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London's Evening Standard filled its front page Thursday with two stories--the death of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and the award of libel damages of more than $160,000 each to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman over allegations in a British newspaper that their marriage was a "hypocritical sham" to cover up their homosexuality.
Subject: Amendments to Regulation X, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: Withdrawal of Employer/Employee and Computer Loan Origination Systems Exemptions (FR-3638); and Policy Statements 1996-1 (regarding computer loan origination systems); 1996-2 (regarding sham controlled business arrangements); and 1996-3 (rental of office space, lock-outs, and retaliation)
A Palestinian state is a certainty, according to an article, but sovereignty will be a sham.
Nato would be exposed as a sham, and its military threat no more than posturing.
Pups were randomly designated to receive bilateral freezing lesions or sham surgery, balancing treatment within litters.