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You’d think that Saturday Night Live would have parodied Hillary Clinton’s The Phone’s Ringing at 3 a.m. TV ad into submission. But noooooooooooo! The Clintonistas released their NEW 3 a.m. ad Wednesday and the target is not Barack Obama but John McCain.
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Has the Dalai Lama, the exiled, Tibetan-Buddhist spiritual leader, lost a round in the high-profile, ongoing public-relations war that has surrounded the recent unrest in his homeland?
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Tokyo University Hospital is one of the most advanced, reputable and best equipped medical institutions in Japan,so it is no surprise that it is the first choice for poorly Top People. Only yesterday, none less than Crown Prince Naruhito checked in for a routine but uncomfortable sounding operation - the removal of a polyp […]
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Some people never grow out of their childhood fascinations. But at the age of 33, Mike Stimpson decided it was time to put his to a creative use, combining his long-standing love of Lego with a new-found passion for photography to recreate some of the world’s most iconic images.
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Por muy extraño que parezca he decidido que mis buenos propósitos para el Nuevo Año requieran los esfuerzos de otro. Mi esperanza es que José Miguel Insulza, Secretario General de la Organización de Estados Americanos, actúe más como presidente de la institución vigilante de la democracia en las Américas y menos como candidato presidencial chileno.
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We all make a common logical error that cognitive psychologists call the “availability heuristic.” It means making judgments about the future based not on a broad body of historical evidence but on recent, vivid events that skew our perceptions. My favorite recent example, for reasons that will be apparent, concerns this baseball […]
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Russian prosecutors say that the separate grisly murders of two of the Kremlin’s most vocal opponents during the past year have a common motive: They were committed by enemies of Vladimir Putin to frame and embarrass his government.
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BUCHAREST, Romania, April 3 — President Bush won support from NATO on Thursday for his plans to build a limited missile defense system in Eastern Europe and finalized a separate agreement to station part of it in the Czech Republic.
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BEIJING, April 2 — Protests by ethnic Uighurs broke out in a remote city of China’s far western Xinjiang region even as authorities were suppressing unrest in nearby Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabited areas, according to reports from the region Wednesday.
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FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO, Mexico, Aug. 21 — Hurricane Dean roared early Tuesday into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where some campesinos refused to leave their thatch-roofed shacks in rural villages and brandished machetes at evacuation crews.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian military troops joined public health workers this week to battle the deadliest outbreak of dengue fever to hit this city, which in recent years has been the epicenter of the disease’s resurgence throughout Latin America.
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Senate Democrats yesterday deplored the Bush administration’s failure to meet a legal deadline for determining whether global warming is pushing polar bears toward extinction and lashed their scheduled star witness — Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne — for declining to appear in his own defense.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 2 — President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party lost control of parliament to opposition forces in elections Saturday, according to results released Wednesday. The defeat marked the first time a party other than Mugabe’s has taken control of a branch of government and to many Zimbabweans appeared to foreshadow the president’s fall after […]
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Nearly two decades ago, April C. Glaspie was the face of American incompetence in Iraq.
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Prosecutors called Chi Mak the “perfect sleeper agent,” though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with promotions and a security clearance. Colleagues remembered […]
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China urged the United States to understand the true nature of the Dalai Lama clique, which it blames for stirring up last month’s violence in Tibet, and support China’s “just position”, state media said on Thursday.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has admitted to his family and advisers that he has lost the most important election of his 28-year rule, South African financial daily Business Day reported on Thursday.
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FROM OTHER NEWS SITES
CBC Mugabe’s party loses majority in parliament - 36 mins ago
Xinhua News Agency U.S. urges Zimbabwe to declare results - 48 mins ago
Times of India Final results in Zimbabwe parliament poll issued - 1 hr ago
Reuters Mugabe in biggest battle […]
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The Electoral Commission announced final results for parliamentary elections after midnight, giving the opposition 109 seats to 97 for Mugabe’s party, plus one seat to an independent in the 210-seat parliament. Three seats must be decided in by-elections since candidates died or withdrew. Eight Cabinet ministers have lost their seats, according to official results.
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HILLARY Clinton accused Barack Obama’s campaign yesterday of seeking to silence voters in the ten remaining contests for the Democratic nomination by forcing her out of the race before it was over.
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