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Index: 2005 | November
Mainstream News Summaries (United States)
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11/30/05: Washington Post (A Section)
Washington Post (A Section): Warner Commutes Death Sentence 11/30/05 RICHMOND, Nov. 29 -- Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) issued his first grant of clemency in a death penalty case Tuesday, sparing the life of convicted murderer Robin M. Lovitt a day before his scheduled execution.
Washington Post (A Section): U.S. Debate on Pullout Resonates As Troops Engage Sunnis in Talks 11/30/05 RAMADI, Iraq, Nov. 29 -- Outside Ramadi's city auditorium, the mortar rounds fell, two, then three, each rattling the concrete walls slightly. Inside, locked in an intense debate about what it would take for American troops in Iraq to withdraw, none of the camouflaged Marines or robed Sunni Arab...
Washington Post (A Section): Bishop Says Edict Allows Some Gay Priests 11/30/05 The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said yesterday that under a new Vatican directive on homosexuality, men with a lasting attraction to members of the same sex can still be ordained as priests, as long as they are not "consumed by" their sexual orientation.
Washington Post (A Section): U.S. Will Address E.U. Questions on CIA Prisons 11/30/05 The Bush administration pledged yesterday to respond to a formal inquiry from the European Union over reports of covert CIA prisons for al Qaeda captives in Eastern Europe, acknowledging for the first time that the controversy over the secret prison system has upset European allies.
Washington Post (A Section): New Paths for Rock Creek Park 11/30/05 The National Park Service presented a plan yesterday for improving management of Rock Creek Park. Here are some highlights:
Washington Post (A Section): Panda Cub Isn't Camera-Shy 11/30/05 Five-month-old Tai Shan offers prime photo ops at a media preview, during which he displayed his progress at rock-climbing. METRO, B1
Washington Post (A Section): Contractors Linked to Bribery Case Worked Together 11/30/05 The two defense contractors who allegedly made many of the illicit payments to convicted Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) worked together for several years as relatively small players in the Pentagon's multibillion-dollar procurement system.
Washington Post (A Section): CORRECTIONS 11/30/05 A Nov. 29 article about deaths in the District's group homes for the mentally retarded misstated the number of plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the city. There are 700 plaintiffs in the suit, all former residents of Forest Haven, a now-defunct institution for the mentally retarded. About...
Washington Post (A Section): Big Easy's Musicians Move Their Acts to Austin 11/30/05 AUSTIN -- The self-proclaimed Live Music Capital of the World, the place that gave rock-and-roll superstar Janis Joplin her start in the 1960s, is sounding a little funkier these days. The chili, as one of the famed Neville Brothers sings in his new regular gig, has met the gumbo.
Washington Post (A Section): Bush Vows to 'Enforce Our Border' 11/30/05 DENVER, Nov. 29 -- President Bush on Tuesday wrapped up a two-day visit to the Southwest to promote his policy for stemming the tide of illegal immigration, vowing that his administration will "enforce our border."
Washington Post (A Section): NATION IN BRIEF 11/30/05 MINNEAPOLIS -- The teenage son of a tribal chairman pleaded guilty to a criminal charge for his role in shootings that left 10 people dead on an Indian reservation in Red Lake, Minn., in March.
Washington Post (A Section): DuPont, EPA Settle Case On Chemical Disclosure 11/30/05 Federal officials and the DuPont Co. have reached a settlement on charges that the chemical giant concealed possible harmful health effects associated with perfluorooctanoic acid, a chemical compound used to produce Teflon.
Washington Post (A Section): Company To Suspend Production Of Eye Drops 11/30/05 A manufacturer of eye drops and painkillers has agreed to stop production at its California plant after the Food and Drug Administration cited the company for safety and other problems.
Washington Post (A Section): Supreme Court Calendar 11/30/05 The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments beginning at 10 a.m. today in the following cases:
Washington Post (A Section): Drugmakers Win Exemption in House Budget-Cutting Bill 11/30/05 As part of a House budget bill that reduces spending on Medicaid prescription drugs, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. and other businesses secured a provision ensuring that their mental health drugs continue to fetch top price at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the states.
Washington Post (A Section): EPA to Scale Back Testing at Ground Zero 11/30/05 NEW YORK, Nov. 29 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it will no longer test for World Trade Center dust contamination in Brooklyn and north of Canal Street in Manhattan, a reduced testing plan that has outraged many politicians and health advocates.
