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History
1913, Menachem Begin, Israeli prime minister
1923, Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister
1945, Suzanne Farrell, ballet dancer
1947, Carol Moseley Braun, Democratic member of the United States Senate from Illinois (1993-1999). Moseley Braun was the first black woman elected to the Senate. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended neighborhood schools on Chicago’s South Side. She graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago and then earned a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1972.
1958, Madonna, pop star and mother
1777, American forces won the Revolutionary War battle of Bennington, Vt.
1816, Peter Salem, a Revolutionary War veteran of Bunker Hill Battle, who will stand against the British at Concord dies. At the battle Peter Salem shoots and kills Major Pitcairon, the British commander who had given the order to fire on the Minutemen.
1819, In what becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre, 11 people die when government calvary troops attack a large crowd demonstrating for economic and political reform in Manchester, England.
1829, the original "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world.
1861, President Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
1900, The New York Times reports that the four-hour riot was a scene of the wildest disorder in New York City that was witnessed in years. September.
1922, Author Louis E. Lomax, who will become an author and columnist, is born
1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53.
1960, Britain granted independence to the crown colony of Cyprus, led by its newly elected president, Archbishop Makarios, declares its independence from Britain.
1963, Graphic Artist Georg Olden becomes the first Black to design a U.S. postal stamp to commemorate the 100th year of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1981, American swimmer Mary T. Meagher sets a world record of 57.93 sec for the 100-meter butterfly, three days after setting the world 200-meter butterfly mark.
1987, 156 people were killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from Detroit.
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The Japan Times
M6.8 quake jolts northeastern Japan, injuries reported
Compiled from wire reports
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted northeastern Japan on Tuesday and a tsunami warning was issued for the coastal region of Miyagi Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The 11:46 a.m. quake registered lower 6 on the seven-point Japanese seismic intensity scale in southern Miyagi Prefecture, about 300 km northeast of Tokyo.
Many in the city of Sendai, the capital of Miyagi, were reported injured, according to the local fire department. Japan's Kyodo News reported that a roof fell in at a sports center in the city, injuring many.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050816h1.htm
Koizumi repeats apology
Decides to skip anniversary visit to Yasukuni
By KANAKO TAKAHARA
Staff writer
Marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed regret Monday for Japan's past deeds against its Asian neighbors and vowed to make sure they never happen again.
An elderly woman climbs the stairs at the entrance of Nippon Budokan hall Monday to attend a ceremony marking the end of World War II.
"Our country caused damage and pain to many countries, especially the people of Asia, during the war," Koizumi said in a speech at the annual ceremony held at Nippon Budokan hall in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. "I profoundly pray for the souls of the war dead and the victims of war both at home and abroad."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050816a1.htm
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Happy 'TV Nation' Day!
Letters to the Editor: Traverse City Film Festival
Traverse City Record-Eagle
A positive experience
I was a volunteer at the Open Space for all four nights of the film festival, and I would like to say it was great to see all who came out, locals and visitors alike.
Moviegoers were kind to each other and very cooperative when we had to ask them to please move back from the ropes, etc.
Also, kudos to all of my fellow volunteers. I'm looking forward to next year's festival.
Karl A. Bielman
Traverse City
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3604
Traverse City still giddy over Film Festival
Organizers want to keep it 'grass roots'
By Marta Hepler Drahos / Traverse City Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY - There may have been other ways to spend her advertising dollars in July, but none appealed to Laurie Wildman as much as the Traverse City Film Festival.
Wildman, owner of the downtown Traverse City woman's boutique Le Fétiche, donated $2,500 to sponsor the festival's closing film.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3605
Farmers for Cindy
Crawford Update
Yesterday, we at Camp Casey had some unexpected yet much-appreciated guests. Wayne, Buddy and Larry, three farmers from Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, respectively, wandered into the Crawford Peace House around 3 p.m. and my first thought was, "uh oh, these might be Bush supporters." But to our great relief, Wayne announced in his charming Okie accent, "Hello! We're here to see Cindy and tell her that we support her and her cause 100%." Goes to show it doesn't pay to stereotype, and even more importantly, that Cindy supporters and pro-peace people come from all different backgrounds.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3725
Protest campsite moving closer to Bush ranch
Relative of man who fired shotgun offers space to antiwar demonstrators
Reuters
CRAWFORD, Texas - Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is moving her camp closer to President Bush’s Texas ranch.
