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Did Stephen King foresee the Republican VP candidate? asks Tim Martin
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In one sense, next Saturday's G20 meeting in Washington comes too early. George Bush is still in the White House, even though he no longer sets America's economic agenda. Barack Obama, the man who will set the agenda, won't really be able to do much of substance until 20 January and, according to reports, has no intention of being anywhere other than Chicago next weekend. Nevertheless, the world's financial system is in crisis. Even if the US administration is impotent, it is better to establish some form of international dialogue. Or we could find ourselves hurtling towards protectionism.
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Stick your head out of the window, inhale deeply, and enjoy the sweet, yet sickly, scent of nostalgia. It's everywhere. On a Saturday night, you can settle down in front of the television to watch the X Factor or Strictly Come Dancing, throwbacks to the days of Opportunity Knocks, New Faces and the BBC's Seaside Special. You can bask in the reflected glory of our summer Olympians who won the most British medals since the 1908 Olympics when the tug o' war was, apparently, taken rather seriously. Or you can look at sterling's sudden collapse and think of the seemingly countless occasions when Britain's economic prospects were undone as a result of a currency crisis.
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For the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the world's other leading central banks, it is time for unconventional acts of bravery. These acts are needed because the financial crisis is mutating. No longer is this a story simply about the unwillingness or inability of banks to lend. It is fast becoming a crisis of liquidation. You can see it on the high street with sudden, and aggressive, pre-Christmas sales. You can see it in the stock market, where we're seeing renewed panic. You can see it in the property market, where prices are tumbling faster than ever before.
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Is the Newbery Medal doing what it should? The Washington Post reports on a debate sparked by the School Library Journal. Newbery Medal winners are widely acquired by libraries and bookstores, but are the books really appealing to kids? John...
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GEORGE BURLEY last night tipped Darren Fletcher to snatch King Kenny Dalglish's crown as Scotland's most-capped star.
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Kaduna-based golfer, Bawa Umar, last Sunday turned back the challenges of over 300 golfers to notch home the Pinnacle Amateur Golf Championship.
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The Flakeboard Company Ltd. plant in St. Stephen gave notice Wednesday that it would lay off 42 workers indefinitely.
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When the Riverside schools clash this week, it figures to be emotional for a coach who led North to two section titles but was fired. City bragging rights could be upstaged by a more personal issue Friday when Riverside King plays host to Riverside North in a Big VIII League game.
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In an Oct. 6 story about an exhibit of artifacts related to King Tut, The Associated Press erroneously reported that four of the items _ a necklace, a bracelet and two nested miniature coffins _ were part of a previous tour. All four are new to the current tour.
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A 10ft high bronze statue of Professor Stephen Hawking in his wheelchair is to be made.
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Professor Stephen Hawking -- one of the world's great scientists -- is looking to the stars to save the human race but pessimism is overriding his natural optimism.
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Alan King is enjoying every second of what could be a defining year for the trainer.
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Big name blogger, Robert Scoble, has finally recognized that enterprise software is sexy.
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10/10/08 - Recover lost and deleted files quickly.
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Barclays Capital has fired Mark Walsh, the man in charge of Lehman Brothers' commercial real estate investments, along with nearly all the rest of Lehman's commercial-mortgage-backed securities team, according to the trade mag Commercial Mortgage Alert. Mr. Walsh has often been described as the "man behind the curtain" who made Lehman Brothers loads of money during the heyday of the CMBS market, but also as a man who took far too many risks and ultimately played a significant role in Lehman's demise. Indeed, Mr. Walsh financed Tishman-Speyer's ill-conceived $22.2 billion acquisition of Archstone-Smith, a luxury apartment building portfolio that has since been devalued; and financed SunCal's $110.2 million purchase of a 2.25-acre plot of land in Southern California. read more »
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Republican attempts to embrace Harry Truman are wildly misguided, historian Robert Dallek writes.
