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(Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP/Corbis. Illustration by Steven Noble.) If all goes as planned, Facebook will finally pull the trigger later this month on its long-salivated-over IPO. The deal could value the…

In January, the actor Peter Dinklage surprised himself during his own Golden Globe acceptance speech. Dinklage had won the award for best supporting actor in a TV series for his portrayal of…

It's 8.30am, and in an 18th-century Palladian villa in Richmond Park, London, 25 children are saying their prayers. "God be in my head and in my understanding," they recite, heads bowed. "God be in…

When an athlete-turned-humanitarian and an energy executive tried to buy gold in Kenya, they found themselves mired in Congo's dangerous world of conflict minerals -- and totally outmatched. Former…

"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together [his actions]?"  (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty…

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On December 5, 1955, to the amused annoyance of the white citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, an obscure young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., called a city-wide Negro boycott of its segregated bus system. To their consternation, however, it was almost 100 percent successful; it lasted for 381 days and nearly bankrupted the bus line.