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Guns are bad. Full stop. Im fed up hearing about people who think they have a right to carry a gun. A gun is a deadly weapon. People who are for guns say people are the deadly ones. Thats stupid. The truth is, that if there were no guns in the world,

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Today I had lunch at Jimmy Johns and noticed a sign on the wall that showed Warren Buffets list of 10 Rules. I was so moved by it that I had to change tables in the middle of my sandwich just to get a closer look. Is it any wonder that he is one of t

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By Franz Wild Abidjan 27 March 2006 Election officials in Sao Tome and Principe say they will try to hold a new round of balloting in parts of the country where some people were blocked from getting t

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 April 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross says the suffering of civilians in Iraq is worsening. In a new report called Civilians Without Protection: The Ever-Worsening Crisis in Iraq , the Red Cross focusses on

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