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The two met at a café near Bale's home, and McG did everything but act out the entire movie. He even handed Bale a copy of Cormac McCarthy's “The Road,” saying how the novel's bleak, post-apocalyptic setting was what he had in mind for the film. …
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In stark contrast to the exuberance surrounding baseball, city officials are weighing cuts to park service, as well as fire station closings and scores of layoffs. The council also Tuesday afternoon gave its blessing to a plan meant to build community …
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By Diana Samuels Negotiations to bring ultra-fast broadband Internet service to Palo Alto collapsed in March, but city council members continued to express interest in the project Monday while discussing broadband funding with US Rep. Anna Eshoo. …
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Safeway and its unionized workers agreed late Saturday to extend their contract until May 30 to allow for further negotiations in a pact identical to one signed with King Soopers earlier.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US envoy Stephen Bosworth and South Korean officials agreed that the six-party negotiating process "remains the heart" of the effort to ensure North Korea's nuclear disarmament, a US official said.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scheduled to hold a high-profile meeting with European business and political leaders in the Czech Republic on Wednesday to begin talks on a free trade agreement between Canada and Europe.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday it was "implausible, if not impossible" that North Korea would rejoin the six-nation process aimed at dismantling its nuclear program, Kyodo News reported (see GSN, April 30).
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ANKARA (AFP) - Iraq's radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will hold talks with Turkish officials here Friday on the political situation in Iraq, Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.
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By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's insurgency can be brought to an end through "soft diplomacy" with the Taliban, if Western forces commit to a timetable to withdraw from the country, a veteran of past negotiations with the militants …
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Local author Cara Black described the stories behind her first novel for the Los Altos Library Endowment's “Speaking Volumes” series at the main library April 17. “Let's face it, it's so much fun to talk about Paris,” the Woodside native told the …