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• ARMORED

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Crime thriller PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS Matt Dillon: Chief Officer Michael Cochrane with Eagle Shield Security Columbus Short: newly hired armored truck guard Ty Hackett Laurence Fishburne: Baines, one of his hotheaded coworkers Skeet Ulrich: level-headed Dobbs Fred Ward: their boss Duncan Ashcroft Andre Jamal ...
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• Dems Blast Higher Hurdles for Civil Rights Claims

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 739
  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (WDCpix) Last year, an Arizona housing developer known for building affordable homes for Hispanics filed a complaint against the City of Yuma, which denied his application to build homes for low to moderate income families in a predominately white high-income neighborhood. The developer sued ...
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• Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  " No Decrease In Death Penalty Approval Rate ," is the title of Ari Shapiros NPR report.  The title refers to capital prosecutions approved by President George W. Bushs final Attorney General, Michael Mukasey and the current AG, Eric Holder. During the Bush administration, opponents of capital punishmentcriticized ...
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• ‘Iqbal’ Derails Tubercular Attorney’s Privacy Complaint

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Janet L. Conley provides commentary and analysis of a recent court decision involving a man publicly named as having tuberculosis who alleged privacy violations by the CDC: Andrew H. Speaker, the lawyer who made headlines when he took a trans-Atlantic commercial flight while infected with a rare strain of ...
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• Spiritualizeds Jason Pierce Relives 1997 Once Again

  
  Spinner — Authority: 728
  Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK History seems to have a habit of repeating itself. With this weekends All Tomorrows Parties set to relive the spirit of 1991 with performances from My Bloody Valentine , Primal Scream and J Mascis amongst others, Spiritualized are set to go back to 1997 as they ...
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• The Non-Taxpayers Alliance

  
  Next Left — Authority: 579
  Next Left can exclusively reveal that plans are shaping up for a forthcoming launch of a major new right-wing pressure group. The Non-Taxpayers Alliance is to be headed by Tory ppc and non-dom Zac Goldsmith , with Michael Ashcroft as Treasurer . Its launch slogan is expected to be " Were in this together - but ...
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• Ashcroft promotion threatens rift

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Tories warned by former colonys prime minister not to give deputy chairman a government post David Cameron was warned yesterday that Britains relations with a key Central American ally would be damaged if Lord Ashcroft was given a government post. In a stinging attack, Dean Barrow, the Belizean prime minister, ...
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• Tory surge in the north will panic Labour

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Lord Ashcroft, the mastermind of the Conservatives key seats strategy, has long argued that the party was doing better in battleground marginals than Westminster realised. Todays YouGov poll provides striking evidence to back his claim.
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• A prediction: Governor Siegelman will be far from the last victim of this "Bush III"-style administration

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 627
  "As long as we have the same people in charge looking at the question of prosecutorial misconduct, were going to get the same answers. Thats because theyre trying to cover their asses." -- former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, in an interview with TPM Muckraker (see link below) by Ken This is just awful. ...
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• Why did John Ashcroft hate America?

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 146
  In the wake of the Fort Hood shootings, Michael Bloomberg and Thomas Kean want to know . There is no god and I am his prophet.
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• Alfred Hitchcock’s British Thrillers at LACMA

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 442
  Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (top); Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (bottom)On Nov. 27-28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present the last four films in its "Hitchcock: The British Thrillers" series. They are: The 39 Steps (1935), starring Robert Donat and Madeleine ...
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• Daily View 2×2: 26 November 2009

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 480
  Good morning, and Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers. 26th November is also the anniversary of the opening of the terrifying Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Today also sees a significant birthday for Tina Turner and a rather less significant one for Hilary Benn. 2 Must-Read Blog Posts What are other Liberal Democrat ...
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• A PASSAGE TO INDIA – Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft – d: David Lean

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 442
  A Passage to India (1984)Direction: David LeanScreenplay: David Lean; from E. M. Forster’s novelCast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, James Fox, Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth Judy Davis in A Passage to India Synopsis: In the early 20th century, a British ...
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• The Sunday Intertitle: Jesus Speaks

  
  shadowplay — Authority: 498
  I know, I know. Not great quality.From THE WANDERING JEW (1933), directed by Maurice Elvey, who’s best known for THE CLAIRVOYANT (Claude Rains and Fay Wray) and a lively silent version of HINDLE WAKES, a much-filmed regional comedy. By the end of his career, Elvey had declined to slapstick comedies with Tommy ...
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• He’s Still An Ass, and A Crock

  
  Reconstitution 2.0 — Authority: 134
  A loser at the job of Attorney General who was simply ignored by Chimpy and “Electrode Al” Gonzales when they didn’t like something he said, John Asscrock is a sorry sack who seldom let the Constitution get in the way of pursuing the right wing agenda that he and the moronic monkey shared. I [...]
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• Lord Ashcroft pays record price for ultimate Victoria Cross

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  The "ultimate" gallantry medal - the only double Victoria Cross from the Great War - has been bought by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft for a world record price of nearly £1.5 million.
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• Van Diemen’s Land – Podcast Review

  
  (Cool) Shite on the Tube - Film, TV, Comics, Games, Books, Genre Pop Culture. — Authority: 135
  The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia’s most notorious convict. In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra banishment and punishment, only to find a world less forgiving.. the Australian wilderness. Abandon all hope you who enter. Director: Jonathan auf der ...
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• Lord Ashcroft’s ‘links’ with disgraced PM of British territory hit by corruption scandal

  
  Aotearoa: a wider perspective — Authority: 133
  Ooh oops, the same “Lord” Ashcroft who plays Santa Claus, and crime stoppers goody goody over here gets hit by another scandal. Nice idea that this scoundrel makes secret visits to our Prime minister Eh? Companies linked to Tory billionaire Lord Ashcroft helped finance the lavish lifestyle of a disgraced leader ...
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• John Ashcroft Weighs In On Terror Trials

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  According to former Attorney General John Ashcroft: Attorney General Eric Holder lacks authority to make a decision on moving terror detainees to civilian courts for trial ... Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who held his position during the Bush administration from 2001-2005, said that Holder lacked ...
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• Let it Snow

  
  The Daily Dorkmonger — Authority: 119
  Its a slippery slope. First TSA takes our babies ( or not ) and then they take our snowglobes . Both contain liquid, but only the snowglobes have been banned from flights. Confiscating liquids at airport security checkpoints is, of course, the ongoing reaction to the 2006 terrorist plot to bring down airliners ...
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