Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History
1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist
1807, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian nationalist
1826, Stephen Foster, songwriter
1885, Louis B. Mayer, film executive
1872, Calvin Coolidge, U.S. president
1927, Neil Simon, playwright
1776, The American Continental Congress votes to approve the Declaration of Independence, in which the American colonies proclaim their separation from Britain.
1802, the United States Military Academy officially opened at West Point, N.Y.
1845, Writer Henry David Thoreau moves to a small hut by Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lives alone for two years, writing a journal that is published as Walden in 1854.
1910, In Reno, Nevada, Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, knocks out Jim Jefferies, who had retired in 1905 rather than face him. Afterwards, films of the fight are banned in many U.S. cities.
1917, during a ceremony in Paris honoring the French hero of the American Revolution, U.S. Lt. Col. Charles E. Stanton declared, "Lafayette, we are here!"
1939, baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, said farewell to his fans at New York's Yankee Stadium.
1954: Housewives celebrate end of rationing
Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain ended at midnight when restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat and bacon were lifted.
Members of the London Housewives' Association held a special ceremony in London's Trafalgar Square to mark Derationing Day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_3818000/3818563.stm
1968: Alec Rose sails home
Yachtsman Alec Rose received a hero's welcome as he sailed into Portsmouth after his 354-day round-the-world trip.
The 59-year-old was escorted into Portsmouth harbour by 400 motor-boats, yachts, catamarans and canoes blowing sirens and whistles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_2744000/2744481.stm
1976, A midnight Israeli commando raid at Entebbe airport in Uganda, planned by future prime minister Ehud Barak, frees more than 100 hostages from an airliner hijacked by pro-Palestinian guerrillas.
Israeli commandos have rescued 100 hostages, mostly Israelis or Jews, held by pro-Palestinian hijackers at Entebbe airport in Uganda.
At about 0100 local time (2200GMT), Ugandan soldiers and the hijackers were taken completely by surprise when three Hercules transport planes landed after a 2,500-mile trip from Israel.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_2786000/2786967.stm
1977: Manchester United sack manager
Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty has been sensationally sacked by the club's directors.
A statement from the football club's board found him in breach of his contract following a meeting today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_2492000/2492743.stm
1985: Teenage genius gets a first
Child prodigy Ruth Lawrence has achieved a starred first in Mathematics at Oxford University.
The 13-year-old is the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_2492000/2492853.stm
Do you get the feeling NASA has a 'thing' about the Fourth of July? Do these scientists ever see a fireworks display?
1997, After traveling for seven months, NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft finally touched down on Mars, inaugurating a new era in the search for life on the Red Planet.
NASA's Mars Exploration page provides information about Mars, including mission data, background, videos, and other resources.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Flush with success, city readies for round two
By Tina Moore
Inquirer Staff Writer
The city was still recovering from a slight Live 8 hangover yesterday as it declared triumph and prepared for another day of partying on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway today.
"We're finished with one event, and we're starting up another," Christopher Palmer, director of operations for the Fairmount Park Commission, said while assessing minor damage in front of the Art Museum.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/special_packages/live8/12049817.htm
Fresh off London Live 8 show, Elton John eager for Phila. gig
By Joel Bewley
Inquirer Staff Writer
Sir Elton John, fresh from his Live 8 appearance in London two days ago, has plenty of energy left to help Philadelphia celebrate Independence Day.
"We have a wonderful artist lineup, and I cannot wait to get on that stage," John said yesterday through Simon Prytherch, a spokesman for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12050927.htm
Part concert, part block party
By Larry Eichel
Inquirer Staff Writer
They came, hundreds of thousands of them, to rock to the Black Eyed Peas and Jay-Z, to hear about poverty in Africa, and to play their part in a potentially historic day.
Philadelphia's portion of the worldwide Live 8 event was part concert at the Art Museum, part block party on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and a resounding success in the end.
