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  • Bleacher Report WAG of The Week: Sylvie Van Der Vaart Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 10:33AMHow does moving to Holland sound? Sounds pretty nice if you ask me especially when Sylvie Van der Vaart is in town. She is from the Netherlands, which if you ask me, are not close enough to the United States, and is married to Tottenham Hotspur's Rafael Van der Vaart. Now back to the hottie WAG on hand, Sylvie Van der Vaart. The first time I had to write her name I needed to take a lunch break ...
  • Vicar jailed over sham marriages Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 10:17AMA Church of England vicar was jailed for four years today for his part in Britain's biggest sham marriage fraud to help hundreds of illegal immigrants stay in Britain.
  • Saluting Our Veterans: Neil McCrossen Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 10:10AMFrom kings and emperors, to President Franklin Roosevelt and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Neil McCrossen’s time aboard the USS Quincy found him in the midst of many major events during World War II.
  • Love lessons from bad breakups Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 10:03AMI'm getting married in two months, and now I see why checking into a mental facility is likewise called "committing yourself." Luckily, not one of my mini nervous breakdowns since accepting Paul's proposal has been about him.
  • Vicar nailed for marriage scam Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 10:00AMA Church of England vicar who oversaw hundreds of sham marriages to help migrants settle illegally in Britain has been jailed.
  • Residents of Lyndhurst, Highland Heights and Mayfield Heights are nominees for the Direct Energy, Sun News Citizen ... Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 9:55AMAll the submissions have been read and the final nominees selected in the search for the Direct Energy Volunteer Citizen of the Year Award. Designed to showcase the significant contributions of volunteers in local communities, the eventual winner, to be announced this month, will receive a $1,000 personal prize, as well as a $5,000 donation from Direct Energy to the charity the winner represents.
  • France support for Iran 'adulterer' Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 9:54AMFrance's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says he will 'do anything' to help save an Iranian woman sentenced to death on an adultery conviction.
  • Lenient law attracts minors to marry in SD Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 9:35AMSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) _ Statistics show that South Dakota's underage marriage requirements might be the most relaxed in the region.
  • Bulletin Board Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 9:34AMCity Centre Aquatic Complex offers a cure to Friday boredom with a Halloween swamp swim from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. Admission is $2 and kids must have student identification. Evening features a haunted waterslide, mat walk, zipline and horror movies on the big screen. Information: 604-927-6985.
  • The Dash Between: Bob Emery transformed his dream into reality Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:32AMIn a Disney-like moment in the mid-1950s, Bob Emery looked at a plot of seemingly unus­able swampland in rural Summit County and envisioned a family­-friendly recreation area with a lake at its center. Legendary filmmaker Walt Dis­ney had a similar experience in the 1960s, when he began pur­chasing Florida swampland on which to build his Disney [...]
  • LABOR DAY Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:32AMScorching winds sifted through a near-finished building as two men baked in the afternoon sun, staking out what will be a parking lot.
  • Last graduates before integration reunited Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:23AMThey came from Kentucky, Atlanta and, of course, Humboldt.
  • Books recount trips around the world Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:18AMValidating life choices is the theme of two non–fiction books published in 2010 as second installments of journeys begun as a result of divorce. Each author questions the wisdom of remarrying; one author provides research about the institution of marriage, and the other wonders if marriage is the answer to her uncertainty as she approaches middle age.
  • NRI businessman sponsors marriages of 107 women Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:16AMMarriages of 107 women were organised here Monday by a social organisation supported by non-resident Indian (NRI) Ravi Pillai, who is considered as the largest employer of Indians in the Middle East.
  • Female, single, over 30: Iraqis count cost of war Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:11AMOnly one of Nidal Haidar's six sisters is married. She has given up on ever getting hitched. History - Twentieth Century - Wars and Conflicts - Nidal Haidar - Iraq
  • The Error-Proof Portfolio: Why Laboring Longer Is Good for Your Wealth Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:03AMThe longer they remain employed, older workers can reap larger Social Security benefits and make their nest eggs last.
