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For the first time in nearly 20 years, the American Bar Association is considering an expansive update of ethics rules for lawyers, which if approved would give attorneys more freedom to divulge their clients' secrets if such revelations would prevent fraud, injury or death. The proposed rules, which also deal with such thorny topics as whether lawyers should be allowed to have sex with clients and whether lawyers should be obligated to tell the whole truth in court, are to be considered at the association's annual meeting beginning Wednesday in Chicago.

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CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) - It sounded like a practical joke when somebody told Australian Vince Harmer that America's top diplomat wanted to drive his car. But what can you do except hand over the keys? An Australian government official called Harmer four times to say that Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) wanted to drive his 1980 Volvo 262 coupe, one of only 1,100 ever made. Powell, one of the world's most powerful men, and humble Canberra resident Harmer share a passion for restoring old and rare models of Sweden's most famous automotive emblem. Powell was in ...

By Jennifer Emily / The Dallas Morning News ROCKWALL – Rockwall police are investigating the shooting death of a 7-year-old girl. The child's parents told authorities Danielle Hamilton shot herself in the head, said Rockwall police Sgt. Carl L. Alsabrook. The girl's mother was working on a computer in the same room with her daughter when the shooting occurred around 11:40 p.m. Monday in the 7200 block of Betty Street, near North Goliad Street. "The child was sitting in close proximity to the mother," Sgt. Alsabrook said. "She heard a loud pop, turned and saw her child bleeding from the ...

Three kookaburras have been killed by park rangers following a series of attacks on visitors to Fraser Island. Queensland Conservation Council spokeswoman Felicity Wishart says killing the kookaburras is an unacceptably drastic solution. She says she is concerned that the state's wildlife service hasn't improved its public relations image following community outrage over a dingo cull on Fraser Island after the fatal mauling of a young Brisbane boy. A spokeswoman for Queensland Environment Minister Dean Wells says a number of people have been pecked on the hand and one person suffered a grazed cheek at Central Station, a popular ...

Are CBS executives hoping that Dan Rather might go the way of Chandra Levy? Well, RatherBiased.com, an internet site that monitors Rather's activities (or lack of them), reports today that just may be the case. The site alerted its readers today: "After a year of extensive bad press for Dan Rather, CBS has removed Dan Rather's name from a 'feedback form' on CBSNEWS.com, which until recently listed the Texan's name on a drop-down list of shows." According to RatherBiased, the new list offers "CBS Evening News w/John Roberts." But no mention of Dapper Dan. The feedback simply omits any mention ...

I've been out of pocket for a couple of days. What ever became of that poor little boy in California whose sand tunnel collapsed on him?

(CNSNews.com) - A California group is working to elevate the social status of pets by granting them legal rights of their own. The group "In Defense of Animals" (IDA), also wants to change the language of local laws so pet "owners" are referred to as pet "guardians" instead. "This simple wording change is an effort to elevate the status of animals beyond that of mere property to that of living, breathing sentient individuals with needs and rights of their own," IDA's website explains. Boulder, Colo., was the first city to include the term "guardian" in its local laws last July. ...

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Japan has cautiously endorsed a plan to strengthen security and defence links between Washington and its key Asia-Pacific allies, despite the risk of further tension in its relationship with Beijing. The Japanese Government said yesterday it was willing to consider a new process of security dialogue involving Tokyo, Washington, Canberra and, possibly, Seoul. But it stressed that it was responding to overtures from Australia and the United States and would reserve full judgment until given the details of any new consultative process. The US Secretary of State, Mr Colin Powell, confirmed the move after official talks with Australia on ...

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Bush resists Europe's New World Order July 31, 2001 BY JOHN O'SULLIVAN In the last few weeks, the Bush administration has refused to sign or ratify a number of international agreements. These refusals are denounced as "U.S. unilateralism" by European politicians. Their criticism was echoed by the Washington Post foreign affairs columnist, Jim Hoagland, who described Bush's policy as "isolationism lite" but worried that it could have very un-lite consequences. Other nations fear the effect of Bush's rejectionism on the system of international agreements and negotiations that has grown since World War II. This fear is most pronounced in Germany, ...

