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Retail sales may be sluggish this holiday season, but aside from theft, there's at last one ultra-cheap way to put more presents under the tree. Organizers behind the massive online freebie network known as Freecycle.org say that they have noticed a surge in new users looking for hand-me-downs and raw materials being given away on the nonprofit site, which has more than 6 million members around the globe. "People used to ask others in the network for luxury items," such as laptops and other high-tech gadgets, says Michelle Martinez, a Freecycle volunteer who oversees...
...killing ended. "With menace in every line of his face, he promised that if he ever saw me again he would kill me," wrote Dallaire, who would later testify for the prosecution in Bagosora's case. The fact that such a man will spend the rest of his life behind bars may just outweigh all the court's failures...
...Harvard women’s basketball team is checking off credentials on its non-conference list as it readies for Ivy play. Its most recent acquisition? A tough, come-from-behind win on the road. The Crimson (7-4) rallied from seven points down in the final two minutes to beat UC Santa Barbara (3-5) in a 61-59 nailbiter Wednesday night at the Thunderdome in Santa Barbara, Calif. After the two teams traded leads for most of the second half, the Gauchos used an 8-2 run with under five minutes to play to put themselves...
...shot and killed, the mayor's father asked him to run for the office. He did in 1987, won and later went on to serve in the Iowa State Senate beginning in 1992. In 1998 he became the first Democratic governor in Iowa in 32 years, winning after being behind by some 20 points in the polls. He served a total of two terms...
With state and U.S. flags behind him, Blagojevich appeared at the podium alone, rarely looking down as he addressed the media and spoke into the cameras, including a dramatic recitation of lines from a Rudyard Kipling poem: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you and make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated, don't give way to hating...