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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. scrapped plans to open its own bank, ending a two-year controversy that roiled financial-services companies that feared direct competition from the world’s largest retailer.Wal-Mart said today it notified...
DATE: Mar 19, 2007
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Opposition aid assaultedJOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The spokesman for Zimbabwe’s opposition leader was assaulted by security forces. — Page 13Italian fugitive caughtSAO PAULO, Brazil — Leftist fugitive Cesare Battisti, who reinvented himself as a w...
DATE: Mar 19, 2007
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[box] A Conversation with Earl Cameron: Bermuda’s most successful actor will sit down with film critic Peter Rainer to speak about his career — from breaking into the film business in the 1950s to his big screen roles in ‘Thunderball’ and ‘Th...
DATE: Mar 18, 2007
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Bermuda’s two remaining opponents in Group B clash today, as India play Bangladesh at the Queen’s Park Oval.Four years after making the World Cup final, India return to the premier limited-overs event facing a dilemma o...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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Poles, I am reliably informed, have an expression for something supposedly amusing which they don’t understand — “like in a Czech comedy”.
And I was suitably perplexed after watching Czech offering ‘Rail Yard Blues’ which seemingly hit the buffers on...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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It’s open to debate whether they’re really the whitest kids you know. But the five wags who call themselves the Whitest Kids U’Know may be among the funniest.
Now this sketch-comedy troupe has snagged a TV series that displays its gift for musical co...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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An innovative $500,000 programme will see troublesome teens sent to Paget Island for intensive group discussions and challenging outdoor exercise.
The aim of the Mirrors course, of which the island expedition is just one part, is to get the 15-18 yea...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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GROS ISLET, St Lucia (Reuters) — Scott Styris took two scalps before striking an unbeaten 87 to help New Zealand recover from a shaky start and beat England by six wickets in their World Cup Group C match yesterday.The Black Caps reached their target...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) Canadian stocks fell on concern a slowing US economy may sap demand for Canadian exports and hit commodity producers’ profits. Suncor Energy and Teck Cominco paced declines as prices for crude oil dropped.The Standard & Poor’s/TS...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) — Tiger Woods, frustrated with his entire game, tumbled out of the lead after running up a double-bogey seven early in the second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational yesterday.The world number one, bidding for a fifth t...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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