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• Bombings In Iraq Kill 26 Before Shiite Rite

  
  Blogger — Authority: 168
  Explosions killed at least 26 people across Iraq on Thursday, authorities said, raising fears of further sectarian attacks at the approach of Shiite Islam’s most solemn occasion.
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• 26 killed in staggered blasts across Iraq (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 168
  AP – Explosions killed at least 26 people across Iraq on Thursday, most of them Shiite pilgrims taking part in a holy mourning ceremony, authorities said, raising fears of further sectarian attacks at the approach of Shiite Islam’s most solemn occasion. The rest is here:  (AP)"> (AP)">26 ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants enter Karachi to strike during Muharram

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Karachi, Dec. 24 (ANI) : Scores of militants belonging to the banned terror organisation, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) have entered Karachi to wreak havoc in the city during Muharram, police officials have said.According to the officials, the militants who, until now, were fighting in the tribal areas of the North West ...
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• Secular v. sectarian Christmas displays: What is the obligation of public schools to be welcoming?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 576
  I walked into one of the Iowa Area Education Agencies (AEAs) last week and saw a tree in the foyer that was decorated with lights, tinsel, ornaments, a star on top, and presents underneath. The area around the receptionist’s desk was decorated with red and green garland; a Santa Claus candy dish; little stockings ...
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• New Randalls Island Deal With Private Schools Is Rejected

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  The Dalton School’s soccer practice at Randall’s Island in 2006.
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Church attacks shake Kansai

  
  Raw Japan — Authority: 120
  In the minds of many people, religious rivalry could occasionally be expected to  spill over into violence in places as diverse as the occupied West Bank or Glasgow’s ‘Old Firm’ football derby. Japan’s Kansai region, home to the world’s most renowned Zen gardens and some of the country’s finest cuisine, ...
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• Church attacks shake Kansai

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 609
  In the minds of many people, religious rivalry could occasionally be expected to  spill over into violence in places as diverse as the occupied West Bank or Glasgows Old Firm football derby. Japans Kansai region, home to the worlds most renowned Zen gardens and some of the countrys finest cuisine, on the other hand, ...
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• NYT > World: British High Court Says Jewish School’s Ethnic-Based Admissions Policy Is Illegal

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 470
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Britain’s Supreme Court found a Jewish school guilty of racial discrimination for denying entry to a boy whose mother was a Jew by conversion, not birth.
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• British Court Upholds Ruling on Jewishness

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  Britain’s Supreme Court found that a Jewish school was guilty of racial discrimination for denying entry to a boy whose mother was a Jew by conversion and not by birth.
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
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• Keep an eye on Punjab, Congress urges government

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Expressing concern over sectarian strife in Punjab’s Ludhiana town, the Congress Monday urged the central government to keep a close watch on the situation in the state.Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said the party was saddened by the incidents in Ludhiana. “Punjab is a border state ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Pakistani forces kill 10 Taliban militants

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Islamabad, Nov 30 (DPA) Pakistani troops have killed 10 Taliban militants in the country’s restive northwestern tribal region that borders Afghanistan, a security official said Monday.Major Fazalur Rehman, a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps, said the rebels died during a gunfight in Kurram, one of the ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Teaching Boys and Girls Separately

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  An all-girls class of fourth-graders at Foley Intermediate School.
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• Tips for the Admissions Test ... to Kindergarten

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  At Bright Kids NYC in Lower Manhattan, a tutor asked Dashe, 4, which object doesnt belong.
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