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Senior Scottish MP in forged letters mystery
Sunday Herald, UK One of the letters challenged the criticisms of Ingram's outside earnings: "Adam Ingram has served our town as both an elected councillor and as a member of parliament with distinction. He has fought for people across the constituency and has delivered … |
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Kelly Poon's 'comment' on Taiwanese show draws criticism
AsiaOne, Singapore By Tan Kee Yun The 25-year-old is fending off criticisms that she had 'shamed Singapore' on a Taiwanese variety show. On the show called Variety Big Brother, Kelly was among a group of celebrities who were asked by host Chang Fei to come up with a … |
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US slammed for biased rights agenda
People’s Weekly World Venezuela, Bolivia and Russia condemned the latest politically motivated US criticisms of their human rights record on Thursday. The three nations were scathing in their rejection of the US State Department's latest report on human rights around the … China scorns US rights record in tit-for-tat exchange Clinton Castigated for Stance on China Hillary Clinton's Beijing gaffe |
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Allianz CEO defends dividend payments amidst crisis-paper
Reuters "The criticisms by politicians on dividend payments is a disastrous signal to the outside world," he told Sueddeutsche Zeitung. He said capital markets need private shareholders and international institutional investors factor dividend policies into … |
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Obama strikes back at budget critics
Washington Times, DC (Rod Lamkey Jr. /The Washington Times) President Obama on Saturday struck back aggressively at critics of his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, casting himself as a populist crusader whose "sweeping change" has angered Washington's entrenched special … |
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Pernetti choice leaves a few holes
Scarlet Scuttlebutt, NJ The former AD, Robert Mulcahy, was dumped in the wake of scathing criticisms of athletic department spending, particularly regarding the football program and Schiano. An internal probe determined Mulcahy was operating with insufficient oversight, … |
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Dr Alpha Wurie's speech in Makeni vindicates critics of former …
Cocorioko, Sierra Leone Reading through that speech, reminds me of my outspoken criticisms of former president Tejan Kabba’s administration and to a large extent, felt the speech was a bullet copy of the statement of my resignation from the SLPP and other areas of my views I … |
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US to boycott racism conference in Switzerland
Ynetnews, Israel Israel and Canada have already declared they would not be attending the conference. A number of European countries are expected to join the list of nations condemning the conference, predicted to include criticisms against Israel. … |
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Profile on Natasha Kaplinsky
Scotsman, United Kingdom Criticis ms from her own gender range from casually snide to outrageously bitchy. One female journalist noted how Kaplinsky was "at home in her stiff news anchor suits, teamed with mid-90s bouffant hair and panstick pasted to middle-aged perfection". … |
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The corruption of the cocoon
Salon To the contrary: not only politicians, but a huge portion of pundits and journalists, simply refuse to acknowledge any criticisms, let alone engage critics. Our political discourse is so stratified that politicians and pundits can get all the exposure … |
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