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Loffreda D-Day on Tiesi

| Sports

<p>Argentina coach Marcelo Loffreda will make a final decision as to the status of London Irish center Gonzalo Tiesi after suffering a fractured cheekbone in a collision with teammate Felipe Contepomi during the Pumas 70-14 mopping of a motley Chilean side at the Club Atl&eacute;tico San Isidro on Saturday.<br /> <br /> &uml;If Tiesi has […]

The Bias of Mainstream Media

| Music & Film, US

<h3>Conglomerate Media:&nbsp;&nbsp;No Room for in a Democracy&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Specific purpose: To persuade my audience to use other sources for their news and information besides mainstream media.</h3> <hr /> <p>Our new conglomerate media is limiting our news and sanitizing our wars and disasters</p> <p>A video called Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCL6WdnuNp4">Learn what is really […]

Musharraf to doff uniform for re-election

| Politics, World

Saeed Minhas writes from Islamabad:   President Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf is heading for his home town Karachi to informally launch his formal re-election campaign in the coming week, learned The Frontier Post on good authority. Following a hectic schedule of meetings with the political and top commanders of the country in the capital, President Gen. […]

Should Governmental Candidates Run on Their Opinions?

| Opinion

Among democracies, candidates seeking elected positions universally run on issue-based platforms – Candidate X believes in Y, and therefore should be elected to a given position. The assumption is that if enough of the voting public subscribes to position Y, Candidate X will be elected and will follow through on the promises that embody the […]

The Difference Between Religion And Christianity

| Opinion

So many times, religious people are seen in a very negative way. Although religious people often have good intentions, these same people are often judgmental toward others and restrictive in their views. My being a Christian doesn’t give me firsthand knowledge on the difference between being religious and being a Christian. However, I am writing […]

Bangladeshi Caretaker Government Accounts pile up in absence of Parliament

| Politics

CAG asks govt to form ad hoc PAC to restart auditing The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has asked the caretaker government to immediately constitute a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on ad hoc basis to scrutinise the accounts of the government and reports of the CAG in absence of parliament. In a […]