Provides the latest RSS feeds for General Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Africa Leader.com http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:48:41 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:48:41 -0500 30 Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. A federal ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236874/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:17:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236874/ MORE people live alone than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities - Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis - 40 percent or more of all households contain a ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236627/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:50:43 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236627/ A Cambria County man driving on the wrong side of the road was killed overnight in a head-on collision, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Brian Polk, 34, of Salix was driving a minivan south ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235031/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:40 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235031/ Melissa Gilbert basically grew up on television. For 10 years she played Half Pint, the nickname for her character Laura Ingalls Wilder on the long-running "Little House on the Prairie" ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235033/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235033/ Fans line up outside Beaver Stadium to see their team enter the stadium before the start of their team's game against Nebraska today. One sign commented on the sex abuse reporting scandal that ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235032/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:38 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235032/ February 4, 2012 I would like to rise up today in defense of Diet Coke. All diet sodas, in fact. But Diet Coke happens to be my favorite. I like the stuff. Cracking open a can of it, or pouring ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231481/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:59 -0500 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231481/ Black Deaths in Custody Watch Group meeting. Wed Mar 28, 5.30pm, Link Up Queensland Aboriginal Corporation Centre 1/18 Scott Street, Parramatta Park. Ph 4041 ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233155/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:17:42 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233155/ Roy Police detectives walk in front of Roy High School Jan. 26, 2012, in Roy, Utah. Congratulations to Bailey Gerhardt for her bravery for possibly saving the lives of many of our precious youth ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231482/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:24 -0500 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231482/ Loser-Winner: Groundhog Day is a time for silliness in Punxsutawney, Pa., which is pretty much the point of the whole Punxsutawney Phil shtick each year. The losers in this case are the news ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231486/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:10 -0500 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231486/ Do city elections matter? Are the voices of the people really heard? We are about to find out. On Jan. 3, 2012, three council members were sworn in to the Salt Lake City government, two new and one ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231487/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:06 -0500 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231487/ No one should be surprised that the Tin Man has a tin ear. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233143/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:57:09 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233143/ The Duquesne City School District is in limbo, and state education officials owe its taxpayers, parents, students and employees an explanation -- and a plan. It's been more than three months ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233150/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:31 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233150/ Somalia is a basket case on a continent with more than its share of misery. Other African countries riven by problems have governments that more or less control their territories, however badly they ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233151/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:30 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233151/ Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and likely Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren don't see eye to eye on much, but they agree it would be good to discourage money used by special interests to ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233152/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:29 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233152/ Trouble prompted by the Arab Spring has been stirring in Syria for 10 months now. The government of President Bashar al-Assad has been under siege, pretty much across the country of 21 million, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233154/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233154/ In an environment where nepotism barely raises an eyebrow, the actions of Allegheny County President Judge Donna Jo McDaniel are all the more eye-popping because they go so far beyond routine, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233153/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233153/ How America made its children crazy By Spengler Now we know that computers don't help children learn and that drugs don't help them concentrate, because the establishment mandarins who ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233146/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:12:17 -0500 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233146/ Bernanke merits a rant Commentary and weekly watch by Doug NolandIt has been labeled an intellectual exercise and ridiculed as "intelligentsia". I'll stick defiantly to the view ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233148/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:12:16 -0500 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233148/ What we said: "The Susan G. Komen foundation has made a highly regrettable - and transparently political - decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. Komen should reverse its ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228350/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:30 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228350/ 49ers will go forward with their plan for a new stadium in Santa Clara. Barring a major setback - such as construction delays, or a legal ruling against changes from the deal Santa Clara voters ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228352/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:23 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228352/ "UCSF scientists take bitter view of sugar in food" (Feb. 2): War on sugar is not a solution to America's health problems. Sugar comes in many different forms (honey, fruit juice, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228353/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:09 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228353/ LONDON -- Memo to Brazil: That idea of putting up a giant Jesus statue in a London park to promote the 2016 Olympic Games is not going over well. Brazil's tourist board has floated the notion ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231140/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231140/ INDIANAPOLIS -- Three decades after his Coke commercial won advertising's version of the Oscar, Joe Greene