The piece of private property was offered by a relative of a man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over the protests, a source in the Sheehan camp said. The property owner is also a veteran.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3724
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 10); Misses and Miracles
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
We still have so many great things happening at Camp Casey. In spite of all the smears and lies, people are still coming.
The most amazing thing today was learning that Camp Caseys are opening and spreading all over the country. They have been set up in Boston, Portland, Seattle, and elsewhere. If you can't make it to Camp Casey, set up your own version. Camp Caseys are amazing places full of love and hope. I am so gratified that the movement is spreading.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
I need to know why
Mother of soldier killed in Iraq explains her vigil outside President Bush's ranch
By Celeste Zappala / New York Daily News
A week after my son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, arrived in Baghdad last year, President Bush held court for journalists at the 60th annual Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington. Part of the show that night was to pretend to look for WMD under the lectern. There were staged pictures of Mr. Bush looking for them under the rug in the Oval Office. Everyone present got a great laugh.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3720
Rude Awakening
By Japhet Els and Emily Sharpe / Crawford Update
posted by Japhet @ 23:57
About an hour ago, wegot a phone call from our friends up at Camp Casey saying that the line of gravemarkers along the road (Arlington West) had been run over. People there said that as they were talking to a few members of the press, a pick-up truck came down the road and stopped at the fork by the edge of the tents. The driver then jumped out and attached a pipe to the undercarriage with a chain and began to "swerve into the line of crosses," said Tammara Rosenleaf from Montana. "Then we heard the pipe being dragged over the gravemarkers and the pick-up's wheels crushing them."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3711
Bush invited to join Gold Star families at interfaith prayer service Friday outside his ranch
National Council of Churches
New York, August 16, 2005 – The General Secretary of the National Council of Churches is urging President Bush to join with Gold Star families and religious leaders in an interfaith prayer service outside the Bush ranch at noon (CDT) Friday.
The prayer service has been called by Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan “as an opportunity for Americans and others across the world to pray for our soldiers in Iraq, their families and in particular the mothers of our fallen.”
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3717
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The Boston Globe
Catholic watchdog group urges purging of 'pro-death' professors
By Glen Johnson, AP Political Writer August 16, 2005
BOSTON --A conservative Catholic watchdog group wants 18 academics, including three professors at Boston College, purged from campus for perpetuating "a culture of death" by supporting abortion rights or siding against Terry Schiavo's parents in their efforts to keep her feeding tube.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/16/catholic_watchdog_group_urges_purging_of_pro_death_professors/
Anti-war protester Sheehan to move campsite
By Caren Bohan August 16, 2005
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, said on Tuesday she is moving her camp closer to President George W. Bush's Texas ranch after being offered the use of a piece of land by a supporter.
The private property was offered by a military veteran who is a distant relative of a man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over her vigil, which has been a growing source of tension in the community.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/16/crosses_vandalized_at_antiwar_moms_texas_camp_site/
US bid to keep tabs on tuition irks colleges
Schools object to proposal to rank their cost increases
By Kaitlin Bell, Globe Correspondent August 16, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Colleges are accustomed to being ranked on the basis of everything from the quality of their libraries to the vibrancy of campus party scenes. But a proposal to have the federal government compare schools by how much they increase tuition has administrators and higher-education groups objecting.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/08/16/us_bid_to_keep_tabs_on_tuition_irks_colleges/
Roberts papers hint at his views on church-state issue
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff August 16, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court nominee Judge John G. Roberts Jr. denounced as ''indefensible" a 1985 Supreme Court ruling striking down a moment of silence in public schools, according to memos released yesterday from his years as a legal aide in the Reagan administration.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/16/roberts_papers_hint_at_his_views_on_church_state_issue/
New Mexico fugitive businessman arrested in Boston
By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2005
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --A fugitive New Mexico businessman wanted on charges ranging from tax evasion to embezzlement was captured Tuesday in Boston.