Washington Post (A Section): Virginia Man Among Iraq Hostages 11/30/05 BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 -- Four Western peace activists, including a longtime resident of Northern Virginia, have been kidnapped in Iraq by a previously unknown insurgent group, and on Tuesday the Arab television network al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape of the men, grim-faced as they sat against a blank...
Washington Post (A Section): Peres May Bolt Labor for Party Formed by Sharon 11/30/05 Speculation mounts that Shimon Peres, the longtime pillar of Israel's Labor Party, plans to break ranks and join Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new centrist movement.
11/30/05: San Francisco Chronicle (Top News)
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Bush Maps Out Iraq War Strategy 11/30/05 President Bush, facing growing doubts about his war strategy, said Wednesday that Iraqi troops are increasingly taking the lead in battle but that "this will take time and patience." He refused to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces. Bush said...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Garcia Will Start at QB for Lions 11/30/05 Jeff Garcia will start at quarterback for the Detroit Lions on Sunday against Minnesota. Dick Jauron made the announcement Wednesday, two days after taking over as Lions coach on an interim basis in place of the fired Steve Mariucci. Jauron also...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Illinois Lawmaker Convicted of Fraud 11/30/05 A state lawmaker who didn't live in the district she represents was found guilty of using fake addresses on re-election paperwork and voter registration cards, and must resign. Rep. Patricia Bailey was found guilty Tuesday of election fraud and perjury...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Missouri Pharmacists Balk at Contraception 11/30/05 Walgreen Co. said it has put four Illinois pharmacists in the St. Louis area on unpaid leave for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception in violation of a state rule. The four cited religious or moral objections to filling...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): 11-Year-Old Interviewed in Glitter Case 11/30/05 Vietnamese police said Wednesday they have interviewed a second girl under age 13 who alleged she had sex with former British rock star Gary Glitter. The 11-year-old girl, from the southern city of Can Tho, told investigators she had traveled with her...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Virginia governor grants clemency to convicted murderer / Loss of critical piece of evidence was deciding factor 11/30/05 Virginia Gov. Mark Warner granted clemency Tuesday to a convicted killer, declaring that the loss of a crucial piece of evidence had persuaded him that the man should not be put to death as scheduled today. Warner's decision, in the case of Robin...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Black Muslim Bakery has had a long and checkered history 11/30/05 An Oakland bakery with a cheery red sign out front -- "Your Black Muslim Bakery" -- was thrust into the criminal spotlight again Tuesday when police arrested one of founder Yusuf Bey's sons in connection with vandalism to two liquor stores. Bey created...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Bangladesh suicide bombers kill 7 / Courthouses are targets in moderate Muslim nation 11/30/05 Two suicide bombers targeting courthouses killed at least seven people Tuesday in an escalating terror campaign blamed on Muslim extremists demanding an Islamic state. Two police were among those who died in the blasts in this southeastern port city...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Vatican rules formally block active gays from priesthood / Pope's first major instruction shows concern on morals 11/30/05 The Vatican on Tuesday formally released instructions that block active gay men from the priesthood, a long-anticipated document that has opened a divisive debate over how it will be applied and whether it will have a healing or detrimental effect on the...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Rumsfeld's order to end insurgency: Don't call it that / Enemies in Iraq 'don't merit the word,' he instructs 11/30/05 tempvarLast weekend, while other Americans were watching football and eating leftover turkey, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ended the Iraqi insurgency. It was easy, really: He declared that the insurgents would, henceforth, no longer be called insurgents.<...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): U.S. answers Europe's furor on camps / State Dept. asserts no international laws were broken in handling of terror suspects 11/30/05 The Bush administration, responding to European alarm over allegations of secret detention camps and the transport of terror suspects on European soil, insisted Tuesday that U.S. actions complied with international law but promised to respond to formal...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): U.S. talks of easing some airline security / Small scissors and screwdrivers would be OK under plan 11/30/05 A new plan by the Transportation Security Administration would allow airline passengers to bring scissors and other sharp objects in their carry-on bags because the items no longer pose the greatest threat to airline security, according to sources familiar...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): U.S. pays Iraqi papers to run stories / Employees of firm with Pentagon contract pose as freelancers to place soldiers' articles 11/30/05 As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq. The articles, written by U.S. military "...