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...This time around, though, the Obama campaign has been oddly absent in Virginia. If you'd searched for an event in northern Virginia on mybarackobama.com last week, you'd have gotten 72 matches: five events for the Democratic gubernatorial nominee Deeds, five for candidates out of state and about 60 one-year-anniversary parties for the election of Barack Obama. Charlie McKeon, a senior systems analyst at AOL, spent much of Sunday door-knocking for Deeds just a few miles from the McDonnell rally. Whereas last year the campaign offices overflowed with volunteers, resources and money, this cycle...
...unlikely to prove much of a deterrent. With busts so few and far between, the overwhelming majority of spam messages (some estimate as high as 99.8%) don't comply with CAN-SPAM. And trade groups like the Direct Marketers Association are already trying to weaken CAN-SPAM's regulations. Absent new legislation or divine intervention, expect spam to remain the Internet's greatest annoyance...
...absent when the offices of the provincial council were bombed by five suicide bombers on April 1, in an attack that killed 13. The offices were previously bombed in Nov. 2008, in an attack that killed...
...court, Karadzic complained that he was being "buried under tons of pages of legal documents" and compared himself with victims of staged trials in Nazi Germany. The trial opened as scheduled on Oct. 26 but was adjourned 20 minutes later when Karadzic refused to appear. With the defendant again absent the next day, the proceedings started without him. In his opening statement, Tieger said Karadzic had "harnessed the forces of nationalism, hatred and fear to pursue his vision of an ethnically segregated Bosnia." He also quoted the former Bosnian Serb leader as saying before the war that he would turn...
...rebellious, insecure Steve (Josh Hutcherson). Each teen deals with his own emotional baggage: Darren fends off the suffocation of his upper-middle class suburban milieu and his father’s chant of “College! Job! Family!” while Steve copes with an absent father and an alcoholic mother...