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G-20 mostly avoids the thornier questions
Leaders of the Group of 20 nations headed back to their home state Sunday to continue work on reviving their economies, leaving no clear way for the thornier questions of overhauling financial ordinance that President-elect Barack Obama of the United Stat Nov 17 2008
Gaddafi and berlusconi sign accord worth billions
Libya and Italy signed an agreement on Sabbatum under which Italy will pay $5 one million million (2.7 billion lb) in compensation for colonial misdeeds during its decades-long rule of the North African state. "This agreement opens the door to the he Sep 1 2008
Gail collins: digging ourselves a black hole
Exciting times approach up, people. Democratic convention! Republican convention! And then, on Sept. 10, the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider! The Large Hadron, you may remember, is the 17-mile-long particle accelerator pedal being built near&nb Aug 26 2008
Gail collins: secretary of state hillary clinton?
Hillaryhillaryhillaryhillaryhillary. Is she going to be Barack Obama's secretary of state? It's been quite a while since we've had an chance to discuss the Clinton-Obama dynamic, and it does feel good to be back. Forget bankrupt automa Nov 19 2008
Gail collins: telemarketer confessions
Word comes from James Madison, Wisconsin, that a telemarketer named Ted Zoromski quit his job this week over John McCain's message. Zoromski was prepared to interrupt people during their dinner hours to encourage them to vote Republican. But whe Oct 24 2008
Gail collins: the mccain of the week
'The people of Ohio are the most productive in the world!" yelled John McCain at a rally exterior of Youngstown on Tues. Present company perhaps excluded, since the crowd was made up wholly of people who were at autonomy in the center of a worki Sep 19 2008
Gambino crime family caught up in fbi sweep of mob figures
: Federal soldier and state authorization early Th began rounding error up mark of accused organized crime fig on a series of indictments charging slaying, racketeering, building extortions and other law-breaking in the largest such sweep in recent memory Feb 8 2008
Gambino crime family indicted in new york sweep
: One crime stretched back to the 1976 violent death of a court military officer ambushed exterior his home in the early morn hours to prevent him from testifying against a member of the mob. Another took place just two years ago, an extortion scheme in w Feb 9 2008
Garrison keillor: a few words for the happy couple
A golden November day under a blue sky and an air of sweet good humor at the polls and at the end of the day, we elected the right guy, no doubt about it. Yes, we can and we did. A state spread its wings and achieved height. Bravo, Barack, Mr. Sweeth Nov 7 2008
Garrison keillor: let the leader lead
The bible reading in Christian church Sunday gave me a jolt - hegira 32, which refers to the Chosen People erosion earrings, men as well as women, and I twitched when the reader read it. Yikes! Moses got his ears pierced? What else didn't we kno Oct 17 2008
Garrison keillor: looking out for abilene
Spent a weekend in Abilene, Texas, a town that voted 75 percentage for the electric current Occupant in 2004, and nil bad happened to me at all, they were as friendly as could be. Any time I sat down, they put food in front of me, and all in all they Oct 23 2008
Garrison keillor: one bomb after another
One bomb after another We Americans are a loyalist and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and arise in the morn and go to work. The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you p Oct 10 2008
Garrison keillor: sitting on top of the world
Be happy, dear bosom, and allow yourselves a few more weeks of quiet jubilance. It isn't gloat, it's satisfaction at a job well done. He was a superb candidate, serious, professorial but with a flash grin and a perkiness that comes from wor Nov 14 2008
Garrison keillor: the skinny guy's time
I was messing around in Tulsa last week and got talk with a big burly man with a McCain/Palin pin on his blue sport jacket who told me he was descended from yellow-dog Democrats who idea the sun rose and set over FDR and Republicans were people who wore s Oct 30 2008
Garrison keillor: where were the cops?
Where were the cops? It's just human nature that some catastrophe register in the brain and others don't. The train applied scientist texting at the accelerator ("HOW R U? C U L8R") and missing the red light and 25 people die in the crash - Sep 26 2008
Gasoline prices take bigger bite in rural u.s.
gasolene prices reached a subject average of $4 a gal for the first time over the weekend in the United States, adding more strain to motorists across the state. But the pain is not being felt uniformly. Across broad swaths of the South, sou'-west an Jun 10 2008
Gates urges western militaries to steer middle course
defence Secretary Henry M. Robert Gates challenged Western powerfulness Friday to avoid past error of lurching between excessive military resoluteness and excessive restraint, as the world faces menace from a resurgent Russia, violent Islamic extremism an Sep 21 2008
Gay unions shed light on gender in marriage
For penetration into healthy marriages, sociable scientists are look in an unexpected place. A growth body of grounds shows that same-sex couples have a great deal to teach everyone else about matrimony and human relationship. Most survey show surpr Jun 11 2008
Gays get right to marry in us state connecticut
Same-sex couples exchanged vows wed for the first time in Nutmeg State amid cheers and tears of joy, while gay activists planned protestation across the state over the vote that took away their right to marry in Golden State. Surrounded by red roses Nov 13 2008
Gays in egypt besieged by wave of suppression
The young men who loitered at the west end of the Qasr El-Nil Bridge in Cairo spied the blue pickup truck truck, a sign they should scatter. "They're police force," said Ahmed A., devising a two-finger gesture on his shoulder to indicate epaulets. "T Apr 9 2008 |