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filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
I had a really good weekend, visiting with friends on Friday and Saturday evening.
Friday night Susan came over and we looked at her virus protection on her laptop. Joining the crew was Dave and Sandy. Dave also brought his brand-new Dell laptop computer running Windows 7. We unpacked the laptop and got everything set [...]
filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
I had a really good weekend, visiting with friends on Friday and Saturday evening.
Friday night Susan came over and we looked at her virus protection on her laptop. Joining the crew was Dave and Sandy. Dave also brought his brand-new Dell laptop computer running Windows 7. We unpacked the laptop and got everything set [...]
filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn:
On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page color brochure. The cover consisted of the now famous photograph of newly-arrived detainees dressed in [...]
filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
Kathy Lette:
When I moved to London 20 years ago, my Aussie accent meant I spent my life looking up nostrils. Even the nostrils of people shorter than me. Australia was seen as a recessive gene; the Irish of the Pacific. To make matters [...]
filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
Times:
The warning on the wall was written in blood. “All who fight us shall face this same fate,” it stated in swirling, Urdu script, ochre red with the passing of sun and rain.
“We’ve had the stains analysed — they are human,” confirmed Lieutenant-Colonel Yusuf, whose Frontier [...]
filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn:
On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page color brochure. The cover consisted of the now famous photograph of newly-arrived detainees dressed in [...]
filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
Kathy Lette:
When I moved to London 20 years ago, my Aussie accent meant I spent my life looking up nostrils. Even the nostrils of people shorter than me. Australia was seen as a recessive gene; the Irish of the Pacific. To make matters [...]
filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn:
On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page color brochure. The cover consisted of the now famous photograph of newly-arrived detainees dressed in [...]
filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
NY Times:
Hollywood suffered its first major flop of the year over the weekend with the debut of the expensive Iraq thriller “Green Zone,” which sold an anemic $14.5 million in tickets at North American theaters.
Despite playing in more than 3,000 theaters, “Green Zone,” starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul [...]
filed in General on Mar.15, 2010
Deutsche Presse-Agentur/Arab News:
Tehran has accused the United States of having launched a “cyber war” against Iran, state television network IRIB reported Sunday.
IRIB showed a ten-minute special programme, apparently made by the country’s intelligence service, showing what it said were US efforts to infiltrate parts of Iranian society through the web and [...]