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Every once in awhile, we newspaper columnists, raging and fulminating at our keyboards, go too far — we overstate, we gloss over nuance, we generalize unfairly, we give offense we don’t intend while trying to be funny or profound, or we otherwise lose our rhetorical way.
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And now the end is near, and so I face… my final dot.com…
Well, almost. After being with the show since before day one (boy, those rehearsals were chaotic), the time has come for me to move on and direct a different strand of Sky News. Next week I move on to mornings, so tonight is […]
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Mr Maliki has threatened to ban Sadr’s movement from provincial elections this year if the cleric does not disband his militia.
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ER star Maura Tierney has spoke out in support of the decision to bring the show to a close.
It was confirmed at the start of the month that the long-running medical drama will return for one more season. After 15 years on the air, the show’s final episode will go out in February 2009.
“I think […]
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Pakistan’s missing ambassador to Afghanistan appears in a video saying he is being held by Taliban militants.
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April 19, 2008 — MOSCOW - The red-faced Russian newspaper that published lurid allegations Russian President Vladimir Putin was going to dump his wife for a 24-year-old Olympic gymnast has ‘fessed up.
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How Much Did You Loathe ABC’s Debate Coverage?
The politics of pile-on is going on over at ABC as everybody from Obama-friendly MoveOn to a wide array of TV critics are ripping Wednesday’s co-moderators Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos for offering “shoddy, despicable performances” in the words of the Washington Post’s Tom Shales.
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The way the debate about the forthcoming Olympic Games in China has been going, maybe the International Olympic Committee’s poobahs should start thinking about awarding medals for the highest-pitched rhetoric, the most audacious public-relations efforts, the most creative protest-sign-making or the most over-the-top propaganda pronouncements. Consider these developments:
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WASHINGTON — Cualquiera que haya intentado descifrar quién representa más sinceramente los intereses de Colombia en torno al polémico acuerdo de libre comercio entre Estados Unidos y Colombia corrÃa el riesgo de quedar aturdido, la semana pasada, con los sucesos en Washington y las reacciones en Colombia.
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SOCHI, Russia, April 6 — President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin brought their turbulent seven-year partnership to a close Sunday without a concrete deal on the issues dividing their wary nations but left behind a road map for their successors.
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Suicide bombers conducted 658 attacks around the world last year, including 542 in U.S.-occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, according to data compiled by U.S. government experts.
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LO DE LUNA, Mexico — The effects of the subprime mortgage crisis and the downturn in the U.S. economy have cascaded into Mexico, causing a sudden, precipitous drop in the flow of money sent home by Mexican immigrants and highlighting this country’s dependence on its wealthier northern neighbor.
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BUENOS AIRES, April 17 — The Argentine capital has been veiled in a malodorous fog this week, as smoke spreads from massive grass fires centered in a neighboring rural province.
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Canada yesterday became the first country to ban a widely found chemical from use in baby bottles, spurring a leading Democrat in the U.S. Senate to call for legislation that would prohibit use of bisphenol A, or BPA, in a number of everyday consumer products.
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The velvety voice of singer Feliciano dos Santos delivers messages about HIV prevention, proper sanitation and sound farming techniques to the poor of Mozambique.
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BAGHDAD, April 18 — Iraqi security forces backed up by the U.S. military killed four Mahdi Army militiamen and captured 11 others Friday, the Interior Ministry said, in heavy street fighting in the Shiite district of Sadr City. Two other militia fighters were killed in a clash south of Baghdad, the ministry said.
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JERUSALEM, April 18 — Former president Jimmy Carter followed through on a planned meeting with the exiled leader of Hamas on Friday, despite U.S. and Israeli protests that the session would give legitimacy to a group they consider a terrorist organization.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean election officials are expected on Saturday to begin a partial recount of votes from the March 29 elections despite opposition protests and widespread fears political stalemate could erupt in violence.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a tough six-week stretch of campaign gaffes, roaring controversies and heightened scrutiny, Barack Obama’s presidential bid appears as strong as ever — and rival Hillary Clinton is running out of time to change the script.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has denounced the opposition and former colonial power Britain in his first speech since the disputed elections.
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