Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Senator Byrd, Major Media Spread Coverage of Bush-Nazi Nexus
Sorry the resolution isn't better, but, there seems to be some apprehension among the Conservative Blogs and considerable dissing regarding Sentor Byrd and his mention of the Bush/Nazi Campaign Strategy Nexus not to mention the actual nexus of Prescott Bush to financing Nazi Germany. I'll get to that in just a minute. But, so there is no apprehension anymore. There is not a darn thing 'W'rong with a 16 or 18 or 24 hour filibuster to prevent the 'W'rongest of choices to the any place on any USA bench. 
The Shady Bunch - include in that Halliburton as well as the 'knowing' stockholders
It is a known fact the USA did not do the 'right thing' to the world in World War II and played both sides of the Allied and Axis forces for wealth. I am confident somewhere in there lies Prescott Bush which just goes to prove things haven't changed much. They are all opportunists. The difference today is that we live in a world POST War World II with institutions formed from the lessons of history namely The World Courts, The United Nations with laws enforced at The Hague like Genocide and Human Rights.
I am not surprised the allogations can be made there are financial connections back to financiers in the USA to Nazi Germany. Adolph Hilter rose to power and was respected in many ways including his sponsorship of the First International Olympic Games, hence 'the perfect human' obsession.
What makes me skeptical of any allogations regarding a former USA Senator in Prescott Bush is the fact he served if I am not mistaken with Eisenhower, so I thought. There are all kinds of allogations out there. I don't see that it matters. I do know that George Walker Bush should stand on his own to be judged exclusive of his father or grandfather and their public and military service to this country. I do believe them to be honorable men.
On the other hand, I sincerely take issue with George Walker Bush and his assertions regarding The World Courts and 'the place' in the world for the USA. The USA is not a primadonna. nor should it be. In order to be an effective nation we have to join efforts to combat issues that beset all nations. I do not approve of Bush's Pre-Emption, Patroit Act or moving juridiction over civil issues to a War Tribunal just because he has decided chronic war is okay in this country.
As an administration goes the atrocities are unmatched to ANY others in USA history. Bush has taken this country into insoluble debt, placed cronies in contracts that were never bid on and has promised practically a new constitution to the Right Wing (his party base) in order to have every scandal swept under the carpet including his dishonorable service in the Air National Guard where he hid from military service while the Vietnam War was being conducted.
There maybe a 'link' somewhere to finances of Nazi Germany tracable to The Bush Family. I don't really care. That is a waste of time and energy as far as I am concerned. But, what does concern me is the lose of democracy that this Great Society enjoyed and it's plunge into debt as well as the lose of esteem in the International Community. George Walker Bush's administration with the mentoring of Richard Cheney is directly responsible for that.
They are scandalously manipulative and the sorry state of affairs the country finds itself is complete proof of that including the unscrupulous and exorbitantly expensive Medicare Drug Program (No fault belonging to the Seniors) as well as the dissolving of the FDA.
As far as Senator Byrd. I love the guy. He is an exceptional patriot. Filibuster away Senator Byrd. I'll watch C-Span and cheer you on every minute.
GO, SENATOR BYRD, GO !!!
I am not surprised the allogations can be made there are financial connections back to financiers in the USA to Nazi Germany. Adolph Hilter rose to power and was respected in many ways including his sponsorship of the First International Olympic Games, hence 'the perfect human' obsession.
What makes me skeptical of any allogations regarding a former USA Senator in Prescott Bush is the fact he served if I am not mistaken with Eisenhower, so I thought. There are all kinds of allogations out there. I don't see that it matters. I do know that George Walker Bush should stand on his own to be judged exclusive of his father or grandfather and their public and military service to this country. I do believe them to be honorable men.
On the other hand, I sincerely take issue with George Walker Bush and his assertions regarding The World Courts and 'the place' in the world for the USA. The USA is not a primadonna. nor should it be. In order to be an effective nation we have to join efforts to combat issues that beset all nations. I do not approve of Bush's Pre-Emption, Patroit Act or moving juridiction over civil issues to a War Tribunal just because he has decided chronic war is okay in this country.
As an administration goes the atrocities are unmatched to ANY others in USA history. Bush has taken this country into insoluble debt, placed cronies in contracts that were never bid on and has promised practically a new constitution to the Right Wing (his party base) in order to have every scandal swept under the carpet including his dishonorable service in the Air National Guard where he hid from military service while the Vietnam War was being conducted.
There maybe a 'link' somewhere to finances of Nazi Germany tracable to The Bush Family. I don't really care. That is a waste of time and energy as far as I am concerned. But, what does concern me is the lose of democracy that this Great Society enjoyed and it's plunge into debt as well as the lose of esteem in the International Community. George Walker Bush's administration with the mentoring of Richard Cheney is directly responsible for that.
They are scandalously manipulative and the sorry state of affairs the country finds itself is complete proof of that including the unscrupulous and exorbitantly expensive Medicare Drug Program (No fault belonging to the Seniors) as well as the dissolving of the FDA.
As far as Senator Byrd. I love the guy. He is an exceptional patriot. Filibuster away Senator Byrd. I'll watch C-Span and cheer you on every minute.
GO, SENATOR BYRD, GO !!!
Ice melts to waves if the planet gets too hot. Earth is not cooling down enough to stop the votices because of the dense carbon dioxide blanket. Plants can remove the carbon dioxide from the air but not at a great greater than humans are producing it. What happens to the ocean temperature when the ice is melted. The North Polar Cap is the 'ice cup' to cooling the planet. Stopping Carbon Dioxide pollution is not an option anymore and it is crazy to think humans can 'beat' the alternative. We are the stewards of Earth. We live because conditions are right.
Let's Catch Up - Morning Papers
February 28 …
1797, Mary Lyon, Educator
1820, John Tenniel, English cartoonist and book illustrator
1827, the first U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated.
1844, a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others.
1849: The California is the first ship of gold seekers to arrive in San Francisco, California. Gold was discovered in California in 1848. Two main methods were used for gold mining—lode and placer mining. In lode mining, prospectors dug into the earth in an effort to reach pockets of minerals. In placer mining, shown here, prospectors found gold in the gravels of existing and dried streams.
1901, Linus Pauling, theoretical chemist and biologist
1922: The British government announces its acceptance of Egypt's wish to become an independent state, but states that Great Britain will retain considerable influence as well as control of the Suez Canal.
1930, Leon N. Cooper, physicist, professor, and Nobel Prize winner
1933: Adolf Hitler persuades president Paul von Hindenburg to issue an emergency order that suppresses civil liberties and freedom of the press and allows the Nazis to arrest thousands of their opponents.
1951, the Senate committee headed by Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., issued a preliminary report saying at least two major crime syndicates were operating in the United States.
1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
1974, the United States and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a seven-year break.
1984: Michael Jackson's album Thriller wins an unprecedented eight Grammy Awards. Jackson is now nearly fifty years old and sleeping with children. GUILTY !!
1996, Britain's Princess Diana agreed to divorce Prince Charles.
