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Ride the high country
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Apart from a rush of re-invented hotels in Fremantle for our defence of the America's Cup, the joint was a crummy sinkhole that had to be supported by the richer eastern states. Anyone who cared enough about their future was on a bus east or a jet

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Tens of thousands turn out in Montreal to mark 100th day of Quebec student strikes
National Post
Related Graeme Hamilton: Quebec protests just a warm-up for corruption probe Michael Den Tandt: Charest's squandered opportunity in Quebec could be trouble for Harper Huge sinkhole opens in Montreal street after student protest passes “A campaign of

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Springfield's Fischer Hardware battles to survive; says Ace Hardware led it on
Washington Post (blog)
And then the store spiraled straight down a financial sinkhole into bankruptcy, for which the Ewerses filed last month. Meanwhile, the couple learned that Ace falsified the financial documents the Ewerses relied upon to buy Fischer, according to court

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Postal service revamp balances bad options
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Last week, the Senate approved legislation designed to help rescue the Postal Service from its budgetary sinkhole. How well the bill would do that is debatable. The bill leaves postal union leaders ambivalent, at best. Greg Bell, executive vice

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City will dedicate its newest park May 12
ThisWeekNews
"What we've really done is taken the existing paths and driveway and polished them up to create more formalized trails in the park. The park is almost entirely wooded," he said. A sinkhole on the property will also be a park feature.

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