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A new e-mail sent to various newspapers in Pakistan and abroad described as "fake" an earlier e-mail that said kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl had been executed.

Clear Channel Returning to Internet Streaming Updated: Mon, Jun 18 10:13 AM EDT By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Leading radio broadcaster Clear Channel Communications Inc. (CCU) said on Monday it will resume broadcasting some of its stations' content on the Internet by using technology that allows Internet-only ads and avoids a contractural dispute with radio union workers. With the use of ad-insertion technology for its streaming audio Web sites provided by privately held Hiwire Inc., Clear Channel will return some of the 1,170 radio stations that it owns or operates to the Internet next month after a two-month ...

Third-Grader Suspended for Drawing Soldier Saturday, March 24, 2001 WEST MONROE, Louisiana — A Louisiana third-grader has earned an in-school suspension for drawing an armed soldier. The principal at Lenwill Elementary School in West Monroe says the picture of a soldier holding a canteen and a knife was upsetting to other students. The boy also drew a fort listing stocked inventory that included guns, knives and first aid kits. The principal says the school "can't tolerate anything that has to do with guns or knives." But the eight-year-old honor student's father says the drawing was a tribute to a relative ...

Whitney Heiress: She'll Stop Donations Because of Holocaust-Themed Art The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - An art installation connecting Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Nazis at an upcoming Whitney Museum exhibit has angered one of the museum's benefactors, who says she'll stop giving the institution money. The piece, "Sanitation," by Hans Haacke, upset 73-year-old heiress Marylou Whitney so much that she has told the museum director that in addition to halting donations, she'll quit its national fund-raising board as well. According to the museum, Ms. Whitney is one of about 60 members of the museum's national committee, each of whom ...

Starr's Star Power As Lawyer Waning 2.50 p.m. ET (2001 GMT) November 21, 1999 NEW YORK — Former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr would take a 60 percent pay cut if he decides to return to his old law firm, an indication that his former partners doubt his ability to recruit new clients. The New Yorker magazine reports in its Nov. 29 issue. When Starr left the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in 1998, he was at the top of the salary range for partners, now about $2 million a year, according to excerpts from the article. But Starr was ...

HILL TO HOST GALA FOR PRO-PALESTINIAN GROUP By GREGG BIRNBAUM First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is hosting a fund-raiser next month for a group pushing to establish a Palestinian state with part of Jerusalem as its capital, officials said yesterday. On the heels of her botched Middle East trip, Clinton’s leading role in the $500-a-person gala for Americans for Peace Now on Dec. 6 in Manhattan is likely to further complicate her efforts to broaden her support among New York’s Jewish voters, observers say. it couldn’t come at a worse time, said one Democrat. It creates serious problems for ...

HILL TO HOST GALA FOR PRO-PALESTINIAN GROUP By GREGG BIRNBAUM First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is hosting a fund-raiser next month for a group pushing to establish a Palestinian state with part of Jerusalem as its capital, officials said yesterday. On the heels of her botched Middle East trip, Clinton’s leading role in the $500-a-person gala for Americans for Peace Now on Dec. 6 in Manhattan is likely to further complicate her efforts to broaden her support among New York’s Jewish voters, observers say. it couldn’t come at a worse time, said one Democrat. It creates serious problems for ...

Turk Police Beat, Arrest Anti-Clinton Protesters Updated 8:43 AM ET November 15, 1999 ANKARA (Reuters) - Police broke up a leftist anti-American protest in Ankara's main square Monday as President Clinton began a visit to Turkey, state-run Anatolian news agency reported. Television pictures showed riot police beating demonstrators and forcing them on to waiting police buses before taking them to police headquarters. "Many people were arrested," Anatolian said, without giving a precise number. The protesters from a number of small leftist parties and trade unions, had shouted such slogans as "Yankee, go home" and "Get lost Clinton," it added. Clinton ...

U.N. chief will throw first pitch at Tuesday's World Series game 7.27 a.m. ET (1135 GMT) October 23, 1999 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — His pitch is usually to make peace, but on Tuesday U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be pitching the first ball in the World Series game between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees. Annan, who played soccer during his youth in Ghana and now plays tennis, has been practicing to get the pitch right, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Friday. The secretary-general was asked a few months ago by major league officials to throw out the ...

It has become a non event except for postal employees, Columbus Day has been all but removed from mention in today's society what next MLK day, yeah sure. I bet most people are wondering where is the mail or how come my garbage hasn't been picked up.