Mary Lyon, born on this date in 1797, was a pioneering American educator who founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in 1837. Learn about her and other influential women at the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Missing in Action
1967 MOORE JAMES RODNEY ONTARIO NY
1968 COONS HENRY A. GERMANTOWN NY
1968 HUNT ROBERT W. BECKLEY WV POSS CAPTURED POSS DIC
1968 STEGMAN THOMAS CATONSVILLE MD
1968 SCUITIER JAMES J. SUMMIT NJ 01/73 PRG SAYS DIC
1969 LONG STEPHEN G. CHILOQUIN OR 03/28/73 RELEASED BY PL ALIVE AND WELL 98
1970 BOYLE WILLIAM WATROUS PA
TIME TO PUT THE GUNS AWAY !! Every nation on Earth should be called to inventory any and all nuclear stocks and bring that list to the United Nations General Assembly. From there the UN needs to draft a Global Disarmament Agreement. Nukes were and are not a reasonable solution to resolving war.
A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Mohamed El Baradei
The Head of the United Nations organisation charged with stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons had an upbeat message about Iran: progress was being made.
Mohamed El Baradei has to report on the state of world nuclear security. Since his last report, there've been astonishing revelations from the man behind Pakistan's attempts to build a nuclear device.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3529253.stm
March 1
1260: The city of Damascus surrenders to the Mongols, who now occupy all Syria, extinguishing the Ayyubid Sultanate.
1781, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
1790, Congress authorized the first U.S. Census.
1810, Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist
1864, Rebecca Lee became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston.
1872: President Ulysses S Grant signs a bill creating Yellowstone National Park, making it the first national park in the United States.
1875: The United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing African Americans equal access to public facilities.
1904, Glenn Miler, jazz bandleader and trombone player
1909, David Niven, British motion-picture actor
1914, Ralph Ellison, American author and educator, one of the most influential black American writers of the 20th century. Ralph Waldo Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and educated at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). His best-known work, Invisible Man (1952), expounds the theme that American society willfully ignores blacks. The novel is the account of an unnamed young Southern black man’s journey from innocence to experience as he searches, first in the South and then in the North, for his place in the world. Ellison uses rich, varied, and powerful language to portray the black experience in all its vitality and complexity. The novel was one of the first works to describe modern racial problems in the United States from a black American point of view. It received the National Book Award for fiction in 1953.
1917, Dinah Shore, popular singer and television performer
1922, Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister and Nobel laureate
1932, 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)
1945, President Roosevelt, back from the Yalta Conference, proclaimed the meeting a success as he addressed a joint session of Congress.
1954, Ron Howard, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.
1961: President John F. Kennedy creates the Peace Corps by executive order.
1972: Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first NBA basketball player to score 30,000 points.
1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
Missing in Action
1966 CHRISTENSEN WILLIAM M. GREAT FALLS MT
1966 FRAWLEY WILLIAM D. BROCKTON MA
1966 WOLOSZYK DONALD J. ALPENA MI
1968 LANNOM RICHARD C. UNION CITY TN
1968 SCHEURICH THOMAS E. NORFOLK NE
1969 CAMPBELL CLYDE W. LONGVIEW TX
1969 KELLER WENDELL R. FARGO ND
1969 LOVEGREN DAVID E. PORTLAND OR
1969 MERONEY VIRGIL K. FAYETTEVILLE AR
1971 BLACK PAUL V. CENTRAL VALLEY CA
1971 ZUBKE DELAND D. GRASSY BUTTE ND
The Sydney Morning Herald
$29 billion deficit worst on record
March 1, 2005 - 6:48PM
Australia's worst trade performance on record is unlikely to stop an increase in interest rates tomorrow that will add more than $30 a month to the average mortgage.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/29-billion-deficit-worst-on-record/2005/03/01/1109546844746.html
Police car attacked with chlorine bombs
March 1, 2005 - 10:26PM
Four youths are being questioned tonight after a home-made bomb exploded near a police vehicle parked outside a Sydney police station.
Two bombs, which witnesses say contained chlorine, were thrown at the vehicle outside Macquarie Fields police station, but only one went off, a police spokeswoman said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Police-car-attacked-with-chlorine-bombs/2005/03/01/1109546871574.html
History beckons for bold Lebanese
ANALYSIS
Some call it the Beirut Spring, others the Cedar Revolution - whichever name sticks, this week's events have led the Lebanese to unmapped ground.
When the Prime Minister, Omar Karami, announced the resignation of his government on Monday, the Lebanese became the first Arabic-speaking people to bring down their leaders by mass protest. Other unhappy Arabs will be watching with interest.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/History-beckons-for-bold-Lebanese/2005/03/01/1109546871676.html
Damascus spring becomes winter of discontent
By Ed O'Loughlin, Middle East correspondent, Damascus
March 2, 2005
Last week in downtown Damascus, the Syrian Journalists' Association mounted a public protest calling for the release of a correspondent accused of supporting terrorism.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/Damascus-spring-becomes-winter-of-discontent/2005/03/01/1109546867391.html
Iraq and Afghanistan detainees to sue Rumsfeld
March 2, 2005
Human rights lawyers are to file a lawsuit against the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of eight men who say they were tortured by US forces in custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Iraq-and-Afghanistan-detainees-to-sue-Rumsfeld/2005/03/01/1109546871782.html
New light shed on invisibility
By Stephen Cauchi
March 2, 2005
omulans in Star Trek to hide their spacecraft from enemies, may yet become reality, thanks to US researchers.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Science/New-light-shed-on-invisibility/2005/03/01/1109546873918.html
Israeli Army must reopen inquiry into shooting
March 2, 2005
The Israeli supreme court has ordered the army to reopen an investigation into the shooting of a US peace activist in the northern West Bank nearly two years ago.
Judges yesterday gave the military 90 days to interview six witnesses to the shooting after a petition was presented by Brian Avery, an activist who suffered severe facial disfigurement after being shot in the face by troops in the town of Jenin.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/Israeli-Army-must-reopen-inquiry-into-shooting/2005/03/01/1109546871878.html
Seven found dead in 'group suicides'
March 2, 2005
Seven bodies have been found in two cars in northern Japan, in what police suspected were the country's latest group suicides.
Four people were found at an isolated mountainside parking lot in Nikko by police on Monday night, Tochigi prefectural (state) police spokesman Shinichi Hirai said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Seven-found-dead-in-group-suicides/2005/03/01/1109546872625.html
Pravda
Russian scientist predicted tsunami two days before it hit Southeast Asia
03/01/2005 11:21
US forces supposedly used a secret weapon in Iraq, which resulted in a powerful earthquake
Viktor Bokov, a scientist from St.Petersburg, deals with short-term earthquake forecasts. The information about the forthcoming disaster in Southeast Asia, which killed 215,000 people, appeared on the website of the Arctic and Antarctic Institute (on which Bokov's forecasts are regularly published) two days before the tsunami hit the Asian shores.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/15035_tsunami.html
American journalists don't know where Slovakia is
American journalists mixed up Slovakia and Slovenia before George Bush's official visit to Bratislava, which is actually the capital of Slovakia.
When George W. Bush mixed up Slovakia and Slovenia during his first pre-election campaign in 1999, the citizens of the two countries thought that such a mistake would never happen again, RIA Novosti reports.
All Slovakian newspapers wrote a couple of days ago that Americans would undoubtedly be aware of Slovakia's geographical position, when President Bush visits the country for the summit with Putin. However, Slovakians were greatly disappointed and offended again.
