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13 January 2012

13 January 2012, 19:40

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube-- Mitt Romney claims victory in New Hampshire, award-winning French journalist is killed in Syria, and a national strike paralyses Nigeria

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll...

11 January 2012, 20:50

Bebe Neuwirth brings a lot of character to Proctors

[...] she admits to being shy and socially awkward — the mingle-and-chat of cocktail parties makes her anxious — and so playing characters allows her to hide, in a manner, as she reveals herself through characters.

09 January 2012, 15:00

Hope Less

What if the Holocaust’s most famous victim hadn’t died in Bergen-Belsen but had continued living in hiding, moving furtively from attic to attic, until she found herself a perch in a house in upstate New York?

07 January 2012, 02:28

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--New Year celebrations, the Iowa Caucuses, and more

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every...

06 January 2012, 16:02

Don't Panic. OK, Now Panic!

#95. On this week's show we discus a period in which the wheels fell of United's title challenge, with defeats to Blackburn and Newcastle. We ponder the key issues of the week, including Sir Alex Ferguson's decision to drop David de Gea, Nani's form, Phil Jones' mistakes and United's set pieces.

01 January 2012, 15:00

Plug in, watch John Vanderslice's world spin

Plug in, watch John Vanderslice's world spin Tools of musician John Vanderslice's trade double as his favorite things At first glance, 1458-A San Bruno Ave., the address of John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone recording studio, doesn't exist.

31 December 2011, 01:37

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube-- North Korea holds two days of funeral ceremonies for Kim Jong-il, Arab league monitors arrive in Syria, and Nordic storm "Dagmar" batters Scandinavia

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll...

23 December 2011, 08:20

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--North Korea's "dear leader" dies, Egyptian women protest after beatings, and dozens killed in Iraq after US troops leave

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll...

23 December 2011, 01:08

'Portal 2,' 'Skyrim' top thrilling year in games

Fortunately, smaller studios are picking up the slack, delivering fresh ideas to the PC market, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and Apple's App Store. [...] the creators of some of this year's blockbusters...

21 December 2011, 21:44

Arts leaders who died in 2011

Carpinello, who lived in Rensselaer, started carving ice at the family business, Carpinello Ice Co. He began creating ice sculptures for customers, using a chain saw to fashion forms such as gargoyles and other fanciful creatures.

20 December 2011, 12:00

The Top Political Videos of 2011

From candidate ads to pundit debates, speeches from the White House to impassioned pleas from the American heartland, this year’s most-viewed political videos show us that a message that resonates can come from anywhere -- and anyone.

19 December 2011, 15:00

Settling Down

Chani Getter was married off by her ultra-Orthodox family when she was 17. By the time she was 24, she had three children. She was deeply religious and deeply unhappy. She knew she was gay and could not stay in her marriage...

19 December 2011, 08:00

Do increases in government spending increase or decrease the number of jobs? Conventional wisdom is they will increase jobs, and a few left-wing economists, such as Paul Krugman of the New York Times...

19 December 2011, 08:00

The Republicans' Holiday Gift to President Obama

Alan Reynolds

A proposal by House Republicans to roll back the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 99 weeks to 59 passed the House by 234 to 193. If such a plan also passes the Senate, that would be politically ideal for President Obama.

19 December 2011, 08:00

If America Is the Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights

Gene Healy

Last Thursday — which happened to be the 220th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights — the Senate passed a defense bill that demonstrates just how cavalier Congress can be with our fundamental liberties.