CHICAGO — The alleged victim of a US priest accused of being a serial pedophile sued the pope and the Vatican on Thursday in an attempt to open secret files containing internal investigations into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. “There is a painful and long history of the Vatican and the top...
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Tiger Woods’ road to public relations redemption seems to have hit a snag, and the people who have been working relentlessly to revamp his image following his infidelity scandal are not happy with the golf legend. Sources close to Tiger Woods said that his public relations’ staff are “mad as hell.” He thought it would be...
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ATHENS, April 23 - Greece expects to receive before May 19 the first tranche of funds under a 45 billion euro ($60.49 billion) EU/IMF aid package it has formally requested, Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said on Friday. “We expect to have funds from the mechanism before May 19,” Papaconstantinou told reporters. Greece asked on Friday...
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Ólafur Arnalds’ sophomore album …and they have escaped the weight of darkness to see North American release June 8 Icelandic neo-classical artist Ólafur Arnalds has announced the release of his second full-length album, …and they have escaped the weight of darkness, in North America on June 8th via Erased Tapes (Peter Broderick, Nils Frahm)....
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A deepwater oil platform that burned for more than a day after an explosion has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as hopes faded of finding 11 missing workers. The sinking of the Deepwater Horizon could release more than 1,135,600 litres of crude oil a day into the water. The environmental hazards would be...
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The country’s top financial watchdogs (US Securities and Exchange Commission) turned out to be horndogs who spent hours gawking at porn Web sites as the economy teetered on the brink, according to a memo released Thursday night. The shocking findings include Securities and Exchange Commission senior staffers using government computers to browse for booty...
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In the days leading up to the N.F.L. draft, the top prospects were unsettled by just how uncertain their futures were. With the presumed No. 1 choice — quarterback Sam Bradford — without a completed contract and trade speculation buzzing from Oakland to Pittsburgh, the players made their way through the pre-draft festivities with...
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If Facebook has its way, you’ll never surf the same way again. The company announced big plans this week that enable developers to label their sites and exchange information about Facebook users, potentially setting the stage to better organize the web. The idea for such a reorganization has been around for a long time....
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PARTICIPANT MEDIA IS TAKING ITS SOCIAL ACTION CAMPAIGN FOR OCEANS ON THE ROAD SAVE MY OCEANS TOUR TO VISIT COLLEGES NATIONWIDE WITH LIVE MUSIC, ART AND FILM SCREENINGS TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE CRISIS FACING THE WORLD’S OCEANS Tour Cities Include: Berkeley, CA; Boulder, CO; Salt Lake City, UT; Gainesville, FL; Honolulu, HI.; Los Angeles,...
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Jerusalem must be shared by both Israelis and Palestinians, a leftist activist group said Thursday, in response to Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel’s ad in the Washington Post last week. “For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics,” Wiesel wrote in the ad, titled “For Jerusalem.” To this, the group responded...
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