It was The USA Today that made the same mistake again. The article about Bush's forthcoming visit to Bratislava was illustrated with a picture of the map of Europe, on which Slovakia was marked as Slovenia.
http://funreports.com/2005/02/25/58434.html
Haiti: One year after Washington's coup
03/01/2005 10:01
One year since President Aristide was kidnapped
On Sunday 29th February 2004, the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced out of his home by personnel from the US Embassy in Port au Prince, who threatened him and his family, pushed them onto an aircraft and transported them to the Central African Republic.
http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/397/15033_haiti.html
Africans listen with hope and some skepticism to British promises of help
15:21 2005-03-01
In putting Africa at the top of his foreign policy agenda and trying to persuade leaders of other rich nations to follow suit British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeals to the world's conscience, but also to its self interest.
Blair's has pledged to bring more British resources to bear in solving Africa's problems, and, with Britain holding the Group of Eight presidency this year, to get the other seven major industrialized countries acting as partners with Africans in transforming a continent mired in conflict, ravaged by AIDS and burdened by lack of opportunity.
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/03/01/58482.html
Iran is desired to abandon its nuclear fuel program
14:56 2005-03-01
As the chief of the U.N. atomic watchdogscolded Iran for delays in divulging nuclear information, the United States suggested it was considering joining Europe in offering Tehran economic incentives in exchange for abandoning its nuclear fuel program.
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/03/01/58480.html
Michael Moore
Trauma of Iraq war haunting thousands returning home
By William M. Welch / USA Today
Jeremy Harrison sees the warning signs in the Iraq war veterans who walk through his office door every day — flashbacks, inability to relax or relate, restless nights and more.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1600
Dead Marine’s letters tell of regret, illness
‘If you can get me out I will be forever grateful,’ he wrote in final missive to parents
Associated Press
In his last letter home, Marine recruit Jason Tharp said he was sick and he wanted out of the Marines so badly that the military’s promise of money he could use to study art in college didn’t matter anymore.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1605
Female Soldiers Face More Danger in Iraq
Sat Feb 26,11:14 PM ET
White House - AP Cabinet & State
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON - When a roadside bomb in Iraq (news - web sites) exploded on Feb. 9, Army Sgt. Jessica M. Housby became the 21st female soldier killed in action since the war began nearly two years ago.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=7&u=/ap/iraq_women_in_combat
The Boston Globe
CONVENIENT EXCUSE FOR BUSH. SEEMS RIGHT. BUT THE USA RECORD IS NOT THAT GREAT. HOW MANY DEAD INNOCENT IRAQIS? HOW MANY ILLEGAL WARS? GLOBAL WARMING. A LONG WAY FOR THE USA TO GO !!
US sounds alarm on human rights
But critics say US guilty of torture by its definition
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff March 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The State Department's annual report on human rights warned yesterday of an alarming deterioration of conditions in Russia, Belarus, Burma, Sudan, and Bangladesh, and portrayed support for human rights as the cornerstone of US foreign policy in President Bush's second term.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/03/01/us_sounds_alarm_on_human_rights/
US weighs joining Europe in offering incentives to Iran
By Tom Raum, Associated Press March 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- In a potential strategy shift, the Bush administration is considering joining Europe in offering Iran economic incentives in exchange for abandoning its nuclear fuel program, the White House said yesterday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/03/01/us_weighs_joining_europe_in_offering_incentives_to_iran/
A storm dumped about 6 to 10 inches of snow across New York City and slightly more north and west.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/03/01/nyregion/01cnd-snow.2.html
ABC News
Artic Ozone Losses Concern Scientists
WASHINGTON Mar 1, 2005 — Ozone levels over the Earth's far north dipped sharply early last year when polar winds trapped nitrogen pollutants, researchers reported Tuesday.
The sun contributed to the problem, sending out a storm of particles that bombarded the Earth and helped generate some of the ozone-destroying chemicals, according to the report in Geophysical Research Letters.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=543053
Continued…. Later….
1797, Mary Lyon, Educator
1820, John Tenniel, English cartoonist and book illustrator
1827, the first U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated.
1844, a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others.
1849: The California is the first ship of gold seekers to arrive in San Francisco, California. Gold was discovered in California in 1848. Two main methods were used for gold mining—lode and placer mining. In lode mining, prospectors dug into the earth in an effort to reach pockets of minerals. In placer mining, shown here, prospectors found gold in the gravels of existing and dried streams.
1901, Linus Pauling, theoretical chemist and biologist
1922: The British government announces its acceptance of Egypt's wish to become an independent state, but states that Great Britain will retain considerable influence as well as control of the Suez Canal.
1930, Leon N. Cooper, physicist, professor, and Nobel Prize winner
1933: Adolf Hitler persuades president Paul von Hindenburg to issue an emergency order that suppresses civil liberties and freedom of the press and allows the Nazis to arrest thousands of their opponents.
1951, the Senate committee headed by Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., issued a preliminary report saying at least two major crime syndicates were operating in the United States.
1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
1974, the United States and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a seven-year break.
1984: Michael Jackson's album Thriller wins an unprecedented eight Grammy Awards. Jackson is now nearly fifty years old and sleeping with children. GUILTY !!
1996, Britain's Princess Diana agreed to divorce Prince Charles.
Mary Lyon, born on this date in 1797, was a pioneering American educator who founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in 1837. Learn about her and other influential women at the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Missing in Action
1967 MOORE JAMES RODNEY ONTARIO NY
1968 COONS HENRY A. GERMANTOWN NY
1968 HUNT ROBERT W. BECKLEY WV POSS CAPTURED POSS DIC
1968 STEGMAN THOMAS CATONSVILLE MD
1968 SCUITIER JAMES J. SUMMIT NJ 01/73 PRG SAYS DIC
1969 LONG STEPHEN G. CHILOQUIN OR 03/28/73 RELEASED BY PL ALIVE AND WELL 98
1970 BOYLE WILLIAM WATROUS PA
TIME TO PUT THE GUNS AWAY !! Every nation on Earth should be called to inventory any and all nuclear stocks and bring that list to the United Nations General Assembly. From there the UN needs to draft a Global Disarmament Agreement. Nukes were and are not a reasonable solution to resolving war.
A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Mohamed El Baradei
The Head of the United Nations organisation charged with stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons had an upbeat message about Iran: progress was being made.
Mohamed El Baradei has to report on the state of world nuclear security. Since his last report, there've been astonishing revelations from the man behind Pakistan's attempts to build a nuclear device.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3529253.stm
March 1
1260: The city of Damascus surrenders to the Mongols, who now occupy all Syria, extinguishing the Ayyubid Sultanate.
1781, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
1790, Congress authorized the first U.S. Census.
1810, Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist
1864, Rebecca Lee became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston.
1872: President Ulysses S Grant signs a bill creating Yellowstone National Park, making it the first national park in the United States.
1875: The United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing African Americans equal access to public facilities.
1904, Glenn Miler, jazz bandleader and trombone player
1909, David Niven, British motion-picture actor
1914, Ralph Ellison, American author and educator, one of the most influential black American writers of the 20th century. Ralph Waldo Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and educated at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). His best-known work, Invisible Man (1952), expounds the theme that American society willfully ignores blacks. The novel is the account of an unnamed young Southern black man’s journey from innocence to experience as he searches, first in the South and then in the North, for his place in the world. Ellison uses rich, varied, and powerful language to portray the black experience in all its vitality and complexity. The novel was one of the first works to describe modern racial problems in the United States from a black American point of view. It received the National Book Award for fiction in 1953.
1917, Dinah Shore, popular singer and television performer
1922, Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister and Nobel laureate
1932, 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)
1945, President Roosevelt, back from the Yalta Conference, proclaimed the meeting a success as he addressed a joint session of Congress.
