6 Jul 2008 at 12:01pm SCOTTISH LABOUR'S attempt to win the Glasgow East Westminster by-election and save Gordon Brown's job has suffered a humiliation after it emerged the party was about to select its fourth-choice candidate. Margaret Curran, already an MSP in the city ...
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6 Jul 2008 at 11:40am Is all of the talk about the White House and UFOs unique to the 2008 presidential elections? Hardly. Ufologists have been inserting themselves into the American political scene for decades. And one website - www.presidentialufo.com - is devoted to ...
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6 Jul 2008 at 11:40am Librarian Bette Ammon e-mailed a few minutes ago to say that "Water the Elephants," the first selection for the new Huckleberries Online Book Club, arrived at the library Friday. They'll be available this evening. Three are reserved, including one by ...
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6 Jul 2008 at 11:40am 1. The youths infatuation with tattoos shows that they don't recognize the concept of permanence, and they reject the idea of skin growing old on them. Tattoos are such a turn off. They scream "skank" or "trailer trash." Another fashion that needs to ...
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6 Jul 2008 at 11:26am Wow, this was working. I felt better already. Heck, I thought, if the great emancipator could pilot the republic through civil war, I should be able to muddle through a few production changes. Then again, I liked this quote, too, one from Albert ...
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3 Jul 2008 at 7:57pm The competitive puzzling community is flying its geek flag high this weekend at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, an event that is as highly anticipated among puzzle aficionados as prom night--and for many of the same reasons. On the whole ...
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27 Jun 2008 at 6:53pm Readers who sent e-mails directly to Staff Writer Ken Gosselin and to me concerning the story "Courant To Cut Newsroom Staff, News Pages" offered feedback decidedly more constructive than the majority of comments posted on Topix - in my opinion. A ...
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