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• Mass of Media: Sarah Palin

  Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

  Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election. She was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996 and mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant [...]

• Mass of Media: Banking crisis in Europe

  Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

  UPDATE 1-ECB’s Nowotny: no systemic banking crisis in Europe
  Reuters
  VIENNA, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Europe’s banking sector is not in a systemic crisis and does not need a bailout similar to the one planned in the United States, …
  Ballmer on banking crisis: No one is safe
  Register, UK
  He said: “I have to [...]

• Mass of Media: Financial crisis

  Thursday, September 18th, 2008

  A financial crisis happens when some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value. Many financial crises are banking panics, and many recessions coincided with these panics. Other situations that are often called financial crises include stock market crashes and the bursting of other financial bubbles, as [...]

• Mass of Media: War in Georgia

  Saturday, August 9th, 2008

  Bush says attacks on Georgia “dangerous escalation”
  Reuters
  BEIJING (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Saturday said attacks by Russia on neighboring Georgia outside the war zone of South Ossetia marked a …
  Georgia proposes cease fire in S Ossetia
  The Associated Press
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday [...]

• Mass of Media: Radovan Karadžić

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Radovan Karadžić (Serbian: Радован Караџић, IPA: [râdovaːn kâraʤiʨ]; born 19 June 1945 in Petnjica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist who was a fugitive from 1995 until 21 July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the [...]

• Mass of Media: Jenna Bush

  Monday, May 12th, 2008

  Jenna Welch Hager, née Bush (born November 25, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush and the fraternal twin of Barbara Pierce Bush. Jenna and Barbara are known as the First Twins both because they are the children of the U.S. [...]

• Mass of Media: Kosovo

  Friday, February 15th, 2008

  Kosovo moves to calm minority Serbs as it prepares for independence
  The Canadian Press
  PRISTINA, Serbia – Kosovo’s prime minister announced on Friday the creation of a government office to handle the concerns of the Serb minority in an attempt …
  Kosovo breakaway prompts East-West split
  Times Online, UK
  Russia warned the West [...]

• Mass of Media: Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni

  Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

  Sarkozy-Bruni make it to the altar
  NDTV.com, India
  Three months after they met and four months after his divorce, Sarkozy married Bruni in a private civil ceremony conducted by the Mayor of the 8th district …
  Sarkozy, Bruni Wed
  EURSOC, UK
  By EURSOC Two Published: 02 February, 2008 The French press has reported [...]

• Mass of Media: Heath Ledger

  Thursday, January 24th, 2008

  Tests on Heath Ledger to Take Days
  The Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — To many who saw Heath Ledger in the last months of his life, the actor appeared to be happy, healthy and excited — “in a great place,” in …
  The three sides of Heath Ledger
  The Age, Australia
  A Melbourne [...]

• Mass of Media: Steve Jobs

  Thursday, January 17th, 2008

  Violet Blue: Steve Jobs snubbed me
  CNET News.com, CA
  If you want to look at how the personalities of Apple’s two co-founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, differ, perhaps one way would be to measure their …
  Investors Boo Steve Jobs
  Red Herring, CA
  As has become tradition, Apple CEO Steve Jobs sought [...]

• Mass of Media: Britney Spears

  Friday, January 11th, 2008

  Dr Phil McGraw versus Britney Spears
  Times Online, UK
  The only calamity that seemed to be missing was the one Britney Spears’s mum might have written. That would have read: Betrayed by a friend? …
  Britney Spears Update
  MTV.uk, UK
  You can trust MTV to give you the latest info on crazed popstars- [...]

• Mass of Media: Nicolas Sarcozy – Carla Bruni

  Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

  Minister defends Sarkozy, Bruni
  News24, South Africa
  After photos of Sarkozy and Bruni on vacation in Egypt and Jordan were splashed in the press, media commentators and the opposition Socialists charged that …
  French President Sarkozy hints at marriage with Bruni
  Servihoo, Mauritius
  Recent photos of Sarkozy and Bruni at the Egyptian resort [...]