Carlsbad, CA — At the “All Things Digital” conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal. Rupert Murdoch — Chairman of News Corp, new WSJ owner, and longtime torchbearer for conservative politics — said this about Barack Obama: “He is a rock star. I love what he is saying about education. I think he will win and I am anxious to meet him.”

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Sen. Barack Obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront here right now.

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A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects. No, not the occasional psychopath who turns up. We’re talking about you.

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Throughout my life, my teachers have told me that school is a neutral environment where my classmates and I can count on teachers and textbooks to provide us with the factual and unbiased information that will equip us for life. Lately, though, I’ve begun to wonder whether they really mean it.

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Arrested for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial. Go out to celebrate the birth of the most hardcore, anti-authoritarian of the Founding Fathers, and get hauled off in handcuffs.

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Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was built.

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