michaeltotten.com - 3/13/2009
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After spending several weeks each in Iraq and Lebanon at the end of 2008, I bought a plane ticket to the U.S. from Beirut on December 22 and figured I had plenty of time to get home for Christmas. I had no idea, though, that I had purchased my ticket from the worst airline company in the world ...
adnkronos.com - 3/11/2009
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Rome, 10 March (AKI) - The Italian government
investigated 216 terror threats against Italy last year, concluding...
that Islamist cells were the "primary threat to the public interest, both inside Italy and abroad," according to a report released on ...
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Italy: Islamists are the main terrorist threat, says ...
corriere.it - 3/11/2009
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Durban 2: “draft is anti-Semitic”. Italy recalls delegation
Text of UN Conference on racism document is “unacceptable”....
Italy is the first EU member state officially to withdraw. ROME – Italy has announced that it will recall its delegates from the ...
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Notizie di cronaca del Corriere della Sera
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 3/20/2009
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Michael Kinsley was kind enough to respond to
this post , in which I objected to his...
suggestion that pro-lifers who oppose embryo-destructive research don't mean what they say, because if they did they'd want to forbid embryo destruction in fertility ...
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Kinsley and Stem Cells, Revisited
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Michael Totten: The Worst Airline Company in the World
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... backup copies of my recorded interviews and place them on a flash memory stick that I carried around in my pocket. My hand-written notes and my photographs, though, were not in my pocket. Alitalia’s baggage handler’s union was holding much of my Middle East work hostage. The man and woman working at our Alitalia flight counter wouldn’t tell us what was going on, and I assumed it was because they didn’t know. They looked slightly stressed, and I felt bad for them. They weren’t on strik read ...
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... Thugs Systematically Compiling Full List Of Venezuelan Jews, Launching Attacks On Jewish Centers Gangs Fourth place with 1/3 points - (T * ) - The Provocateur - Rethinking the Federal Reserve Fourth place with 1/3 points - (T * ) - The Glittering Eye - Portrait of a Financial Crisis Winning Non-Council Submissions First place with 2 2/3 points! - Pajamas Media - Welcome to Francis Ford Coppolas White House Second place with 2 points - Michael Totten - The Worst Airline In The World Third place with 1 2/3 points - Clay Shirky - Newspapers ...
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