During the Democratic primaries, I sometimes wondered if Obama and Clinton sometimes secretly wished the other would win, given the mess that they were inheriting. It certainly is Herculean -- a foreign policy agenda that has America bogged down in not one but two wars,...
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"Luckily for them that 2.7-meter-long pythons are not very obedient" I think lucky for the man the snake didn't turn around and attack him instead. This guy seems crazy, threatening everyone with retiles. "Police...
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" Then Bernanke will have to eat his words and dine on his own credibility and cut interest rates in response. That is perhaps why he has left interest rates at two per cent, and not gone for one per cent straight away. He is keeping some ammunition for the next stage of...
To celebrate Ian Fleming centenary, the Fleming family commissioned a new Bond novel, "Devil May Care" from Sebastian Faulks.The book launch took place on the HMS Exeter where Fleming served as an intelligence...
The more immediate problem may be the bond market where prices anticipate falling interest rates that just may not be realistic or obtainable now that inflation is out of the bag.
I love Paddington Bear, and I still have all the books on tape that I used to listen to as a child to help me get to sleep. It has been 50 years since Michael Bond asked people to 'please look after this bear'....
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Wesley Snipes is going to jail."A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the actor Wesley Snipes to three years in prison for willfully failing to file tax returns. Mr. Snipes, who was convicted in February,...
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Wouldn't Q have anticipated something like this? (hint: The Spy Who Loved Me)"A stunt driver has crashed the car used by movie secret agent James Bond into Italy's Lake Garda during filming of 007's latest...
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Two members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were bailed out of jail yesterday by anti-sealing advocate Paul Watson, who paid the $10,000 bond partly in toonies! "Watson posted the bail at the Cape Breton...
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"Paris (ANTARA News) - The makers of the next James Bond movie have joined astronomers in plumping for the eerie Martian-like landscape of Chile's Atacama desert, the European Southern Observatory said on Tuesday.
Key scenes from "Quantum of Solace" are being shot at Cerro...
"Girls Gone Wild" video empire founder Joe Francis pleaded no contest to child abuse and prostitution charges Wednesday under an agreement allowing him to go free after nearly a year in jail.Francis, 34, returned...
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The violent death of Imad Mugniyah, arose the question of his killers identity.
Here is one James Bond Story (Israeli Mossad) telling us in details the last moments of Imad...
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"by Bill Walsh, The Times-Picayune
Thursday February 14, 2008, 10:28 AM
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The New Orleans man accused by the government of being at the center of a Chinese spy ring was held in custody Thursday while a federal judge agreed to let his codefendant post $100,000...
"New James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" sees the British super spy out for revenge on a mission that takes him to Austria, Italy and South America.British actor Daniel Craig is back with a licence to kill after critics and cinema-goers hailed his debut in "Casino Royale" in...
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"In its most basic terms, a credit default swap is similar to an insurance contract, providing the buyer with protection against specific risks. Most often, corporate bond investors buy credit default swaps for protection against a default by the issuer of the corporate...