2005 When I tell you there is a profound drought in Australia that has been growing worse since the Climate Event of February, I don't lie.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
The Progressive Drought of Australia 2005
2005 When I tell you there is a profound drought in Australia that has been growing worse since the Climate Event of February, I don't lie.
New Arctic Ozone Measurements - click on title. Thank you.
June 2005. The second largest ozone depletion over the Arctic.
June 25, 2005. Deer Isle, Maine.
This is a demonstration of the level of kindness our fifteen years olds have in this country. This is a 15 year old young man. This is the type of young person the Cheney military is 'targeting' in their record keeping to turn into a soldier. This picture is of a dragonfly he saved from the mud so it wouldn't die. He needed to take a picture of it before it flew away as he loved his act of kindness so deeply.
GO AWAY, we are not going to fight you GOD DAMN Halliburton Wars !!!!!
June 25, 2005. Berlin, New Hamsphire. This is New Hampshire. The ocean temperatures are usually in the 50s because it is arctic water and that interprets into cooler terrestrial temperatures. The photographer and family sent as much time in the shade in their homes but when it reached 95 degrees F they went to the Wal-Mart to shop and get some relief.
The Latest in Political Rhetoric of the Bush White House
SELL IT, CONDI, SELL IT !!! I didn't notice a blank check on USA invasion yet. By virtue fact of the history of the USA we have never advocated any government other than a democratic one for any country, so short of Condi having a personal attack force to remove any government she doesn't approve of this is plainly just "Political Nonsense," still and again.
EDITORIAL:
The bully pulpit and Condi Rice
Secretary serves notice that the United States is not a friend to dictators.
"FOR 60 YEARS, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither. Now we are taking a different course. We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people."
The speaker: Condoleezza Rice, U.S. secretary of state.
The venue: The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
The objective: According to Rice, to encourage free elections, release of political prisoners and women's rights across the Middle East.
IT IS ONE THING to press democratic reform on conquered Afghanistan and Iraq, where U.S. forces back it up. It's another to point the finger at countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which pose as U.S. allies while operating repressive regimes that pacify and tacitly encourage Islamic extremism.
A strong argument can be made that decades of U.S. support for such regimes is at least partly to blame for the rise of extremism against America. Throughout history, when people are oppressed, with no healthy outlet for dissent and reform, they often react with irrational violence.
Rice's remarks place the United States in a position of political and intellectual consistency with this nation's principles. If free elections and political liberty are good for Iraq and Afghanistan, they're also good for Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Syria. There will be no troops to back up Rice, but her use of the bully pulpit is welcome and accurate.
EDITORIAL:
The bully pulpit and Condi Rice
Secretary serves notice that the United States is not a friend to dictators.
"FOR 60 YEARS, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither. Now we are taking a different course. We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people."
The speaker: Condoleezza Rice, U.S. secretary of state.
The venue: The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
The objective: According to Rice, to encourage free elections, release of political prisoners and women's rights across the Middle East.
IT IS ONE THING to press democratic reform on conquered Afghanistan and Iraq, where U.S. forces back it up. It's another to point the finger at countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which pose as U.S. allies while operating repressive regimes that pacify and tacitly encourage Islamic extremism.
A strong argument can be made that decades of U.S. support for such regimes is at least partly to blame for the rise of extremism against America. Throughout history, when people are oppressed, with no healthy outlet for dissent and reform, they often react with irrational violence.
Rice's remarks place the United States in a position of political and intellectual consistency with this nation's principles. If free elections and political liberty are good for Iraq and Afghanistan, they're also good for Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Syria. There will be no troops to back up Rice, but her use of the bully pulpit is welcome and accurate.
Morning Papers - It's Origins
Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1892, Pearl S. Buck, novelist
1904, Peter Lorre, actor
1911, Babe Didrikson, American athlete, named the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century by an Associated Press poll in 1950. She was born Mildred Didrikson in Port Arthur, Texas. She excelled in many sports, including basketball, swimming, track and field, and especially golf. In her teens she twice won a place on the All-American women's basketball team and established three national records in track and field events. A contender in the 1932 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, she not only won but set records for the javelin throw (143 ft 4 in) and the 80-m hurdle (11.7 sec). She then played professional basketball, appeared in vaudeville, and learned to play golf. Between 1936 and 1954 she won every major women's golf championship, including the U.S. amateur championship (1946), and the world championship (1948, 1949, 1950, 1951) and U.S. Women's Open (1948, 1950, and 1954), both professional tournaments. Her autobiography, This Life I've Led, was published in 1955.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761576942
1961, Greg LeMond, cyclist
1965, Bernard Berenson, art critic
1483, In a royal drama later told by Shakespeare, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, takes the crown of England as Richard III, following the death of King Edward IV and the imprisonment of the young Edward V.
1858, China and Britain sign the Treaty of Tianjin, bringing a temporary end to the Second Opium War.
1870, In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the world's first oceanside boardwalk was opened to the public.
1894, Railroad workers led by Eugene V. Debs begin a national strike in sympathy with employees at the Pullman railcar company. Later, troops sent by President Grover Cleveland put a violent end to the strike.
1900, a commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against yellow fever.
1917, the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during World War I.
1925, The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin's epic comedy set in Alaska, opens. A critical and popular success, it is immediately acclaimed as a landmark in film history premiered at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
1959, Queen and Eisenhower open seaway
The Queen and US President Dwight D Eisenhower have inaugurated the St Lawrence Seaway in Canada that links the Atlantic with the Great Lakes in North America.
Crowds cheered and waved flags, church bells rang out, sirens wailed and bands played as the Royal Yacht Britannia began the first leg of the 2,300-mile journey from Montreal harbour to the Atlantic Ocean.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2988000/2988148.stm
BEFORE Ronald Reagan asked the Berlin Wall be taken down; John Kennedy embraced the German People.
1963, Kennedy: 'Ich bin ein Berliner'
The US President, John F Kennedy, has made a ground-breaking speech in Berlin offering American solidarity to the citizens of West Germany.
A crowd of 120,000 Berliners gathered in front of the Schöneberg Rathaus (City Hall) to hear President Kennedy speak.
They began gathering in the square long before he was due to arrive, and when he finally appeared on the podium they gave him an ovation of several minutes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_3379000/3379061.stm
1968, Chief U.S. Justice Earl Warren announced his intention to resign.
1970, Violence flares as Devlin is arrested
Riots have broken out in Londonderry after it was revealed Bernadette Devlin had been arrested.
The Mid-Ulster MP was to address a meeting in Bogside before handing herself in to police after she lost an appeal against her December conviction.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2519000/2519711.stm
1977, 42 people were killed when a fire sent toxic smoke pouring through the Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tenn.
1986, Branson on course for Blue Riband
Entrepreneur Richard Branson has set off on his second attempt to claim the transatlantic crossing record for Britain.
Mr Branson and his team left New York at dawn on their 72 ft powerboat Virgin Challenger II for the 3,000 mile (4,828 km) voyage.
If they reach Bishop's Rock, off the Isles of Scilly, by 2100 BST on 29 June they will recapture the Blue Riband for the UK - held by liner SS United States since 1952 for a crossing in three days and 10 hours.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2519000/2519869.stm
Three Days Later
1986: Branson beats Atlantic speed record
Millionaire Richard Branson has smashed the world record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic.
His 72-ft powerboat, the Virgin Atlantic Challenger, reached the Bishop Rock off the Isles of Scilly just after 1930BST.
Mr Branson completed the voyage more than two hours faster than the previous record-holder, the SS United States, which has held the title since 1952.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/29/newsid_2520000/2520929.stm
2000: IRA weapons dump inspected
International inspectors say they have seen a large number of IRA weapons "safely and adequately stored" in bunkers.
After the first inspection of its kind, former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, and former ANC general secretary, Cyril Ramaphosa, said they were satisfied the guns and explosives could not be used.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2519000/2519757.stm
2003, Strom Thurmond, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died in Edgefield, S.C., at age 100.
