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It’s a dating pool that no matchmaker would want to tackle, all brought on by the havoc that social engineering inevitably wreaks. Because of the communist state’s limits on how many children couples can have, and a cultural preference for boys, girls have been aborted right out of the future marriage pool, leaving more single [...]
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(The) routine use of supermajority voting is, at worst, unconstitutional and, at best, at odds with the founders’ intent….The Constitution explicitly requires supermajorities only in a few special cases: ratifying treaties and constitutional amendments, overriding presidential vetoes, expelling members and for impeachments…. In the Federalist Papers, every time Alexander Hamilton or John Jay defends [...]
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4:17pm UK, Tuesday January 12, 2010 Katie Cassidy, Sky News Online Mexico’s drug wars have entered another year in a gruesome fashion – with a victim’s face removed from the skull and [...]
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Taylor Lautner’s spokesperson has rubbished internet speculation that the New Moon star died over the weekend. Rumours appeared online suggesting that the 17-year-old had passed away following a cocaine overdose. However, a representative for the actor has since spoken out to quash the reports. “I am almost 100% positive this is a hoax,” a Summit [...]
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Rwandan Hutu army soldiers shot down the Hutu president’s plane on the eve of the country’s 1994 genocide, according to a government-commissioned inquiry that assigns blame for the event that sparked the slaughter of more than a half million people. Read more
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She has the medals — just not the chest to pin them on anymore. World-champion track hurdler Jana Rawlinson of Australia says she had her breast implants removed because she feared they were interfering with her running career — and she wants to… Read more
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California’s 2010 governor’s race will get a lot hotter, now that the Democratic Governor’s Association is ready to launch an independent expenditure — look out, Meg Whitman — to boost Democratic State… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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NIMES, FRANCE — Time and again, Mohamed Chakiyet has been called back to the employment bureau: another form to fill out, another bureaucrat to meet with, another training offer. But in the four months since he has been out of work, Chakiyet has yet to find a company willing to hire him — or even [...]
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HONOLULU — Saying he hoped that Japan’s alliance with the United States lasted “30 years or 50 years or longer,” Japan’s foreign minister on Monday sought to fend off speculation in Washington that the new government in Tokyo wants to move away from its close relationship with the United States. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday played down friction between the United States and China, saying she thinks the countries have a “mature” enough relationship to be able to handle differences of opinion. Read more
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LONDON (Reuters) – A double agent who killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan sent a plea to Islamist writers a few weeks earlier urging them to launch suicide attacks, the SITE Intelligence monitoring group said, citing a militant forum. Read more
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BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea will not return to nuclear disarmament negotiations unless the United States agrees to peace treaty talks and lifts sanctions, a senior North Korean diplomat said on Tuesday, leaving little room for compromise. Read more
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Nigeria’s president, not seen since going into hospital in Saudi Arabia for heart treatment in November, has told the BBC he hopes to resume his duties. Read more
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Major US banks are gearing up to announce annual bonuses for top executives while bracing for a political firestorm over compensation practices that critics say fueled the global financial crisis. Read more
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager’s diary not, has died, the Anne Frank Museum said Tuesday. She was 100. Gies’ Web site reported that she died Monday after a brief illness. The report was [...]
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GORDON Brown expressed his determination to remain prime minister yesterday despite a new challenge to his authority. Read more
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(Jan. 11) — North Korea called today for talks with the United States aimed at reaching a peace treaty to replace the truce that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, and indicated that such a document is a condition for its returning to international talks about giving up its nuclear weapons program. “If a peace treaty [...]
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Why were they left to die? Social services ignored pleas to help frail pensioners. A month later they were found dead Exams chaos as thousands of pupils miss GCSEs and A Levels after Big Freeze keeps schools closed We’re in this together: Gordon Brown tries to rally jittery MPs as Miliband is branded ‘immature’ in [...]