  • Childers-Nunnelee match to intensify Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 5:56AMTUPELO - If you haven't yet noticed the fierce political battle brewing in Northeast Mississippi, you soon will. Candidates for the 1st Congressional District seat are expected to intensify their campaigns after Monday's Labor Day holiday.
  • Number 77: The Short Life of Katrina Survivor Desiree Davis Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 5:51AMOne year ago on Labor Day, 17-year-old Desiree Davis became Oakland’s 77th homicide victim for 2009. Prior to the shooting that killed her in broad daylight, her classmates knew little about the shy teenager or the trauma she had already...
  • Trapped Chilean Miners' Families Feud on Surface Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 5:49AMMiners Enter 2nd Month Underground as Relatives Fight Over Wages and Trysts Come to Light
  • Commentary: When the family business is crime Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 12:32AMFilm and TV projects such as 'Animal Kingdom,' 'Winter's Bone' and 'Boardwalk Empire' show new twists in depicting these law-flouting groups of renegade relations. Criminal gangs have been family affairs since long before the James Brothers saddled up to spread mayhem across the American West. But in today's pop culture, more and more, it appears that the "family" that slays together stays ...
  • Obituary: Helen Krogh dies at 78; started Widowed Persons Assn. of California Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 12:23AMOverwhelmed by the grief of widowhood in the early 1980s, Helen Krogh placed an advertisement in a newspaper seeking others in the same situation in Sacramento who might want to gather to talk.
  • Golfer Trent Romann ready for Adams Tour Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 12:14AMTrent Romann is all too familiar with life on the Adams Tour -- the ups, the downs, the friendships and heartaches and, more than anything, the miles and miles and miles.
  • Coon Rapids / Husband, father and popular MSP airport worker remembered Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 12:06AMIt seemed that everyone who works at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport knew Robert Germundson.
  • Vatican May Appeal Against Stoning In Iran Adultery Case Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 11:57PM(RTTNews) - The Vatican is said to be considering issuing an appeal through diplomatic channels to Iran to commute the death sentence by stoning of an Iranian woman charged with adultery.
  • Prostitution sting nets Mainland coach Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 11:55PMMainland High School's John Maronto, the winningest football coach in Volusia County history, was arrested Saturday night during a prostitution sting, police said.
  • Toonzone Goes "MAD" Interviewing Kevin Shinick and Mark Marek Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 11:52PMIn 1952, Harvey Kurtzman and William Gaines changed the face of topical humor, if not the entire American cultural landscape, with the publication of MAD magazine (even if it was originally a comic book). Billed as "humor in a jugular vein," its... [read more]
  • My overall views about foreign immigrants taking jobs away from local Singapore Citizens Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 11:52PMI am a 34-year old male Singaporean, single, and who has completed National Service duties between March 1994 to March 1996. I possess a Masters Degree in Economics, and a MBA. My Bachelors Degree is in Banking and Finance. I have spent the last ten years since 2000 studying, residing, and working in the United [...]
  • A pretty postcard of a novel verges on cliche Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 11:49PMBook review: "The Widower's Tale," by Julia Glass. Pantheon, $26.95.
  • Magnolia Old Settlers Reunion event winners Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 1:35AMWinners in the various categories of the Old Settlers parade, Aug. 20 included:
  • Paul Conrad, Cartoonist, Dies at 86 Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 1:14AMIn the Watergate scandal, he drew Richard M. Nixon nailing himself to a cross. He stood Dick Cheney at a vast graveyard of veterans, saying, "For seven years, we did everything to keep you safe." And on the frieze over the Supreme Court, he etched the hallowed words: "Of the insurance co's. By the insurance co's. And for the insurance co's."
  • Voters Guide: Board of Education Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 1:12AMVoters Guide: Board of Education
  • Bacalles is leader in education Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 1:12AMJim Bacalles is not just a political leader, but a husband, a father and a community member.
