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Honor to Gila GABRIEL DANZIG Jun. 24, 2002 There is a reason why civilized countries punish the many for the actions of the few Last week, we heard the kind of news thousands of us have heard over the past few years, that one of our very dearest, most cherished friends had been killed by a Palestinian terrorist. We had known Gila Kessler since she was a girl of eight or nine. Even then her beautiful smile and charm made everyone love her, and as she grew up she lost none of her charm. She visited our house often, babysitting...

As July 4 approaches, people are hunkering down, waiting for the terrorists to strike, whether with nerve gas in the subways, fuel trucks plowing into synagogues, bombs carried in kayaks, or assaults by fighters swimming to their targets in scuba suits. "They could hit us any day," Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, tells the nation. According to various recent reports, over the past two months perhaps as many as 25 terrorists have slipped into the U.S. as stowaways. Osama bin Laden himself was reportedly last seen in April in northeastern Afghanistan, and is expected to...

<p>Byron Hestervold writes letters and makes phone calls to lawmakers, prosecutors and pediatricians, urging them to mandate that safety literature be handed out with every firearm or ammunition sale.</p> <p>Common Sense about Kids and Guns distributes fliers with safety tips for parents who keep guns in their homes.</p>

It was the first day of school and a new student named Suzuki, the son of a Japanese businessman, entered the fourth grade. The teacher said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American history. Who said "Give me Liberty, or give me Death?" She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Suzuki. "Patrick Henry, 1775." He said. "Very good! Who said 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth'?" Again, no response except from Suzuki: "Abraham Lincoln, 1863." The teacher snapped at the class, "Class, you should be ashamed. Suzuki, who is...

<p>Heartening Republicans, two new polls suggest U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli is in for a fight this fall.</p> <p>At the same time, the candidates began airing radio ads attacking each other in a prelude to what looms as a hard-edged campaign.</p>

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The man suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks lived lavishly in the Philippines with his nephew, the 1993 World Trade Center plotter, partying, scuba-diving and renting a helicopter as they planned attacks against Americans, according to a former police official who investigated al-Qaida. U.S. counterterrorism officials have said that since Sept. 11, evidence has mounted that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was chief among Osama bin Laden lieutenants organizing the plot that sent hijacked passenger jets crashing into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing more than 3,000 people. Abu Zubaydah -- a...

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US polygamist convicted of child rape An avowed polygamist who practically dared prosecutors to go after him was convicted of child rape for impregnating a 13-year-old who later became his wife. District Judge Donald Eyre took just 30 minutes to convict Tom Green for his relationship with Linda Kunz, who is now his legal wife. Green's non-jury trial lasted about an hour. Green has appeared on TV talk shows, including the Sally Jessy Raphael Show, to talk about his many wives. Prosecutors submitted Kunz's testimony from previous hearings, as well as her 1973 birth certificate and the 1986 birth certificate...

COME ALL YE flame-eaters, snake charmers, stilt-walkers, tall-bikers, unicyclists, jugglers dancers, poets, puppeteers, clowns, costumers, performing artists, video artists, sound artists, light artists, artists of any kind, gamers, dreamers, builders, theatricians, poster/zine/book makers, movers and shakers, bakers, alarmists, thinkers, logistic kings and queens, researchers, organizers, creators and activists: 2 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS: PROPAGANDIZING AGAINST PROPAGANDA How to be sensitive within the social/political landscape + be able to communicate dissenting ideas and gestures. And . . . discuss participation in “The Good American” + CIRKUS TENT events for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival August 30 - September 8. AT THE CIRKUS TENT...

Posted on Sun, Jun. 23, 2002 Soldier held on $110,000 bond in explosives theft Army Spc. Ricky Todd Godsey, who was charged Friday in connection with the theft of 300 sticks of explosives from Robinson Paving Co., was still being held Saturday in the Muscogee County Jail.Godsey, 23, was charged with felony theft by taking and possession of destructive devices in the materials discovered missing on May 23 in Columbus. The Fort Benning soldier was ordered held on $110,000 bond after a Recorder's Court hearing.On Friday, authorities said another soldier, Spc. Billy J. Pitzen, 20, of Columbus, also was...

