3/29 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

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We remember the monk who helped rebuild Buddhism in Cambodia following the downfall of the Khmer Rouge at Corpus Obscurum.

Download free MP3s from local artists such as Askeleton, the Hopefuls, Chris Koza, M.anifest, the Plastic Constellations, and more at Music To Go.

THESE DAYS

A life-size marble statue of the former glamour model Samantha Fox is to be erected in Serbia after she agreed to sing at a pop festival.

Lawrence Roach agreed to pay alimony to the woman he divorced, not the man she became after a sex change, his lawyers argued Tuesday in an effort to end the payments.

The U.S. is now ranked seventh in the World Economic Forum's league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Bob Johnson blogs on east metro politics, civil rights, and the real estate market at A Democracy.

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TIME WASTERS

A CBS News clip on Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign featuring a brief interview with a boyish Karl Rove by Dan Rather [via Norwegianity]

The USPS rolls out its rate hike with 30th anniversary Star Wars stamps. Do they break the rule about living persons appearing on U.S. stamps?

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"Undercover Brother's good at karate and all the rest of that, but the Brother can't drive."

— actor/comedian Eddie Griffin, referring to his crashing of a $1.5 million Ferrari Enzo while practicing for a charity race