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| What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin |
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US Diplomat's Letter of Resignation |
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| Topic: Society |
4:11 pm EDT, May 28, 2004 |
Dear Mr. Secretary: I am writing you to submit my resignation from the Foreign Service of the United States and from my position as Political Counselor in US Embassy Athens, effective March 7. I do so with a heavy heart. I was paid to understand foreign languages and cultures, to seek out diplomats, politicians, scholars and journalists, and to persuade them that US interests and theirs fundamentally coincided. My faith in my country and its values was the most powerful weapon in my diplomatic arsenal. It is inevitable that during twenty years with the State Department I would become more sophisticated and cynical about the narrow and selfish bureaucratic motives that sometimes shaped our policies. Human nature is what it is, and I was rewarded and promoted for understanding human nature. But until this Administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer. Mr. Secretary, I have enormous respect for your character and ability. But your loyalty to the President goes too far. This is the text of John Brady Kiesling's letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. Mr. Kiesling is a career diplomat who has served in United States embassies from Tel Aviv to Casablanca to Yerevan. US Diplomat's Letter of Resignation |
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Sarin Shells Made Before 1991 War |
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| Topic: Current Events |
5:05 pm EDT, May 27, 2004 |
The 155-mm shells containing sarin gas that exploded in Iraq May 17 were manufactured before 1991, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. That was a pre-Gulf War shell, a different category than the weapons being sought by the Iraq Survey Group, Brig. Gen. David Rodriguez, the joint staff deputy director for operations, told a Pentagon news briefing. ... For what it's worth in the debate over the shells. Sarin Shells Made Before 1991 War |
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BBC NEWS | England | Smoking drove man to kill family |
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| Topic: Society |
3:29 pm EDT, May 26, 2004 |
A man who killed his wife because she would not quit smoking has been detained indefinitely under the mental health act. BBC NEWS | England | Smoking drove man to kill family |
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Ananova - 'Tiger man' wants fur graft |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
1:52 pm EDT, May 19, 2004 |
A San Diego computer programmer who has spent £100,000 on tattoos and plastic surgery to turn himself into a 'tiger' wants a fur graft.
Dennis Smith is tattooed from head to toe with orange and black stripes and his teeth have been filed to needle point. Ananova - 'Tiger man' wants fur graft |
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| Topic: Computers |
2:06 pm EDT, May 17, 2004 |
started with a scam, and turned into the greatest prank ever.
You can read about it all in the detailed story
The P-P-P-Powerbook Scamming the Scammer |
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Library of Alexandria discovered |
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| Topic: Science |
11:48 am EDT, May 14, 2004 |
Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the Library of Alexandria, often described as the world's first major seat of learning. Library of Alexandria discovered |
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