Antipathy
Should you get paid to Facebook?
A social networking site is paying users for signing up and inviting friends.
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Roperos: Tackling corruption
WHAT 2007 may remind our people of, when the present shall have become past, might be the number of corruption cases that have ballooned to stunning proportions.
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BOOK OF THE WEEK
(the quotation is from memory). After his award of the Nobel prize for literature in 2003 - and his subsequent relocation to Australia after the publication of Disgrace - it would be strange if he did not set about evolving new rules and strategies for fiction, not all of which are successful.
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BLISTER
“I just backed over something,” Jessica’s teeth grit through her portable pod of cellular communication. “And it wasn’t good.”
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Steamship Authority presses state for dredging action
The Steamship Authority's Fairhaven waterfront maintenance facility on New Bedford Harbor is intended to provide a safe refuge in the event of a hurricane as well as a full service upkeep site for SSA vessels.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Our education system, which does not encourage the development of real knowledge and independent, creative thinking, unknowingly moulds selfish and ambitious consumers rather than caring, engaged world citizens.
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Yulia returns as PM, forms new gov’t
Ukraine’s government realigned itself on a decidedly pro-Western course after its parliament voted Dec. 18 to return Yulia Tymoshenko to the prime minister chair by the slimmest of margins.
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Cambridge Historian Says Prussia Gets a Bad Rap
is a 750+ page opus about a state that no longer exists. But, that didn't stop the German translation from cracking the 2007 bestseller lists. He talked about Prussia's appeal.
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UK Admits To Another Record Data Loss of 3 Million Records
Whoops! They did it again -- Britain's government looses millions of more people's personal records....
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Ed Shamy: Snake gets predictable reaction
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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The myopic state we're in
We all notice it eventually: how nice individual Japanese people are, yet how cold — even discriminatory — officialdom is toward non-Japanese (NJ). This dichotomy is often passed off as something... Read more . . .
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South Africa: Even Mbeki's Opponents Felt Sorry for Him
By the end of the first day of the ANC's Polokwane conference on Sunday night, even die-hard opponents of President Thabo Mbeki were expressing sympathy for him.
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Nigeria: Deconstructing the Text - Defects in J.P. Clark's Song of a Goat
Ekanpou E.
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Even Mbeki's opponents felt sorry for him
By the end of the first day of the ANC's Polokwane conference, even die-hard opponents of President Thabo Mbeki were expressing sympathy for him.
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The War Against Christmas
For anyone who has spent any considerable amount of time on this campus, Harvard students’ knee-jerk liberalism and militant atheism, or, at least, militant hostility to religion, is more than apparent.
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Matthew Norman's Media Diary
I find myself touched almost beyond endurance by the naiveté of The Sun. For in no nativity play ever staged has a three-year-old gazed upon the baby Jesus with the wide-eyed faith lavished on Jose Mourinho's phantasmal candidacy for the post of England coach by Rebekah Wade. Day after day, while some smiled indulgently at the vision of the Portuguese manipulating the story for his own ends, ...
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'Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire' by Judith Thurman
with a candid and, by today's standards, brow-raising anecdote about her first piece of published journalism.
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'Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire' by Judith Thurman
with a candid and, by today's standards, brow-raising anecdote about her first piece of published journalism.
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For young black drug arrestees, it's either snitch or face a long prison stretch
the Corruption of Justice By Ethan Brown PUBLIC AFFAIRS; 273 PAGES; $25.95 Let's say you're a small-time drug user, and you have the incredible misfortune of falling into the hands of the police while in possession of a mere 5...
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Don Banks: Snow may chill Pats offense, but not tension vs. Jets
Thoughts on the upcoming Jets-Patriots game, a.k.a. The Payback Bowl, and other NFL Week 15 topics ...
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Opposition criticism over Ahmadinejad's Holocaust remarks - Summary
Tehran - The Iranian opposition again criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his controversial remarks on the Holocaust, and said his denial of it weakened Iran's position in the nuclear dispute, Fars news agency reported Saturday. Ahmadineja...
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Alan Green: Capello can work oracle for England
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Potomac Confidential
Potomac Confidential fills the midday lull with discussion by Metro columnist Marc Fisher, who looks at the latest news with a rigorous slicing and dicing of the issues that define who we are and where we live.
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British expats must find French health cover
Thousands of British expatriates in France have just two weeks to find private cover after the French government ruled they are no longer entitled to state health insurance.
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Letters: Global warming
Lovelock's ocean-mixing scheme ignores some basic science
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THE HEIR
In the 14 years since we last visited Edward Deravenel (introduced in 2006's THE RAVENSCAR DYNASTY), he has come into his own as lord and master of the family empire. Business is good, and every day brings a new opportunity for wealth and success.
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Raine Spencer: Friend not foe
They knew what they were up to, those Grimm boys. Snow White, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel ? and many more tales in the collection which W H Auden described as one of the founding works of Western culture. What's the one thing they all have in common? A wicked stepmother.
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Stage Set for Regional Talks On School Funding Formula
Divisiveness continues to plague attempts by Vineyard officials to reach consensus on a way to fund the Island’s regional high school.
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New releases
This completes a fine trilogy, the violent quest of Jason Bourne (Damon) to dig up who he really is and why he has so much money, so many passports, such violent skills -- and so many people trying to kill him.
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