Despite the huge potential for problems in a mass event put together on barely 30-days notice, few difficulties surfaced yesterday as the seven-hour musical/political extravaganza played itself out.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/12045820.htm
Get ready for war of the words over court
By Dick Polman
Inquirer Political Analyst
A lit match has been tossed into the combustible world of Washington politics.
Partisans on the left and right have long been spoiling for a fight over the future of the U.S. Supreme Court, and now passions have finally been ignited. The retirement of Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor opens a seat for the first time in 11 years, and virtually guarantees an ideological bloodbath.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12042636.htm
Concert provides a victory for the city
By Joseph A. Slobodzian and Christine Schiavo
Inquirer Staff Writers
Call it experience, call it professionalism, call it luck. Maybe it was all of the above.
The city said it wanted to throw a party for a million people. Many if not most showed up, partied and had a good time, and managed to show the world Philadelphia's best - albeit sunburned and sweaty - face.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12045793.htm
A giant party, with a cause
More than a half-million showed up.
By Natalie Pompilio
Inquirer Staff Writer
They surged toward the stage at 5:30 a.m. in a rush comparable to the running of the bulls in Spain, the Filene's Basement bridal gown sale, an Old West stampede:
Thousands of music fans, desperate to get as close as possible to Destiny's Child, Stevie Wonder and the Dave Matthews Band.
And most of them stayed there - many on their feet, some pressed against the metal barricades - all day.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12045821.htm
Web soars, MTV crashes in coverage of concerts
By Beth Gillin
Inquirer Staff Writer
If Live Aid helped launch MTV as a media powerhouse two decades ago, Live 8 not only dethroned the music channel yesterday but made it seem quaintly old-fashioned.
The Internet left cable in the dust. To put it bluntly, MTV sank and AOL soared.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12045852.htm
Sandra Day O'Connor
Editorial Justice served
If President Bush wants to avoid a partisan meltdown of the federal government, he should nominate to the Supreme Court someone very much like Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired Friday.
In 24 years on the high court, O'Connor has been guided by the law and a rigorous search for constitutional balance, rather than by political ideology. She is a conservative, but has not served reflexively the right side of the partisan divide. Her independence as the court's swing vote often antagonized partisan conservatives and showed her value to the nation.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12042630.htm
Bush given warning from the right
Conservative groups say Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales would be the wrong Supreme Court choice.
By Todd S. Purdum and David D. Kirkpatrick
New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON - Conservative groups confronted President Bush with a groundswell of opposition this weekend against nominating his attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, to the Supreme Court, warning that doing so would splinter conservative support.
At least one prominent Latino evangelical group urged Bush to name another Hispanic candidate, Emilio M. Garza, a federal appeals judge from Texas.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12045847.htm
The appeals court judge is a contender.
N.J. native holds conservatives' high court hopes
By Emilie Lounsberry
Inquirer Staff Writer
Conservative. Intelligent. And personable enough to have a gourmet coffee named after him.
That is the reputation of Samuel A. Alito Jr., a judge on the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit who is on several short lists of possible nominees to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the nation's highest court.
If President Bush nominates the Trenton-born judge to the U.S. Supreme Court, he will be selecting someone often compared to another conservative jurist from Trenton: Justice Antonin Scalia.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12042659.htm
Detainees are defying U.S. troops at Guantanamo, documents show
Military probes and accounts of alleged abuse and retaliation are detailed in the 278 pages.
By Ben Fox
Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The prisoners banged on their cells to protest the heat in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They doused guards with whatever liquid was handy - including spit and urine. Sometimes, they struck their jailers.
The U.S. military police at times retaliated with force - punches, pepper spray, and a splash of cleaning fluid in the face, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press that detail military investigations and eyewitness accounts of alleged abuse.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12042641.htm
FREUD NEVER HAD A FEMALE ORGASM. HE WAS CUTTING EDGE. YOU HAVE TO FORGIVE HIM. "Clit? What? Oh, Clitoris." Freud never did autopsies on cadavers he was completely modeling from the issue of personality. He wasn't as progressive as Masters and Johnson who counted every drop of sweat. Oh, sorry, perspiration.
