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A CHARITY is calling on South Lakeland residents to brush up their bridge skills for a national fund-raising event. IndependentAge, which helps elderly people to live independently, is encouraging people across the district to take part in the Big Bridge - games of social bridge taking place across the UK from March 3-9. The Big Bridge is part of the charity's annual action week, which focuses on raising awareness of elderly people's independence and the need to improve care and services. .
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He has squandered billions of dollars in a war that I believe should never have been authorized and should have never been waged. (APPLAUSE) We have not made the investments that are needed in our school system. You travel around South Carolina along the corridor of shame, and you've got children who are going to schools that were built in the 1800s. And they are not able to compete in an international economy. So it is absolutely critical right now to give a stimulus to the economy. And Senator Clinton mentioned tax rebates. That wasn't the original focus of her plan. I think recently she has caught up with what I had originally said, which is we've got to get taxes into the -- tax cuts into the pockets of hard-working Americans right away.
Phelps dunks all competition
So here we are, at the end of another year in which the world's most famous bicycle race turned into the Tour de Farce because of doping.
And the greatest female star in recent track and field history, Marion Jones, confessed to being a fraud whose achievements owed to doping.
And most of France's top middle-distance runners were implicated in or charged with doping.
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Clinton low on cash, time
Many staffers will work without pay this month and Capitol Hill Blue has learned that many vendors are demanding cash up front because of the campaign's overdue bills. "For all practical purposes, we're broke," a campaign staffer admits. Obama outraised Clinton 3-1 in contributions in January and his fundraising juggernaut continues while her calls to fat cat contributors go unreturned. Although the Clinton campaign reported $18 million cash on hand through the end of January, it also faces more than $25 million in debts from Super Tuesday. Some disgruntled campaign insiders say the candidate's lavish lifestyle adds to their financial woes. Clinton often travels with a few close aides by private, leased jet while other candidates use campaign planes that includes staff members and press.
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After the war with the Serbs, there was never a real confronting with the past," he said. "Nobody ever admitted that Croatia, as part of a defensive war, committed acts of ethnic cleansing. So the myth of the Croatians as collective victims is still alive. But now it's just left to people like Thompson to express that myth publicly." .
Sports briefs
The United States will play host to France on indoor hard courts in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the Davis Cup quarterfinals. The defending champions will play the French team April 11-13 at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the International Tennis Federation said Monday. The last time the teams played, France beat the U.S. on clay at Roland Garros in the 2002 semifinals. The other quarterfinalists are Russia, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Sweden, Germany and Spain. • Eighth-seeded Elena Dementieva beat Patty Schnyder 7-5, 6-0 and advanced to the second round of the Dubai Championships in United Arab Emirates. The four top seeds -- top-ranked Justine Henin, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic -- all have first-round byes.
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