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  • Understanding Pakistani politics the chicken way

    High chicken prices in the run-up to Pakistan's May 11 elections are proof of the resourcefulness of contestants keen to feed their supporters and people are happy that some stability has been restored to chicken rates, a newspaper said in a tongue-in-cheek editorial Friday. "Democracy or not, leg-pulling must always continue, in its various forms - sometimes serious, sometimes, given the usual ...

  • Editorial €300000 worth of jewellery swiped so many explanations

    Ah, the irony. The Cannes Film Festival - promoter of any number of heist movies - was itself the scene of an audacious robbery yesterday. Indeed, it was on the very day of the screening of The Bling Ring (about a gang that burgles the rich and famous while they are strutting the red carpet) that thieves swiped EUR300,000 (250,000) worth of jewellery that was to adorn Hollywood's A-listers ...

  • Editorial Wake up the IRS watchdogs

    ENFORCEMENT of federal tax laws has key benchmarks that must be respected. The rules and regulations must be applied in an equitable, nonpartisan and timely manner. The Internal Revenue Service appears to have broken all the rules with its treatment of tea-party groups and other conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status. The shabby behavior was further compounded by the oblivious ...

  • Saints ballpark estimates Just a bit high

    St. Paul from Illinois to be near our children, who like countless others were drawn here for the metropolitan area’s quality of life. We chose to live in the Lowertown neighborhood of downtown. Clearly, downtown St. Paul has a charm few deny, but it also has growing economic problems. Recently, I studied how the city came to the point of breaking ground for a $54 million minor-league ...

  • Up north a sea to explore

    The Arctic, which is melting and thereby creating new shipping routes and access to minerals, poses a foreign policy challenge for the United States and other nations - particularly in the warmer months when once-impassable seas become open. But it’s easy to put off dealing with it. The process is like the annual scramble for summer camp: The need for planning begins around February, when ...


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Movie Review

Kung Fu Hustle (Gong fu)

Kung Fu Hustle (Gong fu)

Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (Gong fu) is a maniacally comical blitzkrieg of slapstick humor, movie parody, musical numbers, and chop-socky action. Not all of it works as well as it probably should, although there is likely a cultural divide that renders some of the humo ... ...

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  • Minnesota vets unfairly targeted by benefit change

    John Kriesel 's young son was hit in the face with a baseball two years ago, the disabled Iraq veteran and former Minnesota legislator brought his boy to the doctor and then in for an MRI scan to rule out a serious brain injury. Thanks to the Pentagon health insurance program for military retirees that Kriesel is currently enrolled in, his out-of-pocket expenses were about $20. But if the ...

  • Americans your patriotic duty is to ask for a raise

    The downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier. Almost all those I spoke to had already slogged through many years of stagnant or declining hourly wages by the time the recession kicked in. ...

  • Do more to get impaired drivers off U.S. roads

    It is surprising how few drinks can impair a driver’s judgment. A report from the National Transportation Safety Board estimates that alcohol-impaired driving contributes to thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of serious injuries each year. It is right to urge states to reduce that toll by lowering the allowable blood alcohol concentration for drivers from 0.08 percent to 0.05 ...

  • Letter of the Day Child-care union

    Don't buy the spin coming from the Star Tribune Editorial Board ("DFL's day care overreach," May 16). Child-care providers across Minnesota want a union and have delivered 874 handwritten letters to their legislators in support of it. The idea that we are merely on a wish list for the union is demeaning to every provider who has fought so hard for this. The editorial writers ...

  • The Sun Rises on Human Rights

    TOKYO - As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making waves. Known for his aggressive efforts to revive Japan’s economy, his nationalist rhetoric and his openness to military strength, he is also pushing Japan toward a new assertiveness on human rights. Despite a vibrant democracy at home, the diplomats who guide Japan’s foreign policy ...

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