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Police put the number attending at 15,000, but organisers said between 80,000 and 100,000 were at the rally.It's that moment at Columbine when the guns are out and the first victims are down and everyone's terrified attention is on those two cold-eyed angry boys who are winning, winning - even if it's only for that moment, they're winning - and what are you going to do about it?
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the secret headquarters of a shadowy military unit known as Task Force 6-26
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For example, showing one's buttocks in public can get you two to six years in jail, though for some reason showing your genitals or breasts is less of an offense, earning you only one to five years in the clink.
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About 10,000 protesters have marched in Mexico City, where 11,000 delegates and representatives met at the 4th World Water Forum to discuss ways to improve supplies for the poor.
Opponents say that the seven-day forum, which began on Thursday, is a cover for privatisation.
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Fisk: In the paper, I mentioned how an Israeli major called Haim extorted money from the inhabitants of the south Lebanese village of Haris and gave the code name of an Israeli agent - "Abu Shawki" - who was present at the murder of two Irish soldiers. I had published these details many times, both in my own newspaper and in my previous book on the Lebanon war, Pity the Nation. Major Haddad died of cancer more than 10 years ago.
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Mr Carter also questioned Israel's commitment to the US-led "road map" peace process. "Israel has officially rejected its basic premises with patently unacceptable caveats and prerequisites," he said.
He said Israel was insincere at peace negotiations during the 1990s when it offered to withdraw only a small proportion of the 225,000 settlers living in the West Bank. "Their best official offer to the Palestinians was to withdraw 20% of them, leaving 180,000 [Israelis] in 209 settlements, covering about 5% of the occupied land," he said.
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The government wasted millions of dollars in its award of post-Katrina Hurricane contracts for disaster relief, including at least $3 million for 4,000 beds that were never used, congressional auditors said Thursday.
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The [Philippine]Army chief, Lt. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, said Saturday that they have gathered enough evidence to recommend the filing of charges against Lim and a number of other officers and men they have investigated about the thwarted coup
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Iran's most prominent political dissident, Akbar Ganji, has been released from prison after six years behind bars for criticising some of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic.
Ganji, a journalist, was jailed in 2000 after writing articles linking senior officials to the serial killings of political dissidents in 1998.
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Paul Street: Herbert is right to say that "an ocean of blood has been shed" in the criminal occupation of Iraq whether the total Iraqi body count is as low as president Bush says (30,000) or (as numerous responsible investigators say) well into six figures.
Herbert is right to say that "there's no end to this tragic {blood} flow in sight." He's right to observe that many of the war's supporters hold a fundamentally "depraved" thought: "that the best way to fight {the current Iraq war} is with other people's children." He's right to remind us of "the formerly healthy men and women who have come back to the United States from Iraq paralyzed or without their arms or legs or eyes or the full use of their minds."
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Riverbend: It has been three years since the beginning of the war that marked the end of Iraq's independence. Three years of occupation and bloodshed.
Spring should be about renewal and rebirth. For Iraqis, spring has been about reliving painful memories and preparing for future disasters. In many ways, this year is like 2003 prior to the war when we were stocking up on fuel, water, food and first aid supplies and medications. We're doing it again this year but now we don't discuss what we're stocking up for.
Bombs and B-52's are so much easier to face than other possibilities.
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Four Black Hawk helicopters landed in a wheat field and dropped off a television crew, three photographers, three print reporters and three Iraqi government officials right into the middle of Operation Swarmer. Iraqi soldiers in newly painted humvees, green and red Iraqi flags stenciled on the tailgates, had just finished searching the farm populated by a half-dozen skinny cows and a woman kneading freshly risen dough and slapping it to the walls of a mud oven.
The press, flown in from Baghdad to this agricultural gridiron northeast of Samarra, huddled around the Iraqi officials and U.S. Army commanders who explained that the "largest air assault since 2003" in Iraq using over 50 helicopters to put 1500 Iraqi and U.S. troops on the ground had netted 48 suspected insurgents, 17 of which had already been cleared and released.
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A U.S. raid near Balad on Wednesday resulted in the deaths of between nine and 13 civilians. An Associated Press photographer recorded pictures of the bodies of two men, five children, and four covered corpses reported to be women. The victims had bits of rubble tangled in their hair and were covered in dust. Police Capt. Hakim Azzawi said in an interview with the Washington Post that 13 in total were dead, two men, five children, and six women. The U.S. military confirmed the attack but said only four people died — two women, a man and a child.
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In a radio address on the eve of the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Bush also urged Americans growing increasingly impatient with the war to resist a temptation to retreat, even as he acknowledged the prospect of more bloodshed.
"I urge them to continue their work to put aside their differences, to reach out across political, religious and sectarian lines," he said of Iraqi politicians, still deadlocked over who will lead a new government three months after polls.
Washington sees a government of national unity embracing Sunnis, Kurds and Shi'ites as the best hope of stabilising Iraq and allowing it to begin pulling out its 133,000 troops.
