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Daily Links for 2006-02-25

By: Lisa On: Feb/24/06 - Leave Your Comment
  • Here’s a healthy way to handle diversity. ‘Why do Mexicans sell oranges at freeway offramps? What do you want them to sell, Steinways
    (tags: Mexicans)
  • Religious leaders summoned Iraq’s Shiites and Sunnis to joint prayer services Friday amid an extraordinary daytime curfew aimed at halting a wave of sectarian violence that has killed nearly 130 people since the bombing of one of Shiite Islam’s holiest sh
    (tags: Iraq)
  • AN army of senior golfers have shot down a former US president in the Battle of Medway.

    Maidstone’s Medway Golf Club refused former president Bill Clinton a round of golf on Thursday because the crowded course was hosting its midweek championships.

    (tags: Clinton)
  • A United Arab Emirates company has volunteered to postpone its takeover of significant operations at six major U.S. seaports, and the White House said on Friday the delay would be helpful in giving the administration time to convince skeptical lawmakers t
    (tags: US+Ports)
  • Krauthammer does it again. “If only Churchill were alive today, none of this would be happening. The proud imperialist would have taken care that the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., chartered in 1840 by Victoria (”by the grace of God . . .
  • The White House on Friday praised as helpful the offer by a United Arab Emirates company to postpone indefinitely its takeover of significant operations at six major U.S. seaports. The delay gives President Bush time to convince skeptical lawmakers the de
    (tags: Dubai)
  • When it comes to United Arab Emirates companies operating at the Port of Houston, “we’re already there,” to paraphrase one firm’s motto.

    Besides the Middle Eastern nation’s company whose U.S. port business is causing political headaches for the Bush ad

    (tags: Dubai Houston)

Posted on: February 24, 2006 |

Posted in: National News

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