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- Assume the Position analyses the 'victory' in the Balkans mentioned in this previous post: That's over four years of UN occupation since President Bill Clinton and General Wesley Clark declared the end of major combat operations in Kosovo—not bad for a speck one-fortieth the size of Iraq and with one-tenth the population. Clark's Iraq strategy is to "End the American monopoly" by replacing the Coalition Provisional Authority with "a new international structure - the... |
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- Here's a little something related to this previous post, via Buzz Machine: President Robert Mugabe's anti-British diatribes rose to new extremes yesterday when he declared that Britain was using the internet to destroy Zimbabwe and recolonise the Third World. Making his first public appearance since withdrawing from the Commonwealth three days ago, Mr Mugabe used a United Nations conference on information technology to deliver his attack. "Beneath the rhetoric of free press... |
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- What do you think? A plan to turn a Florida prison into a faith-based program is raising the ire of a liberal watchdog group. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State opposes Florida Gov. Jeb Bush''s plan to convert the Lawtey Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison in Bradford County, into a facility run along religious lines. "This is a clearly unconstitutional scheme," said the Rev. |
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- Ann Coulter takes a look at some voter demographics and concludes that Democrats have 40% of eligible voters on their payroll, as in, bought off with government programs. This is all to make the point that anything short of a 50 state landslide will be billed as a defeat for Bush in '04. The conclusion: Fortunately, there are some Americans who vote against their base self-interest for the good of the nation. God help us if the Democratic Party ever wavers on its three major... |
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- Steven Den Beste reacts somewhat negatively to the idea that France, Germany and Russia should be allowed to bid on Iraq contracts. All correct and in line with US public opinion. But the administration should go one step further. In concert with the new Iraqi government, the administration should repudiate all debts owed by Saddam's regime. That would send a strong message to those governments that support genocidal and terrorist sponsoring regimes with loans and other financial... |
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- This week the DVD Savant takes a look at Lord Love a Duck - a crazoid critique of California... |
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- Con il referendum dell?8 novembre 1987 gli italiani votarono a stragrande maggioranza contro il nucleare. Fu quella una delle più importanti vittorie del mondo ambientalista italiano, che pose l?Italia all?avanguardia tra tutti i Paesi industrializzati. |
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- Dec. 11 - Federal officials announced Thursday that the flu has hit hard in 24 states, nearly twice as many as last week, and would be purchasing extra vaccines. |
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- A bear is okay after being shot from a tree with a tranquilizer gun, falling onto a trampoline and bouncing into the air before hitting the ground. (raw video) |
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- ... que nos hacen la vida más agradable. Como ven ustedes, yo ya he traspasado la barrera, mi espíritu navideño es insultante, y me he decidido a colgar algunas bolas. Obviamente este árbol no es idea mía, pero me ha gustado. ¡Se lo regalo! Sonrían beatíficamente, por favor. |
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- Microsoft's campaign to take over the world is bringing it into conflict with a few people. |
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- Re: name brands, my experience at Sony About 5 years ago I had the oppotunity to work as a kitter (kit builder) on the Sony VAIO desktop line at their San Diego plant. At the time, the 100MHz FSB was standard top-of-the-line and the top VAIOs were running PII-400s. Sony outsourced nearly every single part, there were only 2 Sony brand components that I could identify, floppy and DVD drives. However, I am quite sure that many, if not most, of the outsourced parts were actually from Sony partners or subsidiaries. |
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- (US) A check of court records indicated Lagrone was convicted in McLean County for misdemeanor domestic battery and possession of drug paraphernalia in 1995, and he was issued a citation in DeWitt County in July for failing to wear a seat belt. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $drugs(90%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A former city worker who sold cocaine from his desk at City Hall has pleaded guilty to drug charges. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to six counts each of delivery of cocaine, possession with the intent to deliver and possession. Authorities said Martinez sold more than $5,...[$drug_related(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Frank, from The Edge of England's Sword, emailed me with the following pictures. I'll integrate them into the main platypus-picture pages when I get a chance. Thanks, Frank! ! |