Sign Threatens Potential Car Thieves Homeowner Within Legal RightsPosted:4:23 p.m. CDT June 24, 2002 Updated: 4:38 p.m. CDT June 24, 2002BAYTOWN, Texas -- A Baytown, Texas, man wants thieves to leave his property alone, so he's hoping a threatening sign will get his point across. The plywood sign says, "To the thugs that keep stealing my property: Warning, if caught you will be shot." It sits in Mark Totten's front yard on Danubina Street. Totten said vehicles on his property have been broken into five times in the past six months. His wife's car was hit twice -- in...

June 25, 2002Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Tuesday Week 29 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading I2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent envoys to Hezekiahwith this message: "Thus shall you say to Hezekiah, king of Judah:‘Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive youby saying that Jerusalem will not be handed overto the king of Assyria.You have heard what the kings of Assyria have doneto all other countries: they doomed them! Will you, then, be saved?'" Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it;then...

Can I get away with asking the good folks on FR for recommendations? I'm going to be setting up a non-profit, education related, web site. So I'm looking for recommendations. I need to register a domain name. What do I need to consider in choosing a domain name registrar? There are many out there. What are the differences? Are there any that you recommend? And I will need to find an outfit to host e-mail and the web site. The web pages will be linked, by a program, to a database. A host running IIS would probably be the most...

<p>An increasingly nasty brawl in the California GOP is quickly spinning into a public embarrassment that some Republicans say threatens the party's biggest goal -- electing businessman Bill Simon governor.</p> <p>The troubles involve state party chairman Shawn Steel and conservative backers who have focused their wrath on influential presidential adviser Gerald Parsky -- architect of a Republican reorganization designed to help the state GOP better appeal to moderates, women and Latinos.</p>

<p>One in three Americans say the United States is winning the war on terrorism, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll.</p> <p>Half say the war is at a stalemate.</p> <p>Public confidence that the United States and its allies are winning has slipped to 33%, the lowest level since Sept. 11.</p>

COME ALL YE flame-eaters, snake charmers, stilt-walkers, tall-bikers, unicyclists, jugglers dancers, poets, puppeteers, clowns, costumers, performing artists, video artists, sound artists, light artists, artists of any kind, gamers, dreamers, builders, theatricians, poster/zine/book makers, movers and shakers, bakers, alarmists, thinkers, logistic kings and queens, researchers, organizers, creators and activists: 2 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS: PROPAGANDIZING AGAINST PROPAGANDA How to be sensitive within the social/political landscape + be able to communicate dissenting ideas and gestures. And . . . discuss participation in “The Good American” + CIRKUS TENT events for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival August 30 - September 8. AT THE CIRKUS TENT...

The room in the Rayburn House Office Building where congressional staffers on the Judiciary Committee were to have received a briefing on Visa Express from State Department officials yesterday afternoon sat empty. No, the event did not suffer from lack of demand. In fact, quite the contrary: A large number of staffers were planning to cut away from their busy schedules to learn more about the program that let in three of the Sept. 11th hijackers in the three months it was in operation before 9/11 in just one country: Saudi Arabia. At 2:25pm Friday, an e-mail went out to...

NATO's Kosovo mission failed By Scott Taylor ON TARGET Mitrovica, Kosovo - IT HAS BEEN three years since NATO troops first rolled into Kosovo and the last of the Yugoslav security forces withdrew from this embattled province. At that juncture, the western media hailed NATO's intervention as the "liberation of Kosovo" and a victory for Albanian Kosovars. Many misguided military analysts proclaimed the campaign to be "proof" that overwhelming air power alone was sufficient to win modern wars. In actual fact, unexpected Serbian defiance and the inability of NATO aircraft to locate and destroy the Yugoslav military had forced NATO...

There is little good news from the anti-terror front these days. The whereabouts of Osama bin Laden are still unknown; the entrenched Washington bureaucracy is fighting the new proposal for a Cabinet-level homeland defense department; and al-Qaida has regrouped to foment jihad in Kashmir, the area hotly contested by two new nuclear powers, India and Pakistan.In other words, world affairs remain depressing.Still, there was this small notice mixed in with recent news about reorganizing and retooling the FBI: The agency will scale back its efforts in the so-called war on drugs. It comes as a relief --- a bit of...

ROME, June 25 (AFP) - A major terrorist attack is certain to hit the West "sooner or later", Italian Defense Minster Antonio Martino said Tuesday. "We know for certain that a terrorist attack of major proportions will sooner or later hit the West. We do not know where, nor which shape it will take," Martino said. He said there was no clear indication of where precisely the target of an attack would be. "The United States? Europe? Italy? And if it is Italy, where and when? There are too many things that we do not know," he said. "Personally,...