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- The customer-facing Network Solutions unit is sold for $100 million. |
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- The carrier is closer to conquering bankruptcy, after Sprint and others withdraw objections to its reorganization plan. |
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- UPDATE: The embattled Linux proprietor is the beneficiary of a generous $45 'buy' rating from Deutsche Bank, which also warned the stock could be worthless depending on the outcome of its suit versus IBM. |
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- New version adds the ability to burn photo stories to video CDs for playback on consumer DVD players. |
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- House Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing next week on proposal to divide the Ninth Circuit: This hearing is scheduled to occur on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 2 p.m. before the Subcommittee on Courts. You can access a press release concerning the hea |
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- It's all about oil. It's not all about oil. We've all seen the charges and the counter-charges. "No Blood For Oil!" various activist groups chanted. |
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- Last post by Inigo Montoya on 00:33 17/Oct/03 - Just in case any of your Phairheads didn't see it, Liz Phair's new video was on TOTP2 a couple of days ago. I would have told you earlier, but... |
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- Last post by mongrel on 23:54 16/Oct/03 - Fans? Recommendations? |
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- this article seems to have most of the interesting bits of data. universal, the largest of the few record labels, will cut 1350 jobs by year end. naturally, they're blaming the job cuts on net piracy. in the big picture,... |
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- Putin prefers islamofascists As we have reported earlier, Russian president Vladimir Putin displays minimum discomfort in the company of islamofascists. Next to him, in today's photo, is an animal by the name of "Mahathir Mohamad", aka "Malaysian Prime Minister". Here is what Mahathir Mohamad Animal said today at the opening of the 10th summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference: [Israel is] "the enemy allied with most powerful nations." "We are actually very strong, 1. |
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downtown (Oct 17 2003 03:11 GMT) - here’s a long piece from the los angeles times about the apparent rebirth of downtown los angeles.this article with some quick downtown tips has some useful information, but the question about groceries has one huge oversight: it doesn’t mention the grand central market, one of the things that drew me to downtown.my new place is in the old bank district, in the san fernando building (the same building as pete's café and bar). |
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- Synes du også, at der dukker uniformerede vagter op flere og flere steder i Århus? Du har ret. I støt stigende omfang kaster butikker og kontorer nu håndklædet i ringen og køber sig til sikkerhed. |
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- Fødevarekontrollen kontrollerer vores mad. Arbejdstilsynet kontrollerer vores arbejdspladser. Men ingen kontrollerer strålingen fra mobilantenner. |
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- Ældre flygtninge og indvandrere vil fremover fylde langt mere i ældreomsorgen på kommunens lokalcentre. Det skyldes dels at denne gruppe af ældre vokser i antal de kommende år, og dels at de ældre i løbet af de seneste år markant har ændret holdning til, hvem der skal tage sig af dem i alderdommen. |
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- Da tilmeldingerne til De åbne danske mesterskaber i bordtennis indløb fra Kina og Japan i går, måtte Arne Madsen fra Dansk Bordtennis Union lige spørge til navnene på spillerne en ekstra gang. For Kina stiller med nogle af verdens bedste bat-spillere, når Arena lægger gulv til Danish Open. |
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- Musicalen Guys and Dolls, der spiller sidste gang på Aarhus Teater 18. oktober, har solgt 10-15 procent færre billetter, end teatret havde regnet med. For at mindske sæsonens udgifter har man besluttet at flytte to forestillinger fra denne til næste sæson. Det drejer sig om dramatiseringen af Henrik Pontoppidans roman ”De dødes rige” og Erling Jepsens ”Manden fra Estland”, som ikke bliver erstattet med andre stykker i denne sæson. |
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- Der er smukt på toppen. Og på toppen det er lige præcis, hvor Peter Nielsen befinder sig. Selvom han er på arbejde, kan han godt nå at nyde udsigten til Mols, ned over Århus by, ud mod Lisbjerg Bakke, og hvor man ellers kan se til fra toppen af resterne af det gamle vandtårn på Brendstrupvej. |
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- For Århus GF har en topplacering i den hjemlige Liga stadig førsteprioritet, men det betyder ikke, at spillerne ikke er opsatte på at gøre en god figur i weekendens to EHF-opgør i Arena lørdag og Vejlby-Risskov Hallen søndag i Århus mod estiske Kehra Tallinn. |
