Month: January 2004
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From Britney Spears’ Complaint for Annulment
Additionally pursuant to NRS 125.350 there was no meeting of the minds in entering into this marriage contract and in a court of equity there is cause for declaring the contract void. Originally found here.
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G.I. Killed and Two Wounded by Mortar Fire at Iraq Base
January 4, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 3 — Insurgents firing mortar shells into an American base about 60 miles north of Baghdad killed one soldier on Saturday and wounded two others, a United States military spokesman said. In a separate attack in the capital, insurgents opened fire on an American convoy,…
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[JJ Letters] ‘Columbus bashers’ wrong
October 28, 1991 We have almost a whole year before the 500th Anniversary of America’s discovery, and already I am sick and tired of the Columbus bashers. To Columbus and the other European settlers, Indians were barbarians from the Stone Age. They were dirty, frightening and capable of horrors and a bestiality unknown to newcomers…
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[JJ Letters] Helping alcoholics
September 28, 1991 Your Sept. 12 article on the alcoholism study at the Harvard School of Public Health reports that “Hospital treatment for alcoholics (was) found to be best,” i.e., “more effective than Alcoholics Anonymous.” As they taught me in journalism school, “Define your terms.” An alcoholic’s hospital regimen is only a medical detoxification process…
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U.S. Soldier Is Killed as Helicopter Is Shot Down in Iraq
January 3, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 2 — Insurgents shot down an American military helicopter near Falluja on Friday, killing one crewman, and angry protesters gathered outside one of Baghdad’s principal Sunni Muslim mosques to protest a raid in which American troops arrested a prominent Sunni cleric and 31 others, as…