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March 2...
1498: Vasco de Gama's Portuguese expedition reaches the island of Mozambique, the most southerly port of call for Arab merchants on the east coast of Africa.
1807: The United States Congress abolishes the slave trade, effective January 1, 1808.
1836: Texas declares its independence from Mexico; the United States does not recognize the new Republic of Texas.
1877: On the basis of its committee's recommendation, the United States Congress rewards all 20 disputed electoral votes in the previous December's presidential election to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
1899, Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state was established.
1900, Kurt Weill, German American composer
1904, born, Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), American author, artist, and publisher, known as Dr. Seuss. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Dartmouth College and at the University of Oxford, as a student of English literature. A self-taught sketch artist, for almost a decade Geisel earned a living as a cartoonist until, in 1937, using the pen name Dr. Seuss, he wrote and illustrated his first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Its simple rhymed text and whimsy made it an instant success, and it was followed soon after by books such as The King's Stilts (1939) and Horton Hatches the Egg (1940), the story of an elephant duped by a bird to sit on her egg. During World War II (1939-1945), Geisel wrote films for the war effort, winning an Academy Award (see Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy of) in 1947 for Design for Death, a documentary about the Japanese people.
Geisel returned to writing children's books with McElligott's Pond (1947), and for the next several decades he produced about 40 books in all, including such perennial favorites as Horton Hears a Who (1954), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957), the first-grade reader The Cat in the Hat (1957), Green Eggs and Ham (1960), the environmentally concerned book The Lorax (1971), and the nuclear-war-related work The Butter Battle (1984). He is also remembered as the creator of the animated cartoon character Gerald McBoing Boing, for which he won an Academy Award in 1951. He received a special Pulitzer Prize citation in 1984 for his lifetime contribution to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents. His last books—You're Only Old Once (1986) and Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)—were written for adult audiences and were also best-sellers. The children's book Daisy-Head Maysie was published posthumously in 1995 based upon sketches and dialogues Geisel had created for an animated television special.
1909, Mel Ott, baseball player
1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship.
1931, Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR from 1985 to 1991
1955, the William Inge play "Bus Stop" opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York.
1965, the movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The Sound of Music," starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world premiere at New York's Rivoli Theater.
1974: Stevie Wonder wins five Grammy awards for his album Innervisions.
1977, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics.
Missing in Action
1965 LOCKHART HAYDEN J. SPRINGFIELD OH 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 WORST KARL EDWARD FORT SMITH AR
1968 MARTIN DONALD E. GARY IN 04/15/68 ESCAPED
1968 WIDENER LARRY ALLEN YOUNGSTOWN OH 03/68 REMAINS RECOVERED
1969 BOGIAGES CHRISTO C. JR. CLEARWATER FL
1969 EVANS WILLIAM A. MILWAUKEE WI
1969 MAY MICHAEL F. VASSAR MI
1970 MC VEY LAVOY D. LAMAR CO
1970 SKIBBE DAVID W. DES PLAINES IL
Michael Moore Today
Got Evidence?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Bomb Plot Suspect Must Be Charged or Freed
By Jacob Jordan / Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. - In a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration, a federal judge ruled the case of "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla is a matter for law enforcement — not the military — and ordered the government to charge him or let him go.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1616
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY
An 82 year old California woman refuses to leave the hospital:
"When you pay Kaiser insurance month after month for 50 years like I have, you expect to be treated like a good patient and a human being."
