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Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York yesterday after a sex scandal put an abrupt end to the political career of a rising star who once seemed destined for the White House.
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British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling cut forecasts for growth and ramped up borrowing yesterday as the UK economy battles with a global credit crunch and his government slides in the polls.
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BAGHDAD (March 13) - U.S. soldiers shot and killed a young Iraqi girl after firing a warning shot at a woman who “appeared to be signaling to someone” along a road where several bombs had recently been found, a military official said early Thursday.
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‘Scarlett was drugged, beaten, raped, and left for dead,’ suspect confesses to police
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Last updated at 19:16pm on 13th March 2008
British teenager Scarlett Keeling was drugged, beaten, raped and left for dead, one of the men linked to the horrific attack is said to have confessed to […]
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In the end Eliot Spitzer didn’t put up much of a fight for his job. He may try a little harder to avoid a jail term.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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“Le Contrat Première Embauche” (CPE) (roughly translated “The Contract of First Employment”) gives employers the right to fire French workers under the age of 26 without offering a reason or motivation. If terminated employees go to court, it is up to them to show they were unjustly fired.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
As people such as Steven Spielberg are wisely gathering the tales of an elderly World War II veteran population, many people forget that there are still vets of The Great War — World War I — alive to tell the tale. Sadly, France lost their last WWI vet, Lazare […]
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Well, why not?
Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism is actively considering dropping the word “journalism†from its title.
The Medill School of Audience and Consumer Information is one name under consideration by a faculty committee studying the issue. The Medill School of Media Arts and Sciences is another, as is The Medill School of Information and […]
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I’ve chalked up another first today – just as Alistair Darling was delivering his first budget speech to Parliament.
You may have caught the Budget Unplugged programme that I hosted online (and Sky News […]
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He is has been remanded in custody for 14 days.
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What is accounts receivables?
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What is an employee incentive programs?
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NBC is making a new reality competition show called I Can Do That.
Contestants will travel around the US taking each other on in tough physical and mental challenges for a cash prize.
Producers have begun seeking competitors who they say will need “verve, perseverance, fortitude and the ability to psyche out your opponents when everyone else […]
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The biggest protests by Tibetan monks in nearly two decades have rippled into Chinese provinces populated by Tibetans, as the government’s tough response draws condemnation from international groups.
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CREDIT CARD IS BLACK GOLD
By HASANI GITTENS
March 13, 2008 — For the oil-soaked sheik or shipping magnate who has everything - but wants more - now there’s the exclusive diamond-studded Dubai First Royale Black MasterCard.
Targeted […]
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So the conventional wisdom is that Eliot Spitzer’s Big Whorish Adventure (Jon Stewart’s new nickname for him: Johnny Whorebag) was bad for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Short-term, yes, it is. Long-term, no.
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In theory, in a democracy, a political party that wins an election and goes on to form a government can or should routinely be challenged by opposition parties that fail to win; supposedly, the vigorous debate about what kinds of laws should be passed and how the country should be governed that results from such […]
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Gazing out of his bedroom window hoping for a miracle, Habib knows he will die in the next few months without treatment for a debilitating kidney disease but his family are unable to afford the life-saving transplant operation.
The young man’s parents, Kurdish Christians, spent most of their money moving Habib and six of his […]
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Last year, in an essay on the writer, Donald Richie, I remarked on an interesting aspect of intellectual life in Japan: the absence of an lasting work of ex-patriate literature, of a gaijin to match Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Hemingway or Paul Bowles. It’s too early to be sure, but I think I may have found […]
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