Missing in Action
1968 CORNELIUS JOHNNIE C. WILLIAMS AFB AZ
1968 WOODS ROBERT FRANCIS SALT LAKE CITY UT
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
The Problem With Karl Rove's Phone
The Problem With Karl Rove's Phone
Yesterday I tried to call Karl Rove at the White House. You will not be surprised to learn that they were insulting and snippy to me and I could not get through to his office. The comment line was as close as I got and they were clueless as to why the switchboard would not transfer me to the public servant known as Mr. Rove.
If I had reached him I would have asked him as he blathered about how anxious and proud the conservatives were who jumped at the chance to have a war -- where are they now on the streets of Baghdad? My son was a very liberal Democrat, when he signed up for the National Guard no one asked, when he was deployed no one asked his opinion or his politics, and after he lost his life protecting the people looking for those weapons of mass destruction no conservative hawk came forth to take his place. Nor have they lined up at recruiters offices to answer the needs of our exhausted Army.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3122
Sign An Open Letter to George
An Open Letter to President Bush
Mr. President, your most senior advisor has purposely twisted the truth about a great moment of American unity for political gain. You cannot remain silent. Fire Karl Rove.
Dear President Bush,
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, you movingly spoke of the unity of purpose emanating all across America. Now, Karl Rove, your top political aide, wants us to believe that you weren't telling the truth -- that Americans were offering "therapy and understanding to the attackers." You cannot remain silent as your most senior advisor purposely twists the truth about a great moment of American unity for political gain.
It isn't the first time Karl Rove has crossed the line. It needs to be the last. I call on you to thoroughly reject his cheap, divisive efforts to challenge the patriotism of your political opponents. It's time to fire Karl Rove.
Sincerely,
Your name here
http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php
Big Apple May Take Bite Out of Bush Administartion
City Council To Weigh Bill Asking For Karl Rove's Resignation
NY1
The City Council is weighing in on the controversial comments made by President George W. Bush's top adviser about the 9/11 attacks.
Democratic Speaker Gifford Miller says the Council will introduce a resolution next week that calls on the president to fire White House Senior Adviser Karl Rove.
The resolution reads: "Rove's rhetoric and cynical strategy of dividing Americans against each other for partisan gain has no place in our nation's public discourse."
The president’s top advisor claimed during a conservative party fundraiser Wednesday that liberals did not understand the consequences of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3123
Iraqi Student Unions Also Call for Withdrawal of Occupation Troops
By Abdel-Wahed Tohmeh / Occupation Watch
Baghdad -- 11 Student Unions approved the call made on al-Jaafari's Government to put a timetable for the withdrawal of multinational forces and considered that the request made [by the Government at the UN] for the extension of their presence is "an infringement on Parliament's prerogatives."
The 11 Unions issued yesterday a statement, of which Al-Hayat got a copy, supporting the members of the Independent National Bloc and other MPs [see the article by the same author dated June 20] and calling on "al-Jaafari's Government, the United Nations and its Security Council to adopt these demands." The statement also said: "We have taken part in the election and voted, risking our lives going to the polling stations, only for one essential issue that the electoral slates adopted and put in their political programs, and that is the demand for the withdrawal of occupation troops from Iraq."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3131
Thirteen With the C.I.A. Sought by Italy in a Kidnapping
By Stephen Grey and Don Van Natta / New York TImes
MILAN, June 24 - An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 officers and operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency on charges that they seized an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street two years ago and flew him to Egypt for questioning, Italian prosecutors and investigators said Friday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3130
Required Report on Trip by House Ethics Chairman Is Missing
By Mike Allen / Washington Post
The chairman of the House ethics committee apparently did not properly file a required report about a $3,170 trip to Canada last year. His staff said it must have been lost in the mail.
Perhaps the report, due nine months ago, will turn up. But this is a potentially embarrassing juncture for the chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.), to suffer a paperwork blunder.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3129
Safer Vehicles for Soldiers: A Tale of Delays and Glitches
By Michael Moss / New York Times
When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited Iraq last year to tour the Abu Ghraib prison camp, military officials did not rely on a government-issued Humvee to transport him safely on the ground. Instead, they turned to Halliburton, the oil services contractor, which lent the Pentagon a rolling fortress of steel called the Rhino Runner.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3126
49% Say Bush Responsible for Provoking Iraq War, 44% Say Hussein
Rasmussen Reports
June 23, 2005--Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans say that President Bush is more responsible for starting the War with Iraq than Saddam Hussein. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 44% take the opposite view and believe Hussein shoulders most of the responsibility.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3124
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Report: U.S. secretly met with insurgents
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON -- U.S. officials held secret talks in Iraq with the commanders of several Iraqi insurgent groups recently in an attempt to open a dialogue with them, a British newspaper reported Sunday.
The commanders "apparently came face to face" with four American officials during meetings on June 3 and June 13 at a summer villa near Balad, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, according to The Sunday Times.
The Sunday Times said neither the Iraqi government nor U.S. officials in Baghdad would confirm its report about the talks.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Britain%20Iraq
Gay pride parade is brought to you by ...
Microsoft, Starbucks, Wamu among local corporate supporters
By BRAD WONG
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
If Microsoft Corp. was skittish about supporting gay rights legislation in Olympia, it doesn't seem to have reservations about being a sponsor in tomorrow's gay pride parade in Seattle.
More than 100 Microsoft employees, including members of the Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft, are expected to march in the parade. The Redmond software company also will have a booth in Volunteer Park as part of the festivities.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/230034_gaypridebusiness25.html
Four children among six dead in Ariz. home
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YUMA, Ariz. -- Police were searching for a man seen running from a home where six people, including four children, were killed in western Arizona.
Officers responding to a call late Friday found a man with a gunshot wound in the back yard, said Officer Clint Norred, a spokesman for the Yuma Police Department. The man later died at the hospital.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Arizona%20Slayings
Car bomb explodes near Madrid stadium
By MAR ROMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Policemen investigate two burnt out cars at the scene where a car bomb exploded in Madrid, Saturday, June 25, 2005. The bomb went off at a parking lot outside the Peineta complex, which is one of the sites that is part of the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics. The blast came after a warning call made in name of the Armed Basque separatist group ETA to the Basque daily newspaper Gara. (AP Photo/Jasper Juinen)
MADRID, Spain -- A car bomb exploded Saturday near a Madrid stadium used to promote the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics after a warning call by the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. No injuries were reported.
The bomb went off about 7 p.m. at a parking lot outside the Peineta track and field complex, the Interior Ministry said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Spain%20Explosion
Organic farmers concerned about new rules
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Some farmers are worried that a federal court ruling requiring that the Agriculture Department must come up with stricter standards for organic food will slow the fast-growing industry.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Organic%20Farming
Fire crews battles blazes across Southwest
By JENNIFER DOBNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Firefighters, from left, Chris Ford, Capt. Chris Woods, Capt. Steve Molacek, and Squad Commander Brad Knowles of the Los Padres Hot Shots from Santa Barbara, Calif., watch day turn to night as a section of the Cave Creek Complex Fire burns Thursday, June 23, 2005, near Carefree, Ariz. As of Thursday night, the fire had consumed more than 30,000 acres, resulting in the evacuation of hundreds of homes. (AP Photo/Matt York)
ST. GEORGE, Utah -- Fire crews continued trying to extinguish a string of blazes that covered southwestern Utah in a black fog and threatened hundreds of homes amid high winds and hot, dry conditions.
Flames up to 10 feet high were visible Saturday from Interstate 15 just north of St. George before the fire eventually jumped the road and forced its closure.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Western%20Wildfires
U.N. to boost troop levels in Ivory Coast
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
This photo provided by the United Nations shows Laurent Gbagbo, President of Ivory Coast, left, shaking hands with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York, Friday June 24, 2005. The U.N. Security Council voted Friday to send more peacekeepers and police to Ivory Coast in a bid to get the country's peace process back on track. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Schneider)
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council voted Friday to send more peacekeepers to Ivory Coast in an attempt to get the West African country's peace process back on track, while the country's president said the rebels should make the first move toward peace.