  • Cheap smarm & gossip Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 1:12AMQUOTE OF THE WEEK: "I feel horrible for him. He loved her. But he was in love with me. I hope he remembers that was real, and reaches out to me ... I'd give up everything to be with him again."
  • Capsule reviews from TIFF 2010 Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 1:11AMFollowing are capsule reviews of TIFF movies that our team of writers (Bruce Kirkland, Kevin Williamson, Jim Slotek, Liz Braun, Jane Stevenson and Mark Daniell) have seen so far, grouped by program category
  • Fall TV preview Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 1:08AMTV will offer its usual assortment of lawyers, doctors and sitcom oddballs, but programmers are particularly interested in providing fast-paced thrill rides.
  • CNN Rights group: Iran orders 99 lashes for condemned woman 4 hrs ago Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 12:24AMAn Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery now faces being whipped for indecency, her son says.
  • Video: Matchmaker service finds high-end niche Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 1:25PMEASTTOWN — Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch.
  • What's On Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 1:19PM- Ridge Meadows Ex-service Women's group will not meet in September. The next meeting is in October.
  • In Middle East Peace Talks, Clinton Faces a Crucial Test Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 1:01PMThe new round of peace talks could cement the legacy of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as a diplomat. But the talks could also pose considerable risks to any political ambitions she may harbor.
  • Sunni and Shiite Iraqi journalists talk about war Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 12:31PMAs the U.S. draws down in Iraq, two Associated Press Television News cameramen, one Sunni and the other Shiite, talk about what it has been like to live through and record the war. The accounts are translated and edited.
  • Terrifyingly clear: 66 years later Lucia McDonald vividly remembers the war Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 12:13PMHer hands are not as nimble as they were 69 years ago. Her hair, once jet-black, is now peppered with gray. At 83 years old, her memory isn't the best at times, but she still recalls the tiniest details of the most traumatic period in her life -- the occupation.
  • The invisible lady of letters Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 12:10PMPenguin editor Eunice Frost helped revolutionise the way we read. Gaby Wood stumbles upon the untold story of the woman who gave her name to Frostie, the iconic penguin.
  • Coming Home-- A Vietnam Story Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 12:08PMConsidering the deep and lasting imprint the Vietnam War has had on this country’s collective psyche, it is difficult to believe that a whole generation of Americans knows little to nothing of that war other than what it is taught—either in school or at the knee of one of the now aging veterans who served in the military during that time.
  • Love is overwhelming at the best of times Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 12:02PMDear Tom: My boyfriend and I have been on and off for the past few months. When we first called it quits we were done for a few months then he started to do sweet things bring me flowers, surprise me with gifts etc.[...]
  • Latina Jessica Alba refuses to play into stereotypes Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:50AMLOS ANGELES — At first glance, Jessica Alba lives up to assumptions: beautiful, tall, glamorous and aloof. But within a few minutes, the sex symbol turns on the charm, shedding the ice-princess aura for something friendlier and more engaging. She offers restaurant recommendations, asks questions about hometowns and reminisces about the days before texting and bloggers.
  • Kidnappings, bombs, death threats: 2 Iraqi journalists, Sunni and Shiite, talk about the war Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:49AMAs the U.S. draws down in Iraq, two Associated Press Television News cameramen, one Sunni and the other Shiite, talk about what it has been like to live through and record the war. The accounts ...
  • Lone Star Slight: Appellate court finds ''legitimate interest'' in denying marriage equality Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:28PMNews: ... more
  • TV critic's picks: Thursday Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:43PMThe Travel Channel is hosting a feast for its favorite chef, Tony Bourdain.
  • Dogging the Trail Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:06PMCelebrated author Rita Mae Brown discusses her switch to genre fiction, the future of publishing and her days as the “only lesbian in America.”
  • Today in Sex: Too Broke to Break Up? Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:06PMEarlier this week we learned that the downturn in the economy means fewer people are choosing to unleash their hellspawn into the world. Now comes news from the Centers for Disease Control a...