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Britain’s first mobile phone call, 30 years ago, started a chain of events that led Vodafone from making radio equipment to becoming one of the country’s biggest companies. Like millions of other revelers, you may well have celebrated the new year by using your smartphone to call loved ones, or to text, tweet, e-mail or even link up by video. |
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The rock icon Patti Smith sings at New York's Webster Hall on December 29, 2014. Smith, who is celebrating her 68th birthday, is performing a series of intimate shows and is planning a second memoir to follow up her critically acclaimed book "Just Kids.". R.E.M. |
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Always given to self-doubt and second-guessing, Mr. Cuomo said that if he had any regrets about his governorship, it was that he had never identified himself with a large initiative that might have been his legacy, as the expansion of the State University of New York was for Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. |
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By Jane Graham – 02 January 2015 As this newspaper arrives with its unsettlingly futuristic 2015 date heading, it seems only right that we - or, to be honest, I, as I have shamefully and arrogantly refused to survey a single member of the public on this - put together a short, not unreasonable, list of hopes and dreams for the coming year. |
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led New York during a turbulent time, 1983 through 1994. His ambitions for an activist government were thwarted by recession. He found himself struggling with the State Legislature not over what the government should do but over what programs should be cut, and what taxes should be raised, simply to balance the budget. |
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The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press. Times of Malta leads with yesterday's car crash in Gozo which left a law student dead. Separately, it also reports about a jump in the number of motorists caught speeding The Malta Independent says a court will decide in a week’s.... |
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(CNN) -- "Sleeping in our caves is a mystical experience," says Umberto Paolucci. "You'll find your spirit and the real essence of life. Even if you're looking for neither." As the co-owner of Grotte della Civita, a luxury resort dug into a precipice of primeval stones that seemingly rise from.... |
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2014 was an especially eventful and newsworthy year in the Cayman Islands. In the following month-by-month retrospective, we revisit the stories that made the major headlines in the Cayman Compass. January. Police commissioner foils armed robbery. The New Year’s news year got off to an early start.... |
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Mario M. Cuomo, the three-term governor of New York who commanded the attention of the country with a compelling public presence, a forceful defense of liberalism and his exhaustive ruminations about whether to run for president, died at home in Manhattan on Thursday, according to a family friend. He was 82. |
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In an era when liberal thought was increasingly discredited, Mr. Cuomo, a man of large intellect and often unrestrained personality, celebrated it, challenging Ronald Reagan at the height of his presidency with an expansive and affirmative view of government and a message of compassion, tinged by the Roman Catholicism that was central to Mr. |
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Mario M. Cuomo, the three-term governor of New York who commanded the attention of the country with a compelling public presence, a forceful defense of liberalism and his exhaustive ruminations about whether to run for president, died at home in Manhattan on Thursday, according to a family friend. He was 82. |
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