London Tube Users To Get Underground Mobile Coverage by 2008
Mike Slocombe
23 March 05
Commuters on London's Tube network could soon be able to bellow out, "I'M ON THE TUBE!" if trials to introduce mobile and wireless Internet connections underground from 2008 get the green light.
London Underground (LU) is planning to install technology that will give commuters mobile phone coverage in the concourse, ticketing areas and platforms of underground Tube stations - but not on trains rumbling through underground tunnels.
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The Jordan Times
Donor countries agree to finance study for Red Sea-Dead Sea project
By Rami Abdelrahman
AMMAN — The World Bank has launched a process of resource mobilisation for a feasibility study and environmental and social assessment for the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study.
Following meetings between delegations from Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority with donor representatives from Europe, Japan and the United States, the bank posted on its website that several donor countries had agreed to fund the $15.5 million study.
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World recoils in horror after UK attacks
King reiterates Islam rejects violence, terrorism
Agencies
THE WORLD RECOILED in shock on Thursday after bombs tore through London's transport system killing at least 37 people in a coordinated rush hour attack.
Countries in Europe and the United States stepped-up security after the blasts and vowed to hunt down the militants who caused carnage in the capital of Britain, the closest US ally, host to the G-8 rich nations' meeting and EU president. Messages of sympathy and condolences poured in from European and Middle Eastern nations, particularly those whose civilian populations had been targeted by militants, branding the attacks barbaric, repulsive and heinous.
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Abbas, Hamas leader meet with Assad
Israeli troops on Thursday fire tear gas on Palestinian protesters at the construction site of Israel's separation barrier in Qalqiliya ( AFP photo by Jaafar Ashiyeh)
DAMASCUS (AFP) — Palestinian and Syrian leaders met Thursday with the Damascus-based heads of Palestinian factions, including leading groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, in a bid to boost Palestinian efforts to form a national unity government, officials said.
The meeting came days after Hamas rebuffed invitations to join the Palestinian government, which would oversee the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip due to be launched in mid-August. Before the tripartite gathering, Syrian President Bashar Assad met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who is on his first visit to Damascus since being elected in January as successor to the late Yasser Arafat, the official news agency SANA reported.
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Qureia angers MPs
RAMALLAH (AFP) — Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia incited mounting anger from MPs for failing to address continuing security chaos during a defence of his government's record in parliament on Thursday.
The beleaguered Qureia delivered a speech on his administration's performance at a closed-door session of parliament after 44 of the 83 active MPs, many of them disgruntled former ministers, signed a petition to force him to appear.
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Rift between Cairo, Baghdad
By Hamza Hendawi
The Associated Press
CAIRO — Iraq's top terrorist may have achieved something more significant than just scaring away Arab diplomats when he ordered the abduction of Egypt's top envoy to Baghdad, and then claimed his killing.
The crisis may have sown the seeds of a rift between Iraq's Shiite-led government and Egypt — an Arab powerhouse whose goodwill Iraq needs. It also underlined the unease that the predominantly Sunni Arab world has held towards political developments in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled the regime of Saddam, a Sunni.
Arab states have reluctantly lent their support to Iraq's postwar rulers, casting doubt on their independence and expressing worry at the new dominance of the Shiite majority and the Kurds, who combine for 80 per cent of Iraq's estimated 26 million people.
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Iran wants to break UN seals to test parts
VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran has asked the UN nuclear watchdog to let it break UN seals and test atomic equipment that has been mothballed under an agreement with the EU's three biggest powers, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday.
A US official said it appeared Tehran wanted to violate its pledge to suspend all activities linked to the production of enriched-uranium fuel, a technology that can be used in either atomic power plants or weapons.
But the deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Saeedi, said the move had nothing to do with the suspension of nuclear activities it agreed with France, Britain and Germany, representing the European Union (EU).
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Turkey's Kurdish rebels strain regional politics
By Sibel Utku Bila
Agence France-Presse
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Turkey's Kurds admire the self-rule their Iraqi cousins enjoy, but the safe haven accorded to Turkish Kurd rebels in northern Iraq fuels Ankara's fears of Kurdish separatism and keeps the region under strain.
With the resurgence of violence in Turkey's southeast by the rebel Kurdish Labour Party (PKK), based in neighbouring Kurdish-held northern Iraq since 1999, Ankara believes the Iraqi Kurds are also accountable.
