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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "word for the day.&quot Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the "word of the day" in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)Practice makes perfect.....post on.... vitiate \VISH-ee-ayt\, transitive verb:Listen Here vitiable (vsh--bl); adjective vitiation; noun vitiator; noun vitiated vitiating 1. To make faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to impair; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing. 2. To ...

JERUSALEM (September 10) - Israel had demanded several times that the Palestinian Authority arrest, Mahmoud Shaker Habishi, 48, from the Western Galilee village of Abu Sna'an, after receiving concrete information of his intention to carry out a suicide bombing. Security officials also knew of Habishi's contacts with Hamas terrorist Kais Adwan in Jenin. Adwan is responsible for sending a number of suicide bombers. The PA, however, ignored the request to apprehend both Habishi and Adwan, and at one point claimed that Habishi was not residing in areas under its control. Ten days ago, security forces raided Abu Sna'an and searched ...

x Community marks death By Heather MacDonald Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA -- Bearing candles and wiping away tears, nearly 500 people turned out in the Santa Clarita Valley for a Sunday evening vigil in honor of Hagop "Jake" Kuredjian, a beloved sheriff's deputy killed 10 days ago in a Stevenson Ranch shootout. With clutched hands and bowed heads, a pastor and a rabbi offered prayers of healing and hope before lighting candles held by the deputy's family members, who wept throughout the vigil. As a woman sang the mournful tune of "Amazing Grace," the deputy's family members turned to those ...

JERUSALEM (September 10) - Five Israelis were murdered and more than 100 wounded - most suffering from shock - in three terror attacks that rocked the nation yesterday. Suicide bombers struck Nahariya and the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, following a fatal drive-by shooting in the Jordan Valley. For the first time, an Israeli Arab perpetrated one of the suicide bombings, in Nahariya, after being recruited by Hamas in the West Bank. Israel accused Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat of instigating the attacks at a time when when preparations are under way to organize a meeting between him and ...

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The man who is accused of shooting Chicago police detective Joseph M. Airhart Jr. capitalized on a simple but increasingly common way to evade gun control laws: He had someone else buy the guns for him. The quick path that two powerful handguns allegedly made from the counter of a pawn shop in Benton Harbor, Mich., to the hands of Daniel Salley illustrates a critical gap in the nation's approach to controlling guns. Although Salley was barred from buying a gun because of a domestic violence conviction, he went twice to the same pawn shop to pick out a gun ...

A Hampshire man deliberately parked on double yellow lines to attract a traffic warden he'd fallen in love with.Colin O'Neill, 44, has now married Doris Lemon, 43.They met when she gave him a £30 ticket for leaving his car for two hours in a 30-minute area.He parked in illegal zones near his home in Denmead for weeks to attract her attention. He says he was attracted to her uniform and strict attitude.Mr O'Neill said: "This is my final booking. I'm well pleased. One of the things that attracted me to Doris was that she was very strict and heavy-handed. The ...

By necessity, most news reports about media consolidation are so dry and technical, they put even the most attentive readers to sleep. But while we slumber, the Bush administration is busy ceding huge chunks of the once-public electronic media to a handful of corporate execs. And when the moguls achieve market domination, they will no doubt exploit it by jacking up the price of our cable, Internet, and phone service, and running competitors and critics out of business. Given the speed of this consolidation—and the sudden flush of TV ads by Time Warner, AT&T, and Verizon—even the most apolitical ...

BUDAPEST, Sept 10 (AFP) - Hungary's national security cabinet chose Sweden's Gripen fighter aircraft over US F-16's to modernise its airfleet after joining NATO in 1999, Defense Minister Janos Szabo told a press conference Monday. "The national security cabinet decided that the Swedish government's offer is the most advantegeous from national security and, primarily, for economic reasons," said Szabo.

SKOPJE, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Macedonia will not agree to an extended NATO peace mission after the current one to collect weapons from ethnic Albanian guerrillas finishes at the end of this month, a senior government source said on Sunday. "Thanks to NATO but we can handle things. After the end of this mission they should leave," the source, who declined to be named, told Reuters. "At the moment there is no mood for accepting an extended military mission. Only civilian monitors are acceptable." The international community, concerned that violence could erupt again when NATO's 4,500 troops pull out ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christy Turlington...and Others to Be Honored with Redbook's Mothers & Shakers Awards Presented by Chevy TrailBlazer Hillary Rodham Clinton to Address Guests in Keynote Speech Honoring Women Who Make Change Happen on Monday, September 10th, 2001, at Avery Fisher Hall NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, September 10, 2001, Redbook in conjunction with Chevy TrailBlazer will present its fourth annual Mothers & Shakers awards at Avery Fisher Hall. This year's 12 honorees including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christy Turlington, Sarah Ferguson, Marlo Thomas, Heather Mills and Lilly Tartikoff, have made extraordinary contributions to health care -- ...

