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US ‘struggling to exit Afghanistan’
March 25, 2009President Barack Obama has indicated that his administration is struggling to cook up a coherent 'exit strategy' in Afghanistan. In a televised interview aired on Sunday, Mr Obama said: 'There's got to be an exit strategy...
Read moreGeithner’s latest bank rescue plan: When Wall Street cheers people should worry
March 25, 2009Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner unveiled March 23 the latest and most expansive bank rescue plan to date since the global financial crisis began to deepen in August 2007. Billed as a 'public-private partnership' to...
Read moreThe painful cost of breed standards: mutilation vs. cosmetics
March 24, 2009Legislatures in Pennsylvania and Illinois are considering bills that would reduce or eliminate what animal welfare advocates call mutilations, and what breeders and American Kennel Club (AKC) call “breed standards.” Because dogs are considered by state...
Read moreVisas requested for families of the Cuban Five
March 24, 2009Original source: On April 10, family members of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States have an appointment in the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, to request their visas. This will be the tenth...
Read moreTucker Carlson’s jerk store
March 24, 2009In the Seinfeld episode 'The Comeback,' George Costanza is embarrassed by his inability to think of a response to a co-worker who made fun of his overconsumption of shrimp cocktail by saying, 'Hey George, the ocean...
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