STEPPING BACKWARDS
“Wonderful improvement,” said Mr. Jack
Mills. “Show ’em to me again.”
Mr. Simpson took his pipe from his mouth and, parting
his lips, revealed h...
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W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. H...
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Gov. Brad Henry vetoed nearly all of a $6.9 billion appropriations bill Wednesday, claiming he had been shut out of a budget process that failed to address several key issues.The bill passed unanim...
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took steps Friday to make an inexpensive generic version of an AIDS drug made by Merck & Co. available in Brazil despite the U.S. drug company's patent.Silva...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY NEEDS TIME (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
IF NIGERIA IS A yardstick for sub-Saharan Africa, then Africa is
moving si...
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is offering $95 million to settle more than 140 claims of sexual abuse by priests, according to financial documents.The diocese would offer 143 individuals a...
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The State Department criticized Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday for retreating on his promise to support deployment of U.N.-African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, calling the Sudanese p...
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Indian rights groups are criticizing Pope Benedict XVI for insisting that Latin American Indians wanted to become Christian before European conquerors arrived centuries ago.The pope said Sunday tha...
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Fiji's military ruler said Thursday he was expelling New Zealand's top diplomat, sending already strained relations between the South Pacific nation and one of its biggest neighbors spiraling even ...
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Fiji's military ruler Commodore Frank Bainimarama said Friday
that his government still values its ties with New Zealand despite
having ordered the expulsion of that country's ambassador the ...
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