As English-Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis took home his second Oscar for his leading role as a mean early oil enterpreneur in the motion picture There Will Be Blood, the top four honors for acting were swept away by European actors. Earlier in the evening, Best Supporting Actress went to British actress Tilda Swinton won...
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Does Hallelujah, I’m a Bum prefigure the beliefs of Ronald Reagan and George Gilder? Released in 1933 and directed by Lewis Milestone, Hallelujah I’m a Bum is a well-crafted musical comedy set in the time period in which it was made. The legendary Al Jolson plays a happy-go-lucky hobo named Bumper living with a...
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"There's a mini-controversy brewing in the advertising world over the sometimes-stereotypical portrayal of fathers in TV ads. Most notably, fathers' rights advocate Glenn Sacks almost succeeded in derailing a bid by Arnold, Boston, to win the Volvo account. Sacks complained that a previous Arnold ad for Fidelity Investments showed a father in a negative...
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"She wanted to kill them. I let the court know that. But they took only one side...I loved them. I've been fighting for them."
Note that the woman, apparently a violent lunatic who allegedly had sent her ex threatening letters and set fire to his car, was granted an order of protection. Now, despite...
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A chemist employed by a corporation headquartered in Houston, Texas, involved in researching, developing and supplying fire-proof coating and intumescent products has been indicted and charged with theft of trade secrets and computer fraud, according to United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle and FBI Special Agent in Charge Andrew R. Bland. Qinggui Zeng, a/k/a Jensen...
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Background: The historic, one-of-a-kind conference "From Ideology to Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Intervention in Domestic Violence" was held in Sacramento, California February 15-16 and was a major success. The conference was sponsored by the California Alliance for Families and Children and featured leading domestic violence authorities from around the world.
Many of these researchers...
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A suicide bomber in Iskandariya, Iraq, a town just south of the county’s capital Baghdad, blew himself up killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 60 others on Sunday February 24. Iraqi officials say that the bomber was wearing a vest and then blew himself up after entering a pilgrim ‘comfort station’...
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On Saturday, the Ugandan government signed a permanent ceasefire with the Lord’s Resistance Army, a Christian guerrilla army which has been rebelling against the government in one of Africa’s longest running conflicts. The ceasefire will not take effect until the day after both sides sign a comprehensive peace deal, which is expected to be...
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The New South Wales Road Traffic Authority has adopted an insulting ad to get men to stop speeding. The ad is called "Speeding. No-one thinks big of you." It explains that men who drive fast have small penises. The ad can be seen here.
I much prefer the Danish method of getting men to stop speeding--I'd...
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Political activist Ralph Nader has announced the launch of an independent campaign for President of the United States. Nader, who also ran for president in the previous three elections, made the announcement on NBC’s television program Meet the Press. “Dissent is the mother of ascent, and in that context I have decided to run...
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Today, the National Assembly of People’s Power, Cuba’s legislative parliament, announced that it had unanimously chosen Raúl Castro, 76, as the new President of Cuba. He will serve for 5 years. The National Assembly, composed of 614 members previously elected in a January 20, 2008 general election, also chose the new First Vice-President, José...
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Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, was, by most accounts, the first to associate birth order with personality. In 2007, Time magazine devoted an article, “The Power of Birth Order,” to this subject. One cannot choose the pecking order within his family — his parents...
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By guest columnist Craig J. Cantoni Do we cheer the garbage man for doing his necessary but filthy job? Do we revere septic tank cleaners for doing their necessary but smelly work? Do we honor undertakers with statues in the public square for doing their necessary but creepy work? Of course not. Then why...
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Under the Eye of the Clock is the autobiography of Christopher Nolan, a fascinating and talented young poet who suffers from cerebral palsy. He is unable to walk or talk or write in the normal manner. Since Nolan lacks the use of his hands, this book, like Dam-Burst of Dreams, the book of poems...
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Two pilots are uninjured after a United States B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed at Andersen Air Force Base, a U.S. airbase on Guam. No one on the ground was injured as a result of the crash either. According to a statement released by the U.S. Air Force, the two pilots from the 509th Bomb...
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The US State Department is withdrawing non-essential personnel and family members of U.S. diplomats from Belgrade after Thursday’s mob attack on the U.S. embassy there. Serbian authorities have pledged there will be no repeat of the incident, in which members of a crowd protesting U.S. Kosovo policy burned part of the embassy. The draw-down...
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Discontent with parliament having to sit on a Friday without question time, the Australian opposition parties (comprising the Liberal/National coalition) vowed to continue disrupting Friday sittings until the government bows to its demands. The vow follows a sitting on Friday where the House of Representatives descended into chaos. The opposition says it is protesting...
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Recently in a press conference by Ministry of Justice of the Republic of China, Armorize Technologies announced several statistics on the web-phishing crimes as the “Edison Chen photo scandal” became a hot topic in Chinese-language world especially in Hong Kong and several governments in several countries discipline the public on those related photos. According...
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Wikinews held an exclusive interview with James Burns, one of the candidates for the Libertarian Party nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Burns, the former chairman of the Nevada Libertarian Party, was asked if he thinks he has a good shot at winning the Libertarian nomination and ultimately the presidency. He replied, “My...
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IBM has announced a new project called Kittyhawk, which entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application. Currently the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks. IBM has prepared a white paper detailing the project. The Kittyhawk will be based on the previously...
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