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Citizen of the Year: Charles Anderson, chairman, San Juan Island Community Foundation (Journal of the San Juans)
All told, the San Juan Island Community Foundation distributed more than $700,000 in donations in 2008. More than two dozen local groups, including the schools, benefitted from that largesse. That’s pretty powerful stuff for a group that just three years ago had about $125,000 at its disposal for a full year. What’s behind the surge in the balance sheets? Ask anyone on the foundation board of ...
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The Year in Review — 2008 in Grimes County (Navasota Examiner)
September’s Hurricane Ike occupied the minds of many in Grimes County during the latter portion of the year, but a number of other newsworthy events occurred here as well.
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2008 Passages: Lives lost this year (USA Today)
Whether they were stars of the stage or screen, world leaders or hometown heroes, those who died in 2008 left an indelible mark on our lives.
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12-30-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
'MAGIC DRAGON' WRITER ON 'MAGIC NEGRO' SPOOF: Peter Yarrow says it's 'not only offensive, it is shocking and saddening.'
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Elizabeth Drew: Frost/Nixon: A Dishonorable Distortion of History (HuffingtonPost)
The film's plot is a contrivance -- its telling is so riddled with departures from what actually happened as to be fundamentally dishonest; and its climactic moment is purely and simply a lie.
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D.C., Dallas episodes show who's in control (Yahoo! Sports)
Jim Zorn was forced to apologize for a move, while Jerry Jones gets away with questioning a player's toughness.
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12-10-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
OPRAH 'EMBARRASED' BY HER WEIGHT GAIN: Talk show host says she is 200 pounds. 'How did I let this happen again?' *In the January issue of "O" magazine, Oprah Winfrey comes clean about her weight gain – saying she has "fallen off the wagon" in terms of healthy living and currently weighs 200 pounds.
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