Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Sunday, a tribute usually reserved for presidents, soldiers and politicians.
"We built a concrete wall," one officer told me, “but we fitted it will paper doors.” This is not tragedy. This is stupidity.
That's right. No more sandals. No more T-shirts. No more bellies hanging over belts. No more jeans. No more grease-covered khakis. No more stained underarms. No more lame-ass bluetooth headsets. No more cell phones attached to belts. No more drool dripping down the sides of mouthes [sic]. No more pizza in the back pocket. No more Cokes attached to the face. No more two-week-old stench. In short, no more slovenly swine.
Quite frankly, I'll happily cheer a room full of Indians who just took your jobs - if they're well-dressed. There's a certain dignity to outsourcing. It's called a tie.
Dr Nelson was responding to an open letter published in today's major newspapers signed by more than 70,000 Australian scientists and educators stating that the theory has no place in science education.What a plonker.
Rain accompanied by strong winds and occasional thunderstorms is expected on Wednesday from the north to the northern Negev. Temperatures also are to drop considerably. There is a danger of floods in low-lying areas. The mercury is expected to drop slightly again on Thursday, with showers tapering off toward evening. Friday will be partly cloudy to fair, and temperatures will be lower than usual for this time of year.
thanked the Jewish community for its “extraordinary support” when “things got difficult” in his personal and professional life. It had been the community “that stood by me and I won’t let you down. I feel deeply honoured when friends from the Jewish community are prepared to welcome me. I feel like one of the family."
Mr Chirac lays the blame for the death of the EU constitution entirely at Mr Blair's door. Downing Street's panicked decision to announce a referendum forced the French president to follow suit. The campaign then turned into a nightmare when Britain terrified French voters by banging on about the need for economic reform.
If Mr Chirac dislikes the prime minister, then Mr Schröder loathes him. In a sign of how relations have deteriorated since they joined together as champions of the "third way" in the late 90s, he is barely on speaking terms with Mr Blair for four main reasons.
These are: a belief that Mr Blair lied to him about his plans to take Britain into the euro, the catastrophe of the Iraq war, Mr Blair's refusal to take account of the benefits of a cushion to avoid turning the continent into a Thatcherite enterprise zone, and Mr Blair's inability to understand the difficulty of introducing labour market reforms in Germany.
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Picture the scene. The Eggheads at the top of a hill with a small picnic discussing the world and admiring the equistrian statue and the local ruins. From there the Valley of Jezreel stretches below. Puffy white cumulus clouds drift silently in the sky. Flocks of birds wheel over our heads. The view and the breeze and the quiet is wonderful.
Then a noise starts. Up the side of the hill come two pick up trucks, one belching grey smoke. They park next to the statue, families get out, the truck radio comes on loudly and they start cooking on the steps of the statue. Sensing local disapproval, they pack up and move on. Some minutes later, a bunch of tractorim[1] arrive with a dust cloud following them. They manage to make coffee, again on the steps of the statue. Mrs. Egghead now feels that she is being punished for something.
They leave, only to be followed by trail bikes looking for something. They never did find it.
[1] Four wheel motorbikes.