A California millionaire refuses to present identification and, thus, can't go very far:
Gilmore is asking just how much citizens are giving up when they hand their driver's licenses to a third party, in this case an airline, where it is put into a database they cannot see, to meet a law that, as it turns out, they are not allowed to read.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Donors promising $1.2B for Palestinians
By LARA SUKHTIAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks as he stands besides the new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, at the QEII conference centre in London, Tuesday March 1, 2005, during an international conference on Palestine. Blair said that the international community had agreed on the "practical steps needed" to create a viable Palestinian state.(AP Photo/Johnny Green) UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES:
LONDON -- Emerging from an international conference on Palestinian restructuring, Finance Minister Salam Fayyad said donor nations had promised the Palestinian Authority $1.2 billion, providing the new government of Mahmoud Abbas breathing space as it tries to recover from four years of Mideast violence.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Palestinians%20Conference
Traditional dress ruling: Your reaction
A girl was unlawfully excluded from school for wearing a traditional Muslim dress instead of school uniform, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/4311019.stm
The Prisoners need to be transferred to the Hague. If the rebels goal is to return Saddam to power then I strongly suggest the security of the country as well as the prisoners are at stake. They should have never been kept in Iraq, not one day. The country has more problems than it ever bargained for and this does not have to be just one more.
Judge in Saddam Tribunal Shot Dead; Bombs Kill 13
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen in Baghdad shot and killed a judge working for the Iraqi special tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants, Interior Ministry officials said on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7781840
Seattle Post Intelligencer
If one recalls there was an entire strange set of circumstances surrounding these murders. Malvo was not only a minor, he was an illegal alien, his stated he was a 'slave' to Mohammad for repayment of a debt she owed him. That sort of exchange is not all that strange in some countries either.
Murderer cheers death penalty decision
By DAVID A. LIEB
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo enters a court in the Spotsylvania Circuit Court in Spotsylvania, Va., in this Oct. 26, 2004, file photo. Malvo plead guilty and was sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Kenneth Bridges and the shooting Caroline Seawell in 2002. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, March 1, 2005, that the Constitution forbids the execution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes, ending a practice used in 19 states. This ruling will mean that prosecutors will be barred from seeking the death penalty in further legal action against Malvo. (AP Photo/Mike Morones)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Eight months has made a lifetime of difference for Christopher Simmons.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Death%20Penalty%20Juveniles
High court ends death penalty for youths
By HOPE YEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Sen. Steve Bryles, D-Blytheville, right, is joined by members of the Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and others on the steps of the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock on Tuesday, March 1, 2005. Bryles is a sponsor of proposed state legislation to ban execution of offenders under 18 when they committed crimes. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
WASHINGTON -- A closely divided Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals on Tuesday, declaring there was a national consensus such executions were unconstitutionally cruel and ending a practice that had brought international condemnation.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1154&slug=Scotus%20Death%20Penalty
Court rules on attorney client privilege
By MATT APUZZO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Public officials should be allowed to have confidential conversations with government lawyers because privileged communications are in the best interest of the public, a federal appeals court said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Attorney%20Client%20Privilege
Reports: Hong Kong's leader plans to quit
By WILLIAM FOREMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa waves to reporters at the Hong Kong government headquarters Wednesday, March 2, 2005. Hong Kong's unpopular leader plans to resign, possibly as soon as next week, because of ill health, ending a rocky eight years in office that ignited massive protests for greater democracy in the former British colony, local media reported. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's unpopular leader plans to resign - possibly as soon as next week - because of ill health, ending a rocky eight years in office that ignited street protests for greater democracy in the former British colony, local media reported.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Hong%20Kong%20Politics
Report: Drugs threaten Afghanistan, Iraq
By SUSANNA LOOF
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
VIENNA, Austria -- Drug trafficking threatens to undermine stability in Afghanistan and hinder development in Iraq as the two countries attempt to emerge from conflict and forge functioning democracies, a key U.N. drug control body warned in a report released Wednesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Drug%20Report
