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Originally posted: November 20, 2008
There must be a better way
Reader Lois Sorkin posted this question in the comments area:Â
Why not have the resigning senator name his own successor?Â
He is most likely to select a person whose views accord wit h his own and, therefore, with those voters who elected […]
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2:36pm UK, Thursday November 20, 2008
Somali pirates who hijacked the Saudi-owned Sirius Star supertanker are demanding $25m (£17m) in ransom to be paid within 10 days.
Sirius Star is largest ship to be taken by Somali pirates
“We do not want long-term discussions to resolve the matter,” one of the pirates Mohammed Said told AFP news agency.
He […]
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A pupil is expelled from the American School of London for dressing as the Joker.
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15-year-old Brandon Crisp, who ran away from home on October 13th after his parents took away his Xbox 360, has apparently been found dead. His parents had taken away the game console because Crisp had become addicted to the game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
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Posted: 12:15 pmNovember 20, 2008
WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ordered the release of five Algerian terror suspects who have been held without charges almost seven years at Guantanamo Bay.
In the first civilian court ruling for terror suspects challenging their detention, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said Thursday that the […]
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Our final sojourn in the Windy City post-election was the mandatory stop to MacArthur’s, the West Side soul food bistro that is President-elect Barack Obama’s fave local restaurant.
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“By choosing you, the American people have chosen change, openness and optimism. At a time when all of us must face huge challenges together, your election raises great hope in France, in Europe and…
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Deborah Haynes, the Times’ correspondent in Baghdad, has been awarded the first Tony Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism.
She won the prize, created in memory of the renowned political journalist who died in 2001, for her series of articles on Iraqi interpreters working for British forces who were later abandoned by their employers. The […]
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Zaffar from London left a comment after reading the Times Online report on the leaking of the BNP membership list. He wrote: ‘this is a joke read this article typed in google got the list in seconds”.
You can quibble with his punctuation, but not with his logic. Anyone could Google the phrase “BNP members” […]
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While world leaders gathered here to unleash soothing words on the financial tsunami swamping their economies, the daring “responsibility to protect” doctrine adopted by U.N. members three years ago was being buried in the killing fields of eastern Congo.
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