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Islamist leader Turabi blasts new constitution
KHARTOUM (AFP) — Islamist leader Hassan Turabi has launched his fiercest attack to date against Sudan's new interim constitution, due to be signed on Saturday under a north-south peace deal.
Turabi, who was President Omar Bashir's one-time mentor and only freed last week after 15 months in detention over an alleged coup plot, said it was drafted undemocratically.
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President leads heavily armed convoy to disputed government seat
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somalia's transitional president left his northeastern stronghold in a heavily armed convoy on Thursday to secure the central town of Jowhar as the undisputed seat of his homeless government, Somali officials said.
In a bid to gain the upper hand in a bitter conflict with Mogadishu-based warlords who insist the administration base itself in the capital, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed departed his base in Bossaso, Puntland, to join Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi in Jowhar, they said.
During the 1,050-kilometre trip to south, Yusuf will recruit fighters from among local militias to defend against possible attacks from the Mogadishu warlords and protect government supporters when he arrives in Jowhar, they said.
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Democracy is acquired
Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh
Several things about democracy, which is centuries old, are all too well known. One is that democracy is a process that happens over time; it cannot be introduced, cannot materialise and cannot start to bear fruit overnight. Another is that different countries or cultures develop different versions of democracy. There is no one version that fits all. A third is that the concept of democracy itself varies from one theorist to another, and from one practitioner to another. And there are many other points.
A well-known fact about democracy in the Kingdom is that it is relatively new. Another is that it is, so far, very promising; several important achievements have been made, though much needs to be done still. Overall, Jordan needs to be congratulated on the steps, mechanisms and structures it has implemented for the purpose of consolidating democracy.
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Percentages are an interesting way of measuring growth, but, eight percent of nothing is still nothing. It seems that corruption, even in South Africa is an overwhelming force when poverty has been the state of things. Corruption is laid in greed and a new source of monies. So, where aid primarily came in sacks of wheat people went hungry while wheat became a commodity. Now, with the rest of the world coming to right the wrongs of Africa it is paramount that corruption in government in Africa is scrutinized.
Africa at the G-8 meeting
Jonathan Power
Prime Minister Tony Blair is giving the G-8 summit the same kind of energy he famously gave to the launching of the misconceived war against Iraq. The question is will he be any more able to hit the target accurately than he was in that case?
He has certainly prepared himself better. Instead of relying on fast-written, poorly researched, intelligence reports, he has spent over a year studying Africa as the chairman of his Commission for Africa. Along with mainly African commissioners he presided over a first rate team of economists who came up with well-informed drafts that not only were the most perceptive observations of all the many reports on Africa over the last two decades but were well written to boot. However, that is not enough. I still don't think Blair gets it quite right.
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Religion of tolerance
The deplorable bombings that rocked London and the slaying of Egyptian Ambassador-designate in Baghdad Ihab Sherif on Thursday once again highlight the need for world nations to close ranks to fight terrorists wherever they are. In addition, these crimes place an added burden on Muslims all over the globe to join hands to fight such acts committed in the name of Islam, but which more than anything are targeting Islam and all that this tolerant faith represents.
Hours after the four coordinated attacks shocked the British capital, a previously unknown group calling itself the Organisation of Al Qaeda Jihad in Europe claimed responsibility and threatened similar attacks against Italy, Denmark and other “Crusader” states with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to news agencies.
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New York Times
Spreading Colo. Fire Prompts Evacuations
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 10, 2005
Filed at 5:50 a.m. ET
WETMORE, Colo. (AP) -- Searing heat and dry, gusting wind spread a wildfire across 2,400 acres of southern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of 150 homes as flames crawled along mountain ridges west of Pueblo.
The flames had burned to within 100 yards of Greenwood, and fire crews stood guard over the small community Saturday.
''We could see the trees explode,'' said Bill Mauger, 73, who watched with his wife as the fire climbed ridgelines. ''You could hear crackling and smoke come off the trees. It was like a bomb going off.''
More than 300 firefighters struggled against temperatures in the 90s and erratic winds. By evening, only about five percent of the lightning-sparked blaze had been contained, officials said.
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8 Leaders Hail Steps on Africa and Warming
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: July 9, 2005
AUCHTERARDER, Scotland, July 8 - Striking tones of optimism and defiance a day after the attacks in London, President Bush and the leaders of seven other big industrial nations concluded a summit meeting here on Friday saying they had made substantial progress in addressing African poverty, global warming and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Srebrenica 10 Years On: Tormenting Memories
By DAVID ROHDE
Published: July 10, 2005
SREBRENICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 9 - A decade ago here in eastern Bosnia, Camila Omanovic tied a rope around an iron pipe in an abandoned factory. She asked God to forgive her and tried to hang herself
Andrew Testa for the New York Times
Camila Omanovic at the grave of her husband at the memorial to those massacred at Srebrenica.
Herman Wouters for The New York Times
Sgt. First Class Theo Lutke.
Days earlier, Bosnian Serb soldiers had overwhelmed 370 poorly armed Dutch peacekeepers protecting Srebrenica, a pocket of 40,000 Bosnian Muslims that had been declared a "safe area" under United Nations protection. In the final and most brutal chapter of four years of ethnic war - and the worst massacre in Europe since World War II - the Serbian forces rounded up and killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys. Ms. Omanovic's husband was among them.
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For a Decade, London Thrived as a Busy Crossroads of Terror
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: July 10, 2005
LONDON, July 9 - Long before bombings ripped through London on Thursday, Britain had become a breeding ground for hate, fed by a militant version of Islam.
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Mustafa Setmarian Nasar operated in London for years.
For two years, extremists like Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed, a 47-year-old Syrian-born cleric, have played to ever-larger crowds, calling for holy war against Britain and exhorting young Muslim men to join the insurgency in Iraq. In a newspaper interview in April 2004, he warned that "a very well-organized" London-based group, Al Qaeda Europe, was "on the verge of launching a big operation" here.
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Education Secretary Backs End to Student-Loan Loophole
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: July 9, 2005
The secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, joined the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, yesterday in asking Congress to close a loophole that lets lenders claim a 9.5 percent government subsidy on certain student loans.
Ms. Spellings called for an end to the practice, which is known as recycling. It allows lenders to use the income from loans that receive the 9.5 percent subsidy to make new loans that then receive the subsidy, too.
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Flora With a Star in Its Corner
J. Emilio Flores For The New York Times
Rene Russo in her garden with native plants including St. Catherine's Lace, far left, and Octopus agave, left.
By MIREYA NAVARRO
Published: July 7, 2005
LOS ANGELES
JUST about everyone in Los Angeles has a cause, but Rene Russo's is a decidedly lonely mission. While many of her Hollywood peers use their celebrity to exalt the hybrid Prius or bash Republicans, she is championing plants that many homeowners are unfamiliar with or, worse, dismiss as weeds.
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Forum: GardeningJ. Emilio Flores For The New York Times
Native plants like senecio and aloe, which fill the yard in front of Andree Matton's house in Monrovia, Calif., thrive on less water than grass.
Ms. Russo has become an advocate for the use of California native plants, which she is trying to promote as a low-maintenance panacea for the region's water supply uncertainties.
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Hurricane Gains Strength and Bears Down on the Gulf Coast
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: July 10, 2005
Residents in several southeastern states were ordered to evacuate and advised to find shelters while emergency supplies were pre-positioned as Hurricane Dennis strengthened and approached land today. Meteorologists said the storm had escalated and could be a Category 4 when it reaches the Gulf Coast states this afternoon.
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Driving Upstream: A Road Trip With Stops for Salmon
By SAM SIFTON
Published: July 10, 2005
THE idea was to drive a cool car north from Seattle, ripped on strong coffee and the smell of rain, and eat some salmon. The idea was to eat so much salmon, in fact, that driving would become difficult. My wife and I would sit sleepily in summer chill aboard a ferry, our eyes exploring the deep and fast-moving waters of the Strait of Georgia, and digest.
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Michael Moore Today
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Roll Over Rove
Loose Lips Sink Ships;
Matt Cooper's Source
What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter
By Michael Isikoff / Newsweek
July 18 issue - It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]" and suggested another reporter check with the CIA.
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"it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency..."
Person of Interest;
Mystery Thickens in Secret Source Case
After two years, more questions than answers have emerged on who named a CIA agent and the role the White House may have played.
By Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Was it Karl Rove, after all?
Or is President Bush's longtime political advisor getting a bum rap, fueled by wishful thinking of administration critics?
Nearly two years to the day after Robert Novak identified a CIA operative in his syndicated newspaper column, the mystery of who might have leaked the identity of Valerie Plame to Novak and other journalists seems only to be deepening.
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White House stops short of its previous denials of wrongdoing
Is Rove Going Down?
Is Rove Going Down?
By Arianna Huffington / AlterNet
How is it that the second most powerful man in America is about to take a fall and the mainstream media are largely taking a pass? Could it be that the fear of Karl Rove and this White House is so great that not even the biggest of the media big boys are willing to take them on? Does the answer to that one go without saying?
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Don't Cry for Us, Berlusconi
Italy to Start Iraq Troop Pullout in Fall
Associated Press
GLENEAGLES, Scotland - Italy plans to begin withdrawing some of its troops from Iraq in September, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday.
Berlusconi, who was a strong supporter of President Bush on Iraq, sent 3,000 troops to the country after the ouster of Saddam Hussein to help rebuild the country. He had previously indicated he hoped a pullout could begin in September.
"We will begin withdrawing 300 men in the month of September," Berlusconi said at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. But he added that the decision was not final and would depend on the security conditions on the ground.
Berlusconi said he had discussed the plan with allies and with the Iraqi government but added "we will have to give confirmation of our intention" on the decision.
But Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said earlier this year that the Italian troops would remain in Iraq until early 2006.
Calls have mounted in Italy from politicians on the right and left for the troops to be brought home.
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London Police Press on With Investigation
Associated Press
As jittery commuters braved the Underground Friday, police continued with investigation and recovery efforts, stressing they were still in the early stages of what promises to be an arduous investigation.
The police press office said the overall death toll from Thursday's four terrorist bombings was 49 but said they have not accounted for all the dead on one subway train deep underground. About 100 wounded were hospitalized overnight.
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Zarqawi: Everywhere and nowhere
By Dahr Jamail / Asia Times
AMMAN, Jordan - A remarkable proportion of the violence taking place in Iraq is regularly credited to the Jordanian Ahmad al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and his al-Qaeda-linked organization in Iraq. Sometimes it seems no car bomb goes off, no ambush occurs that isn't claimed in his name or attributed to him by the Bush administration. Bush and his top officials have, in fact, made good use of him, lifting his reputed feats of terrorism to epic, even mythic, proportions (much aided by various mainstream media outlets). Given that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have now been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be based on administration lies and manipulations, I begun to wonder if the vaunted Zarqawi even existed.
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Suicide bombers kill 27 Iraqis in new spate of attacks
BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 27 people, mostly young men seeking to join the Iraqi army, were killed in a spate of suicide bombings as the United States and Britain considered a drastic troop reduction in the country.
And radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr announced the launch of a nationwide petition to demand the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.
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Suicide bombers kill 27 Iraqis in new spate of attacks
BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 27 people, mostly young men seeking to join the Iraqi army, were killed in a spate of suicide bombings as the United States and Britain considered a drastic troop reduction in the country.
And radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr announced the launch of a nationwide petition to demand the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.
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Military to Pay Halliburton Another $5B
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military has agreed to pay a Halliburton subsidiary up to $5 billion for another year of care and feeding of U.S. forces in Iraq, a military spokeswoman said Thursday.
The task order calls for Kellogg Brown and Root Services Inc. of Arlington, Va., to provide things like food and laundry service, showers, drinking water and other ''quality of life'' services for troops in Iraq, said Linda Theis, a spokeswoman for U.S. Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, Ill. The job also includes some fuel transport and other services.
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THE WAR ON TERROR: PROGRESS?
Four years ago this September, the world changed. George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, rose from the rubble of tragedy to boldly lead a war on all those who hated freedom. We were going to smoke them out of their caves.
We invaded Afghanistan, toppled their brutal dictators and set up a provisional government that became an elected government that will celebrate its democracy this fall at the polls.
The war there, however, is not over and was never won. The Taliban launched a spring offensive, heroin sales are booming, non-aligned war lords rule much of the outlying country, and the citizens stuck in between are feeling uneasy.
The #1 Evildoer hasn't been found--nevermind the leader of the Taliban who also vanished. Now Pakistan says Osama might be in Afghanistan. Afghanistan says he might be in Pakistan but wherever he is, he's not in Afghanistan.
