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Hollywood moguls make 'final offer' to actors
Hollywood producers said they made a final offer to actors hours before the current labour contract was to expire, but the Screen Actors Guild responded by saying the offer failed to address some key areas.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Hollywood producers said they made a final offer to actors hours before the current labour contract was to expire, but the Screen Actors Guild responded by saying the offer failed to address some key areas.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Obama takes 15-point lead over McCain
Democratic Party strategists are daring to hope and starting to campaign for a landslide election victory, after Barack Obama opened up a 15-point lead over John McCain in the latest presidential race opinion poll.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Democratic Party strategists are daring to hope and starting to campaign for a landslide election victory, after Barack Obama opened up a 15-point lead over John McCain in the latest presidential race opinion poll.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
David Usborne: Our Man In New York
This year I have joined the ranks of America's weary air warriors. I have not totted up all the flights I have taken since the first of the Democratic Party primaries at the start of January, but I know that the wheels on my trusty suitcase are falling off and my ears are in a state of permanent pop.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
This year I have joined the ranks of America's weary air warriors. I have not totted up all the flights I have taken since the first of the Democratic Party primaries at the start of January, but I know that the wheels on my trusty suitcase are falling off and my ears are in a state of permanent pop.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
The original American dream: a new gold rush
They've been talking about the gold in California's hills since 1849, when tens of thousands of pioneers rushed across the continent or even sailed round Cape Horn to join the fabled gold rush that transformed this remote rural backwater into the beating heart of the American dream.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
They've been talking about the gold in California's hills since 1849, when tens of thousands of pioneers rushed across the continent or even sailed round Cape Horn to join the fabled gold rush that transformed this remote rural backwater into the beating heart of the American dream.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Girlfriend of vanished fraudster could face a 10-year jail stretch
When police found an abandoned SUV on Bear Mountain suspension bridge over the Hudson River in upstate New York, with the keys and a half-full bottle of painkillers inside the car and the legend "Suicide is Painless" scrawled in the dust on the bonnet, the case was open and shut. Samuel Israel III, notorious ex-hedge fund manager, was trying to fool us again.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
When police found an abandoned SUV on Bear Mountain suspension bridge over the Hudson River in upstate New York, with the keys and a half-full bottle of painkillers inside the car and the legend "Suicide is Painless" scrawled in the dust on the bonnet, the case was open and shut. Samuel Israel III, notorious ex-hedge fund manager, was trying to fool us again.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Floods wipe out US crops
The crest of the swollen Mississippi River moved downstream yesterday as volunteers manned sandbagged levees and coped with the costs of the Midwest's worst flooding in 15 years. "At times like these you don't know whether to cry or laugh. But here in the Midwest we tend to favour the latter," said Charlotte Hoerr, who, with her husband Brent, farms land not far from the river in this small Missouri town.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
The crest of the swollen Mississippi River moved downstream yesterday as volunteers manned sandbagged levees and coped with the costs of the Midwest's worst flooding in 15 years. "At times like these you don't know whether to cry or laugh. But here in the Midwest we tend to favour the latter," said Charlotte Hoerr, who, with her husband Brent, farms land not far from the river in this small Missouri town.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Cape Cod is no place for Puritans
Call it Cape Cod-piece. The genteel holiday region, which sells itself as one of the last bastions of old-fashioned New England reserve, has launched a crackdown on the growing number of gay orgies taking place on its famed sand dunes.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Call it Cape Cod-piece. The genteel holiday region, which sells itself as one of the last bastions of old-fashioned New England reserve, has launched a crackdown on the growing number of gay orgies taking place on its famed sand dunes.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Hoax of the severed foot keeps Canadian detectives guessing
The hoaxers were pulling everyone's leg, it seems. A severed human foot that apparently washed up on the beaches of British Columbia – the sixth in recent months – was a grisly prank.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
The hoaxers were pulling everyone's leg, it seems. A severed human foot that apparently washed up on the beaches of British Columbia – the sixth in recent months – was a grisly prank.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
How the cookie crumbles: the great first lady bake-off
America's presidential cookie craze can be traced back to Chicago's Busy Bee Coffee Shop where in 1992 Hillary Clinton blurted out: "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas."
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
America's presidential cookie craze can be traced back to Chicago's Busy Bee Coffee Shop where in 1992 Hillary Clinton blurted out: "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas."
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
Shock as schoolgirl pact leads to 17 pregnancies
It has hardly been unremarked upon in the fishing town of Gloucester in Massachusetts that girls at its North Shore High School have been getting pregnant in alarming numbers. No fewer than 17 have turned up with child this year, four times the level seen last year.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
It has hardly been unremarked upon in the fishing town of Gloucester in Massachusetts that girls at its North Shore High School have been getting pregnant in alarming numbers. No fewer than 17 have turned up with child this year, four times the level seen last year.
The Independent – Jul 18, 2008 2:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
