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NEW YORK (AP) — Cable companies said Wednesday that they will offer Internet service for $9.95 per month to homes with children that are eligible for free school lunches. The offer will start next summer and is part of an initiative the Federal Communications Commission cobbled together to get more U.S. homes connected to broadband. One third, or about 35 million homes, don't have broadband. That affects people's ability to educate themselves and find and apply for jobs, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said.

Peshawar, 27 August 2011, Frontier Constabulary will be used in surgical operation at Karachi, one thousand FC cops has sent to Karachi for the operation purpose. According to Interior Ministry some political parties objected on army operation in Karachi, so the interior Ministry has decided to use the FC for Surgical Operation in Karachi. One month before 500 FC Cops was already sent to Sindh Province to control the law & order situation there. After the Objection of Political Parties, Interior ministry has sent One thousand FC Cops to Karachi for the operation purpose. Interior Ministry also informed the Provincial...

There ought to be a special word – something German – to describe the feeling of revulsion normal people experience when reading lines like these from a single article on John Kerry by Laura Blumenfeld in the Washington Post: "Kerry's complexity has been an issue since his national debut in 1971." "Kerry likes to quote the French writer Andre Gide: 'Don't try to understand me too quickly.'" "His friend Dan Barbiero said it comes down to Kerry's complexity ..." (Apparently, Kerry's answers on the LSAT were too nuanced and complex for the Harvard Law School admissions committee: Despite all his...

The Bourne candidate Hugh Hewitt The late Sunday afternoon rebroadcast of Sunday morning's Fox News Sunday featured an interview with Sens. Kerry and Edwards, a discussion segment with Bush-Cheney chief strategist Matthew Dowd and Newt Gingrich, and then a panel discussion with Fred, Mort, Mara and Bill Kristol filling in for Juan Williams. The most striking aspect of the program was how the intervening event of Tom Ridge's announcement of the higher terror alert had rendered so much of the program irrelevant. Some of what mattered so much Sunday morning seemed beside the point following the sudden refocusing on the...