The Al-Qasimi family rose to prominence as religious and temporal leaders in the 16th century in what is now northern Yemen. Of the Shi'ite faith, the Al-Qasimi led resistance to.
Fay Vincent has more. I didn't know this, but apparently the new inductee brought the same level of competence and integrity to his post-baseball career:When Kuhn was pushed out of.
Mike Huckabee favored quarantining people with AIDS...in 1992. But he doesn't favor tax cuts even if they would involve ignoring court orders, so clearly he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist!
Sully makes a good point:Notice also that this isn't the ticking time bomb case that Charles [Krauthammer] has previously invoked to defend torture. There was no imminent threat to hundreds.
So Alfonso Cuaron's Great Expectations was on HBO not long ago, and since I'd never seen it I decided I'd give it a try. It looked terrible and got awful.
If you're Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee, the fact that Franklin Foer still has a job pretty much has you breathing into a paper bag several times an hour. But when he's not.
Mr. Kenny Williams:Reacting Wednesday to the blockbuster deal that sent power-hitting third baseman Miguel Cabrera and former All-Star left-hander Dontrelle Willis from the Florida Marlins to the Detroit Tigers —.
I'm not sure -- objectively! -- that Yglesias or Cole fully understand the extent to which -- objectively! -- Mitt Romney's speech was without question the greatest in the history.
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