From Freud to Lloyd, all the talk about female orgasm
By Faye Flam
Inquirer Staff Writer
Lest we get too caught up in this year's 100th anniversary of Einstein's special relativity theory, it should be noted that 2005 also marks the centennial of Sigmund Freud's theory of vaginal orgasm.
Freud's idea didn't cause a revolution in our understanding of the cosmos, but it did set off a debate that rages to this day. Now, a new genetics study and a book on the evolution of female orgasm may help bring a new understanding of this complicated reflex.
Freud proposed that female pleasure and orgasm should center on the reproductive tract. He was aware that many women experienced orgasm through a small but ultrasensitive organ known as the clitoris but dealt with this by declaring such orgasms "infantile." Any woman who didn't transfer her center of sensitivity to the vagina he labeled as frigid.
It was the idea that launched a thousand fake orgasms.
Sex research has shown that about 95 percent of men nearly always have orgasm from intercourse while only about 25 percent to 30 percent of women do. Another 30-some-odd percent of women never have orgasm from intercourse, and a middle 30 percent to 40 percent report having them sometimes.
In "The Case of the Female Orgasm - Bias in the Science of Evolution," philosopher of science Elizabeth Lloyd argues that this dizzying variety occurs because the female orgasm didn't evolve for a specific function. Instead, she said, it probably rode along as a byproduct of male orgasm, the way male nipples appeared as a byproduct of female ones.
The byproduct idea was first proposed in 1979 by biologist Donald Symons. Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould extolled the idea but many other scientists dismissed it. A more popular theory holds that female orgasm evolved to increase fertility, the resulting muscle contractions helping suction sperm upward.
But Lloyd points out that contractions can occur without orgasm and, unfair as it may seem, a woman can get in trouble just as easily from disappointing sex as from the fireworks kind. Nor does orgasm seem to play the pivotal role in motivating women to have sex. Many factors beyond the wish for an orgasm can fuel desire.
Lloyd notes that female orgasm can happen in animals, where it also appears dissociated from reproduction. In a primate called the stump-tail macaque, scientists found only a few females displayed signs of orgasm when they mated with males, but many more females could readily bring it on by rubbing the requisite parts against the backs of other females.
By mid-century, Alfred Kinsey's systematic studies redirected the center of female orgasm and sensitivity away from the vagina and back to the clitoris, which he found needs a certain amount of sustained attention. For some women that happened through intercourse alone and for others it did not.
Vaginal orgasm made a come-back with the discovery of the G-spot, which is located in the interior region and originates from the same bit of tissue that develops into a prostate gland in men. Scientists are still figuring out how common such orgasms are and whether they differ from the clitoral variety. But the latest research suggests not all women have enough of a G-spot to notice its existence, said Lloyd.
In early June of this year, a new study from St. Thomas Hospital in London echoed the wide variation among women in their orgasmic tendencies and traced that not to neurosis, as Freud proposed, but to genetics.
In other words, wherever you get your orgasms, there's no right or wrong way to be a woman any more than there's a right or wrong hair or eye color. It would be nice if all women landed on this planet with the same set of equipment, however complicated, but apparently we all get a little different configuration and wiring and there's no instruction manual for this stuff.
After all his theorizing, Freud eventually called female sexuality "the dark continent," implying he didn't understand us after all. Did Mrs. Freud finally admit to faking it?
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12049789.htm
Genius at work
The magic we call music
Writer John Timpane and artist Tony Auth, both of The Inquirer's Editorial Board, were present for rehearsals and performances of a pair of premieres by the Philadelphia Orchestra earlier this season. With the musicians soon to leave for an Asian tour, here are their impressions.
It was a Thursday night at the Kimmel Center. The maestro raised his baton - and the Philadelphia Orchestra disappeared.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/sunday_review/11648276.htm
Editorial Energy Bill
Needed: Some visionary additives
When Congress goes to work on energy legislation, it's best to lower your expectations.