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Cheney keeps travel costs secret / Information isn't required, staff says 11/30/05 Open-government advocates say Vice President Dick Cheney is to executive branch secrecy what darkness is to the night. In 2001, Cheney famously refused to disclose the names of oil company executives and others who attended meetings of a White House...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): 2 BALCO scandal figures set to start prison terms / Each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids 11/30/05 Two of the central figures in the BALCO steroids scandal were scheduled to begin their respective prison terms today, even as a third man is just beginning his legal battle. Victor Conte, the mastermind of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Bush to spell out Iraq plan amid calls for pullout / He says it would be a mistake to exit now, but officials hint at more troop cuts in '06 11/30/05 President Bush, facing increasing pressure to articulate an exit strategy for Iraq, said Tuesday that it would be "a terrible mistake" to pull U.S. troops out of the country until a path to victory is secured. But signaling the likely start next year...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Kidnapping crisis for new German leader / Insurgents step up their abductions of Westerners 11/30/05 A prominent German archaeologist and aid worker who has lived and worked in Iraq for years has been kidnapped by armed captors who have threatened to kill her unless Germany withdraws its support for the Iraqi government. The abduction, disclosed...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Boxer wants end to 'endless war' / 'We are in a mess because they have no plan,' she says 11/30/05 Sen. Barbara Boxer, a persistent critic of President Bush, lambasted the administration Tuesday for being in such disarray on Iraq that she argued the war effort is fast disintegrating into "a disaster'' for Americans at home and the troops abroad. "...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): DID SOMEONE SAY AWWW? / BABY PANDA: Cub's first foray tames media -- tickets for his public debut long gone 11/30/05 The hottest celebrity in the nation's capital made his first appearance before the world media Tuesday, engaging in a charm offensive that would put vote-seeking politicians to shame. As cameras flashed and hearts melted, Tai Shan, the National Zoo's 4...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Black Muslims arrested in store attacks / 2 suspects surrender -- Oakland police urge 4 others to turn themselves in 11/30/05 Oakland police arrested two men on felony charges of vandalizing two West Oakland corner markets in attacks in which several men in suits and bow ties demanded that the outlets stop selling liquor to African Americans. Both suspects are affiliated with...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Fighting over the soul of Oakland waterfront / Vast housing plan raises issues of affordability, access 11/30/05 Oakland's single biggest housing development since the post-World War II boom could reshape a desolate section of waterfront near Jack London Square into a vibrant new neighborhood. But residents across the tracks and Interstate 880 from the project...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): A quiet move in House to split the 9th Circuit 11/30/05 A little-noticed provision in the massive House budget bill would fulfill the longtime goal of conservatives to split the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, creating a new 12th circuit appellate court and allowing President Bush...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Stem cell program wins key court ruling, poised to issue grants 11/30/05 California's embattled Proposition 71 stem cell program took a big step Tuesday toward overcoming lawsuits that have blocked its first grants from being issued. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw denied essentially every legal argument...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Governor taps ex-Davis aide as chief of staff / First move in a shakeup 11/30/05 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- attempting to regain his political footing after a devastating special election defeat this month -- has begun a shakeup of his administration by replacing his chief of staff with a former state Democratic Party official and top...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): SF fugitive captured in Daly City 11/30/05 (11-30) 09:16 PST DALY CITY -- One of San Francisco's 10 most wanted fugitives has been captured by the U.S. Marshals Service. Eduardo Naval, 58, had eluded police since April 2004 when a judge issued a $500,000 warrant for his arrest. He was arrested...
11/30/05: NY Times (Education)
NY Times (Education): In Desire to Grow, Colleges in South Battle With Roots 11/30/05 Southern universities often find themselves struggling to temper Confederate imagery without alienating alumni and donors.
NY Times (Education): Harvard to Focus on Bioethics and Technology 11/30/05 The center will study and hold symposiums on issues such as genetic manipulation, patient treatment and end-of-life care.
NY Times (Education): On Education: Learning-Disabled Students Blossom in Blended Classes 11/30/05 Pairing a general ed and special ed teacher in a classroom is considered one of the best hopes for mainstreaming more handicapped children.
NY Times (Education): Few Minorities Get Best High School Diplomas 11/30/05 Fewer than one in 10 black or Hispanic students who enter New York City high schools graduate four years later with a coveted Regents diploma.
