Unable to decide how to divvy up $9 billion a year, NFL owners and players put the country’s most popular sport in limbo Friday by breaking off labor negotiations hours before their contract expired. (March 11)
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Unable to decide how to divvy up $9 billion a year, NFL owners and players put the country’s most popular sport in limbo Friday by breaking off labor negotiations hours before their contract expired. (March 11)
Continue reading …Title: Kojo No Tsuki Artist: Rentaro Taki Tonight our thoughts are with the people of Japan and others affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
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MANAMA, Bahrain — As security forces and pro-government vigilantes beat back protesters here on Friday, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived on an unannounced visit to offer American support to the royal family and prod the king and crown prince toward talks with protesters demanding more democracy. His visit took place against a backdrop of large and continuing protests across numerous Arab capitals on Friday, with neither repression nor government concessions succeeding in stemming the growing tide of anger and demands for change. The protests were for the most part peaceful, although there were scattered reports of injuries from tear gas and other attacks by government security…
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On Thursday, Erik Piepenburg of the New York Times promoted Kathy Griffin's new Broadway show by noting her response to Sarah Palin's demand to lay off her kids: “Sarah Palin is a has-been candidate, a has-been governor and a has-been reality TV star, like Kate Gosselin,” Ms. Griffin said Monday over breakfast at the Cafe Edison, the theater district coffee shop. “Actually I’d prefer Kate Gosselin for president. I’ve met her. She’s nice.” As if Griffin valued Nice. Unsurprisingly, Griffin wallows in baiting and battling conservatives and Christians to keep her relevant and at least on her “D-List,” especially now that her Bravo show has ended: “I’m thrilled,” Ms. Griffin said of Ms. Palin’s remarks. “Can we call it a shout out? For her to know my name is as thrilling as when Spielberg also issued a statement against me, and all I could think of was, ‘He knows my name!’
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On Thursday, Erik Piepenburg of the New York Times promoted Kathy Griffin's new Broadway show by noting her response to Sarah Palin's demand to lay off her kids: “Sarah Palin is a has-been candidate, a has-been governor and a has-been reality TV star, like Kate Gosselin,” Ms. Griffin said Monday over breakfast at the Cafe Edison, the theater district coffee shop. “Actually I’d prefer Kate Gosselin for president. I’ve met her. She’s nice.” As if Griffin valued Nice. Unsurprisingly, Griffin wallows in baiting and battling conservatives and Christians to keep her relevant and at least on her “D-List,” especially now that her Bravo show has ended: “I’m thrilled,” Ms. Griffin said of Ms. Palin’s remarks. “Can we call it a shout out? For her to know my name is as thrilling as when Spielberg also issued a statement against me, and all I could think of was, ‘He knows my name!’
Continue reading …Scientists are still trying to get a handle on just how devastating today’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake was in Japan. One official with the US Geological Survey figures it’s the biggest in the region in 1,200 years and ruptured a patch of the earth’s crust 150 miles long and 50…
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Walmart in Tokyo hit by Earthquake {Japan} earth quick japan.FLV Japan Hit by Tsunami 2011. Japan: In Tokyo after the Earthquake · Global Voices No gas and electricity, fill bathtubs with water, metro trains aren’t running. Don’t go to the coast. […] Announcements that trains and metro won’t be running in Tokyo today. People say they’ll be spending the night at the offices.” … In Tokyo , the Search for Solid Ground – NYTimes.com After the earthquake, the streets of Tokyo were crowded, but civil. Japan Earthquake strands tourists at Tokyo Disneyland, damage … Disney fans will note that the third Magic Kingdom style park ever built is in Tokyo . Reports from the Tokyo Disneyland resort indicate that the car park and Disney Sea expansion area has experienced some liquefaction (wikipedia) … Japan Earthquake Shakes Up CNN Tokyo Bureau (VIDEO) CNN’s Tokyo bureau was shaken up by the massive earthquake that struck Japan on Friday. CNN reporter Kyung Lah showed viewers the chaotic scene that the quake caused, even hundreds of miles from the epicenter of the situation. Japan Earthquake 2011: Thousands Roam Tokyo's Streets TOKYO — Japan’s huge earthquake brought super-modern Tokyo to a standstill Friday, paralyzing trains that normally run like clockwork and stranding hordes of commuters carrying mobile phones rendered largely useless by widespread … mattechu says: @tracykriselle epicenter approximate location: 81 miles off the coast of sendai / 231 miles away from tokyo .
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The stereotype of the submissive, repressed victim has been shattered by female protestors in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen Saida Sadouni does not conform to the typical image of an Arab revolutionary. But this 77-year-old camped out in the bitter Tunisian cold for more than two weeks in front of the prime minister’s headquarters, leading the historic Kasbah picket that succeeded in forcing Mohamed Ghannouchi’s interim government out of office . “I have resisted French occupation. I have resisted the dictatorships of Bourguiba and Ben Ali. I will not rest until our revolution meets its goals,” she told the thousands of fellow protesters who joined her. She is today widely hailed as the mother of Tunisia’s revolution, a living record of her country’s modern history and its struggle for emancipation. Sadouni is one of many Arab women from older generations who have joined the revolutions in their countries after decades of political activism. But most women activists today tend to be in their 20s and 30s, highly politicised yet unaffiliated to any organised parties – young women such as Asma Mahfoudh, of Egypt’s April 6 movement. This 26-year-old’s interests had until recently been no different from those of any woman of her age. While surfing the net in 2008 she stumbled on
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MADRID – French police arrested four members of Basque separatist group Eta late on Thursday night, including two military leaders, Spain’s interior ministry said yesterday….
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