The resolution, adopted by a vote of 15-0, authorizes 850 more troops and 375 police. France had wanted more troops to complement the 6,200-strong mission but faced opposition, including from the United States on the swelling costs of peacekeeping.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=UN%20Ivory%20Coast
Mystery shrouds disappearance in Aruba
By PETER PRENGAMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Volunteer member of Texas EquuSearch, Mark Janson, right, of Houston, TX, prepares diving and sonar equipment as a tourist looks on in Palm Beach, Aruba, Saturday, June 25, 2005. EquuSearch members began search efforts this Dutch Caribbean island for missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- As the mystery of a missing Alabama honors student drags on, questions abound about Aruban authorities' handling of the Dutch Caribbean island's highest-profile case in decades.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Aruba%20The%20Question
Haaretz
Settlers, troops clash as IDF razes vacant Katif buildings
By Haaretz Service and agencies
Settlers and far-right activists clashed with IDF troops Sunday as army bulldozers prepared to demolish abandoned beachfront cottages in Gush Katif, which authorities feared would be turned into barricaded strongholds by anti-pullout activists.
A group opposed to the Gaza pullout had begun in recent weeks to refurbish the buildings, which were used as vacation villas by Egyptians before Israel captured Gaza in 1967.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/592312.html
Israel bows to U.S. pressure, will curb defense exports
By Ze'ev Schiff
Israel has decided to comply with all of Washington's demands in a bid to end the crisis with the United States over arms exports.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz last week agreed to comply with the Americans' demands regarding the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) deal with China and changes in the supervision of Israel's arms exports.
On Friday Sharon instructed an Israeli delegation leaving today for Washington to agree to American demands. The delegation is expected to draft a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on weapons exports with the United States.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/592246.html
Cabinet okays Nitzanim plan for Gaza settlers
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
The Cabinet on Sunday approved an agreement with the Gush Katif settlers on the details of their relocation to the Nitzanim area after the disengagement. The ministers also voted down two ministers' objection to the agreement.
Fourteen ministers voted in favor of the agreement, Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz and Environment Minister Shalom Simhon, both of Labor, voted against, while Labor Vice Premier Shimon Peres abstained.
Under the agreement, Nitzanim will become an independent local council if more than 5,000 settlers move there. Furthermore, the agreement set a price for the lands the settlers will receive in Nitzanim, which will be deducted from the amount of compensation they are due.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/592371.html
20-year-old woman reports being raped at Tel Aviv club
By Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondent
A 20-year-old woman filed a complaint over the weekend stating she was raped by an unknown person in the restroom of the "Oman 17" nightclub in Tel Aviv. The police have opened an investigation but have not yet arrested any suspects.
The woman called the police early Saturday morning, reporting that she had been raped a short time prior in the restroom of the southern Tel Aviv club. An investigation team met the woman at the club and sent her for medical tests at a hospital after taking her testimony.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/592069.html
Panel vetoes Sharansky bid for J. Agency head; Bielski elected
By Charlotte Halle, Haaretz Correspondent
Ra'anana Mayor Zeev Bielski was unanimously voted to be chairman of the Jewish Agency on Friday after former minister Natan Sharansky's candidacy was vetoed by the agency's most senior panel.
"I am very happy. It was a long month of ups and downs. I feel a great responsibility from next week when I start working for the Jewish people," Bielski told Haaretz.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/591987.html
Anglicans urge action on companies' ties with Israel
By The Associated Press
NOTTINGHAM, England - A council of the worldwide Anglican Communion urged its member churches to put pressure on companies linked to Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, including possibly divesting their money from such businesses.
The Anglican Consultative Council voted unanimously Friday for a resolution that suggested the 38 national churches examine their investments to make sure companies in which they have holdings do not support either the occupation or Palestinian violence against innocent Israelis.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/592250.html
The Boston Globe
Colleges question MCAS success
Many in state schools still need remedial help
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff June 26, 2005
Massachusetts instituted the MCAS exam to guarantee that high school graduates would have basic skills needed for the future. But a Globe review shows that the test appears to have had little effect on the skill level of a significant group, those who enter the state's public colleges.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/mcas/articles/2005/06/26/colleges_question_mcas_success/
More US Muslims aspiring to become lawyers
By Nahal Toosi, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel June 26, 2005
MILWAUKEE -- Aisha Zaidi already had accomplished plenty: a master's in business administration, an analyst's position at Bank One, and motherhood, too. Still, the 32-year-old hadn't fulfilled her dream of becoming a lawyer.
Then came Sept. 11, 2001. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, Muslims in America faced heightened scrutiny. Federal agencies began questioning and detaining Muslims. Some were deported. Many had a hard time boarding a plane. Others were too nervous to leave the country for fear they wouldn't be allowed to return.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/06/26/more_us_muslims_aspiring_to_become_lawyers/
Follow the money
Forget Howard Dean's mouth. The real issue facing the Democrats is dollars.
(Illustration / Thomas Fuchs)
By Chris Suellentrop June 26, 2005
AS HOWARD DEAN stormed through Boston last week, the media focus was on the controversy stirred by his recent series of brash remarks. (To paraphrase, he has said that Republicans are a bunch of white Christians who don't make honest livings.) But the real problem facing Dean right now isn't his mouth. In the past several weeks, major Democratic donors have begun to grumble that the onetime presidential candidate turned party chairman isn't paying them enough attention and that the Democratic National Committee isn't raising enough money to compete with its Republican counterpart.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/06/26/follow_the_money/
Aspirin, angioplasty cut state heart attack deaths
By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff June 26, 2005
Deaths from heart attacks in Massachusetts dropped by 24 percent in eight years, according to state data analyzed by The Boston Globe. That translates into 1,200 fewer lives lost annually -- even though studies show that the number of heart attacks has not declined.
Doctors credit this success story to technological breakthroughs that allow specialists to use tiny medical tools to unclog choked arteries, as well as more aggressive use of aspirin, the age-old panacea.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/26/aspirin_angioplasty_cut_state_heart_attack_deaths/
A sorrow their mother cannot bury
Woman to search for slain children
By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff June 26, 2005
HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. -- In her imagination, she knows the place as well as she knows her children's faces: the opening in tall grass; the shade trees bending to earth; the yellow building in the distance; and, closer by, the old abandoned water pump.
The place is almost real to Teri Knight, two years after her children, Sarah and Philip, disappeared. She believes that if she finds it, she will find the bodies of her son and daughter, buried there by her former husband, Manuel Gehring, who confessed to killing his children before killing himself in jail seven months later.
Determined to bring her lost children back home to New Hampshire, Knight will embark on a wrenching journey next month, when she plans to drive the route Gehring followed through the heartland in July 2003 and search for the rural grave site he later described to police.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/26/a_sorrow_their_mother_cannot_bury/
In danger's way
Trapped in cycles of poverty, children toil in Bolivia's mines
By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff June 26, 2005
POTOSI, Bolivia -- The day Lucas Garito's father died, his childhood ended. The family needed an income to survive, so 7-year-old Lucas and his brother Marco, then 11, went to work the next week on the storied mountain that had taken their father's life and those of countless other miners over the last five centuries.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/06/26/in_dangers_way/
Blair's son to intern with U.S. Republicans
June 26, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair's eldest son Euan will work as an intern with Republican staff in the U.S. House of Representatives, the prime minister's office said on Sunday.
Euan, 21, will spend three months working with a committee which determines how U.S. legislation is considered in the lower chamber of Congress.
