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- Film News: Thesps will appear with Downey Jr. in Fox film Radha Mitchell has signed on to star opposite Robert Downey Jr. in the new Woody Allen picture for Fox Searchlight Films. |
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- Business News: Contribution was for 'employment,' 'education' A recent federal tax filing shows the Assn. of Talent Agents paid $500,000 to AFTRA in December as part of the agreement last year for AFTRA to ease ownership rules in its master franchise agreement for agents. |
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- Three people, including a Briton, are due in court in the US on suspicion of smuggling a missile for use by terrorists. |
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- Argentina's lower house votes to scrap amnesty laws protecting former members of military governments. |
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- New at Reason: Costa Rica, the Cadillac of Central American nations, has another thing to be proud of: A libertarian party that can actually win elections. Julian Sanchez talks with Otto Guevara, the first (of six) members of Costa Rica's congress elected from Movimiento Libertario. |
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- MONSTER DEAL Peter Jackson earning $20 million against 20 percent of the gross when he helms Universal's remake of King... |
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Blog Block (Aug 13 2003 05:07 GMT) - My mom sent me this today, although I'm sure you've all seen it by now. It's the Blog Block cartoon... |
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- line56 Aug 12 2003 10:57PM ET... |
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- Discover Aug 12 2003 11:15PM ET... |
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- Discover Aug 12 2003 11:15PM ET... |
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- Discover Aug 12 2003 11:15PM ET... |
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- Space.com Aug 12 2003 11:19PM ET... |
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- New York Times Aug 12 2003 11:21PM ET... |
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- Bernama Aug 12 2003 10:36PM ET... |
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- "A vulnerability was discovered in the transparent session ID support in PHP4 prior to version 4.3.2..."... |
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- "It must have been a misguided attack of political correctness that saw Microsoft invited to speak at the Government information systems managers forum last Monday..."... |
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- Reuters Aug 12 2003 11:10PM ET... |
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- Channel NewsAsia Aug 12 2003 10:33PM ET... |
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- EarthWeb.com Aug 12 2003 10:52PM ET... |
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- Smart Money Aug 12 2003 11:07PM ET... |
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- Dell.com - Current Dell Home Coupons And Promotions. Dell Home Software & |
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- (US) Was 21 years old in 1970 when he took a pay cut to leave his job at Adams Business Forms and become a Topeka police officer.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $narcotic(100%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- (US) Cocaine especially, that so-easily renewable commodity, generates such vast amounts of money, that it puts into the hands of the syndicates which traffick it through Jamaica from Colombia to North America and Europe, the power to corrupt all but those of utmost probity, providing a safe o...[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(55%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) Local organisers said the positive drug tests would not cast a shadow over the events. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- (US) The group must deal with a driven drug lord (Oliver Martinez) who offers $100 million to anyone that will get him out of jail.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- US-Geheimdienst nimmt Briten wegen Waffenhandel fest |
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- Jim's Computer Garage. Punch cards, paper tape, 8-inch floppy diskettes, etc etc. Nostalgias for geeks. And middle-aged ones, at that.The Robot Commando had a "voice-activated control", pretty neat for 1961. |
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- With polls showing his support eroding daily, the Davis-resignation rumors are hot and heavy around the Capitol again. And the resignation question has never ceded its first-place spot atop the list of questions I get from readers. So I am... |
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Bad News (Aug 13 2003 05:03 GMT) - Via Brian Ulrich I see that the Taliban have captured the province of Zabul from which point they are poised to threaten Kandahar. They also appear to be preparing for an attack on the forces of Uzbek leader Rashid Dostum.... |
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- We're having server problems. The site works fine to read from, but we can't use our MT files to post... |
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- Dennis Prager: "'Child-like' is operative. The further left you go, the less you like growing up. That is one reason so many professors are on the left. Never leaving school from kindergarten through adulthood enables one to avoid becoming a mature adult. |
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- DEF LEPPARD ROCKED Oh man... Def Leppard is still #1 in my books... Pearl Jam was a brief front runner as the best concert ever, simply because they were more recent, but Def Leppard is clearly the best band in... |
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- WHudson writes "Relevantive AG, a German consulting firm who recently completed a study on Linux usability, posted their results in English translation today. ... |
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- Jack Benny OTR MP3 List: "Jack Benny is one of the great American comedians. His work spans the 20th century, from vaudeville to radio and movies to TV. In vaudeville, he delivered the snappy comebacks and one liners with intelligence and wit, but it was only with the continuing development of his personal trait comedy that he really became the Jack Benny we all know so well. 'Who else could play for four decades the part of a vain, miserly, argumentative skinflint, and emerge a national treasure? |
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- Esse aí não é o Flávio Prado. |
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- Christine had a good point about browsing web pages w/ cell phones, pda's, etc. Design the page so that the... |
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- A self-described tomboy from Oregon was crowned Miss Teen U-S-A 2003 Tuesday night. |
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- Our top story takes us to Ft. Oglethorpe where there are signs of the '60's. On a telephone pole was a sign with a message loud and clear. |
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- Crime, immigration and money make a volatile mix. Federal agents say the crimes are getting worse and they don't have the money to fight them. NewsChannel 9 examined the cases of some violent offenders out of Bradley County. Federal agents feel these illegal immigrants are getting light sentences for nasty crimes. A solution is not simple. |
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- Families in East Brainerd want to know who is going to pay for the clean-up there, following Monday's flash flooding. |
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- Gateway may (or may not) have dropped out of the PDA business, but they're about to dive headfirst into the digital camera market with three cameras of their own (they already sell other manufacturers' cameras in their stores and on their website): the 2.1 megapixel DC-T20, the 4.1 megapixel DC-M40, and the 5.25 megapixel DC-T50. |
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- Gateway may (or may not) have dropped out of the PDA business, but they're about to dive headfirst into the digital camera market with three cameras of their own (they already sell other manufacturers' cameras in their stores and on their website): the 2.1 megapixel DC-T20, the 4.1 megapixel DC-M40, and the 5.25 megapixel DC-T50. |
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- John Cherry recently posted to the lkml a comparison of the number of compiler warnings and errors between the three 2.6.0-test kernels that have been released to date. The results were obtained using GCC 3.2. |
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- Bosko Milekic recently posted a patch to the freebsd-current mailing list apparently solving some random data corruption problems that have been seen in FreeBSD 5.1 for the past few months. The actual bug is still rather ill-defined, and the workaround to date has been to include the 'DISABLE_PSE' and 'DISABLE_PG_G' options when building the kernel. With Bosko's fix, neither option is now required to prevent data corruption. He explains: |
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- Due to the fire, we've taken up temporary digs at a friend's apartment in Allston. Plum-B is staying in Maine for a while, and he didn't need his room, which he offered to us for nothing in return. His 3 roommates (and house-kitten Alfie) have been truly generous. And I've got a fellow weblogger to talk CSS and XHTML with-- Jason writes at yovanoff.com. |
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