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Paying the piper Rock legends not afraid to charge hundreds of dollars for seats By Thor Christensen The Dallas Morning NewsRock 'n' roll flourished in the Aquarian age of free love and low-priced concerts. But the cheap thrills are long gone. Concert ticket prices are skyrocketing - especially for bands born in the anti-materialist '60s. The Rolling Stones are charging a jaw-dropping $350 for the best seats to their U.S. tour; the top tickets on Paul McCartney's just-ended tour sold for $250. And as prices rise, so does tension between disgruntled music fans who cry "sellout" and the musicians who...

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A ground-breaking settlement DANIEL BEN-TAL Jun. 23, 2002 In the Gilboa hills, a new kind of ecologically-aware Jewish settlement is being set up within the Green Line. On taking up the post of construction and housing minister last year, Natan Sharansky was surprised to learn that no new Jewish settlements were planned inside pre-1967 Israel before 2020. Sharansky decided to renew "this historic Zionist project" and proclaimed his intention to renew the ministry's village-building activities after a hiatus of more than a decade. Two weeks ago, he announced plans to establish 12 new Jewish villages within the Green Line in...

The SCETV televised debate between the two SC Republican governor candidates Mark Sanford and Bob Peeler just completed. This thread is to engage in commentary about who performed better in the debate and who would be the best candidate this fall.

Sunday, June 22,2002 -- Seven days, the state budget, the Sixties, Ken Kesey and the insane. People who do not live in Oregon don't know what they're missing. I almost missed it myself. Didn't catch this seminal program on its Friday, Oregon Public Broadcasting, appearance. Was trying to start my Fiat on Sunday afternoon when the show reran. But, knowing I'd get a column out of this one, the Spyder wisely refused to start...(snip) The important item on this program was their discussion about the insane. This was a classic. It was stimulated by the Supreme Court's recent decision to...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's arbitrating body has approved a reformist law increasing the minimum marriage age from 9 to 13 for girls and from 14 to 15 for boys. The new law stipulates that marriage of girls under 13 and boys under 15 will require court permission, the government-run daily Iran reported on Sunday. It gave no further details. The law's approval is seen as a victory for Iran's reformists, who have sought to promote women's rights. The elected legislature passed a similar bill in August 2000, but the hard-line Guardian Council rejected it as contradicting Islamic sharia law....

The danger of an armed conflict between India and Pakistan may have lessened but their propaganda war has heightened. Mobilizing troops may have cost India more but it is a small price to pay to win on the propaganda front, which indeed it has. New Delhi has succeeded in making the world believe that the cause of discontent and bloodletting in Kashmir is not the repression by India but the terrorists coming from Pakistan. The long-standing issue of the people's right to self-determination has thus been reduced to terrorism. What turn of opinion and events could be sadder for a...

After church services this morning, President Bush hosted another tee ball game on the south lawn of the White House. The President also marked the 30th anniversary of Title IX, the law that that requires schools receiving federal money to provide equal opportunities for men and women. Bush will be attending the G-8 summit later this week in Canada. Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya!

Cabinet: Kahan Committee report appendix to remain secret for now Herb Keinon Jun. 24, 2002 The cabinet voted yesterday to keep the secret appendix to the report by the Kahan Committee which investigated the 1982 massacres in Sabra and Shatilla secret, at least for another five years. By a vote of 9-7, the cabinet decided to adopt the recommendations of a special committee set up last year and comprised of members of the security services to decide whether this appendix should be made public. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whom the Kahan Commission found in 1983 bore indirect responsible for the...

MIAMI – The Miccosukee Indian tribe bought advertisements in Florida newspapers and the Washington Post this weekend defending the purchase of several hundred acres of environmentally sensitive land. Environmentalists and water managers say the purchase could interfere with Everglades restoration. The purchase of 223 acres of land between a Miami-Dade urban area and the Everglades for an estimated $8.4 million has caused South Florida Water Management District officials to wonder if the tribe is for them or against them. The district wants the land to reduce water loss from Everglades National Park, provide more flood protection to the urban area...

