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Complete list of 46th annual Grammy winners and nominees
The Associated PressComplete list of winners and nominees in 105 categories for the 46th annual Grammy Awards: Winners are indicated in green. 1. Record of the year: "Crazy in Love," Beyonce featuring Jay-Z; "Where Is the Love?" Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake;...Tags: Gang Activity, Randy Newman, Bodies of Water, Science and Technology, Dolly Parton
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U.S. would ease Iraq ultimatum to get U.N. votes
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - While France and Russia each threatened to veto a United Nations resolution authorizing war against Iraq, the Bush administration agreed yesterday to ease the terms of its ultimatum to Baghdad in a bid to win Security Council backing for...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Government, North Korea, Tony Blair, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Concertline
The proliferation of rock sub-genres (indie, ska-punk, aggro) isn't just confusing to casual music fans; it's also bewildering to bands. For example, Kansas City's talented Get Up Kids has been dubbed a punk-pop band even through its catchy, mid-tempo,...Tags: Music Industry, Jack Johnson, Glenn Danzig, Punk (genre), Teddy Pendergrass
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Haiti: `The world doesn't have any idea how bad this situation is getting'
Sun-SentinelPORT-AU-PRINCE--The floods that blight the seaside slum known as God's Village arrive with a vengeance, even on days when the rains are light. Waves of coffee-colored mud slide off the mountains into canals heaping with garbage. Sewers overflow and stone...Tags: Wetlands, Polio, Harvard Medical School, Career and Workplace, Environmental Pollution
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Emirates looked other way while al-Qaida funds flowed
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersUntil Sept. 11, Osama bin Laden's terrorists in Afghanistan used the Persian Gulf crossroads of the United Arab Emirates as their lifeline to the outside world. Poor oversight in the loose federation of seven tiny sheikdoms allowed Bin Laden's al-Qaida...Tags: Belgium, Aircraft Hijacking, Career and Workplace, Taliban, Africa
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City's 5 million reduced to mere survival
Tribune foreign correspondentThe invalids line their wheelchairs along the edge of the pier, high above the Congo River's swirling, deadly currents, as if about to plunge in. But they are not suicidal. They are in a race. And they must solve an important puzzle: How can they board...Tags: Polio, Coup d'Etat, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Bodies of Water, Armed Forces
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Children in Angola tortured as witches
Tribune foreign correspondentHelena Kufumana makes a pathetic witch. Far from exuding wickedness, the 13-year-old schoolgirl is nervous and shy. Her "101 Dalmatians" cartoon T-shirt is grubby and doesn't fit. She swings her bare feet beneath her chair in the hyper way that all...Tags: Career and Workplace, Africa, Jonas Savimbi, Employees, Roman Catholicism
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Plagues of old reclaim continent
Tribune foreign correspondentThe mad people of Ibba hardly seem the harbingers of a health crisis consuming Africa. At first glance, their insanity almost seems understandable, the human fallout from 16 grinding years of civil war.There are the two farmers, grown men, who have...Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Procedures and Tests, Sudan, Africa, HIV
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Castro's victory complete
Sun-SentinelIt was what Cuban exiles dreaded most. Elián González, the boy they had protected for months, was in the clutches of Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Wednesday evening. Exile leaders swore it would never happen. They vowed to keep Elián from communism. They...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Cuba, Havana (Cuba), University of Miami, Florida International University
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CEOs of war bleed Angola
Tribune foreign correspondentThis rocket-shattered village on the desolate plains of northern Angola doesn't look like the front line of an ugly new kind of war in Africa. Everything seems too dismally familiar. The abandoned mud huts. The government troops trudging down red-dirt...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Armed Forces, Africa, National Government, Energy Resources
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Angola's brutal war shelters nomads from world's intrusions
Tribune foreign correspondentA cloudless desert sky, shimmering like polished chrome. A desolate plain, littered with stones, unfolding to all horizons. A vast and ancient stillness. And in this wilderness of dust, the tiny footprints of a child. "Himba," said Alfredo Tchimbuembue,...Tags: Indigenous People, Africa, National Government, Kenya, Government
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Torrents of civil war pound ravaged Congo
Tribune foreign correspondentThe rains start in October in Katanga province, with huge drops that fall as they do only in the tropics, straight and hard, like a hail of ball bearings. Water pools. And then, restlessly, the runoff begins to move. It slides northward across an immense...Tags: Belgium, Physiology, Career and Workplace, Joseph Conrad, Bodies of Water
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