Cleaning off the computer Reading NotesDecember 13, 2007
Investigating the holiday's most tabooed treat
By Jordan Bartel, Times Staff Writer Thursday, November 29, 2007
I've never had fruitcake and lately I was wondering why.
It's been almost ingrained in my mind that I shouldn't try fruitcake or like fruitcake. It's like some kind of holiday taboo treat. You have to keep it on the downlow if you like it and it's popular to make fun of it.
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BBC: Led Zeppelin return to the stage
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7135200.stm
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Led Zeppelin have played their first concert in 19 years, before nearly 20,000 fans at
Their set, lasting about two hours, opened with Good Times Bad Times, the first track of their debut album.
Original band members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones were joined on stage by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham.
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BBC: The legend of Led Zeppelin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6989929.stm
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
Led Zeppelin, who reformed for a one-off concert at
Many say Led Zeppelin invented heavy metal, and their sound wafted out of thousands of guitar shops worldwide during the 1970s.
Budding guitarists world try out their skills on Stairway to Heaven - but that is only the tip of the Led Zeppelin story.
Many critics loathed them, but for a generation of fans, their complex sounds and love of mythology gave them an aura which remains undimmed today.
Led Zeppelin split in 1980 and reunions have been rare. But the huge scramble for tickets for their
IN THE BEGINNING...
Led Zeppelin formed from the ashes of 1960s band The Yardbirds, the one-time home of Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. Guitarist Jimmy Page joined the group for their final album and stayed with the band as it disintegrated in 1968.
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CIA director to testify about destroyed tapes
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09337668
Sun Dec 9, 2007 6:25pm EST
Senators at odds on special probe of CIA tapes
Democrats’ fury grows over destroyed tapes
CIA says it made and destroyed interrogation tapes
CIA erred and had tapes in September 11 conspirator case
White House ordered to keep backup copies of e-mail
WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - CIA Director Michael Hayden will testify before Congress on Tuesday amid Democratic fury over the spy agency's destruction of videotapes that showed terrorism suspects being interrogated using harsh techniques.
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C.I.A. Chief Admits Failure to Inform Congress
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/washington/12cnd-intel.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=login
Published: December 12, 2007
WASHINGTON — Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, acknowledged Wednesday that the C.I.A. had failed to keep members of Congress fully informed of the facts that the agency had videotaped the interrogations of Al Qaeda detainees and destroyed the tapes three years later.
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To burn or not to burn by
County commissioners to hold panel on waste recommendations
The commissioners heard two proposals with differing visions of how the county should tackle trash in November, and have been waiting for more information before deciding which plan to go forward with, said Cindy Parr, county director of administrative services.
On Thursday, members of the EAC will be at the commissioners’ meeting to represent their position, and Public Works staff, and representatives from the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority and
The plan is to have an interactive discussion, Parr said, where the commissioners can ask their unanswered questions and hear facts and opinions from both sides.
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