NY Times (Education): Unions and City Spar Over After-School Tutoring 11/30/05 New York City will have to spend millions on transporation to create the after-school tutoring sessions in the new teachers' contract.
11/30/05: NY Times (Editorial)
NY Times (Editorial): [TS] Op-Ed Columnist: The Autumn of the Patriarchy 11/30/05 Inside the vice president's bunker mentality.
NY Times (Editorial): Op-Ed Contributor: Cull of the Wild 11/30/05 Migratory birds are the victims, not villains, of avian flu.
NY Times (Editorial): Op-Ed Contributor: A Shot at Justice 11/30/05 President Bush's plan for pandemic flu protection is remarkably self-defeating in two vital areas: manufacturer liability and victim compensation.
NY Times (Editorial): Op-Ed Contributor: The Flu's Second Front 11/30/05 A pneumonia vaccine can save lives in an influenza epidemic.
NY Times (Editorial): Editorial: The Next Abortion Decision 11/30/05 The abortion rights case that the Supreme Court is set to hear Wednesday could have real-world consequences for the lives of women and the rule of law.
NY Times (Editorial): Editorial: Trying Saddam, and His System 11/30/05 Patience is what is needed now from the judges in the trial of Saddam Hussein, from Iraqi political leaders and from ordinary Iraqi citizens.
NY Times (Editorial): Editorial: AIDS, and Homophobia, in Jamaica 11/30/05 Homophobia in Jamaica hampers efforts to reach same-sex partners who are justifiably terrified of seeking medical help for AIDS.
NY Times (Editorial): Editorial: The Duke Shames the Capitol 11/30/05 As Congress mulls over the larger lessons of Representative Randy Cunningham's demise, it should look to repair its ethics process, which now stands as a scandal unto itself.
11/29/05: Washington Post (A Section)
Washington Post (A Section): Congressman Admits Taking Bribes, Resigns 11/29/05 Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) resigned from Congress yesterday after tearfully confessing to evading taxes and conspiring to pocket $2.4 million in bribes, including a Rolls-Royce, a yacht and a 19th-century Louis-Philippe commode.
Washington Post (A Section): Night and Day in New Orleans 11/29/05 NEW ORLEANS -- The arched spine of high ground along the Mississippi River here pulses again three months after Hurricane Katrina -- the $19 appetizer has returned to the French Quarter restaurant scene, guys in suits ride office-tower elevators, hipsters linger over chicory coffee on Magazine...
Washington Post (A Section): 4 Deaths in D.C. Group Homes Raise Concerns About Neglect 11/29/05 The District government is failing to provide adequate care for mentally and physically disabled residents in its group homes, according to a court monitor who found that a pattern of neglect led to four deaths in the past year.
Washington Post (A Section): Time Reporter Called a Key to Rove's Defense In Leak Probe 11/29/05 The reporter for Time magazine who recently agreed to testify in the CIA leak case is central to White House senior adviser Karl Rove's effort to fend off an indictment in the two-year-old investigation, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Washington Post (A Section): A Growing Wariness About Money in Politics 11/29/05 For several years now, corporations and other wealthy interests have made ever-larger campaign contributions, gifts and sponsored trips part of the culture of Capitol Hill. But now, with fresh guilty pleas by a lawmaker and a public relations executive, federal prosecutors -- and perhaps average...
Washington Post (A Section): D.C.'s Stadium Lease Talks Stumble 11/29/05 Major League Baseball has not agreed to the District's request for an additional $20 million to help build a stadium and might file for arbitration if a lease agreement is not reached with the city by the end of December, MLB President Robert DuPuy said yesterday.
Washington Post (A Section): Bush Pushes Guest-Worker Program 11/29/05 TUCSON, Nov. 28 -- President Bush promoted his administration's efforts to get a grip on illegal immigration, spotlighting a plan to tighten security along the southern border and calling for a guest-worker program that would allow about 11 million illegal immigrants to work legally in the country...
Washington Post (A Section): Blizzard Traps Travelers Across the Plains 11/29/05 DENVER, Nov. 28 -- Travelers trying to get home after Thanksgiving were stranded across the Great Plains on Monday as the region's first big snowstorm of the season closed hundreds of miles of highways, cutting visibility to zero and piling up drifts six feet high.
