Dowbrigade

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) The inmate who strangled child-molesting
priest John Geoghan was convicted of murder Wednesday after failing to
convince a jury he was delusional when he killed one of the central figures
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The back pain has been with 32-year-old Laura Tibbitts ever since
she was thrown from a horse eight years ago sometimes a dull ache, sometimes
a sharp stab, yet always there.
But recently, she found [...]

Adding
insult to injury, not only did the Dowbrigade nearly die during our latest
Latin American expedition, but our iBook
AND our iPod DID die, at most inopertune moments, and we miss them both.
The [...]

Actors having real sex in art-house movies.
Erstwhile child star Lindsay Lohan appearing barely clad on the cover
of her new album. Teenage girls strolling down Main Street USA attired
in ”Porn Star" [...]

A
military jury recommended a simple reprimand Monday for an Army officer
who killed an Iraqi general by stuffing him headfirst into a sleeping
bag and sitting on his chest during an interrogation. [...]

MOSCOW – Russia’s main intelligence agency on Monday
accused four British diplomats of spying _ using electronic equipment
hidden inside a fake rock in
a park _ as well as funneling funds [...]

TUCSON, ARIZ. — The world’s first face-transplant
recipient is using her new lips to take up smoking again, which doctors
fear could interfere with healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection.
"It is a problem," [...]

Any kind of a life crisis – medical, emotional, financial
or existential – imbues one with a renewed appreciation of life’s
simple pleasures.  Like the morning newspaper. It may be sacrilegious
for a "new [...]

Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one
eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond,
Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices surged on Friday to
the highest level since September’s hurricanes crippled oil output from
the Gulf of Mexico, as tensions mounted over OPEC-member Iran’s nuclear
ambitions.
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The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday
after the newspaper’s ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing
that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to
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A recent visitor to the Dowbrigade household remarked
on a carved wooden light-pull which spells out the name "Jesus" in the
form of a fish. Perhaps, being aware at least of our traditionally Jewish
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