Cherie Blair 'should
resign over memoirs'
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| Telegraph [London, UK], by Gordon Rayner
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/16/2008 12:53:56 AM
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| Cherie Blair's hopes of becoming a High Court judge have taken a major blow after one of her colleagues said she should resign from the judiciary over her ''disgraceful'' memoirs. Gerald Butler QC, a former senior judge at Southwark Crown Court in London, said Mrs Blair's decision to include indiscreet details about such senior figures as the Queen and US Presidents in her book had brought the legal profession into disrepute. |
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Waiting lists up, surgeons off
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| Courier-Mail [Queensland, AU], by Tuck Thompson
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/16/2008 12:47:51 AM
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| Queensland's top surgeons are being forced to down scalpels for up to six months to take leave - leaving their patients having to wait even longer for operations. Queensland Health has allowed doctors to rack up months of leave but now demands they take it all, despite the impact on blown-out surgery wait lists. (Snip) The union, which represents 2000 doctors, blamed health managers for failing to provide backup so doctors could take leave at appropriate times. |
Clinton scolds McCain
for opposing farm bill
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| Associated Press, by Staff
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- 5/16/2008 12:41:34 AM
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| Bath, S.D. - Hillary Rodham Clinton scolded John McCain Thursday for opposing the farm bill, attempting to maintain the sense that she is already competing against the certain Republican presidential nominee even as her chances for winning the Democratic nomination dim. (Snip) Bush and McCain both say the bill, which boosts farm subsidies and includes more money for food stamps, is fiscally irresponsible and too generous to wealthy corporate farmers. |
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Pressure builds over
Bush-Saudi oil talks
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| USA Today, by Charles Levinson
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- 5/16/2008 12:37:42 AM
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| Jerusalem - President Bush visits Saudi Arabia today to meet with the leader of the world's leading oil-producing nation amid growing pressure to do something about rising fuel prices at home. If precedent is any indication, however, Bush is unlikely to get much sympathy from King Abdullah, the Saudi monarch. He asked Abdullah in January to increase production and was rebuffed. |
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Why Did Schools Collapse In Quake?
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| Sky News [UK], by Staff
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- 5/16/2008 12:23:25 AM
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| China has launched a probe into why school buildings collapsed in the earthquake, warning that anyone found to have been responsible for shoddy construction would be punished. (Snip) In the town of Mianzhu seven schools have collapsed, burying 1,700 people, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua. About 1,300 bodies have been recovered so far, it said. In the same area, 700 students were thought to have been buried in a school in Hanwang town |
Brussels Plans Crackdown
on Car Advertising
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| Spiegel [Hamburg, Germany], by Hans-Jürgen Schlamp
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- 5/16/2008 12:15:37 AM
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| Brussels - The European Union bureaucracy is on a roll: After imposing restrictions on how tobacco, alcohol and food products can be advertised, it has set its sights on gas-guzzling cars. But German manufacturers and media conglomerates warn the financial impact could be devastating. (Snip) Europe's lawmakers want to restrict and regulate automobile advertising. Their hope is that most drivers will lose interest in large cars and finally turn to more frugal models. |
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Killer sues newspaper
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| Edmonton Sun [Alberta, Canada], by Tony Blais
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/16/2008 12:12:20 AM
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| Convicted wife killer Michael White has launched a $600,500 defamation lawsuit against the Edmonton Journal, alleging it was reported he led police to the body. In a statement of claim filed in Court of Queen's Bench last week, White alleges it was also published that he led a search party that found the body of his pregnant wife and he led the searchers to the body's location. Instead, White claims it was the police who directed the searchers to the exact location where Liana White's body was found and he was not present |
