What is (and isn’t)`terrorism’?
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And I’m wondering if we can have a calm, adult-like, non-partisan discussion about what that term implies and whether it applies retrospectively to Ayers.
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Georgia: Russian Troops Withdraw
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3:16pm UK, Wednesday October 08, 2008
Russian forces have completely withdrawn from buffer zones around Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Georgian interior ministry has said.
Russian troops prepare to leave a checkpoint near the village of Nadarbazevi
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John Rhys-Davies ‘considering Hobbit’
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Rex Features
John Rhys-Davies has revealed that he would consider a role in one of the two planned Hobbit movies.
It was announced earlier this year that J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit is to be made into two films, with Guillermo del Toro directing.
Speaking at the RingCon Lord Of The Rings convention, Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in […]
U.S. Fed leads round of global interest rate cuts
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The Federal Reserve and six other major central banks from around the world slashed interest rates Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a mushrooming financial crisis from becoming a global economic meltdown.
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GERMAN DOING WELL AFTER DOUBLE ARM TRANSPLANT
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MUNICH, Germany - A German farmer who received the world’s first complete double arm transplant said Wednesday that incredulity gave way to joy when he woke from surgery to discover he had arms again.
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Debate Preview. And an invitation for later
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Debate Preview. And an invitation for later
Game on! Enjoy the next 90 minutes. We’ll meet back here afterward to chat, kvetch and talk smack
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In the meantime, your debate drinking game assignments:
Throw one back every time McCain
:
1. Refers to Obama raising taxes
2. Says “my friends”
3. Mentions a foreign country he’s been to/foreign leader he’s met
4. […]
Zimbabwe: No government, no school - and annual inflation at two trillion percent
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As worrisome, alarming, unsettling, scary or [choose your adjective] as the spreading, worldwide financial crisis and its effects may be, try this statistic on for size: Thanks largely to the policies of its longtime dictator-president, Robert Mugabe, who barely “won” a run-off election in June, his “once-prosperous nation” in southern Africa is now “crumbling under […]
Is the bailout fair on British taxpayers?
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This morning a Labour government announced details of a plan to tax the British public to the tune of £50 billion in order to save British banks. That’s £50 BILLION - already equivalent to about a third of total annual income tax bills, and enough to cover more than half the yearly cost of the […]
Gates Asks Europe to Send Troops to Afghanistan
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OHRID, Macedonia, Oct. 8–U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday asked defense ministers from southeastern Europe to send more troops to Afghanistan, a message that he is likely to forcefully echo at a NATO summit later this week.
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Nikkei Dives 9.4 Percent in Biggest 1-Day Fall Since ‘87
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SEOUL, Oct. 8 — The rout in global stock markets continued on Wednesday, with Japan’s Nikkei suffering a historic one-day loss, officials in Seoul worrying about a cratering currency, and European shares plummeting despite announcement of a U.K. bank bailout plan. European markets rebounded somewhat after central bankers there and in the United States cut […]
Zimbabwe Cabinet Talks Stalled, Opposition Says
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 7 — Talks on the structure of Zimbabwe’s unity government are deadlocked more than three weeks after the signing of a historic power-sharing deal, the country’s main opposition party said Tuesday.
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Economic Crisis Dominates Debate
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NASHVILLE, Oct. 7 — On a day when the stock market took another sharp plunge, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama clashed repeatedly here Tuesday night over the causes of the economic meltdown that has shaken the country and offered sharply contrasting prescriptions for how to restore stability.
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Britain Plans Major Infusion of Capital to Prop Up Banking Sector
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LONDON, Oct. 7 — The British government was preparing Tuesday night to announce an emergency plan to inject tens of billions of dollars in capital into U.K. banks, which suffered a second consecutive day of dramatic losses in share prices.
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Thai protesters seek revenge after clashes
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters seeking to topple the Thai government threatened more demonstrations in the capital on Wednesday, a day after two people died and over 400 were injured in the worst street violence in 16 years.
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Obama, McCain battle in tense debate
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama battled over the best way to help struggling U.S. workers on Tuesday in a sometimes tense presidential debate that highlighted a wide gap in their economic approaches.
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US rivals trade blows on economy
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The US presidential hopefuls have set out their economic policies in a debate dominated by the financial crisis and differences over foreign policy.
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Iceland teeters on the brink of bankruptcy (AP)
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The speed of Iceland’s downfall in the week since it announced it was nationalizing Glitnir bank, the country’s third largest, caught many by surprise despite warnings that it was the “canary in the coal mine” of the global credit squeeze.
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Coldplay take two, Jones steals the show
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David Gilmour hinted that he would stop playing some of Pink Floyd’s best-known compositions as he paid tribute to keyboard player Richard Wright yesterday.
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World’s Tallest Man Is World’s Tallest Dad
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BEIJING (Oct. 7) - The world’s tallest man, China’s Bao Xishun, became the world’s tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mum.
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Rescue package for Britain’s banks agreed at crisis summit after shares go into freefall
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The Government will take the drastic step amid fears that without the injection of taxpayers’ money some of the most recognisable names in banking could vanish in days, if not hours.
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