Friday, August 05, 2005

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Sudan Rebel Leader Is Mourned as Widow Appeals for Calm
New York Times - 1 hour ago RUMBEK, Sudan, Aug. 4 - The body of John Garang, the rebel-turned-politician, began crisscrossing Sudan on Thursday as his followers held hastily arranged memorial services aimed at unifying the long-divided

Court Nominee Advised Group on Gay Rights
New York Times - 34 minutes ago WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 - Judge John G. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court nominee, gave advice to advocates for gay rights a decade ago, helping them win a landmark 1996 ruling protecting gay men and women from state-sanctioned discrimination.

HSBC buys US credit card issuer Metris for $1.59bn
Independent - 3 hours ago By Julia Kollewe, Banking Correspondent. HSBC further expanded its credit card operations in the US yesterday with the acquisition of Metris for $1.59bn (�900m) in cash. Metris, an issuer of sub-prime credit

Dukes of Hazzard: New-age good ol' boys retain original crassness
Canada.com - 1 hour ago Revisionism is a big word when it comes to The Dukes of Hazzard franchise, but one that polysyllabic director Jay Chandrasekhar had no problem incorporating into the mix in this big screen treatment of the TV serial that squeezed entertainment from tight

US Toll Rises by 4 in Iraq
Washington Post - 26 minutes ago By Jonathan Finer. BAGHDAD, Aug. 4 -- The US military said Thursday that four more GIs were killed Wednesday, a Marine in the central city of Ramadi and three soldiers in a car bombing in southwest Baghdad.

North Korea hangs tough at marathon nuclear talks
Reuters South Africa - 11 hours ago By Teruaki Ueno and Jack Kim. BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea held out against heavy pressure on Thursday as marathon nuclear crisis talks appeared to be running out of steam, with China flagging the possibility

Mazzilli leaves this place without much of a trace
Newsday - 26 minutes ago He was here for 269 games, a little over a season and a half, and his tenure was so light and wispy it barely left an imprint. Mazzilli didn't take your breath away with inspired moments of managerial brilliance.

NASA rules out fourth Discovery spacewalk
CTV - 40 minutes ago Discovery astronauts won't have to perform a spacewalk to repair a torn thermal blanket. NASA has informed the seven astronauts on board the shuttle that it will be safe for re-entry as it is, with the torn blanket below the cockpit window.

Inspiration for Doubters of Darwin
Los Angeles Times - Aug 3, 2005 Bush appears to give moral support to the 'intelligent design' camp by again backing public schools' teaching of an alternative to evolution. By Johanna Neuman, Times Staff Writer. WASHINGTON � Advocates

AWOL Israeli Soldier Kills 4 in Attack on Arabs
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago By Ken Ellingwood, Times Staff Writer. JERUSALEM -- An AWOL Israeli soldier wearing a uniform and a yarmulke opened fire on a bus in an Arab town in northern Israel on Thursday, killing four people and wounding

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