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Community Comment archive for Feb. 18, 2009

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18, 2009

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Jesuits file for bankruptcy protection 

Good morning, Netizens... [Portions from KREM-2, The Portland Oregonian and the AP wire] PORTLAND, Ore. - The Catholic order that founded Gonzaga University and helps run the school has declared bankruptcy because of the potential for huge amounts of priest sex abuse settlements. The Jesuits…

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In this Feb. 14, 2009 file photo, Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa meets journalists at the end of the G-7 (Group of Seven) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, in Rome. Finance Minister Nakagawa said Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, he will step down because of health problems but will stay on until parliament approves supplementary budget in coming weeks. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) (Gregorio Borgia - AP)  (The Spokesman-Review)

Nakagawa at the G7 Summit...

Good morning, Netizens... The Japanese economy is in the tank, and their representative to the G7 Summit in Rome, Italy should have been in his best form. Instead what world and Japanese leaders got was Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa apparently in his cups before a…

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A Brief History of the Ballroom 

Good morning, Netizens... [The First Arrival] In the beginning, where this Blog first set its calloused feet upon the oft-trodden road of what some call the new journalism, I was fond of writing what were quite long messages, in particular about a called the Virtual…

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Quote of the Day -- February 18, 2009

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003If you do not recognize the name Leontyne Price, you have indeed missed out on one of the most-beautiful operatic sopranos in its entire history.

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In this photo made available by Bridges TV, Muzzammil Hassan, and his wife Aasiya Hassan of Orchard Park, NY, near Buffalo, pose in an undated photo. Police say Hassan beheaded his wife after she filed for divorce. Hassan, CEO of Bridges TV in Orchard Park, NY, launched the network in 2004, to improve the image of Muslims in the media following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. (AP Photo/Bridges TV) (The Spokesman-Review)

Improving the image... 37 

Good morning, Netizens...In this photo made available by Bridges TV of Orchard Park, NY near Buffalo, Muzzammil (Mo) Hassan, and his wife Aasiya Hassan of Orchard Park, pose in an undated photo. Police say Hassan beheaded his wife, an architect, after she filed for divorce.…

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