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David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook , nominated for eight Oscars, is hardly the first movie to find critical acclaim with a searing portrait of the impact of mental illness

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Stephen King — best selling author of the very kind of violent books that gun advocates say contribute to gun violence — has penned Guns , a 25-page essay dismissing their criticism, while calling for universal background checks for gun purchases, and a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. A self-described “blue-state American” who also owns guns, King is no stranger to how individuals can and do turn to art as inspiration for violence

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In a controversial diatribe on Friday, Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, blamed lax security, natural disasters, and, most of all, violent video games for the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT that claimed 27 lives.

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Hayley Wickenheiser (red) and Angela Ruggiero (white) will be included in EA Sports’ newest video game. EA Sports, the video game magnate behind successful franchises like Madden NFL Football and other sports games, announced this week that it will for the first time include international female hockey stars in NHL 13 , the newest version of its National Hockey League game. EA included a female body in its “Create A Player” option in last year’s NHL game, but this year, it is going a step farther , adding former Team USA star Angela Ruggiero and former Team Canada player Hayley Wickenheiser to NHL rosters in this year’s game

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The new iPhone looks pretty much like the old iPhone. Sure, it’s a bit taller, allowing for a display that has one extra row of icons on the Home screen .

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Bob White, Mitt Romney’s partner at Bain Capital and close campaign confidante, gave Paul Ryan the ultimate compliment. “We would have hired him at Bain,” he told a campaign colleague. The buoyant 42-year-old Ryan did look a bit like the junior partner in the duo’s first sit-down interview with Bob Schieffer on 60 Minutes, matching Romney with a checked shirt and blazer.

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The headline at Buzzfeed read “Ryan Skips Florida.” The story, the first of many on a go-go-go weekend—suggested that Mitt Romney’s running mate would be put at a safe, electric-fence distance from senior citizens, lest he give them night terrors about his Medicare plans.

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Ask Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan how he became a conservative and he’ll probably answer by citing a book. It might be Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged . Or perhaps he’ll come up with Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom , or even Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative .

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Listen to “Hang Up and Listen” with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:

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The New York art world is a place where egos, off-shore bank accounts, and matters of ineffable taste cohabit—where real money is paid for goods that resist commodification and everyone really does wear black. It’s a glamour industry inflected with an air of intellectualism: easy to esteem and even easier to mock.

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