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Psst HMD

2008-05-11T12:04:25Z

Every Hallmark card screams (politely) Happy Mother's Day. And yet for all the happy folks on this day, the holiday, too, masks its melancholy secrets. There is the one that as much as we honor and praise our mothers, we prefer other's parenting a...

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(Un)Secret Ballots

2008-05-10T12:20:52Z

Occasionally, secrets have no power. Such is one more ingredient in the Myanmar/Burma stew of oppression and misery. According to a Reuters dispatch, at a "rehearsal" for today's secret ballot offered in secrecy, "voters were told they didn't have...

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All Their Secret Powers

2008-05-09T11:52:36Z

Has the Bush administration lost its power to rule without public legitimacy? It seems doubtful, but it is still hopeful that the FBI desire to learn everyone's secret interests (via internet logs they probably didn't even know are kept) and the ...

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Secret Swap

2008-05-08T12:37:27Z

The thing about secrets that confuzzles is that the people who own them don't think they'll come out. Even when they themselve reveal them. Simon Foster, for example, fell on bad times after going on a the British show "Wife Swap" and having his c...

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Suprise v. Secret

2008-05-07T19:03:34Z

Witness-wise, what exactly is the difference between a "secret witness" and a "surprise witness?" For example, singer RR Kelly's trial is delayed because of a secret witness who may testify that she was part of the three-way with an underage girl...

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An Expensive Cybersecret

2008-05-06T12:06:45Z

ZOWIE!!!!! A potential $30 billion dollar secret -- cause if you are going to keep a secret, it should be a big one -- has some U.S. Senate folks dismayed. They're not in on it. So, Senators Lieberman and Collins are pleading (every five months ...

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What Were You Thinking?

2008-05-05T12:07:15Z

The secrets in the mind of Josef Fritzl are hidden in darkness probably too deep to ever be considered. But what was his sister-in-law thinking? Christine R was willing to be interviewed and have her picture taken along with her chihuahua, but bel...

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Baby Shower

2008-05-04T12:22:19Z

There is certainly something to be said about those who maintain propriety, who don't pry into the affairs of others. Still, it is a bit hard to understand how a Long Beach (Calif.) teenager kept her pregnancy secret until just after the contracti...

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Secret Battle: Urawaza v. Heloise

2008-05-03T11:49:23Z

Marketing is the massage. Again. Always claim to have knowledge of the unknown, because it is so much cooler to say you are using secret Urawaza rather than claim you're relying on Heloise's hints. To one up your friends, family or enemies even fu...

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Can You Keep a Secret (in song)

2008-05-02T12:27:49Z

Welcome to Friday's ménage à secrets. Except we'll put les trois in competition, not in conjunction. So, two songs and one band battle for primacy over the unknown. First up, is Japanese pop nightingage Utada Hikaru asking: Then comes four Jer...

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