Several recent attempts by lawmakers have failed to develop sensible, forward-looking energy policy. And for everyone tiring of $2.20-per-gallon gasoline, be forewarned that a possible compromise by House-Senate negotiators on their markedly different energy bills wouldn't lower prices at the pump this summer.
The Senate's energy bill, approved Tuesday, is the better vehicle for starting the nation on a responsible course of investing in renewable fuels, reducing dependence on foreign oil and developing new technologies. But it can and must be improved if it's to become law. House-Senate negotiators ought to ditch several costly provisions. And, although unlikely, they ought to add others that weren't included in either bill.
For example, the House bill contains $8 billion in tax breaks to the oil and gas industries, which are reaping huge profits and don't need government subsidies to search for new deposits. Those giveaways should be scaled back drastically to lower the cost to taxpayers.
Perhaps the biggest roadblock to a bill reaching President Bush's desk is the quarrel over methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a gasoline additive. The House energy bill again contains protection from lawsuits for manufacturers of MTBE, which has polluted groundwater in communities nationwide. This liability shield is the work of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R., Texas), who insists annually on this poisonous provision.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/12049824.htm
The Chicago Tribune
Abducted imam aided CIA ally
Last month, Italian authorities charged 13 CIA operatives with kidnapping an Islamic cleric known as Abu Omar. Now former Albanian intelligence officials reveal that the imam was once an informant valued by the CIA.
By John Crewdson and Tom Hundley, Tribune correspondents. John Crewdson reported from Rome and Washington, and Tom Hundley reported from Milan and Tirana. Altin Raxhimi also contributed from Tirana
Published July 3, 2005
MILAN, Italy -- Among the multiple mysteries swirling around the abduction of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Italy, one stands out as by far the most perplexing.
Why would the U.S. government go to elaborate lengths to seize a 39-year-old Egyptian who, according to former Albanian intelligence officials, was once the CIA's most productive source of information within the tightly knit group of Islamic fundamentalists living in exile in Albania?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0507030272jul03,1,7425992.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Saudi Forces Kill Top al-Qaida Militant
By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI
Associated Press Writer
Published July 3, 2005, 9:38 PM CDT
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- In a swift and telling victory, Saudi anti-terror forces killed al-Qaida's top leader in the key U.S. ally in a gunbattle Sunday, but experts warn the kingdom still faces a surge in attacks despite its two-year crackdown on militants.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-saudi-clashes,1,5673348.story?coll=chi-news-hed
THE GREAT UNWED
THE FASTEST-GROWING DEMOGRAPHIC IN THE U.S. LIVES ALONE-AND SEEMS TO LIKE IT THAT WAY
By Michael Austin. Chicago writer Michael Austin would love to meet a woman who is smart, funny and at least vaguely interested in the fine arts. But not necessarily right now
Published July 3, 2005
If you had told me in 1975 that in the year 2005 I would be unmarried with no children, I would have laughed until my baseball mitt fell off my hand. I remember being disappointed back then knowing I would have to wait practically a lifetime for my golden birthday, the day when my age matched the date of my birth, on the 28th of December. I was envious of the kids who got to celebrate theirs at age 9 or 12 or, my goodness, 16. But at least my wife and kids would be there to celebrate mine, I told myself, and how many 8-year-olds could say that? Having a family of my own to help me celebrate my golden birthday seemed like a fair trade-off for being born near the end of the month. I even pictured us huddled around my cake with those glorious, golden candles burning.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0507030421jul03,1,7525018.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Going by media, some women matter more
Published July 4, 2005
With all due respect, if I have to see another report from Aruba on some incremental development in the Natalee Holloway story, I think I'll scream. No, I'm certain I'll scream.
If we took all of our cues from the media, we'd be forced to conclude that the only people who come up missing in this country are young girls and women who are white. Who are middle- to upper-middle-class. Who are cute as a button.
In recent weeks we've seen exhaustive news coverage of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks, who disappeared just before her wedding day but surfaced a few days later expressing regret and blaming cold feet, and of 18-year-old Holloway of Alabama, who disappeared in Aruba during a chaperoned trip in May and remains missing.
