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Men blamed for Vancouver violence in 2008 expected to be released from jail
Three men who police blamed for shootings on Vancouver's south slope are expected to be released from jail within days despite a series of gun convictions last week.
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By Philip Jankowski Killeen Daily Herald
Killeen police officials attribute a sharp decline in the number of burglaries so far this year to increased personnel. A quarterly crime report shows burglaries in the city are down a little more than 30 percent for January through March, compared to the same period in 2011.
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Hollywood stars in need of a hit [Photos]
Many of the people on this list have had great careers. Some have even won Oscars. But what they all have in common right now is their desperate need for a hit film.
www.calgarysun.com
Live: NSW Waratahs v Bulls
Join editor of RugbyHeaven for tonight's crunch game between the Tahs and Bulls. Kick-off 7.40pm.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au
Do-or-die clash for Tahs
The Waratahs must defeat three-time champions the Bulls to stay in the finals race.
www.smh.com.au
Links 5/9/12
Verizon spent three hours fixing my service in my building, which meant I had not Internet during that time. But things do seem to be back to normal.
www.nakedcapitalism.com
Why skills are in, attributes are out in modern role-playing games
Filed under: Features , PC , Sony PlayStation 3 , Microsoft Xbox 360 , RPGs This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. It took four or five levels gained for me to realize something was different. I was playing the Diablo 3 open beta last weekend, merrily ...
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Arkansas woman who threw away lottery ticket entitled to $1 million
A judge decided that Sharon Duncan was entitled to the prize money, not Sharon Jones, who claimed the prize money after she took the ticket from a trash can of discarded lottery tickets at a convenience store in Beebe.
www.syracuse.com
The Jose Rodriguez lesson
(updated below) Jose Rodriguez, the high-ranking CIA official who ordered the destruction of 92 videos showing the agency's interrogation of Terrorist suspects, was interviewed on Sunday night about his new pro-torture book by 60 Minutes (that show's network, CBS, and the publisher of Rodriguez's new book, Simon & Schuster, are both owned by the CBS Corp., now synergistically profiting off of ...
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Andrew Sullivan’s father figure
(updated below - Update II) Andrew Sullivan -- who has become the most reliable media hagiographer of an American President since . . . . the 2002 version of Andrew Sullivan under President Bush -- spent the past three years continuously insisting that President Obama's opposition to same-sex marriages was largely irrelevant ("We will win not by begging presidents to back us (they have no role ...
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