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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Recording artist Prince is making a $250,000 donation to a nonprofit group that aims to make sure all children in a Columbia neighborhood graduate from college. Prince's drummer and Columbia native John Blackwell Jr. made the presentation today to Eau Claire Promise Zone officials. The 501c3 nonprofit Eau Claire Promise Zone is a 12-neighborhood area that is part of the nationwide Promise Neighborhoods movement, modeled after the work of Geoffrey Canada and his Harlem Children's Zone. Prince and the New Power Generation performed shows in three South Carolina cities last ...
LONDON - There's still a month to go until the royal wedding and yet some Britons are already asking: Is it over yet? While millions around the world are following every detail of the wedding planning - the guest list, the cake, the carriage, the dress - others are desperately trying to tune it out. In the British press, scores of stories about the April 29 nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton sit alongside grimmer news: An earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan, war in Libya, and a diet of spending cuts, job losses and inflation in Britain. It's no surprise many ...
LONDON (Oct.19) -- A Saudi prince has been convicted of murdering one of his servants in a frenzied attack in a British hotel. A jury in London's Old Bailey criminal court found Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud guilty of murdering Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz. The 34-year-old prince faces a possible life sentence. The jury deliberated 95 minutes before returning its verdict. ...
(Sept. 21) -- Happy International Peace Day! Today marks the ninth annual United Nations International Day of Peace since the holiday was passed by the U.N. General Assembly with the goal "that the Day be observed as a day of global cease-fire and nonviolence, an invitation to all nations and people to honor a cessation of hostilities during the Day." Using examples from initiatives around the world, Surge Desk presents a crash course in how to celebrate the International Day of Peace. 1. Do something! You don't necessarily need to travel around the planet to meet with the Dalai Lama and ...
(Aug. 3) -- Radiohead is known for uncompromisingly dark music that expresses the emotional turmoil of humans as they come to terms with the effects of technology on their psyches. The ukulele has a rep as a happy instrument that is only meant to be played at Hawaiian luaus by Don Ho or Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. So it's hard to imagine a band's catalog and a musical instrument being more inappropriate for each other, right? 8ft. Records Amanda Palmer, of the rock duo Dresden Dolls, first picked up a ukulele as a joke. But now she's released an album of Radiohead covers that prove the tiny ...
(July 8) -- I guess basketball's "King" got the memo from music's "Artist currently known as Prince" in choosing to make "The Decision" on live cable TV rather than through an announcement on the Internet, which "is over," according to Prince. Ironically, the fascination with neither LeBron James nor the Internet is likely to be "over" any time soon -- the big decision not withstanding. After LeBron decides where to play, he will continue to be the focus of too much attention. "Did he make the right decision?" "Will he ever be a champion?" "Does he need someone to watch that money for him ...
Remember online dating? Gosh, that seems so last century. An iPhone application which allows cruising gay men to locate one another instantly using Global Positioning System technology is now spreading to the heterosexual market. This latest rage in online romance is called Grindr. Grindr is a free, downloadable iPhone app that lets you find "gay, bi, curious guys near you." It's sort of a sexual version of toptable -- an iPhone app that allows you to search for all the restaurants offering a certain cuisine in your immediate vicinity. Similarly, Grindr provides a grid of who else in your ...
On June 10, 1776, the Continental Congress appointed a committee made up of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman to draft a declaration of independence from England. Jefferson was the one who actually wrote the declaration, (taking his sweet time) from June 11 to June 28, 1776, and it seems he was making corrections to the draft as he went. The Library of Congress announced today that new hyperspectral imaging of his Declaration rough draft shows he omitted the phrase "our fellow subjects" in favor of the word "citizens." Though the specific ...
In the least binding pronouncement to come out of Minnesota since Prince claimed he was changing his name to a symbol, Al Franken will be declared the winner this morning in his Senate race against Norm Coleman.Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman, state officials said on Sunday.Now for those greenhorns in the audience who are new to American politics... The answer is: No, of course this doesn't end the race! Norm Coleman now gets to challenge the result in ...
The reviews are in and everyone seemed to like Prince's Super Bowl halftime show. But if you really liked it, you have the chance to have a little part of it in your private collection.This eBay auction involves what the seller claims is the black bandana Prince wore during the show:I was lucky enough to catch Prince's black bandana when he throw it off stage last night during the superbowl. Im not a big fan of prince, but catching anything a celeb throws at you is always sweet!! But i am wanting to sell it, if anyone likes prince, this will become a huge collectable later on!! It still even ...
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