and his No. 75 Steelers jersey make a comeback in another Super Bowl spot on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231139/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231139/ When legalized casino gambling was being pushed in Pennsylvania, one of its selling points was sizable tax relief for property owners. But in gambling you put your money down and take your chance -- ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231141/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:01 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231141/ The African Union, by not being able to agree on a secretary general, has showed new cracks in continental unity. The AU was formed 10 years ago to try to cure some of the flaws in the old ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231142/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:00 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231142/ To the Editor: "What's He Got to Hide?," by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Jan. 29), is intended to incite opposition to the government of Ethiopia, when it would be far better to assist the gove http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231691/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:23:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231691/ Reagan Resolve'; concisely outlines his major principles and actions so today’s policymakers can take a page from it.Let’s begin with a contrast. When ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227298/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:26 -0500 Washington Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227298/ Ronald Reagan , who would have turned 101 on Feb. 6, no doubt would have been amused by the number and ideological diversity of people claiming some part of the Reagan ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227299/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:25 -0500 Washington Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227299/ Amazon pulled out, leaving the state poorer for its greed. Even a big state like California wasn’t able to get away with this. ';The rich'; might ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227311/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:08 -0500 Washington Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227311/ Ronald Reagan to have been one of the great presidents of the 20th century - indeed, one of the greatest of all time. Even professors are coming around. Though they’re not as enthusiastic as ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227300/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:08 -0500 Washington Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227300/ Canada is a middle power. The U.S. dollar is a major currency, whereas the Canadian dollar is a decent-sized currency. The American financial markets have long had a direct impact on the global ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227301/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:06 -0500 Washington Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227301/ White House .Romneycare is the blueprint for Obamacare and shares its top-down, government-run fundamentals. At its core is the individual mandate that criminalizes anyone who refuses to purchase ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227302/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:03 -0500 Washington Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227302/ White House enjoys a good news day.';The recovery is speeding up,'; President Obama declared. However, the broader measures tell a different story. The employment-to-population ratio, the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227312/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:01 -0500 Washington Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227312/ Keystone XL pipeline is all the proof you need to know that his modus operandi is to sidle up to environmental green-energy crackpots instead of creating thousands of American jobs and honestly ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227303/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:00 -0500 Washington Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227303/ Washington http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231727/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:47:04 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231727/ The Arab Spring was the biggest story in the Middle East in 2011. Unfortunately, it's still difficult to report on its aftermath in many of the nations most impacted by the pan-Arabic protest ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222303/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:59 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222303/ Traveling through my beloved former hometown of Minneapolis recently, I was appalled to pick up the Star Tribune and find an Opinion Exchange section cover article about missing conservatives in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222304/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:53 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222304/ The problem with Mitt Romney's latest boneheaded statement -- "I'm not concerned about the very poor" -- isn't the ammunition it gives political opponents eager to yank the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222305/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:48 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222305/ I was disappointed in many aspects of Jack Schneider's Feb. 1 commentary ("No magic solution for schools"), which described Teach For America as aspiring to eliminate the achievement ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222306/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:42 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222306/ This week we had a huge political fight about breast cancer. Clearly, we have now hit the point where there's nothing that can't be divided into red-state-blue-state. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233142/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:43:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233142/ Higher education institutions are predictably cool to President Obama's proposal to shift federal aid away from colleges that fail to control rising tuition. Even though the details of his plan, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233141/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:57 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233141/ In a politically wise turnabout, the Senate did the right thing on Thursday in approving a long-needed ban on Congressional lawmakers and staffers using confidential information they pick up as ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233140/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:57 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233140/ The posturing and saber rattling from both Iran and Israel are getting frightening. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233793/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:57 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233793/ . "But it's entirely unrealistic to believe that you just tell your kids, and a light goes off in their head - 'Oh, yeah, dad, you're right; I get it.' In your dreams. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203221720/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:07 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203221720/ Over the Australia Day long weekend in 2012, the Refugee Rights Action Network took a bus and 40 people to the Leonora Detention Centre. This event will give feedback on our experiences and ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227309/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:05 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227309/ A Socialist Alliance and Resistance meeting taking up questions including: What attitude should the 99% take to the media? How can democratic control over the media coexist with a "free ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222263/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:04 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222263/ Western Sydney-based rapper Sesk. Photo: Mat Ward. You can see that western Sydney Aboriginal rapper Sesk has turned his life around when he holds his head up high. Not only does it give him an air ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227310/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:02 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227310/ 1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food 2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough 3. Morford: Please do not eat this 4. North Bay girl died of 'date rape' drug ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222310/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:48 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222310/ It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222311/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:39 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222311/ France can't seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15. Over the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222312/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:32 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222312/ its economy is reeling . The administration was right to warn Iran against any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz. We hope it is also looking to privately persuade Iran of the need for a ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203223000/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:36:38 -0500 New York Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203223000/ Cartoonist and artist Lalo Alcaraz is the creator of the first nationally-syndicated, politically-themed Latino daily comic strip, "La ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227306/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:33:41 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227306/ Cal State Northridge , to write:"The question should not be whether students are learning but rather what they are learning."Any dedicated student who has struggled and passed calculus, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227307/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:33:33 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227307/ Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich delivers his concession speech after losing the hotly-contested state of Florida to rival Mitt ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227308/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:33:30 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227308/ P resident Barack Obama, obsessed with raising taxes on "millionaires and billionaires," ignores the facts of history. He told ABC’s Diane Sawyer last week that our country now has ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227296/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:38 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227296/ T he turmoil that continues to roil the Middle East could eventually determine whether Turkey falls to extreme Islamist rule. The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227297/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:36 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227297/ IT'S a question that probably every driver with a Garmin navigation device on her dashboard has asked herself at least once: What did we ever do before GPS? How did people find their way around, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233144/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:19:26 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233144/ Pitt fans can get ready for a basketball rivalry with Maryland and a renewal of the old Big East football rivalry with Virginia Tech. Those are two of the highlights of the future scheduling formats ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227293/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:02:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227293/ Federal marshals this afternoon captured a Wilmerding man accused of hitting his wife in the head with a gun and pointing it at his 11-year-old stepdaughter. Jonathan Deanes, 32, was arrested about ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227294/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:02:27 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227294/ WASHINGTON -- The Air Force today announced plans to close the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon within the next two years, moving two of its seven C-130 transport planes to other bases and retiring the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227295/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:02:26 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227295/ WASHINGTON — Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman's right to contraception or ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203213953/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:07:22 -0500 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203213953/ mental peace and energy. In order to be able to overcome guilt, one first needs to understand why we feel guilty. Once the understanding comes, it becomes easier to tackle this problem. We feel ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220950/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:51 -0500 Times of India http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220950/ Donald Bradman batting in the team nets without any protective equipment when he was 70, carting bowlers a third his age all over the place. Genius of that calibre is imperishable. And, in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220951/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:43 -0500 Times of India http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220951/ Sachin Tendulkar is not Imran Khan. The latter's assertion that Sachin should have retired after the high of India winning the 2011 World Cup is gratuitous advice. As Khan himself concedes, for ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220952/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:34 -0500 Times of India http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220952/ SECC would actually be a departure from the earlier BPL methodology. Specifically, it promised to stop setting state-wise caps on the BPL list based on official poverty estimates. This sounds good, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220953/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:29 -0500 Times of India http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220953/ In his State of the Union address Jan. 24, President Obama proposed "the Buffett Rule," named after Warren Buffet (photographed), in which taxpayers making more than $1 million a year ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220962/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:10:41 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220962/ Egypt 's deadliest night of football different from similar stadium disasters at Hillsborough or Heysel is the widespread belief that the violence was planned. There is circumstantial evidence ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203212737/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:10:34 -0500 The Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203212737/ , whose 40th anniversary passed in December, attracted similar distaste. Pauline Kael savaged the film's "fascist medievalism," and described it as a "single-minded attack ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220961/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:56:45 -0500 CBS News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220961/ The family of a woman who went missing more than a month ago is offering $1,000 for information on her whereabouts. County police Lt. Jeffrey Korczyk said Joann Angel, 51, of Etna, was last seen in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220957/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:32:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220957/ Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today announced 10 appointments to city boards and authorities, including the parking authority, Stadium Authority and Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority. Among ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220958/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:32:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220958/ HARRISBURG -- The state Supreme Court issued a lengthy opinion this afternoon regarding the state's legislative redistricting plan they rejected last week, offering its first details on that ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220959/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:32:27 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220959/ right in 2008 and, as they gather for precinct caucuses on Tuesday night, we expect they will get it right again. As was the case four years ago, we believe former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220956/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:24:16 -0500 Denver Post http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220956/ But there are countries where opposing parties actually work together. As shown in the below video, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott are such good pals that ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203213952/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:48:56 -0500 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203213952/ Few could argue with this week's decision to strip the UK banker Fred Goodwin of his knighthood. Four years after the Queen had dubbed him 'Sir', his stewardship of the Royal Bank of Scotland had ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220960/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:30:10 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203220960/ Buddy Mikaere's call to reclaim Waitangi Day, published today, deserves to be taken seriously by everyone. Few can doubt that his vision is desirable and his specific ideas for the day could be ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203216053/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:30:00 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203216053/ This time around, there was no question of a last-ditch summit. Nonetheless, the 30 January European Council meeting will have far reaching consequences. Twenty five member states – in other ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211249/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:38:43 -0500 presseurop http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211249/ Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal speaks at Planned Parenthood Action Fund's Playing Politics With Women's Health: The 2012 Election And Why It Matters on Jan. 27, 2012 in New York City. The Susan ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203206126/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:36:24 -0500 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203206126/ When they work well, beer and cheese pairings offer both harmony and contrast, says Garrett Oliver, editor of With the Super Bowl looming, three questions are buzzing around America: Who are you ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203206128/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:36:16 -0500 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203206128/ February 3, 2012 Peter and Jacqueline Headen's courtship story is one of ups and downs -- spanning one war, three countries and four decades. It all started in 1958, at a roller-skating rink ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203206129/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:36:12 -0500 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203206129/ The Daily Republic, Mitchell. Feb. 3, 2012. Lawmakers should do more to make SD roads safer The state Legislature had two opportunities to make South Dakota roads safer, but opted against taking ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203209968/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:18:48 -0500 Washington Examiner http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203209968/ (The Nation) Why do American jobs end up in China? The supposed answer in an anecdote: the late Steve Jobs summons his senior lieutenants and holds up the iPhone prototype. It's due to be ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211248/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:14:29 -0500 CBS News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211248/ A fire broke out around 7 a.m. today at Sarris Candies in Canonsburg. Before firefighters brought the blaze under control in about an hour, smoke could be seen over most of the building, which ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211242/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:40 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211242/ A compressor at a Mercer County gas well caught fire early today. The fire was reported shortly before 4 a.m. at a well operated by Bocor Holdings at 994 East Jamestown Road in Greene Township and ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211240/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211240/ The national unemployment rate fell in January to 8.3 percent from December's rate of 8.5 percent, an incremental decline, but the fifth straight month of increasing employment rates. The U.S. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211241/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:38 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211241/ The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously -- and correctly -- agreed last week that for police to place a GPS device on a suspect's vehicle without a search warrant offended the Fourth Amendment, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211245/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:37 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211245/ Ronald Reagan had Star Wars. Newt Gingrich imagines a manned U.S. moon base by the end of 2020. While President Reagan's costly missile defense scheme withered on the vine of the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211244/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:37 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211244/ At its best, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to test well water supplies in a Susquehanna County town is merely insurance that the supplies are safe. At its worst, the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211243/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:36 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211243/ Newt Gingrich's strong victory in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday torpedoed the theory that the voters of that party who turn up for caucuses and primaries were settling in on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211247/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:35 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211247/ There is cause for optimism, albeit cautious, for U.S. automakers. Chrysler Group LLC, General Motors and Ford Motor Co. all made money in 2011, for the first time in seven years, helped by big ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211246/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:33 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203211246/