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September 2005
Katrina - a harrowing yet moving account
At Nursing Home, Katrina Dealt Only the First BlowNuns Labored for Days in Fatal Heat to Get Help for PatientsBy Anne Hull and Doug StruckWashington Post Staff WritersFriday, September 23, 2005; A01NEW ORLEANS -- As Hurricane Katrina swirled closer,
Monday, 26 September 2005 08:31 AM
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Fucking, Austria
Fucking, AustriaThere's a village not far from Salzberg in Austria that's blessed with a rather unfortunate name, which happens to be, well, Fucking.Now the denizens of this rather sleepy little village on the way to anywhere are a little fed up of t
Monday, 26 September 2005 07:04 AM
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Women and their waists...
Those that read me regularly will know that I've spent quite a while now travelling through SE Asia and have fallen hook line and sinker for the local women - they truly are beyond compare. But why?I used to think it was perhaps their feminity, somet
Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:08 AM
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Iraq:- Col Tim Collins - then and now
In a remarkable speech, given in March 2003, Col. Tim Collins caught the imagination of the world in a moving speech given to his men just before entering Iraq fron the Kuwaiti desert. It drew praise from many quarters, including Bush and lair. Here
Tuesday, 20 September 2005 07:36 AM
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Cricket - England win the Ashes!
Well who'd have thought it? England winning the Ashes for the first time since 1989 - nearly twenty years.But blood and sand what a sight for sore eyes, what a gladatorial spectacle, what a soul inspiring inspiration to see such a cathedral of achiev
Saturday, 17 September 2005 07:57 AM
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Katrina - Bush addresses America
Tonight I want to talk to the people of America about the hurricane Katrina. Except for the poor, the frail, the elderly and foreign tourists, probably all terrorists, who only bring these things on themselves.I want to tell those people that count,
Saturday, 10 September 2005 08:17 AM
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Katrina - what the world is saying
That the poor, the frail, the sick and the elderly were left behind to fend for themselves and that this is a shameful disgrace to America. New Orleans were depending on a so called Good Samaritan policy, where those who had cars would help those who
Thursday, 8 September 2005 06:55 AM
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Katrina exposes the real America
Disgraceful. Disgusting. Uncaring. Racist. Welcome to America.And that's just the beginning. Last week before the hurricane struck, I thought that the only people left behind in New Oreleans were those idiotic enough to believe they could outride mot
Monday, 5 September 2005 07:33 AM
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Global warming and hurricane Katrina
The terrible destruction wreaked by hurricane Katrina will cost billions in money and estimates of a thousand dead, and tens of thousands more injured. Citizens of New Orleans may have to wait up to four months before returning to what's left of thei
Friday, 2 September 2005 07:42 AM
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