Palestinians have seldom faced a worse, or a more seminal, moment, writes Edward Said. How, then, might it be grasped? Six distinct calls for Palestinian reform and elections are being uttered now: five of them are, for Palestinian purposes, both useless and irrelevant. Sharon wants reform as a way of further disabling Palestinian national life, that is, as an extension of his failed policy of constant intervention and destruction. He wants to be rid of Yasser Arafat, cut up the West Bank into fenced-in cantons, re-install an occupation authority -- preferably with some Palestinians helping out -- carry on with...

- Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers entered Ramallah early Monday, and began to surround Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's shell-shattered compound.

PAM EASTON, Associated Press WriterSunday, June 23, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/06/23/state2022EDT0084.DTL (06-23) 17:22 PDT SUGAR LAND, Texas (AP) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined the 49th descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, Prince Karim Aga Khan, in opening a new Ismaili Muslim worship and cultural center Sunday just south of Houston. Aga Khan is considered a progressive Muslim leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims. The new Houston center houses the national offices of the Ismaili Council for the United States and will serve the 15,000 Ismailis who call Houston home. "Nine eleven has scarred America, but not...

Salt Lake City authorities trying to solve the kidnapping case of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart were able to glean "helpful" information from a young drifter hospitalized in West Virginia, police said on Sunday. But Bret Michael Edmunds, who was the subject of a nationwide search before he turned up at City Hospital in Martinsburg last week, is still not considered a suspect after undergoing two days of questioning in an intensive care unit guarded by U.S. marshals. "At this time, he's still a witness. All along, that's all we wanted to talk to him about," said Salt Lake City Police Sgt....

Note, this is not reported at the URL cited above. On "The McLaughlin Group" this weekend, Pat Buchanan, when asked if he was Deep Throat, said something to the effect that he did not hang out in garages and that he believes that Deep Throat was a fictional composite source...I guess this was a denial...

The head of the US Senate intelligence committee on Sunday said Washington believes Osama bin Laden is hiding out in western Pakistan, hours after an Al-Qaeda spokesman said bin Laden is alive and warned the United States to "fasten its seat belt" for more attacks. "Our best intelligence estimate continues to be that he is alive and probably someplace in those tribal areas on the western side of Pakistan," Senator Bob Graham told Fox television. Earlier on Sunday, Suleiman Abu Ghaith -- a spokesman for bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, which has been blamed for the September 11 attacks on US...

CNN will no longer give air time to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers "unless there is a compelling reason to do so," Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive and news gathering president, told The Jerusalem Post. Jordan said he issued the directive last week. "We want to make sure there is no suggestion of moral equivalence between victims and perpetrators [of terrorism]," he explained yesterday. The change in policy was prompted by an incident three weeks ago, when CNN broadcast less than a minute of an extensive interview with the wounded Israeli woman who lost her mother and daughter...

Working class hen parties strike fear in city’s gaysBy Nigel Bunyan(Filed: 24/06/2002) The popularity of Manchester’s “gay village” as a venue for hen nights is upsetting the locals, according to researchers.Members of the gay community say they feel threatened by the behaviour of visiting working class women from the Wythenshawe and Salford areas.Researchers at Manchester University found that the residents sometimes feel under siege in an area that in recent years they have largely made their own.Levels of drunkenness and rowdiness have become so high in the heart of the village, around Canal Street - which is the setting for...

I noticed my self search page no longer has the name of the person I poster to . And on the responses to me it has a number of the people on the list but no names. Is this a permanent change?

Tokyo stocks will likely move lower next week as the slump on Wall Street continues to pressure leading issues, but many analysts are predicting the key Nikkei index will remain above the psychologically-important 10,000 line. Analysts predict the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average will move between 10,000 and 10,800 next week, after trading between 10,325.55 and 10,888.04 this past week. The bellwether index ended the week at 10,354.35, its lowest close since Feb 26. The figure was down from the previous week's finish of 10,920.63, the lowest close since March 1. The broader Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) of all First...