Archive forMay 10, 2005
May 10, 2005 @ 4:54 am
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As my daughter and I strolled the Champ de Mars, the large park at the foot of Paris' Eiffel Tower, last week, I couldn't help noticing the dogs. We saw all shapes and sizes of Parisian pooches -- although I don't remember seeing a single poodle -- unleashed, walking, sniffing and chasing other dogs.
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May 10, 2005 @ 3:42 am
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EAST LIVERPOOL - If Christopher Columbus had landed a few hundred miles further northwest, on the shores of Texas, the history of America might have been a bit different.
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May 10, 2005 @ 4:19 am
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"I feel like everything kind of happens for a reason," says Phillippe of losing out on the Anakin Skywalker role when "Episode II" was being cast. "Everybody has their own paths. The time will come for me for a movie like that, if it's meant to be."
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May 10, 2005 @ 6:53 am
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights , By David S. Reynolds, Knopf, 578 pp, $35
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May 10, 2005 @ 10:58 am
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Zhang Chunqiao, a member of the infamous Gang of Four blamed for the worst violence of China's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, died last month of cancer, the government said Tuesday.
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May 10, 2005 @ 9:21 am
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Zhang Chunqiao, a member of the Gang of Four blamed for instigating China's violent 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, has died of cancer at age 88, the government announced Tuesday.
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May 10, 2005 @ 11:56 am
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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May 10, 2005 @ 5:26 am
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Please allow me to comment on Khoo Kay Peng's suggestion that the government needs to consult the public on the sensational topic of religion in national schools.
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May 10, 2005 @ 6:27 am
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EAST LIVERPOOL - If Christopher Columbus had landed a few hundred miles further northwest, on the shores of Texas, the history of America might have been a bit different.
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May 10, 2005 @ 5:15 am
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Don't expect soldaderas (women soldiers in the Mexican Revolution) in Luis Valdez's new musical, "Corridos Remix," which opened last weekend at San Diego Repertory Theatre. Look for Mulan.
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