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Pilot Warned of Travis Barker Crash- Miley Dancing With the Stars- KISS Sinks Stock Market- Megadeth Jury Duty- The Deluxe Sword- Korn Head on LA Ink and more antiMusic reports: Here is today's round up of quick music new stories: The pilot of a private jet warned air traffic controllers that his plane was "going off the end" of a runway before it crashed, killing him and three others and injuring celebrity DJ AM and former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. more Those with an IQ over 100 can sk

Trashy women for charity, originally uploaded by trexfiles23. Trash cans branded with the GoRedForWomen.org campaign are out in full force at Grand Central Station. I was going to offer a Freudian analysis of this campaign but thought better of it.

Colonials Take Care of Binghamton, Improve to 2-0 Noel Wilmore scores team-high 16 points to lead GW to victory. Women's Basketball Women’s Basketball Hammers Coppin State All 13 Colonials contribute as GW beats the Lady Eagles by 41 at the Smith Center. Study Abroad Planning for a Semester Abroad More than 1,000 undergraduate students went overseas last year through GW’s Office of Study Abroad, pictured. With 250 different programs offered throughout the world’s regions, stu

We need to be prepared and ready for things that are out of our hands. We need to have a safe future and consider life as something to be worth cherished. But sometimes, unexpected things happen and it happens so fast that you feel pressured. Especially if it has something to do with money. Money is incredibly important and it’s not that easy to have money in an instant when you needed it. But, There are actually ways of getting money when you’re quite broke; through lending money to your family

President-elect Obama promises to back gay rights legislation The next President of the United States has published a comprehensive list of action he will take on gay rights. Interview: Mamma Mia's Stellan Skarsgard on the bimbo role he could not resist The prospect of singing and dancing on screen in Mamma Mia! was ‘seriously scary” for Stellan Skarsgard. Sweden removes transvestism and other 'sexual behaviours' from list of diseases The National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden

If you're tired of the Obama cabinet sweepstakes, or trying to game the last couple of Senate races, try this: Alabama will elect an all-new governor in 2010. Bob Riley is term-limited. So what does the Republican field look like? Republicans rumored to be considering a run include Bradley Byrne (current head of the two year college system), Kay Ivey (State Treasurer), and Jack Hawkins (chancellor of Troy State University). The only Republican actually planning to run is Tim James (son of Fo

I asked my class of college freshman this week when they had last written a letter to someone. I got the same set of blank stares that I’ve seen before—on a day when I've mentioned Erica Jong maybe, or the BeeGees, or say, dangling participles. Blank stares. Dead quiet. Not that this is not a lively bunch—someone did quote Lil Wayne last week in a discussion about the election. They’re bright kids, my freshmen, and finally, someone in the back of the room offered that he did write thank you not

WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda is struggling to boost its appeal in Pakistan following former president Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf’s resignation, a United States terrorism expert concludes based on comments by the terror network. Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Jarret Brachman said Musharraf’s departure in September had removed a target of Al-Qaeda’s anti-American campaign. His successor, Asif Ali Zardari, has been critical of the US. Al-Qaeda “finds itself in a variety of predicament

R&B stars Rihanna and Ne-Yo attended the 2008 UNICEF Snowflake lighting at Grand Army Plaza on November 19, 2008 in New York City. A strong supporter of UNICEF, Rihanna is also the global representative of the 2008 Gucci Campaign to Benefit UNICEF, which launched worldwide. At 23 feet in diameter, over 28 feet in height and weighing 3,300 pounds, the UNICEF Snowflake is the largest outdoor chandelier of its kind. It’s adorned with 16,000 Baccarat crystal prisms and has become an iconic f

On a blustery cold day on Woody Hayes Drive, people from central Ohio all seemed to arrive. They signed up for a Central Ohio Network Tweetup event and they all asked me where the heat went? Twitterites, networkers, bloggers and more, arrived at the shoe on this frigid morn. @Rockson greeting each twitter and guest, they signed up to tour with the rest. Coffee and donuts were provided by aspott. The coffee went fast because it was hot!  Prizes were plenty and many won. Tickets, books, hat