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TORONTO, April 8 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been paid $5.2 million in speaking fees in Canada since leaving office, a Toronto Star analysis said Tuesday. The newspaper's Washington bureau reviewed earnings for Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., released last week along with tax filings. The documents showed the couple had earned $109 million since leaving the White House. As far as Clinton's Canadian speaking junkets, his best day was in the autumn of 2005 when he was paid $475,000 for appearances in Toronto in one day. The newspaper said that's double his annual...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Twenty years after her allegations of a racially charged rape became a national flash point, Tawana Brawley's mother and stepfather want to reopen the case, a newspaper reported Sunday.</p> <p>Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to re-examine the November 1987 incident, which a state grand jury ultimately concluded was a hoax, the Daily News reported.</p>

Virgie Arthur, the mother of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, has filed a libel lawsuit against a Houston TV station, CBS Studios Inc. and the late model's former companion, Howard K. Stern. The suit alleges that Stern arranged for Smith to appear in an Entertainment Tonight interview where the model stated that Arthur was complicit in Smith's childhood physical and sexual abuse. The lawsuit says the program aired on KPRC Channel 2 in Houston on Feb. 14, a week after Smith died at the age of 39. CBS Studios produces the program, which is broadcast locally on KPRC, an...

Pope Benedict is starting to give me reasons to rejoin the Catholic Faith. If there is such a thing as speaking truth to power then he is fully committed to such a course. No namby pamby beating around the bushes, he goes straight for the central issue regarding Islam’s dealings with the West. The debate about whether Islam can be reformed enough must center around Mohammed himself, his life, his example, since Islam revolves around him. If Mohammed was a radical then exactly how is the religion to reform itself without losing its soul.

There is a great furor over whether the opinions of a number of retired high-ranking officers should tip the balance in the ongoing debate over the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But the question really isn't whether Rumsfeld should resign. He has already resigned several times and had President Bush tear up his letters of resignation. He clearly is taking responsibility for his actions on a continuing basis. But now that a galaxy of flag officers are raining down on Rumsfeld demanding his resignation, no one seems to have bothered to ask which, if any, of these generals had...

LONDON (Reuters) - Frozen squirrels, angry wasps and obstructive potatoes were among some of the reasons given by motorists to support their insurance claims, Norwich Union said Monday. Freak incidents involving animals top the list when it comes to bizarre claims, closely followed by those involving food. The squirrel motorist said the frozen animal had fallen out of a tree and crashed through the windshield while another driver blamed a wasp sting on the leg for a sudden surge in acceleration and a bump with the car in front. One driver even blamed a potato stuck behind the brake pedal...

Bush to Propose Trimming Army Reserve by LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago WASHINGTON - President Bush will use his new budget to propose cutting the size of the Army Reserve to its lowest level in three decades and stripping up to $4 billion from two fighter aircraft programs. ADVERTISEMENT The proposals, likely to face opposition on Capitol Hill, come as the Defense Department struggles to trim personnel costs and other expenses to pay for the war in Iraq and a host of other pricey aircraft and high-tech programs. Bush will send his 2007 budget to Congress...

Monmouth Boy Scouts to Charge Annual Fee(MARLBORO, N.J.) The Monmouth Council of Boy Scouts will start charging a $52 annual membership fee, beginning March 15. Previously, parents paid a one-time registration fee. The group says it needs the money to help erase more than $1 million in debt that was caused by expenses and professional fees. The group also is asking parents to match the fee with a voluntary donation. Families with more than one Boy Scout will get a 25 percent discount on each additional child. Membership in the Scouts has been on the decline in recent years. Monmouth...

THe selection show is on at 6 PM. Pretty much the picks have been decided. There is only some doubt whether ND or Oregon gets the final at-large berth. 2005-2006 Bowl Matchups Past Bowl Projections: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11Means accepted bid WYNDHAM NEW ORLEANS BOWL - Lafayette, Louisiana December 20, 2005  ESPN Cajun Field, 30,000 Sun Belt No. 1 vs. C-USA CFN Projection: Arkansas State vs. Southern Missalso considered: Memphis, Houston POINSETTIA BOWL -...

LAUSD Schools Win Large State Grant Wednesday June 29, 6:06 pm ET Nearly $6 Million for Technology Awarded to 9 Middle Schools LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2005--The California Department of Education announced this week that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was the top Los Angeles County winner among dozens of local school districts during the latest round of the competitive Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) grant program. The winning grant will provide nearly 6 million dollars as well as in-kind donations and partner discounts benefiting 9 LAUSD middle schools and approximately 20,000 students. Glendale Unified was the other...

