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By By JEFF Z. KLEIN, on May 20th, 2013 Goalie Tuukka Rask made 35 saves and the rookie Torey Krug scored his second goal in two games, helping Boston take a 2-0 lead in a second-round series.
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> You can stop one protest for a time, but you can’t stop another one from starting up if you don’t deal with the problem, says an eminent Buddhist monk. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mainland scholar has suggested downsizing the ruling Communist Party by setting up an “exit mechanism” to cut at least 31 million members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A “squeezed generation” of middle-aged Europeans are convinced they are going to be poorer in retirement than their parents, according to a global survey that found the Chinese the most confident about their future and the French, Germans and Spanish the most pessimistic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city’s high levels of roadside pollution. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013
The Boston bombing suspect wrote a message in a boat where he hid, describing victims of the attack as “collateral damage”, US media report.
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A quarter of gay people surveyed in a major EU poll say they have been subjected to attacks or violent threats in the past five years.
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Analysis suggests schools are facing an uphill battle to recruit head teachers, with one in four having to re-advertise jobs.
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A facial reconstruction based on the skull of Richard III goes on display in Leicester on the first stop of a national tour.
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The driver of a speedboat which crashed killing a father and daughter was not wearing the safety cord which could have stopped the engine, investigators say.
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Graduates on a new fast-track scheme for trainee social workers will co-handle caseloads after just five weeks of intensive initial training.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A woman whose trial riveted viewers with details of sex and violence returns to court on Thursday, as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week in the death of her boyfriend now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death. Jurors on Wednesday took less than three hours to determine that Jodi Arias should be eligible for the death penalty in the killing of her one-time lover after prosecutors proved the murder was especially cruel and heinous. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> About 20 students and political activists staged a noisy protest against Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Thursday morning when he attended a seminar in Tseung Kwan O. The protesters – members of the Hong Kong Federation of Students and the League of Social Democrats – surrounded Leung’s car as he left the seminar venue at Caritas Bianchi College of Careers. They called for the chief executive to introduce “genuine” universal suffrage and a universal pension scheme. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KEN BELSON, on May 15th, 2013 In a decision that is likely to end a long struggle to save the Sacramento Kings, N.B.A. owners voted to prevent the team from moving to Seattle.
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People who have been arrested should not normally be named until they are charged, Home Secretary Theresa May says in a letter to police.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indonesia has extended a logging ban to protect rainforests despite fierce industry pressure, the government said yesterday, while green campaigners slammed the move as inadequate. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Arctic Council agreed yesterday to admit emerging powers China and India as observers, reflecting growing global interest in the trade and energy potential of the planet’s far north. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JULIA WERDIGIER, on May 15th, 2013 HSBC said on Wednesday that it planned to find an additional $2 billion to $3 billion in cost cuts by 2016 that would include the elimination of as many as 14,000 jobs.
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By David Frum, on May 15th, 2013 I'm working on a little less than all cylinders this week, but I don't want to overlook an important piece by Derek Thompson in the Atlantic. Thompson contrasted the decisive and effective government response to the financial crisis of 2008 to the weak and exhausted response to the unemployment problem.
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By Justin Green, on May 15th, 2013 I endorse this satirical (I think?) idea from the R Street Institute:
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Hongkonger just want to be heard, says eminent Buddhist monk
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