Nepal soldiers kill 48 communist rebels
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepalese soldiers killed at least 48 communist rebels and suffered four deaths themselves in a battle in the country's southwest, officials said Tuesday. It was the fiercest clash since the king imposed emergency rule a month ago to focus on stamping out the insurgency.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Nepal%20Rebels
Senate OKs military bankruptcy exemption
By MARCY GORDON
AP BUSINESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Active-duty military personnel and some veterans who file for bankruptcy got a break from the Senate as it considered ways to toughen laws allowing people to erase their debts.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=Bankruptcy
Israelis welcome Lebanese uprising
By KARIN LAUB
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Lebanese opposition protesters set up an anti-Syrian poster one day after the Lebanese government's resignation in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday March 1, 2005. Israel is watching the groundswell of protest against Syria's control of Lebanon with anticipation, with one top official expressing hope a sovereign Lebanon would sign a peace deal with the Jewish state. But others warn a Syrian exit could destabilize Israel's northern neighbor and heat up a proxy war Damascus has been waging against Israel through Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
JERUSALEM -- Israel's foreign minister is hoping for peace with Lebanon in the wake of popular protests in Beirut demanding that Syria leave after decades of occupation, while others warn that a Syrian exit could destabilize the country.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Israel%20Watching%20Lebanon
Syria's shadow has long shrouded Lebanon
By SAM F. GHATTAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syria's shadow has long shrouded Lebanon, influencing everything from picking a president to finding a stolen car and other details of everyday life.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Lebanon%20Syria%27s%20Shadow
Pope skipping his popular weekly audience
By FRANCES D'EMILIO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
A silhouette is seen as the sun sets behind the Bell's Arch in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday March 1, 2005. Pope John Paul II is hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic after undergoing surgery for a breathing crisis (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II skipped his popular Wednesday weekly audience with the faithful while concentrating on regaining his ability to speak and continuing to work on church matters from his hospital suite in Rome.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Pope
Russia: No system will stop new missiles
By STEVE GUTTERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MOSCOW -- Russia will develop missiles impervious to any defense, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday in an apparent allusion the nascent U.S. missile defense system.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Russia%20Missiles
Gorbachev: Russia must preserve democracy
By HENRY MEYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev speaks at the presentation of a report by his foundation marking the 20th anniversary of his pioneering program of perestroika, or restructuring, which caused the first cracks in the Soviet empire, Moscow, Tuesday, March 1, 2005. Gorbachev said Tuesday that Russians must do their utmost to preserve democracy, and he criticized a number of Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies as a step backward. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
MOSCOW -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Tuesday that Russians must do their utmost to preserve democracy, and he criticized a number of Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies as a step backward, in some of his sharpest words yet on the Kremlin chief.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Russia%20Gorbachev
Calif. set to name stem cell chief
By PAUL ELIAS
AP BIOTECHNOLOGY WRITER
This is a 2003 photo of Zach W. Hall, provided by the University of San Francisco. Hall, a veteran neuroscientist and associate dean of medical research at USC's medical shcool, is expected on Tuesday, March 1, 2005, to be named interim president of California's new $3 billion stem cell research institute. (AP Photo/University of San Francisco via the San Francisco Chronicle)
STANFORD, Calif. -- The new interim president of California's $3 billion stem cell research institute said Tuesday his first task will be to "raid everyplace I can" to hire top scientific talent.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Stem%20Cell%20Chief
Manure blamed for killing Wisconsin trout
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADISON, Wis. -- Manure spread on a frozen field is blamed for killing dozens of brown trout in a southern Wisconsin stream, just months after the federal government removed the river from its list of impaired waters.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Manure%20Rules
U.N. Peacekeepers kill 60 militia in Congo
By BRYAN MEALER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
People stand around photos of nine Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers during a memorial service in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Tuesday, March 1, 2005. The nine UN peacekeepers were killed last week in northeastern Congo. Congo's defense minister vowed on Tuesday to hunt down the militiamen who killed nine U.N. Bangladeshi troops in the worst single loss suffered by the world body's peace mission since it deployed in 1999. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
