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I didn't want to be pregnant again. Another one looks real, real bad." But she'd never consider any of her kids mistakes. She's grown up a lot since the other two, she says. I will not lose custody of this baby. It's been 3 days since Juanita came to the hospital to give birth to Kerrez and she is so ready to return to Our Mother's Home to begin raising baby Kerrez. She starts packing her book bag, CD remixes with cuss words in the title, photo album, makeup bag, Discman, and cell phone charger. But, there's a glitch. Someone — the nurse? Who? — called the 800 abuse hotline on Juanita. Child welfare has put a "hold" on baby Kerrez and triggered the process to place the infant into state custody. The hospital won't let Juanita leave with her son.
Hillary Clinton: my teary moment won me New Hampshire
And then she just went out and essentially gave her heart to the people of New Hampshire. She didn't ask me anything, talk about anything, say, 'Here's why I'm doing it', and they came back, they turned." In a Fox News interview, Mr Obama put a brave face on his defeat, pointing that he had been trailing by as much as 20 points in New Hampshire as recently as two months ago and he remained in a strong position. "This is a high-stakes election and I don't think voters are going to let any candidate take anything for granted," he said. "They want to lift the hood and kick the tyres." Tabloids in New York, where Mrs Clinton serves as senator, plastered shots of her laughing face on the front page with headlines, 'Who’s Crying Now?' in the New York Daily News and, 'Back From the Dead' in the New York Post.
Archives for: July 2007
So there is quite a lot of apprehension on both sides about what will transpire when Britain's new Prime Minister and America's decaying President have their first proper date. In the nightmare scenario which terrifies diplomats, the two men will find they have nothing in common except their initials. Brown will invite the President to agree to his grand plan for eradicating world poverty; Bush will respond by asking the Prime Minister to sign up to the nuking of Iran. Even if their talks are perfectly amicable, there will be long shadows on the walls of the log cabins in the Catoctin mountains of Maryland. There will be the shades of conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq. And there will be the ghost of Tony Blair. Both the GBs had an intensity of relationship with TB that neither will ever have with each other.
Webcastr Names Videos of the Year
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Webcastr.com, a video website featuring professional video content from over 200 channel providers, today announced the winners of it's Videos of the Year awards. Webcastr's viewers, along with it's editors voted amongst over 2,500 professionally produced videos on the website to pick the best video clips of the year for 2007. Thirty finalists were chosen by the staff of the webbery with the final clips being voted on during the last two weeks of December. Unlike the majority of video sharing sites, Webcastr features clips that come from licensed sources of professional and semi-pro content. "With so much of the user generated content out there being of questionable quality, we are happy to present these awards in recognition of the efforts of pro content creators who increasingly understand the value of the short form online video medium," said Webcastr CEO, Tim Devine.
Williams' Bruce honored
Couture, who is both blind and legally deaf, has been Bruce's partner in the Best Buddies program for the past four years. The pair get together nearly every week, often shooting baskets or hockey pucks. When Bruce is away from school he checks in weekly, always scheduling the duo's next outing. Bruce's reliability and his friendship has helped Ramon, an eight-year member of the program who is able to hear but not well, form a strong bond. "There's a new maturity with Ramon," said Barbara Couture, who adopted Ramon at the age of 4. "Before, if someone would cancel or be unable to do something, it would cause him to withdraw. Now he's much more flexible. Will is one of his main outlets." Bruce's time spent with Best Buddies, as well as 13 other organizations he's served on during his four years at Williams, earned him the 2008 Coach Wooden Cup, an award presented to the most outstanding role .
Radio 1 DJ who was set to play Dubai arrested at airport over drugs ...
Grooverider, a Radio 1 DJ, is facing the possibility of a four-year prison term in Dubai after police arrested him for allegedly carrying cannabis and pornographic DVDs into the country. Grooverider – whose real name is Raymond Bingham – was arrested at Dubai airport on November 23, hours before he was due to play a sold-out show at The Lodge, one of the Gulf state’s hottest clubs. A small amount of cannabis was reported to have been found in his record collection. The 40-year-old DJ, who co-hosts the weekly BBC drum-and-bass programme Fabio and Grooverider, faces four years in jail or deportation if he is found guilty. His case is causing huge controversy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where strict laws rooted in conservative Islam sometimes clash with the liberal values of its expatriate citizens and the millions of tourists who visit every year.
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