Wednesday's Daily Brief

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 The Never-Ending Primary POLITICS Newt Gingrich's Living Dead Campaign Will Attempt One More Terrifying Re-Animation WORLD Leaked Secret Report Says Taliban On Path To Retake Afghanistan POLITICS What Drove Komen To Cut Planned Parenthood Grants? TECHNOLOGY Petition Calls For Apple To Protect Chinese Workers HEALTHY LIVING Pfizer Recalls 1 Million Packets Of Birth Control Pills BLOG POSTS Julianne Moore: Make It Fair for All Kids Valentine's Day has become a major children's holiday, and is for them, about friendship. So if we parents have to buy Valentines anyway, why not send the money to children and schools less fortunate than our own? Laurie David: Paula Deen Should Turn Lemons Into Lemonade Paula Deen's problem -- hers and America's -- won't be solved with a prescription from the pharmacy. But it can be solved with changes in the way we all cook, and eat. Maribel Hastings: In Florida, Romney Finds the "Lucky Corner" But for some Cuban and Cuban-American voters, the candidates' immigration positions don't dim their appeal. Neither does the tone of the debate, which many consider insulting to the whole community. Randy Jackson: Fighting Childhood Poverty: A Role for Everyone In a country as wealthy as ours, why do we allow childhood poverty? How can we expect all our kids to succeed when almost a quarter of our kids don't have the basic tools of life, like books to read and food that helps them growth strong and healthy? Rider Strong: The Resistable Rise of the Mockumentary Hypnotized by the cost and convenience of the form, I'm afraid Hollywood -- and in response, audiences -- are forgetting that an emphasis on setting and character is precisely the point of the mockumentary. It is, in fact, the only point.

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