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Rap, rock, classical _ music to Obama's ears...

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Utah congressman ousted in Republican primary...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon has lost his seat in Congress.

Jason Chaffetz defeated the six-term congressman in Utah's Republican primary Tuesday.

Cannon is one of the most conservative members of Congress, but Chaffetz told voters he's even more conservative.

He wants to deport illegal immigrants, abolish the U.S. Education Department and cut a slew o...

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Norwegian Song...

With the upsurge of jazz artists from around the world comes the realization that, with a melting-pot aesthetic defining jazz across the broadest possible spectrum, source material is expanding far beyond the traditional confines of blues, jazz standards and The Great American Songbook. It may be increasingly difficult to define what jazz is, but the litmus test of authenticity can almost alway...

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Why are Muslim countries backward?...

A few weeks ago I went to the Hollywood Hotel in the Illidza district of Sarajevo to see my friends who were on a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. While our conversation was in progress, an old lady called upon me. Turning back, I saw that three ladies were sitting at a nearby table and speaking Turkish. First, I welcomed them to Sarajevo and then offered them tea and Bosnian coffee to form a b...

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UK govt to ban Zimbabwe cricketers...

English cricketers keen to cash-in on Twenty20 bonanza

Trescothick hits scorching ton for Sabres to sink Warriors

England lacked ruthlessness admits captain Collingwood

The government is expected to announce later this morning Zimbabwe's cricketers will not be allowed to tour England next year.

Culture secretary Andy Burnham will deliver a letter to the England and Wale...

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Return of the alpha-male in fashion...

PARIS (AFP) — As the world tut-tutted over the hazards of throwing ultra-skinny female models on catwalks over the last months, few noticed the men too had shrunk.

After decades of using male models with virile good looks and porn star physiques to parade their clothes, fashion houses in the mid-1990s began downsizing men, going for younger, thinner and lankier models in a trend th...

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Black Narcissus...

It's rather old hat to suggest that as human beings we have both our basic needs as physical entities and our awareness of ourselves as feeling and thinking creatures. Body and soul, flesh and spirit, even nature and nurture, this duality is a favourite topic of literature and art through the ages. The fact that mankind has split itself in this way from its very beginnings and has seen its own...

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Ex-Man Utd legend to launch Foyle Cup...

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ECB cuts ties with Zimbabwe after Brown calls for ban...

LONDON (AFP) — The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced Wednesday it was suspending all ties with Zimbabwe and was cancelling Zimbabwe's tour of England next year.

"The Government has written to the ECB today (Wednesday) and has made a clear instruction that Zimbabwe's bilateral tour scheduled under the ICC Future Tours Programme for 2009 should be cancelled," the boar...

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Zimbabwe opposition leader leaves Dutch Embassy...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's opposition leader emerged from his refuge at the Dutch Embassy Wednesday to call for African leaders to guide talks to end Zimbabwe's crisis, saying a presidential runoff this week was no solution.

Morgan Tsvangirai said the goal of the talks would be forming a coalition transitional authority for his country. He said talks could not begin until...

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Ministers back bone marrow campaign...

Health Secretary Alan Johnson and Children's Secretary Ed Balls put their weight behind a campaign to raise awareness of bone marrow donation among young people.

The pair were among a group of MPs, including former home secretary David Blunkett, who signed a petition calling for youngsters to learn more about life-saving transplants.

About 1,300 requests are made in the UK every ye...

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Complementarians need to recover a fully biblical view of women ......

Wounds of a Friend: ComplementarianComplementarians need to recover a fully biblical view of women — and of handling theological disagreement. posted 6/25/2008 09:02AM

Counterpoint: We egalitarians should rely more on careful exegesis and less on political ideologies.

am a complementarian. I believe the Bible teaches that God created men and women to serve different roles in the ...

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English and Wales Cricket Board suspends bilateral ties with ......

LONDON — The England and Wales Cricket Board on Wednesday severed all bilateral ties with Zimbabwe's cricket authorities after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted the team should be banned from entering the country.

The announcements ahead of next summer's Twenty20 World Cup here and tour matches against England echoed Cricket South Africa's imposition of sporting sanct...

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Soprano's wardrobe whacks buyers at NY auction...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tough North Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano from hit TV series "The Sopranos" whacked buyers bank accounts at Christie's on Wednesday when his wardrobe sold for $187,750 (95,411 pounds) -- four times the auction house's forecast.

James Gandolfini, who played Soprano for six seasons over 8 1/2 years, sold his personal costume wardrobe in 25 lots at Christie's pop cultu...

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US may look to lure more au pairs as numbers soar...

NEW YORK (AP) — The welcome sign was ready, so were the balloons. It was as though the DaRossos were greeting a newfound family member, and in a way, they were.

The Ecuadoran woman arriving that spring day was the Yonkers family's seventh au pair — part of a growing corps of au pairs in a country clamoring for child care and often struggling to find it outside traditional w...

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Cardinal urges Vietnamese Catholics in North America to integrate...

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Cardinal urges Vietnamese Catholics in North America to integrate

As a cardinal from Vietnam began his U.S. tour, he advised Vietnamese Catholics living in North America to integra...

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Britain strips Mugabe of knighthood; plans new Zimbabwe sanctions...

LONDON — The Queen stripped Robert Mugabe of his ceremonial knighthood on Wednesday, revoking the honour amid new attempts to rebuke the president of Zimbabwe and express revulsion over human rights abuses in his country.

The highly unusual move was the most eye-catching of several steps, which included decisions to press for new European Union sanctions against Mugabe's governmen...

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Does pregnancy look a little too cool lately?...

News that 17 girls at a Massachusetts high school became pregnant this year is raising questions about whether pregnancy has become something alluring to teens.

Many teen pregnancies still take place against a backdrop of economic distress or a search for love, experts say - that's been the case for years.

But counsellors say they now are also concerned about a combination of facto...

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Sopranos Clothes Auctioned...

James Gandolfini, who played Soprano for six seasons over 8 1/2 years, sold his personal costume wardrobe in 25 lots at Christie's pop culture auction, with all proceeds going to Wounded Warrior.Wednesday, June 25, 2008

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tough North Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano from hit TV series "The Sopranos" whacked buyers' bank accounts at Christie's on Wednesday when his wardro...

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I’m Sticking With Kiefer...

That exchange about sums up both the play and Varteniuk’s humour in general (the latter of which is most often on display with Mostly Water Theatre, whose core and associates Varteniuk has called on here): streaked with pop cultural references, Varteniuk thrives on playing absurd situations like they were the most natural thing in the world, such as having two Hollywood icons earnestly de...

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