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<p>ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - Dr. Arnold Schwarzenegger?</p> <p>That's the latest title the movie star and political activist will pick up when he receives an honorary doctorate from Chapman University.</p> <p>University officials said Schwarzenegger will receive an honorary degree in humane letters during the Sunday ceremony at the Orange County campus.</p>

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The Catholic Church in New Zealand has revealed that 38 confirmed cases of sexual abuse have been committed by men in its ranks. In a landmark move, Catholic bishops and religious orders have lifted a veil of silence and told the Weekend Herald about previously secret investigations and payouts by church authorities. Amid international controversy about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and news of several New Zealand cases this week, senior church figures yesterday laid bare the extent of offending. They also admitted that their previous way of dealing with offenders was wrong. Church authorities said that under new...

<p>With no rain in site, firefighters at Arizona's Rodeo fire are concerned that the Chediski fire is just eight miles away.</p> <p>SHOW LOW, Arizona (CNN) -- Winds of 40 mph threatened to push two wildland fires together Friday in east central Arizona.</p>

Sean has previewed Tancredo to be on his radio show today.

<p>Setting the stage for a bitter budget fight, Assembly Republicans blocked passage Thursday of legislation billed as an important cog in solving the state's $23.6 billion shortfall.</p> <p>Republicans said they did not object philosophically to the proposal, SB 1830, but felt slighted in negotiations and wanted concessions.</p>

Don't Tread On Freedom by Judge Napolitano for The Balance Sheet (FNC) Andrew Napolitano Imagine the following scenario. You emigrated to the United States from a Third World country as a teenager and worked your way through school. Your wife and children were born here. You have a small business and a green card good for life. You have never broken the law. One day, the local police change the traffic laws and you can't drive your car to your business any longer. You have been kicked off an airplane flight because the local police are allowing some passengers to...

By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 21, 2002 -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld praised the broad coalition supporting the war on terrorism and said the new relationships forged in this war will help protect peace in the future. Rumsfeld spoke to reporters at the Foreign Press Center here. In addition to the war of terror, Rumsfeld also addressed Iran, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and U.S. objections to the International Criminal Court. Rumsfeld told the reporters that more than 180 nations have offered and provided assistance in the war on terrorism. Of that number,...

Teamsters President James Hoffa said on Friday he would ask the 500,000 truck operators covered by his union to take part in a grass-roots homeland security effort looking for suspicious activity on the roads. Talking to reporters on the White House driveway, Hoffa said he had pitched the idea to President Bush's director of homeland security, Tom Ridge. His comments came shortly before an FBI warning that terrorists may use fuel tanker trucks for attacks in the United States -- possibly on fuel depots, Jewish schools or synagogues -- or on U.S. interests overseas. Hoffa was among a group of...

HURRY UP AND EAT! As the $143 billion restaurant industry comes off its slowest year in a decade, it has a new item on the menu: shooing you out the door. To the dismay of diners who like to sit back and savor the cappuccino, high-end restaurants are turning to high-tech gadgets, efficiency experts and software to help cram as many customers into — and as much money out of — every single seating. The tactics go way beyond the usual glaring maitre d’. From reservation systems that automate a manager’s best guess of how long people will linger to...

It was early in the evening when the fire surged toward the homes in a mountain settlement called Turkey Rock, a raging orange hell of 50-foot-high flames that roared off a ridge, pushing a thick, super-heated cloud of soot and blazing embers. In moments such as these, when nature swings its heaviest fist, the human instinct to survive cries out. It is when ordinary people run. But Monday night, as the catastrophic Hayman fire raged across the parched Rocky Mountains just above our village, driven northward through Jefferson County by fierce and relentless winds, 19 members of the Colorado Springs...

By Eric V. Schlecht We all know Congress spends a lot of money. About $2 trillion in fiscal year 2002 alone. But not many Americans are aware of how much money Congress would spend if it were left to its own devices. A recent study by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) analyzes every bill introduced in Congress and tallies up the costs. The numbers are staggering. For instance, if every bill introduced in the Senate last year had passed, spending would have increased by a whopping $1 trillion a year. Not to be outdone, the House would have increased...

<p>The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel Contributed To This Report.</p> <p>A former Jefferson City priest who was dismissed from public ministry in 1999 in a sexual misconduct case has left his job as a greeter at Disney World in Orlando, Fla. -- at least partly because of intervention from Jefferson City diocesan officials.</p>

Gold believers wage war against dollar By Thom Calandra, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 11:00 AM ET June 21, 2002 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Give the gold bugs credit, they know a theme when they see one. Gold's believers, some of them held in high regard in financial circles, this week are waging all-out war against the dollar, which they sense is close to a decline of epic proportions. RBC Global Investment Management Inc., a division of Royal Bank of Canada, said in a research report, "The U.S. dollar has been levitating for a long time, but the underlying fundamentals continue to...

NEW YORK (AP) - A second television movie about John F. Kennedy Jr. is in the works, co-starring Jacqueline Bisset as his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Portia de Rossi of "Ally McBeal ( news - Y! TV)" as his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. TBS said Friday it's still looking for an actor to play the late son of the late U.S. president in "America's Prince: The JFK Jr. Story," based on Christopher Andersen's 2000 biography "The Day John Died." The movie from Fox TV studios is scheduled to air in December 2002 or January 2003. Last month, CBS announced...

Iowa man hoping to moooove into tiny cow business   The Associated Press ROCKWELL, Iowa (June 17, 2002 10:09 a.m. EDT) - Dustin Pillard is betting his farm on compact cows. Pillard has 50 tiny cows on his northern Iowa farm, all about 3 feet tall. He's hoping they'll catch on as pets, and so far inquiries have come in from as far as Europe, Mexico and Argentina. "I like them," said Pillard, 30. "If nobody else does, that doesn't really bother me. We're breeding just for the novelty end of it." The smallest full-grown animal is a 3-year-old...

<p>"I have in my hand a list of 67 known Communists employed at the State Department."</p> <p>The quote may not be exact and the number certainly isn't, because over time it fluctuated from as low as 39 to more than 200, depending on the speaker's mood, his blood alcohol level at the time and the enthusiasm of his audience.</p>

LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder has poked fun at her shoplifting arrest on Saturday Night Live, the MTV Movie Awards and the cover of W magazine, which featured her wearing a "Free Winona" T-shirt. Her publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said the actress - who has pleaded innocent to shoplifting and drug charges - has only been trying to be self-deprecating. "The jokes that were made were self-mocking," Buxbaum said. "She was trying to joke about herself and at no level was she trying to be disrespectful to the courts and legal system." Prosecutors aren't amused. "This is a criminal case, these...

MSNBC just announced he was apprehended in W. Virginia. Thats all for now.

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