"Euan Blair has been given the opportunity to take up a short, unpaid internship with the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives," said a spokesman at the prime minister's Downing Street office.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/26/blairs_son_to_intern_with_us_republicans/
Taiwanese buy up sale-priced U.S. beef
A butcher works on pieces of European beef in his store Sunday, June 26, 2005, in Taipei, Taiwan. On Saturday Taiwan's Premier Frank Hsieh ordered an immediate ban on all U.S. beef imports after tests confirmed that an American animal was infected with mad cow disease. The Taiwanese action came two months after the island removed an earlier ban imposed in February 2004 following the discovery of the disease in a Washington state heifer. (AP Photo/Jerome Favre)
June 26, 2005
TAIPEI, Taiwan --After the U.S. confirmed its second mad cow case, Taiwan's authorities swiftly banned beef imports. But consumers didn't seem as worried: Scores flocked to supermarkets, wholesale outlets and butcher shops Sunday, stocking up on sale-priced cuts before they disappear.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/06/26/taiwanese_buy_up_sale_priced_us_beef/
Syrian human rights activist acquitted
June 26, 2005
DAMASCUS, Syria --A Syrian court on Sunday acquitted a leading human rights activist of various accusations of anti-government activity, dropping all charges against him.
The State Security Court said Aktham Naisse, chairman of the Committees for the Defense of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria, was exonerated of all charges.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/06/26/syrian_human_rights_activist_acquitted/
continued . . .
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1892, Pearl S. Buck, novelist
1904, Peter Lorre, actor
1911, Babe Didrikson, American athlete, named the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century by an Associated Press poll in 1950. She was born Mildred Didrikson in Port Arthur, Texas. She excelled in many sports, including basketball, swimming, track and field, and especially golf. In her teens she twice won a place on the All-American women's basketball team and established three national records in track and field events. A contender in the 1932 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, she not only won but set records for the javelin throw (143 ft 4 in) and the 80-m hurdle (11.7 sec). She then played professional basketball, appeared in vaudeville, and learned to play golf. Between 1936 and 1954 she won every major women's golf championship, including the U.S. amateur championship (1946), and the world championship (1948, 1949, 1950, 1951) and U.S. Women's Open (1948, 1950, and 1954), both professional tournaments. Her autobiography, This Life I've Led, was published in 1955.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761576942
1961, Greg LeMond, cyclist
1965, Bernard Berenson, art critic
1483, In a royal drama later told by Shakespeare, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, takes the crown of England as Richard III, following the death of King Edward IV and the imprisonment of the young Edward V.
1858, China and Britain sign the Treaty of Tianjin, bringing a temporary end to the Second Opium War.
1870, In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the world's first oceanside boardwalk was opened to the public.
1894, Railroad workers led by Eugene V. Debs begin a national strike in sympathy with employees at the Pullman railcar company. Later, troops sent by President Grover Cleveland put a violent end to the strike.
1900, a commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against yellow fever.
1917, the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during World War I.
1925, The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin's epic comedy set in Alaska, opens. A critical and popular success, it is immediately acclaimed as a landmark in film history premiered at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
1959, Queen and Eisenhower open seaway
The Queen and US President Dwight D Eisenhower have inaugurated the St Lawrence Seaway in Canada that links the Atlantic with the Great Lakes in North America.
Crowds cheered and waved flags, church bells rang out, sirens wailed and bands played as the Royal Yacht Britannia began the first leg of the 2,300-mile journey from Montreal harbour to the Atlantic Ocean.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2988000/2988148.stm
BEFORE Ronald Reagan asked the Berlin Wall be taken down; John Kennedy embraced the German People.
1963, Kennedy: 'Ich bin ein Berliner'
The US President, John F Kennedy, has made a ground-breaking speech in Berlin offering American solidarity to the citizens of West Germany.
A crowd of 120,000 Berliners gathered in front of the Schöneberg Rathaus (City Hall) to hear President Kennedy speak.
They began gathering in the square long before he was due to arrive, and when he finally appeared on the podium they gave him an ovation of several minutes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_3379000/3379061.stm
1968, Chief U.S. Justice Earl Warren announced his intention to resign.
1970, Violence flares as Devlin is arrested
Riots have broken out in Londonderry after it was revealed Bernadette Devlin had been arrested.
The Mid-Ulster MP was to address a meeting in Bogside before handing herself in to police after she lost an appeal against her December conviction.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2519000/2519711.stm
1977, 42 people were killed when a fire sent toxic smoke pouring through the Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tenn.
1986, Branson on course for Blue Riband
Entrepreneur Richard Branson has set off on his second attempt to claim the transatlantic crossing record for Britain.
Mr Branson and his team left New York at dawn on their 72 ft powerboat Virgin Challenger II for the 3,000 mile (4,828 km) voyage.
If they reach Bishop's Rock, off the Isles of Scilly, by 2100 BST on 29 June they will recapture the Blue Riband for the UK - held by liner SS United States since 1952 for a crossing in three days and 10 hours.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2519000/2519869.stm
Three Days Later
1986: Branson beats Atlantic speed record
Millionaire Richard Branson has smashed the world record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic.
His 72-ft powerboat, the Virgin Atlantic Challenger, reached the Bishop Rock off the Isles of Scilly just after 1930BST.
Mr Branson completed the voyage more than two hours faster than the previous record-holder, the SS United States, which has held the title since 1952.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/29/newsid_2520000/2520929.stm
2000: IRA weapons dump inspected
International inspectors say they have seen a large number of IRA weapons "safely and adequately stored" in bunkers.
After the first inspection of its kind, former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, and former ANC general secretary, Cyril Ramaphosa, said they were satisfied the guns and explosives could not be used.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2519000/2519757.stm
2003, Strom Thurmond, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died in Edgefield, S.C., at age 100.
Missing in Action
1968 CORNELIUS JOHNNIE C. WILLIAMS AFB AZ
1968 WOODS ROBERT FRANCIS SALT LAKE CITY UT
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
The Problem With Karl Rove's Phone
The Problem With Karl Rove's Phone
Yesterday I tried to call Karl Rove at the White House. You will not be surprised to learn that they were insulting and snippy to me and I could not get through to his office. The comment line was as close as I got and they were clueless as to why the switchboard would not transfer me to the public servant known as Mr. Rove.
If I had reached him I would have asked him as he blathered about how anxious and proud the conservatives were who jumped at the chance to have a war -- where are they now on the streets of Baghdad? My son was a very liberal Democrat, when he signed up for the National Guard no one asked, when he was deployed no one asked his opinion or his politics, and after he lost his life protecting the people looking for those weapons of mass destruction no conservative hawk came forth to take his place. Nor have they lined up at recruiters offices to answer the needs of our exhausted Army.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3122
Sign An Open Letter to George
An Open Letter to President Bush
Mr. President, your most senior advisor has purposely twisted the truth about a great moment of American unity for political gain. You cannot remain silent. Fire Karl Rove.
Dear President Bush,
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, you movingly spoke of the unity of purpose emanating all across America. Now, Karl Rove, your top political aide, wants us to believe that you weren't telling the truth -- that Americans were offering "therapy and understanding to the attackers." You cannot remain silent as your most senior advisor purposely twists the truth about a great moment of American unity for political gain.
It isn't the first time Karl Rove has crossed the line. It needs to be the last. I call on you to thoroughly reject his cheap, divisive efforts to challenge the patriotism of your political opponents. It's time to fire Karl Rove.
Sincerely,
Your name here
http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php
Big Apple May Take Bite Out of Bush Administartion
City Council To Weigh Bill Asking For Karl Rove's Resignation
NY1
The City Council is weighing in on the controversial comments made by President George W. Bush's top adviser about the 9/11 attacks.
Democratic Speaker Gifford Miller says the Council will introduce a resolution next week that calls on the president to fire White House Senior Adviser Karl Rove.
The resolution reads: "Rove's rhetoric and cynical strategy of dividing Americans against each other for partisan gain has no place in our nation's public discourse."
The president’s top advisor claimed during a conservative party fundraiser Wednesday that liberals did not understand the consequences of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3123
Iraqi Student Unions Also Call for Withdrawal of Occupation Troops
By Abdel-Wahed Tohmeh / Occupation Watch
Baghdad -- 11 Student Unions approved the call made on al-Jaafari's Government to put a timetable for the withdrawal of multinational forces and considered that the request made [by the Government at the UN] for the extension of their presence is "an infringement on Parliament's prerogatives."
