Archive for May 31st, 2008

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

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Images: (Top) nytimes.com via Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library/From ‘’The Chosen’’; (Bottom) AP Photo/Bush at Air Force Academy

Unfortunately, this is not the first time that chefs have strayed from American orthodoxy.

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

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Access Hollywood

Associated Press

May 29, 2008 12:59 PM

BOSTON, Mass. –Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.—Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like […]

Certainly, one must question the accuracy of the Chinese total, but do we have a figure of perished and missing from Katrina?

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Google katrina missing dead for a fluid answer.
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The Economist
China quake toll rises to 68,977: report
31 May, 2008, 1347 hrs IST, AGENCIES
BEIJING: The death toll from China’s earthquake has reached 68,977, with another 17,974 missing, the State Council said on Saturday.
The confirmed death toll, sent in a statement to AFP, marked an increase of just […]