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- "Habibti - min elskede" ANMELDELSEDen unge arabiske kvinde Sara bliver gravid med sin danske kæreste. Saras far opdager det, og smider hende ud af familien. Sara, der går med hovedtørklæde, kan ikke bære at miste familien. Hun vil have abort, men det bliver kæresten rasende over. |
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- My buddy Les sent me this, hilarious. I should really set up Gallery or something on this box for this sort of stuff. |
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- My buddy Les sent me this, hilarious.I should really set up Gallery or something on this box for this sort of stuff. |
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- Oct. 16 - Talks are scheduled in at least one of the Southland's labor disputes, but as the strikes linger on, smaller grocery stores and commuters struggle. |
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- Oct. 16 - Police are searching for a man who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a girl before she was able to escape. |
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- Oct. 16 - Police on Thursday searched for the driver of a speeding red or maroon minivan that struck and fatally injured a 16-year-old girl. |
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- And no I don't mean like this... No, what I mean is Apple finally announced the Windows version of iTunes!... |
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- A fact that liberals love to deny - that there is such a thing as a unique American Identity -... |
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- US bishop refuses to back down in gay row. |
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- GM varieties face Europe-wide ban after long-awaited field-scale trials showed that crops damaged wildlife. |
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- Wolfgang Tillmans explains how and why he took photographs of Concorde. |
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- UK: The explosion in gun crime in England and Wales appears to have passed its peak and has been falling since last November, according to Home Office figures. |
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- World: Despite UN mandate, France and Germany unlikely to send troops. |
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- Politics: EU leaders launched into a marathon haggling session over Europe's new constitutional treaty last night as Britain again hit back at domestic Eurosceptics. |
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- Money: The boss of Britain's biggest credit card company yesterday stunned his customers with what appeared to be a vote of no confidence in his own product. |
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- Business: Call centre and back office staff lose out to India and Malaysia. |
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- Society: Charles Clarke, the education secretary, is fighting for a short bill in the Queen's speech next month which would give every child an identity number. |
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- Media: Universal Music, the world's largest music group, announces 1,350 job losses as the industry continues to struggle with the consequences of rampant piracy. |
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- Education: Jarvis will wipe away some of the immediate gloom surrounding the group by announcing a £300m contract to build 3,000 rooms for the University of Lancaster. |
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- Arts: Hew Locke's voodoo shrine is one of the highlights of the mammoth Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park in London. |
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- Sport: Australia, South Africa and France joined forces yesterday to condemn England's potent driving maul as illegal. |
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- Film: Movie franchises and the studios' testing of final scenes on audiences have given Hollywood a serious new problem: how to finish films properly? |
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- DEPLETED URANIUM / URANIUM WEAPONS: THE TROJAN HORSES OF NUCLEAR WAR AN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL/ORGANIZING CONFERENCE Univer... |
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- For those who haven't already found out, there are two great pieces of news about Mozilla. First up, there's a new version of the excellent power user-friendly browser - now at version 1.5. Find out about the new features here. The second bit of good news is that the Mozilla site has had a re-working by Dave Shea (of CSS Zen Garden fame). |
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- There is a very nice 15-foot-long missile, in mint condition, there for the taking, at an armament factory in Iraq. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 'The missile, along with a dozen ready-to-fire 107-millimeter antitank rounds, just a few feet away, is part of a problem that the American military has only begun to grapple with: as much as one million tons of ammunition is scattered around Iraq, much of it unguarded — like the armaments at this site here — |
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- L'niziativa è prevista per sabato contro la sproporzione tra prezzo alla stalla e prezzo al banco di vendita |
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