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Bad Santa sends mean reply to kids
Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:36 AM EST (ABC News)
The holiday cheer in one Canadian city was stifled last week when as many as 15 children received nasty letters signed by their favorite holiday icon: Santa Claus.
Cricinfo - 'It's bigger than the Ashes' - Lawson
Seeded on Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:09 PM EDT (content-cricinfo.com)
Geoff Lawson, Pakistan's coach, believes the side "would have been better off" for their tour of India tour had they beaten South Africa in their recent home one-day series.
BBC SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | West Indies | Samuels to face bookmaker inquiry
Seeded on Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:59 AM EDT (BBC News)
The West Indies Cricket Board is to investigate alleged links between their batsman Marlon Samuels and an Indian bookmaker earlier this year.
Bob Woolmer was murdered, insists official pathologist - Times Online
Seeded on Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:15 AM EDT (The Times)
The official pathologist in the Bob Woolmer case, whose findings launched an international murder hunt, has insisted the Pakistan cricket coach was killed.
Cricket-Australian Siddons accepts job as Bangladesh coach | Reuters
Seeded on Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:55 AM EDT (Reuters)
DHAKA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Australian Jamie Siddons has accepted an offer to coach Bangladesh, the country's cricket board said on Sunday. Siddons, 43, would arrive in Dhaka on Monday to discuss and finalise his contract, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said in a statement.
Muralitharan takes 4 wickets as Sri Lanka draws tour opener - International Herald Tribune
Seeded on Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:40 AM EDT (International Herald Tribune)
Star spinner Muttiah Muralitharan took four wickets for 121 runs to lead Sri Lanka's bowlers in a drawn three-day tour match against the Cricket Australia Chairman's XI which ended Monday.
Cricket - Fans don't win matches
Seeded on Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:23 AM EDT (content-cricinfo.com)
Spectator behaviour at cricket grounds has been a newsworthy topic for a while now. The latest accusations have regarded racial taunts during the India versus Australia series.
A Selection of Quotations by José Martà (Translated from the Spanish)
Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:55 PM EDT (reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com)
Today marks the 139th anniversary of the Grito de Yara (Battle Cry of Yara), the start of Cuba's Ten Years' War of Independence (1868-1878), which began with the symbolic act of freeing Cuba's slaves.
Cuba detains dissidents at ministry protest - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:00 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban security police detained seven dissidents who went to the Justice Ministry on Thursday to demand better conditions for Cuba's political prisoners. The demonstrators, led by prominent dissident leader Martha Beatriz Roque, were pushed and yelled at by a g …
Top Cuban baseball hitter defects
Seeded on Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:08 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
The top slugger of Cuba's last baseball season, Alexei Ramirez, said on Thursday he has defected in the Dominican Republic to fulfill his dream of playing in the U.S. Major Leagues.
FDR shooting attempt in Miami to be retold - 09/20/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
Seeded on Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:51 AM EDT (MiamiHerald.com)
Long before Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray and Sirhan Sirhan, there was Miami's Guiseppe Zangara, a troubled man who nearly altered the course of U.S.
Video: Fred Thompson at Versailles
Seeded on Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:09 AM EDT (babalublog.com)
Video of Fred Thompson stop in Miami.
The World According to Alan Greenspan
Seeded on Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:41 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
Alan Greenspan considers himself to be the luckiest economist in the world. "I was very fortunate," Greenspan told NEWSWEEK of his lengthy and eventful tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve, which lasted from August 1987 to January 2006.
A Candid Conversation with the Oracle - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com
Seeded on Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:39 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
Having retired, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is no longer required to testify at length before Congress about the state of the global economy, the future direction of interest rates and the health of the stock market.
A cure for cricket's cancer
Seeded on Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:31 AM EDT (Cricinfo)
If the ICC does offer up prayers for the game, they appear to have been answered in the form of Twenty20 cricket. Used wisely, the shortest and latest fad could resolve some of the ills that wrack the game, the main one being overworked star players.
Bounty Set In Sweden Cartoon Row
Seeded on Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:03 AM EDT (AL JAZEERA)
The leader of an Iraqi group linked to al-Qaeda has offered $100,000 for the murder of a Swedish cartoonist over a recent drawing of the Prophet Muhammad.
In the Pits: Earnhardt's faulty motors have conspiracy theorists abuzz - NASCAR - Yahoo! Sports
Seeded on Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:39 AM EDT (Yahoo! Sports)
5 blown engines and it's time for tin foil helmets in Nascar.
Police raid Corinthians offices in fraud investigation - International Herald Tribune
Seeded on Fri Sep 7, 2007 9:00 AM EDT (International Herald Tribune)
Police raided the offices of Brazil's famed Corinthians club on Tuesday and seized computers and documents in an operation to investigate alleged frauds by former team directors.
Cuba Internal Dissidents Seek Unity
Seeded on Fri Sep 7, 2007 8:53 AM EDT (AL JAZEERA)
A number of Cuban dissidents have held a rare news conference in Havana in an effort to unite around a platform for a gradual and peaceful transition from communism to democracy in the event of Fidel Castro's death.
BOOK REVIEW= Are The Rich Necessary?
Seeded on Thu Sep 6, 2007 5:01 PM EDT (mises.org)
Hunter Lewis's excellent book differs from nearly all other books on economics. Most books defend a particular point of view: a work by Duncan Foley, e.g., will be much more favorable to Marxism than one by Ludwig von Mises.
Does the Minimum Wage Boost Innovation? - Mises Institute
Seeded on Thu Sep 6, 2007 4:57 PM EDT (mises.org)
Academia has launched yet another argument for government intervention in the labor markets. The main argument for government legislation has traditionally been the protection of the people at the bottom of the pay scale.
Kathleen Willey: Clintons stole my manuscript
Seeded on Thu Sep 6, 2007 3:34 PM EDT (WorldNetDaily)
Kathleen Willey, the woman who says Bill Clinton groped her in the Oval Office, claims she was the target of an unusual house burglary over the weekend that nabbed a manuscript for her upcoming book, which promises explosive revelations that could damage Sen.
Taxi Union Claims Victory; Others Call Strike a 'Bust'
Seeded on Thu Sep 6, 2007 10:29 AM EDT (The New York Sun)
With many cabbies expected to return to work today, the city's taxi strike will likely limp to its deadline.
The Real Estate Market In Cuba
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 6:45 PM EDT (stuckonthepalmetto.blogspot.com)
Houses are not owned in Cuba, but they are held in something called "usufructo," a term I've never been able to find a translation for or an equivalent concept. Basically you buy the house from the state, except that you don't really buy it because you don't get title.
Denver - News - Fortress of Solitude
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 1:53 PM EDT (westword.com)
A hundred miles southwest of Denver, the U.S.
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