Washington Post (A Section): CORRECTIONS 11/29/05 A Nov. 28 article misidentified the organization of which Rick Cohen is the executive director. It is the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, not the National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy.
Washington Post (A Section): New Housing Helps Bridge Generation Gap 11/29/05 NEW YORK If it were not for that missing link in Dorothy Jenkins's family story, she might not have ended up in this funky blue apartment building in the Bronx for grandparents like her.
Washington Post (A Section): Supreme Court Rules Against Ohio Inmate in Death Penalty Case 11/29/05 An appeals court was wrong to throw out the conviction and death sentence of a U.S.-British citizen in a 1986 fire that killed an Ohio toddler, the Supreme Court said yesterday in the second death penalty ruling under new Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to go against an inmate.
Washington Post (A Section): '86 Alito Memo Argues Against Foreigners' Rights 11/29/05 As a senior lawyer in the Reagan Justice Department, Samuel A. Alito Jr. argued that immigrants who enter the United States illegally and foreigners living outside their countries are not entitled to the constitutional rights afforded to Americans.
Washington Post (A Section): Today in Congress 11/29/05 SENATE Not in session. Committees: Commerce --9:30 a.m. Open forum on decency. G-50 Dirksen Bldg.
Washington Post (A Section): Supreme Court Calendar 11/29/05 The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments starting at 10 a.m. today in the following cases:
Washington Post (A Section): Two Congressmen Slightly Injured in Iraq 11/29/05 Two congressmen who were in a military vehicle that overturned on a Baghdad road emerged with only minor cuts and bruises, their offices said.
Washington Post (A Section): NATION IN BRIEF 11/29/05 MIAMI -- Miami police announced plans Monday to thwart terrorists by staging random "in-your-face" security operations at "soft" targets such as city buses and sports arenas.
Washington Post (A Section): FINDINGS 11/29/05 New guidelines for resuscitating people whose hearts suddenly stop emphasize more and faster chest compressions, with fewer stops to breathe oxygen-rich air into the victim's mouth.
Washington Post (A Section): The Colossal-Campus Challenge 11/29/05 The sprawling mass of teenage humanity that calls itself Robinson Secondary School, the largest high school in the Washington area -- with more than 4,000 bodies -- overwhelmed Marco Garces when he arrived four years ago from a 400-student private school in Richmond.
11/29/05: San Francisco Chronicle (Top News)
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Defense Adviser: Saddam in Good Spirits 11/29/05 Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said Tuesday he met with deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and found him in "extremely good spirits" even though the former president is isolated from friends and family. Clark said he was having lunch Monday...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Sen. Specter Defends Terrell Owens 11/29/05 Sen. Arlen Specter accused the National Football League and the Philadelphia Eagles of treating Terrell Owens unfairly and said he might refer the matter to the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he chairs. Specter said at...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Denver Boy Honored for Aiding His Brother 11/29/05 A 9-year-old boy who was shot in the back while shielding his little brother during an attempted break-in got a trophy from police and his school principal to honor his courage. Ricardo Caldera was shot when he threw himself over his 4-year-old...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Photos Show German Woman Kidnapped in Iraq 11/29/05 Photos broadcast Tuesday showed a blindfolded German woman being led away by armed captors in the latest kidnapping of a Westerner in Iraq. Six Iranian pilgrims, meanwhile, were abducted by gunmen north of Baghdad. Separately, the aid group Christian...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Bachchan Is Responding Well to Treatment 11/29/05 Amitabh Bachchan, one of India's biggest movie stars, was reported responding well to treatment for acute abdominal pain. Dr. Jayant Barve, a physician at Bombay's Leelawati hospital, said Bachchan was believed to be suffering from an inflammation of...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Al-Zarqawi's Family Again Disowns Him 11/29/05 More than 370 members of the clan of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi joined his family Tuesday in publishing a full-page letter in Jordanian newspapers disowning him. The letter was the family's second attempt in 20 days to convince...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Tap Water in Chinese City Declared Safe 11/29/05 City officials insisted Tuesday that Harbin water was safe to drink again after being shut down because of a chemical plant explosion, but experts said the toxins _ including cancer-causing benzene _ will remain frozen in the Songhua River until spring,...