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...Roasting" - multiple men having simultaneous sex with the same woman - has crept into the vocabulary and lifestyle of some of England's Premier League footballers. The case of Wayne Carey - the great Australian Rules player who in 2002 was revealed to have been sleeping with the wife of his North Melbourne vice-captain - lingers in the memory. At the height of that scandal Carey's distraught wife, Sally, told the player's manager: "You're to blame for this. You're to blame, the club's to blame, I'm to blame. We let him think he could get away...
...long prison terms for the others. Prosecutors allege that all of the suspects belonged to a Turkish cell of the al-Qaeda terror network. Out with the Old RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin abruptly sacked Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his entire Cabinet, saying he wanted to introduce a new premier ahead of the March 14 presidential election. All of the ministers apart from Kasyanov were asked to stay in their posts on an interim basis. Putin, who has a near-unassailable lead in the polls, has two weeks to name Kasyanov's successor. Pat on the Back LIBYA...
...gets things wrong. Not purposely irreverent or consciously malfunctioning, his work simply sounds half-executed with an air of open experimentation. Under his Prefuse 73 alias, he chops Hip-Hop beats in a manner more akin to Mille Plateaux glitch artists like Farben and Vladislav Delay than to DJ Premier. But in doing so, he cuts off their potential to groove, making his compositions as involuted and intricate as the best of Warp’s back catalogue...
...Dean Kirby gave us an overview of some new curriculum introduced such as courses in Mandarin and Cantonese,” Chen wrote. “We also asked him to talk a bit about [the] recent visit by Premier Wen [Jiabao] of China...
...number of petitioners heading to the capital has increased dramatically over the past few years. Though President Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao have made mingling with common folk a signature of their new administration?from shaking hands with aids patients to chatting with coal miners?the common touch hasn't trickled down to China's provincial leaders, who are widely viewed as aloof and corrupt. Without any recourse on the local level, the mainland's disenfranchised see little choice but to head to the capital. Their increasingly vocal calls for justice show that despite China's economic expansion, many citizens...