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That crusty old wiseguy Randy Newman has been a Grammy/Oscar/Emmy-endorsed constant long enough to see himself parodied by people ("Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, for example) whose satirical gifts are a shadow of his own. But anybody who thinks of Newman first as the guileless...(more)
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LAST YEAR'S encounter with the Chicago Bears was the day the wheels officially came off the Eagles' season. Some people might argue they were already flat from the punt-catching misadventures of the opener, a 16-13 loss at Green Bay. And the axle might have been bent...(more)
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newVideoPlayer("/airtraffic_gizmodo.flv", 520, 280,""); Here's a video displaying all commercial air traffic in the world during a 24 hour period. Seriously, I'm moving to New York City tomorrow and seeing the flight density in this computer simulation scares me a bit. Thankfully, it's a big planet...(more)
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CAIRO, Sept. 26 -- Turkish warplanes crossed the border into northern Iraqi airspace to bomb 16 Kurdish rebel sites, a spokesman for Turkey's military said Friday. There were no reports of any deaths in the air attacks, which occurred late Thursday night. The air strikes...(more)
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Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Michael Pena star in a film that hews to the home-front and road-movie genres. A good film, one of a handful of dramatically viable and necessary features to emerge from America's occupation of Iraq, came out of the Toronto film festival...(more)
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Stop me if you've heard this one: A young beauty of noble descent marries a congenitally boring peer of the English realm, who wants the marriage but also wants his mistress. What ensues is an unhappily-ever-after story -- in this case, about the celebrated Georgiana...(more)
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LIBERTY By Garrison Keillor Viking. 267 pp. $25.95 It's a few weeks before Lake Wobegon's Fourth of July parade, and, as usual, 60-year-old Clint Bunsen, who's been chairman of the event for six years now, is running into trouble with the same old group of...(more)
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Stocks opened down sharply today as negotiations over a financial sector bailout stalled and investors digested the failure of the country's largest savings and loan. The morning losses, nearly swept yesterday's gains on the Dow Jones industrial average. The Dow was down more than 130...(more)
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Independent: The Cabinet is split over whether to approve a controversial plan for a 1bn coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent which has become a key test of its green credentials. John Hutton, the Business Secretary, wants to approve the project even if it is...(more)
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To those who'd like to support a real world cause while defending the princess from Bowser's latest kidnapping, this limited edition Pink Ribbon DS Lite raises money for the cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure. For every unit sold, Nintendo passes $5 to the...(more)
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T. Milton Street Sr., the older brother of Philadelphia's former mayor, is scheduled to be sentenced today in U.S. District Court for failing to file federal tax returns for three years.
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Anti-abortion groups holding round-the-clock vigil outside Chicago medical clinic With the presidential election just 40 days away, many Roman Catholic bishops and parish leaders are working aggressively to highlight the church's opposition to abortion.
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