1954, Ron Howard, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.
1961: President John F. Kennedy creates the Peace Corps by executive order.
1972: Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first NBA basketball player to score 30,000 points.
1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
Missing in Action
1966 CHRISTENSEN WILLIAM M. GREAT FALLS MT
1966 FRAWLEY WILLIAM D. BROCKTON MA
1966 WOLOSZYK DONALD J. ALPENA MI
1968 LANNOM RICHARD C. UNION CITY TN
1968 SCHEURICH THOMAS E. NORFOLK NE
1969 CAMPBELL CLYDE W. LONGVIEW TX
1969 KELLER WENDELL R. FARGO ND
1969 LOVEGREN DAVID E. PORTLAND OR
1969 MERONEY VIRGIL K. FAYETTEVILLE AR
1971 BLACK PAUL V. CENTRAL VALLEY CA
1971 ZUBKE DELAND D. GRASSY BUTTE ND
The Sydney Morning Herald
$29 billion deficit worst on record
March 1, 2005 - 6:48PM
Australia's worst trade performance on record is unlikely to stop an increase in interest rates tomorrow that will add more than $30 a month to the average mortgage.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/29-billion-deficit-worst-on-record/2005/03/01/1109546844746.html
Police car attacked with chlorine bombs
March 1, 2005 - 10:26PM
Four youths are being questioned tonight after a home-made bomb exploded near a police vehicle parked outside a Sydney police station.
Two bombs, which witnesses say contained chlorine, were thrown at the vehicle outside Macquarie Fields police station, but only one went off, a police spokeswoman said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Police-car-attacked-with-chlorine-bombs/2005/03/01/1109546871574.html
History beckons for bold Lebanese
ANALYSIS
Some call it the Beirut Spring, others the Cedar Revolution - whichever name sticks, this week's events have led the Lebanese to unmapped ground.
When the Prime Minister, Omar Karami, announced the resignation of his government on Monday, the Lebanese became the first Arabic-speaking people to bring down their leaders by mass protest. Other unhappy Arabs will be watching with interest.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/History-beckons-for-bold-Lebanese/2005/03/01/1109546871676.html
Damascus spring becomes winter of discontent
By Ed O'Loughlin, Middle East correspondent, Damascus
March 2, 2005
Last week in downtown Damascus, the Syrian Journalists' Association mounted a public protest calling for the release of a correspondent accused of supporting terrorism.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/Damascus-spring-becomes-winter-of-discontent/2005/03/01/1109546867391.html
Iraq and Afghanistan detainees to sue Rumsfeld
March 2, 2005
Human rights lawyers are to file a lawsuit against the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of eight men who say they were tortured by US forces in custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Iraq-and-Afghanistan-detainees-to-sue-Rumsfeld/2005/03/01/1109546871782.html
New light shed on invisibility
By Stephen Cauchi
March 2, 2005
omulans in Star Trek to hide their spacecraft from enemies, may yet become reality, thanks to US researchers.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Science/New-light-shed-on-invisibility/2005/03/01/1109546873918.html
Israeli Army must reopen inquiry into shooting
March 2, 2005
The Israeli supreme court has ordered the army to reopen an investigation into the shooting of a US peace activist in the northern West Bank nearly two years ago.
Judges yesterday gave the military 90 days to interview six witnesses to the shooting after a petition was presented by Brian Avery, an activist who suffered severe facial disfigurement after being shot in the face by troops in the town of Jenin.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/Israeli-Army-must-reopen-inquiry-into-shooting/2005/03/01/1109546871878.html
Seven found dead in 'group suicides'
March 2, 2005
Seven bodies have been found in two cars in northern Japan, in what police suspected were the country's latest group suicides.
Four people were found at an isolated mountainside parking lot in Nikko by police on Monday night, Tochigi prefectural (state) police spokesman Shinichi Hirai said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Seven-found-dead-in-group-suicides/2005/03/01/1109546872625.html
Pravda
Russian scientist predicted tsunami two days before it hit Southeast Asia
03/01/2005 11:21
US forces supposedly used a secret weapon in Iraq, which resulted in a powerful earthquake
Viktor Bokov, a scientist from St.Petersburg, deals with short-term earthquake forecasts. The information about the forthcoming disaster in Southeast Asia, which killed 215,000 people, appeared on the website of the Arctic and Antarctic Institute (on which Bokov's forecasts are regularly published) two days before the tsunami hit the Asian shores.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/15035_tsunami.html
American journalists don't know where Slovakia is
American journalists mixed up Slovakia and Slovenia before George Bush's official visit to Bratislava, which is actually the capital of Slovakia.
When George W. Bush mixed up Slovakia and Slovenia during his first pre-election campaign in 1999, the citizens of the two countries thought that such a mistake would never happen again, RIA Novosti reports.
All Slovakian newspapers wrote a couple of days ago that Americans would undoubtedly be aware of Slovakia's geographical position, when President Bush visits the country for the summit with Putin. However, Slovakians were greatly disappointed and offended again.
It was The USA Today that made the same mistake again. The article about Bush's forthcoming visit to Bratislava was illustrated with a picture of the map of Europe, on which Slovakia was marked as Slovenia.
http://funreports.com/2005/02/25/58434.html
Haiti: One year after Washington's coup
03/01/2005 10:01
One year since President Aristide was kidnapped
On Sunday 29th February 2004, the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced out of his home by personnel from the US Embassy in Port au Prince, who threatened him and his family, pushed them onto an aircraft and transported them to the Central African Republic.
http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/397/15033_haiti.html
Africans listen with hope and some skepticism to British promises of help
15:21 2005-03-01
In putting Africa at the top of his foreign policy agenda and trying to persuade leaders of other rich nations to follow suit British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeals to the world's conscience, but also to its self interest.
Blair's has pledged to bring more British resources to bear in solving Africa's problems, and, with Britain holding the Group of Eight presidency this year, to get the other seven major industrialized countries acting as partners with Africans in transforming a continent mired in conflict, ravaged by AIDS and burdened by lack of opportunity.
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/03/01/58482.html
Iran is desired to abandon its nuclear fuel program
14:56 2005-03-01
As the chief of the U.N. atomic watchdogscolded Iran for delays in divulging nuclear information, the United States suggested it was considering joining Europe in offering Tehran economic incentives in exchange for abandoning its nuclear fuel program.
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/03/01/58480.html
Michael Moore
Trauma of Iraq war haunting thousands returning home
By William M. Welch / USA Today
Jeremy Harrison sees the warning signs in the Iraq war veterans who walk through his office door every day — flashbacks, inability to relax or relate, restless nights and more.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1600
Dead Marine’s letters tell of regret, illness
‘If you can get me out I will be forever grateful,’ he wrote in final missive to parents
Associated Press
In his last letter home, Marine recruit Jason Tharp said he was sick and he wanted out of the Marines so badly that the military’s promise of money he could use to study art in college didn’t matter anymore.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1605
Female Soldiers Face More Danger in Iraq
Sat Feb 26,11:14 PM ET
White House - AP Cabinet & State
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON - When a roadside bomb in Iraq (news - web sites) exploded on Feb. 9, Army Sgt. Jessica M. Housby became the 21st female soldier killed in action since the war began nearly two years ago.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=7&u=/ap/iraq_women_in_combat
The Boston Globe
CONVENIENT EXCUSE FOR BUSH. SEEMS RIGHT. BUT THE USA RECORD IS NOT THAT GREAT. HOW MANY DEAD INNOCENT IRAQIS? HOW MANY ILLEGAL WARS? GLOBAL WARMING. A LONG WAY FOR THE USA TO GO !!
