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Rice and Easy Does It
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought this week to clarify US policy on harsh interrogation methods, saying that the US did not support toture.

Viewers of Charlie Sheen's TV Series Two and a Half Men beg to differ.

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Snow Chaos!
Storms across the middle of the US have resulted in freezing cold temperatures, snow and a series of fatal motor accidents in Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky over the last couple of days. In Texas, a mother and son died in a fire sparked by an improperly installed wood-burning stove.

The prospects are that this bad weather to continue. One male weather presenter said that the snow seen in many States might reach as big as '10 inches' over the weekend, although his females colleagues disagreed, suggesting that '3-4 inches at most' was a more realistic proposition.

10" never did Mr Damian any harm...

Crips creator faces final countdown
In California and across the American press the story of Crips co-founder and convicted murderer, Stanley Tookie Williams, has been grabbing the headlines as he sits on death row waiting to find out if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be a girlie man and spare his life or not.

Attorneys for Williams, have met the Governor to put forwrad their case, but they're unsure whether the meeting helped or not.

Williams' lead attorney, Peter Fleming, told reporters in an unfortunate turn of phrase, 'I'm still frightened to death.'

Asked about Williams' chance of getting clemency, Fleming said, 'I'm not an oddsmaker.' An oddsmaker offered us 6-4 against.

Privately those close to the Governor say that he is finding the whole incident very stressful. 'Williams is pleading clemency' said one aide, 'but we fail to understand what a type of orange has to do with this case'.

America asks: 'Will Arnie live up to his reputation as The Terminator?'

Posted by damian at December 09, 2005 01:02 PM