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There is a line in “The Grapes of Wrath” as a sharecropper is being ordered off his land. “All I want to know, mister, is who do I shoot? There’s got to be someone who knows what a shotgun’s good for!” In Iceland they are taking to the...
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Google is to launch a new operating system, in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft.
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“I just wanted to say, Ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine, And I just wanted to say I love him so much”.
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President Obama today offered to scrap plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe if Russia helped to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.
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Michael Jackson ‘happened’ to me twice—in life, and near death!
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I am more amazed at my association (?) with Michael Jackson who I didn’t...
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Their bags were packed. Their farewells had been said.
Like the rest of the British 38th Regiment Royal Engineers, Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar had shed their...
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A serial killer who terrorised a rural community in the American south has been killed in a shoot-out with police in North Carolina.
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As the US government announced a bail out package for the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, real fears of a large bank going bust soon crept in.
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