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BBC: A man has shot himself dead inside the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in the French capital, police say.
An initial investigation found that the man had killed himself in front of the main altar shortly after 4pm local time.
Local media reports said he was a 78-year-old writer and essayist. It identified him as Dominique Venner, a former member of the Secret Army Organisation (OAS), which opposed Algerian independence in the early 1960s.
Europe 1 also said he had been close to the campaign against the government’s recent decision to legalise same-sex marriage. President Francois Hollande signed the bill into law on Saturday.
More from the BBC here.
A funding crisis caused the Buena Vista School District to close its schools for the rest of the year—and perhaps permanently.
Toronto’s mayor denies smoking crack cocaine in video
The Globe and Mail: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has denied claims that he was recently filmed smoking crack cocaine.
“It’s just ridiculous,” he said as he left his home and got into his black SUV. “It’s another Toronto Star…”, he said before shutting his car door and driving away.
Mr. Ford’s response comes after online news site Gawker posted a story in which one of its reporters claimed he had viewed a video in which the mayor was clearly seen smoking crack cocaine.
Photo: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts CFL football game in Hamilton September 3, 2012. (Reuters/Mike Cassese)
Greek member of parliament shouts ‘Heil Hitler’ during session
Washington Post: A Greek member of parliament from the far-right party Golden Dawn is heard shouting ’Heil Hitler’ during an argument with members of the a far-left party, according to reports.
Here’s what’s thought to have happened: [Panayiotis] Iliopoulos, who had recently assaulted some immigrant vendors at an Athens port, got into an argument with members of Greece’s far-left Syriza party, whom he called “goats” and “filthy, scurrilous” people.
The parliament’s acting speaker, also a member of Syriza, asked Iliopoulos to leave. “Go away before we send you away,” he said, according to the Greek Reporter. As a scrum of Golden Dawn lawmakers filed out of the room, shouting angrily on the way out, “Heil Hitler” is audible at three different moments.
Reuters reports that Golden Dawn denies a neo-Nazi label though its emblem resembles the Swastika and there are published photographs of its supporters giving Nazi-style salutes.
Prairies Edge. This is where they drop off the 18 year olds that “age out” of the foster care system in South Dakota. It’s located in downtown Rapid City close to the “Indian side” of town/the river. (at Prairie Bottle Market Wine And Liquor)
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From All In:
A look at sexual assaults in the military in 2012.
Bulldozer destroys Mayan pyramid in Belize
AP:
A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.
The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.
I will never shop at that store ever!!!
i thought this was a joke but
no
and even if it were
A COUPLE SECONDS AGO I WAS WEARING MY A&F SWEATSHIRT
NOT ANYMORE
shitty company, hope all this bad publicity makes it go down in the shitter
Spreading this like wildfire - never liked them to begin with.
The funny thing is that this could actually break that cunt of a company, absolute joke
wow.
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Yes, obviously. What better way to teach English Lit than to bring Charles Dickens’ novels to life?
Do these assholes not realize or just willfully ignore the fact that hunger is a huge reason why so many poor kids perform poorly in school in the first place?
So is this country repealing the child labor laws?
bolded for emphasis omfg
Why do these assholes have such a hard on for making poor children (who were born into poverty through no fault of their own) miserable?
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So here’s what happened:
1) Mark Sanford (disgraced former governor, running against Elizabeth Colbert-Busch) posted his cell phone number in a full-page newspaper ad saying anyone could call him if they had “further questions”
2) People did call him
3) He felt the need to publish an unredacted list of every phone number that had called him
Gooooood luck with that campaign, bro.
