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ANNAPOLIS (AP) — If you think preparing Thanksgiving dinner is a chore, take a moment to imagine the culinary muscle required to feed more than 4,000 hungry US Naval Academy midshipmen. All at once. Every night.
Tougher still, the galley crew's goal ...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — Mortgage lending in Britain has more than halved over the past year, according to the British Banker's Association — further evidence that the economic downturn is dramatically hurting the country's property market.
The number of new ho...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — One man showed up at a federal building, asking for release from the reality show he was sure was being made of his life.
Another was convinced his every move was secretly being filmed for a TV contest. A third believed everything — t...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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Bermuda's number one golfer, Michael Sims, has been given a golden opportunity to resurrect his professional career after qualifying for the final stage of PGA Tour School.
He will now tee it up at the famed La Quinta course in California next week w...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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Adrian Robson
Having two presidents is starting to feel like having no president, and that's the situation we'll face until Inauguration Day. Heaven help us.
President Bush spent the weekend in Lima, Peru, at a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation foru...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brooke Burke could be the one who wins "Dancing With the Stars."
The 37-year-old model-actress and her professional partner, Derek Hough, dominated the popular ABC dancing competition's final round on Monday night, receiving a comb...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The US government, still struggling to manage a severe financial crisis, unveiled two new programmes yesterday that will provide $800 billion to try to help unfreeze the market for consumer debt from home mortgages to credit cards.
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DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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Primus Guaranty Ltd. is set to buy approximately 3.2 million of its shares in a private transaction at the start of next month.
The company agreed to pay 70 cents per share for a total cost of around $2.2 million.
The block trade was carried out unde...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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Many hands make light work especially if they are the Hands of Christ knitting group, which is helping to raise money to build a girls' school in the troubled African state of Sierra Leone.
Under the banner of 'Slippers for Sierra Leone', the ladies ...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — With the recent releases of three new BlackBerrys across three different wireless providers, Research In Motion Ltd. has fired back at Apple Inc. in the Great Smart Phone Skirmish of 2008.
The introduction of the touch-screen BlackBer...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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