The 11 Unions issued yesterday a statement, of which Al-Hayat got a copy, supporting the members of the Independent National Bloc and other MPs [see the article by the same author dated June 20] and calling on "al-Jaafari's Government, the United Nations and its Security Council to adopt these demands." The statement also said: "We have taken part in the election and voted, risking our lives going to the polling stations, only for one essential issue that the electoral slates adopted and put in their political programs, and that is the demand for the withdrawal of occupation troops from Iraq."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3131
Thirteen With the C.I.A. Sought by Italy in a Kidnapping
By Stephen Grey and Don Van Natta / New York TImes
MILAN, June 24 - An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 officers and operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency on charges that they seized an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street two years ago and flew him to Egypt for questioning, Italian prosecutors and investigators said Friday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3130
Required Report on Trip by House Ethics Chairman Is Missing
By Mike Allen / Washington Post
The chairman of the House ethics committee apparently did not properly file a required report about a $3,170 trip to Canada last year. His staff said it must have been lost in the mail.
Perhaps the report, due nine months ago, will turn up. But this is a potentially embarrassing juncture for the chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.), to suffer a paperwork blunder.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3129
Safer Vehicles for Soldiers: A Tale of Delays and Glitches
By Michael Moss / New York Times
When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited Iraq last year to tour the Abu Ghraib prison camp, military officials did not rely on a government-issued Humvee to transport him safely on the ground. Instead, they turned to Halliburton, the oil services contractor, which lent the Pentagon a rolling fortress of steel called the Rhino Runner.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3126
49% Say Bush Responsible for Provoking Iraq War, 44% Say Hussein
Rasmussen Reports
June 23, 2005--Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans say that President Bush is more responsible for starting the War with Iraq than Saddam Hussein. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 44% take the opposite view and believe Hussein shoulders most of the responsibility.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3124
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Report: U.S. secretly met with insurgents
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON -- U.S. officials held secret talks in Iraq with the commanders of several Iraqi insurgent groups recently in an attempt to open a dialogue with them, a British newspaper reported Sunday.
The commanders "apparently came face to face" with four American officials during meetings on June 3 and June 13 at a summer villa near Balad, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, according to The Sunday Times.
The Sunday Times said neither the Iraqi government nor U.S. officials in Baghdad would confirm its report about the talks.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Britain%20Iraq
Gay pride parade is brought to you by ...
Microsoft, Starbucks, Wamu among local corporate supporters
By BRAD WONG
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
If Microsoft Corp. was skittish about supporting gay rights legislation in Olympia, it doesn't seem to have reservations about being a sponsor in tomorrow's gay pride parade in Seattle.
More than 100 Microsoft employees, including members of the Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft, are expected to march in the parade. The Redmond software company also will have a booth in Volunteer Park as part of the festivities.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/230034_gaypridebusiness25.html
Four children among six dead in Ariz. home
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YUMA, Ariz. -- Police were searching for a man seen running from a home where six people, including four children, were killed in western Arizona.
Officers responding to a call late Friday found a man with a gunshot wound in the back yard, said Officer Clint Norred, a spokesman for the Yuma Police Department. The man later died at the hospital.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Arizona%20Slayings
Car bomb explodes near Madrid stadium
By MAR ROMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Policemen investigate two burnt out cars at the scene where a car bomb exploded in Madrid, Saturday, June 25, 2005. The bomb went off at a parking lot outside the Peineta complex, which is one of the sites that is part of the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics. The blast came after a warning call made in name of the Armed Basque separatist group ETA to the Basque daily newspaper Gara. (AP Photo/Jasper Juinen)
MADRID, Spain -- A car bomb exploded Saturday near a Madrid stadium used to promote the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics after a warning call by the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. No injuries were reported.
The bomb went off about 7 p.m. at a parking lot outside the Peineta track and field complex, the Interior Ministry said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Spain%20Explosion
Organic farmers concerned about new rules
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Some farmers are worried that a federal court ruling requiring that the Agriculture Department must come up with stricter standards for organic food will slow the fast-growing industry.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Organic%20Farming
Fire crews battles blazes across Southwest
By JENNIFER DOBNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Firefighters, from left, Chris Ford, Capt. Chris Woods, Capt. Steve Molacek, and Squad Commander Brad Knowles of the Los Padres Hot Shots from Santa Barbara, Calif., watch day turn to night as a section of the Cave Creek Complex Fire burns Thursday, June 23, 2005, near Carefree, Ariz. As of Thursday night, the fire had consumed more than 30,000 acres, resulting in the evacuation of hundreds of homes. (AP Photo/Matt York)
ST. GEORGE, Utah -- Fire crews continued trying to extinguish a string of blazes that covered southwestern Utah in a black fog and threatened hundreds of homes amid high winds and hot, dry conditions.
Flames up to 10 feet high were visible Saturday from Interstate 15 just north of St. George before the fire eventually jumped the road and forced its closure.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Western%20Wildfires
U.N. to boost troop levels in Ivory Coast
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
This photo provided by the United Nations shows Laurent Gbagbo, President of Ivory Coast, left, shaking hands with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York, Friday June 24, 2005. The U.N. Security Council voted Friday to send more peacekeepers and police to Ivory Coast in a bid to get the country's peace process back on track. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Schneider)
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council voted Friday to send more peacekeepers to Ivory Coast in an attempt to get the West African country's peace process back on track, while the country's president said the rebels should make the first move toward peace.
The resolution, adopted by a vote of 15-0, authorizes 850 more troops and 375 police. France had wanted more troops to complement the 6,200-strong mission but faced opposition, including from the United States on the swelling costs of peacekeeping.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=UN%20Ivory%20Coast
Mystery shrouds disappearance in Aruba
By PETER PRENGAMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Volunteer member of Texas EquuSearch, Mark Janson, right, of Houston, TX, prepares diving and sonar equipment as a tourist looks on in Palm Beach, Aruba, Saturday, June 25, 2005. EquuSearch members began search efforts this Dutch Caribbean island for missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- As the mystery of a missing Alabama honors student drags on, questions abound about Aruban authorities' handling of the Dutch Caribbean island's highest-profile case in decades.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Aruba%20The%20Question
Haaretz
Settlers, troops clash as IDF razes vacant Katif buildings
By Haaretz Service and agencies
Settlers and far-right activists clashed with IDF troops Sunday as army bulldozers prepared to demolish abandoned beachfront cottages in Gush Katif, which authorities feared would be turned into barricaded strongholds by anti-pullout activists.
A group opposed to the Gaza pullout had begun in recent weeks to refurbish the buildings, which were used as vacation villas by Egyptians before Israel captured Gaza in 1967.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/592312.html
Israel bows to U.S. pressure, will curb defense exports
By Ze'ev Schiff
Israel has decided to comply with all of Washington's demands in a bid to end the crisis with the United States over arms exports.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz last week agreed to comply with the Americans' demands regarding the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) deal with China and changes in the supervision of Israel's arms exports.
On Friday Sharon instructed an Israeli delegation leaving today for Washington to agree to American demands. The delegation is expected to draft a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on weapons exports with the United States.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/592246.html
Cabinet okays Nitzanim plan for Gaza settlers
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
The Cabinet on Sunday approved an agreement with the Gush Katif settlers on the details of their relocation to the Nitzanim area after the disengagement. The ministers also voted down two ministers' objection to the agreement.
Fourteen ministers voted in favor of the agreement, Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz and Environment Minister Shalom Simhon, both of Labor, voted against, while Labor Vice Premier Shimon Peres abstained.
Under the agreement, Nitzanim will become an independent local council if more than 5,000 settlers move there. Furthermore, the agreement set a price for the lands the settlers will receive in Nitzanim, which will be deducted from the amount of compensation they are due.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/592371.html
20-year-old woman reports being raped at Tel Aviv club
By Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondent
A 20-year-old woman filed a complaint over the weekend stating she was raped by an unknown person in the restroom of the "Oman 17" nightclub in Tel Aviv. The police have opened an investigation but have not yet arrested any suspects.
