Month: May 2005

Khodorkovsky guilty of fraud and tax charges A Moscow court on Monday found Mikhail Khodorkovsky, formerly Russia’s richest man and founder of the Yukos oil company, guilty of fraud and tax evasion. The judge has passed a...

By Todd Johnston ePluribus Media also posted on DailyKos Friday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan told ePluribus Media that his office had never requested a 30-day security clearance for James D. Guckert, aka...

A hospital in South East England has launched an appeal to find information about a young man in his 20s or 30s who they have dubbed “Piano Man”. The story is one worthy of a Sherlock Holmes novel. The slim 6ft tall...

There is a hadith (reported saying of the Prophet Mohammed) that contains this phrase.An oversimplification of the context, without making your eyes glaze over, is basically that one’s brother in law is more likely than a...

Okay, I do it. I came across this story and it just doesn’t let me go. But it will be another one of my stories thrown together in a hurry. Some of this I posted already on the open thread. So first a big SORRY for the...