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Jellyfish plays lead role in the prize for work on fluorescent protein.
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An unusual bacteria could help explain how extraterrestrial life could exist.
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Mr. Chan was an actor who became a familiar face in a variety of Asian roles, notably as Jerry Lewis’s butler in the Martin Scorsese film “The King of Comedy.”
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An author and minister who spent hours interviewing Coretta Scott King for her biography said Friday that she may abandon the project because of the drawn-out, public legal feud among the King siblings.
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San Jose coach has his players buying into a new foundation that opens eyes of everyone, including veterans such as Rob Blake. Todd McLellan discovered a lot about his team during his triumphant NHL coaching debut, a dominant performance by the San Jose Sharks in a 4-1 victory over the Ducks on Thursday.
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King's Lynn win 2-0 at Norfolk rivals Wroxham to go into the hat for the FA Cup fourth qualifying round.
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Dragon Robert Herjavec is on the cover of this month's Post City Magazine. The article covers the history of Herjavec's first company BRAK which he went on to sell for $100 million. Herjavec says of his business success: “You can’t be successful unless you have money,” he says. “Money is the scorecard in business." Read the article here.
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Quebec actor and director Robert Lepage is said to be working on a new touring show for Cirque du Soleil, set to launch in 2010.
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He's been low profile, but King is again putting himself -- and his demons -- on display.. ON PROMINENT display in Rodney King 's suburban Rialto home is a framed photograph -- a reminder of his role in one of the most incendiary chapters in Los Angeles history.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell did with his game officials Friday what a coach would do with a team of slumping but talented young players: He gave them a pep talk.
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The strange story of a royal impostor may not be entirely convincing but it makes a rollicking tale, finds Noel Malcolm
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The surprise move, in defiance of a power-sharing deal, ensures Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party will retain their iron grip on the troubled country. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has defied a fragile power-sharing deal with the opposition, giving all key Cabinet posts, including the crucial security ministries, to his own party.
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Esther Pan and Robert Douglas Sloane were married Saturday at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York. The Rev. Cheryl M. Walker, a Unitarian Universalist minister, officiated.
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INDIANOLA, Miss. -- Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta.
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Amateurs and professionals take part in the 15th annual World Porridge-Making Championships are held in Strathspey.
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Former Arsenal midfielder urges French FA to pay whatever it takes to install Arsene Wenger as new coach.
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Panthers TE Jeff King caught one pass for three yards in Week 6 at Tampa Bay.
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McGraham, 55, had lived 20 years in the mid-Wilshire neighborhood where he was doused and torched. The slaying is under investigation. The homeless man who died after being torched in a mid-Wilshire neighborhood Thursday was identified today by the county coroner's office as John Robert McGraham. He was 55 years old.
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Robert Peston, the BBC’s business editor, is probably the most powerful British journalist I have known in my lifetime. A word from him in recent weeks could bring down a bank – or save it. This is a remarkable state of affairs, and we need to examine whether he uses his power responsibly, and whether he has too much of it.
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The not inconsiderable number of people who've fantasised about one day seeing Alastair Campbell in a prison cell got their wish last night, though the stay was a lot shorter than they might have wanted. Then again, his brief spell inside may have softened the hostility of his enemies a little, because Campbell was revisiting the site of the worst night of his life, the evening when he suffered a nervous breakdown and was temporarily banged up as a danger to himself and, possibly, others. Since Campbell was a senior political journalist at the time, writing a piece that required privileged access to Neil Kinnock, the local constabulary felt it better to be safe than sorry. Campbell, found in a condition of deranged anxiety in a hotel lobby, celebrated his arrival in the police station cell by taking all his clothes off, and, when the sergeant asked him whether he'd like a drink, ordering a bottle of the establishment's finest champagne.
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By Damian Thompson
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Fourtime Grand Prix winner Stephen Hendry is through to the last 16 stage after unheralded David Gilbert takes him the distance in Glasgow.
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