The World

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela ordered the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and some embassy staff on Tuesday to protest Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

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Jack Wilkinson: Smoltz's departure from Atlanta signals end of an era

Published January 8, 2009, 5:08 pm, Sports Illustrated

ATLANTA -- This town awoke Thursday to the end of an era, one which Marty Noble, the veteran New York baseball writer, captured perfectly one day when he looked at the pitcher's mound in Turner Field, considered the Atlanta Braves' Big Three of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz and...voila! Mound Rushmore.

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Fame for a laugh

Published January 8, 2009, 4:23 pm, Independent

Lindsay Carol is a radio DJ at the achingly hip London station Skin FM. He wants to hang around with the in crowd, but goes to the wrong nightclubs. He spends his days trying to sleep with Miquita Oliver and meeting acts such as The Charlatans, Ladyhawke, Sway and The Wombats.

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Fiona Barton: I wanted a change – so I gave up my job and my comforts

Published January 8, 2009, 4:19 pm, Independent

"Change your life!", the ad man exhorts us daily. Buy a bigger car, switch deodorants, use another toilet cleaner, new brand, new you, the annoying jingles bray. Of course, we tell ourselves, as we reach for the credit card or turn on the latest makeover 'n tears TV show, it is all total nonsense. But, we cannot help but yearn for our lives to be transformed. And so four months ago, I did just ...

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Montclair attorney tapped by Obama for Defense Department post

Published January 8, 2009, 3:26 pm, The Star-Ledger

Montclair attorney Jeh Charles Johnson, a longtime Democratic advisor and fund-raiser, was nominated today by President-elect Barack Obama to be general counsel for the Department of Defense. Johnson, 51, a partner in the New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,...

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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean

Published January 8, 2009, 3:23 pm, Israel National News

(IsraelNN.com) A new book by Edward Kritzler, "Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean" takes the reader into a past not normally mentioned in school.

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Commander’s Column

Published January 8, 2009, 2:53 pm, DCMilitary.com

As I considered this week’s column I wanted to convey the significance of the New Year and incorporate a message that speaks to the year ahead and our role in the covenant of care we hold for all those who rely upon us in war and in peace.

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