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City Plans To Rezone Far West Village
The city is moving to rezone a six-block area in the far West Village, a victory for local preservation groups and a potential obstacle for developers in the area. The rezoning would affect buildings between Washington and Greenwich streets, from...
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Canyonville school chef offers students fine dining
Jonny Cavaner had never made borscht before, but he wanted to make something special for a small group of Russian students enrolled at Canyonville Christian Academy. The school's chef consulted culinary textbooks he has at home, searched the Internet and...
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Rosco P. Coltrane has published a book
Kentucky native James Best , also known as Rosco P...The Charlotte Observer interviewed Best, who now lives near Hickory, N.C., about Best in Hollywood: The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful. Best dresses up in Rosco's uniform for 20 to...
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Iraqi Turkmen Front Mosul Head assassinated
The incident was met with reactions among Iraqi Turkmen, and condemnation from Turkey. According to Turkmen officials, unidentified men arrived at Efendioglu's house Sunday night and asked his son that they wanted to see his father and shot him dead...
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Nov. 23rd Press Review
In a telephone conversation yesterday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his British counterpart Gordon Brown discussed issues of common concern such as just-elected European Union President Herman van Rompuy, whose views on Turkey's EU accession bid are similar to...
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Pirates free hijacked ship bound for Somali port
Somalia — A Somali businessman says a ship hijacked by pirates off East Africa two weeks ago has been released. Ali Dheere, the chairman of a group of traders in Mogadishu, says the al-Mizan has arrived in Somalia's capital. The...
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EU executive to propose major markets law -sources
A major draft EU law on market infrastructure will be tabled next July to make share and derivatives trading less risky for investors and the broader financial system from late 2012, industry sources said on Monday. The European Market Infrastructures...
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Teen convicted for killing 16-year-old girl
Prosecutors had argued that the teen should be sentenced to four years of juvenile care, the maximum sentence allowable, as the boy was only 16-years-old at the time of the killing. The murder took place in early August following a...
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Court asks UP jail official to explain failure to produce MLA
Additional sessions judge Madhu Jain took a serious view of the failure of the Uttar Pradesh prison authorities to produce Ansari, MLA from Mau who is now in Ghazipur jail in connection with the murder BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai in...
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Gafoor remarks don't fit into police discipline: Maha CM
The remarks do not fit into police department's discipline," Chavan told reporters here this evening. Asked if the government has ordered an inquiry into the alleged remarks, he said "we will see what can be done about it." "The views...
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Albert Heijn to expand into non-food
Monday 23 November 2009 The Albert Heijn supermarket group is to expand its non-food product range 'considerably' in the first quarter of 2010, chief operating officer Dick Boer told a meeting with journalists on Monday. 'Albert Heijn XL shops will...
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Give Me Character Over IQ Any Day
Wallace has distinguished himself time and again on the battlefield as fearless, honorable and zealous for the cause of freedom, and he is ready to deploy with his men for another attack, this time against the northern English city of...
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Go on, let it all hang out online
Last updated on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 8:20AM EST W hich is worse: Telling a smutty but harmless joke in a public forum or blowing the whistle on said dirty-joke teller by alerting his employers? Never were our twin obsessions...
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RJD to support CPI(ML) strike in Bihar Tuesday
Bihar's main opposition party Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has decided to support the day-long statewide strike call given by the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML) Tuesday to protest the Nitish Kumar government's alleged failure on all fronts after being...
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SRI LANKA: Agencies raise concerns over IDP care once resettled
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Ramsay third time lucky
Victorian Farmers Federation president Simon Ramsay has won Liberal preselection for a safe upper house seat at next year's state election...Mr Ramsay, 54, has been preselected to replace the retiring John Vogels, 63. Current upper house Liberal David Koch will...
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Disagreeable truth about the coming Copenhagen charade
We are about to see an advanced case of ''agreementism'' between world leaders at the Copenhagen climate change meeting. It is a painful and embarrassing disorder with familiar results...They reach earnest consensus that they need to solve a common problem....
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Rural targets
But while the focus is on urban centres like Ciudad Juarez, rural communities have also felt the effects first hand. "They have murdered Mennonite people… the drug-traffickers," says Abraham Peters, a 66-year-old retired rancher, who hails from the Protestant Mennonite...
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Police: Arlington woman shot, killed estranged husband
A wife shot and killed her estranged husband last Sunday at a west Arlington home, police said. Colette Reyes was being held in the Arlington jail on a charge of murder, according to the police department's jail report. The Tarrant...
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N.Y. Bar Owner Unveils Nation's First 100-Proof Turkey
The Chinese dish known as Drunken Chicken has nothing on a bird that'll be dressing up a New York City tavern's Thanksgiving fare — it may require legal ID to eat. Owner Paul Hurley today is unveiling what he calls...

