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Maine’s angriest white guy, Tea Party Republican Gov. Paul LePage, may have finally crossed a legal line when he told a charter school to withdraw a job offer to a top Democratic political opponent or else lose a $530,000 state subsidy. That is the issue that led the legislature’s Government.... |
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Just what does Elias Chipimo junior need to connect with the ordinary Zambian voters? Chipimo on Tuesday morning held a press briefing striking a resigned tone as he lamented the fact that his party has not scored any electoral victory since its formation in March 2010. |
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Just what does Elias Chipimo junior need to connect with the ordinary Zambian voters? Chipimo on Tuesday morning held a press briefing striking a resigned tone as he lamented the fact that his party has not scored any electoral victory since its formation in March 2010. |
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MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina At exactly 6:40 p.m. one sultry day this month, the peal of church bells rang though the main square of this town, bringing countless pilgrims instantly to their knees. The ringing marked the moment, 34 years ago, when a group of six youths say the Virgin Mary appeared to them. |
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A souvenir shop in Medjugorje. The town is visited by more than a million pilgrims a year. Credit Ziyah Gafic for The New York Times. Doubters accuse the visionaries of blurring the line between the spiritual and the material by capitalizing on the apparitions through global speaking tours and investments in the local tourism industry. |
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1813: Napoleon defeated the combined forces of Austrian, Russia and Prussia at the Battle of Dresden. 1859: The world’s first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake. 1883: Krakatoa, a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java, erupted with thousands killed by the resulting tidal waves. |
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Education Minister Adrian Piccoli steps in to stop ALL schools in NSW showing gay parenting documentary - amid claims that schools are 'supposed to remain neutral' Burwood Girls High School were required to watch a special screening of Gayby Baby during third and fourth periods this Friday; Then.... |
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It's hard to be black and even slightly aware of the world around you without feeling an exhausting emotional weight from all this. There's really no good way to escape this feeling, but in the past five months or so, I've found catharsis in "To Pimp a Butterfly," the most recent album by the Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar. |
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Here’s the 15th of our Five a Day jokes and reviews from the Fringe – Sam Simmons is on the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award shortlist. Joe Wenborne: "I've just bought a very expensive Garden Trimmer I asked the salesman why it cost so much and he told me it was Cutting Hedge Technology” – Fight Back At 50, The Wee Room, Gilded Balloon, 12. |
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Original post: Police are seeking a former WDBJ reporter in connection with the shooting deaths of a reporter and photographer on live television Wednesday, a representative of the Augusta County Sheriff’s Department said.
Vester Flanagain is driving a 2009 gray Ford Mustang, the sheriff’s.... |
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Law enforcement confronted Vester Flanagan on Interstate 66 and Flanagan shot himself, officials tell CNN. It is not clear whether he was killed or injured. • ABC News reported that it has received a fax containing a 23-page manifesto from someone named Bryce Williams, the news outlet tweeted . |
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