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...more fiery version of what has become one of his trademark moves, Kerry used his Vietnam experience as a platform on which to attack President Bush...
...much fun emigrating from the sunshine of Africa to the icy wastes of the former Soviet Union?s rundown industrial cities brimming with angry, racist skinheads. But there's more than money to compensate: the Russian and Ukrainian teams play in the pan-European tournaments, offering their imports a platform on which to impress the scouts of clubs in Italy, Spain and Britain, who'll offer a better wage and more benign living conditions. Today's estimates are that around 1,000 African players earn their keep in Europe, a low figure compared with the Brazilian pro Diaspora which...
...BANKRUPTCY NOW? Most abuse victims settle quietly rather than litigate; very few cases have gone to verdict. But some of Portland's angry plaintiffs, whose alleged molester, the late Rev. Maurice Grammond, abused more than 50 children, welcomed the platform of a full trial and demanded damages totaling at least $155 million. That raised a startling financial specter, and Vlazny, whose small archdiocese has already paid out $53 million in settlements, felt unable to cover the possible tab. He claimed that insurance companies had "abandoned" him. Such balkiness on payouts has increased, with insurers often citing a 1996 court ruling...
...other soldiers, sailors and marines would stand guard over it. The band played on & on; the drums echoed hollowly in the hot valley. Leaning on [an aide's] arm ... she steadily went aboard. The train moved slowly out of Warm Springs. At Atlanta, steel-helmeted soldiers lined the station platform, crowds filled windows overlooking the smoky terminal ... The train rumbled on, past fields where farmers tied their mules and stood at the fences with their hats off-into Greenville, South Carolina, where thousands packed the station area-into Charlotte, North Carolina ... where she heard Negroes singing spirituals. The train rolled...
...Sibaya or Japhet Zwane, it can't be much fun emigrating to the icy wastes of Russia's rundown industrial cities brimming with angry, racist skinheads. But there's more than money to compensate: the Russian and Ukrainian teams play in the pan-European tournaments, offering their imports a platform on which to impress the scouts of clubs in Italy, Spain and Britain, who'll offer a better wage and more benign living conditions. Today's estimates are that around 1,000 African players earn their keep in Europe, a low figure compared with the Brazilian pro Diaspora which...