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A Critical View of Miller's Blockbuster '300'

with Victor Davis Hansonvia NPR
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

The movie version of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 opened Friday to mixed reviews and then dominated at the box office, taking in $70 million over the weekend...

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The brotherhood is gathering outside the pharaoh's palace

by Timothy Garton Ashvia Guardian (UK)
Thursday, March 8, 2007

In front of the towering golden sandstone entrance to the temple of Edfu stands an imposing granite statue of a falcon, some 12ft tall, representing Horus, a premier league Egyptian god...

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Last Night at the 300

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Corner (National Review Online)
Tuesday, March 6, 2007

I went to the Hollywood Premier of the "300" last night, and talked a bit with Director Zack Snyder, screenwriter Kurt Johnstad, and graphic novelist Frank Miller...

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This is Sparta? The history behind the movie '300'

with Victor Davis Hansonvia USA Today
Monday, March 5, 2007

Go tell the Spartans, passerby. That here, by Spartan law, we lie, read the ancient elegy on stone at Thermopylae, the ancient battle site where the Greeks, 300 Spartans and their allies, held off masses of invading Persians in 480 BC...

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The Capitalist Manifesto

with Milton Friedmanvia Washington Post
Sunday, March 4, 2007

P.J. O'Rourke explains Adam Smith's influential work...

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Fora.tv offers news for thinkers

with Hoover Institutionvia Washington Times
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

The world is thinking" -- or that's what Brian Gruber is banking on, at least...

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Milton Friedman, Technology Maven

with Milton Friedmanvia ABC 7 News (CA)
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Milton Friedman lives on, despite his demise: he’s the rightful patron saint of blogging...

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Memorial service to celebrate late Hoover Fellow

with Seymour Martin Lipset, Larry Diamondvia Stanford Daily
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

A memorial for the late Senior Hoover Fellow Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of political science and sociology, will be held today at 4:00 p.m. in Memorial Church...

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From president of Peru to just Palo Alto guy

via San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, February 11, 2007

A short man wearing blue jeans and a windbreaker joined the other schlumps in the long line at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Redwood City last September...

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Reconstructing Ronald Reagan

with Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson, Kiron K. Skinner, George P. Shultzvia New York Times Book Review
Friday, February 9, 2007

Of the seventeen presidents the United States has survived since Theodore Roosevelt declined his third term, none is so mystifying as Ronald Reagan...

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