Germans prefer money to sex, a new survey for Playboy magazine shows. Asked whether next year they would prefer more money, more regular sex or extra free time, 62 percent of the 1,000 Germans polled opted for cash, compared with just six percent choosing sex. Twenty-six percent plumped for free time. The full survey results will be published Wednesday in the German edition of Playboy for January.

Schabir Shaik's Nkobi group paid almost a quarter of a million rand to woo Zulu King Goodwill Zwelethini from the Inkatha Freedom Party to the African National Congress, according to a document handed to the Durban High Court on Friday. The document is the transcript of an interview Scorpions investigators conducted with Shaik's former business associate, Prof Themba Sono, in Pretoria in 2002. Sono, who served as an Nkobi director in 1996 and is now a member of the Gauteng legislature, spent a day and a half in the court this week, testifying in Shaik's trial for corruption and fraud,...

It's an expensive week to be a Democratic booster in Aspen. Two fund-raisers are planned here this week - one for U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and another for presidential hopeful John Kerry, according to multiple insiders who requested anonymity. Bill and Hillary Clinton plan to attend a luncheon at a private residence on Red Mountain on Saturday, the sources said. The price of attendance is said to cost $1,000 per person, though some benefactors may elect to contribute the $2,000 maximum. The fund-raiser, which will benefit Mrs. Clinton's run for a second term of senator of New York in...

After the New Hampshire primary, Dennis Kucinich's new slogan is: ".001 Percent of America Can't Be Wrong!" John Edwards' new slogan is: "Vote for Me or We'll See You in Court." Joe Lieberman's new slogan is: "Sixth Place Is Not an Option." (Bumper sticker version: "Ask Me About My Delegate.") Al Sharpton's new slogan is "Hello? Room Service?" Wesley Clark's new slogan is: "Leading America's War on Fetuses." Howard Dean's new slogan is: "I Want to Be Your President ... And So Do I!" That leaves John Kerry (new slogan: "Nous Sommes Nombre Un!"), who is winning Democratic voters in...

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Dresdner Bank AG, a unit of Allianz AG, behaved illegally in blocking the London account of the Saudi central bank because the German lender was owed money by government ministries, lawyers for the Saudi bank told a U.K. court. Dresdner notified the central bank on Oct. 14, 2002, that it won't transfer 49.1 million euros ($61 million) from the London account because the Saudi ministries of Finance and Defense owed that much to Dresdner's Luxembourg branch, according to documents filed at the High Court by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency. ``Dresdner London's action in blocking the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A New York teenager alleged on Thursday that teachers violated her civil rights when they suspended her from school for wearing a "Barbie is a Lesbian" T-shirt. Lawyers who filed a lawsuit on her behalf in Manhattan federal court said 14-year-old Natalie Young is openly lesbian and that a teacher laughed at her, calling the garment and its reference to the popular Barbie doll "inappropriate." Young alleged that the principal held her for three hours in an office at the school in the borough of Queens on April 10, 2002 and refused to allow her to...

A New York teen-ager has alleged teachers violated her civil rights when they suspended her from school for wearing a "Barbie is a Lesbian" T-shirt. Lawyers who filed a lawsuit on her behalf in Manhattan federal court on Thursday said 14-year-old Natalie Young is openly lesbian and that a teacher laughed at her, calling the garment and its reference to the popular Barbie doll "inappropriate." Young alleged that the principal held her for three hours in an office at the school in the borough of Queens on April 10, 2002 and refused to allow her to return to class while...

<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A New York teenager alleged on Thursday that teachers violated her civil rights when they suspended her from school for wearing a "Barbie is a Lesbian" T-shirt.</p> <p>Lawyers who filed a lawsuit on her behalf in Manhattan federal court said 14-year-old Natalie Young is openly lesbian and that a teacher laughed at her, calling the garment and its reference to the popular Barbie doll "inappropriate."</p>

Letter To Linux Customers SCOsource -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 12, 2003 Dear commercial Linux user: SCO holds the rights to the UNIX operating system software originally licensed by AT&T to approximately 6,000 companies and institutions worldwide (the “UNIX Licenses”). The vast majority of UNIX software used in enterprise applications today is a derivative work of the software originally distributed under our UNIX Licenses. Like you, we have an obligation to our shareholders to protect our intellectual property and other valuable rights. In recent years, a UNIX-like operating system has emerged and has been distributed in the enterprise marketplace by various software vendors....