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America's Biggest Little Election

By Steve PendleburyNov 2nd 2009 – 9:19AM

There are only two congressional elections Tuesday, but one of them is turning out to be a real doozy. In what pundits are treating as a microcosm of the battle for the soul of the GOP, Republican Dede Scozzafava abruptly quit the race in New York's 23rd District and endorsed a Democrat instead of the Conservative Party...

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iTunes bankruptcy, step one: The Great Purge

By TJ Luoma Oct 08th 2010 - 11:20AM

I went into iTunes' Advanced preferences and made sure that "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" was selected as well as "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library."

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  • 12/24/10 The Great Purge Source: Harry's Place Kevin Higgins was born in London in 1967 to Irish parents.

Background on The Great Purge

The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and murder in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1937 to 1938. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, characterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions.

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