BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Oct 31 (Reuters) - An official of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) exiled leadership arrived in Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday after a 25-year absence to see the peace process aimed at ending nearly three decades of conflict.
The Stockholm-based GAM and Indonesia's government were pushed back to negotiations partly by the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami that devastate...
LODI - The storage shelves at Phil's Auto Parts have been stripped almost bare, signs advertising a retirement sale hang on the windows outside, and the answer to a question the Mobilio brothers have been asked too many times hangs on a sign above the cash register:
But they are going to get to relax a little more after this evening. That's when the Mobilios - Bart, 86, Anthony, 79, and...
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IN JORGE LUIS BORGES' short story, the "Library of Babel," the universe is a near-infinite library, filled with identical-size books. Their texts are random strings of letters. Most are devoid of meaning, though here and there, by sheer chance, are phrases, sentences, even entire pages of apparent sense.
The occupants of this universe are tormented by the certainty that somewhere in this...
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DELINQUENT TAXES 2005 View this year's local delinquent tax sale report.
It was part street art, part political theater - a giant wall of pro-Kerry and anti-Bush pumpkins that became a rallying spot for Democratic partisans in a Republican city at the climax of last year's presidential campaign.
A year later, the Great Pumpkin Wall is back - a block of 400 pumpkins set on eight le...
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A powerful drama to highlight road safety among teenage drivers is being staged across schools and colleges in a Midlands county.
The 50-minute production covers relationships, love, music, football and careers before tragedy strikes and a car crash destroys everything.
Herefordshire Council's Road Safety Unit and Herefordshire Community Safety and Drugs Partnership have teamed up ...
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DURHAM, N.C. - These days, John Hope Franklin spends more time in the greenhouse behind his home than in library stacks.
"It's my favorite haunt," the historian says as he steps inside the hothouse, gray gravel crunching underfoot. "I come out here three or four times a day _ not necessarily to work, but just to look and see and enjoy."
The humid air is alive with lacy ferns, spiny...
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Kelso Senior Craft Bazaar: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 4 and 5, Kelso Senior Center, 900 Grade St., Kelso; $5 per 6-foot table plus donation of one item for a raffle; Jan, 577-0142; Myrna, 501-5194.
St. Rose Parish: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 4, St. Rose Parish Center, 701 26th Ave., Longview; $25 per table; Nancy Swanson, 423-3543....
CPI has launched Take:1, a new film magazine aimed at the expatriate Keralites. Supported by popular Southern Indian actors, Mohanlal and Mammooty, TAKE:1 is the latest addition to CPI's portfolio of consumer titles. CPI also publishes the leading celebrity title OK! Middle East, in English and Arabic.
?Keralites make up the largest percentage of UAE's - and perhaps even the GCC's - ex...
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Taking the lead at the top of the stretch, Saint Liam held off the challenge of Flower Alley and gave Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey his fifth win in the Classic and 15th victory in the Breeders' Cup.
Sent off as the 2-1 favorite in a field of 13, Saint Liam bided his time behind leaders Sun King and Suave until the field reached the far turn. And that's when Bailey sent the 5-year-ol...
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The danger of children playing with matches and cigarette lighters was highlighted by a fire that gutted a house at Ravenswood on Saturday.
The fire in Wendy Radford and Amanda Rumbel's Pioneer Parade rental home was caused by children playing with a lighter in the rear bedroom and setting bedding alight.
The two Ravenswood housemates were cooking tea about 6.30pm when the fire ...
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