US sounds alarm on human rights
But critics say US guilty of torture by its definition
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff March 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The State Department's annual report on human rights warned yesterday of an alarming deterioration of conditions in Russia, Belarus, Burma, Sudan, and Bangladesh, and portrayed support for human rights as the cornerstone of US foreign policy in President Bush's second term.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/03/01/us_sounds_alarm_on_human_rights/
US weighs joining Europe in offering incentives to Iran
By Tom Raum, Associated Press March 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- In a potential strategy shift, the Bush administration is considering joining Europe in offering Iran economic incentives in exchange for abandoning its nuclear fuel program, the White House said yesterday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/03/01/us_weighs_joining_europe_in_offering_incentives_to_iran/
A storm dumped about 6 to 10 inches of snow across New York City and slightly more north and west.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/03/01/nyregion/01cnd-snow.2.html
ABC News
Artic Ozone Losses Concern Scientists
WASHINGTON Mar 1, 2005 — Ozone levels over the Earth's far north dipped sharply early last year when polar winds trapped nitrogen pollutants, researchers reported Tuesday.
The sun contributed to the problem, sending out a storm of particles that bombarded the Earth and helped generate some of the ozone-destroying chemicals, according to the report in Geophysical Research Letters.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=543053
Continued…. Later….
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Too young to vote, old enough to be executed
Texas set to kill another child offender
Too young to vote, old enough to be executed
Texas set to kill another child offender
Blair hails 'ripple of change' in Middle East
Prime Minister Blair and President Abbas at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center. (Ever get the feeling there is a luxury ship parked outside?) I have every reason to believe Middle East Peace is history and the only progress that needs to be made it to stop the extremist groups who cause all the disruptive violence. Demonstrators Welcome !
Morning Papers
Rooster "Cock-A-Doodle-Do"
"Okeydoke"
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/
Continued….
"Okeydoke"
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/
Continued….
Morning Papers - Continued...
The Moscow Times
No More Free Flats for Many People
By Oksana Yablokova
Staff Writer
Ushering in new rules that promise to change the way people live, a Housing Code came into force Tuesday that abolishes free apartments for scores of people in need of better housing, bans unauthorized apartment remodeling and allows residents of apartment blocks to turn to private companies for communal housing services.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/001.html
Gorbachev didn't have to deal with terrorists from inside the government. The rise of the Oligarches happened with the advent of Perestroika as well. Perhaps Mr. Gorbachev and his foundation has recommendations. All of a sudden Gorbachev speaks and Putin leaps to attention. Right. It would be nice to recieve insight and constructive suggestions rather than just judgement.
Gorbachev Calls Putin's Policies a Step Back
The Associated Press
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Tuesday that Russians must do their utmost to preserve democracy, and he criticized a number of President Vladimir Putin's policies as a step backward, in some of his sharpest words yet about Putin.
"I think we must do everything to ensure that democracy doesn't backslide, that it is preserved," Gorbachev said at the presentation of a report by his foundation commemorating the 20th anniversary of his pioneering program of perestroika, which caused the first cracks in the Soviet empire.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/016.html
The Bratislava Summit had all the charm of a search for Anastasia. Russia could use a good dose of history, romance and pagentry.
I thought the recent visit to Slovakia, President Putin stressed compliance by Russia for the WTO. What then is all this rhetoric?
Bush Will Again Press Putin Over Democracy
By Steve Holland
Reuters
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bush will raise again Washington's concerns about the direction of Russia's democracy after tussling over the issue with President Vladimir Putin last week, senior U.S. officials said Monday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/014.html
Supreme Court Opens Door to Better Rules
By Mikhail Fedotov
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Then please write to us.
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Most people don't pay much attention to the distinctly nontraditional figure of Themis that adorns the pediment of the new Supreme Court building on Povarskaya Ulitsa. But in a plenary session last Thursday, Russia's highest court of general jurisdiction adopted a resolution that gave new meaning to the sculptor's deviations from the accepted norms for portraying the Greek goddess of justice.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/006.html
When Cultural Codes Prove Deadly
By Yulia Latynina
Last week, the Prosecutor General's Office charged a Chechen man extradited from Belarus, Kazbek Dukuzov, with the July 2004 murder of the editor of Russian Forbes, Paul Klebnikov.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/007.html
Ukraine Detains Gongadze Suspects
By Natasha Lisova
The Associated Press
Gongadze seen in a photograph taken in August 2000, a month before his death.
KIEV -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced Tuesday that authorities have detained suspects in the slaying of Heorhiy Gongadze, an investigative journalist whose gruesome death became a symbol of the corruption and violence that tarnished the rule of former leader Leonid Kuchma.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/003.html
New TV Channel Inspires Chagrin, Not Pride
By Irina Petrovskaya
To Our Readers
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Then please write to us.
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Zvezda, the new patriotic television channel that is quite literally continuing the best traditions of the Soviet Army, began broadcasting on Feb. 22, the eve of the national holiday honoring the defenders of the fatherland. Apparently, someone longed to report to the top brass, "Comrade Minister! Our mission is complete!"
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/009.html
Live Up to Your Words, Gentlemen
Editorial
Discussion of democracy -- the state of its health in Russia in particular, but also in the United States -- dominated the public remarks of the two presidents in Bratislava. Democracy also was a main topic of discussion during their private meeting, they both made a point of saying.
That is a lot of talk about democracy from two men who have not always shown the highest regard for its guiding principles, and it produced some awkward moments as they responded to journalists' questions Thursday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/28/005.html
Court Rules Against MT in Eural Trans Gas Lawsuit
The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times has lost a defamation suit filed against it by Hungarian-based gas trader Eural Trans Gas over two articles published in November 2003 and June 2004 that questioned the company's possible ties with Ukrainian-born crime lord Semyon Mogilevich, who is wanted by the FBI.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/017.html
The New York Times
Court Takes Another Step in Reshaping Capital Punishment
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: March 2, 2005
After a decade of relative quiet, the Supreme Court has in the last several years fundamentally reshaped the nation's capital justice system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/politics/02juvenile.html?hp&ex=1109826000&en=935fd6dd3b28ab52&ei=5094&partner=homepage
2 Members of Hussein Tribunal Are Assassinated in Baghdad
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: March 2, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Wednesday, March 2 - A judge and a lawyer with the special tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein and former members of his government were shot and killed Tuesday by gunmen outside their home here, Iraqi officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/international/middleeast/02iraq.html?hp&ex=1109826000&en=25a4d40cc4c7febb&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Continued...
No More Free Flats for Many People
By Oksana Yablokova
Staff Writer
Ushering in new rules that promise to change the way people live, a Housing Code came into force Tuesday that abolishes free apartments for scores of people in need of better housing, bans unauthorized apartment remodeling and allows residents of apartment blocks to turn to private companies for communal housing services.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/001.html
Gorbachev didn't have to deal with terrorists from inside the government. The rise of the Oligarches happened with the advent of Perestroika as well. Perhaps Mr. Gorbachev and his foundation has recommendations. All of a sudden Gorbachev speaks and Putin leaps to attention. Right. It would be nice to recieve insight and constructive suggestions rather than just judgement.
