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That is what her lawyers suggest. Speaking of which, does anybody know why she is still represented by Reprieve, an anti-death penalty charity?

There's a story on AFP about a restaurant called "Little Bay", and AFP is saying this is a "novel idea". But it's not a new idea - that other restaurant did it first, as far as I know, and there's also an Indian restaurant in New York today which does the same thing.

Googling is useless - does anybody remember the name of this 1970s restaurant? It was very popular.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080504/tuk-chi...

Today, Hillary went on the defensive over her unfortunate remark that Lyndon Johnson had done more for the civil rights movement than Martin Luther King. She is caught in another lie. Will African American voters in South Carolina give her the sympathy vote if she starts crying again?

WASHINGTON -- While Hillary Rodham Clinton came out second best to Barack Obama in their long-range oratorical duel at Selma, Ala., the real problem with her visit there a week ago concerned her March 4 speech's claim of her attachment to Martin Luther King Jr. as a high school student in 1963. How, then, could she be a "Goldwater girl" in the next year's presidential election? The incompatibility of those two positions of 40 years ago was noted to me by Democratic old-timers who were shocked by Sen. Clinton's temerity in pursuing her presidential candidacy.

A poster asked a question, which I feel was legitimate and didn't breach any t&cs, and the question got removed. It had to do with whether people felt Obama reminded them of MLK.

It was not posed in a racial context, but in terms of Obama's oratory.

If someone poses a legitimate, non-defamatory question which does not infringe anyone's rights and does not in any way qualify for the obscenity or hatred exclusions, then why would the moderators delete it?

If someone takes offense to a question, then it is fair that they can ask to have it removed. However, it is the job of the moderators to carefully analyse whether the question should be removed or not. It is not the moderators' job to remove all questions which perhaps one person objects to, for dubious reasons. In fact, in the context that the question is actually a question, the removal is unconstitutional.

Does anybody else on here think "coercive forces" are at work here?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/artic...

It's coming out on February 4th, the day before Super Tuesday.

It was announced today that Nicholas Sarkozy is marrying Carla Bruni next week after a whirlwind romance (they met in November).

What I can't figure out is, when did he divorce his wife?? Do they do same day filings/final decrees in France, or what?

Poor Hillary, I do feel sorry for her, but if she's already in tears over trailing her Democrat rival in the polls, what kind of a Commander in Chief would she make? Would she be able to cut it when the going gets really tough?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080107/pl_nm/usa_poli...

He is a convicted murderer! So what does this government do, gives him a UK passport and works out a deal for him to come to the UK and be a free man.

Has anybody else read about this case? This guy is a total nutbag. What's more, he's getting paid by tabloid newspapers to sell his story! If he was innocent, he could have got compensation but for some reason his lawyers didn't ask for it...seems suspicious to me!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Richey

http://news.scotsman.com/kennyrichey/Richey-to-sel...

Is this allowed on Yahoo! Answers? I've noticed a lot of Clinton surrogates on here doing both.

I just read on AP that the Clinton and Edwards campaigns have claimed that, having lost to Obama, "gloves are off" and they are going to resort to dirty politics to try and win the nomination. What do you feel about this? Do you think that people who resort to smear tactics are only interested in power for themselves? Do you think the American people will fall for this again? Or are they sick of it?

I do.

I also think that yobs who beat people up should be hung.

Why does the English national rugby team use "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" as their theme song?

The song is about the "underground railroad" in the US in the 1800s - a series of tunnels which slaves used to escape to the North - to freedom.

Who is she?

It occured to me that she seems to have disappeared just prior to the McCanns going to Portugal. Then four days later, the McCanns' eldest child disappeared.

Could there be a connection, or is this just a weird coincidence?

The McCanns' version of events is that she went to visit a sick relative. But that was three months ago!

I appreciate that the nanny's privacy should not be invaded, but I would at least like to know that she is alive and well and accounted for.

Do you think they will eventually? And if so, when? When they have spent all the money from the fund on living expenses, or at the end of the summer (as they originally hinted)?

It was embarrassing. So embarrassing that no organisation should ever consider putting anything on in Portugal again, that's for sure! The mikes didn't work (to the extent that Hilary Swank walked off stage in the first ten minutes and didn't return), the cue prompter didn't work, one of the main guests simply didn't turn up and Ben Kingsley had to read somebody else's prepared speech, they had Jose Carreras lip-synching (badly) on two numbers, the home-grown "entertainment" was just awful and amateurish, and in the end, the result was disappointing, whereby it was so obvious that 50 million people in Latin America voted for Christ the Redeemer and Chichen Itza, and the more worthy Great Pyramids, Angkor Wat and Timbuktu didn't make the list.

A complete and total joke. No wonder UNESCO disassociated itself with the whole affair.

I had to watch it on an Indian satellite channel as the major European and American news channels refused to carry it. No wonder (forgive the pun!).

It seems rather than being Nixon's nemesis he was secretly feeding the White House information during the Watergate investigation.

He probably should be charged with treason, but will get away with it because he's an actor.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070707/ap_on_el_pr/th...

A few days ago, an article on the Sky News website said Gerry and Kate McCann had resigned their jobs as doctors, intending instead to make their services available as child abduction campaigners. Then it disappeared.

Does anybody have a link to the article?

Does he have a chance? Is he the "anti-Rudy"?

Heard on the car radio on the way home that Putin threatened to point Russia's nuclear arsenal at Europe because of U.S. defence ("Star Wars") initiatives. Anybody else hear this? If so, do you think Putin has completely lost it, or did he just never find it in the first place?