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Britain Grapples With Role for Islamic Justice - Star News Online


But her husband was opposed, and the Islamic scholar adjudicating the case seemed determined to keep the couple together. So, sensing defeat, she brought our her secret weapon: her father. In walked a bearded man in long robes who described his son ...


19 Nov 2008

Nerd TV, it's a science - Age


SCIENCE on television is always a bit hit and miss, isn't it? In the past we've had the skivvied-up, facially decorative Curiosity Show duo Rob and Deane, and the wild-eyed lover of chocolate and shouting, Professor Julius Sumner Miller, and ... er ...


19 Nov 2008

Why Palin as leader of the free world is a truly terrifying thought - Independent


Share WHEN Sarah Palin first exploded on to our television screens, she looked uncannily familiar. And for the first 24 hours of her induction as the Republican vice-presidential candidate, I couldn't think why. Then she made her winsome remark about ...


19 Nov 2008

Hu puts off Cuba debt payments - ONE News


Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed to put off some of Cuba's debt payments and gave the island $80 million for hospital modernization and other projects during a visit to strengthen ties between the Communist-run countries. His two-day stopover ...


19 Nov 2008

'Miracle on 34th Street' to open Friday at The Grand - Daily Tribune News


ACT I Youth Theatre will kick off the community's holiday arts schedule with "Miracle on 34th Street" Friday and Saturday. Starting at 7 both nights at The Grand Theatre in Cartersville, the shows will present the age-old question of whether to ...


19 Nov 2008

Famous nature reserve will be lost to the sea - East Anglian Daily Times


MORE than 60 acres of nature reserve on the Suffolk coast are to be abandoned to the North Sea. The Environment Agency will on Friday reveal plans to “withdraw maintenance” from an earth bank which protects part of the internationally important ...


19 Nov 2008

Obama Inspired by, Compared to Lincoln (Washington Post)


YAHOO - Obama Inspired by, Compared to Lincoln (Washington Post)He was a boy with a distant father, raised in a family of modest means. He had a curious intellect, devouring history and memorizing passages from Shakespeare. He became a lawyer and settled in Illinois, where he was elected to the state legislature. With relatively little political experience, he...


19 Nov 2008

Britain Grapples With Role for Islamic Justice (New York Times)


YAHOO - Britain Grapples With Role for Islamic Justice (New York Times)Conservatives and liberals alike have repeatedly denounced Islamic courts as poor substitutes for British jurisprudence.


18 Nov 2008

Dad of missing Lynn child seeks timely release (Boston Herald)


YAHOO - Dad of missing Lynn child seeks timely release (Boston Herald)As the public's attention wanes, the bearded, wild-haired Lynn father of a 5-year-old boy not seen or heard from in three months is demanding the state set him free. ...


18 Nov 2008

Doggone good show (Harrisburg Horizons)


YAHOO - Doggone good show (Harrisburg Horizons)By Ben McNeely Diane Messenger hugged her dog, Finnegan McTavish, in the prep area at the dog show. The show, sponsored by the Greater Monroe Kennel Club, attracted more than 1,500 dogs and their owners to the Cabarrus Arena & Events Center Saturday.  Messenger, from Flat Rock, came to socialize with her friends, who were showing their dogs. Finnegan, a very hairy bearded collie, was excited to ...


18 Nov 2008

Britain grapples with role for Islamic justice (International Herald Tribune)


YAHOO - Britain grapples with role for Islamic justice (International Herald Tribune)The tenets of Shariah, or Islamic law, are increasingly being applied to everyday life in cities across Britain. Above, a woman seeking a divorce in an Islamic court in London.


18 Nov 2008

The Gallery Matador (The New York Observer)


YAHOO - The Gallery Matador (The New York Observer)Javier Peres slept on the flight from Berlin last Wednesday night and hit the tarmac running. He dropped by the Tribeca Grand hotel to check in, splashed some water on his bearded face, then grabbed a cab to Terence Koh’s art opening at a private residence uptown. Sometime around sunrise, he crashed. He woke up the following evening around 8 p.m. and went to the Phillips de Pury auction, where ...


18 Nov 2008

The Bearded Man: Wednesday, 19th November 2008 - Zimbabwe (News ...


The Bearded Man. Among other things, the opinions of a blogger, writer, singer, son, brother, father and husband. My take on the world in general and one thing in particular - a commentary on the current political climate in Zimbabwe. ...


19 Nov 2008

Bearded Bunny Blog: My work at Downtown Pizza Luce


If you have been following my blog lately you have seen me start a few new jobs (working at the walker art center and teaching legos), small drawing comissions, working on new bearded bunnies and creating art that predicts the future. ...


18 Nov 2008

Wendy Diamond: Bearded Dragons, Chihuahua Named Lou, A Bag of ...


Guggi is also a professional Bearded Dragon breeder - possibly the first and last Bearded Dragon breeder I'll ever meet. In all my time blogging, I don't think I've ever blogged about a Bearded Dragon. The closest I've ever been to ...


18 Nov 2008

NPR: My Fellow Bearded Americans


As a bearded American, you'd think I'd know these things. And any group that has a "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year Award" (congrats to 2008 winner Tim Galvin) deserves a little recognition. ...


18 Nov 2008

Charlottetown, The Guardian: Local News | Bearded Skipper calling ...


A man who is the face of deep-sea fishing on PEI is packing his gear after 42 years. Norman Peters, 67, wanted to retire a few years ago, but his clients wouldn’t let him. “Tourists w.


18 Nov 2008

AD CULT: Bearded Ladyboarding - The Oddities You Can Do With a Camera


Bearded Ladyboarding - The Oddities You Can Do With a Camera - The brilliantly bizarre sport of Bearded Ladyboarding has been fashioned to raise awareness of the unusual…


18 Nov 2008