Gorbachev Calls Putin's Policies a Step Back
The Associated Press
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Tuesday that Russians must do their utmost to preserve democracy, and he criticized a number of President Vladimir Putin's policies as a step backward, in some of his sharpest words yet about Putin.
"I think we must do everything to ensure that democracy doesn't backslide, that it is preserved," Gorbachev said at the presentation of a report by his foundation commemorating the 20th anniversary of his pioneering program of perestroika, which caused the first cracks in the Soviet empire.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/016.html
The Bratislava Summit had all the charm of a search for Anastasia. Russia could use a good dose of history, romance and pagentry.
I thought the recent visit to Slovakia, President Putin stressed compliance by Russia for the WTO. What then is all this rhetoric?
Bush Will Again Press Putin Over Democracy
By Steve Holland
Reuters
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bush will raise again Washington's concerns about the direction of Russia's democracy after tussling over the issue with President Vladimir Putin last week, senior U.S. officials said Monday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/014.html
Supreme Court Opens Door to Better Rules
By Mikhail Fedotov
To Our Readers
Has something you've read here startled you? Are you angry, excited, puzzled or pleased? Do you have ideas to improve our coverage?
Then please write to us.
All we ask is that you include your full name, the name of the city from which you are writing and a contact telephone number in case we need to get in touch.
We look forward to hearing from you
Most people don't pay much attention to the distinctly nontraditional figure of Themis that adorns the pediment of the new Supreme Court building on Povarskaya Ulitsa. But in a plenary session last Thursday, Russia's highest court of general jurisdiction adopted a resolution that gave new meaning to the sculptor's deviations from the accepted norms for portraying the Greek goddess of justice.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/006.html
When Cultural Codes Prove Deadly
By Yulia Latynina
Last week, the Prosecutor General's Office charged a Chechen man extradited from Belarus, Kazbek Dukuzov, with the July 2004 murder of the editor of Russian Forbes, Paul Klebnikov.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/007.html
Ukraine Detains Gongadze Suspects
By Natasha Lisova
The Associated Press
Gongadze seen in a photograph taken in August 2000, a month before his death.
KIEV -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced Tuesday that authorities have detained suspects in the slaying of Heorhiy Gongadze, an investigative journalist whose gruesome death became a symbol of the corruption and violence that tarnished the rule of former leader Leonid Kuchma.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/003.html
New TV Channel Inspires Chagrin, Not Pride
By Irina Petrovskaya
To Our Readers
Has something you've read here startled you? Are you angry, excited, puzzled or pleased? Do you have ideas to improve our coverage?
Then please write to us.
All we ask is that you include your full name, the name of the city from which you are writing and a contact telephone number in case we need to get in touch.
Zvezda, the new patriotic television channel that is quite literally continuing the best traditions of the Soviet Army, began broadcasting on Feb. 22, the eve of the national holiday honoring the defenders of the fatherland. Apparently, someone longed to report to the top brass, "Comrade Minister! Our mission is complete!"
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/009.html
Live Up to Your Words, Gentlemen
Editorial
Discussion of democracy -- the state of its health in Russia in particular, but also in the United States -- dominated the public remarks of the two presidents in Bratislava. Democracy also was a main topic of discussion during their private meeting, they both made a point of saying.
That is a lot of talk about democracy from two men who have not always shown the highest regard for its guiding principles, and it produced some awkward moments as they responded to journalists' questions Thursday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/28/005.html
Court Rules Against MT in Eural Trans Gas Lawsuit
The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times has lost a defamation suit filed against it by Hungarian-based gas trader Eural Trans Gas over two articles published in November 2003 and June 2004 that questioned the company's possible ties with Ukrainian-born crime lord Semyon Mogilevich, who is wanted by the FBI.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/02/017.html
The New York Times
Court Takes Another Step in Reshaping Capital Punishment
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: March 2, 2005
After a decade of relative quiet, the Supreme Court has in the last several years fundamentally reshaped the nation's capital justice system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/politics/02juvenile.html?hp&ex=1109826000&en=935fd6dd3b28ab52&ei=5094&partner=homepage
2 Members of Hussein Tribunal Are Assassinated in Baghdad
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: March 2, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Wednesday, March 2 - A judge and a lawyer with the special tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein and former members of his government were shot and killed Tuesday by gunmen outside their home here, Iraqi officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/international/middleeast/02iraq.html?hp&ex=1109826000&en=25a4d40cc4c7febb&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Continued...
Morning Papers - concluding
The Guardian
Rebuilding Aceh
Rebuilding Nusa
Hundreds of small communities were devastated by the tsunami in south Asia. Over the next year the Guardian will focus on the village of Nusa in Aceh, Indonesia, to report on how people are rebuilding their lives and homes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/nusa/0,15713,1394011,00.html
UK to buy anti-flu drugs for 14 million
James Meikle, health correspondent
Wednesday March 2, 2005
The Guardian
A stockpile of anti-flu drugs to treat 14.6 million people - about a quarter of the UK population - will be bought by the government over the next two years as part of long-awaited plans to fight a pandemic.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,14207,1428292,00.html
Happy birthday to Yahoo!
A California billboard for internet company Yahoo! Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Reading that internet company Yahoo! is celebrating its 10th birthday today seems to reach back into the dark ages of life before ubiquitous email and worldwide access to Paris Hilton's phone book. Certainly a look back at the original Yahoo! front page - which now looks far worse than something an inept, novice blogger could come up with in 10 minutes - reminds us how far the interweb has come.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/internet/2005/03/02/happy_birthday_to_yahoo.html
Men save '50% more' than women
Sandra Haurant
Wednesday March 2, 2005
More people are saving regularly, but women are managing to save less than men, according to a report published today.
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,1456,1428585,00.html
German discovers longest prime number
Luke Harding in Berlin
Wednesday March 2, 2005
The Guardian
A German eye specialist with a keen amateur interest in mathematics has discovered the world's largest prime number after a 50-day search using his personal computer.
Pasted from <http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1428429,00.html
Chicago Tribune
IF THIS CRIME goes unpunished every Judge ever preciding over such a case will require body guards and sending their family into hiding. In a populated area like this there has to be witnesses and a witness protection program besides. Obviously they mean business. Somewhere there are murderers. What is the reward ?
Execution-style' hits
Officers find broken window, bloody shoe print
Judge, family placed under tight security
April 27, 2004
By Jeff Coen and David Heinzmann
Tribune staff reporters
Published March 2, 2005
Chicago police and federal agents joined forces Tuesday to investigate the slayings of a federal judge's husband and mother, killings that law-enforcement sources were calling "execution-style" hits.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/na/chi-0503020263mar02,1,3454791.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Assassins and other killers
Published March 2, 2005
For judges, prosecutors and witnesses, bringing criminals to justice can provoke reasonable fears and carry terrible costs. The people they help convict or sentence often are society's most ruthless. That's especially true in federal courts, where crimes of passion rarely surface. Federal cases tend to involve suspects whose alleged crimes are meticulously premeditated. These defendants often have two useful assets: smarts and treacherous allies.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0503020051mar02,1,7020201.story?coll=chi-news-hed
4 critically hurt as car crashes onto Red Line
Published March 2, 2005
DAN RYAN EXPRESSWAY -- Four people were critically injured late Tuesday after a sports car they were traveling in hurdled a median on the Dan Ryan Expressway, landing on CTA tracks, officials said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503020306mar02,1,7365038.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Senate panel blocks Daley gun package
By Christi Parsons and Erika Slife
Tribune staff reporters
Published March 2, 2005
SPRINGFIELD -- Key portions of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's gun-control package failed Tuesday in an Illinois Senate committee, with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration formally registering opposition to one measure.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503020298mar02,1,3755967.story?coll=chi-news-hed
7.2-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Indonesia
By Associated Press
Published March 2, 2005, 8:29 AM CST
TOKYO -- A powerful earthquake struck eastern Indonesia late Wednesday, meteorological agencies said, and was felt as far off as Australia. No damage or injuries were immediately reported.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-indonesia-earthquake,1,154599.story?coll=chi-news-hed
OVER THE YEARS there have been rail accidents. They have been practice runs by very contemplative terrorists. First there was the runaway train without a conductor. Then there was the train that nearly crashed in a urban center but was side tracked into a suburban neighborhood scattering lumber everywhere. There is something to this.
