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Playboy elects Scott Flanders chief executive

AP News 253 days ago

Playboy elects Scott Flanders, head of Freedom Communications, as chief executive Playboy Enterprises Inc. says it has hired Freedom Communications Inc. Chief Executive Scott N. Flanders to lead the company. Flanders' election as CEO ends a five-month search for a new leader ...

Lest we forget

Spectator, The London 285 days ago

The Last Witness. The War Landscape of the Ypres Salient Cloth Hall, Ypres, until 19 November Visitors to the once devastated but now completely reconstructed and rather charming little town of Ypres will find themselves bowing the head to 54,896 dead soldiers ...

Revulsion against McCarthy

guardian.co.uk 287 days ago

The Guardian, June 12 1954 Senator Joseph McCarthy was all over the front pages again this morning, but the instinct that put him there was for once not his. It looked as if, finally, an impulse of moral revulsion had galvanised the ...

Rivals warn Boonen of tough Paris-Roubaix

AFP Global Edition 289 days ago

Belgian Tom Boonen has been given ample warning not to expect an easy six hours in the saddle when he puts his title, and his pride, on the line at the prestigious Paris-Roubaix classic on Sunday. Boonen's Quick Step team appear to ...

3 dead, 12 wounded in Belgian day care stabbings

AP Features 292 days ago

A man went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbing two young children and a female worker to death and slashing 12 others all over their bodies, officials said. Sobbing parents rushed to the scene and to the ...

US parents want answers after China milk scare

AP Features 292 days ago

Beth Flanders was on her way to China to adopt her 17-month-old daughter in September when she received a warning from her adoption agency: An industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones had been found in Chinese baby formula, and parents should ...

Quiet and Brave

www.Culture11.com 292 days ago

The Great War, ninety years on. Quiet and Brave The Great War, ninety years on. By Alex Massie, November 10, 2008 And then there were three. Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110 and William Stone, a mere stripling at 108, are the ...

We must be wary of remembrance creep

guardian.co.uk 294 days ago

I'm a fan of Remembrance Day celebrations. As you get older the horrors of war, especially the peculiar horror of static trench warfare during 1914-18, become more vivid, along with the scale of the slaughter. But I have begun to worry about ...

New political crisis threatens Belgian break-up

guardian.co.uk 294 days ago

Belgian political leaders were today holding urgent talks to resolve a new dispute between the Dutch-speaking Flemish majority and the French-speaking minority. The crisis, which threatens to break up the country, broke out on Monday when the Flemish Christian Democrat Yves Leterme, ...

Belgium goes to war with itself

guardian.co.uk 294 days ago

Belgium is in political meltdown, its premier having offered to resign over apparently irreconcilable differences between the Dutch-speaking Flemish and the French-speaking Walloons and, specifically, over more devolution of economic powers to the prosperous (Flemish) north. For a country that's rarely in ...

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