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Meteorologists Differ On Hurricane Forecasts
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| Tampa Tribune [FL], by Tony Holt
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| Posted By: NorthernDog
- 5/15/2008 11:47:18 PM
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| STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Average can be good, except when it comes to hurricane season. One bad storm can devastate whole regions, wreck oil refineries and impact the U.S. economy. That is why people anxiously await any and all hurricane forecasts, even when they come weeks before the season begins. "They're simply guessing," said Weather Channel hurricane expert Steve Lyons, who rejects mostly all predictions of when, where and how many hurricanes will take shape. |
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Bush's Comments In Israel Fuel Anger
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| The Washington Post, by Michael Abramowitz
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| Posted By: Dreadnought
- 5/15/2008 11:18:36 PM
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| ERUSALEM -- On an emotional visit to mark Israel's 60th anniversary, President Bush on Thursday compared people seeking talks with Iran and radical Islamic groups to the Nazis' appeasers, provoking a political storm at home and accusations that he was politicizing the celebration. Bush's address to the Israeli parliament also stirred intense debate between Israelis and Palestinians. His strong words |
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War Funding Bill Stalls in House
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| The Washington Post, by Jonathan Weisman
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| Posted By: Dreadnought
- 5/15/2008 11:17:19 PM
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| An odd coalition of angry Republicans and antiwar Democrats yesterday torpedoed a $162.5 billion proposal to continue funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving the House to pass a measure that demands troop withdrawals, bans torture and expands education benefits for returning veterans. The surprise action left antiwar activists on and off Capitol Hill exultant, Republicans gloating and Democratic leaders |
Zimbabwe’s Rulers Unleash
Police on Anglicans
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| New York Times, by Celia W. Dugger
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- 5/15/2008 11:13:52 PM
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| Johannesburg - The parishioners were lined up for Holy Communion on Sunday when the riot police stormed the stately St. Francis Anglican Church in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. Helmeted, black-booted officers banged on the pews with their batons as terrified members of the congregation stampeded for the doors, witnesses said. A policeman swung his stick in vicious arcs, striking matrons, a girl and a grandmother who had bent over to pick up a Bible dropped in the melee. |
Ruling Returns Gay Marriage
to Stage in Presidential Bids
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| The New York Times, by Adam Nagourney
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| Posted By: Dreadnought
- 5/15/2008 11:13:30 PM
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| WASHINGTON — Gay marriage is an issue on which the three major presidential candidates — John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton — are pretty much in agreement. All oppose it, while saying at the same time that same-sex couples should generally be entitled to the legal protections afforded married couples. All think the decision should be left to the states. And not one has shown any eagerness |
Naral Picks Obama, and
Uproar Breaks Out
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| The New York Times, by Katharine Q. Seelye
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| Posted By: Dreadnought
- 5/15/2008 11:12:17 PM
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| The decision by a major abortion-rights group to endorse Senator Barack Obama has created an uproar among some of its affiliates and other abortion-rights advocates. Many said that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had as good a record on reproductive rights as Mr. Obama and that there was no need to take sides in the Democratic primary. The endorsement by the group, Naral Pro-Choice America, which was announced |
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Gov. Moonbeam’s Revenge
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| National Review Online, by Maggie Gallagher
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- 5/15/2008 11:10:04 PM
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| By the narrowest of margins (4-3, just like Goodridge), the California supreme court ruled Thursday that Proposition 22, passed by 62 percent of California voters in 2000, is unconstitutional. 'We therefore conclude . . . the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples.' Call it Jerry Brown’s revenge. |
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In the South, a Force to Challenge the G.O.P.
