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A draft report by the Government Accountability Office said Federal employees wasted at least $146 million over a one-year period on business- and first-class airline tickets, in some cases simply because they felt entitled to the perk.
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A federal jury in New York ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders, concluding she'd been sexually harassed and fired out of spite.
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A group of elder statesmen, including former President Carter and Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu, began a tour of Darfur to promote a political solution to the region's conflict.
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Australia’s Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said that over the past two years the intake of Africans has been cut from 70% of the total of 13,000 refugees to just 30%.
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Blackwater chairman Erik Prince, testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, vigorously rejected charges that guards from his private security firm acted recklessly while protecting State Department personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Canada’s Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said the government plans to criminalize identity theft to give police the ability to stop such activity before any fraud has actually been carried out.
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China’s Pres. Hu Jintao kicked off the 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai as 7,500 athletes from over 165 countries entered the stadium before a crowd of 80,000.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1993 –
Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
1990 –
Dean Bouzanis, Australian footballer
1987 –
Dia Frampton, Singer of American Indie Rock, Acoustic band Meg & Dia
1987 –
Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
1986 –
Camilla Belle, American actress
1985 –
Buster Davis, American football player
1982 –
Amber Lee Ettinger, American actress
1982 –
George Pettit, Canadian singer (Alexisonfire)
1981 –
Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
1981 –
Toro, Taiwanese singer
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October, 2
- Births
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2008,
Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (b. 1950)
2008,
Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (b. 1968)
2007,
Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
2007,
Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
2007,
Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)
2006,
Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
2006,
Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
2006,
Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
2005,
Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
2005,
Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
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October, 2
- Deaths
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