RSS FeedsPublished Date: July 24, 2008
Fighting over war
The 'green bomber' youths who have terrorized the opposition in behalf of President Mugabe's party worry about reprisals.It makes landfall near the Mexican border with winds over 100 mph, causing power outages and concern about levee failures along the Rio Grande.ON THE MEDIA
As the media moves to correct itself for glowing coverage of the Democrat, it's entering a period of shallow analysis.Private research at U.S. clinics has fueled in-vitro fertilization.Khartoum reaches out to allies and rivals as it seeks to have the U.N. quash or delay a genocide indictment against President Bashir.'This terror is intolerable,' he says after touring their home, damaged by a Palestinian rocket. McCain visited them in March.Lagging previous Democratic presidential nominees in that demographic, he visits two symbolically important sites in Israel and has been stressing his commitment to protecting the country.Similar to past mass murderers, Radovan Karadzic thought of himself as a healer.Dealing with our drought demands that we get over our skittishness with so-called toilet to tap.A sales tax increase, says the mayor, puts us on the road to a better L.A.President Talabani objects to a provision delaying voting in Kirkuk, the northern city that Kurds seek to incorporate into their semiautonomous Kurdish region.Lawmakers review the 1993 law that prohibits gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military.The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says that both candidates' proposals would increase the national debt by trillions and may make the system more complex.An attorney for Lori Drew says the government has overstepped its bounds in trying to charge the Missouri woman in the case where a 13-year-old committed suicide.Clinics, nursing homes and adult day care centers are among providers scrambling to fill the gap with funding from other sources.Two rulings say the FCC went too far in fining CBS for Janet Jackson's accidental exposure, and by too bluntly regulating online material.California needs a way to do it, but a constitutional amendment goes a bit too far.The city's police chief must step up and deal with the public's concerns about an officer-involved shooting.Cargo traffic: An article in Wednesday's Business section on the success of a program to shift some of the cargo container traffic at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to nights and Saturdays quoted Craig Noble, described as a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, as saying the ports should adopt quieter, alternative-fuel vehicles or electric trucks to reduce noise and air pollution. The statement should have been attributed to David Pettit, who is a senior attorney in the group's Los Angeles office. Noble is the group's communications director in California.Home Delivery and Customer ServiceHe says his brother, the president, was right to keep silent. Moscow denies it's planning to refuel nuclear bombers on the island.WASHINGTON, D.C.
Pentagon oversight agency officials forced changes to unfavorable reports on defense contracts, hid contractor overbilling and attempted to hinder an investigation, the Government Accountability Office reported.The 53-year-old first faxed a letter to her mortgage company informing them of her intentions. A suicide note told her husband to apply any life insurance money toward the house.Letters: A July 23 letter about the presidential election gave the wrong last name for the writer. It was written by Spike Tucker, not Turner. |
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