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I was going to write that the more we learn about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the more we see that, her claims to being a fiscally conservative reformer notwithstanding, she’s had her snout buried in the public trough for most of her public career.
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10:42pm UK, Thursday September 11, 2008
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai have finally reached a deal on power sharing in the turbulent country.
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Mugabe (L) and Tsvangirai (R)
The deal was announced by Tsvangira, the Movement for Democratic Change leader, as he emerged from talks with the man who has ruled the nation for […]
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Sir Alan Sugar is too old for his job on The Apprentice and should retire, according to Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones.
The 42-year-old told The Sun that Sir Alan, 61, may be past his prime and should exit the famous boardroom.
“I donÂ’t know how old Sir Alan is, but he must be 70 or 75 […]
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A magnitude 6.9 earthquake rattled Japan on Thursday, within minutes of a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from either quake, but both prompted tsunami warnings, although Japan’s Meteorological Agency predicted it would be small, about 50 centimeter (20 inches).
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Previously unseen footage emerged Thursday showing U.S. presidential candidate John McCain as a proud, stoic prisoner of war in Hanoi on the day he was released by his Vietnamese captors to the U.S. military.
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Golden State Republicans are hoping Sarah Palin is going to turn some of that blue landscape into red with a big Sept. 26 Orange County rally for the GOP VP candidate — where at least 15,000 are expected.
That will allow 10,000 general admission folks to get tickets through the state GOP, and another 6,000 or […]
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What’s up with Li’l Kim, that is, with Kim Jong-il, the big-haired, bespectacled leader of impoverished North Korea’s totalitarian, hermetic, Stalinist-style communist regime?
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When Kate McAlpine posted her Large Hadron Rap on YouTube, she could hardly have predicted what a Big Bang it would make.
An excruciating pun, agreed, but the proud history of music at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, is awash with creaking wordplays.
McAlpine, a graduate student from Michigan State University on assignment […]
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KARALETI, Georgia, Sept. 10 — A Georgian police officer was shot dead Wednesday at a roadblock near a Russian position in this town, two days after Russia agreed to start pulling troops out of Georgia’s undisputed territory.
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The nation’s top military officer issued a blunt assessment yesterday of the war in Afghanistan and called for an overhaul in U.S. strategy there, warning that thousands more U.S. troops as well as greater U.S. military involvement across the border in Pakistan’s tribal areas are needed to battle an intensifying insurgency.
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GONAIVES, Haiti, Sept. 10 — Caught in a traffic jam, Max Cosci pounded on his horn and cursed the world. He didn’t have time for this. He needed to recover the body of Lionel Augustin.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia, Sept. 10 — Bolivia’s leftist President Evo Morales on Wednesday asked U.S. Ambassador Philip S. Goldberg to leave the South American country after accusing him of instigating protests against his government.
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ALGIERS, Sept. 7 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed leaders of two oil-rich, autocratic North African countries on Saturday for better cooperation on counterterrorism and help in reducing the number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
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The percentage of voters seeing progress in U.S. efforts to restore civil order in Iraq is now higher than it has been in nearly three years, even as Americans still hold broadly negative views about the original decision to go to war.
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The nation’s top military officer issued a blunt assessment yesterday of the war in Afghanistan and called for an overhaul in U.S. strategy there, warning that thousands more U.S. troops as well as greater U.S. military involvement across the border in Pakistan’s tribal areas are needed to battle an intensifying insurgency.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday he was hopeful that a power-sharing deal could be signed with the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change on Thursday
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers, desperate for capital and fighting for its survival, unveiled a plan to shed weak assets and sell a stake in its funds business, but investors were skeptical and its shares hit new lows.
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The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff has called for a new strategy in Afghanistan which will deny militants bases across the border in Pakistan.
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Rivals and friends turned out in the wee hours at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., in pajamas to watch the event by a special satellite connection. Joining in from around the world were other physicists — many of whom may one day work on the new Large Hadron Collider.
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This is probably the biggest international collaboration outside of the United Nations. It has involved something like 10,000 scientists and engineers from 500 research institutes in 80 countries. The building of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been co-ordinated by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva, which carries out studies into particle […]