March Madness represents that rare and magical moment when our highly partisan, attention-deprived, and often coarse culture coheres around a simple innocent pursuit. In this moment we transcend differences of race, class, party, geography and gender to root for the underdog, to passionately back small, obscure schools we never knew existed (LIU-Brooklyn?), to embrace school mascots we heretofore had no name for (Clutch, Cosmo, Mr. Cat, Mr. Wuf, Prospector Pete, Big Al, and The Billiken) and to collectively and simultaneously engage in what President Obama termed a "national passtime" with tens of millions of our fellow citizens. During March Madness we become, as Langston Hughes wrote, "America again."

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Guest post written by Heather Sundell Heather Sundell is marketing manager at The Search Agency, a search marketing and optimization company. I received an invite for Pinterest a few months ago, but only very recently decided to stop being a pop culture contrarian and jump on the bandwagon. Like most marketers, I was almost instantaneously ...

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New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson moments before her SXSW panel.

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Marvel editor in chief Axel Alonso on the comic book giant's big announcement at SXSW.

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In less than two generations, during the late 19th century, Japan transformed itself from a medieval backwater to a dynamic modern economy.

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In the aftermath of the statement, gold, silver and bonds fell. The curve between 10-and 30-year bonds is steepening. The 10-year Treasury note now yields 2.13%.

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Founder Ben Huh is providing the public with a robust platform to create their own LOL memes.

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Olympus scandal shows more countries need laws to reward and protect whistleblowers. Whistleblowers in other countries now turn to the SEC whistleblower program because it's the only one that offers a reward, confidentiality and redress for job retaliation.

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We expect the number of active users and the engagement metrics to drop significantly if the Chinese government starts censoring updates even by registered users or takes any stringent action against them.

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The markets opened higher today on positive economic data from the retail sector, and held onto those gains following an announcement from the U.S Federal Reserve. In a statement released this afternoon, the Fed said it will maintain interest rates but not much was said with regards to the possibility of further monetary easing. Policymakers ...

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