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Another US obstacle on Britons crossing Atlantic |
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British travellers hoping to visit the US will face yet another bureaucratic obstacle next year, under new laws due from the country"s Department of Homeland Security. 
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Adventures in the world of pain |
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It is called the Dungeon of Dreams. The walls are painted red. Dangling from hooks are all manner of whips, chains, gags and shackles. There are benches, stocks and a wooden cross to which clients can be secured. It is to be found, bizarre though this may seem, in Accrington - home of the legendary Stanley - outside Manchester. And it is not the only thing in what follows to which the adjective bizarre may be applied. 
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UK producer inflation at record |
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UK factory gate prices and producers" input costs rose at a record pace in April, official figures show. |
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China officer promoted for breastfeeding quake babies |
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A Chinese policewoman who breastfed babies orphaned during last month"s earthquake has been given a better job, prompting online protests that promotions should be awarded on merit, not merely for good deeds. |
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Statement by the President |
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I strongly condemn Hizballah"s recent efforts, and those of their foreign sponsors in Tehran and Damascus, to use violence and intimidation to bend the government and people of Lebanon to their will. The United States will continue to firmly support the Government of Lebanon, led by Prime Minister Siniora, against this effort to undermine the hard-fought gains in sovereignty and independence the Lebanese people have made in recent years. The international community will not allow the Iranian and Syrian regimes, via their proxies, to return Lebanon to foreign domination and control. To ensure the safety and security of the people of Lebanon, the United States will continue its assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces to ensure they are able to defend the Lebanese Government and safeguard its institutions. |
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| Top supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have been quietly negotiating a cease-fire to unite the strife-torn party after Obama wraps up the nomination, sources said yesterday. "We will be unified come November. We have to be unified," said one top Clinton donor. The source said that high-level fund-raisers working for both campaigns have been informally discussing the need for each side to lay down arms as the end of the lengthy and often bitter primary battle approaches. "The only way we lose in November is if we fail to get squarely behind whoever is the nominee," the donor said. Both sides acknowledge that efforts are being made to cool off the offensive rhetoric. Already, they say, Clinton and her top supporters have gone to great pains to back off public assertions that somehow, Obama cannot win a general election campaign against Republican John McCain. They continue to insist that Clinton would make a better Democratic nominee, but refrain - publicly - from saying Obama can"t win. For his part, Obama has turned his guns from Clinton to McCain, and has stopped claiming that the former first lady and her supporters are part of the old Washington game that voters so desperately want to change. "Marginalizing the campaign as some Washington insider game does nobody any good," Clinton supporter Mark Aronchick said. "It"s disrespectful and corrosive." Clinton refrained from blasting Obama yesterday as she campaigned in Kentucky, where she attended services at the State Street Methodist Church in Bowling Green and heard a long sermon on adultery. "Too often with [adulterous] thoughts, we let them create nests in our minds," said pastor Paul Fryman, according to CBS News. "You will let those birds fly around, but do not let them nest in your mind." Clinton"s husband, former President Bill Clinton, apologized during his second term in office for a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. churt@nypost.com |
The road slicing through the thickly forested hills of eastern Kentucky used to be called the Daniel Boone Parkway. It was named for the controversial American folk hero who fought his way across Indian country to settle a state where many of his descendants still live. 
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