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Image Come to Life Woman Gets to Thank Firefighter Who Rescued Her in 1968
The firefighter crawled on his stomach through the pitch-black apartment, the smoke so thick he couldn't see his hand in front of his face. Somewhere inside was a baby and he had to find her.A window broke, light filled the room, and he saw her lying in her crib, dressed only in a diaper, unconscious. Soot covered her tiny nose. She wasn't breathing and had no pulse.He grabbed her and ...
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Bowden weds in New York
30 Rock star Katrina Bowden walked down the aisle with her rocker beau in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday. The actress exchanged vows with musician Ben Jorgensen in a romantic ceremony at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a year and a half after they became engaged. The bride and groom and their guests braved the rainy Big Apple weather for the private nuptials, but the newlyweds have some heat to look ...
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Snipes on board for Expendables 3
Actor Wesley Snipes attends a news conference at Galaxy Air at the Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Florida, in this December 8, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Rick ...
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Jordan felt the eclectic beat with STOMP the world reknowned musical show
STOMP steps into Jordan (photo from STOMP Facebook page) The individuality and personality of the world-renowned STOMP groupEUR(TM)s members shone through their rehearsals of the choreographed percussion show ahead of their three-day performance at Amman's Palace of Culture.The British show has travelled around the world for over twenty years, with the 12 performers using brooms, lids, ...
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Tibetans stage protest against Li Keqiangs visit security stepped up
Tibetan organisations on Monday staged protests against the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang even as police stepped up security in the city for the leader's arrival.A large number of personnel were deployed at Chinese embassy and the hotel where the Premier is staying and traffic diversions enforced in several places.Traffic diversions will remain in place till Tuesday afternoon, police ...
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Sports Briefing | Cycling Giovanni Visconti Wins Stage as Vincenzo Nibali Retains Lead at Giro dItalia
A superb solo ride up the grueling Col du Galibier in France gave Giovanni Visconti of Italy the victory in a snowy 15th stage of the Giro ...
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RPT-Dubai labourers stage rare strike for more pay
Mon May 20, 2013 12:24am EDT (Repeats story originally issued on Sunday with no changes to text) * Arabtec is UAE's largest publicly listed building firm * Labour strikes rare in Gulf, especially among migrant contractors * Strike began on Saturday, spread on Sunday By Praveen Menon DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec, ...
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Taylor Swift nabs 8 wins at Billboard Music Awards
Taylor Swift poses backstage with her awards at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday in Las Vegas. (John Shearer/Invision/Associated ...
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Sydney dance teacher Grant Davies 39 accused of taking students naked photos
Court documents showed Grant Davies' wife Lisa Ricketts became suspicious after he became "secretive" and put a security lock on his phone and computer, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Davies, 39, operated RG Dance Studio in Chiswick in the city's inner west for almost a decade and was allegedly taking photos of naked students, some as young as six, for almost the ...
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Wife of bankrupt Dunne plans $150000 gym and cinema upgrade to home
20 May 2013 The wife of bust developer Sean Dunne is planning $154,000 worth of improvements to the basement of her new US mansion, the Irish Independent can ...
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Vancouver theatre faces a real tragedy
The Centre for Performing Arts is pictured through a window from the Vancouver Public Library in Vancouver on May 9, 2013. (Ben Nelms for The Globe and ...
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Visconti wins snow-covered stage 15 of Giro
Italy's Giovanni Visconti won stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday on another weather-affected day of racing.After conditions had forced an alteration to the route on Saturday, organisers followed suit with more changes on Sunday, with the race distance reduced by 4.25 kilometres due to snow.And despite a slow finish, Movistar rider Visconti was rewarded for a brave solo climb.He ...
