Nation and World
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Alumnus finally joining fraternity he thought he was in back in '60s
Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University's Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity is correcting a more than 40-year-old mistake by kicking it old school this weekend. Michael Do...
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UAW ratifies Chrysler pact
Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - DETROIT -- Despite significant dissent among some of its workers, United Auto Workers members narrowly passed a four-year contract agreement with Chrysler LLC on Saturda...
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Fueled by wind, fires left misery in wake
Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO -- They know what the winds can do. They forecast them. Fight the fires the winds fan. Ready for evacuations that, in years past, never came. They thought they...
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Supporters jubilant as ex-Philippines president is freed
Oct 26, 2007 11:00 pm - MANILA, Philippines -- Free for the first time in 6½ years, ousted President Joseph Estrada thanked his successor for pardoning him and vowed Friday to stay out of "dirt...
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Turkey-Iraq border tenseOct 26, 2007 11:00 pm - ANKARA -- Turkish helicopters and fighter jets pounded Kurdish rebel positions on Friday as diplomatic efforts got off to a rocky start in Ankara to avert a major offens...
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Streamwood man enjoys maiden Airbus flightOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - The world's largest jetliner made aviation history Thursday, completing its first commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney with 455 passengers, some of them ensconced ...
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Warming Arctic means new assignment for Coast Guard
Oct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Coast Guard reconnaissance team is heading to the far north this week to scope out a new frontier that the warming Arctic climate is opening to sh...
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Al-Qaida turns wrath on Al-Jazeera
Oct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - CAIRO, Egypt -- Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of anger against Al-Jazeera television, accusing it of misrepresenting Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape ...
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Harry Potter first edition sells for nearly $41,000 at auction
Oct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - LONDON -- A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the ...
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A lot of us believe in ghosts, survey says
Oct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- It was bad enough when the TV and lights inexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says. When her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicol...