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History…
1813, Richard Wagner, composer, conductor, and essayist
1844, Mary Cassatt, painter
1859, born, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, novelist, and detective-story writer, creator of the unforgettable master sleuth Sherlock Holmes.
Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh and educated at Stonyhurst College and the University of Edinburgh. From 1882 to 1890 he practiced medicine in Southsea, England. A Study in Scarlet, the first of 60 stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, appeared in 1887. The characterization of Holmes, his ability of ingenious deductive reasoning, was based on one of the author's own university professors. Equally brilliant creations are those of Holmes's foils: his friend Dr. Watson, the good-natured if bumbling narrator of the stories, and the master criminal Professor Moriarty. Conan Doyle was so immediately successful in his literary career that approximately five years later he abandoned his medical practice to devote his entire time to writing.
1902, Al Simmons, baseball player
1907, Laurence Olivier, actor, producer, and director
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1761, the first life insurance policy in the United States was issued, in Philadelphia.
1819, the first steam- propelled vessel to attempt a trans-Atlantic crossing, the Savannah, departed from Savannah, Ga. (It arrived in Liverpool, England, on June 20.)
1868, the Great Train Robbery took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in loot.
1939, German dictator Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini sign the "Pact of Steel," establishing a military alliance between their countries.
1947, the Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
1969, the lunar module of Apollo 10 flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1972, President Nixon began a visit to the Soviet Union, during which he and Kremlin leaders signed the SALT One arms-limitation treaty.
1992, after a reign lasting nearly 30 years, Johnny Carson hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time.
2003: Golfer Annika Sörenstam tees up for the Colonial tournament, becoming the first woman to compete in a PGA Tour event since Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1945.
Today, Sri Lanka takes this day to commemorate the struggle of the leaders of its National Independence Movement. Celebrate Sri Lanka's National Heroes Day with a visit to Sri Lanka Web Server and learn more about this beautiful country.
http://www.lanka.net/
Extracted from Daily News
Government taking good care of tsunami victims-President
From Ranil Wijayapala in Tangalle
President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday rejected outright "envious allegations" by a certain political party that the government was keeping huge sums of money received from donors for the reconstruction of tsunami hit areas adding that the government has not received five cents in cash for the reconstruction of tsunami hit areas.
The President stressed that except for the funds remitted to the accounts opened at the Central Bank under the Presidential Secretariat to the account opened by the Prime Minister, not a single cent has been received by the government in cash as pledged by donor countries.
The Daily News
Tsunami aid mechanism a peace bridge - Mangala
MINISTER of Ports and Aviation Mangala Samaraweera yesterday called the tsunami aid distribution mechanism a bridge on the road map for peace. Samaraweera told Parliament that the Government is determined to discuss the tsunami relief distribution mechanism with all stakeholders of the Government. "At present the only stumbling block is the UNP," the Minister added.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/05/21/main.htm
SLFP clarifies JVP's misleading interpretations of President's speech
SLFP General Secretary Maithreepala Sirisena, in a release yesterday clarified certain misleading interpretations by the JVP about President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's address at the Development Forum meeting in Kandy on May 16.
The SLFP statement said it cannot condone the JVP's condemnation of the President's speech. "We expect, in a sprint of brotherhood, that the JVP would rectify its mistake after scrutinising the President's full speech," it said.
The release: "The JVP in a media announcement on the President's address commented that it was inappropriate on the part of the President to express opinions on internal conflicts of ideologies at this international conference where only the common needs of the country were to be discussed.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/05/21/pol02.htm
Clinton here next week
BY MANJULA Fernando
FORMER US President Bill Clinton will pay his first visit to Sri Lanka as the UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Reconstruction next weekend.
The former US first citizen who recently underwent major heart surgery, was to attend the Sri Lankan donor forum held from May 16 to 17 in Kandy but postponed his visit heeding medical advice.
Diplomatic sources said Clinton will meet the donor representatives based in Colombo and will discuss tsunami reconstruction activities with President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga during his stay.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/05/21/news13.htm
World Biodiversity Day tomorrow
ENVIRONMENT and Natural Resources Minister A.H.M. Fowzie has sent the following message for World Biodiversity Day which falls on May 22, 2005. The theme for this year is "Biodiversity: Life Insurance for our Changing World".
Excerpts from the message:
Biodiversity is the 'green gold' and it is the source of the essential goods and ecological services that constitute the source of life for all.
Looking at the cultural side of biodiversity I must say it is very important heritage for all population in the world. It provides people with livelihoods and ensure food security. The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity contributes to overall sustainable development and poverty alleviation.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/05/21/news31.htm
Call to set up Advisory Council for ethno-religious harmony
CHURCH of Ceylon has requested the Government to consider setting up an Inter-Religious Council to advise on building a culture of social harmony and mutual respect.
Rt. Rev. Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo in a statement to the press has said that the recent ethno-religious tensions and recurring incidents demand immediate pragmatic attention.
He has pointed out that although several religious heads have made repeated need to have Inter-religious Advisory Council, but regrettably there has been no response.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/05/21/news32.htm
Michael Moore Today
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Mixed Reception;
Protests outside Christian College's commencement event and buttons worn on graduates' robes made clear that many students and faculty objected to Bush's policies.
May 21st, 2005 6:02 pm
Bush gets mixed reception at Christian college
By Caren Bohan / Reuters
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - President Bush on Saturday championed faith in American society, but ran into some criticism as courted his Christian base in a commencement speech at a Michigan college.
… But anti-Bush ads that ran in the local newspaper, protests outside the event and buttons worn on graduates' robes made clear that many students and faculty objected to Bush's policies.
"We believe your administration has launched an unjust and unjustified war in Iraq," said a letter signed by about one-third the college's 300 faculty members and published in Saturday's Grand Rapids Press.
"As Christians, we are called to be peacemakers and to initiate war only as a last resort," it said.
The letter criticized economic policies that it said favored the wealthy over the poor, and faulted Bush for mixing religion and politics and exhibiting and "intolerance" for others' views.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2733
May 21st, 2005 6:39 pm
New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action
Probe Finds 'Rendition' Of Terror Suspects Illegal
By Craig Whitlock / Washington Post
STOCKHOLM -- The CIA Gulfstream V jet touched down at a small airport west of here just before 9 p.m. on a subfreezing night in December 2001. A half-dozen agents wearing hoods that covered their faces stepped down from the aircraft and hurried across the tarmac to take custody of two prisoners, suspected Islamic radicals from Egypt.
Inside an airport police station, Swedish officers watched as the CIA operatives pulled out scissors and rapidly sliced off the prisoners' clothes, including their underwear, according to newly released Swedish government documents and eyewitness statements. They probed inside the men's mouths and ears and examined their hair before dressing the pair in sweat suits and draping hoods over their heads. The suspects were then marched in chains to the plane, where they were strapped to mattresses on the floor in the back of the cabin.
So began an operation the CIA calls an "extraordinary rendition," the forcible and highly secret transfer of terrorism suspects to their home countries or other nations where they can be interrogated with fewer legal protections.
The practice has generated increasing criticism from civil liberties groups; in Sweden a parliamentary investigator who conducted a 10-month probe into the case recently concluded that the CIA operatives violated Swedish law by subjecting the prisoners to "degrading and inhuman treatment" and by exercising police powers on Swedish soil.
"Should Swedish officers have taken those measures, I would have prosecuted them without hesitation for the misuse of public power and probably would have asked for a prison sentence," the investigator, Mats Melin, said in an interview. He said he could not charge the CIA operatives because he was authorized to investigate only Swedish government officials, but he did not rule out the possibility that other Swedish prosecutors could do so.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2734
Inaction in New York Prison Abuse Stirs Anger
Justice officials called the treatment of immigrants after 9/11 outrageous. The Bureau of Prisons has not held anyone to account.
By Richard B. Schmitt and Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — It was the first prison abuse scandal of the post-Sept. 11 era, when scores of immigrants were rounded up and jailed in New York after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
They were never charged with terrorism — but they endured abusive treatment that Justice Department investigators concluded was outrageous and cruel. It included being slammed into walls and subjected to unnecessary body cavity searches, some of it captured on videotape.
More than three years after the incidents, despite a recommendation from the department's internal watchdog that a dozen correctional officers be disciplined, no one has been held to account. A Bureau of Prisons official said the agency was still reviewing the matter and "working as expeditiously as possible."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2737
Afghan prisoners were 'tortured to death' by American guards
By Justin Huggler / The Independent
Shocking and detailed accounts have emerged of how two Afghan prisoners were tortured to death by American interrogators and prison guards at Bagram air base, outside Kabul.
A 2,000-page report on an internal investigation by the US military leaked to The New York Times and published yesterday provides exhaustive detail on how the two were kept chained in excruciating positions and kicked to death.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2727
Report implicates top brass in Bagram scandal
By Julian Borger / Guardian
A leaked report on a military investigation into two killings of detainees at a US prison in Afghanistan has produced new evidence of connivance of senior officers in systematic prisoner abuse.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2728
THE BEST reason to defeat the Republican Majority in the next election. Our Constitution demands it.
FilibusterFrist.com - Filibuster For Democracy
http://www.princeton.edu/~petehill/filibuster.shtml
We are protesting Senator Frist's proposal to eliminate the judicial filibuster in the Senate (the "nuclear option").
Phase IV: encouraging students all across America to start filibusters on their own campuses. As of our last update, there have been 42 filibusters in 23 states confirmed to happen before 5/23!
Phase III: a campaign to contact key senators and ask them to oppose Senator Frist's "nuclear option".
Phase II: we took the filibuster to Washington, D.C. for a final 24 hours, culminating during hour 384 in a rally with senators and representatives.
Phase I: a mock filibuster in front of the Frist Campus Center at Princeton University that continued uninterrupted for more than two weeks.
Read more about our protest in Princeton and Washington, D.C. extending 384 hours from April 26th to May 12th!
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http://www.princeton.edu/~petehill/filibuster.shtml
The senate is in the midst of the filibuster debate but on recess right now! Watch it live on C-SPAN2!
http://www.princeton.edu/~petehill/filibuster.shtml
MoveOn, inspired by student protests at Princeton and nationwide, is also organizing citizen filibusters across the country to start at noon on Tuesday. Click here to learn more.
http://www.princeton.edu/~petehill/filibuster.shtml
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