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Watching ‘Mad Men’ With My Mother

A great new way to look at the AMC series Mad Men. To a woman who came of age in the early 60s, the stylish nostalgia of “Mad Men” isn’t glamorous; it’s painful.

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ArtsBeat: How ‘Mad Men’ Landed The Beatles: All You Need Is Love (and $250,000)

The use of “Tomorrow Never Knows” in Sunday’s episode of “Mad Men” was a rare instance in which a song written and recorded by the Beatles has been licensed for a television series, following several years of effort by the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner.

2 weeks ago

Gaddafi put up 50M euro for Sarkozy’s presidential bid – report — RT

1 month ago

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The burnt body of a boy killed during an air strike by the Sudanese air force is covered with sheets in a market in Rubkona near Bentiu April 23, 2012. Sudanese warplanes carried out air strikes on South Sudan on Monday, killing three people near the southern oil town of Bentiu, residents and military officials said, three days after South Sudan pulled out of a disputed oil field.

[Credit : Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]

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