In recent years there has been seemingly unyielding coverage in general of white females in dire straits: Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, JonBenet Ramsey and Elizabeth Smart. (No need to add more than names because I'm confident you know their stories.)
I have nothing against very attractive middle- to upper-middle-class white girls and women. But contrary to what we see in the news, they're not the only people who drop out of sight.
The FBI has more than 100,000 active files on missing adults and children. Slightly more women than men make up the rolls. But you wouldn't know that by looking at the media.
African-Americans, Asians and Native Americans account for about 37 percent of the missing. (It's not clear how Hispanics add to that percentage because they're counted with whites.) But the media don't depict an accurate race picture either.
It's true that whenever a wealthy young white woman vanishes, it's a harrowing experience that deeply affects all those involved. But that also has to be the case, one would think, when a man comes up missing, an older person or even a not-so-attractive white woman.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0507040162jul04,1,2419015.column?coll=chi-news-hed
Haaretz
Hamas rejects invitation to join Abbas government
By The Associated Press
Hamas on Monday rejected an invitation by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to join his government, a Hamas official said.
"Tonight the Hamas leadership made a decision following deep consultations within the movement institutions, and the decision was not to participate in the proposed government," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told The Associated Press.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595760.html
Injunction allows trying over illegal W. Bank posts
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
GOC Central Command Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh last Thursday signed an unprecedented injunction that permits trying settlers who attempt to mobilize caravans in a bid to illegally build outposts in the West Bank, Haaretz learned on Monday.
Under the injunction, settlers who erect outposts in areas declared by the Israel Defense Forces as restricted will be put on trial in a civil court.
The move comes in the wake of the Sasson Report on illegal settlements which emphasized the difficulty in trying Israelis over offenses committed in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip which are not included in the law books.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595730.html
IDF admits there was no need to handcuff two journalists
By Amos Harel and Haaretz Staff
The arrest and handcuffing of two journalists covering the evacuation of the Maoz Yam Hotel near Neveh Dekalim in the Gaza Strip last week was unnecessary, the Israel Defense Forces acknowledged in a preliminary investigation made public Monday evening.
Commander of the IDF's Gaza Division, Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi carried out the investigation and presented its findings to GOC Southern Command Dan Harel. In the findings, the IDF expresses regret over the incident.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595734.html
2 former U.S. envoys concerned about Gaza withdrawal aftermath
By The Associated Press
Gaza could fall under control of Hamas after Israel's withdrawal this summer unless the Israeli and Palestinian governments begin serious coordination, two former U.S. Middle East envoys warned on Monday.
Dennis Ross, the former chief Middle East negotiator, and Martin Indyk, U.S. ambassador to Israel under the Clinton administration, told a conference in Jerusalem that the problems are urgent and no solution is in sight.
They said the Palestinian Authority is dysfunctional, the international
co
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595756.html
Egypt, Israel close to Philadelphi deal; AG says no need for MKs' approval
By Aluf Benn
Israel and Egypt are on the verge of concluding an agreement that will see Egyptian border guards deployed opposite the Philadelphi route in Rafah. Following a meeting yesterday between the head of the Defense Ministry's political-security division, Amos Gilad, and Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, Israeli officials said that the agreement would be signed "very shortly."
The main sticking point that remains to be resolved pertains to Israel's demand that Egypt assume responsibility for preventing arms smuggling along the Philadelphi route after the Israel Defense Forces leaves the area.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595284.html
Hezbollah infiltrators planned to kidnap soldiers
By Amos Harel
The infiltration of a Hezbollah cell into the Har Dov region last week was part of a plan to abduct soldiers, according to Israel Defense Forces officials. Corporal Uzi Peretz was killed in the incident.
"In all likelihood, we prevented the possibility of the abduction of soldiers," the head of the IDF's Northern Command, Major General Benny Ganz, said yesterday. "The cell's objective was to undermine the stability on the northern border and escalate the situation."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595274.html
The coffee is moral, the chocolate is green
By Tamara Traubmann
"Do you see this cup of coffee?" asked Krishnamurty Pushnapath, lifting the cup in his hand. "You are drinking poverty." Pushnapath was talking about coffee, which has become one of the most exploitative industries in world, at an improvised cafe at the recent Activism Festival in Ramle. There, all the coffee that was served was a different kind, coffee that was produced in fair trade.
