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McCarthy keen to sink Cameroon

South Africa striker Benni McCarthy is hoping to help his country end the year on a high by winning the annual Nelson Mandela Challenge. The 31-year-old, who was a major doubt for the game against Cameroon on Wednesday...

G20 Central Banks Unite to Fight Economic Depression

Can Central Bankers Prevent the Great Depression? Amid the worst financial crisis and market meltdowns since the 1930's, the world's top-20 central bankers and finance ministers are busy at work, inflating the world's money...

The Day Ahead Canada and US: U.S. CPI, U.S. Housing Starts, FOMC Minutes

On Wednesday, all eyes will be on U.S. CPI to see if inflation is starting to fall. Economists expect U.S. headline CPI to fall 0.8% following a flat reading in September. Core monthly CPI is expected to show a 0.1% increase,...

Fox Lines Up X-Men: First Class

If a movie studio can develop mutant powers, then we’ve discovered Twentieth Century Fox’s: the ability to create X-Men spin-offs. Not content with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, out next May, and the in-the-works X-Men Origins:...

Georgian president to address NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Spain

TBILISI, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is to address on Tuesday a session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Spain, Georgia's presidential press service said. The NATO Parliamentary...

Brazilian keepers

In defence of Brazilian goalkeepers This is perhaps not the perfect moment to speak well of Brazilian goalkeepers to an English audience - and it is for exactly that reason that I will attempt to mount a case for their defence....

Nabokov's final literary striptease

In an exclusive television interview, Newsnight speaks to the son of controversial author Vladimir Nabokov about the posthumous publication of the writer's final novel. Stephen Smith goes in search of Nabokov's lost novel After...

'Trailer Park Boys' end booze and pot-fuelled run next month

By: THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - It's time to put down the rum and coke. "Trailer Park Boys" is coming to an end next month. The Canadian mockumentary series - about the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents - will...

Heres something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

On 11/17/08 21:50, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 17 November 2008, "s. keeling" wrote about 'Re: Q: List Policy': Hmm, tell that to the likes of Dan C in alt.os.linux.slackware, who b*tch*s about...

Morris and Herzog make Oscar documentary shortlist

By Gregg Kilday LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Errol Morris, an Academy Award winner in 2004 for his documentary "The Fog of War," is among the 15 filmmakers who have made next year's Oscar shortlist. Morris' "Standard...

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