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Ties that bind (1)

todayszaman.com     Aug 10, 2008          

Regular readers will be all too familiar with my love affair with the Princes' Islands in the Marmara Sea off the Asian side of İstanbul, Burgazada and Heybeliada in particular. Well, I'm not going to bang on about them again...                    

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Beatles in, Queen Victoria out: The 50 key dates in British history

hnn.us     Aug 10, 2008   3 related          

Source: Telegraph (8-9-08)The country's longest-serving monarch is among the most controversial omissions from the list, which sets out to encapsulate the things every Briton should know about their nation's past. Compiled by...                    

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Where would we be without 'liberal' Unitarians?

recordsearchlight.com     Aug 9, 2008          

The good folks of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., will take their time to heal. I send them my caring thoughts about their great loss resulting from a man whose bigotry took the form of...                    

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The Minutes of the Lazarus Club, By Tony Pollard

independent.co.uk     Aug 7, 2008          

There is a mournful sense in which we know that a particular sort of film or book has become a genre, rather than a marketing category, by the fact that it has acquired clichés. It is, of course, necessary to distinguish those...                    

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Jamie’s Hospital Dinners: Patients Catch Rats, Flies And Roaches

anorak.co.uk     Aug 6, 2008          

A RAT. A “filthy rat.” “A staggering 20,000 cases of rats, cockroaches and drain flies have been reported by HNS hospitals on just over two years.” So says the Sun on its front page. On a brighter note, at least you can see the...                    

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Theatre review: They're Playing Our Song. Menier Chocolate Factory, London

guardian.co.uk     Aug 6, 2008          

I was reminded by a colleague that this middle-of-the-road American musical first appeared in the same year as Sweeney Todd, but while Sondheim's 1979 masterpiece took the musical into uncharted territory, this show simply...                    

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Nigeria: Medical Personnel As Merchants of Death

allafrica.com     Aug 4, 2008          

On Tuesday 15th April 2008, one of the dailies reported the heartrending story of how the callous attitude of a doctor and nurses at the Asokoro General Hospital, Abuja, caused the death of an unborn baby. We have been...                    

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Making history

signonsandiego.com     Aug 3, 2008          

S.D. artist Eleanor Antin uses the past to give a clearer picture of the present; her first major local museum show is at SDMA now In our culture, which seems to live for the future most of all, history is mostly seen as a...                    

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BNP also a fan of Anthony Browne

pickledpolitics.com     Jul 31, 2008   1 related          

According to Dave Hill, the BNP people say Anthony Browne’s book, The Retreat of Reason, is: A devastating expose of the effects of Political Correctness and its poisonous effect of public debate in modern Britain. The author...                    

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Life Imitates Farce

balloon-juice.com     Jul 30, 2008          

I wish I were kidding about this, but the indictment of another senior Republican is…. GOOD NEWS FOR JOHN MCCAIN: The indictment of the senior senator from Alaska on corruption charges is yet another blow to the GOP brand. But,...                    

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