Finding this guy is enough to
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Chicago Sun Times
The Weather in Chicago (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
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"HAMMOCK TIME"
City workers flock in suburb-like fringes
July 10, 2005
BY SCOTT FORNEK, MARK J. KONKOL AND ART GOLAB Staff Reporters
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At first glance, the modest brick homes framed by neatly kept lawns on a stretch of Sawyer Avenue on the city's Southwest Side are decidedly ordinary.
Look a little closer, though, and a concrete Dalmatian guards a porch, a small brass fire helmet knocker hangs on a door, and an occasional unmarked squad car rests curbside, all hinting at what nearly everyone on this block shares -- a city paycheck.
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Passenger on no-fly list sends plane back to Paris
July 9, 2005
BY ANNIE SWEENEY Staff Reporter
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One day after deadly bombing attacks in London, a person on the federal no-fly list was allowed to board a Chicago-bound Air France flight, forcing the plane to return to Paris about four hours into the flight after officials discovered the passenger's status.
Flight AF050 from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport was returned to Paris long before it was near U.S. airspace, and the person on the list was questioned by local authorities, said Lara Uselding, a spokeswoman for the federal Transportation Security Administration.
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Suitcase on platform shuts part of Red Line
July 9, 2005
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Staff Reporter
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Parts of the CTA Red Line were shut down and a North Side grocery was evacuated Friday morning after a commuter reported an unattended suitcase on the northbound Berwyn platform.
Although the Chicago Police Bomb & Arson squad found only clothes in the luggage, the incident was a testament to the heightened fear and vigilance against potential terror attacks following London's deadly underground train bombings.
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Ground Zero bell rung to honor victims
July 9, 2005
BY VERENA DOBNIK
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NEW YORK -- The bell that was a gift to New York from the people of London after the 2001 terrorist attack rang again Friday in a tiny chapel near Ground Zero -- this time with New Yorkers mourning those who died in Britain.
The world's latest terrorism victims were remembered at St. Paul's Chapel, which had served as a sanctuary for rescue workers who prayed, washed and wept there after the World Trade Center attack.
The 5-foot, 650-pound bell, known as the Bell of Hope, was given to New Yorkers on Sept. 11, 2002. It was cast by London's Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which also cast the Liberty Bell and London's Big Ben.
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2 charged in death of UIC student
July 10, 2005
Two men from the Chicago suburbs are facing murder charges in the beating death of a University of Illinois at Chicago student, Chicago police said early Sunday.
Officer Patrice Harper of the police news affairs office identified the two as Muaz Haffar, 21, of Burr Ridge, and Mantas Matulis, 20, of Clarendon Hills.
Haffar and Matulis were both charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery, and were scheduled for an appearance in Bond Court later Sunday.
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This is due to the cuts across the board in the Federal government. Bush is forcing any and all financial resources including 'Rainy Day' funds into use. Those funds were squirreled away for FRANK emergencies. The Iraq invasion is not an emergency. This is more of the draconian 'attitude' of Bush's administration which began with Don Evans to suck the government at all levels dry. The states and local governments need to put their survival out there to their residents realizing their budgets need increased income from increased taxes with appropriate cutbacks as well if they haven't already. Bush could not be more "W"rong. This administration brags there will be another attack like 9/11; then what to they think they are doing to the reserve funds in government. 9/11 BETTER NOT HAPPEN AGAIN !!
Schools to tap reserves to cover 'bare bones' budget
July 9, 2005
BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter
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Even after reaping $45 million in new property taxes, Chicago Public Schools must dip into cash reserves for the second time in three years because the system plans to spend more money than it will take in, according to a new $5 billion budget unveiled Friday.
One expert said the $20 million drawdown of the system's reserve fund was one of several "troubling'' signs in this year's budget. CPS officials contended it proves Illinois needs to pony up more education dollars statewide.
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Conservatives back woman for court
July 10, 2005
BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
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Conservatives are privately urging that President Bush replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor with another woman in an effort to disarm feminist opposition.
The principal conservative choice is Appellate Judge Edith Jones, who was considered for the Supreme Court by the first President Bush more than a dozen years ago but is only 56 years old. Judge Edith Clement, Jones' colleague on the 5th Circuit (New Orleans), has a lower profile, could be easier to confirm and would probably be acceptable to conservatives.
Left-wing feminists would oppose confirmation of either Jones or Clement, but their argument against President Bush of gender bias would be undercut.
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