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Cunningham to leave House / GOP congressman pleads guilty to tax evasion, bribery 11/29/05 A tearful and trembling Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-San Diego, resigned Monday after pleading guilty to receiving $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors and evading more than $1 million in taxes. Bribery charges involving a sitting member...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Outburst by Hussein in court -- he says guards roughed him up / Judge tells former dictator: 'You are wasting our time' 11/29/05 Saddam Hussein returned to court Monday and quickly seized the floor for a verbal assault on the U.S. military guards who he said had manhandled him on his way to the courtroom, demanding that the chief judge in the trial reprove them. "I want you to...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Gay-inclined are cut some slack / Head of U.S. bishops interprets Vatican's edict on priesthood 11/29/05 Roman Catholic priests and seminary students with "homosexual inclinations" can be good priests and should not fear discussing the issue with their superiors, Bishop William S. Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): U.S. toll in Iraq 11/29/05 As of Monday, at least 2,107 members of the U.S. military had died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The latest deaths reported by the military: -...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Liquor store owner's ordeal / Arson, kidnapping in Oakland -- 6 sought in previous attack 11/29/05 The owner of one of two West Oakland corner markets vandalized last week for selling alcohol to African Americans was kidnapped shortly before his store burned in an arson fire Monday, police said. The owner of New York Market, Tony Hamdan, was found...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): High court to revisit state abortion laws / White House wants challenges delayed till statutes in effect 11/29/05 The first abortion case to come before the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts will test whether the justices are willing to give states nearly unlimited power to regulate and restrict the operation. At issue when the court hears...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): Bush revives immigration reform push / Switching priorities, he only touches on guest-worker plan 11/29/05 President Bush promised a renewed push for changes in immigration law Monday, reversing the priorities he had set out nearly two years ago by emphasizing tougher border enforcement and mentioning his controversial guest-worker program almost as an...
San Francisco Chronicle (Top News): A deadly tale of underground rap / Vallejo's Mac Dre was slain in a dispute over money -- rumors led to reprisal and 3 more killings, police say 11/29/05 Vallejo rapper Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks wasn't on MTV, on magazine covers or in movies. But his clever, hardcore rhymes had an underground following, and when he was killed on a Kansas City freeway last November, hip-hop radio stations mourned him at length. Mac...
11/29/05: NY Times (Education)
NY Times (Education): Florida School Is Target of Inquiry 11/29/05 The Florida High School Athletic Association is investigating a correspondence school where students quickly improved their grades to gain college eligibility.
NY Times (Education): An Ordinary Day, and a Welcome One, at Ben Franklin Elementary 11/29/05 The first parish-run public school in New Orleans to reopen since Hurricane Katrina held its first day of class on Monday.
NY Times (Education): N.Y.U. Sets Deadline for Return of Strikers 11/29/05 The university has told its striking graduate student teaching assistants that they must return next week or lose their financial stipends and eligibility to teach.
11/29/05: NY Times (Editorial)
NY Times (Editorial): [TS] Op-Ed Columnist: What's to Be Done About Darfur? Plenty 11/29/05 President Bush is acquiescing in the first genocide of the 21st century, in Darfur. But Darfur is not hopeless.
NY Times (Editorial): [TS] Op-Ed Columnist: The Good Goliath 11/29/05 Wal-Mart has been one of the most successful antipoverty programs in America.
NY Times (Editorial): Op-Ed Contributor: Your Mother Would Know 11/29/05 Both birth mothers' and adoptive parents' rights should be protected. But what about an adoptee's rights?
NY Times (Editorial): Op-Ed Contributors: Think Inside the Box 11/29/05 America's gravest cross-border threat is the possibility that a ship, truck or train will import a cargo container in which terrorists have hidden a dirty bomb or nuclear weapon.
NY Times (Editorial): Editorial: Shake and Bake 11/29/05 American demands for counterproliferation efforts and international arms control ring hollow when the U.S. refuses to give up white phosphorus.
NY Times (Editorial): As the Winter Looms 11/29/05 Members of Congress left Washington before Thanksgiving without approving any money to help poor Americans pay their heating bills this winter.
NY Times (Editorial): A Victory for Education 11/29/05 A federal judge took the right action when he dismissed a transparent attempt by the nation's largest teachers' union to sabotage the No Child Left Behind education act.
NY Times (Editorial): Editorial Observer: Goodbye to Pat Morita, Best Supporting Asian 11/29/05 Pat Morita was one of the last survivors of a generation of Asian-American actors who toiled within a system that was interested only in the stock Asian.
