Nov 05, 2009 -
It was a peasant ritual, sprung up from time immemorial. Arthas suspected that few nowadays truly believed that tossing a branch into a re would really solve their problems; even fewer believed that contact with the dead was possible. He certainly didn’t.
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Oct 28, 2009 -
http://news.aol.com/main/nc/article/more-arrests-in-homecoming-gang-rape-in/737532
Arrests Made in Homecoming Gang Rape
By TERRY COLLINS
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AP
posted: 4 HOURS 11 MINUTES AGO
comments: 81
filed under: Crime News, National News
RICHMOND, Calif. (Oct. 28) -- Three more people have been arrested in connection with the gang rape and beating of a 15-year-old girl outside her high school homecoming dance in an attack that has generated widespread outrage.
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Oct 20, 2009 -
HARGEISA, 17 October 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Ridiculous! You would think. Welcome to Alshabaab’s world.
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Jul 10, 2008 -
Babar had his first-ever playtime in his new kiddie-pool today... a HUGE success!!
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Sep 18, 2009 -
I found this article at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6194031/The-Lost-Symbol-and-The-Da-Vinci-Code-author-Dan-Browns-20-worst-sentences.html. Pretty funny for grammar nerds like me. Enjoy!
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Sep 07, 2009 -
The Town Halls of August
They're here, they're conservative, get used to it.
by Mary Katharine Ham
It had been a rough month by the time 67-year-old Bert Stead of Redding, Calif., stepped to the microphone at an August 18 town hall meeting with Republican representative Wally Herger. It was about to get rougher.
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Jul 17, 2009 -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8155084.stm
At least nine people have been killed, including two suspected suicide bombers, in two blasts at luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
One explosion hit the Ritz-Carlton, ripping off its facade, and the other the JW Marriott. As many as 50 people were hurt, including many foreigners.
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Jul 20, 2009 -
I wrote a blog about my feelings on gay people and it was terminated, why? Was it because someone was offended AGAIN by what a heterosexual has said, that made them feel bad? Why is it that everyone must agree with gay people and feel ultra sensitive about their wants and needs?
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Jun 03, 2009 -
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
The London Times
A British man being held hostage in Mali has been executed, his captors said Wednesday, prompting strong condemnation from Britain of a "barbaric" act.
Edwin Dyer was one of four European tourists kidnapped on Jan. 22 as they returned from a music festival.
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Jul 03, 2009 -
This morning NPR played their annual reading of the Declaration of Independence, set to music, read by their reporters and contributors. You can listen to the audio at the link.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92108861
Below is the original text of the Declaration of Independence, alongside photos of the NPR staff members and contributors who performed the reading.
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