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Ethiopian Troops Enter Somalia to Help Out
Ethiopia decided to lend a neighbor a hand but many in Somalia do not appreciate the help. From Al Jazeera: Hundreds of troops reportedly entered the strategically important town of Beledweyne on Saturday. Abdinur Ahmed Maow, a local resident, told The Associated Press news agency that the armed opposition fighters had left “without a single…
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Chris Brown Claims He Doesn't Remember Mollywhopping Rihanna
In an interview set to air Wednesday, Chris Brown sits down with Larry King to discuss the events of February 8th. Click here to see the preview. Hmmmm. You don’t remember, Mr. Brown? Let’s say, for the sake of argument, we buy that. How do you explain the other incidents that have recently come to…
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Obama Supporters Trying to Get Tough on Health Care
With the same zeal and energy that helped get President Obama elected in November, supporters of health care reform are using the same approach when it comes to health care reform. From The Washington Post: The initiative began Wednesday with a rally at a labor hall in Phoenix that featured the Obama sunrise logo and…
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Whitney Houston's "I Look to You" Celebrates Singer's Arc
Whitney Houston has been in the game a long time and she has jumped back into the R&B fray with “I Look to You.” From the New York Times: “I Look to You,” with Ms. Houston’s longtime mentor Clive Davis as her co-producer, is more subdued, canny and cautious. She still sings about the power…
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Semenya's Testosterone Test Results
Caster Semenya‘s testosterone levels were found to be within the range that allows her to participate in women’s races, despite being higher than usual, according to a press report in South Africa. Read the details on the Guardian…
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Was MJ Bleaching His Skin?
From CNN: The first search of Michael Jackson’s bedroom a day after his death found marijuana, skin-bleaching and hair-growing ointments, anti-insomnia pills and empty bottles of several anti-anxiety drugs, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. A substance initially suspected to be tar heroin proved not to be a narcotic, according to a source with knowledge…
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How Kennedy Helped Ron Brown and Roger Wilkins
From Black America Web: …what many people don’t know is that Kennedy helped a number of African-Americans professionally and politically. “Ron Brown never would have been commerce secretary if it had not been for Ted Kennedy,” said Michael K. Frisby, a former national politics reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe. “He…
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Take Me Back to New Orleans
Ever since the levees broke, I’d been meaning to get back there. But things kept coming up. So it is when you’re doing the avoidance dance. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with New Orleans, my ancestral home. I finally made it back to NOLA two summers ago, driving past my grandparents’ long-abandoned house. Literally…
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Judge OKs Vick's Bankruptcy Plan
With a steady day job squared away, Michael Vick now has a way of paying back his creditors and Judge Frank Santoro likes his plan for how he intends to do it. From ESPN: A judge in Virginia on Thursday approved Michael Vick‘s plan to repay creditors who are owed $20 million and emerge from…
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