The woman called the police early Saturday morning, reporting that she had been raped a short time prior in the restroom of the southern Tel Aviv club. An investigation team met the woman at the club and sent her for medical tests at a hospital after taking her testimony.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/592069.html
Panel vetoes Sharansky bid for J. Agency head; Bielski elected
By Charlotte Halle, Haaretz Correspondent
Ra'anana Mayor Zeev Bielski was unanimously voted to be chairman of the Jewish Agency on Friday after former minister Natan Sharansky's candidacy was vetoed by the agency's most senior panel.
"I am very happy. It was a long month of ups and downs. I feel a great responsibility from next week when I start working for the Jewish people," Bielski told Haaretz.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/591987.html
Anglicans urge action on companies' ties with Israel
By The Associated Press
NOTTINGHAM, England - A council of the worldwide Anglican Communion urged its member churches to put pressure on companies linked to Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, including possibly divesting their money from such businesses.
The Anglican Consultative Council voted unanimously Friday for a resolution that suggested the 38 national churches examine their investments to make sure companies in which they have holdings do not support either the occupation or Palestinian violence against innocent Israelis.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/592250.html
The Boston Globe
Colleges question MCAS success
Many in state schools still need remedial help
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff June 26, 2005
Massachusetts instituted the MCAS exam to guarantee that high school graduates would have basic skills needed for the future. But a Globe review shows that the test appears to have had little effect on the skill level of a significant group, those who enter the state's public colleges.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/mcas/articles/2005/06/26/colleges_question_mcas_success/
More US Muslims aspiring to become lawyers
By Nahal Toosi, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel June 26, 2005
MILWAUKEE -- Aisha Zaidi already had accomplished plenty: a master's in business administration, an analyst's position at Bank One, and motherhood, too. Still, the 32-year-old hadn't fulfilled her dream of becoming a lawyer.
Then came Sept. 11, 2001. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, Muslims in America faced heightened scrutiny. Federal agencies began questioning and detaining Muslims. Some were deported. Many had a hard time boarding a plane. Others were too nervous to leave the country for fear they wouldn't be allowed to return.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/06/26/more_us_muslims_aspiring_to_become_lawyers/
Follow the money
Forget Howard Dean's mouth. The real issue facing the Democrats is dollars.
(Illustration / Thomas Fuchs)
By Chris Suellentrop June 26, 2005
AS HOWARD DEAN stormed through Boston last week, the media focus was on the controversy stirred by his recent series of brash remarks. (To paraphrase, he has said that Republicans are a bunch of white Christians who don't make honest livings.) But the real problem facing Dean right now isn't his mouth. In the past several weeks, major Democratic donors have begun to grumble that the onetime presidential candidate turned party chairman isn't paying them enough attention and that the Democratic National Committee isn't raising enough money to compete with its Republican counterpart.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/06/26/follow_the_money/
Aspirin, angioplasty cut state heart attack deaths
By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff June 26, 2005
Deaths from heart attacks in Massachusetts dropped by 24 percent in eight years, according to state data analyzed by The Boston Globe. That translates into 1,200 fewer lives lost annually -- even though studies show that the number of heart attacks has not declined.
Doctors credit this success story to technological breakthroughs that allow specialists to use tiny medical tools to unclog choked arteries, as well as more aggressive use of aspirin, the age-old panacea.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/26/aspirin_angioplasty_cut_state_heart_attack_deaths/
A sorrow their mother cannot bury
Woman to search for slain children
By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff June 26, 2005
HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. -- In her imagination, she knows the place as well as she knows her children's faces: the opening in tall grass; the shade trees bending to earth; the yellow building in the distance; and, closer by, the old abandoned water pump.
The place is almost real to Teri Knight, two years after her children, Sarah and Philip, disappeared. She believes that if she finds it, she will find the bodies of her son and daughter, buried there by her former husband, Manuel Gehring, who confessed to killing his children before killing himself in jail seven months later.
Determined to bring her lost children back home to New Hampshire, Knight will embark on a wrenching journey next month, when she plans to drive the route Gehring followed through the heartland in July 2003 and search for the rural grave site he later described to police.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/26/a_sorrow_their_mother_cannot_bury/
In danger's way
Trapped in cycles of poverty, children toil in Bolivia's mines
By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff June 26, 2005
POTOSI, Bolivia -- The day Lucas Garito's father died, his childhood ended. The family needed an income to survive, so 7-year-old Lucas and his brother Marco, then 11, went to work the next week on the storied mountain that had taken their father's life and those of countless other miners over the last five centuries.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/06/26/in_dangers_way/
Blair's son to intern with U.S. Republicans
June 26, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair's eldest son Euan will work as an intern with Republican staff in the U.S. House of Representatives, the prime minister's office said on Sunday.
Euan, 21, will spend three months working with a committee which determines how U.S. legislation is considered in the lower chamber of Congress.
"Euan Blair has been given the opportunity to take up a short, unpaid internship with the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives," said a spokesman at the prime minister's Downing Street office.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/26/blairs_son_to_intern_with_us_republicans/
Taiwanese buy up sale-priced U.S. beef
A butcher works on pieces of European beef in his store Sunday, June 26, 2005, in Taipei, Taiwan. On Saturday Taiwan's Premier Frank Hsieh ordered an immediate ban on all U.S. beef imports after tests confirmed that an American animal was infected with mad cow disease. The Taiwanese action came two months after the island removed an earlier ban imposed in February 2004 following the discovery of the disease in a Washington state heifer. (AP Photo/Jerome Favre)
June 26, 2005
TAIPEI, Taiwan --After the U.S. confirmed its second mad cow case, Taiwan's authorities swiftly banned beef imports. But consumers didn't seem as worried: Scores flocked to supermarkets, wholesale outlets and butcher shops Sunday, stocking up on sale-priced cuts before they disappear.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/06/26/taiwanese_buy_up_sale_priced_us_beef/
Syrian human rights activist acquitted
June 26, 2005
DAMASCUS, Syria --A Syrian court on Sunday acquitted a leading human rights activist of various accusations of anti-government activity, dropping all charges against him.
The State Security Court said Aktham Naisse, chairman of the Committees for the Defense of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria, was exonerated of all charges.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/06/26/syrian_human_rights_activist_acquitted/
continued . . .
June 26, 2005. The reality of poverty in America is more than low income and a choice between a child's book or computer game. The extent neighborhoods are allowed to exist in disrepair and disparity cause great concern for a society that considers itself compassionate. David Agosto (center) is comforted after the bodies of his son and two friends were found in the trunk of an abandoned car.
THE IRANIAN PRESIDENT is the administator of Iranian policy but proposes no policy of his own. For as much as those who want to criticize say he is an extremist, some of his views are reformist. I am hopeful. Iranian presidential candidate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to his supporters before casting his vote in Tehran on June 24, 2005. Ultra-conservative Tehran mayor Ahmadinejad swept to a landslide win in presidential elections on Saturday, spelling a possible end to Iran's fragile social reforms and tentative rapprochement with the West. Picture taken June 24, 2005. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Morning Papers - concluding
The Jerusalem Post
Teenager dies of wounds sustained in Beit Hagai attack
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Avihai Levy, 17, killed in Friday's shooting attack at the Beit Hagai intersection.
Location of Friday's shooting attack near Beit Hagai, in which a resident of the settlement was killed, and another two wounded
Aviad Mansour, critically wounded in Friday's shooting attack at a hitchhiking station near the Beit Hagai settlement in the South Hebron Hills, died Sunday morning at the Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Karem – the second fatality of the attack.
Doctors said over the weekend that Mansour was fighting for his life. Both of his legs had already been amputated.
Mansour, 16, a resident of a the South Hebron Hills settlement of Otniel, had been repeatedly shot in the legs and abdomen when terrorists passing the hitchhiking post opened fire on the boys about to hop into a car from Beit Hagai.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752421467
Bethlehem handover to PA next week
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday ordered the army to prepare to handover additional West Bank cities to Palestinian Authority security control next week.
