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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
BEIJING, Nov. 21 -- A senior Chinese official met with participants in a recent riot, according to the protesters and media reports Friday, as the government sought to highlight how much it was doing in the face of a shaky economy and an increasingl
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
BEIJING, Nov. 21 -- A senior Chinese official met with participants in a recent riot, according to the protesters and media reports Friday, as the government sought to highlight how much it was doing in the face of a shaky economy and an increasingly restive population.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The move illustrates the Obama team's reluctance to publicly weigh in on a dispute that was not only partisan but also divided House and Senate Democrats. With a strong chance that a deal could fail, a high-profile role for Obama would have been risky and could have linked him too closely to a congressional stalemate.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Dallas ISD administrators and elected officials, followed closely by news reporters, pounded the pavement and burned up telephone lines in September to encourage high school dropouts and potential dropouts to return to school this year. They called it Operation Comeback. School had already started. Working from a list of 1,100 at-risk DISD students who had not shown up for school, the group's...
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HillBuzz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... We believe Napolitano is a good choice for Homeland Security, and joins Hillary Clinton as another high profile woman expected in the transitioning Cabinet. That makes two. It’s a good start. But it still remains to be seen if “Hope and Change” means having half the Cabinet posts go to women, as is representative of our country. In our book, part of “change we can believe in” is seeing...
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>>>>>Killing Time<<<<< (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Hull's highest profile Tory blogger, Andrew Allison , is using an interesting measure to gauge the downturn in the economy: the price of a bottle of Lea and Perrrins Worcestershire Sauce. Three months ago, Andrew picked up a bottle of L&P for £1.79 . Now, he's having to pay 30p more. Quite some hike. But it doesn't appear to be putting AA off parting with his cash. It is not a measure...
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
OBAMA FANS ARE unhappy with the Clintons’ high-profile role. Meet the new boss, yada yada . . . . Best bit: “These are people who believe in this stuff more than Barack himself does,” said a Democrat close to Obama’s campaign. “These guys didn’t put together a campaign in order to turn the government over to [...]
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ESPN (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Gary Tanaka, the U.S.-based horse owner who frequently purchased high-class racing stock in Europe and other countries, was found guilty on Wednesday by a U.S. jury on three counts of securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, and conspiracy.
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Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
ONE of the Capital's oldest menswear institutions has become the city's first high-profile victim of the economic downturn.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
ONE of the Capital's oldest menswear institutions has become the city's first high-profile victim of the economic downturn.
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The Engine Room (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... that apostrophe. I suddenly feel much better about my own mistakes. And can anyone come up with a higher-profile apostrophe error? I do quite like 'caressive', though. (For those who can't see the image, the copy in the advert reads: "Stop! Stop! I lied, as I bit into the pert roundness of the goose fat smothered potato, instantly sending caressive plumes of steam gushing from it's...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Mogadishu - They drive flashy cars, throw extravagant parties in their massive houses, talk loudly into the latest mobile phones and take only the most beautiful young women as their wives. This may seem like a description of any number of bling-bling rap artists, but it also applies to Somali pirates, who are swiftly becoming the Horn of Africa nation's nouveau riche. "They live a high-profile...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Mogadishu - They drive flashy cars, throw extravagant parties in their massive houses, talk loudly into the latest mobile phones and take only the most beautiful young women as their wives. This may seem like a description of any number of bling-bling rap artists, but it also applies to Somali pirates, who are swiftly becoming the Horn of Africa nation's nouveau riche. "They live a high-profile...