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Justice Torture Memos Say ‘Good Faith’ Is Legal Defense
Truthdig (subscribe) | 7 minutes ago | Politics
Ah, good intentions, with which that famous path was paved: According to Justice Department documents obtained and released by the ACLU on Thursday—albeit heavily redacted—CIA interrogators were authorized to use waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” that they believed “in good faith” would not “have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering.” CNN: The interrogator’s... -
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Texas, Mexico survey aftermath of Dolly
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Phone Cancer Controversy Causes Consumer Confusion
ABC News (subscribe) | 36 minutes ago | US
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WNBA Suspends 10, Mahorn After Skirmish
Chicago news (subscribe) | 46 minutes ago | Sports
It was a WNBA smackdown Thursday, when the league suspended Detroit Shock assistant coach Rick Mahorn and 10 players for their roles in a skirmish with the Los Angeles Sparks earlier this week. -
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Justin Timberlake And Jessica Biel Together At El Beso Last Night
DailyStab (subscribe) | yesterday | Entertainment
Justin Timberlake and his lady Jessica Biel were snapped leaving El Beso restaurant last night together. Justin along with Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Rihanna, Keith Urban, Chris Brown, Kid Rock, Fergie, Lil Wayne and the Black Eyed Peas were all just announced as performers at the fifth annual Fashion Rocks concert celebrating the relationship between music and fashion. The event will [...]
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Girl's Name, Talula Does The Hula, Won't Do, Judge Says
Tampa Bay Online (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | US
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it. -
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Flight 93 Shot Down?
World Affairs Board (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | World
"If they hadn't shot down the fourth plane it would've hit the dome," Stone, a Navy officer, said in his opening remarks, repeating Bin Ladens deputy's claim. The Guantanamo Bay trial of Osama bin Ladens driver is just getting started and in the opening days, already a member of the US government is paraphrasing the fact that Flight 93 was shot down. I wonder what else is going to come out at this... -
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Iraqi Athletes Banned From Beijing Olympics
Progressive Values (subscribe) | 50 minutes ago | World
A sad situation has developed for the five athletes of Iraq who hoped to participate in next month's Olympic games in Beijing as the International Olympic Committee has voted to ban all athletes from Iraq because the government of Iraq missed an important deadline to address issues of governmental interference in what was supposed to be an Olympic effort independent of any official Iraqi government... -
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Windows chief jumps ship for Juniper
ZDNet (subscribe) | 56 minutes ago | Technology
Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's online and Windows chief and a key figure in the company's failed Yahoo takeover effort, is leaving the company to become chief executive at Juniper Networks, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday in the US. -
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See the Codex Sinaiticus!
From the Head of the Moor (subscribe) | yesterday | Sciences
The British Library will soon place the full copy of the Codex Sinaiticus online! As a 4th century copy of the NT, it is the oldest full copy of the NT we have. It was originally discovered in the 19th century by Constantine Tischendorf (German) in the Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of the traditional site of Mt. Sinai (hence the name of the codex). As a piece of trivia, St. Catherine's also... - see all breaking news
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Obama On Tonight's Berlin Speech: "A Crap Shoot"
Political Punch (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
How does one prepare to speak to a million screaming Germans? I asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, this question as he boarded O Force One and came back to the reporters' veal pen before the plane took off from Tel... -
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Remarks of Senator Obama in Berlin Germany
Obama HQ (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | World
Senator Obama delivered the following remarks in Berlin, Germany... Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome. I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight,... -
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McCain broadens definition of surge
Political Ticker (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
McCain campaigned in Pennsylvania Wednesday.' BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania (CNN) – John McCain defended comments he made in an interview on Tuesday when he incorrectly argued that the surge in Iraq gave way to the so-called “Anbar Awakening” - when Sunni leaders joined forces with U.S. troops to fight Al Qaeda in the fall of 2006. The Arizona senator [...] -
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Knol is open to everyone
The Official Google Blog (subscribe) | 07/23/2008 | Technology
A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol . Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone. The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads : millions of people... -
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McCain Campaign Running Obama-Castro Ad
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
The McCain campaign has a new web ad out placing Barack Obama, for the second time, side-by-side with a foreign dictator. This time, it's Fidel Castro. A Democrat in south Florida alerted the Huffington Post to the image, which shows Obama and Castro, profiled side-by-side, above a quote from the Cuban leader praising the Illinois Democrat as "the most advanced candidate." Picture association is a... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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