Colonel Sanders still smiling after 24-year Japan dip (Reuters)

Filed Under (1944) by on 11-03-2009

Reuters - After nearly a quarter century at the bottom of a Japanese river, Colonel Sanders has come up smiling.

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A surer Assad reaches out to US to aid needy Syria (AP)

Filed Under (1944) by on 05-03-2009

AP - During eight years as Syria's president, Bashar Assad has grown more sure in his grip on power — ordering a crackdown on dissent, letting a personality cult bloom around him and opening up the economy after decades of isolation.

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