Considering the Last Romantic, Ayn Rand, at 100
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The world Rand wanted her heroes to build now seems far from revolutionary; it can even seem somewhat quaint, an almost retro fantasy.
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Roses are red, my love, violets are blue. Sugar is sweet, my love, but a &#36;100,000 tribute is too much ado.
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Assignment Zero interviews Ragnar Danneskjold of Subvert and Profit. The 19-year-old American, whose business is gaming Digg.com for paying advertisers, takes his pseudonym from the rebellious pirate in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Many would like to know his real name.
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NEW YORK: Feminist and author Susan Sontag, who died yesterday in a New York cancer hospital at the age of 71, was one of the most respected US writers of her generation, a leading campaigner for women and an ardent human rights activist who stirred
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John Ashbery, the prolific 80-year-old poet known for his dense, postmodern style, has been selected as MtvUâs first poet laureate.
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A large number of Britons would be  prepared to give up sex if it meant they would live to be 100,  according to a survey Friday.
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US author Susan Sontag, who was regarded as a leading activist and intellectual, has died in New York. She was 71. Sontag, who had been battling leukaemia, died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the city where she was born.
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Writer and activist Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s greatest public intellectuals, died Tuesday in Manhattan at the age of 71. Her grave and glamorous appearance made her a popular icon of the writer as a nation&#39;s
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The anonymous lover from MySuperProposal.com who was attempting to get the funds to propose to his loved one via a 30 seconds Ad during the XI Superbowl came out of the closet. It is no other than &#8220;Our&#8221; Rand &#8220;Linkbait&#8221; Fishkin from SEOMoz.org. The proposal and background story got quite some media coverage. Perfect &#8220;Bait&#8221; Rand :). Everybody [...]
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Susan Sontag, the author, human rights activist and social critic, has died in a New York cancer hospital, aged 71. Ms Sontag, who had suffered from leukemia for some time, was known for interests that ranged
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NEW YORK, Feb. 28 -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.
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Sensuous, intellectual woman, 5'3, adventurous, pretty and open, seeks a life partner who is sexy, highly intelligent and cheerful. How old is this woman? In her early 60s. That's the profile Mary Bellis Waller, now 64, posted on two Internet dating sites during her search for a companion.
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Namrata Shirodkar on Bride And Prejudice.
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âPattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985,â at the Hudson River Museum, documents the last genuine art movement of the 20th century.
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Life & style: Diana Athill, 90, reflects on the affair that carried her into old age
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Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was 71.
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Living to 100 is easier than you might think. Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.