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<p>Unlike his rivals for the presidency, the Connecticut Democrat can't campaign on Saturdays.</p> <p>Sen. Joe Lieberman's voice boomed out into the cavernous hall at the South Carolina Democratic Convention, but few people were listening. Most were focused on another presidential candidate, North Carolina's Sen. John Edwards.</p>

A New Muslim Country By Guy Milliere FrontPageMagazine.com | May 12, 2003 The Muslim Brotherhood is a forbidden movement in Egypt where it was born. It is a forbidden movement in the rest of the Arab-Muslim world. All the specialists speak of it as a dangerous, integrist Muslim movement that has only one aim: to take the political power and to impose Sharia, the Islamic law to whole countries. In France, it’s different: the Muslim Brotherhood can exist officially. Under its French name, Union of Islamic Organizations in France (UOIF), it is even an important part of the French Muslim...

U.S. sees North Korean leader's fear as asset Thom Shanker/NYT NYT Monday, May 12, 2003 WASHINGTON In the face of new evidence that Kim Jong Il, the leader of North Korea, has lived recently in fear of an American attack, Defense Department officials say they are contemplating ways to hold him and his inner circle at risk as a way of bolstering deterrence on the peninsula. According to intelligence reports, Kim vanished from public view for 50 days beginning just before the war to depose Saddam Hussein, a time when the Pentagon also moved bombers into the Korean area of...

Auschwitz survivor tells students about concentration camp horrors By Jackie Beranek , Herald-Standard 05/12/2003 When she turned 14 she was a thriving teenage girl living in Czechoslovakia with her mother, father and seven siblings When she turned 15 she was an emaciated 60-pound orphan, who had spent the last year of her life in a Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, witnessing the attempted genocide of Jews. There was total silence in the audience as Violet Weinberger of Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, told her story to upperclassmen at Frazier Senior High School. Weinberger, now 73, timidly told students that the holocaust...

The New York Times, America's most formidable - and critics would say "smuggest" - daily paper made an extraordinary public confession yesterday, unmasking one of its reporters as a serial plagiarist and fraud.Jayson Blair, a 27-year-old reporter, was exposed for dozens of cases of dishonesty and fiction in his stories, in what the newspaper called "a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper".The scandal, outlined in a four-page, 7,000-word exposé, revealed a bizarre pattern of deceit by Mr Blair and a complete failure by editors at the newspaper that regards itself as America's number one journal of...

Saturday, May 10, 2003 - In a move that took air gun retailers by surprise this past week, Google, the number one search engine in the world, cut off all paid advertisements for anyone that offers air guns for sale on their websites. These are the "pay-per-click" advertisements that appear on the top and right side of Google search engine pages identified as "Sponsored Links." Not only did Google abruptly end paid air gun advertisements from retailers, but all non-air gun advertisements as well, if it was found that the websites carried air guns for sale. In other words, if...

Peterson Defense Team Seeks Abduction WitnessPeterson Defense Team Seeks Abduction Witness Sunday, May 11, 2003 Laci Peterson (search) may have been abducted on Christmas Eve day, sources from Scott Peterson's defense team told Fox News. The defense sources say they have at least one witness who claims to have information that the pregnant woman was kidnapped on Dec. 24. Several neighbors said they saw a strange van in the area that day, parked near the Peterson home. The remains of Laci Peterson, 27, and her unborn son, Conner washed up in San Francisco Bay last month. Her husband Scott Peterson...

AIDS offers a clue in SARS fight Viruses seem to attack cells in the same fashion, expert says By Thomas Crampton (IHT) Monday, May 12, 2003 HONG KONG: The SARS virus appears to attack human cells in the same way that the AIDS virus does, which may give scientists clues about how to treat the respiratory disease, a leading AIDS researcher said Sunday. Preliminary tests conducted in laboratory samples of the SARS virus successfully used synthetic peptides to stop it from entering human cells, said the researcher, David Ho, who pioneered the use of an AIDS drug cocktail employing similar...

<p>SANTA FE -- About 340 workers at an Omaha plastics factory will lose pay or have to work next Saturday to make up for time lost during a visit by President Bush today to promote his ''jobs and growth plan,'' their boss said this weekend.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - Another former ABC News correspondent has stepped forward to accuse long-time World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings of inserting a liberal editorial bias in the news copy of reporters in the field. The charges leveled by Bob Zelnick, who spent 21 years at ABC News, follow revelations from former network correspondent Peter Collins, that Jennings manipulated news scripts during the 1980s in order to praise the Marxist-backed Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Zelnick, now the chairman of the journalism department at Boston University, left ABC News in 1998 after executives refused to renew his contract because they feared Zelnick's...

