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L’utilisation de logiciels d’analyse lexicale sur les discoursdes candidats à la présidentielle de 2007 met en évidence quelques surprises. Car l’analyse mathématique de leur langue, de leur parole au jour le jour, montre qu’ils abordent souvent des sujets éloignés des thématiques auxquelles leur personnalité publique est associée. À la veille de l’échéance de 2012, ce retour sur expérience devrait nous inviter à écouter avec distance les discours de la prochaine présidentielle. Un peu comme si les règles du marketing politique gouvernant l’écriture des discours se trouvaient mises à nu. Confirmant l’impression que ces interventions – largement mises en scène dans les meetings – ne consistent pas à approfondir les thèmes que les candidats sont supposés incarner.The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | An Independent Nonprofit Journalism Venture
Gladys Walker, a retiree on Social Security, owed less than $1,000 in overdue property taxes on her modest Florida home. So why did Bank of America and a major hedge fund bid thousands of times for the right to collect it?
NEW "The Stolen Makeni Children," Schuster Institute E.J. Graff, May 11, 2012, Slate.com. NEW Dogged Reporting by an Independent Journalist is a profile of Schuster's Senior Fellow Hella Winston's reporting on public secrecy about child sex abuse cases in some ultra-Orthodox communities, May 10, 2012. NEW "Finding Fernanda" (Beacon Press, May 8, 2012), Schuster Senior Fellow Erin Siegal's narrative portrayal of a Guatemalan family’s struggle to reunite with their daughter, reveals fraud and corruption in international adoption between Guatemala and the United States.
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The UKs first Open-data Cities Conference will take place at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange today. Greg Hadfield , a former journalist and internet entrepreneur, explains what to expect
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Six soldiers who were killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan: top row left to right, Sergeant Nigel Coupe, Corporal Jake Hartley and Private Anthony Frampton, with bottom row left to right, Private Christopher Kershaw, Private Daniel Wade and Private Daniel Wilford Photograph: MOD/PA What is the human cost of the war in Afghanistan for British forces? As British troop deaths reach 412, these are the latest figures - including the most recent wounded and amputation statisticsDespite years of evidence that feeding antibiotics to farm animals can be dangerous to human health, the FDA has taken few steps to regulate the drugs. Last month, a federal judge ordered them to finally take some action. Here we trace the history.
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