You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you’re remaining silent. You have a right to a lawyer — before, during and after questioning, even though the police don’t have to tell you exactly when the lawyer can be with you. If you can’t afford a lawyer, one […]
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Trader Joe’s co-owner’s death, secretive life
Theo Albrecht, secretive co-owner of Trader Joe’s, dies at 88 Theo Albrecht, the secretive co-founder of Germany’s worldwide discount supermarket chain Aldi, a co-owner of Trader Joe’s in the United States and one of Europe’s richest men, has died at age 88. The retail machine that Albrecht built with his brother Karl has won over […]
Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s publicist says the 93-year-old actress has been rushed to a hospital after falling out of bed and breaking several bones. John Blanchette says Gabor was watching television in her Bel Air home Saturday evening when she tumbled to the floor. Her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, called an ambulance and Gabor was […]
Children’s Rights in the War Theater
Who Guards the Guards? ‘He never slept in a bed of myths, He didn’t live his childhood.’ ‘Song’, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said) Victims of a Map, Saqi Books. On 27th May 2008, Save the Children released a Report which ‘shows that children living in conflict affected countries fear to report sexual exploitation and abuse by […]
President Paying Dead People
Here’s an idea, Uncle Sam: Stop writing checks to dead people. The government sent benefit checks to 20,000 departed Americans over three years, totaling more than $180 million — a remarkable number that provoked the Obama administration to create a government-wide “do not pay” list as part of its brainstorming for ways to save taxpayer […]
Attorney says Gary Coleman, wife divorced in 2008
Former child TV actor Gary Coleman and his wife were divorced in 2008, an attorney for the late “Diff’rent Strokes” star said Wednesday, the same day a tape of a 911 call was released that detailed her call for help. Randy Kester told The Associated Press that Coleman and Shannon Price divorced in August 2008 […]
Growing Number of Aircraft Near-Collisions
The growing number of aircraft near-misses in US skies is making civilian aviation authorities increasingly concerned and has prompted them to reexamine air traffic control procedures. “Over the last weeks there have been a number of instances where separation was lost between aircraft and in some cases there was a bit of a delay of […]