Posts Tagged ‘douglas’

VIDEO: ‘Dog cam’ aids search and rescue

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

UK firm Wood & Douglas has developed a product that allows rescue dogs to relay real time video and audio information back to their handlers.

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Saudi Women May be Forced to Cover Up ‘Tempting’ Eyes

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

This Article, written by Douglas Stanglin, originally appeared on USAtoday.com on November 17, 2011 Saudi women with sexy or “tempting” eyes may be forced to cover them up , according to a spokesperson for the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the news site Bikyamasr reports.

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Alec Baldwin to host WNYC podcast, ‘Here’s The Thing’

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Prepare your MP3 devices and smartphones, ladies and gentlemen, because Alec Baldwin has announced a new venture: Public radio podcast host. The “30 Rock” actor will helm “Here’s The Thing,” a podcast interview series at public radio station WNYC. Baldwin will chat with interesting people in their homes, offices and other rooms they frequent, beginning with Michael Douglas on Oct. 24. Read full article > >

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Matt Damon, Michael Douglas will star in HBO Liberace Biopic

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Michael Douglas will take on the role of Liberace for a biopic film on the legendary pianist, HBO confirmed Tuesday. The feature, titled “Behind the Candelabra,” is scheduled to begin production next summer, under the direction of Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh’s involvement with the film has solidified his role in Hollywood, says Lisa de Moraes of The TV Column: Read full article > >

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Bafta race row stylist apologises

Monday, May 30th, 2011

A celebrity hairdresser admits using racially insulting language to presenter Ben Douglas at the Bafta awards, blaming his “out of control” drinking.

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Theater Review | ‘Macbeth’: The Deed Is Done, the Doers Undone

Friday, March 25th, 2011

John Douglas Thompson stars as Macbeth, and Annika Boras as his wife, in Arin Arbus’s production at the Duke on 42nd Street.

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Theater Review | ‘Macbeth’: The Deed Is Done, the Doers Undone

Princeton 63, Harvard 62: Princeton Beats Harvard at Buzzer

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Princeton’s Douglas Davis hit a leaning jump shot at the buzzer to give the Tigers a trip to the N.C.A.A. tournament for the first time since 2004 with a wild victory over Harvard.

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Letters: ‘Marshall McLuhan’

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

Letters in response to David Carr’s review of Douglas Coupland’s biography “Marshall McLuhan.”

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Letters: ‘Marshall McLuhan’

Hamilton Accies 1-1 Celtic

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Celtic salvage a point via a late penalty in a drama-filled clash with Hamilton at New Douglas Park.

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Hamilton P-P Celtic

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Hamilton’s match against Celtic is postponed because of a faulty underpitch heating system at New Douglas Park.

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‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ in the Senate

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

The Post asked experts to discuss the politics of don’t ask don’t tell as the Senate considers repealing the policy. Below are responses from Dan Schnur, Aubrey Sarvis, Susan Collins, Ed Rogers, Michael Honda and Douglas E. Schoen.

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Michael Douglas: ‘I’m So Happy’

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Michael Douglas appears healthy, serene, and grateful to be alive in his first major interview since he announced he has stage-four throat cancer. The two-time Oscar winner has been undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments five days a week, but…

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Michael Douglas: ‘I’m So Happy’

Housing benefit cuts ‘may cost taxpayer more’

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

The government’s housing benefit cuts are “potentially devastating” and risk displacing families and increasing homelessness while actually costing the taxpayer money, Labour’s Douglas Alexander has claimed.

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Housing benefit cuts ‘may cost taxpayer more’

Kyrgyz contracts fly under the radar

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

BISHKEK, KYRGYSTAN – When U.S. troops moved into Afghanistan in 2001, Douglas Edelman already had a foothold in Central Asia. He’d opened a bar and hamburger joint here in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, the crumbling, outer rim of the former Soviet empire.

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Kyrgyz contracts fly under the radar

Labour backs ‘universal credit’

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

Shadow work and pensions secretary Douglas Alexander backs plans for a single benefit payment – but says the government is already making the system “more complex”.

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