Olympic Games Boycott

                   

Different gloves, different times

app.com
08-Nov-2008 7 related
        

By TIM DAHLBERG • AP COLUMNIST • November 8, 2008 The men who famously raised their black gloves for racial equality might have been offended. Instead, Tommie Smith and John Carlos were pleased. Sure, Marshall may have...

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Sink or swim

bbc.co.uk
07-Nov-2008
        

Swimmers - could be taking the plunge for free from next spring The government's high profile plans to let pensioners and school children swim for free are sinking fast in many parts of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North...

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CHINA: In No Mood For Criticism From New US Gov’t

globalgeopolitics.net
07-Nov-2008 71 related
        

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, November 06, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Nov 6 (IPS) - While China appears to have succumbed to the euphoria unleashed by...

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Tibetan Government congratulates Obama

care2.com
06-Nov-2008 10 related
        

Dharamshala: Kelsang Yangkyi Takla, kalon (minister) for the Department of Information and International Relations of the Tibetan Government-in-exile on Wednesday congratulated the president-elect Barack Obama on winning the...

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Africa: President Barack Obama - the Triumph of Africa

allafrica.com
06-Nov-2008 1 related
        

Posted to the web 6 November 2008 Emma Okocha "Idiots, insane people are by law denied to vote and participate in State elections.'" -Iowa Constitution. There seems to be an inexorable quality to Obama's rise, because he is the...

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swimmingworldmagazine.com: Kim Linehan wins the 500 free at the 1981 Short Course National Championships. swimmingworldmagazine.com

Kim Linehan to Be Inducted Into Texas Women's Athletics Hall of Honor

swimmingworldmagazine.com
06-Nov-2008
        

AUSTIN, Texas, November 6. THE last time former UT swimmer Kim Linehan set foot on the Forty Acres was 25 years ago, but she returns this November to be inducted into The University of Texas Women's A...

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Aida Edemariam on a new scheme aimed at turning city rooftops into green spaces

guardian.co.uk
06-Nov-2008
        

It is quite utopian, in its way: Boris Johnson and Rosie Boycott, in her first major initiative since being appointed chair of London Food, announced this week that they would aim to have 2,012 new green spaces growing food for...

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Black history: from slave plantation to president

scotsman.com
06-Nov-2008 3 related
        

Published Date: 06 November 2008 17th-18th centuries: Hundreds of thousands of Africans brought to the United States and sold into slavery to work on cotton and tobacco plantations, right. 1770: An escaped slave, Crispus...

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