According to media reports, John McCain has won the New Hampshire Primary for the Republican nomination, while Hillary Clinton won an unexpected victory in the Democratic race. “I hate to use to the word kid, but I think we showed the people of this country what a real comeback looks like. I’m grateful to...
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According to media reports, John McCain has won the New Hampshire Primary for the Republican nomination, while Hillary Clinton won an unexpected victory in the Democratic race. “I hate to use to the word kid, but I think we showed the people of this country what a real comeback looks like. I’m grateful to...
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A bid made by Singapore Airlines for a 24% stake in China Eastern Airlines was turned down by minority shareholders. Talks about a sale started in March 2007 when Singapore Airlines and China Eastern started negotiations about a possible deal. According to Forbes the deal would have helped China Eastern’s earnings and accelerate the...
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The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has a plan to seize North Korea’s nuclear weapons if it becomes necessary, says a report by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank. CSIS experts have been talking to Chinese military researchers who claimed that in the case of instability in neighboring...
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The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has a plan to seize North Korea’s nuclear weapons if it becomes necessary, says a report by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank. CSIS experts have been talking to Chinese military researchers who claimed that in the case of instability in neighboring...
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"Hillary Clinton let down every woman"--Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
"Will Clinton's 'Cry' be the new Dean 'Scream'?"--San Francisco Chronicle
"To Err Is Human; To Cry Is Woman" -- WNBC, NY
"Clinton choked up at NH roundtable"--Sioux City Journal
"The Clintons Are History"--Beyond Chron
"Choking Up In New Hampshire?"--CBS News
Hillary Clinton is not exactly my cup of tea, but I've...
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Along with technology writers for Slate, PC Magazine, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Aviation Weekly and other publications, Wikinews was invited by the America-Israel Friendship League and the Israeli Foreign Ministry to review Israel’s technology sector as part of a campaign to ‘re-brand the country.’ To show that there is more to Israel than the Palestinian...
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It’s now been three weeks since the four-person Lakota Freedom Delegation declared that the Lakota people were withdrawing from their treaties with the United States and, though small, the movement still proves controversial: two U.S.-recognized Lakota tribal governments have rejected the Delegation’s authority outright with at least one tribe stating it will consider the...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a final meeting Tuesday before their separate talks with United States President Bush this week during his visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Just hours before President Bush is due to touch down in Israel, Mr. Olmert and Mr. Abbas met in...
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Survivors of this weekend’s airplane crash in Alaska say they saw the forward cargo door of their Piper PA-31 Navajo Chieftain swing open shortly after takeoff. The plane crashed into frigid waters a short distance from the runway, killing six of the ten on board, including the pilot, and leaving the other four hospitalized....
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I was at an awards banquet recently which honored several "Women of Achievement," and one of them was CBS Los Angeles television anchor Suzanne Rico. Rico covered the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, the war in Afghanistan and the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.ÂÂ
Rico had some interesting things to say about her childhood and...
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by David John Marotta The first U.S. money market fund was created by Bruce Bent in 1970. The Reserve Fund, as it was called, offered investors a way to preserve their cash liquidity and still earn a small rate of return. Today 22% of all mutual fund assets are invested in nearly 900 money...
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"The consequences of her behavior are always somebody else’s problem, not hers. She is never to blame for anything...Because she’s out to control, she manipulates and punishes at will. She is the witness, the judge, the lawyer, the jury, the executioner - but never the accused...She will break the rules without a second thought,...
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Background: Research clearly shows that women are just as likely to physically attack their husbands or boyfriends as vice versa, and that between 30% and 40% of the injuries sustained in heterosexual domestic violence are sustained by men. Nevertheless, the domestic violence establishment continues to ignore male domestic violence victims, instead putting forth the...
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It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton views herself as a member of the God Squad, divinely anointed to shepherd the masses to greater gender consciousness. “Hillary acts as though she has been chosen by God,†recounts Edward Klein, author of The Truth about Hillary. “I find her to be among the most self-righteous people...
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Author’s Note: I wrote this letter to the editor to Dissent almost two decades ago. I believe the basic point in it remains valid. In Tamar Jacoby’s excellent and even-handed article about the homeless (Spring 1991) she neglects to pinpoint the simplest explanation for this tragic phenomenon: some people’s labor is not worth what...
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