August, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

News – 8 dead in fire at bar in Mexican resort of Cancun

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Mygripe CANCUN, Mexico—Six women and two men died Tuesday in a fire at a bar frequented by locals in the Mexican resort of Cancun, and bar employees have told police that unidentified men tossed gasoline […] […]

News – German bishops expand sex abuse guidelines

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Mygripe BERLIN—Germany’s Roman Catholic church introduced new guidelines Tuesday on handling reports of sexual abuse that require prosecutors to be informed of any suspected case unless the victim objects to that. The expanded guidelines come […] […]

News – Corruption probe ruffles US-Afghan relations

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Mygripe KABUL, Afghanistan—A bribery probe involving a top adviser to President Hamid Karzai has angered the Afghan leader and threatens to damage U.S. relations with Kabul just three months after a White House visit that […] […]

Mygripe – No Mr. Right? More women start families via artificial insemination

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News YISKAH ROSENFELD never had baby fever. She didn’t long for a child or hear her biological clock ticking in the giggles of other women’s newborns. Yet, by 42, Rosenfeld, single with a full and […] […]

News – For more couples, a lengthy separation has become preferable to divorce

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Must read Mygripe John Frost and his wife had been unhappily married for much of their 25 years together when his company moved him from Virginia to Knoxville, Tenn., in 2000. So he left his […] […]

News – Is it that hard to resign, Mr Prime Minister?

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By Chris Burns Mygripe Mr Prime Minister, if there were nothing improper to hide, protect or to gain from months of obfuscation, why were you so belligerent in defending the so-called “constitutional rights” of Christopher […] […]

News – An account of the start of the Christopher Coke extradition affair

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Mygripe The debate on the Christopher “Dudus” Coke extradition issue continues althoughthe Extradition Order signed by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General Senator Dorothy Lightbourne has been executed and Coke is now in the […] […]

News – We want ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’

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By Dean James Mygripe There are many Jamaicans who think that the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips issue should be laid to rest. I’m one Jamaican who thinks the pressure should be kept on the government […] […]

News – More women come forward in $46m harassment case

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Mygripe Former David Jones chief executive Mark McInnes has been accused of sexually harassing eight more workers by the lawyer of the woman who sued him and the Australian department store for A$37 million ($46.6 […] […]

News – Carla Bruni ‘prostitute’ slur slammed

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News: IRAN’S foreign ministry has criticised the media for branding French first lady Carla Bruni a “prostitute” after she pledged her support for a woman sentenced to death by stoning. “Insulting officials of other countries […] […]