According to Mofaz, the security establishment should be prepared to hand over Bethlehem next week, followed by Kalkilya the week after.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119493344816
Egypt is playing with fire
By URI DAN
In the extensive maneuvers conducted by the Egyptian Army from time to time, Israel is not designated explicitly as the foe, but all the characteristics attributed to "the enemy" by the Egyptian General Staff are remarkably similar to those of Israel and its armed forces.
In fact, Egypt's land and air forces, equipped with the latest American weapons, constitute the greatest potential threat to Israel. It is therefore of vital importance not to change the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat at the White House in March 1979. The agreement guaranteed that the Sinai Desert given up by Begin would remain demilitarized; and that Egypt would be permitted to deploy a limited number of troops only, in the Suez Canal area far from Israel's border.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666017026
Israel apologizes to New Zealand
By JPOST.COM STAFF
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Sunday morning that Israel had formally apologized for a diplomatic ordeal that had upset the relations between the two countries, after Israeli officials admitted that Mossad agents had fraudulently obtained a "very small number" of New Zealand passports.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752420910
Hamas: We want piece of Gaza pie
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
GAZA CITY
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority could be headed toward a turf war over the Gaza Strip territory Israel is to evacuate later this summer, as PA officials have rejected Hamas demands for influence over the territory.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016805
Time's short for Gaza hothouses
Time is running out to find buyers for the Gaza settlers' hothouses. Israel wants to sell them to the Palestinians intact rather than dismantling them, warned Nigel Roberts, director of the World Bank in Gaza and the West Bank.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016958
Settlers in hotel: We reached a deal
By YAAKOV KATZ AND JPOST STAFF
Right-wing activists holed up inside the Palm Beach Hotel in Gush Katif claimed they had reached an agreement Saturday night with the IDF and the police allowing the sides to back down from a possible confrontation and raid of the compound.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752419683
PA arrests 10 Fatah gunmen in Jenin
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian police officers hold their guns as they take cover during clashes with gunmen in Jenin on Friday.
The Palestinian Security forces arrested 10 Fatah gunmen over the weekend on suspicion of participating in an armed attack on a PA police station in Jenin.
One policeman was killed when scores of Fatah gunmen launched an attack on their station on Thursday night, using automatic rifles and pistols. The victim was identified as Ziad al-Bazour, 26, of the village of Raba in the Jenin area.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016802
Stunning poll win for Iran hardliner
By ORLY HALPERN
A former Revolutionary Guard and hardline conservative won the Iranian presidential elections, causing shockwaves in his country and around the world.
Garnering the votes of the poor and disenfranchised, the 48-year-old Teheran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad steamrolled his rival, the pragmatist and politically savvy cleric, Hashemi Ali Rafsanjani, and won the presidency by a landslide on Friday. Announced on state television, the results gave Ahmadinejad 61.6 percent of the vote over Rafsanjani's 35.9 percent. The rest of the ballots were deemed invalid.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016140
Hillel tries to help Israelis celebrate Judaism
The University of Haifa will be the fourth Israeli campus with a Hillel branch.
As Hillel prepares to open its newest Israel branch at the University of Haifa this fall, it has found itself answering the question of what an organization that promotes being Jewish does in an already Jewish land. The answer, says Rabbi Yossi Goldman, Associate Vice President for Israel, is easy: the very same thing.
"Our goal is always to maximize the number of Jewish students doing 'Jewish' with other Jews," said Goldman. "We are in a Jewish state but for many in our society Judaism has ceased to be meaningful."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016341
Philadelphia Inquirer
3 Boys Found Dead
By Dwight Ott, Adam Fifield and Kristen A. Graham
Inquirer Staff Writers
The father of one of the three boys missing since Wednesday in Camden discovered his son and two friends dead last night in the trunk of a car in the yard where they were last seen alive.
For two days, authorities from two states scoured the Cramer Hill section of the city and the banks of the Delaware River for Anibal "Juni" Cruz, 11; Daniel "Danny" Agosto, 6; and Jesstin "Manny" Pagan, 5. Relatives, neighbors, and people who never had met the boys joined the search, which drew national attention.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11981569.htm
Will they fit?
Simple math: Parkway has no room for 1 million people.
By Larry Eichel
Inquirer Staff Writer
It remains to be seen whether a million people will try to attend the Live 8 concert, as city officials have predicted.
But if they all show up at the same time, they won't fit.
There's simply no way that a crowd that size can be squeezed onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway between the Art Museum steps and JFK Plaza, also known as LOVE Park.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11985742.htm
Parents: School mishandled acts of violence
Valley Forge Military Academy says it did not, as the mothers claim, discourage them from going to police about attacks on their sons.
By Barbara Boyer
Inquirer Staff Writer
A former cadet at Valley Forge Military Academy said he was hit with the butt of a rifle in what other cadets called "butt hitting time" during repeated attacks over a four-day period in April.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11985769.htm
The New Zealand Herald
Israeli government apologises to New Zealand
Helen Clark
26.06.05 5.20pm UPDATE
Israel has apologised for the spy scandal and has promised it will take steps to ensure no similar incident happens again.
Prime Minister Helen Clark today said she was pleased New Zealand and Israel would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.
The relationship has been frosty since Israel refused to apologise for what Miss Clark described as "utterly unacceptable" behaviour surrounding two alleged Mossad agents, Uriel Zoshe Kelman and Eli Cara, who were arrested in March 2004 and charged with trying to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332767
Goff calls for united front to halt Zimbabwe tours
Phil Goff
26.06.05
By Jonathan Milne
The Government has sought Britain and Australia's support to stamp out the International Cricket Council's stubborn endorsement of the Zimbabwe regime.
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff expected to be in talks late last night with his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer and New Zealand Cricket boss Martin Snedden.
The question of whether the New Zealand team tours Zimbabwe is fast escalating into an international diplomatic stoush.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332741
Kerre Woodham: Cricket could be the key
26.06.05
Yet again, the New Zealand cricketers have been put on the spot over whether to tour Zimbabwe. Martin Snedden has told the players they will face no financial penalty if they bail from the tour, and Helen Clark is refusing, quite rightly, exhortations from the Greens that the cricketers be prevented from going.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332705
Mugabe unmoved by criticism
26.06.05
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe yesterday defended his Government's crackdown on what it calls illegal settlements - a drive that has left thousands homeless and drawn condemnation from the West.
Two children were crushed to death this month during the campaign critics say has exacerbated an economic crisis, marked by severe food and fuel shortages, unemployment of about 70 per cent and inflation of over 140 per cent. But Mugabe repeated it was part of a bid to fight crime and clean up cities.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332737
Iran's Ahmadinejad urges reconciliation after polls
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to his supporters. Picture / Reuters
26.06.05
TEHRAN - President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday urged Iranians to put aside their differences after winning a divisive presidential run-off which split the country broadly along class lines.
"Today is a day when we have to forget all our rivalries and turn them into friendships," Ahmadinejad said in comments broadcast on state radio, his first since being declared winner of yesterday's election.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332740
It's winter with a twist
26.06.05
By Adrienne Kohler
Tornadoes cut a swathe through Auckland yesterday, uprooting trees and lifting roofs off houses while torrential rain flooded properties and roads, and created havoc on Auckland's Southern Motorway.
The chaos was the result of an intense two-hour thunderstorm that hit around 11am, causing flash flooding throughout the city.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332770
continued. . .
Teenager dies of wounds sustained in Beit Hagai attack
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Avihai Levy, 17, killed in Friday's shooting attack at the Beit Hagai intersection.
Location of Friday's shooting attack near Beit Hagai, in which a resident of the settlement was killed, and another two wounded
Aviad Mansour, critically wounded in Friday's shooting attack at a hitchhiking station near the Beit Hagai settlement in the South Hebron Hills, died Sunday morning at the Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Karem – the second fatality of the attack.
Doctors said over the weekend that Mansour was fighting for his life. Both of his legs had already been amputated.
Mansour, 16, a resident of a the South Hebron Hills settlement of Otniel, had been repeatedly shot in the legs and abdomen when terrorists passing the hitchhiking post opened fire on the boys about to hop into a car from Beit Hagai.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752421467
Bethlehem handover to PA next week
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday ordered the army to prepare to handover additional West Bank cities to Palestinian Authority security control next week.
