Confessions of Mr Crapner: How Gerald Ratner made a 24-carat mess of his life (Daily Mail)
Helicopters to work, a £1billion empire, private lunches with the PM - all wrecked by one stupid joke. Jeweller Gerald Ratner hadn't embezzled, hadn't lied, but he was fired. He recalls the night he sat in his car and began to cry ...more...Readers against Marysville issue (Marysville Journal-Tribune)
Dear Editor: Oh, how soon they forget. Two years ago Marysville Superintendent Larry Zimmerman and Marysville Exempted Village School District were telling voters that passage of a "26-year bond issue will secure $27 million in extra state payments ....more... The Making of Mr. Putin (New York Review of Books)
by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, with Nataliya Gevorkyan, Natalya Timakova, Andrei Kolesnikov, Translated from the Russian by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick....more... [Dr. Date] Dr. Date (The Minnesota Daily)
Dear Dr. Date, I am writing in response to the advice you gave to Don't Call Me Daddy. In it you suggested they play "just the tip," I believe you can put this in the same category with h-js, as unbearable sexual activities that border on cruel and unusual punishment....more... County GOP members pay tribute to Rockefeller (Benton Courier)
The Saline County Republican Party paid tribute to the late Lt. Gov. Winthrop Paul ?Win? Rockefeller at the Rockefeller Legacy Dinner on Saturday at the Balboa Club in Hot Springs Village....more... Mitt and Judd: Perfect Together (Washington Post)
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- The Fix is still in Iowa after today's MTV/MySpace presidential dialogue with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) but, of course, the presidential campaign is in full swing all over the country. The big news -- aside from......more... Halpern stresses persistence in journalism career path (Yale Daily News)
Freelance journalist Jake Halpern?s ?97 life is a story of persistence in the face of rejection. In a Morse College Master?s Tea on Thursday, the 28-year old Halpern admitted that his life has been no different from that of the typical writer ? grueling and unpredictable....more... Medium-term budget (SABC News)
In tabling the 2007 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, we can affirm that economic growth and investment in public services are steadily bringing a better life to millions of South Africans....more... 10-30-07 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
OPRAH BEGS ACADEMY PARENTS FOR FORGIVENESS: Talk show host back in S.A. to apologize for alleged sexual abuse at her school....more... |