SKOPJE, July 31 (AFP) - Skopje has accepted a British offer to train Macedonian soldiers in anti-terrorist combat, Defence Ministry spokesman Marjan Gjurovski, told AFP Tuesday. "Britain has proposed to send a team to train our soldiers for anti-terrorist combat. The Defence Ministry has positively responded to the offer," he said. Gjurovski refused to give details, notably when the British team should arrive to Skopje.

NEW YORK(Finalcall.com) –Thirty one African non-governmental organizations (NGOs) July 12 asked delegates at the UN’s "Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all Its Aspects" conference to focus on the devastation caused by small arms on the African continent. The delegates raised their voices against the small arms trade during an African Day "Our Right to Life is Beyond Any Economic Consideration" forum during the July 9-22 conference at UN headquarters here. "At this conference governments must do more than talk," Bishop Ocholla Kitgum of Uganda told participants. The bishop said he lost his daughter and wife in ...

President Bush will endorse on Tuesday the principles of a report by two former presidents on reforming U.S. election procedures but avoid the specifics of how to avoid the controversies that marred last year's contested vote, the White House said. The report by a panel chaired by former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter calls for uniform statewide standards for counting ballots, offering federal funds to states to upgrade their voting equipment and moving the Veterans Day holiday to Election Day in even numbered years to boost turnout. The 2000 presidential election showcased the continued use nationwide of antiquated voting ...

Hillary runs with the prisoners, imitates clergy, and spies on you. Burned by Hillary. According to columnist Robert Novak, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R.-Okla.) is furious with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a prominent conservative think tank, for undermining his battle for reelection in Oklahoma next year by linking him with Sen. Clinton in co-sponsoring reauthorization of the federal Environmental Education Act. While CEI contends the program indoctrinates children with an anti-corporate bias, the Hillary link is "being used by backers of Inhofe’s Democratic foe, former Gov. David Walters, to undermine Inhofe’s conservative base." Sen. Inhofe, for his part, argues that Hillary ...

-- Lawyers For 4,000 Viequenses Show Navy's Knowledge For More Than 20 Years Of Contamination To Civilians Due To Bombing WHO: -- John Arthur Eaves, Jr. (John Arthur Eaves Lawfirm, Jackson, Miss.) represents nearly 50 percent of Vieques citizens with health problems and/or fear of future health problems (i.e. cancer, asthma, hypertension) due to heavy metals from Navy bombing, which has contaminated air, land and sea for the last 61 years. -- Kirk Ladner: lawyer with John Arthur Eaves Lawfirm. -- Bif Browning, researcher for John Arthur Eaves Lawfirm who has lived on Vieques for the past two years. ...

TABLE-Slovenian June industrial output down 3.9% y/y LJUBLJANA, July 31 (Reuters) - The Slovenian Statistical Office reported the following economic indicator on Tuesday: INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT (percentage changes) .................JUNE 2001...MAY......JUNE 2000 Month-on-month....-1.7......+6.0......+3.5 Year-on-year.......-3.9.....+1.2....+10.3 05:03 07-31-01 Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.

Expert Slams Publicity Tactics of Tennis Beauty By Gennady Fyodorov Reuters Kournikova working out in her new fitness video, which will be released in September. Anna Kournikova has done it again — without even hitting a single tennis ball. The glamorous Russian tennis player has had the media in a spin following a report in British tabloid The Sun that she had married her long-time boyfriend, ice hockey player Sergei Fedorov, in a secret ceremony in Moscow during Wimbledon. But a prominent Russian public relations expert was quick to call the latest Kournikova story nothing but a clever PR campaign ...

Eight Palestinians Killed in Hamas Office Blast Photos Reuters Photo Audio/Video Six Palestinians Killed In West Bank Explosion - (Reuters) By Dominic Evans NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - At least eight Palestinians, including two senior Hamas officials, were killed Tuesday in what witnesses described as an Israeli missile attack on an office of the militant group in the West Bank. Two children, brothers aged 10 and 12 who were in a nearby shop, were among the dead, medical officials said. The incident brought to 14 the number of Palestinians who have died in the past two days in blasts that ...