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WHEN Arsen Butayev was seized on a street in broad daylight last month and held captive with four other men, including his younger brother, he must have known a terrible fate awaited them. The witnesses to his abduction knew it too. Nobody...
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Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next...
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Some argue that water boarding is:
1) not torture
2) not a crime
3) effective.
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Now, here is some of that all-America, Apple Pie, Christian “values”:
The Age - Australia
More than half of people who attend services at least once a...
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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2009 file photo, MSNBC talk show host Keith Olbermann attends the “Defying Inequality” Broadway concert, a celebrity benefit for equal rights, in New York.
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