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...night's sleep aboard a plane. If you'll be flying out of Arlanda in the morning, the hostel is just a 10-minute walk from the airport's check-in desks. There's also a café on board, flat-screen TVs, free wi-fi and a viewing platform on the left wing. Jumbo Hostel's 25 rooms are shared, as are the bathrooms in the corridors, but there is one private room with an en suite bathroom available in the cockpit. Beds start at $45 per night. Arlanda Airport, Stockholm...
Three miles away, in Bhutto's country home, her widower and political heir mounted a platform to deal with the implications of the other large movement of people. He warned against war and appealed for peace through dialogue. "War," President Asif Ali Zardari said in a live televised address, would prove disastrous for "the whole region." Dressed in a long black coat and gripping the podium firmly with both hands, an unsmiling Zardari pushed back against what has over recent weeks been seen in Pakistan as pressure from Washington and New Delhi. "I want to tell the oldest democracy...
...hosting a holiday party dubbed "A Celebration of Holiday Traditions." The following year, Amazon.com became a target of Brimelow's wrath for subjecting consumers to the nondenominational greeting "Happy Holidays!" (In 2003, VDare was classified as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center for providing a platform for white nationalist viewpoints.) Outrage over alleged restrictions against Christmas emblems imposed by stores like Wal-Mart and Sears led conservative mouthpieces like Sean Hannity and O'Reilly to take up the cause in earnest. "I think it's all part of the secular progressive agenda...to get Christianity and spirituality...
...crowd that they had lost. “We did not win the election,” Schwartz said. “It didn’t work out for us.” The failed presidential candidate, who called for off-campus social spaces in his campaign platform, encouraged the crowd to take advantage of the capacious Democracy Center space—and the remaining supply of alcohol. “We have the space for a while so let’s rage our faces off,” Schwartz said. After addressing the crowd, Schwartz walked around...
...recently denied because a student had only a general ticket to the inauguration,” whereas “a petition was recently approved because a student and her family had been extensively involved in the Obama campaign, had reserved seats next to the platform on the steps of the Capitol, and had invitations to the inaugural balls.” That students with powerful family ties who contributed financially to the campaign should gain preference over those who exerted great effort and spent time on the campaign is somewhat appalling. It is not the Ad Board?...