Report: Bomb Suspect Had N.Y. Rail Sketch
By DANIEL WOOLLS
Associated Press Writer
Published March 2, 2005, 6:48 AM CST
MADRID, Spain -- A suspect in the Madrid train bombings was found to possess a sketch and technical details about Grand Central Terminal in New York, a report said Wednesday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-spain-bombing,1,2064267.story?coll=chi-news-hed
A site with train crash references:
http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/
Daley holds back on Field's issue
By Gary Washburn
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 2, 2005
When the then-owners of Marshall Field's planned to move the chain's Frango mint candy-making operation out of Chicago six years ago, Mayor Richard Daley erupted.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0503020304mar02,1,4987310.story?coll=chi-business-hed
The Daily Mail and Guardian
We die like flies, say striking truckers
Moffet Mofokeng Johannesburg, South Africa
02 March 2005 03:05
About 3 000 truck drivers gathered at the Johannesburg offices of the trucking industry's bargaining council on Wednesday in a protest for better pay.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198721&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
Mbeki: No one will hamper fair Zim vote
Parliament
02 March 2005 05:01
Nobody in Zimbabwe is likely to act in a way that will prevent free and fair elections being held in that country on March 31, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198731&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
Los Angeles Times
Warning Didn't Slow Approval of MS Drug
A specialist in the disease repeatedly questioned Tysabri's safety before a patient's death.
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Denise Gellene, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON — A multiple sclerosis drug pulled off the market after a patient died was approved by the Food and Drug Administration even though a prominent neurobiologist and a top medical journal had questioned the drug's safety.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-biogen2mar02,0,5738399.story?coll=la-home-headlines
ChoicePoint Had Earlier Data Leak
Scammers accessed personal financial information five years ago in a scheme similar to a recent case.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-choicepoint2mar02,0,4949824.story?coll=la-home-business
A Monument to Denial
By Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild is the author of "King Leopold's Ghost" (Mariner Books, 1999) and "Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves" (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).
No country likes to come to terms with embarrassing parts of its past. Japanese schoolbooks still whitewash the atrocities of World War II, and the Turkish government continues to deny the Armenian genocide. Until about 1970, the millions of visitors to Colonial Williamsburg saw no indication that roughly half the inhabitants of the original town were slaves.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hochschild2mar02,0,2938007.story
Miami Herald
Tiger Woods returns to Doral
Neither predawn hours nor morning chill could prevent Tiger Woods aficionados from watching his return to the Blue Monster course at Doral.
BY JEFF SHAIN
jshain@herald.com
When golf's No. 1 attraction hits town, savvy fans know the early bird gets the Tiger.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11026570.htm
Debt swap is called a victory
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner declared victory in his debt-restructuring effort and said a full report would be available Thursday. A success could mean a reopening of international credit lines.
BY BILL CORMIER
Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES - President Néstor Kirchner on Tuesday declared a gigantic global debt swap a success, telling Congress that Argentina's record $103 billion default has been surmounted.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11025122.htm
DHS dodges its obligation
OUR OPINION: AGENCY SHOULD FUND TRANSITION COSTS FOR FREED CUBAN MARIEL DETAINEES
A Cuban detainee recently was released by the Department of Homeland Security in Colorado, given a bus ticket to Miami, some sweets -- and no money. Arriving three days later, he was weak and famished from the cross-country, 1,700-mile ordeal. Camillus Health Concern has treated at least five recently released Cuban detainees found homeless on the streets of Miami; three men arrived via Greyhound Bus with nothing more than their corrections ID and in need of social services. How shameful and wrong of DHS to shirk its responsibilities.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11026578.htm
New Zealand Herald
Judge says police culture is 'sick'
03.03.05
By DAVID EAMES
A District Court judge has criticised the heavy-handed techniques of a senior South Auckland police officer and condemned a wider police culture as "sick".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10113386
UN moves quickly on sexual abuse scandals
03.03.05
By DAVID USBORNE
The United Nations is poised to crack down on sexual abuse committed by its peacekeepers after conceding that the problem may not be isolated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a rash of cases involving blue-helmeted soldiers has been reported.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10113358
Saddam lawyer says US worries he could win support
03.03.05
TOKYO - The United States may be restricting access to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for fear his comments could bolster support for him in the Arab world, a lawyer for the deposed leader said on Wednesday.
Ziad Khasawneh, a Jordanian lawyer who is the spokesman for Saddam's defence team, said in an interview he was unfazed by criticism and risks of defending Saddam, who is being held in a US military facility near Baghdad airport.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10113380
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Cloudy
-15.0°
Updated Thursday 03 Mar 3:59AM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind - A little on the warm side, isn't it? - Chime) is:
45 °F / 7 °C
Overcast
Windchill:
40 °F / 4 °C
Humidity:
76%
Dew Point:
37 °F / 3 °C
Wind:
8 mph / 13 km/h from the SSE
Pressure:
29.50 in / 999 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Overcast 3400 ft / 1036 m
End.
Rebuilding Aceh
Rebuilding Nusa
Hundreds of small communities were devastated by the tsunami in south Asia. Over the next year the Guardian will focus on the village of Nusa in Aceh, Indonesia, to report on how people are rebuilding their lives and homes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/nusa/0,15713,1394011,00.html
UK to buy anti-flu drugs for 14 million
James Meikle, health correspondent
Wednesday March 2, 2005
The Guardian
A stockpile of anti-flu drugs to treat 14.6 million people - about a quarter of the UK population - will be bought by the government over the next two years as part of long-awaited plans to fight a pandemic.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,14207,1428292,00.html
Happy birthday to Yahoo!
A California billboard for internet company Yahoo! Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Reading that internet company Yahoo! is celebrating its 10th birthday today seems to reach back into the dark ages of life before ubiquitous email and worldwide access to Paris Hilton's phone book. Certainly a look back at the original Yahoo! front page - which now looks far worse than something an inept, novice blogger could come up with in 10 minutes - reminds us how far the interweb has come.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/internet/2005/03/02/happy_birthday_to_yahoo.html
Men save '50% more' than women
Sandra Haurant
Wednesday March 2, 2005
More people are saving regularly, but women are managing to save less than men, according to a report published today.
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,1456,1428585,00.html
German discovers longest prime number
Luke Harding in Berlin
Wednesday March 2, 2005
The Guardian
A German eye specialist with a keen amateur interest in mathematics has discovered the world's largest prime number after a 50-day search using his personal computer.