But a Sunni Arab insurgency and a surge in sectarian killings has complicated efforts to form a government. Police said 16 bodies had been found dumped around the capital since Saturday morning, all apparent victims of sectarian bloodshed.
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Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams missed a St Patrick's Day event in the US after being delayed at a Washington airport for "secondary screening".
He had been invited by Congressman Brian Higgins to speak in Buffalo.
That moment stretched out and become a way of governance, of being, of living, of perpetuating absolutely lost and pointless lives. And what are you going to do about it?
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The United States ended routine childhood vaccination against smallpox in 1971. After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, however, the Bush administration ordered some military personnel vaccinated and recommended shots for front-line health care workers.
The government has stockpiled enough smallpox vaccine for everyone in the U.S., Perino said. The government also has helped develop a new vaccine, which is in clinical trials, that does not appear to have the same potential negative side effects as the earlier one, she said.
In 2004, President Bush signed an order directing government agencies to help protect the country from an attack with biological agents. A revised version had 59 instructions for agencies to improve the nation's defenses, including improving the Biowatch system of sensors that continuously monitor and analyze the air in 31 cities.--
Drugmaker Acambis tumbled today after it sank deep into the red from a profitable position last year, while it expects news of a potential order for its smallpox vaccine during the second quarter.
The group reported a pre-tax loss for the year ended 31 December of 27.7m[pounds] versus a profit of 27m in 2004, with fourth quarter losses at 5.1m from a 4.4m profit a year ago.
Last year the company's coffers benefited from a big order from the US government for its smallpox vaccine MVA3000.
They also note that Martin's death shouldn't have happened in the aftermath of the death of 17-year-old Omar Paisley. Omar died of a ruptured appendix in June 2003 after pleading with guards and nurses at the state's Miami-Dade Juvenile Detention Center for three days for medical care.
Two nurses have been charged with manslaughter and third-degree murder in that case. And more than two dozen DJJ officials were fired or resigned, including the agency's highest-ranking officials.
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Its name is Longmeng which means Dragon Dream in Mandarin. It is a low-cost laptop, developed by the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. There are conflicting reports about the pricing; Bloomberg reported the laptop would be priced at 1,500 yuan (about USD 187 or EUR 153), while People's Daily and Shanghai Daily reported a lower pricing of 1,000 yuan (about USD 125 or EUR 102). The lower pricing would make the laptop competitive with the One Laptop Per Child project initiated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Putin spoke of the development of the Shtokman field, which contains 3 trillion cubic meters of gas, oil and gas pipelines such as the ones under the Baltic Sea, and a pipeline from eastern Siberia to the Pacific. The country has more than doubled oil exports from 3 million barrels a day to 7 million barrels a day.
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The stock markets of the Middle East have been in severe decline over recent weeks, with Saudi Arabia leading the field with a drop of almost 30 percent. The other oil states have also seen their share indexes dip considerably. Dutch investment strategist Jaap van Duijn says this is sign of yet more to come, and not only in the Middle East.
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The Denny's Corporation, which operates or licenses over 1,600 diner-style restaurants nationwide, issued a statement Friday calling the shootings "three separate and random acts of violence."
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The latest reports bring to seven the number of reported deaths following drug-induced abortion. That's out of more than half a million performed since the pill was approved in September 2000.
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Two industry sources familiar with the situation told Reuters Comedy Central pulled the "Trapped in the Closet" episode from its "South Park" rerun rotation after Cruise threatened to cease promotion of his upcoming Paramount film, "Mission: Impossible III."
Cruise spokesman Paul Bloch said neither the actor nor his representatives "had anything to do" with the scheduling of "South Park" reruns and that Cruise had never said to anyone he would refuse to promote his film. Paramount spokeswoman Janet Hill denied any knowledge of such a threat.
"South Park," heading into its 10th season next week as one of Comedy Central's biggest hits, centres on the antics of four foul-mouthed fourth-graders in a small Colorado town.
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Leonov was one of the 20 air force pilots selected as the first cosmonaut group in 1960. His spacewalk was originally to have taken place on the Vostok 11 mission, but this was cancelled, and the historic moment happened on the Voskhod 2 flight instead. He was outside the spacecraft around 5 meters away for nearly 12 minutes on March 18, 1965. After the 12 minute spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum to the point where he could not reenter the airlock. He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off, and was barely able to get back inside the capsule.
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Becoming the leader of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi led a nationwide campaign for the alleviation of the poor, liberation of Indian women, for brotherhood amongst communities of differing religions and ethnicity, and for an end to untouchability and caste discrimination, but above all for Swaraj — the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in the disobedience of the salt tax through the 400 kilometre (248 miles) Dandi Salt March in 1931, and in an open call for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years on numerous occasions in South Africa and India.
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She received her first kiss ever as a teenager from soul singer Jackie Wilson, who hauled her onstage during a concert and she taught the members of the Clash to play guitar and later married Sex Pistol Sid Vicious after compensating him with "2 quid", so that she wouldn't have to return to her native Akron from England in the mid 1970s.
