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Torii Hunter, Brian Fuentes named to American League All-Star team
Center fielder Torii Hunter and closer Brian Fuentes were the only Angels named to the American League All-Star team today, but third baseman Chone Figgins is one of five candidates for the final roster spot, which will be determined by an Internet vote...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, Referenda, Minnesota Twins
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Exit polls: Bulgaria's right-wing opposition party wins the nation's parliamentary election
Associated Press WriterSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria's right-wing opposition party won Sunday's parliamentary election by a wide margin over the corruption-tainted governing Socialist coalition, according to two exit polls. Official election results are not expected...Tags: European Union, Parties and Movements, Corporate Crime, European Elections, Government
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Mexico congressional elections test public support for government's drug war, economic policy
Associated Press WriterMEXICO CITY (AP) — Drug violence, an economic downturn and recent cases of political malfeasance weighed heavily as Mexicans voted Sunday in midterm congressional elections that could decide the future of President Felipe Calderon's anti-crime and...Tags: Parties and Movements, Mexico City, Heads of State, Prosecution, Government
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Hand it to Haridopolos: He's got party backing
The floodgates of support have opened wide for state Sen. Mike Haridopolos, who last week witnessed a procession of praise from former GOP rivals for the 2010-12 Senate presidency. Sen. Mike Bennett of Bradenton called him a week ago to throw in the...Tags: Greenacres, Mike Bennett, Lee Constantine, Gainesville, Government
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Will California buy into eBay's former CEO?
California's campaigns introduce candidates not only to the state's voters but to its immensity. In Bakersfield, Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO of eBay who is campaigning for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination, learned about carrots. In 1968,...Tags: Cheese Corn, Steve Poizner, Unions, Connecticut, Tom Campbell
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Honduras' swift, bloodless coup was months in the making after president's politics moved left
Associated Press WriterTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Soldiers ringed President Manuel Zelaya's modest home, spilled into the cul-de-sac and swarmed the neighborhood, blocking what little traffic there was in a posh corner of the Honduran capital so early on a weekend...Tags: Heads of State, Government, Referenda, Court Administration, National Government
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With Calif. in turmoil, the spotlight returns to Schwarzenegger's promises of fiscal reform
Associated Press WriterSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters gave Arnold Schwarzenegger a single, blockbuster-sized mission when they sent him to Sacramento six years ago in an unprecedented election: Fix California's chaotic budget system, once and for all. Today,...Tags: Darrell Steinberg, Sacramento, Financial Markets, Budgets and Budgeting, Personal Income
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Preliminary results give win to Albanian Democrats, opposition threatens street protests
Associated Press WriterTIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's opposition Socialists charged Saturday that the ruling Democrats were improperly trying to influence the country's lengthy vote count by declaring victory before all ballots from last week's national election were...Tags: European Union, NATO, Prosecution, Government, Referenda
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Generations Of Women Who Find Their Purpose
Special to The Courant"What do women want?" Freud famously — and obtusely — asked. Kate Walbert could have answered him, and in her insightful and moving new novel, "A Short History of Women," she tells us all: To be heard. To be respected. To make a difference...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, United States, Connecticut, Diseases, Facebook
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Iran plans to put British Embassy staffers on trial
A senior Iranian cleric said Friday that the British Embassy employees arrested in Tehran in recent days would be put on trial on unspecified charges of acting against Iran's national security, a move immediately denounced by members of the European...Tags: European Union, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Unions
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Embassy staff face Iran trials
Tribune Newspapers— A senior Iranian cleric said Friday that employees of the British Embassy in Tehran arrested in recent days would be put on trial on unspecified charges of acting against Iran's national security, a move immediately denounced by members of the...Tags: European Union, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Unions
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Judge says he expects lawsuit challenging Calif. gay marriage ban to reach US Supreme Court
Associated Press WriterSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco said a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban will likely one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker made the comment Thursday during...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Referenda, Judges, Jerry Brown, Justice and Rights
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