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“Hare Hare, Hare Krishna” still top of Hare Krishna music charts
The hit song “Hare Hare, Hare Krishna” entered its 1,974th week in the Number One position on the Hare Krishna Top 40 this week, setting a record that the Hare Krishna Musical Association (HKMA) says may never be beaten. “When we first started this chart more than thirty years ago, ‘Hare Hare’ was number one…
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Crazy Frog working on difficult second album
Record label Jamster! has announced that the scheduled release of the Crazy Frog’s follow-up to Jingle Bells/U Can’t Touch This has been delayed indefinitely. The album, featuring the working title Ring Ding Ding!, has been dogged by staff walk-outs, contract disputes and, insiders say, increasingly bitter disagreement over its creative direction.
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Student broadens horizons with GAP year at private school similar to own
As some HSC students banally weigh up the merits of studying at Sydney or Macquarie in the new year, some like Barker College student Marcus Hawley are choosing a wilder unknown way. Boarding life will come as no shock for Hawley. Though his family lives at Warrawee, only a handful of suburbs away from Barker,…
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Lame satirical article labours point
A satirical article laboured the point yesterday, merely dragging out the headline for another 300 words, unconfirmed sources reported. As often happens with these articles, a point was made in the second paragraph, then only repeated with a direct quote. "That often happens with these kinds of things. A point is made then a quote…
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Late night TV converts viewer to Christianity
Spurred on by his viewing of pre-dawn television, 41 year-old printer salesman Andrew Smithers has found God. Smithers says that the conversion process began at 12.00am Wednesday with the Channel Ten chat show Face to Face. “At first I thought it was just an informative discussion of world events conducted by people I could relate…
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G8 agrees to cancel third world debt if Geldof cancels concert
The world’s economic powerhouses have agreed to relinquish the third world’s multi-trillion dollar debt, describing it as a “small price to pay” to ensure that the Live 8 concert series never happens.
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Budget delivers tax relief for battling CEOs
“Many working families today are having trouble surviving on only one bloated income, worrying about putting their kids through elite private schools while at the same time asking themselves whether they can afford that fourth investment property.” Howard said. “Now they can.”
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Fashion Week shock: half-naked anorexics in again this season
If this year’s Mercedes Australian Fashion Week is any guide, wafer-thin adolescents with see-through tops, tiny diaphanous panties and protuberant nipples are among the items we can expect to see on the streets this season.
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Pope Benedict 16 complains getting a papal name is harder than Hotmail
“It’s hard to stand out from the pack when you’re one of sixteen guys with the same name,” the Holy Father said. “Centuries from now no-one will even remember which Benedict I was. Jesus never had this problem.”
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Man commits suicide after receiving Telstra Lifeline bill
“His executor’s still on hold to get the phone cancelled, she’s going to have a heart attack when she sees the bill.”