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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 British Airways canceled another flight to the United States on Friday as the Bush administration faced questions from American allies about the reliability of the intelligence information that has led to the recent rash of flight cancellations. … Continue reading →

Or Why We Can’t Win the War If We Let the Other Guys Make the Rules Somewhere in a cave in Afghanistan or a high rise in Riyadh or a houseboat bobbing lazily on a canal in Amsterdam, Faruk and … Continue reading →

ATLANTA – A rivalry over which airport is the world’s busiest has pitted Chicago against Atlanta, with each city saying its hub holds the record. Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport had the most takeoffs and landings in 2003 – 928,735 according … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade harangues Sen. John Kerry today in NH (Gabriel Feldman photo) Despite the heightened Orange Alert, Logan Airport was surprisingly quiet at 9:00 am this morning, bereft of obvious security measures, as the Dowbrigade waited to pick up his … Continue reading →

Sharon Stone’s romp with Joe Pesci in Casino has been voted the worst love scene of all time. It beat competition from Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment. Third in the poll, voted for by readers of Film … Continue reading →

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 1 -Gen. Pervez Musharraf won a vote of confidence on Thursday from Pakistan’s electoral college, allowing him legally to remain president into 2007. The vote completes General Musharraf’s transformation from a military dictator who took power in … Continue reading →

The Boston Globe recently did an in depth interview with Democratic frontrunner Howard Dean in which they asked him how he reaches decisions. The answer is quite revealing and reflects Dean’s mediacal training; basically, he collects all of the facts … Continue reading →

World’s Biggest Snake Discovered in Indonesia Its a good thing Norma Yvonne is on vacation, far, far away from here, or she wouldn’t go near the computer for a week just from seeing a snake this big on the screen. Honestly, … Continue reading →

Cards that can be read from your pocket, without having to be swiped? Incredible convienience, or an invitation to electronic pocket-picking? How long til your student ID chip is implanted under your skin during your freshman physical? Thank goodness this … Continue reading →

People considering a tandem skydive would trust cartoon character Homer Simpson over US President George Bush, according to research. The public voted the daft dad of hit TV show "The Simpsons" as their number one choice if they were participating … Continue reading →

The Globe’s political coverage takes a turn for the lyrical, as Peter Canellos whips up some wacky images in a review of the convoluted rhetoric concerning foreign policy flying around the campaign, and the difficulty in parsing political pronouncements and … Continue reading →

James Caroll, in a Boston Globe op-ed piece, mentions some alarming statistics concerning the US criminal justice system. He makes the argument that racism has been so effectively and insideously institutionalized under the guise of the "War on Drugs" that we … Continue reading →