Free Republic

It's hard to imagine greater courage than taking to the streets to protest against a heavily armed repressive regime that is willing to kill you in cold blood. For the more than 35,000 - and up to 80,000 Iranians who paid with their lives for showing this courage in January, the hope now is that they did not die in vain. Yet as the war the war enters its third week, the dreams of so many Iranians that their odious regime will collapse are hanging in the balance. The joint US-Israeli attacks have done much to weaken the regime militarily,...

A man accused of swindling $80,000 from a Georgia woman he met online has been arrested in Tennessee -- and is wanted in other states for similar scams, authorities said. John Martin Hill, 35, connected with the woman from Alpharetta, Georgia, on Match.com in late March, the Gwinnett County Police Department said Wednesday. Hill took the woman out on a date the same day they met, and the two agreed to get married within a week of meeting, authorities said. He told the woman he's a millionaire, and they decided to invest in a love nest. The woman gave her...

80,000 to Travel to Beijing Despite SARS By JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer BEIJING - China announced Friday it would let 80,000 students travel to the capital next month to take college entrance exams, showing a burst of optimism following the decline of new SARS cases in Beijing hospitals. As the global death toll climbed to 515, the World Health Organization declared that SARS was much more deadly than initially believed. A new study Friday suggested that the virus may have been in humans longer than previously thought. China reported six more SARS fatalities and 118 new cases Friday —...