League of the South pushes separatist views By Matthew I. Pinzur Times-Union staff writer Jim Lear is waiting for the South to rise again, waiting like an old preacher waits for Jesus to return: patient, deliberate and certain. "We're setting up the base for an independent Southern republic," said Lear, the Northeast Florida chairman of the League of the South. "We're leaving this union." Secession is the cornerstone belief of the Alabama-based League, whose 9,000-plus members yearn for a new South where foreign aid ends and school prayer begins, where abortion is banned, where parents educate their own children and ...

Fenton - Six people sit around a table and the meeting of the Fenton Democratic Club is called to order. Here in the far southern end of Genesee County, Democrats' rallying cries echo no louder than a whisper. In ideology and geography, Fenton is closer to Republican-dominated Oakland County. The Democratic Club here is in its infancy, just 6 months old. The largest turnout at one of its meetings was 28 people. It's a start, said Ray Lord, former UAW Local 659 official and co-chairman of the Fenton club. "This is truly a grassroots organization. A lot of people claim ...

And tells outright lies in the process Angel Shamaya from , KeepAndBearArms.com with Action Steps below from Neal Seaman, GunControlVictories.com Karl Marx and George Orwell are nodding from their graves, smirks on their faces, as they witness Americans' tax dollars being used to destroy a fundamental American right. America's children are being brainwashed to not only be self-righteous Gun Bigots and defenseless sheep but to shun anyone who will not go down that same dark path. And they are being directly and criminally lied to through a system that includes tests and exercises to make sure their programming is complete. ...

Bigger may be better for many things, but not for schools, according to a report from the University of Minnesota. As the nation prepares to spend $84 billion on school construction over the next two years, the report argues that we're moving in the wrong direction. Schools should be smaller, it says. Much smaller. That flies in the face of the trend to supersize schools -- from building huge high schools in the suburbs to merging small elementary schools in cities and rural areas. The Minneapolis School District is preparing to close six very small schools to save money. But ...

In a recent issue of USA Today, there was an article detailing the increase of violent crime in Great Britain. The country from which we took up arms to gain our independence banned the private ownership of all handguns in 1997. Since then, they have seen a 40% rise in the violent use of handguns. Surprise! Surprise! Any law-abiding gun owner could have told them the eventual outcome of their hysteric and shortsighted action. Perhaps they could have learned the same thing from any member of the National Rifle Association. Moreover, they could have gained this same wisdom from the ...

WASHINGTON -- With members of the Senate's old guard dropping out of 2002 re-election campaigns, Republicans are facing a battle next year in a place they least expected: the South. So far this year, GOP Sens. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Phil Gramm of Texas have announced they will not run again in 2002. Sen. Fred Thompson, a Tennessee Republican, also has signaled he may retire. For Republicans struggling to regain their majority in the Senate, the departures mean the party will have to focus effort and resources to retain seats in the South ...

THE United Nations has another September problem now, smaller but in many ways more interesting than the race conference disaster in Durban, South Africa. The U.N. is wondering whether it should tinker with some abortion language to keep President Bush from boycotting next week's conference in New York on the rights of children. A roomful of diplomats stayed up half the night last Thursday scratching their heads about whether to fudge or clarify the code phrase "reproductive health services" in the text of the final declaration of the meeting. They did neither, though the Bush administration wants the phrase out. ...

Parents, beware. Every weekday morning, millions of kids go off to school, carrying a lunch packed by their moms. The classic ritual involves a sandwich, a lunchbox, a kid, a mom and a goodbye morning hug. But what do we really know about these women, these lunch-maker mothers, these mommies? Are they good mommies? Or are they bad mommies? I'm not asking. I don't care. And I wouldn't dare judge. As a husband and father, as a guy who works with editors and writers who are working mothers, I have nothing to say. But the makers of the revolutionary ...

<p>FILER TOWNSHIP, MICH. -- For Vicki Hoffman, the debate over drilling for oil and natural gas under the Great Lakes hits close to home.</p> <p>Just down a dirt road leading into the woods, in a clearing surrounded by a chain-link fence, is the wellhead of a pipeline that runs deep below Lake Michigan a quarter of a mile away.</p>