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Russia gays hear call: Go back to the closet
Homosexuality is no longer a crime, but as the nation's first gay pride parade nears, scorn and abuse intensify, and religious leaders weigh in On a recent Sunday night, the organizers of a gay party at a Moscow nightclub peered nervously out the front door. Clustered outside were hundreds of screaming demonstrators, some of them liquor-addled skinheads throwing bottles and eggs, others old
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Lebanon comes out the closet
Beirut held the first-ever gay convention in an Arab state last month. Other Arab countries still lag far behind One could call it a founding event: About two weeks ago the gay and lesbian community held a convention in Beirut, under the protection of the Lebanese security forces.
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BIZ BUZZ
The Small Business Administration has announced that Choice Financial is tied for second place for underwriting the most SBA loans in North Dakota. From October 2005 to April 2006, Choice Financial underwrote 16 SBA-backed loans and lines of credit.
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Yard sales crisscross U.S. and Canada
If a neighborhood of garage sales is good, imagine that idea stretching for miles.
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Their special sanctuaries
It certainly wasnt what Virginia Woolf had in mind. When the writer coined the famous phrase a room of ones own in a lecture at Cambridge in 1928, she was addressing a womans need for space and opportunity if her intellectual life was to flourish.
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Brother places gun in defendant's hand
LUMBERTON - The brother of Myron Britt on Thursday offered testimony that placed the weapon that police say was used in the shooting death of Nancy Britt in the murder defendant's hands.
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Calendar of Events
June 8Light Exercise for Senior Citizens is scheduled in the Caldwell County Hospital basement Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. The class is free and open to all interested persons.
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Three Twentysomethings Vie for the Public's Laughter, Sympathy and Vote In the Apartments.com Room To Move Contest
Apartments.com scoured the nation for young adults desperate to break free from their family home and found three desperate finalists from Denver, Jacksonville and Pittsburgh. One lucky winner will break the familial chains with $20,000 in cash and prizes.
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