Michael Robert Soutar, 46, was arrested by Massachusetts State Police as he left a yacht docked at a marina in Boston's North End.
Soutar was indicted in December in connection with dealings involving his defunct business. He has been wanted since escaping from a work detail at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/16/new_mexico_fugitive_businessman_arrested_in_boston_1124236153/
Edwards says poverty a key Democrat issue
By Curt Woodward, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2005
SEATTLE --Democrats can build the party's national strength by pushing their policies in statehouses around the country, 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards told a group of legislators Tuesday.
Edwards, speaking at a luncheon for a new liberal policy group, said voters will reward lawmakers who advocate a cornerstone of Democratic ideology: fighting poverty and standing up for the poor.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/16/edwards_says_poverty_a_key_democrat_issue/
A look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq
By The Associated Press August 16, 2005
As of Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005, at least 1,857 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,441 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.
The AP count is two higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday.
The British military has reported 93 deaths; Italy, 26; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia, three; El Salvador, Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Latvia one death each.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/16/a_look_at_us_military_deaths_in_iraq/
Israel says crisis defused with U.S. on arms exports
By Dan Williams August 16, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the United States have signed an accord defusing a long-running dispute over Israeli arms exports to China that had soured relations with the Jewish state's chief ally, the Israeli Defense Ministry said.
Washington, which provides Israel with $2 billion in annual defense aid and is expected to help finance its Gaza withdrawal, had complained that the sale of Harpy attack drones and other advanced technology to China could threaten Taiwan.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/16/israel_says_ends_crisis_with_us_on_arms_exports/
Pope lawyer seek immunity in Texas case
By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2005
VATICAN CITY --Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
The Vatican's embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope's lawyers in U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Texas in Houston.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/16/pope_lawyer_seek_immunity_in_texas_case/
Haaretz
Resistance crumbling; Neveh Dekalim evacuation begins
By Nir Hasson, Amos Harel and Meron Rapaport, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service
As the Israel Defense Forces flooded Neveh Dekalim with thousands of troops after the midnight deadline for voluntary evacuations expired, hundreds of opponents of the disengagement on Tuesday night barricaded themselves in the key settlement's central synagogue.
Most of the barricaded activists are teenagers who entered the Gush Katif settlement bloc illegally in recent weeks in a bid to thwart the evacuation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612980.html
U.S. Jewish leadership declares support for disengagement
By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent
On the eve of the forced evacuation of settlers from the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Tuesday issued a statement supporting the disengagement.
The statement comes amid a long and sometimes heated debate between Jewish organizations in America regarding taking a stance on Israeli government policy. The Conference of Presidents, which represents 52 American Jewish organizations, has heretofore refrained from taking a public position on the issue.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613454.html
PA and Hamas prepare for struggle over Gush Katif
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent
U.S. Middle East security coordinator Lieutenant General William Ward met Tuesday with the heads of the Palestinian Authority security forces deployed near settlements.
PA Interior Ministry spokesman Tawfiq Abu Husa told Haaretz yesterday that at the meeting, which took place at the Gaza Strip's Karni crossing, Ward looked at "the deployment of the forces and their capabilities, down to the smallest details," and their readiness.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613399.html
Road map sponsors to meet in mid-Sept., Annan says
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK - The sponsors of the road map - the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia - will meet in mid-September to assess Israel's disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's spokesman said yesterday.
Annan said the disengagement offers "a moment of promise and hope," and the four parties will assess the prospects for revitalizing the peace process as the handover to the Palestinians proceeds, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612935.html
FIGURES: Gaza - How many have left their homes, how many remain?
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
The following are figures released by the Disengagement Administration close to the midnight Tuesday expiration deadline for voluntary evacuation from Gaza Strip settlements.
Some of the figures may be approximations due to the difficulty of collecting data and the fast-changing reality:
Atzmona: 1 of 83 families evacuated. 82 families remain.
Bedolah: EVACUATED - All 35 families.
Elei Sinai: 59 of 74 families evacuated. 15 families remain.
Dugit: EVACUATED - All 19 families.
Gadid: 58 of 63 families evacuated. 5 families remain.