Pushnapath, who calls himself Push for short, is the top campaigner for Oxfam on trade issues, and he explains the Make Trade Fair drive of the British-based charitable organization, which is part of a worldwide movement to promote fair trade and put an end to poverty. About three weeks ago he came to Israel for the inauguration of the fair trade campaign of the local branch of Oxfam.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595315.html
Basketball / Blatt spurns fast-track kosher coach play by IBA
By Arie Livnat
Israel's first training session ahead of next month's European Championship qualifying last chance tournament was replaced with a fitness workout yesterday, as the team was left without a coach. No solution was found to allow David Blatt to rescind his resignation.
Blatt quit the post Friday after Israel Basketball Association chairman Yermi Olmert said he would not be allowed to coach the squad until he had completed a coaching certificate.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595290.html
The New York Times
For the First Time a Spacecraft Impacts With Comet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 4, 2005
Filed at 5:43 a.m. ET
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- A space probe hit its comet target late Sunday in a NASA-directed, Hollywood-style mission that scientists hope will reveal clues to how the solar system formed. It marked the first time a spacecraft touched the surface of a comet, igniting a dazzling Independence Day weekend fireworks display in space.
The successful strike 83 million miles away from Earth occurred just before 11 p.m. PDT, according to mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which is managing the $333 million mission.
Scientists at mission control erupted in applause and gave each other hugs as news of the impact spread.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Comet-Buster.html?hp
A Frantic Finale for Cities Vying for 2012 Games
Ed Wray/Associated Press
Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain is in Singapore as part of London's bid to become the host city for the 2012 Olympic Games.
By LYNN ZINSER
Published: July 4, 2005
SINGAPORE, Monday, July 4 - International Olympic Committee members warily stepped out of elevators, looking both ways for solicitous representatives from the cities bidding to be host for the 2012 Olympics who might be lurking in the lobby.
Altaf Hussein/Reuters
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, with Ian Thorpe of Australia, a five-time gold medalist in swimming.
Soldiers who look barely old enough to drive were pacing outside the doors, toting machine guns and appearing impervious to the sweltering heat. The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, huddled with advisers in the lobby bar, chain smoking.
The entire scene paused as a huge security detail ushered Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain through the doors and into the elevator, a burst of camera flashes lighting his way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/sports/othersports/04olympics.html?hp&ex=1120536000&en=8f4187a5e73386f3&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Melding Gravity and Guilt at Live 8
By JON PARELES
Published: July 4, 2005
LONDON, July 3 - The symmetry was clear between the Group of 8 summit meeting, which begins in Scotland on Wednesday, and Saturday's Live 8 concerts, which were staged to pressure the G-8 leaders on policies affecting Africa. The concerts took place in the eight major industrial countries represented by the group (along with a concert belatedly added in South Africa). And like the G-8 meeting, they hinged on the privileged addressing the problems of the impoverished.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/arts/music/04eigh.html?hp&ex=1120536000&en=63013081a80acca7&ei=5094&partner=homepage
With Congress's Blessing, a Border Fence May Finally Push Through to the Sea
Monica Almeida/The New York Times
The Fence Goat Canyon, just west of Smuggler's Gulch, is also part of the proposal for finishing the fence along the Mexican border. Here, the fence ends just before the large hill.
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: July 4, 2005
IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif., June 29 - The Border Patrol truck lurches along a rutted road paralleling the Mexican border and comes to a stop on a mesa above Smuggler's Gulch, a 300-foot-deep gully that has been a prime route for bandits, border jumpers and raw sewage from Tijuana to Southern California for more than 150 years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/national/04fence.html?8hpib
Car's Trending Smaller. AKA: 'Where did the big three lose it?'
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/07/02/automobiles/03auto.graphic.html
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