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| The New York Times, by Adam Nossiter and Janny Scott
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- 5/15/2008 11:09:48 PM
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| NEW ORLEANS — The sharp surge in black turnout that Senator Barack Obama has helped to generate in recent primaries and Congressional races could signal a threat this fall to the longtime Republican dominance of the South, according to politicians and voting experts. Should Mr. Obama become the Democratic nominee, he would still have to struggle for white swing voters in the South and in border states like West Virginia |
Nagin suggests homeless
get 'one-way' ticket
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| Associated Press, by Michael Kunzelman
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/15/2008 11:09:43 PM
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| New Orleans - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin told an audience today that helping the city's growing homeless population is one of his top priorities. Then he offered what he later said was a ''tongue-in-cheek'' solution to the problem: One-way bus tickets out of town. Nagin was responding to a question from an audience member during a panel discussion sponsored by the American Association for Public Opinion Research. |
A Pest Without a Name, Becoming
Known to Ever More
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| The New York Times, by Ralph Blumenthal
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- 5/15/2008 11:07:50 PM
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| HOUSTON — Look out, Texas Gulf Coast, here comes Paratrechina pubens, or something like that. Scientists do not quite know what to call them, they are so new. But folks in the damp coastal belt south of Houston have their own names (some of them printable) for the little invaders now seemingly everywhere: on the move underfoot; infesting woodlands, yards and gardens; nesting in electrical boxes and causing shorts; and even raising anxiety |
Bush’s Comments Seen
as Rebuke to Obama
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| The New York Times, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Jim Rutenberg
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- 5/15/2008 11:04:34 PM
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| JERUSALEM — President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to liken those who would negotiate with “terrorists and radicals” to appeasers of the Nazis — a remark widely interpreted as a rebuke to Senator Barack Obama, who has advocated greater engagement with countries like Iran and Syria. Mr. Bush did not mention Mr. Obama by name, and White House officials said he was not taking aim at the Illinois senator |
Investigator Guilty in Hollywood
Wiretapping Case
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| The New York Times, by David M. Halbfinger
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| Posted By: Dreadnought
- 5/15/2008 11:02:38 PM
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| LOS ANGELES — Anthony Pellicano, the ripped-from-a-pulp-novel private eye who made himself an indispensable fixer for Hollywood stars and moguls, was found guilty in federal court Thursday of racketeering, wiretapping and other charges. The jury of eight men and four women deliberated nine days before finding Mr. Pellicano, 64, guilty of 76 of the 77 counts against him, mostly in connection |
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Gay Couples Rejoice at Ruling
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| The New York Times, by Jesse McKinley
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| Posted By: Dreadnought
- 5/15/2008 11:01:15 PM
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| SAN FRANCISCO — Gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco rejoiced on Thursday over a State Supreme Court decision affirming their right to marry even as political leaders on both sides of the issue girded for an extended fight over the ruling in the courts and at the ballot box. Hundreds of people showed up at San Francisco City Hall, including some women in wedding dresses and at least one carrying an open bottle |
Drug gangs drive away
investment in border city
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| The Scotsman [Edinburgh], by Lizbeth Diaz
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/15/2008 11:00:12 PM
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| A decade ago, economists hailed Tijuana as a place where cheap Mexican labour and US financing could meet, attracting Asian firms eager to set up manufacturing plants to export to North America. Now, that vision is slipping away, a victim of drug violence that has been exploding near the US-Mexico border for the past three years. (Snip) ''Many big companies are pulling out and many small companies are going bankrupt.'' |
California Court Affirms
Right to Gay Marriage
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| The New York Times, by Adam Liptak
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| Posted By: Dreadnought
- 5/15/2008 10:58:54 PM
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| The California Supreme Court, striking down two state laws that had limited marriages to unions between a man and a woman, ruled on Thursday that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. The 4-to-3 decision, drawing on a ruling 60 years ago that struck down a state ban on interracial marriage, would make California the second state, after Massachusetts, to allow same-sex marriages. The decision, which becomes effective in 30 days |
Judges will lose power
to set prison terms
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| Telegraph [London], by James Kirkup
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/15/2008 10:54:28 PM
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| Freedom to set jail terms for criminals will be reduced under Government plans to ease the crowded prison system by imposing more community sentences. Ministers are pressing ahead with plans to create a Sentencing Commission that will make sentences more uniform, allowing them to control and predict the flow of criminals into jails. (Snip) In a statement, the ministry said: ''Short custodial sentences simply do not work to rehabilitate offenders.'' |
Obesity crisis 'will lead to children
having their stomachs stapled'
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| Telegraph [London], by Nigel Bunyan
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/15/2008 10:50:34 PM
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| Primary school children could soon be undergoing stomach-stapling surgery as Britain's obesity epidemic worsens, a senior medical director has warned. Steve Ryan, of Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, said ''significant numbers'' of children aged two and three were being classed as obese. (Snip) Mr Ryan said it is was ''almost certain'' that surgeons will have to staple children's stomachs within a few years. |
Los Angeles Eyes Sewage
as a Source of Water
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| New York Times, by Randal C. Archibold
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| Posted By: NorthernDog
- 5/15/2008 10:49:30 PM
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| LOS ANGELES — Faced with a persistent drought and the threat of tighter water supplies, Los Angeles plans to begin using heavily cleansed sewage to increase drinking water supplies, joining a growing number of cities considering similar measures. Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, who opposed such a plan a decade ago over safety concerns, announced the proposal on Thursday as part of a package of initiatives |
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