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For the first time in its 162 years, the Smithsonian Board of Regents is going public.
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The case: routine. One man's summary of the facts: anything but.
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The case: routine. One man's summary of the facts: anything but.
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Local Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate, Richard Burt will chair a public meeting at Dyson Perrins Sports College on Thursday, 23 October to debate future plans for housing in Malvern.
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US President George W. Bush will host a global summit "in the near future" to look at strategies to combat the global financial crisis.
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Banks and other international investors exposed to the collapse of three Icelandic banks are set to attend a first creditors' meeting that will be held in Iceland
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Native leaders and health experts from 60 countries will meet Thursday in Toronto to craft a global plan to cut alarming tuberculosis rates among the poor.
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The Smithsonian Institution held the first public board meeting in its 162-year history on Monday. The first question: “Why did you not all resign?”
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At its first-ever public meeting, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution sat around a red-covered table and announced they wanted "a lively dialogue."
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Britain will host a meeting of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging economies on the financial crisis on April 2.
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Leaders of 20 of the world's industrialized and emerging economies will meet in London in April to check their progress on tackling the global financial crisis.
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A proposed condominium for the Charlottetown waterfront was mostly opposed by 100 people at a public meeting Wednesday night.
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The public meeting scheduled for Monday, December 8, 2008, at Basinview Drive Community Elementary School, to discuss and gather public comment on possible amendments to the Municipal Planning Strategies and Land Use By-laws for Bedford / Beaver Bank, Hammonds Plains and Upper Sackville / Halifax and the Regional Subdivision By-law has been cancelled due to the inclement weather and school closures. The meeting will be rescheduled at a later date.
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About 175 people turned up for a meeting Tuesday night to discuss the loss of 24-hour emergency service at Community Hospital in O'Leary, P.E.I.
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. put aside his aspirations for a significant pay raise for federal judges in the annual report he issued yesterday, instead imploring Congress to at least provide the cost-of-living increases that lawmakers and every other federal worker received.
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POLICE have warned people countrywide to desist from the habit of meting out instant justice, following nine murder cases, which were reported in Mashonaland East Province over the past week.
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The deadline for Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson to fulfill one of his key campaign promises has passed, but the recently elected mayor says he will still keep his word to reveal the details of a controversial Olympic loan.
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The Vancouver Whitecaps are playing in the USL First Division Championship for the second time in three years, but unlike their 2006 victory in Rochester, the Whitecaps will enjoy home field advantage on Sunday.
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- General Electric Co. spared investors any nasty surprises as it reported a 22 percent drop in third-quarter earnings on Friday, meeting its own lowered forecast and blaming the decline on its struggling finance arm. The company's loan and lease business has been hammered by the worst financial crisis since the 1929 stock market crash.
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Leaders of many of New York City’s largest companies gathered at the New York Stock Exchange to discuss how they and government officials should respond to the financial crisis.
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The attack came after elders in a Pakistani tribal area had vowed to push Taliban extremists out of their region, and were planning the details of how to wipe out a Taliban headquarters.
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A meeting of the European Business Association devoted to preparation to Euro-2012 took place in Donetsk (East Ukraine)
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We are glad to be able to give Kristian a show that he can call his own," says Ronnie Lans, project leader of Melodifestivalen to Aftonbladet. "He has done a remarkable job with Eurovision and Melodifestivalen, and we are now
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Adding to the woeful performance of the market for IPOs this year, five more companies pulled plans to brave the U.S. exchanges this week and not a single IPO priced anywhere in the world. In a economic crisis like this, some lines of business might be expected to thrive: bankruptcy law firms, repossession agencies, psychotherapists, and [...]
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Since it was founded in 1768 under the leadership of Joshua Reynolds, the Royal Academy of Arts has been a hallowed home for works by some of the artistic canon's most renowned figures.
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These days it seems as if every B-list actor in the United States suddenly wants to be a game show host. But the qualities now sought by TV executives have whittled down the waiting list. A good host can make or break an otherwise sure bet.
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People in part of Lincolnshire get a chance to see local artists at work during special events being held.
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RCMP in Fort McMurray, Alta., are warning the public about a high-risk adult sex offender.
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President meets today with G7 finance ministers to coordinate economic plans.
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The president pledges a global response for "global crisis."
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Briefs in three cases awaiting the attention of the United States Supreme Court suggest the justice system in West Virginia is broken and the court should take steps to fix it.
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The attack came after elders in a Pakistani tribal area had vowed to push Taliban extremists out of their region, and were planning the details of how to wipe out a Taliban headquarters.
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A US impersonator's parodies of Alaska governor Sarah Palin are becoming a hot election issue, the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan reports.
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The club meeting will take place in the GLORIA- theatre. Tickets are already on sale, for members of Eurovision Club Germany or OGAE Germany admission is 34 euro, 39 euro for non-members. There will be two Eurovision- stars entertaining the
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting of anti-Taliban tribal leaders in a Pakistani region on the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The explosion happened a day after a force
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BANKERS are unsurprisingly the current joint leaders at the top of the unpopularity charts. A nationwide Quantum Research/Sunday Independent poll carried out on Friday showed that 32 per cent of those polled thought bankers were the profession which would be lowest in their estimation.
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Oct 12, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva denied reports that he is getting ready to contest a future presidential election as a common candidate.
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