‘Incredibly emotional’: Michelle Fairley on GoT shocker

Catelyn Stark would be heartbroken to see where her children have ended up, says Michelle Fairley, who plays the honourable-to-a-fault Lady Stark in Game of Thrones. Speaking to Vulture, Fairley reveals what it was like filming the aptly named Red Wedding scenes, which saw the demise of several key characters of the popular fantasy HBO series.

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Album review: Save Rock n Roll – Fall Out Boy

I can understand how a lot of fans have become a little upset with how much this band has changed, but I think that’s what swayed me on this album. The fact that they’re not the band I sang to in my high school dark room, whose concert I had to have my mum drop me off to, whose posters I hung on my wall

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The Nation: Pentagon Papers: The Secret War

To see the conflict and our part in it as a tragedy without villains, war crimes without criminals, lies without liars, espouses and promulgates a view of process, roles and motives that is not only grossly mistaken but which underwrites deceits that have served a succession of Presidents.

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Pope outrages Jews over Holocaust denier

Jewish officials in Israel and abroad are outraged that Pope Benedict XVI has decided to lift the excommunication of a British bishop who denies that Jews were killed in Nazi gas chambers. The pope’s decree, issued Saturday, brings back into the Catholic Church’s fold Bishop Richard Williamson and three other bishops who belong to the Society of Saint Pius X

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