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- German Judge Frees Qaeda Suspect; Cites U.S. Secrecy |
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- David Seaman has been passed fit to play in tomorrow's 129th Manchester league derby. |
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- Scotland rugby manager Dougie Morgan has today announced his retirement from the international squad management team. |
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- England will field just five of their World Cup-winning team in tomorrow week's celebration match against the New Zealand Barbarians at Twickenham. |
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- Alex Ferguson has been assured the Manchester United boardroom is not divided over his new contract. |
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- Deep Ellum Adair's Dogkickers AllGood Cafe Heather Morgan & Beth Wood Club Clearview Flametrick Subs / Shadow Reichenstein /... |
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- The couple were going through a divorce, and Peter Visich refused to have joint custody, leaving it to a court-appointed arbitrator to award custody to one parent. NYNews.com... |
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- Agreed to meet her husband to discuss divorce. SofiaEcho.com... |
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- The latest Rasmussen Reports surveys "show that former Vice-President Al Gore's endorsement has helped Howard Dean widen his lead over his Democratic challengers." "In a head-to-head match-up between Dean and Congressman Richard Gephardt, 43% of Democrats would now prefer Dean as their nominee while just 32% would prefer Gephardt. Before... |
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- Adriana Sklenarikova Zdenka Podkapova Cameron Diaz Yukiko Someya Chiharu Kawai |
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- Tiffany Amber Thiessen Aria Giovanni Tyra Banks Natsuko Tohno Miho Kiuchi |
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- Fannie Mae is pledging $1 million to help homeowners who have high-interest or predatory loans get more affordable financing from local banks. The money will allow HSBC Bank USA and M&T Bank, which are participating in the effort, to make loans that would otherwise be too risky to about 20 homeowners during the next few years. Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source of financing for home mortgages, will then buy the loans from the banks. Buffalo had the highest percentage of subprime loans in the African-American community, and one of the highest rates overall, according to a report that examined 331 metropolitan areas by the Center for Community Change, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. |
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- Sen. Joseph Lieberman's (D) campaign "is working overtime to turn a high point for the Dean campaign into a boon for its own," the New York Times reports. USA Today quotes Lieberman campaign officials saying Gore's endorsement of Dean "tripled the rate of contributions to" Lieberman "in the 36 hours... |
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- "He definitely called many times, and he was told that there was a Lieberman event and the senator wasn't with a staff person, and he couldn't get him on the phone." -- Karenna Gore Schiff, quoted in the New York Daily News, on her father calling Sen. Joe Lieberman.... |
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- SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Driven by consumer demand and enticing bargains, the personal computer market is expected to reach "record" shipment levels in 2003 and 2004, according to a report Thursday by a market research firm. |
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The Sun (Dec 12 2003 14:29 GMT) - Since arriving in England, I've been checking out The Sun and finding it such a funny paper to read! Former hell raiser Ozzy Osbourne is in hospital due to a recent quad bike accident. Ozzy is well known for biting... |
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- An alternative explanaition for the name freebrough is from the Old English Frithborh meaning a pledge or guarantee or Freeborh meaning a free or frank pledge in relation to this conspicuous hill being a meeting place or court. There may also be some confusion between borh meaning pledge and beorh meaning hill |
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- Economist. Koreans taking a lead in developing software for broadband massively multiplayer gaming. |
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- When we were kids, we could draw. Now that we're adults, the best most of us can do is doodle. Doodling is art that has no other pretentions than fun. Some of us save our doodles. Most we throw away. |
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- Take the 80's Pop Quiz but make sure you've got some time to complete it. It's about 100 questions but they sure do bring back some memories. I couldn't believe I knew what ALF's name was or Buck Rogers... |
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- Take the 80's Pop Quiz but make sure you've got some time to complete it. It's about 100 questions but they sure do bring back some memories. I couldn't believe I knew what ALF's name was or Buck Rogers... |
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- "Gephardt, Kerry and Lieberman turn up heat on Dean after Gore's nod. Edwards's camp prepares a blast at Dean for Bush-like divisiveness," the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire notes. "But Clark, considered a potential running mate, mostly avoids attacks. He tells a Harlem audience: 'I'm talking about George Bush and... |
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- Nuorena liikuntaa harrastaneet ovat aktiivisia liikkujia myös aikuisena. Tämä kä |
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- Next week, two cameras will be installed at a Phoenix middle school for the purpose of scanning the faces of people who enter the office. The facial scans will then be compared to state and national databases of sex offenders, missing children and alleged abductors. Civil libertarians have voiced privacy concerns. Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne came out in support of the pilot program Thursday, saying he would seek funding for the cameras, which cost roughly $3,000 to $5,000, to be placed in every school in the state. Yahoo! |
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- We'll, let the blaming begin. First, drivers for the SanDisk SD WiFi card have been delayed several times for the Palm OS5. Next, It was announced that drivers for Palm OS4.1 have been dropped completely. It now appears that SanDisk... |
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- "An e-mail found in a collection of files stolen from Diebold Elections Systems' internal database recommends charging Maryland "out the yin-yang" if the state requires Diebold to add paper printouts to the $73 million voting system it purchased." "Diebold spokesman David Bear would neither dispute nor confirm the accuracy of the "yin-yang" e-mail on Monday, saying it is "at best the internal discussion of one individual and does not reflect the sentiments or the position of the company."" |
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- "Of course The Economist is not alone in this fundamental error but "Crash" story is a useful foil for addressing this misunderstanding. It is a tragic misunderstanding since the woes of the Telecom industry are seen as representing the state of the economy rather than the collapsing of a facade of a Potemkin industry. In 1900's there was a real telecommunications industry just like in the 1800's when there was a thriving business in transporting ice from frozen lakes to warmer climes. Just as ... |
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- " Suddenly Private Jessica Lynch is back in the news, with several stories that suggest her famous rescue was staged. This follows on another brouhaha over the now famous footage of U.S. tanks helping Iraqis tear down a statue of Saddam Hussein, which detractors denounced as a staged photo op. On close examination, these debates relate to semantics as much as facts: |
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- I just failed my driving test. I didn't notice the truck that was about to approach as I turned left. This sucks. The good news: I have tickets for LotR RotK on Wednesday (the day of the premiere in Denmark). |
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Mad rush (Dec 12 2003 14:28 GMT) - I've got just a few short hours to do the many things I have to do before I leave for... |
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- An article in the Journal of Manx Museum has this to say about The Kew:The monument at the Kew, when it is further examined, is likely to reveal resemblances with Brittany and the west of the Iberian peninsula.Not a lot to go on really. I'm glad it's not just me that finds this site confusing. |
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- The doctors induced labor on Jennifer because she was losing ambiotic fluid and they began to worry about her and... |
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- Howard Dean, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, is coming to Arizona next week to pick up Bruce Babbitt's endorsement. |
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- PHOENIX - Most of the money diverted from state coffers by a law meant to give needy public-school students a chance to go to private schools has instead gone to students already there, a new study says. |
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- PHOENIX - Legislators began new negotiations on child protection on Thursday, postponing a possible showdown on a bipartisan bill passed by the Senate with the support of Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano. |
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- The Nasdaq 100, on its way to a very good year, is bringing in technology stocks again.The New York Times |
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