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ATTLEBORO - Agatha Kolodziejczak was getting a little too plump eating gwumpkie and pierogi. There was a fear within her, because her father once tipped the scales at a nearly fatal 400 pounds.After spending a year abroad in her native Poland, Kolodziejczak had come home to face admonitions from her mother, imploring her to lose weight. But it wasn't until she met her boyfriend Reda Ahlouche - an Albanian native with a sensible, dynamic plan and regime to get people fit - did she reshape her body, mind and attitude into something wondrous to behold.Known as AggiK to clients, the Dedham High and UMass grad is now a champion female bodybuilder. She recently won 1st place in both the 2007 NPC Rhode Island and New Hampshire Championships in the novice division as well as finishing in the Top 5 of the 2007 Miss Hawaiian Tropics Nationals event in Florida and the Top 10 in the 2007 Fitness Atlantic for Sports and Bikini Models.


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Nigeria: Yar'Adua's Health And the Rotten Entrails of Politics

"How many decisions - including ones of great historical significance that impact millions of people-are made by men and women who are driven by personal motives rather than by a desire to do the right thing?

How many of our top government officials are driven by personal greed instead of national loyalty?"-John Perkins in "Confessions of an economic hit man"

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Scepticism over load shedding about-turn

Eskom's suspension of load shedding has been welcomed, but the electricity supply problems had already done damage, analysts say. Many said it was too late to go back for consumers and businesses that lost millions of rands because of the power company's policy. And there was some cynicism about the utility's claims that the reason for the suspension was a reduction in demand. Eskom this week announced the suspension of all planned load shedding, although there could be emergency cuts. The reason given for Eskom's change in attitude is that the country's top 10 municipalities had together reduced demand by up to 8 percent. .


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