This is Francisco X. Stork’s second novel, and like his debut effort The Way Of The Jaguar it is aimed at the young adult market. He writes in a clear and straightforward style that is ideal for this genre. This is a style that many other authors should consider using. Why use complex words and [...]

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By Honey Gillard   Britney showed us that she’s a country girl in a country world, late yesterday [Thursday] as she threw on a fresh spring dress and a beige cowboy hat and went on a shopping spree with a gal pal at Sydney Michelle Boutique, located in Los Angeles.   Britney browsed the boutique [...]

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 By Honey Gillard   Australian-raised Hugh Jackman returns to his roots, whilst filming his newest film ‘Australia’.   The actor, known and praised highly for his role as shard-bladed Wolverine from X-men, has saddled up again and toned up on his horseback riding skills last Thursday at Centennial Park in Sydney, Australia.   Australia is [...]

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By Honey Gillard   KERI Russell is to appear in a two-episode stint of t.v sitcom, Scrubs.   The former ‘Felicity’ star will play a wild soroity sister named Melody, who is also Elliot’s college roommate. The character will also catch the attention of J.D (Zach Braff), who hopes to get lucky with her.   [...]

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By Honey Gillard   SOCIALITE’S Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie choose to hold hands as they film the opening credits for their 5th season of their reality television show ‘The Simple Life’.   The affable scene was filmed at Kitson clothing boutique on Robertson Blvd. in Beverly Hills, California. The scene featured their “Camp Shawnee” [...]

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Since I live in Asia, I usually scan the Asian news. Lately there have been articles about the US freezing a Macao bank account, What’s the big deal? The bank is known for it’s connection with the casinos there, and is suspected as the middle man in laundering North Korea’s counterfeit dollars. And of course, [...]

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There was some crap science reported in 2002 that encouraged older women to give up their Hormone Replacement Therapy. The science was crap because the differences between groups that it relied on were not apparently statistically significant. See my post of October 27 2003. There is also a dismissive academic re-analysis of the 2002 “findings” [...]

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Baba         Yorro       Da Jawo   AB Sowe  Jammeh accused By Serg.PMJ A senior official of Gambia’s National Intelligence  Agency, the (NIA)  has been speaking out about what he calls the government’s sinister and vicious plans against the Independent Newspaper and its staffers over the years.The Intelligent agent writing under the name “Serg.PMJ” who claimed to be [...]

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British National Michael Scales Takes issue With Yankuba Darboe! By Michael Scales, UK I have considered the comments of aspiring Lawyer Yanks Darboe,in his posting of 8th April 2007.My response only interupted by our Mutual Respect, to the anniversary of April 10th. To brand me a criminal for defending a newly reelected Leader of a Sovereign Democratic [...]

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The LATimes reports that T.Rex might be related to FoghornLeghorn: It began two years ago when paleontologist Mary H. Schweitzer and colleagues at North Carolina State University announced they had found bits of soft tissue inside a fossilized T. rex bone excavated from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. At the time, no detailed tests [...]

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In the United States, Super Bowl Sunday is a de facto national holiday. NFL fans tune in for the game, and non fans enjoy the halftime entertainment and commercials. Friends and family are gathered, food is eaten, and unless you are in one of the two cities whose team is playing in the game, it is more of an excuse to party than watch football

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Breaking News:Has Waa Juwara Defected to the APRC! Waa’s resignation from NADD raises doubts! By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie The resignation of Gambia’s leading political figure Lamin Waa Juwara from the opposition NADD is provoking a heated controversy in the tiny West African country. Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie says some section [...]

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Breaking News:Magistrate Jawo says his court have all powers to try journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh! Trial proper kicks-off today! By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie The high profile sedition charges brought against the US based journalist, cum political activist Fatou Jaw Manneh took a dramatic twist Wednesday, when the presiding magistrate Buba  Jawo ruled [...]

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Breaking News:UN named new UNDP boss for Gambia! By Senior Staff Writer, Justice Sam Banjul. A new UNDP representative to the Gambia has been named, the Freedom Newspaper can confirm. Adama Guindo, a Malian has since been accredited to the Gambia as the new UN Missions chief. Guindo replaces the expelled UNDP strong woman who [...]

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The death of Ebrima Drammeh, the son of the late lawyer Drammeh, has been announced today in Banjul. Ebrima Drammeh, a former journalist and also a seasoned solicitor  met his death today. The circumstances surrounding his demise is unclear, but sources said Drammeh was in good health conditions, a week before his demise. Ebrima Drammeh [...]

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The Senate Judiciary Committee has given its approval to Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to sign subpoenas that would force the White House to turn over hundreds of new documents and require two administration officials, Associate Deputy Attorney General William Moschella and White House political aide Scott Jennings, to testify about their roles in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last December.

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CBS has just announced the permanent cancellation of the Imus in the Morning radio program. Don Imus (in case you have been living under a rock) is the broadcaster who referred to the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team as Nappy Headed Ho’s. In a Reuters article published today there is speculation that Don Imus will likely [...]

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The British soldiers recently freed by Iran provide the case in point for why torture and strong-armed coercion techniques don’t work. But no one in the mainstream media seems to be talking about the example set by the soldiers “confessions” and how they serve as indictments on any “information” extracted from prisoners detained in places [...]

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For at least the past two decades, Don Imus and his merry band of radio assistants have been filling the airwaves with racial slurs and innuendoes on a daily basis. The recent remarks about the Rutgers University’s women basketball team is nothing new. And the culprit who should be sharing the condemnation with Imus is [...]

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According to McAfee, cyber crime is growing and as soon as the good guys (white hats) close one loophole, the bad guys (black hats) exploit another. Unfortunately, technology grows faster than laws and security fixes. Criminals, who are becoming increasingly organized, realize and exploit this fact, frequently. The report confirms predictions that exploiting VoIP and [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog I wonder if the strain of office is taking its toll on President Bush. The Washington Post reports that he is out looking for a War Czar. The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to [...]

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Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed was sworn in as head of Interim government of Bangladesh on January 11 after what seemed like an never-ending violence between Awami League and Bangaldesh Nationalist Party supporters and leaders that would lead the country into a state of anarchy.  It is no secret that the country’s Army Chief played the key role in convincing then [...]

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[In case anyone has missed the parallels, one has the sense these days of deja vu so far as the Bush administration's approach to the Muslim world is concerned -- the recommendations emerging from the right wing think tanks -- the surge to brutal abuses of human rights in the name of "liberty and freedom," [...]

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 By Honey Gillard  It seems that ‘Spiderman’ star James Franco is really making a climb up the ladder to fame; with more and more films adding Mr. Franco to their cast list.  The newest addition to his filmography is reportedly a film titled ‘High Rollers’.  Not much else is known about the film, besides the [...]

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Kurt Vonnegut, the writer, novelist, speaker and, above all else, free-thinking iconoclast, is dead at the age of 84. Ironically, while he was a nearly life-long cigarette smoker, cancer did not claim him but a brain injury, suffered during a fall, finally conspired to take his life. He died at his home in New York. [...]

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By Honey Gillard  RACHEL McAdams is “inspiring”; according to long-term boyfriend and ‘The Notebook’ co-star Ryan Gosling.  First Rachel, 30, pays Gosling a compliment telling Elle mag that her boyfriend influenced her film choices –now Gosling has returned the compliment. “She’s kind. She doesn’t need any help from me. She’s inspired me to do so [...]

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