Author: michael o. allen
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From kingnetic
1. NBA. I’m thinking beyond the hurt and pain to ninja-like revenge for the absolute extension of corporate corruption to (no surprise) the anti-trust-exempted NBA. I’ve been trying to think back, through my well-known cynicism, to all the unexpected extensions of conference and final playoffs. Back then, during slow moments in the action, my twisted…
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Tim Kaine of Virginia
Va. governor could help fill gap for Obama: Centrist seen as dark horse among VP possibilities By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff, June 12, 2008 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – He is the popular governor of a critical swing state. He has working-class roots and a Harvard degree, and strong support from both business and labor. He…
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A fine pig
Pig in Boots: The world’s only porker who is afraid of mud By Beth Hale, June 10, 2008 You can’t get much happier than a pig in muck, or so we are told. But when this little piggy arrived in the farmyard she showed a marked reluctance to get her trotters dirty. While her six…
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SPECIAL REPORT ON RWANDA: 1 Dies Every Minute
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Tuesday, July 26, 1994 GOMA, Zaire – The skies here were darkened by aircraft yesterday bearing desperately needed food and medical supplies to Rwandan refugees dying at a rate of one per minute in the squalid camps below. But the water purifiers needed to combat the…
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Oh, McCain
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McCain's first wife
From the Daily Mail in London, UK: The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind, By SHARON CHURCHER, June 08, 2008 McCain with Carol as he arrives back in the US in 1973 after his five years as a PoW in North Vietnam Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the…
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RWANDAN CRISIS-HORROR OF THE CHILDREN: Thousands Are Dying, More Are Orphaned
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Wednesday, July 27, 1994 GOMA. ZAIRE – Her tiny torso was wrapped in dirty rags. No one knew her name, where she came from or what became of her parents. She could not have been more than 6 months old. Last week French soldiers at Goma…
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Touch/feel
‘Just Do It’: Couple have sex for 101 days straight One couple gave their marriage a jolt … by having lots and lots of sex These guys on the radio are basically reading the New York Times story on the books: LET’S say you and your spouse haven’t had sex in so long that you…
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Refugees Are Dying Too Fast to be Buried
by GENE MUSTAIN in New York and MICHAEL O. ALLEN in Goma, Zaire, Daily News Staff Writers | Wednesday July 27, 1994 Aid workers battling death, famine and pestilence of the Rwanda refugee crisis faced a new problem yesterday–a shortage of graves. The raging cholera epidemic in the squalid camps near the border backwater town…
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Too old for this
I always tell myself that. But it does not stop me from doing it year after year. I need a new sport that could keep me fit without the physical devastation that soccer (football for non-Americans) wreaks on my body. Sunday. 9 a.m. It is already sweltering. My team, Santa Fe S.C., will play Clarkstown…