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Conductor James Levine Returns To Lead Metropolitan Opera Orchestra After Partial Paralysis
NEW YORK - James Levine rolled onto the Carnegie Hall stage in his black motorized wheelchair and into a 6-by-6-foot mechanical podium constructed by the Metropolitan Opera. Belted into the wheelchair, Levine and two aides waited while the podium hoisted him about 3 feet in the air and its interior rotated 180 degrees to leave him facing the audience. Given a 1-minute standing ovation, he blew ...
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Music Review James Levine Returns to the Podium at Carnegie Hall
Against all odds, James Levine is back. On Sunday afternoon Mr Levine, one of the greatest living American conductors and a musician who has defined the Metropolitan Opera for more than 40 years, cruised onto the stage of Carnegie Hall in a motorized wheelchair and conducted the Met Orchestra in a substantial program, his first performance anywhere in more than two years. The audience, ...
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Advertising A Season of Families Vampires and Aliens
BASED on what the broadcast networks shared with Madison Avenue last week about the coming season, it seems as if the quintessential new series for 2013-14 is a comedy about a family of vampires from space moving in with relatives on earth. O. K., that is an exaggeration. But analysts and executives at media agencies who are studying the schedules announced during upfront week in New ...
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Police probe Chris Brown death threats
Police in Los Angeles have launched a probe into allegations singer Chris Brown has been bombarded with death threats. The R&B star's attorney Mark Geragos turned to authorities after receiving a number of menacing phone calls at his Los Angeles office targeting Brown, according to TMZ.com. Geragos contacted police and filed a report, prompting detectives at the Los Angeles Police ...
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Christine White dead at 86
Twilight Zone actress Christine White passed away on April 14 at a nursing home in Washington, D.C., at age 86. Her death was only publicized in a recent notice in The Carroll County Times in Maryland. The actress, also known as Christine Lamson White, enjoyed a career spanning over 20 years and appeared in more than 50 movies and TV series, including shows like Perry Mason, The Loretta Young ...
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In praise of … Xu Bing | Editorial
A language written in pictures like Chinese lends itself to calligraphy as art, and art as calligraphy. Xu Bing, whose exhibition Landscape Landscript ran this spring at ...
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Angelina Jolie to play her mom in biopic
Angelina Jolie is set to celebrate the life of her late mother Marcheline Bertrand by portraying her onscreen in a planned biopic, according to U.K. reports. The Hollywood beauty is working on the project with her fiance Brad Pitt, who is said to be producing the film through his company Plan B next year, reports the Sunday Express. Details surrounding the movie are scarce, but it is likely to ...
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Edward Furlong freed on bail
Embattled actor Edward Furlong has been released from a Los Angeles jail after posting $100,000 bail. The Terminator 2: Judgment Day star was arrested on Thursday for allegedly violating a restraining order obtained by his ex-girlfriend Monica Keena, after he was found in a stairwell close to her West Hollywood home. He spent two nights behind bars before being released on Saturday afternoon, ...
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Arts Briefly Pearl Theater Company Unveils Schedule
The Pearl Theater Company, the Off Broadway troupe that mounts classic plays and new works dealing with classical themes, has announced its 2013-14 season. The world premiere of ...
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Media Decoder Charlie Rose to Host a Prime Time Show on PBS
Viewers can already wake up with Charlie Rose on ...
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Media Decoder Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing
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Music Review Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field
The map of Electric Daisy Carnival, the two-day electronic dance music festival that began on Friday at Citi Field, was also a map of genres and subgenres. In 11 hours of continuous music from five stages, there were pop tunes and blasts of noise, immediate thrills and inexorable buildups, cheap shots and rich experiments. New York ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Morocco recieves aid as part of EU ties
Morocco has taken another step forward in its several years long pursuit of closer ties with the EU, receiving a vote of confidence from the continent’s organizing body in the form of aid, which will be used to pursue areas of development needed to modernize and reform the country.
Morocco is to receive Euro 580 million (roughly MAD 6 billion) from the European Union over the next four years, according to a joint agreement that was signed between Morocco and the EU recently, which it is hoped will provide the country with the means to further integrate itself with the European economy. Read more
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