KINSHASA, Congo -- U.N. peacekeepers in northeastern Congo killed as many as 60 militia members in a vicious gunfight, the greatest number of enemy combatants killed by U.N. troops since the Congo mission was created in 1999, the U.N. said Wednesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Congo%20Militiamen%20Killed
Burundians approve new constitution
By ALOYS NIYOYITA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Burundi's transitional President Domitien Ndayizeye, right, greets an election official at a polling booth in Bujumbura, Monday, Feb. 28, 2005 as he prepares to vote in a referendum on whether to accept a new constitution that aims to share power between its Hutus and Tutsis. Some 3.1 million of Burundi's estimated 6 million people registered to vote in the referendum. (AP Photo/Aloys Niyoyita)
BUJUMBURA, Burundi -- Burundians voted overwhelmingly to adopt a new power-sharing constitution, guaranteeing majority rule and minority rights in this Central Africa country torn by 11 years of ethnic violence, officials said Tuesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Burundi%20Referendum
Thousands protest trade pact in Guatemala
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A girl waits before crossing the street in Guatemala City, Tuesday, March 1, 2005. Protesters, the majority of them teachers, demonstrated in the capital to demand that Congress not ratify the Central American Free Trade Agreement without holding a public referendum first. (Ap Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
GUATEMALA CITY -- About 8,000 protesters - most of them teachers - demonstrated Tuesday in the capital against a pending free-trade agreement between Central America and the United States.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Guatemala%20Free%20Trade%20Protest
The Gulf News
Incessant rain hits commercial activities
By Sunil K. Vaidya, Bureau Chief
Muscat: Rain continued to play havoc for the third consecutive day in capital affecting business and commercial activities.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=154221
'People power' rules in Lebanon
Syria shows signs of being wrong-footed over the recent developments
In an extraordinary demonstration of "people power" Lebanon's government quit on Monday. It was an historic "first" for the region. The departing government, now acting as caretaker, is to be congratulated on accepting the inevitable and avoiding further civil strife that may have led to further bloodshed.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=154247
Rice pressures Syria, cites Israel bomb 'evidence'
Reuters
London: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cited what she called “firm evidence” on yesterday that the Islamic Jihad militant group helped plan last week's Tel Aviv suicide bombing from Syria.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=154319
Tehran will not give up disputed programme, says Kharrazi
Reuters
Tehran: Iran said yesterday it would not give up its disputed nuclear programme in return for economic and political incentives, the official Irna news agency said.
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi reiterated that the Islamic state's nuclear programme would be used to generate electricity and not make bombs, as Washington charges. "Iran's legitimate right of having nuclear technology can not be exchanged for any kind of incentives," Irna quoted Kharrazi as saying.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=154317
Qatar Emir hails people of Lebanon US offers poll help to Beirut
Agencies
Beirut: Hundreds of protesters waving Lebanese flags returned to central Beirut yesterday to demand Syria quit Lebanon.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=154196
The Boston Globe
Romney rethinking new powers for tax aide
By Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff March 2, 2005
Governor Mitt Romney backed away yesterday from his proposal to give the state's top revenue official new discretion to pursue corporations that lower their tax bills by transferring profits outside Massachusetts, as national antitax groups chastised the governor for his broader, three-year quest to close what he calls tax loopholes benefiting corporations.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/02/romney_rethinking_new_powers_for_tax_aide/
Cleric's trial tests US antiterror fight
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff March 2, 2005
JAKARTA -- Abu Bakar Bashir, a firebrand 66-year-old cleric, stands accused of being East Asia's equivalent of Osama bin Laden and of leading the Muslim extremist group responsible for killing hundreds in the bombings of the Bali nightclubs and a Marriott Hotel here.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/03/02/clerics_trial_tests_us_antiterror_fight/
Nonprofits outline plans for reform
By Beth Healy and Michael Rezendes, Globe Staff March 2, 2005
Leaders of the nation's nonprofits, singed by news reports of self-dealing and extravagant spending, unveiled a sweeping list of reforms yesterday designed to force greater accountability and boost penalties for misuse of funds at 1.3 million private foundations and public charities across the country.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/02/nonprofits_outline_plans_for_reform/
Increased risk accompanies growth of coastal areas
Concerns raised over evacuations, disaster response
By Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press March 2, 2005
WASHINGTON -- More than half of all Americans now live on or near a coast, a major evacuation worry in case of hurricanes, tsunamis, or other natural disasters.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/02/increased_risk_accompanies_growth_of_coastal_areas/
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