U.K. terror suspects made U.S. inquiry
By THOMAS WAGNER and MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writers 15 minutes ago
LONDON - Two suspects in the failed car bombings in Britain had contacted a clearinghouse for foreign doctors about working in the United States, the FBI said Friday, and British officials probed links between the attacks and al-Qaida in […]
Hell, I didn’t realize they had known each other.
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Donne, Napoleon, Gandhi letters auction
By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 48 minutes ago
LONDON - A love letter from Napoleon, words of comfort from John Donne and a plea for tolerance from Mahatma Gandhi are among the treasure of a private collection up for auction […]
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Richard Guthrie, 92, was tricked into giving banking data to telephone callers, who then stole money from his account, investigators say.
(Photograph) Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times
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Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist
By CHARLES DUHIGG
The thieves operated from small offices in Toronto and hangar-size rooms in India. Every night, working from lists of names and phone […]
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I think it happened when the food giant decided to corner the market on popcorn, margarine and processed snack meats.
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Images: (Taj Mahal) infohost.nmh.edu; (Rita ‘n Aly) cinemaclassic.free.fr;(al foodstuffs) conagrafoods.com
Think about it. In restaurant years, the five days under one name is almost the equivalent of the twelve years the 1000-year reich lasted. I wonder what the new name will be. You must realize the only winners in these situations are the Swiss sign painters!
“Customers leave after visiting ‘Hitler’s Cross’ a restaurant at Kharghar, […]
Several years ago, their governor mentioned that North Dakota sounds cold. I had offered him any number of alternative names, but he and the legislature must have decided against an alias. Some of my offers were “Not South Dakota,” “Eastern Hawaii,” West Riviera,” “Sunland,” South Manitoba,” “Sandy Kota,” “Phlorida,” etc.
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Ever since Bombay changed its name […]
“Kucinich Introduces Legislation to Abolish All Nuclear Weapons
t r u t h o u t | Press Release
Thursday 27 July 2006
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) gave the following floor speech today on legislation he is introducing to abolish all nuclear weapons:
“In the Hindu religion Brahma, the creator, Vishnu, the preserver, and Siva, the destroyer, exist […]
Bob Herbert in the New York Times writes on the Indian fiasco.
‘The key to understanding the Bush administration and its policies is contained in the widely cited New York Times Magazine article, “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush,” by Ron Suskind.
That’s the article in which Mr. Suskind described how a senior Bush […]
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The photograph graced the front page of the Friday, New York Times.
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(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Priests Purify Shrine After Bush Visit
Sunday, March 5, 2006 6:27 AM EST
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) […]
I’ve used a USA Today article for my springboard to re-write history.
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India: Over 1.1 billion people call India home. The world’s second most populous nation could surpass Switzerland within two decades. Problems for the world’s largest democracy abound. Since the fall of the British Raj in 1947, India has seen their national languages increase from […]