Robert W. Chambers was one of the most prolific and most popular American authors in the first half of the twentieth century. However, Chambers's influence on American letters, unlike that of his best...
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SANTA YSABEL, Calif. (Reuters) - As California
struggles to extinguish some of the state's most devastating
forest fires, it has turned to a record number of prisoners for
some of the most demandi...
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Washington (dpa) - The US Senate Monday was considering an unusual
vote of no-confidence US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a top
confidante of the US president who is in...
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A wildfire pushed by strong winds blowing through a gorge destroyed five homes on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River and a sixth closer to the water, authorities said.Fifty to 60 other homes we...
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Efforts by federal agencies to assist Southern California officials struggling with devastating wildfires.NATIONAL INTERAGENCY FIRE CENTERMore than 2,000 members of the interagency wildland firefig...
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Brussels (dpa) - Less than three months after Microsoft lost a key
anti-trust case in the EU courts, it was back in the firing line
Thursday as a Norwegian company announced...
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Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday waved
off concerns expressed by other European leaders about a surging euro
and strongly endorsed the independence ...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
PENSION SYSTEM SNAFU (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published June 1)
As the end of th...
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Washington (dpa) - The US Senate Monday failed to carry out an
unusual no-confidence vote against US Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales, a top confidante of the US president ...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fast-moving wildfires
roared across California on Monday and engulfed large swaths of
San Diego County, where 250,000 people were told to evacuate as
state officials called...
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The Firing Line
Robert W. Chambers
California turns to prisoners to fight huge fires
