Ten years ago, the Lisbon neighborhood was a hellhole, a “drug supermarket” where some 5000 users lined up every day to buy heroin and sneaked into a hillside honeycomb of derelict housing to shoot up. (Dec. 27)
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Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner says he’s engaged again. Hefner said in a Twitter message early Sunday that he’d given a ring to girlfriend and Playmate Crystal Harris, saying she burst into tears. (Dec. 27)
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Republican Joe Miller said he won’t stand in the way of Sen. Lisa Murkowski being certified the winner of Alaska’s US Senate race, but he vowed to not end his legal fight over the state’s handling of the vote count. (Dec. 27)
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Torrential rains across eastern Australia flooded several towns on Monday while the southern state of Tasmania was hit by an unusual flurry of summer snow. (Dec. 27)
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US businesses are starting to recognize the market potential of American Muslim consumers, a large share of whom are wealthy professionals. (Dec. 27)
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The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan; Charles Darwin sets out on a round-the-world voyage; Radio City Music Hall opens in New York; James Barrie’s play “Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” opens in London. (Dec. 27)
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Teena Marie, who made history as Motown’s first white act but developed a lasting legacy with her silky soul pipes and with hits like “Lovergirl,” “Square Biz,” and “Fire and Desire” with mentor Rick James, has died. She was 54. (Dec. 26)
Continue reading …On Fox, Juan Williams Calls GOP Presidential Field ‘Weak’ and Insists Palin ‘Can’t Stand on the Intellectual Stage with Obama’
December 27, 2010 No Comment
“This is such a weak field,” Fox News analyst Juan Williams, recently ousted from NPR for not fully toting the far-left line, declared during a Fox News Sunday discussion of potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates, prompting an appalled Bill Kristol to mock: “Yeah, President Obama had done so much when he ran for President. I mean, all of these guys are better qualified than Barack Obama.” Williams got in the last words of the December 26 segment, using them to deride Sarah Palin compared to Barack Obama: There is nobody out there except for Sarah Palin who could absolutely dominate the stage and she can't stand on the intellectual stage with Obama. That caused oohs from the panel and led host Chris Wallace to suggest “there’ll be a lump of coal” in Williams’ stocking. (Audio: MP3 clip ) read more
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A thick layer of snow has been falling across much of the coast, stranding thousands of airline, train and bus passengers and making motorists think twice about hitting after-Christmas sales. (Dec. 26)
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A winter storm made travel torturous in the Northeast on Sunday, dumping a thick layer of snow that stranded thousands of airline passengers. But the snow wasn’t enough to keep shoppers in Pennsylvania from hitting after-Christmas sales. (Dec. 26)
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