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- Dec. 11 - Federal officials announced Thursday that the flu has hit hard in 24 states, nearly twice as many as last week, and would be purchasing extra vaccines. |
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- Dec. 11 - Trista Rehn is a bachelorette no more. Rehn married firefighter Ryan Sutter over the weekend, and their nuptuals were aired for all the world to see Wednesday. |
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- A bear is okay after being shot from a tree with a tranquilizer gun, falling onto a trampoline and bouncing into the air before hitting the ground. (raw video) |
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- Ziff Davis magazine GameNOW has been through a lot -- it started nearly ten years ago as EGM2, moved on to be Expert Gamer, and started over as... |
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- Sean at All Too Flat has been reading (or possibly re-reading) The Lord of the Rings and sharing his thoughts on each chapter. On 12/4/2003, he has this to ask upon reading that Gandalf put "the fear of fire" on Gollum: Is Gandalf a war criminal?A fair enough question, given the trouble that Lt. Col. |
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- Atari-generation programmers to create games with a different message |
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- New president for Capcom USA and Europe |
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- Management firm Schroders purchases 20 percent of Eidos |
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- Haitian American Coalition demands game be removed from shelves |
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" (Dec 11 2003 21:15 GMT) - " |
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- If you saw Trista and Ryan's wedding last night, now you know what a $3.75 million dollar wedding looks like. |
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- In South L.A. police are conducting an investigation into the fatal shooting of three men... |
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- The flu may have claimed the life of another Southland child. The San Diego county Medical Examiner is investigating whether influenza caused the death of a 13-year-old San Marcos girl on Tuesday. |
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- Two construction workers driving home on the Pomona Freeway in Ontario stopped to help a 400 pound pig wandering in the middle of the eastbound lanes. |
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- Il processore principale della Playstation 3 e' da tempo tenuto nascosto da Sony, ma secondo le informazioni trapelate negli ultimi 12 mesi, il processore Cell, in fase di sviluppo con Toshiba e IBM e' proprio il candidato numero uno, a meno di grossi problemi di produzione o imprevisti. Ma di oggi e' la notizia che Sony e' vicinissima all'inizio di una fase di sperimentazione per la produzione... |
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- In America e' tempo di premiazioni per i successi dell'anno, e anche il settore dei videogames non si atiene dal ringraziare pubblicamente i migliori team di sviluppo e migliori editori. E uno dei tanti show messi su e' quello della Spike TV intitolato "Video Game Awards" che si e' tenuto martedi' alla MGM Grand Garden Arena di Las Vegas ed sara' trasmesso stasera in due ore di show TV. Spike TV e'... |
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- Take 2 Interactive, editore del gioco scandalo Gran Theft Auto: Vice City (sviluppato dai programmatori della Rockstar Games), ha oggi mandato un segnale distensivo nei confronti di tutti i critici del proprio gioco GTA: Vice City. Come riportato gia' da tempo su Playreview, il gioco contine scene di incredibile violenza e razzismo contro gli abitanti di Haiti, rappresentati come drogati e spacciatori... |
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- "Black to lead UC law school; Harvard professor advised Clinton on affirmative action": The San Francisco Chronicle today reports here that "Christopher Edley, a Harvard Law School professor who crafted former President Bill Clinton's 'mend it, don't end |
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- United Press International has this report. |
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- Every time we set a goal, you blow past it. The bat went up with a half-million-dollar goal in 84 hours -- and you broke the bat in just over 48. Over the past two days you've shown exactly the... |
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Give Up (Dec 11 2003 21:15 GMT) - Here's some free advice to Al From in the wake of the DLC's latest Dean effort -- give up, he's going to win anyway. They kinda sorta seem to recognize that, and this missive is much less hysterical than previous... |
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- Dec. 11 - After two years of waiting, investigators finally catch up with a kidnapping suspect after DNA evidence allegedly pins him to the crime. |
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- Dec. 11 - Denton County Jail officials report that 60 prisoners have been exposed to the flu and 40 have come down sick with it. |
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- Dec. 11 - Tarrant County officials say they will likely run out of flu vaccine Thursday as people scramble for shots to halt the disease. |
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