Last week, the high court decided to take the case from the appellate court level. The New Haven State’s Attorney’s office appealed a 2002 ruling by Superior Court Judge Lubbie Harper that prosecutors contend sets a frightening precedent that might allow anyone from ice cream vendors and traveling salesmen to pack heat in their vehicles. The high court is expected to consider the case in its next session, which begins in September. "It is not frequent (that the high court intercedes and takes a case) but it happens from time to time," said William F. Dow III, a New Haven-based...

WASHINGTON - The Senate's top Democrat vowed yesterday to continue blocking confirmation votes for two of President Bush's controversial judicial nominees. Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said Democrats will not drop the double filibuster of federal appellate court nominees Miguel Estrada and Priscilla Owen. "There are extreme cases when extreme judges deserve no more than a cloture vote," Daschle told NBC. The GOP has tried unsuccessfully six times to muster 60 votes needed to invoke cloture and end the filibusters. A simple majority in the 100-member Senate likely would confirm Estrada's lifetime appointment, but Daschle insisted that the White House...

The popular National Rifle Association defense “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” leaves out a key technicality: it’s the bullets that do the killing. This idea is at the heart of a new bill and resolution introduced last Friday by Councilman James Sanders (D-Laurelton) that seeks to make it harder for unlicensed rifle and shotgun owners to get ammunition. The Ammunition Control Act, co-sponsored by Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria), would require shotgun and rifle owners to present detailed information about their weapon—including make, model, manufacturer’s name and serial number—each time they purchase ammunition. Currently, rifle and shotgun owners...

Russia funding resurgent Taliban Monday May 12, 2003 (0048 PST) http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=24990 MOSCOW, May 12 (Online): Russia is funding the Taliban's guerrilla war against the American-backed government of Afghanistan, leaders of the fundamentalist group have claimed. In a move that carries echoes of attempts by the United States to undermine Soviet forces during their occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, Russian intelligence is now providing covert backing to a resurgent Taliban, senior figures in the extreme Islamic movement have alleged. The alarming claim will prove acutely embarrassing to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been trying to rebuild relations with the...

<p>EW YORK -- Considering all the extra charges on phone bills, the Universal Service tax might seem minor.</p> <p>Its reach is big, however: It covers the high cost of making it possible for Americans to talk from mountains, swamps, and other remote areas. It subsidizes phone bills for poor people and technology at schools and libraries.</p>

Word that President John F. Kennedy was involved with a teenage intern adds to his reputation as a skirt chaser. Kennedy also has been linked with ... mob moll Judith Exner ... Mary Pinchot Meyer ... and Marilyn Monroe, among others. President John F. Kennedy carried on an affair with a teenage White House intern and had sex with her on official trips and possibly in the White House, a noted historian said yesterday. More than three decades before Bill and Monica, JFK squired the attractive 19-year-old, who had only the barest of qualifications for an office job, said...

<p>ASHINGTON -- The first time the city of New London, Conn., seized Pasquale Cristofaro's home, it was to make way for a seawall that never materialized. Instead, private medical offices were built over the backyard plot where Cristofaro once grew tomatoes, squash, and grapes. Three decades later, when the city wanted to raze another Cristofaro family home to clear the way for a riverfront hotel, health club, and offices, the 77-year-old Italian immigrant dug in and fought back in court.</p>

<p>May 12, 2003 -- The men staffing the Iraqi Mission in Manhattan are working without a plan - or a leader - and there's no one to call for instructions even if the phones are working in Baghdad.</p> <p>Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime and the sudden departure of Ambassador Mohammed al Douri from the East 79th Street offices, the suited men in the four-story building are sitting around waiting to serve the people of Iraq.</p>

<p>Doubts have surfaced about a handful of stories Blair wrote for the Globe during a brief stint as a freelance reporter from late 1998 to early 1999, just before he was hired by the Times, and during summer internships in 1996 and 1997. The Globe's editor, Martin Baron, said the paper will continue its investigation to determine whether there are problems in other stories.</p>

<p>May 12, 2003 -- Hillary Rodham Clinton is going for another Grammy.</p> <p>Insiders say the New York senator has been secretly recording a breathy audiobook version of her intimate, long-awaited account of her White House years - and the Democrat could soon be up for another recording-industry award.</p>