| Sat, 31 Jul 2010 Merkel attends Love Parade memorial
| Duisburg, Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel attended a memorial service Saturday for the 21 people killed in a stampede at the Love Parade techno music festival as pressure grew on the local mayor, her party ally, to resign. | "The love parade turned into a dance... | Pajamas and other harbingers of change
On the subject of change being a law of nature, the Quran has used a beautiful simile: “Kulla Yaumin Huwa Fi Shan” — every moment He shines in new splendour. The naked eye cannot see God, so His splendour can only be perceived and realized in its manifestation of ... | The Academic-Industrial Complex
| WHAT does Shirley Ann Jackson know about shipping parcels? For that matter, what does Steven B. Sample understand about mutual funds? James Estrin/The New York Times | Shirley Ann Jackson, a physicist and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mary Levin/Unive... | Missouri Voters to Have Say on Health Care Law
| ST. CHARLES, Mo. — For all its symbolic import, the first plebiscite on the Obama health care law, to be held Tuesday in Missouri, seems likely to be a low-turnout affair among an electorate dominated by Republican primary voters and conservative activists. Rela... | Rethinking the Afghanistan War's What-Ifs
| WASHINGTON — Long before Afghanistan became the longest shooting war in American history, the question loomed: Could it have turned out differently? Related | Reports From the Ground: View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan (July 26, 2010) ... | The good, the bad and the mayoralty
By 5:30 AM Sunday Aug 1, 2010 Email Print | By Friday this week, just three names - Colin Craig, Shannon Gillies and Wayne Young - were registered as contenders for the Supercity mayoralty race. | Others, including present mayors jostling for power - John Banks (Aucklan... | Paris swooned over 'la dame en jaune' in '89
| (As told to Ross Harper Alonso) | (Editor's Note: In July 1989, the late President Corazn Aquino was France's guest of honor at the bicentennial celebrations of the 1789 French Revolution. During the four-day duration of Aquino's state visit, Jos Carmelo Banaag serv... | Halls decked for return of right-wing dream team
By 5:30 AM Sunday Aug 1, 2010 Email Print | Just as some prisoners become so badly institutionalised that when they're released they end up committing a crime so they can return to the familiarity of incarceration, so too it seems some politicians long to get back to Pa... | Carter's poison arrow part of plan for revenge
By 4:00 AM Sunday Aug 1, 2010 Email Print | You'd be hard pressed to find of a more vindictive and devious act than Chris Carter's treachery this week. | Carter attempts to spin his deviousness as political martyrdom for the good of the Labour Party. It's nothing of the... | Cunliffe gives Kaiser a hug
By Frances Morton 4:00 AM Sunday Aug 1, 2010 Email Print | The latest stage of the political execution of MP Chris Carter was overseen yesterday by his partner, who was hugged by one of the politicians tipped to take over from Labour's present leader. | Labour finance s... | Cartoon: Try the wilderness beyond the wilderness...
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