Word: america
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...North, a commentary show with topics ranging from Canada's geography to tutorials on how to trick beer companies into giving you a free case by stuffing a mouse in a bottle. The McKenzie brothers went on to star in commercials for Pizza Hut and, not surprisingly, Molson, North America's oldest brewery. (See SCTV in the 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME...
...trade legislation. What’s more, the populations of the states represented by the 45 senators who have already committed to supporting climate-change legislation almost certainly represent more than half the nation’s population, given that opponents of the legislation come disproportionately from small states. America, then, is not dooming Tuvalu. Its upper house of Congress...
...before the House system, before “cage-free eggs,” before the very forging of the United States of America, Harvard students rose up to stand against injustice in the dining hall. That year, the dining steward had purchased a full stock of rotten butter and let it further decay before attempting to serve it in the dining commons. In response, a group of students banded together as the “Sons of Harvard,” in the spirit of the recently formed Sons of Liberty, and planned to stand against the administration that...
...Parker's being gay, Murray explains that Houston's voters "are not that caught up in 'lifestyle' politics ... Across the whole country, attitudes have been evolving about issues like civil unions, and Texas is still part of the United States of America." It should also be noted, says Murray, that while Governor Perry's anti-Washington jibes may resonate in Houston's conservative suburbs, they have less impact inside Houston's city limits, where 62% of voters cast ballots for Barack Obama...
...FARC) camp in Angostura, just inside Ecuador, as well as allegations that Ecuador was supporting the rebels. Colombia assaulted the camp on March 1, 2008, killing nearly two dozen people, including one of the guerrillas' top commanders, who is known as Raul Reyes. The attack was criticized throughout Latin America for violating Ecuadorian territory. But the government of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe argued that laptops found by Colombian troops during the mission contained e-mails showing that the FARC had close ties to several Ecuadorian and Venezuelan officials. (Chávez has since denied that his government ever provided financial...