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@rh18bold:Today in History
Today is Tuesday, February 12, the 43rd day of 2008. There are 323 days left in the year.
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In 1554, Lady Jane Grey, who'd claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were behe...
DATE: Feb 12, 2008
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NEW YORK — If you drive six miles southwest of Anniston, Alabama, you'll pass the spot where a bus was bombed in 1961 and the passengers - civil rights activists known as Freedom Riders - were beaten by a mob.
There's no marker there, but it is one o...
DATE: Feb 06, 2008
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NAIROBI, Kenya — When Steve Maina finishes a round of golf at Kenya's exclusive Windsor club, a waistcoated waiter hurries over with a tall iced drink while armed guards watch discreetly from the shrubbery, a few minutes' drive from one of Nairobi's ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2008
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The US economy continues to show sign of weakness and this has prompted policymakers to move aggressively on both the monetary and fiscal fronts. Not too many months ago, the chairman of the Federal Reserve was fairly optimistic about prospects for t...
DATE: Feb 04, 2008
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ACCRA (Reuters) — While political protests blight Kenya, Ghana will polish its image as a tourism and investment destination when it hosts the 2008 African Nations Cup football finals.
Staging Africa's most prestigious sporting event will cast a posi...
DATE: Feb 01, 2008
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Across the street from the house where Mohandas K. Gandhi was shot and killed 60 years ago on Wednesday stands India's National Defence College, an institution that certainly would have troubled the icon of nonviolence.
It's not the ...
DATE: Feb 01, 2008
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One of the most highly insulting post election opinions held by some PLP critics is that the PLP obviously does not suffer from criticism that comes from whites. The argument goes that, "The actions of the PLP and it's support base have suggested tha...
DATE: Jan 31, 2008
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Mr. Mayor, use your power
January 21, 2008
Dear Sir,
I understand that the Mayor of Hamilton has the power of veto on Corporation matters and decisions but that, in his words "this is rarely used".
Now of all times is the time that this power of veto...
DATE: Jan 29, 2008
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Opposition MP John Barritt yesterday conceded the United Bermuda Party got itself into trouble when it was in power by leaving people in the dark over key issues.
Mr. Barritt, a backbencher and Minister while the UBP was in Government, said party lea...
DATE: Jan 25, 2008
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He may be Bermuda's most vocal politician but don't expect new United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan to wax lyrical about his group's internal problems after the party crashed to its third defeat in nine years.
The reasons behind the poor showing will...
DATE: Jan 24, 2008
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