In addition to the Hummer truck customised with an aquarium and the Spiderman chopper, he'd brought along a pink Cadillac Biarritz with pink mink interior, a tiptronic Ferrari Modena, a G5 wagon, a Maybach 62, a 1958 Rolls-Royce, a black Bentley Azure, a white Bentley Azure and a Formula 1 McLaren.
Reform: President Hugo Chavez is giving peasants a chance to farm land of their own. But his program has met with fierce resistance from the wealthy and powerful.
[when the subject of] Iraq [arose], Chirac said quickly, "Let bygones be bygones -- we all agree we need to rebuild Iraq," then quickly steered the conversation to Mrs. Bush's travel plans and charity work.
"But what of his successor," reports the Register, "Attorney General Daryl Williams AM QC MP? Well, he's a legal man with a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from Oxford University in 1967, among others. Time will tell if he's able to fill the mighty shoes of Senator Alston."
"So the real method is personal contact, person to person, face to face. Talk. At that time I also expressed Bin Laden also have lot of reasons to complain. Listen to his view. What's his complaint. Terrorism is a sort of mutual suffering."
"The tribes were convinced that they had made a free and Arab Government, and that each of them was It," Lawrence wrote in "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" in 1926. "They were independent and would enjoy themselves a conviction and resolution which might have led to anarchy, if they had not made more stringent the family tie, and the bonds of kin-responsibility. But this entailed a negation of central power."
"How long can the history of anti-semitism and the Holocaust be used as a fence to exempt Israel from arguments and sanctions against it for its behaviour towards the Palestinians, arguments and sanctions that were used against other repressive governments, such as South Africa? How long are we going to deny that the cries of the people of Gaza... are directly connected to the policies of the Israeli government and not to the cries of
This summer, night-vision goggles became a familiar fashion accessory for security guards at movie premieres as they searched for people in the audience carrying banned video recorders.
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Also, as early as next month the industry will begin promoting a "stealing is bad" message in schools, teaming up with Junior Achievement on an hourlong class for fifth through ninth graders on the history of copyright law and the evils of online file sharing.
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The effort includes games like Starving Artist, in which students pretend to be musicians whose work is downloaded free from the Internet, and a crossword puzzle called Surfing for Trouble.
"It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or the red and black flag of the Anarchists;
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"Every shop and café had an inscription saying that it had been collectivized; even the bootblacks had been collectivized and their boxes painted red and black. Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal.
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"There was much in it I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for."
... The managers who control the great power aggregates - big industry, the governmental apparatus, the labor organizations, the military forces - can become, and indeed have already become in most great nations, the dominant class ...
"It's fun to create a show and direct it and conceive it -- except that you have to do it, you have to perform it. I never think of that until it's too late," she said.
those dark shapes in the smoky gold light are not glamourous revellers, jaded with the pleasures of the most beautiful and decadent city in the world, being ferried home at dawn across the Venetian lagoon. They're a bevy of Portsmouth councillors, local dignitaries, layabouts, rubberneckers and riffraff, setting out in a little Armada across the harbour to meet the King of France, Louis-Philippe.
A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long, and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such as PHP or Perl.
The universal communicator is a mobile phone that also has onboard personal digital assistant functions, a video camera, several different wireless technologies and can stream audio and video to other devices.
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It also boasts a backdoor for easy access by the secret services, and telephones the RIAA when you download mp3's
The alarm was raised when one of the boys went to the classroom drunk and nude, while the rest fell unconscious in the dormitory, where they were drinking a mixture of beer and methanol.
Carrots used to purple or pale-coloured in ancient times. It was only when a group of patriotic Dutch breeders used a mutant seed in the 16th century that the orange variety began its rise to prominence.
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Russell Crowe, Sainsbury's carrot buyer, said: "As well as being a talking point at dinner parties, we are hoping the unusual colour will encourage children to tuck in to more vegetables."
Because the government is benefiting, and because the government is largely still in the hands of the military, despite the restoration of a weak, hung parliament in Oct. 2002, it is possible that these economic incentives will in fact lead Pakistan to send troops to Iraq. Such a move would be hugely unpopular among the Pakistani public, which sees the Iraq war as Western imperialism.
