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The Two-Way
9:41 am
Fri June 29, 2012

On The Morning After, Who's The Winner Is Everybody's Guess

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Susan Clark (left) argues with another protester about the Affordable Care Act outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.

Originally published on Fri June 29, 2012 11:38 am

Figuring out who benefits most politically from Thursday's Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of President Obama's health care overhaul seems to be today's toughest assignment.

On It's All Politics, our colleague Frank James says it's "difficult to overstate how big a win" it was for Obama.

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Cabinet Of Wonders
9:03 am
Fri June 29, 2012

Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode Six

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Cabinet host John Wesley Harding kicked off the show with a heart-stopping Conway Twitty cover.

Originally published on Mon July 2, 2012 2:15 pm

Planet Money
8:46 am
Fri June 29, 2012

A Baby Step Toward A United States Of Europe

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Spot the metaphor.

Originally published on Mon July 2, 2012 9:20 am

If the euro is to survive, the eurozone needs to be more like one country, and less like a bunch of different countries that happen to sit on the same continent.

European leaders just took a baby step in that direction. They agreed to create a banking union. Like many things in global finance, this sounds boring but is actually a pretty big deal.

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Movie Reviews
8:37 am
Fri June 29, 2012

A Boy And His Bear, At Large In A Man's World

Originally published on Fri June 29, 2012 9:26 pm

Seth MacFarlane is known mostly for creating, writing and directing the animated TV show Family Guy. In the show, he also voices Peter and Stewie Griffin, and their dog, Brian.

With his new movie, Ted, he has moved to the big screen for the first time, again creating, writing and directing. And though it's a live-action picture, he has again voiced one of the characters — the titular teddy bear, whom I tried to resist but couldn't.

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Games & Humor
8:33 am
Fri June 29, 2012

Contestant Lipograms: The Best Of The Best

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Originally published on Wed December 19, 2012 4:43 pm

Think you have what it takes to be a contestant on Ask Me Another? First, you have to prove you know your stuff.

We subjected our Season 1 contestant hopefuls to an Ask Me Another Contestant Quiz—a 17-question blitz to test their knowledge of art, literature, science, math, international "goat suckers," and female actors in the Ocean's 11 franchise.

The part of the quiz that drew the funniest and strangest responses was the final question. Here are the original instructions:

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