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Daughter of the West
Tariq Ali
Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...
"Before she left in July, Carolyn Bothwell Doran, 45, had moved up from a part-time bookkeeper for the Wikimedia Foundation and spent six months as chief operating officer, responsible for personnel and financial management. In March, she signed the small nonprofit's tax...
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Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comic actor who created the hugely entertaining, and often ridiculously offensive characters of Borat and Ali G, has decided that he will no longer play them.Having developed a...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 2743 views | 12 recommendations | 5 comments
"Yesterday afternoon, Hugh Hewitt was interviewing a Sergeant Long of the U.S. Marines and a Consultant to the Marines on asymmetric war tactics whose name I missed (I looked for transcript information on the...
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More bad news for the economy and the banking sector as the slide continues."Morgan Stanley yesterday became the latest bank to announce a bailout from a foreign government as the Wall Street firm reported the first quarterly loss in its 73-year history after taking...
"Knut, the world-famous polar bear, turned one today and polished off a giant fish cake at a birthday party in Berlin Zoo that was broadcast live on German television.
Hundreds of children gathered at the zoo with birthday cards for the bear, who became a tourist magnet after...
While there may be no criminal charges arising from a group of adults who faked being a boy on myspace and culminated in the suicide of a 13 year old girl who was 'in love' with him, there's certainly no reason...
What? No posts about this yet on Now Public? In the article the police said that she did not disclose that she was pregnant. My question is why would they need to taser her in the first place. It says that the one officer had forced her on her stomach. If she was lying on her...
created by ifindtrends | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 613 views | 20 recommendations | 3 comments
Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
A High Class Hooker in Chile has offered 27 hours of love for Charity to the highest bidder. So far it looks like she got about $4,000.00 Chilean Peso's.
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Man Saved Himself From Fire, Bleeding To Death, makes one wonder what they would do in that situation. That is aTwilight Zone moment."A farmer from Kershaw County, South Carolina, cut off his own arm after it got...
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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of people who volunteered to test an experimental AIDS vaccine that may have actually raised the risk of infection will be told if they got the actual shot, researchers said on Tuesday.
Merck & Co. Inc. and academic researchers said they...
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I wonder if China is to blame for this one? GHB, also known as liquid ecstasy, was found in this children's toy."A Queensland toddler is being treated in hospital for suspected poisoning from a toy which contains...
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Beauty queens who blather on about world peace are twoa-penny, so my friends' reactions when I told them about Nazanin Afshin-Jam were predictably cynical. 'She was a Red Cross worker who entered Miss World...
created by Paul Conneally | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 739 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Dan Rather, that investigative journalist who made 60 Minutes a leading CBS News Show in North America every Sunday evening.Dan Rather is in Vancouver to not only Grill Mayor Sam Sullivan, but to let the...
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