" Schechter loses city seat Dorais turfed from school board Bethany Lindsay, North Shore NewsPublished: Saturday, November 15, 2008 THREE newcomers have been elected councillors in the City of North Vancouver. Rod Clark, Guy Heywood, and Mary Trentadue will...
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The chairman of British football team Manchester United was allegedly swindled out of a huge amount of money by soeone pretending to sell bonds."A BOGUS bond dealer swindled former Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards out of more than £7million, a court heard yesterday....
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"Written by www.daily.pk Monday, 10 November 2008 20:17 Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Indian embassy in Sweden after journalists were denied visas after writing critical reports about the country. “This points to a lack of...
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According to an article at Abcnews.com, ties exist between Rashid Khalidi, who has been identified as a "PLO spokesman" by the McCain-Palin campaign, with the International Republican Institute (IRI), where Senator...
" delivery records,” there were “only two failures to deliver.” So Deutsche Bank systematically failed to even locate the stock that it sold, but the NYSE isn’t calling it “naked short selling,” and...
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"Election Law Blog has a short, useful summary. A three-judge panel from the same court ruled last week that the Democrat Secretary of State, who’s resisted GOP efforts to implement the new system, could rely on...
Presidential John McCain came out to abruptly to distance himself from what he calls, "fringe" members of the Party. He made this statement during an interview with CNN"RICHMOND -- The chairman of the Virginia...
"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you,...
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" MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) -- Federal investigators said Thursday they found human remains amid the wreckage of missing adventurer Steve Fossett's airplane in the mountains of eastern California. The remains were found among a field of debris that stretched 400 feet...
"NEW YORK (Fortune) -- In one frenzied month Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke remade Wall Street. Along the way they may also have recast American politics. A month of...
"WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A day before Google Inc. (GOOG) co-founder Larry Page makes a high-profile appearance in Washington to advocate for access to unused TV airwaves, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he favors the idea."" "I do think we need...
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"The inaugural Champions League Twenty20 will be played in three venues, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, which will host the cricket extravaganza to be held from December 3-10, 2008, it was announced on Thursday. At a media event in Mumbai, Lalit Modi, Chairman, Champions...
"Wake up and smell the sex! It's late Spring on the Potomac, and once again that unmistakable odeur erotique is in the air. So let's dance around the Maypole, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners: It's time for Hookergate: Part II!
Those of us who enjoy the incriminating...
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"Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in a months-long battle with the White House and Republicans set...
The US government's corporate bailout plan will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions, if not trillions, of dollars, calling some Democrats to ask the obvious; will a similar aid plan be put in place for bankrupt...
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