Shot Guinea junta chief flown to Morocco
Guinea's wounded junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was flown Friday to Morocco for treatment as his troops hunted for an officer accused of trying to assassinate him, officials said.
AFP via Yahoo! News,
Fri Dec 04 12:19:34 PST 2009
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Hottest new city hotels
If HBO ever remakes "Green Acres," I will replace Eva Gabor. Despite living in a 19th-century farmhouse in upstate New York, I'm a city slicker at heart.
CNN,
Fri Dec 04 08:05:06 PST 2009
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Ghost of class wars past back to haunt David Cameron
Scarcely 18 months have passed since commentators pretty much pronounced the class war dead
Times Online,
Fri Dec 04 14:28:01 PST 2009
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Shot Guinea junta chief flown to Morocco
Guinea's junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was flown to Morocco as his troops hunted for an officer accused of trying to assassinate him, officials said.
The Age,
Fri Dec 04 13:20:25 PST 2009
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Salahis Appear in Court for Lawn Bill
Tareq and Michaele Salahi made a special appearance Friday, but not at some hot event with the President or Foreign Official. The publicity seeking couple was invited to stand before a Warr...
FOX 23 Maine,
Fri Dec 04 17:32:10 PST 2009
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Exec pleads guilty to bribing NY pension officials
A California venture capitalist pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he helped his company land a lucrative deal with New York's public pension fund by giving nearly $1 million worth of ...
AP via Yahoo! News,
Thu Dec 03 15:04:24 PST 2009
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Guilty Plea in New York Pension Bribery Case
The chairman of Markstone Capital Partners, a California private equity firm, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he helped his firm win a $250 million with New York State's huge pub...
New York Times,
Thu Dec 03 14:26:07 PST 2009
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Hevesi took swank trips as 'payoffs'
ALBANY -- Former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi was implicated for the first time yesterday in a pay-to-play scandal after it was revealed he accepted six luxury vacations to Israel and Ital...
New York Post,
Fri Dec 04 04:21:14 PST 2009
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Fresh Ink
News and notes from the world of books: Irvin Yalom, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford, has known a certain amount of fame in his life (Gabriel Byrne's character mentioned him in...
San Francisco Chronicle,
Fri Dec 04 17:03:07 PST 2009
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Tom Dunkel: Guns n' Goldman
According to a Bloomberg News report, senior staff at the banking-investment-and-highway-robbery firm Goldman Sachs "have loaded up on firearms". Apparently, they're tired of being...
The Huffington Post,
Fri Dec 04 11:59:31 PST 2009
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N. Korea's first designer jeans on sale in Sweden
STOCKHOLM (Reuters Life!) - Designer jeans labeled "Made in North Korea" will go on sale this Friday at a trendy department store in the Swedish capital, marking a first foray into Western ...
Reuters,
Fri Dec 04 13:50:51 PST 2009
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News in brief
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week
West Salem Coulee News,
Fri Dec 04 13:33:31 PST 2009
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Guinea junta chief grazed by bullet
AFP. CONAKRY. Guinea
The Herald,
Fri Dec 04 14:38:15 PST 2009
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Executive pleads guilty in pension deal
NEW YORK | A California venture capitalist pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he helped his company land a quarter-billion dollar deal with New York's giant public pension fund by maki...
The Washington Times,
Fri Dec 04 03:24:19 PST 2009
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Society Confidential: Don Barden's casinos broke
Here's another installment in the ongoing saga of the careers and businesses of ... "The Don." Oh, come on, you know who we mean, casino mogul Don Barden.
Detroit News,
Thu Dec 03 22:13:47 PST 2009
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Hollywood move on cards for child actor
The family of Cannock child actor Ben Wilby are considering moving to America in a bid for him to become the next Macaulay Culkin.
Express and Star,
Fri Dec 04 03:54:20 PST 2009
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Exec pleads guilty to bribing NY pension officials
NEW YORK - A California venture capitalist pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he helped his company land a quarter-billion dollar deal with New York's giant public pension fund by maki...
Muzi,
Fri Dec 04 07:55:28 PST 2009
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Exec paid for Hevesi with $75,000 vacations: source
ALBANY
New York Post,
Thu Dec 03 16:05:51 PST 2009
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How Labour should handle class
John Prescott and Eric Pickles had an amusing dust-up on the Today programme this morning over the hot topic of class.
The New Statesman,
Fri Dec 04 03:29:17 PST 2009
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