[mountaineer]

Oh my gosh. Thanks for the link to the prom pix.

[lodwick]

Exerpted from the NYPost:

The woman accusing Kobe Bryant of rape tearfully told a bellhop minutes after the alleged attack that that she had just been "forced to have sex" with the NBA superstar, according to a new report. Friends and co-workers of the accuser told Fox News correspondent Rita Cosby that the 19-year- old hotel worker's clothing was torn when she spoke with the bellhop.

The claims could significantly bolster the charge levied by the alleged victim. It also is apparently the first time that someone has said the woman reported the alleged rape to another person immediately after her June 30 encounter with Bryant in his hotel room - instead of revealing it the next day, as had been previously believed.

That would support the idea that she did not concoct the story.

Judges in rape cases often allow testimony by third parties about so-called "excited utterances" made by an accuser right after an attack. Fox reported that Bryant's accuser, after leaving his room the night of June 30, looked "shocked and upset" when she went to the lobby of Lodge & Spa at Cordillera, according to a woman who, like the accuser, is a hotel employee.

The accuser's friends and other workers at the Edwards, Colo., hotel told Fox the accuser was driven home by the bellhop minutes later.

Friends and colleagues said the bellhop "was told immediately by the accuser that she was . . . 'forced to have sex with Kobe Bryant,' " according to Fox's Cosby. The accuser's friends said the bellhop saw the woman crying and wearing "visibly torn" clothes, according to Fox.

Huh!

[Endeavor]

MoveOn.org is a major anti-war anti-bush site. This is the perfect opportunity for Gore to step in it, bigtime. He'll come out left of Howard Dean. But then, we know he's left of Howard Dean; however, the rest of America doesn't know it -- until tomorrow.