11/28/05: Washington Post (Politics)
Washington Post (Politics): Medicaid Cutbacks Divide Democrats 11/28/05 Controversial House legislation designed to gain control of Medicaid growth has split Democrats, with lawmakers in Washington united in their opposition while Democratic governors are quietly supporting the provisions and questioning the party's reflexive denunciations.
Washington Post (Politics): Advocacy Groups Targeting Vulnerable Senators on Alito Vote 11/28/05 PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Fifteen foot soldiers newly recruited to the campaign to derail the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. introduced themselves at a recent meeting not only by name but also by offering their reasons for joining the cause.
Washington Post (Politics): Nominations Help Lobbyists Reaffirm Value of Connections 11/28/05 New York is money. Washington is power. That's the easy way to divide the country's most important cities. It's that time again. Please e-mail examples of pro bono lobbying that you've done or that you know about for a special holiday column -- and not of the presidential appointment variety....
Washington Post (Politics): WHO's Flu Strike Force Plans for the Worst Case 11/28/05 GENEVA -- They don't like it when visitors to the new Strategic Health Operations Center at the World Health Organization call it "the war room." It's not the right metaphor for an organization whose purpose is to preserve life and which also happens to be headquartered in a neutral country....
Washington Post (Politics): Even Mediation Agency Has Boardroom Politics 11/28/05 In a case of Washington office politics that includes official complaints, transfers, firings, lawyers and, of course, old connections, the National Mediation Board may need some mediating.
Washington Post (Politics): Pride Goeth Before the Court 11/28/05 Liberals went into high whine mode when the Supreme Court agreed to hear Republican George W. Bush 's appeal in the 2000 Florida vote dispute. They said the high court lacked grounds to agree to hear the case.
Washington Post (Politics): Second-Term Troubles? Blame the Ducks, Chickens and Bubbles 11/28/05 Historians Joseph Ellis, Ellen Fitzpatrick and Stephen Carter discussed the perils of second presidential terms yesterday on CBS's "Face the Nation" with host Bob Schieffer.
Washington Post (Politics): Lavish Spending, Little Reward 11/28/05 Archie Prioleau's finances were in shambles when District officials entrusted him with $1.7 million in grants in 1998. His mission was to outfit a state-of-the-art computer center in Southwest Washington to train needy city residents, then place them in jobs. Prioleau, 55, a heavyset,... What...
Washington Post (Politics): World Leaders to Discuss Strategies for Climate Control 11/28/05 The nations of the world will meet in Montreal this week to start discussing the next step in combating the global warming problem, hoping to devise a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that was scorned by the Bush administration in 2001. But the United States is saying it doesn't want to talk.
Washington Post (Politics): Ohio Scandals May Give Democrats a Lift 11/28/05 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The scandal began as a curiosity. Tom Noe, a gregarious businessman and Republican Party leader in northwest Ohio, had been entrusted with $50 million in state money to invest in rare coins, with the idea of winning fat returns for the workers' compensation fund.
Washington Post (Politics): Sympathetic Vibrations 11/28/05 Democrats fumed last week at Vice President Cheney's suggestion that criticism of the administration's war policies was itself becoming a hindrance to the war effort. But a new poll indicates most Americans are sympathetic to Cheney's point. Poor Tom Noe. At first, Republican candidates were... Is...
Washington Post (Politics): The Talk Shows 11/28/05 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
Washington Post (Politics): Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity 11/28/05 The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world.
Washington Post (Politics): Mother's Iraq Protest Plays to Smaller Crowd 11/28/05 CRAWFORD, Tex., Nov. 26 -- Dancing to reggae music and hugging her supporters, Cindy Sheehan led an anti-Iraq war rally Saturday at a one-acre campsite adjoining the ranch where President Bush is spending his holiday weekend.
Washington Post (Politics): House Bill Raises Welfare Work Requirement 11/28/05 The House has included a major restructuring of the nation's welfare system in its massive budget cutting bill, which would substantially increase the hours of work, training and community service the poor would have to perform to qualify for assistance.
Washington Post (Politics): For Sen. X, D-N.J., the Line Forms To the Left 11/28/05 Here's a shocker: Something ridiculous is going on in New Jersey politics.
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