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Correcting the Record.
In meticulous detail the 9/11 commission's report found that the hijackers had repeatedly broken the law in entering the United States, that Mr. bin Laden may have micromanaged the attacks but did not pay for them, that intelligence agencies had considered the threat of suicide hijackings, and that Mr. Bush received an August 2001 briefing on evidence of continuing domestic terrorist threats from Al Qaeda.
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at 7:26 AM on July 25, 2004
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All This Progress Is Killing Us.
"Increasingly, Western life is afflicted by the paradoxes of progress. Material circumstances keep improving, yet our quality of life may be no better as a result - especially in those cases,
like food, where enough becomes too much."
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at 5:09 PM on March 19, 2004
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De Hermitage Amsterdam.
In the early 1990s Professor Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of
The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg was considering the possibility of having satellites of the museum in the West. The
Nieuwe Kerk and the Hermitage had already established a strong relationship through the organisation of major exhibitions, and Ernst Veen, director of the Nieuwe Kerk, suggested that Amsterdam would be the
ideal location for a branch of the Russian museum, given the
historical links between the two cities over the past 300 years.
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at 7:07 PM on March 16, 2004
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500+
The U.S. military death toll in Iraq surpassed 500 this weekend, roughly matching the number of U.S. military personnel who died in the
first four years of the U.S. military engagement in Vietnam.
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at 9:54 AM on January 18, 2004
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Wal-Mart as Leviathan.
"The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?"
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at 3:24 PM on November 14, 2003
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