"DURING THE 1990s and the early part of this decade, crime fell and stayed down -- and politicians of all stripes claimed credit. Conservatives attributed the drop to tough sentencing policies that swelled the national prison population. The Clinton administration cited its...
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"Beyonce Knowles was born in 1981, the year Dreamgirls premiered on Broadway. At 15, she was encouraged to listen to the soundtrack by her choreographer, a fan of the hit musical.
She did, and it changed her life....
"WASHINGTON - Sen.
John Kerry, whose botched joke about U.S. troops in
Iraq dealt a blow to his presidential ambitions, will travel to Iraq this weekend to meet with soldiers, political leaders and military...
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"A number of social networking services are up for sale at the moment. Two in particular - VideoCodeZone and Mojungle, are MySpace add-ons that have been covered extensively on Mashable. I think both of these startups are wise to get out of the market as soon as possible, for...
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"Forty years ago, Sgt. Silvestre Reyes was a helicopter crew chief flying dangerous combat missions in South Vietnam from the top of a soaring rocky outcrop near the sea called Marble Mountain.
After the war, it...
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Why is it that supporters of commercial wind power routinely ignore the ever-growing mountain of data demonstrating this technologyâs ineffectiveness?
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT - Broadcast: 05/12/2006
"KERRY O'BRIEN: The Fiji coup has finally happened. After weeks of warnings and 24 hours putting all his chess pieces into place,...
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"Don't let the "tech" terms intimidate you. Behind every complex feature is a very simple explanation -- usually one you already understand from using a floppy disk or a point-and-shoot camera. You don't have to...
The video is included in this post. "The media carries numbers of dead and wounded soldiers, security forces, and civilians, but without bringing their stories directly to the viewership, it may be...
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"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries?
Contents
1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006--------------------------------------
2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...
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"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries?
Contents
1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006--------------------------------------
2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...
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"A very good article written by Sorabh Babu Maheshwari,
IAS Topper 2000 outlining the do's and dont's for the
exam. This stuff deserves our precious time. So find
some time to read it.
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The path to the coveted Civil...
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"John 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither
thou goest; and how can we know the way?
When Thomas asked unto Jesus Christ, we know not whither thou goest he was probably wandering on the physical platform of life. For Thomas to understand the intricacies of the...