Gan Or: 36 of 57 families evacuated. 21 families remain.
Katif: 7 of 61 families evacuated. 54 families remain.
Kerem Atzmona: 1 of 12 families evacuated. 11 families remain.
Kfar Darom: 2 of 73 families evacuated. 71 families remain.
Kfar Yam: 2 of 4 families evacuated. 2 families remain.
Morag: 25 of 34 families evacuated. 11 families remain.
Netzarim: 1 of 64 families evacuated. 63 families remain.
Netzer Hazani: 43 of 80 families evacuated. 37 families remain.
Neveh Dekalim: 209 of 467 families evacuated. 258 families remain.
Nissanit: EVACUATED - All 240 families.
Pe'at Sadeh: EVACUATED - All 19 families.
Rafiah Yam: 26 of 27 families evacuated. 1 family remains.
Shirat Hayam: 1 of 11 families evacuated.
Slav: 3 of 5 families evacuated. 2 families remain.
Tel Katifa: 3 of 16 families evacuated. 13 families remain.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613455.html
Most families in northern Gaza settlements agree to leave
By Jonathan Lis, Nir Hasson, Amos Harel and Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Staff and Agencies
The distribution of evacuation orders in the northern Gaza settlements was on Monday evening completed with almost all of the families in the settlement of Elei Sinai agreeing to leave their homes peacefully by midnight on Tuesday, when the forceful evacuation of settlements is slated to start.
Fifty-six of the 59 families in Elei Sinai agreed to leave, while in the nearby settlement of Nissanit, seen as a more ideological community, only nine of the 40 families said they would leave by the expiration of the deadline. Only one family remained in the third northern settlement of Dugit, with the six others already gone.
Residents of Nissanit on Monday evening started dismantling the settlement's synagogue and held a ceremony for the removal of the Torah together with Israel Defense Forces who are based in the settlement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612451.html
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pulling out of Gaza
Settlers are ordered out; those who remain face forced eviction tomorrow.
By Michael Matza, Dion Nissenbaum and Martin Merzer
Inquirer Foreign Staff
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip - A day of angry shouts, tearful lamentations and burning tires ended yesterday with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attempting to soothe Israel as it moved toward the climax of its withdrawal from Gaza: forced evictions by soldiers.
"I understand the feelings, the pain and the cries of those who object," Sharon said in a nationally televised address. "However, we are one nation even when fighting and arguing."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12392090.htm
Felonies restored in pier collapse
By Jacqueline Soteropoulos
Inquirer Staff Writer
The owner and operator of Pier 34 South along the Delaware River must face felony charges in the fatal collapse that killed three young women at a nightclub five years ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
The justices, who reinstated a felony charge of risking a catastrophe and a companion felony charge of conspiracy, ordered that Michael Asbell, 63, the pier's owner, and Eli Karetny, 64, the operator of Heat nightclub, face a jury in Common Pleas Court.
The charges - which could carry a maximum prison term of 14 years - were dismissed in 2002 by a Philadelphia judge.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12392092.htm
Corzine, Forrester release tax returns
Both candidates reported annual incomes of about $12 million.
By Angela Delli Santi
Associated Press
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - The two candidates for New Jersey governor provided a glimpse into their vast wealth yesterday by releasing tax returns showing annual incomes of around $12 million each.
Republican Douglas Forrester paid federal tax of $3.7 million on adjusted gross income of $12 million in 2003 and $4.7 million on adjusted gross income of $12.6 million in 2002. U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine paid federal tax of $1.3 million on adjusted gross income of $11.8 million in 2004, according to returns he released in Newark.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12393428.htm
Editorial A hopeful first step
The equation for peace between Palestinians and Israelis changes this week - for better or worse.
Much depends on what happens when Israeli soldiers start forcibly removing Israelis who have not yet moved from 21 settlements on the Gaza Strip and four on the West Bank.
When the settlers are gone, probably by early September, that territory will be turned over to the Palestinian Authority.
By pursuing unilateral disengagement from all of Gaza and part of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has done what diplomats on both sides of this conflict have been unable to do for years: jolt the peace process.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12392112.htm
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