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Let’s talk about the red hands on the Oscar pins and why it’s a fraught and painful issue for many of us who care about Israel: You didn’t know me then, but back in 2000, I was a freshman at UC Berkeley when things got crazy in Israel when the Second Intifada erupted. I will never forget the first time it hit me hard – I had just finished taking an anthro 1 quiz. I was drinking a green tea boba tea. And I was reading CNN online when I saw the story about the lynching in Ramallah. Two Israelis,...

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MANCHESTER, N.H. - The increased attention Rudy Giuliani has been giving to New Hampshire doesn't seem to be paying off. The Republican still trails in the first-in-the-nation primary and also faces likely defeats in other early voting states. Pinning his hopes on big states that come later in the primary season, the former New York mayor is struggling to regain momentum after a series of setbacks. The next month could provide a severe test for his unorthodox approach to winning the GOP nomination. He's not giving up on New Hampshire yet. He returned for one public event on Monday and...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter presented the Bronze Star to Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman (SW/SCW) Reginald Dean at Naval Hospital Pensacola June 1, for his heroic life-saving actions following a suicide-bomb explosion near Fort Tal-Afar in Iraq. Winter presented the Bronze Star medal to the Naval Branch Health Clinic Whiting Field, Fla., corpsman before a specially-chosen, six-person ‘Honor Formation,’ and another full contingent of previously-deployed Naval Hospital personnel. "This award is unique in and of itself," Winter said. "It is a noteworthy statement of what this individual has done for his country." Following the presentation,...

(subtitle-Major credit card associations and financial institutions are saying little ) MARCH 09, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The continued refusal by major credit card associations and financial institutions to identify the source of a data compromise that has resulted in a wave of debit card fraud worldwide is fueling concerns about the scope of the problem. It is also shining a spotlight on what may be growing attempts by criminal gangs to try to compromise PIN-based card transactions, which have until now been considered extremely secure, analysts said. The immediate furor was ignited earlier this week by Citibank, which acknowledged that...

The Palestinian Authority has declared a week of solidarity with a young singer from the West Bank who is participating in this year's Superstar television show, the Arabic version of the popular British show Pop Idol and the American Star Search. The move has enraged some Palestinians who say there is no room for entertainment when Israel is continuing its military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Huge screens will be placed in the main squares in Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Gaza City to encourage the people to support Ammar Hassan, a singer from the West Bank who is...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a $102.8 billion plan for restoring California's financial health that calls for cutting spending in all departments and services but backs away from some of the most painful reductions he proposed in January. As promised, the budget plan contained no new taxes, but failed to deliver on a much-anticipated overhaul of the public health system. Schwarzenegger said higher than expected tax income allowed him to withdraw severe cuts he had proposed to health care for the poor. Many questions surrounding the proposal remained unanswered, but the governor has urged lawmakers to act before...

This is an urgent plea for help from Prairie Lady; these are her posts: [copied] I JUST got off the phone with my neice. It seems my sister (her mother) is missing since yesterday between 3pm and 4:40pm yesterday from the SouthCarolina area. She headed north as far as we can track, but then nothing. This is TOTALLY uncharacteristic of her. We need to know if she is on her own willingly making decisions, or if she has been abducted and is in need of help. Is there anybody from that area that can help? ---------------------- ok, she spoke to...