Pasted from <http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1428429,00.html
Chicago Tribune
IF THIS CRIME goes unpunished every Judge ever preciding over such a case will require body guards and sending their family into hiding. In a populated area like this there has to be witnesses and a witness protection program besides. Obviously they mean business. Somewhere there are murderers. What is the reward ?
Execution-style' hits
Officers find broken window, bloody shoe print
Judge, family placed under tight security
April 27, 2004
By Jeff Coen and David Heinzmann
Tribune staff reporters
Published March 2, 2005
Chicago police and federal agents joined forces Tuesday to investigate the slayings of a federal judge's husband and mother, killings that law-enforcement sources were calling "execution-style" hits.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/na/chi-0503020263mar02,1,3454791.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Assassins and other killers
Published March 2, 2005
For judges, prosecutors and witnesses, bringing criminals to justice can provoke reasonable fears and carry terrible costs. The people they help convict or sentence often are society's most ruthless. That's especially true in federal courts, where crimes of passion rarely surface. Federal cases tend to involve suspects whose alleged crimes are meticulously premeditated. These defendants often have two useful assets: smarts and treacherous allies.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0503020051mar02,1,7020201.story?coll=chi-news-hed
4 critically hurt as car crashes onto Red Line
Published March 2, 2005
DAN RYAN EXPRESSWAY -- Four people were critically injured late Tuesday after a sports car they were traveling in hurdled a median on the Dan Ryan Expressway, landing on CTA tracks, officials said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503020306mar02,1,7365038.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Senate panel blocks Daley gun package
By Christi Parsons and Erika Slife
Tribune staff reporters
Published March 2, 2005
SPRINGFIELD -- Key portions of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's gun-control package failed Tuesday in an Illinois Senate committee, with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration formally registering opposition to one measure.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503020298mar02,1,3755967.story?coll=chi-news-hed
7.2-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Indonesia
By Associated Press
Published March 2, 2005, 8:29 AM CST
TOKYO -- A powerful earthquake struck eastern Indonesia late Wednesday, meteorological agencies said, and was felt as far off as Australia. No damage or injuries were immediately reported.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-indonesia-earthquake,1,154599.story?coll=chi-news-hed
OVER THE YEARS there have been rail accidents. They have been practice runs by very contemplative terrorists. First there was the runaway train without a conductor. Then there was the train that nearly crashed in a urban center but was side tracked into a suburban neighborhood scattering lumber everywhere. There is something to this.
Report: Bomb Suspect Had N.Y. Rail Sketch
By DANIEL WOOLLS
Associated Press Writer
Published March 2, 2005, 6:48 AM CST
MADRID, Spain -- A suspect in the Madrid train bombings was found to possess a sketch and technical details about Grand Central Terminal in New York, a report said Wednesday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-spain-bombing,1,2064267.story?coll=chi-news-hed
A site with train crash references:
http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/
Daley holds back on Field's issue
By Gary Washburn
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 2, 2005
When the then-owners of Marshall Field's planned to move the chain's Frango mint candy-making operation out of Chicago six years ago, Mayor Richard Daley erupted.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0503020304mar02,1,4987310.story?coll=chi-business-hed
The Daily Mail and Guardian
We die like flies, say striking truckers
Moffet Mofokeng Johannesburg, South Africa
02 March 2005 03:05
About 3 000 truck drivers gathered at the Johannesburg offices of the trucking industry's bargaining council on Wednesday in a protest for better pay.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198721&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
Mbeki: No one will hamper fair Zim vote
Parliament
02 March 2005 05:01
Nobody in Zimbabwe is likely to act in a way that will prevent free and fair elections being held in that country on March 31, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198731&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
Los Angeles Times
Warning Didn't Slow Approval of MS Drug
A specialist in the disease repeatedly questioned Tysabri's safety before a patient's death.
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Denise Gellene, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON — A multiple sclerosis drug pulled off the market after a patient died was approved by the Food and Drug Administration even though a prominent neurobiologist and a top medical journal had questioned the drug's safety.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-biogen2mar02,0,5738399.story?coll=la-home-headlines
ChoicePoint Had Earlier Data Leak
Scammers accessed personal financial information five years ago in a scheme similar to a recent case.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-choicepoint2mar02,0,4949824.story?coll=la-home-business
A Monument to Denial
By Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild is the author of "King Leopold's Ghost" (Mariner Books, 1999) and "Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves" (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).
No country likes to come to terms with embarrassing parts of its past. Japanese schoolbooks still whitewash the atrocities of World War II, and the Turkish government continues to deny the Armenian genocide. Until about 1970, the millions of visitors to Colonial Williamsburg saw no indication that roughly half the inhabitants of the original town were slaves.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hochschild2mar02,0,2938007.story
Miami Herald
Tiger Woods returns to Doral
Neither predawn hours nor morning chill could prevent Tiger Woods aficionados from watching his return to the Blue Monster course at Doral.
BY JEFF SHAIN
jshain@herald.com
When golf's No. 1 attraction hits town, savvy fans know the early bird gets the Tiger.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11026570.htm
Debt swap is called a victory
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner declared victory in his debt-restructuring effort and said a full report would be available Thursday. A success could mean a reopening of international credit lines.
BY BILL CORMIER
Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES - President Néstor Kirchner on Tuesday declared a gigantic global debt swap a success, telling Congress that Argentina's record $103 billion default has been surmounted.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11025122.htm
DHS dodges its obligation
OUR OPINION: AGENCY SHOULD FUND TRANSITION COSTS FOR FREED CUBAN MARIEL DETAINEES
A Cuban detainee recently was released by the Department of Homeland Security in Colorado, given a bus ticket to Miami, some sweets -- and no money. Arriving three days later, he was weak and famished from the cross-country, 1,700-mile ordeal. Camillus Health Concern has treated at least five recently released Cuban detainees found homeless on the streets of Miami; three men arrived via Greyhound Bus with nothing more than their corrections ID and in need of social services. How shameful and wrong of DHS to shirk its responsibilities.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11026578.htm
New Zealand Herald
Judge says police culture is 'sick'
03.03.05
By DAVID EAMES
A District Court judge has criticised the heavy-handed techniques of a senior South Auckland police officer and condemned a wider police culture as "sick".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10113386
UN moves quickly on sexual abuse scandals
03.03.05
By DAVID USBORNE
The United Nations is poised to crack down on sexual abuse committed by its peacekeepers after conceding that the problem may not be isolated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a rash of cases involving blue-helmeted soldiers has been reported.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10113358
Saddam lawyer says US worries he could win support
03.03.05
TOKYO - The United States may be restricting access to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for fear his comments could bolster support for him in the Arab world, a lawyer for the deposed leader said on Wednesday.
Ziad Khasawneh, a Jordanian lawyer who is the spokesman for Saddam's defence team, said in an interview he was unfazed by criticism and risks of defending Saddam, who is being held in a US military facility near Baghdad airport.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10113380
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Cloudy
-15.0°
Updated Thursday 03 Mar 3:59AM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind - A little on the warm side, isn't it? - Chime) is:
45 °F / 7 °C
Overcast
Windchill:
40 °F / 4 °C
Humidity:
76%
Dew Point:
37 °F / 3 °C
Wind:
8 mph / 13 km/h from the SSE
Pressure:
29.50 in / 999 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Overcast 3400 ft / 1036 m
End.
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