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Archive for November, 2010

Labour ‘way behind’ on plan for five years of squabbling and recrimination

Senior Labour figures have insisted the party is ‘still on track’ to fill its coming decades of opposition with customary infighting and political bloodletting, despite a tediously uncontroversial and jolly summer.

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Posted: Nov 15th, 2010
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Aung San Suu Kyi ‘disappointed’ at lack of Rangoon Starbucks

Things have gone from bad to worse for Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released from house arrest last week only to find that, during her fifteen-year captivity, not a single branch of Starbucks has opened anywhere in the capital Rangoon, leaving her with neither political power nor coffee.

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Posted: Nov 15th, 2010
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Aung San Suu Kyi tells tabloid press she really isn’t ready to start dating

still holding out for right Milk Tray man to swim across her lake.‘She’s just playing hard to get,’ said Mariana Holt, writing in the Daily Mail.

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Posted: Nov 15th, 2010
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Britain ‘chuffed’ with name-check in George W. Bush book

Haven't been so happy since Ronald Reagan only slightly mis-pronounced 'London'A carnival atmosphere erupted as it was discovered that the small island nation had been name-checked in the former president’s memoirs – and not just once!

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Posted: Nov 14th, 2010
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Apple claim the letter i and seek to ‘takeover the alphabet’

Apple MD Steve Jobs has explained that following the launch of products such as the iPad, iPhone and iPod, his company is to patent the letter i and ‘begin to takeover the alphabet’.

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Posted: Nov 14th, 2010
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