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It will give the religious parties yet another platform on which to campaign against the government, and contribute to a certain amount of instability. This dilemma is an example of the many and subtle ways in which the Iraqi campaign is actually interfering in the successful prosecution of the war on terror.
the case for war grows ever more flimsey "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11 [attacks]," Mr Bush said, though he said there was "no question" that the Iraqi dictator "had al-Qaida ties".
LONDON (Reuters) - Police chiefs have urged their officers to take a more relaxed approach to cannabis in line with a new policy that will effectively leave people free to enjoy the drug in private.
Laura Bush is a '60s kid at heart. She still has the turntable and vinyl records from growing up in Texas, where she bopped to the music of local heroes Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison. "I'm a fan of music from rock 'n' roll to soul to reggae," Laura tells the August issue of Glamour magazine. She also says her daughters contribute unsolicited advice about her appearance. Back when she was first lady of Texas, they told her her hair "
the album also features progressive hip-hop visionaries Dead Prez, Public Enemy and Kam. Add dancehall sensation Capelton to this already impressive lineup and you have a potent molotov cocktail of an album ready to explode.
Currently, the Justice Department is working on the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, an extension of the Patriot Act that has been dubbed "Patriot II".
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Perhaps one of the most dangerous aspects of this bill would grant the government the right to detain someone indefinitely without ever disclosing their identity, allowing the person to ultimately disappear.
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if you engage in civil disobedience, the government would have the right to strip you of your citizenship
"More than two and a half years after the 2000 election and we are back where we started," said pollster John Zogby. "The country was evenly divided then and it is still evenly divided."
Butterfly.net provides the software infrastructure for massively-multiplayer online games (MMOGs) that connect PCs, consoles and mobile devices.
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The Butterfly Grid, available as a packaged product to game developer, publishers and service providers, or as a fully-managed service, drastically reduces the cost of developing, operating and maintaining MMOGs.
In March, Lamo discovered a number of security holes in the popular Blogger Web log publishing tool, and voluntarily disclosed the flaws to Pyra Labs, which owns Blogger. The company patched the holes and posted an effusive "thank you" to Lamo on its Web site.
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Unfortunately for Lamo, the Times was not as receptive after learning of his wanderings on its corporate intranet.
Now before any Democrats start screaming about how American schools and roads and electricity grids are crumbling too, let me just say... "Freedom." Freedom, freedom, FREEDOM!
Three years in the making, this fascinating documentary on the platypus is no exception, as he sets out to solve the riddle of this quintessentially Australian animal.
With six weeks remaining I have fled New York City for a brief break before the final push towards my goal. While I have been focusing more on the Hennessey and blunts aspect of the project while on holiday, I am making sure to attend to my body. Surrounded by the beauty of the New England Coast I am trying hard to not forget Thug Life. It is easier to remember Pac when my abs are crying out for mercy.
The investigation was launched after a detective saw a police brigadier popping ecstasy while on a stakeout.
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Witnesses described occasions when officers were so high on ecstasy that they could not even find Amsterdam's main shopping street, Kalverstraat, just two minutes away from the station.
cross-referenced in American Fascismo piece, below
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"Ur-fascism can still return in the most innocent of guises. Our duty is to unmask it and to point the finger at each of its new forms - every day, in every part of the world."
"Marxists have always maintained that capitalism needs war .... The competition for resources, markets and labour is periodically solved, for the capitalist class, by resorting to war. This war [on Terror] is no different in essence".
"How can the security community promote safe browsing when users are being forever brainwashed into ignoring or disabling security features for the sake of pointless but pretty downloadable applets?"
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'Contrary to modern myth, carving up a picture into sections does not make it quicker to load'
Nasty-minded readers may believe the Bush energy program, still rolling around Congress, is just some pea-brained scheme to pay off the president's oil company buddies, fry the planet and smother Mother Earth in coal ash, petroleum pollutants and nuclear waste. In truth, it's more devious than that.
"If the American government is serious about avoiding the explosions inside the U.S., then let it stop provoking the feelings of 1,250 million Muslims."
It is misleading to speak of the triumph of one system over another. The capitalism that invaded the Eastern bloc bears only a passing resemblance to the capitalism advocated by classical economists. Likewise, the socialist system that fell apart had little to recommend it to the socialism embraced by Marx and Engels.