If it were not for other pressing matters, Bill Clinton and Gloria Arroyo would probably be looking forward to what could be a fun and important event: Their college reunion.
This year is the 40th anniversary of Georgetown University's Class of 1968. The class homecoming at the oldest and most prestigious Catholic, and Jesuit, university in the United States kicks off late May. But as of last week the list of expected attendees does not mention either Clinton or Arroyo.
McAllen, Texas - A custody case that wrecked a small-town south Texas mayor's political career ended Thursday when she was ordered to return a Shih Tzu to her neighbors.
Grace Saenz-Lopez, the former mayor of Alice, had claimed Puddles died last year while she was pet-sitting for the neighbors. Three months later, however, a relative of the neighbors saw the dog, renamed Panchito, at a grooming business.
Big Ten rivals may despise Purdue University, but give the school credit for this much: It takes crap seriously.
Purdue students are making extra cash by smelling livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens. It's all in the name of odor research being conducted by a professor of agricultural and biological engineering. Yup, Purdue is a regular Poo U.
A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard.
A village in the southwest of Ireland won its battle to get its ancient "harlot" back on Thursday when a government order officially changed its name in the Irish language.
For centuries, the village in County Limerick, known as Doon in English, had been known in Gaelic as Dun Bleisce, or Fort of the Harlot, but the name was changed in 2003.
The village's Gaelic name was changed to An Dun, or The Fort in Gaelic, on the advice of the country's Placenames Commission, the official arbiter of names in Irish.
Written by Danny Penman
NewsmonsterFri, 25 Apr 2008 05:34 UTC
Christeen Skinner blinks at the screen of her computer and takes another slurp of coffee. It's half past seven in the morning and she's preparing for a crucial meeting with the chief executive of the High and Mighty fashion chain.
Apart from the black cat dozing on her lap, the only clue to Christeen's occupation as a 21st century astrologer is a copy of an Ephemeris that lies open at a page marked "Mercury March 25th".
A successful Saudi businessman from Taif, a city in the Mecca Province, paid his son a $267,000 reward for quitting smoking, the Lebanese As-Safir newspaper said on Thursday.
The son learned of the gift when he asked bank officials why such a large sum had appeared on his account.
"I'm glad that after nine years of smoking my son finally managed to get rid of this bad habit," said the father, whose name was not disclosed.
An eccentric aristocrat who deserted English society to travel the world believed she had found a cure for the plague, letters show.
Lady Hester Stanhope, the niece of the Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, claimed to have cured a 12-year-old boy with a mysterious remedy called "serpent stone".
The ingredients are not described, but it is thought to have been a homemade concoction.
Servando Gonzalez
ObServandoMon, 21 Apr 2008 00:47 UTC
Author's warning: The following article is a satire. Even though all the information mentioned in it is true and verifiable, take it with a grain of salt.
Consequently, I am proposing the creation of a special hotline or Web site where people could call or e-mail to report any strange behavior by senior members of our government, Congress, Supreme Court judges, CIA, FBI, FEMA, Office of Homeland Security senior officials, Pentagon generals and senior CFR members.
The information would be checked to make sure the observations were not caused by other circumstances commonly known to affect the behavior of these particular type of two-legged animals, such as lying, stealing, disinforming or prevaricating.
