The United States aircraft-carrier USS Kitty Hawk CV-63, along with the other ships that comprise the carrier-group, were scheduled to make a port visit to Hong Kong on the November 21 for the Thanksgiving holiday. However, China initially denied entry to Hong Kong. After some publicity, China reversed its position and allowed the Kitty...
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A former accountant for Oral Roberts University (ORU) has filed a lawsuit against ORU and its Board of Regents claiming he was told by Richard Roberts and his wife Lindsay to “cook the books”, hiding financial wrongdoing from authorities and the public. Trent Huddleston, the accountant, has filed suit against the school and the...
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A former accountant for Oral Roberts University (ORU) has filed a lawsuit against ORU and its Board of Regents claiming he was told by Richard Roberts and his wife Lindsay to “cook the books”, hiding financial wrongdoing from authorities and the public. Trent Huddleston, the accountant, has filed suit against the school and the...
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Wiretaps disclosed by Italian daily La Repubblica have upset Italian politics. The conversations suggest that RAI (Italian state television) and private rival Mediaset (owned by Silvio Berlusconi) made arrangements to favour Berlusconi himself when he was Prime Minister of Italy. In these conversations RAI and Mediaset managers discussed how to present Berlusconi’s defeat at...
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The story below by Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated details the story of heroic father Patrick John Hughes and his blind, crippled son Patrick Henry Hughes.
Trumpeting the Father of the Year
by Rick Reilly
Sports Illustrated, 10/16/06
QUESTION: What has four wheels, four feet, two eyes and one horn?
Answer: Trumpet position number 7 in the Louisville marching...
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Scott McClellan, a former White House Press Secretary, says in a new book that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove, misled McClellan about the Plame leak, leading him to publicly exonerate Rove and Lewis “Scooter” Libby. “There was one problem. It was not true. I had unknowingly passed along false information. And...
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On November 27, the United States will host Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, along with the Members of the Quartet, the Members of the Arab League Follow-on Committee, the G-8, the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and other key international actors for a conference at the...
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Occasionally a social issue becomes so ubiquitous that almost everyone wants to talk about it — even well-meaning but uninformed pundits. For example, Charles Krauthammer preaches that religious conservatives should stop being so darn, well, religious, and should accept his whitewashed version of religion-friendly Darwinism.1 George Will prophesies that disagreements over Darwin could destroy...
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The article below by Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated details the inspirational story of heroic father Dick Hoyt and his disabled son Rick. When you're done reading the story, watch this video, and be ready--your eyes will well up.
Strongest Dad in the World
by Rick Reilly
Sports Illustrated
I try to be a good father. Give my...
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Author’s Note: This essay was originally published in The Hatchet: The Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies. It develops a theory proposed by writer and cook David Lee Dickerson. Although the author does not necessarily subscribe to Dickerson’s theory, she takes his position to elaborate upon it. Lizzie Borden claimed to have missed her father’s...
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