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  • FBI Man fatally shot in Boston bombing probe

    Investigators stand outside an apartment complex where a man was fatally shot when a team of FBI agents swarmed his home early Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Orlando, Fla. The FBI says the man, being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation. (AP Photo/John ...

  • African Union celebrates 50th year

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -; African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continentwide organization, now called the African Union, that spearheaded efforts to liberate the continent from colonial ...

  • Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts

    WASHINGTON -; Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus ...

  • Stocks edge higher as investors watch the Fed

    NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks are opening slightly higher as investors watch for the latest moves from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 39 points at 15,424 shortly after the opening bell Wednesday, a gain of 0.2 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was up four points at 1,673, or 0.2 percent. The Nasdaq composite was up three at 3,505, or 0.1 percent. The ...

  • Richard Carrion declares IOC presidential bid

    (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Francis Vachon, File). FILE - In this May 24, 2012 file photo, International Olympic Committee IOC Executive Board member Richard Carrion speaks with the media in Quebec city, ...


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Movie Review

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) [DVD]

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) [DVD]

Ever since its publication in 1959, many thought Gnter Grasss fantastical novel The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) was unfilmable. The story of a three-year-old boy who spites the idiocies of the world around him by refusing to grow up, making him into a sort of political Peter Pan ... ...

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  • UA’s Creative Writing Camp Lets Teens Express Themselves

    Teens TUSCALOOSA, Ala. --The University of Alabama invites local high school students -- rising freshmen through graduating seniors -- to participate in the summer 2013 Creative Writing Camp. The campwill meet from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday from Monday, June 3, to Friday, June 14, in 301 Morgan Hall on the UA campus. No previous creative writingexperience is required. The instructors will ...

  • Mystery respiratory illness kills 2 hospitalizes 5 in Alabama

    View results Alabama medical experts are puzzled by a respiratory illness that sent seven to the hospital and ultimately killed two.Symptoms included fever, cough and shortness of breath, ...

  • Iceland forms new center-right government

    Icelanders voted April 27 to return power to the conservative Independent Party and rural-based Progressive Party, who governed Iceland for decades before the 2008 economic ...

  • Canet seeks gritty New York in Blood Ties

    CANNES, France -- The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter.At least, that's French director Guillaume Canet's experience. He had to supply his own garbage to recreate the grubby streets of 1970s Brooklyn for his debut English-language feature "Blood Ties.""Every day," the director laughed during an interview at the Cannes Film ...

  • AP Interview Rogge cites need for targeted tests

    (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File). FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 file photo International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South ...

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