Anil Ambani to invest in Spielberg's DreamWorks

"Los Angeles/Mumbai- According to media reports Hollywood film producers DreamWorks SKG are close to a deal with Anil Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment, one of India's biggest entertainment conglomerate, to form...

Bill that would ban registered sex offenders as ice-cream truck vendors stalled

"An Inland lawmaker's bill to prohibit sex offenders from operating ice-cream trucks is in doubt after a contentious committee hearing Tuesday.The bill by Assemblyman Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley, was inspired by the July 2007 discovery of a sex offender driving an ice-cream...

Bush halts Iraq troop cuts but shortens tours

President George Bush did make a statement on the Iraq war today, but it was not the statement many wanted to hear.He will leave the Iraq war as his legacy to his successor when he does step down."President George...

Spanish voters back Socialists

Spain's socialist government has won reelection, but by a narrow margin highlighting the deep divisions in Spanish society." MADRID -- Spaniards on Sunday reelected Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez...

Basra handover ends British control in southern Iraq

"Four-and-a-half years of British military control in southern Iraq came to an end today with the handover of Basra Province in a curiously low-key ceremony at the city's airport. Before an audience of around 100...

New Mexico officials in a tourism tizzy over alien ads

I don't know what the critics are so concerned about. It's funny, isn't it? "ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - New Mexico bills itself as "The Land of Enchantment." But for weeks now, a contentious debate has raged...

Ten Ways To Start A Conversation At The Thanksgiving Table :: MAXINE

"After arriving at our Thanksgiving destination this afternoon, we at MAXINE turned on our internet connection and launched to listen to Hugh Hewitt for his drive-time pre-Thanksgiving warm up show. After talking...

Gov. Crist: Floridas First Black Governor?

While Republicans have been running away from the Black and Latino voter, Gov. Crist seems to be embracing them. Maybe some Republicans can learn something from him."TALLAHASSEE - In a marked change from his...

Web Productivity and Tech Tools Workout by Barbara Iverson and Amy Gahran

Live, or almost live, from the Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) annual meeting, held in Washington, D.C. this year, we bring you our lecture notes qua presentation via a shared Google document. This post is a bit of self-promotion, but for our useful tech and...

Underpaid, easy to sack: UK's second class workforce

"The government will face a challenge from unions tomorrow over the impact of migration on Labour's core working-class voters. The use of agency workers, most of them migrants, to drive down the pay and conditions of British workers is the sort of contentious issue the Labour...

Asian seafarers may have been North America's first inhabitants

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor I seem to remember something like this in a National Geographic Magazine decades ago in that North American Aboriginals and Asians share a trait that most of us do not....

Joint Chiefs Chairman Steps Down

Meanwhile, having nothing to do with Paris Hilton, the head of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs is stepping down, despite anticipation of his re-appointment to another term."Gen. Peter Pace is out as Joint Chiefs Chairman, according to MSNBC and Think Progress. He's being...

Hagersville protest halts Caledonia talks

"Talks to settle the Caledonia, Ont. land dispute came to a halt Wednesday after government negotiators left the bargaining table in protest of another native occupation. Ontario's Minister of Aboriginal Affairs...

Contentious Caravaggios emerge from the royal storeroom

 In recent times there has been a lot of discourse that normalizes the Royal Family as just a regular family. Still, it's moments like this - finding two Caravaggios stowed away someplace -where you really...

Fiji coup deadline passes without incident

Fiji's opposition leader says the head of the army is calling the shots in the country's crisis because he has 4,000 guns at his disposal. "Posted at 8:59am on 04 Dec 2006 Local NZ time - A second deadline for a...

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