According to Mofaz, the security establishment should be prepared to hand over Bethlehem next week, followed by Kalkilya the week after.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119493344816
Egypt is playing with fire
By URI DAN
In the extensive maneuvers conducted by the Egyptian Army from time to time, Israel is not designated explicitly as the foe, but all the characteristics attributed to "the enemy" by the Egyptian General Staff are remarkably similar to those of Israel and its armed forces.
In fact, Egypt's land and air forces, equipped with the latest American weapons, constitute the greatest potential threat to Israel. It is therefore of vital importance not to change the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat at the White House in March 1979. The agreement guaranteed that the Sinai Desert given up by Begin would remain demilitarized; and that Egypt would be permitted to deploy a limited number of troops only, in the Suez Canal area far from Israel's border.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666017026
Israel apologizes to New Zealand
By JPOST.COM STAFF
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Sunday morning that Israel had formally apologized for a diplomatic ordeal that had upset the relations between the two countries, after Israeli officials admitted that Mossad agents had fraudulently obtained a "very small number" of New Zealand passports.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752420910
Hamas: We want piece of Gaza pie
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
GAZA CITY
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority could be headed toward a turf war over the Gaza Strip territory Israel is to evacuate later this summer, as PA officials have rejected Hamas demands for influence over the territory.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016805
Time's short for Gaza hothouses
Time is running out to find buyers for the Gaza settlers' hothouses. Israel wants to sell them to the Palestinians intact rather than dismantling them, warned Nigel Roberts, director of the World Bank in Gaza and the West Bank.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016958
Settlers in hotel: We reached a deal
By YAAKOV KATZ AND JPOST STAFF
Right-wing activists holed up inside the Palm Beach Hotel in Gush Katif claimed they had reached an agreement Saturday night with the IDF and the police allowing the sides to back down from a possible confrontation and raid of the compound.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119752419683
PA arrests 10 Fatah gunmen in Jenin
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian police officers hold their guns as they take cover during clashes with gunmen in Jenin on Friday.
The Palestinian Security forces arrested 10 Fatah gunmen over the weekend on suspicion of participating in an armed attack on a PA police station in Jenin.
One policeman was killed when scores of Fatah gunmen launched an attack on their station on Thursday night, using automatic rifles and pistols. The victim was identified as Ziad al-Bazour, 26, of the village of Raba in the Jenin area.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016802
Stunning poll win for Iran hardliner
By ORLY HALPERN
A former Revolutionary Guard and hardline conservative won the Iranian presidential elections, causing shockwaves in his country and around the world.
Garnering the votes of the poor and disenfranchised, the 48-year-old Teheran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad steamrolled his rival, the pragmatist and politically savvy cleric, Hashemi Ali Rafsanjani, and won the presidency by a landslide on Friday. Announced on state television, the results gave Ahmadinejad 61.6 percent of the vote over Rafsanjani's 35.9 percent. The rest of the ballots were deemed invalid.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016140
Hillel tries to help Israelis celebrate Judaism
The University of Haifa will be the fourth Israeli campus with a Hillel branch.
As Hillel prepares to open its newest Israel branch at the University of Haifa this fall, it has found itself answering the question of what an organization that promotes being Jewish does in an already Jewish land. The answer, says Rabbi Yossi Goldman, Associate Vice President for Israel, is easy: the very same thing.
"Our goal is always to maximize the number of Jewish students doing 'Jewish' with other Jews," said Goldman. "We are in a Jewish state but for many in our society Judaism has ceased to be meaningful."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119666016341
Philadelphia Inquirer
3 Boys Found Dead
By Dwight Ott, Adam Fifield and Kristen A. Graham
Inquirer Staff Writers
The father of one of the three boys missing since Wednesday in Camden discovered his son and two friends dead last night in the trunk of a car in the yard where they were last seen alive.
For two days, authorities from two states scoured the Cramer Hill section of the city and the banks of the Delaware River for Anibal "Juni" Cruz, 11; Daniel "Danny" Agosto, 6; and Jesstin "Manny" Pagan, 5. Relatives, neighbors, and people who never had met the boys joined the search, which drew national attention.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11981569.htm
Will they fit?
Simple math: Parkway has no room for 1 million people.
By Larry Eichel
Inquirer Staff Writer
It remains to be seen whether a million people will try to attend the Live 8 concert, as city officials have predicted.
But if they all show up at the same time, they won't fit.
There's simply no way that a crowd that size can be squeezed onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway between the Art Museum steps and JFK Plaza, also known as LOVE Park.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11985742.htm
Parents: School mishandled acts of violence
Valley Forge Military Academy says it did not, as the mothers claim, discourage them from going to police about attacks on their sons.
By Barbara Boyer
Inquirer Staff Writer
A former cadet at Valley Forge Military Academy said he was hit with the butt of a rifle in what other cadets called "butt hitting time" during repeated attacks over a four-day period in April.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11985769.htm
The New Zealand Herald
Israeli government apologises to New Zealand
Helen Clark
26.06.05 5.20pm UPDATE
Israel has apologised for the spy scandal and has promised it will take steps to ensure no similar incident happens again.
Prime Minister Helen Clark today said she was pleased New Zealand and Israel would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.
The relationship has been frosty since Israel refused to apologise for what Miss Clark described as "utterly unacceptable" behaviour surrounding two alleged Mossad agents, Uriel Zoshe Kelman and Eli Cara, who were arrested in March 2004 and charged with trying to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332767
Goff calls for united front to halt Zimbabwe tours
Phil Goff
26.06.05
By Jonathan Milne
The Government has sought Britain and Australia's support to stamp out the International Cricket Council's stubborn endorsement of the Zimbabwe regime.
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff expected to be in talks late last night with his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer and New Zealand Cricket boss Martin Snedden.
The question of whether the New Zealand team tours Zimbabwe is fast escalating into an international diplomatic stoush.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332741
Kerre Woodham: Cricket could be the key
26.06.05
Yet again, the New Zealand cricketers have been put on the spot over whether to tour Zimbabwe. Martin Snedden has told the players they will face no financial penalty if they bail from the tour, and Helen Clark is refusing, quite rightly, exhortations from the Greens that the cricketers be prevented from going.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332705
Mugabe unmoved by criticism
26.06.05
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe yesterday defended his Government's crackdown on what it calls illegal settlements - a drive that has left thousands homeless and drawn condemnation from the West.
Two children were crushed to death this month during the campaign critics say has exacerbated an economic crisis, marked by severe food and fuel shortages, unemployment of about 70 per cent and inflation of over 140 per cent. But Mugabe repeated it was part of a bid to fight crime and clean up cities.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332737
Iran's Ahmadinejad urges reconciliation after polls
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to his supporters. Picture / Reuters
26.06.05
TEHRAN - President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday urged Iranians to put aside their differences after winning a divisive presidential run-off which split the country broadly along class lines.
"Today is a day when we have to forget all our rivalries and turn them into friendships," Ahmadinejad said in comments broadcast on state radio, his first since being declared winner of yesterday's election.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332740
It's winter with a twist
26.06.05
By Adrienne Kohler
Tornadoes cut a swathe through Auckland yesterday, uprooting trees and lifting roofs off houses while torrential rain flooded properties and roads, and created havoc on Auckland's Southern Motorway.
The chaos was the result of an intense two-hour thunderstorm that hit around 11am, causing flash flooding throughout the city.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332770
continued. . .
Morning Papers - concluded
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Cloudy
-23.0°
Updated Sunday 26 Jun 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
48 °F / 9 °C
Clear
Humidity:
82%
Dew Point:
43 °F / 6 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
29.91 in / 1013 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Clear -
end
Scott Base
Cloudy
-23.0°
Updated Sunday 26 Jun 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
48 °F / 9 °C
Clear
Humidity:
82%
Dew Point:
43 °F / 6 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
29.91 in / 1013 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Clear -
end
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