Soldier forced to sleep in car after hotel refuses him a room - Times Online
How messed up is this?
A hotel that refused a wounded soldier a room, forcing him to spend the night in his car, was backed into a “grovelling” apology yesterday after receiving a barrage of abusive phone calls.
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Cpl Stringer, who was not in uniform, presented his army warrant card when asked by the hotel for proof of identity. After the receptionist refused him a room, he was left with no choice but to bed down in his tiny, two-door car, his wrist, broken during a convoy ambush, cased in plaster.
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Fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent, 71, dies in ParisFrom: debatepolitics.com
Post Date: 2008-06-01 18:29:41
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Fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent, 71, dies in Paris
By Olivia Barker, USA TODAY
Yves Saint Laurent, the iconic French designer who revolutionized fashion by putting women in pants without sacrificing their femininity, died Sunday in Paris. He was 71.
Saint Laurent’s three-letter monogram is perhaps as synonymous with — and significant to — 20th-century style as T.S. Eliot’s is with literature. He was "unquestionably the greate...
more Clinton Wins Puerto Rico, but Her Fate Is Still UncertainFrom: debatepolitics.com
Post Date: 2008-06-01 17:43:56
Whoop-de-doo. :roll:
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WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Puerto Rico primary by a huge margin on Sunday, another victory for her over Senator Barack Obama in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. Still, after an explosive weekend in Democratic presidential politics, the big drama now facing the party remains how, when — and even if — she departs from the race.
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