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Shami Chakrabarti threatens to sue British Cabinet Minister over ......

Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, has taken the extraordinary step of threatening to take legal action against Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, and demanding that he issue a written apology.

Chakrabarti has written a strongly worded letter to Burnham after he accused her of having "late-night, hand-wringing, heart-melting phone calls" with Davis, former shadow Home Secretary...

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ASBOs for teenagers cost £500k per yob...

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Van breakfast attracts tourists...

Yusuf Konak, breakfast saloon manager for 32 years, living in Van, eastern Turkey, has managed to turn his little Milk House into a big breakfast house.

It is not only the menu, offering a wide range of dishes, that attracts customers, but also riddles he asks, satires he tells and gifts he gives that help increase his popularity each day.

Konak said breakfast houses have a great me...

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Letters | Fredericton area is not an easy place to live...

I am writing this letter in hope that someone will bring to light the fact that it is getting harder and harder to live in the Fredericton area.

If this persists, where are people going to go? What will they do?

There are quite a few people/families who are in the low income bracket, even though they work. It is cheaper to buy a home than to rent but a lot cannot afford much.

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County resident organizes exhibit of local talent With photos!...

Published: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:51 AM EDT Michelle Halabura wants people to slow down and take a second look at Schuylkill County.

The 2005 Blue Mountain High School graduate, now studying arts management at Chatham College for Women, Pittsburgh, is serving as curator for an ambitious gallery project that will bring together the most inspirational and creative minds she’s enco...

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Lunch: King Of The IE...

Meet Southern California rapper Lunch. He's not a gangster rapper from L.A., and he's not a backpacker from the suburbs. He's his own man, and he's repping an area that rarely gets shine -- the I.E. For those outside of Cali, the I.E. (aka the Inland Empire) is an area east of Los Angeles that'd you drive through on your way to Las Vegas. It's hot, barren, and desert like, but is also fu...

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Ashland Group Acquires the State Tax Recovery and RAR Business of ......

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HOUSTON, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashland Group L.P.,...

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Motlanthe for cabinet position - Mantashe...

Addressing delegates at the sixth KZN provincial elective conference in Pietermaritzburg, Mantashe said on top of having been recently made a member of parliament, the party still insisted that Motlanthe be deployed in the cabinet.

"Our focus, on the run-up to the election, is a smooth transition from the Mbeki administration to the Zuma administration," he said.

ANC leaders also sp...

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The Sounds of Music in Istanbul...

Search Jun 20 2008 3:52pm Posted by Susanne Fowler in Performances , Night Life , Historic Sites , Music , Istanbul , General >

The Borusan İstanbul Philarmonic Orchestra playing in the Aya Sofia.

So if you've just landed in town and want to catch some tunes but don't know where to go, Istanbul can be a city where you are spoiled for choices, especially this month.

There is...

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Former aide: Bush should tell all on CIA leak...

McClellan told the House Judiciary Committee that he doesn't know if a crime was committed in efforts to cover up the leak.

But he had harsh words for the White House, suggesting that the administration is continuing a cover up of the Plame case.

"This White House promised or assured the American people that at some point when this was behind us they would talk publicly about it," ...

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Buzz Links: What ‘The Love Guru’ Reviews Are Saying...

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Accessible Archives Utilizes Unlimited Priorities to Aid in ......

MALVERN, Pa., June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Accessible Archives, Inc., a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases of 18th and 19th century American newspapers, periodicals and county histories, has announced that the company will be fully COUNTER compliant by 2009. This project will be coordinated by Unlimited Priorities Corporation acting in a consultative role.

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Michelle Obama touts family friendly work policies...

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WASHINGTON (AP) Michelle Obama on Friday drew from herexperience as a working mother to emphasize the importance offairness in the workplace and her support for family friendlypolicies.

''It's time for the leaders...

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Mass. fishing town alarmed by pregnancy pact news...

» read share email text size: A A Mass. fishing town alarmed by pregnancy pact news posted 7:03 pm Fri June 20, 2008 - GLOUCESTER, Mass. tags: mass. • fishing • town • alarmed The girls showed up repeatedly at the high school health clinic, asking for pregnancy tests. But their reactions to the test results were puzzling: high-fives if they were expecting, long faces if the...

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Officials: Dozens of Europeans trained in terror camps...

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June 20, 2008 -- Dozens of white Europeans have trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan...

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artnet Online Auctions - Photographic Portraits Sale...

NEW YORK & BERLIN--(eMediaWorld )--From June 20-30 artnet Online Auctions will feature a special sale of Photographic Portraits celebrating icons of film, entertainment and popular culture from the 1930s-1960s.

Leading the sale is a selection of photographs of film stars including Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Marilyn Monroe. Among the highlights is a luminou...

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