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When it was announced that the governing Tories had registered a fiscal deficit for the first two months of the year, Liberals were practically dancing in the streets. Manna from heaven, they told me. The Conservatives were supposed to be the party ...

Bumbling Grits give Team Harper an economic free ride - Globe and Mail

South Ossetia may be very small, but it has become the scene of an event of colossal proportions: the return of Great Power politics, in which tanks are the deciding factor, not "soft power," let alone international legitimacy. This huge change ...

The party's over for Europe: The bear is back - Globe and Mail

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Visa Inc. popped out ads almost as quickly as he swam his laps. Pizza Hut is giving Michael Phelps and his teammates free pizza and pasta for a year for him beating Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals in one ...

Can Phelps make it big outside of the pool? - CNN Money

Expectation is building for Rhythm and Vines with all early bird tickets sold out and remaining tickets selling at a record rate. Now festival fans have even more reason to head to Gisborne this December; we have just released another taster of what ...

Rhythm and Vines 2nd Announcement - Amplifier

Michael B. Styer on film production's tough odds: "90 percent of [film projects] stay in development forever and never become a film. But you have to approach each one like it might." ( Sun file photo ) Michael B. Styer wants to make Maryland a star ...

Making movie millions - Baltimore Sun

“All politicians are non-productive. The only commodity any politician has to offer is jawbone. His personal integrity — meaning, if he gives his word, can you rely on it? A successful business politician knows this and guards his reputation for ...

The problem with reform politicians - Northwest Explorer

Whilst persistent rain at The Riverside has meant that today's live action is limited to Sri Lanka, the usual suspects ensure that things are far from dull in the world of cricket... With the Aussies and co still umming and aarring over their ...

From the Editor : - Cricket365.com

BEIJING — Nearly six months after a stress fracture in his left foot set off caterwauling on both sides of the Pacific, Yao Ming's homeland Olympic experience — and maybe his Olympic career — ended in relative silence. When Yao walked off the ...

Yao, China beaten by Lithuania - Houston Chronicle

There’s a reason they call ramshackle Bhiwani town in Haryana India’s “Little Cuba�. As dusk falls, a strange, new fear grips residents of this sleepy North Indian town — the fear of power cuts, which they never really worried about. Over ...

Why Bhiwani is tuning in to Beijing - Hindustan Times

In "If Clark is the VP-choice, Here are Some Contrasts with McCain" (August 16, 2008), there was a list of contrasts to John McCain, each one of which could have been elaborated upon to fill an entire article. Some were military, others character ...