Archive for August, 2007



Facing DUI in golf cart

Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 5:08 am

Bill Murray could face a drunken driving charge after cruising through downtown Stockholm in a golf cart and refusing to take a breath test, citing US law. Police officers spotted the actor early Monday in the slow-moving vehicle and noticed he smelled of alcohol when they pulled him over, said Detective-Inspector Christer Holmlund of the Stockholm police. “He refused to …

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Genocide issue still in flux for ADL

Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 5:08 am

Under pressure from local board members, the national Anti-Defamation League will reconsider its refusal to support a congressional resolution on the Armenian genocide, the organization’s national director said yesterday.

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Wainwright in the moment

Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 5:08 am

Rufus Wainwright swept onto the stage at Avalon on Tuesday — shirtless and slim, white suit covered in dazzling brooches, diamond necklace circling his throat — to sing a blowsy torch song. Had it been any other pretty face, the display would have been a de rigueur drag moment.

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Papelbon savors milestone feat

Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 5:08 am

Papelbon notches historic save vs. Rays

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Woods Hole gets $97.7m US grant

Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 5:08 am

A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has won a $97.7 million research grant from the National Science Foundation to build an ocean observation system of buoys and robotic underwater vehicles off Cape Cod.

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Mechanical glitch downs helicopter killing 14 in Iraq

Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 5:08 am

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fourteen U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a nighttime mission in northern Iraq, but the military said it appeared the crash was caused…

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They swoop in to help after disasters

Thursday 23 August 2007 @ 5:08 am

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina ripped apart the Gulf Coast, Bill Driscoll Jr. climbed into a Ford Excursion with six strangers in Biloxi, Miss.

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