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Columnist: Davis attacked female workers Accuses L.A. Times of bias after last-minute dish on Schwarzenegger Posted: October 6, 2003 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Accusing the Los Angeles Times of tabloid tactics by publishing unsubstantiated allegations about Arnold Schwarzenegger on the eve of the California recall election, a columnist said the paper has been sitting on information Gov. Gray Davis is an "office batterer." Los Angeles-based political commentator Jill Stewart, a Democrat, said Davis "has attacked female members of his staff, thrown objects at subservients and launched into red-faced fits, screaming the f-word until staffers cower." Weeks ago, the...

The United States will next week appoint a former head of Shell Oil to run Iraq's oil industry, it was reported today. "The US Government is setting up Iraq's oil industry to run much like an American corporation, with a chief executive and management team vetted by US officials who would answer to a multinational board of advisers," the Wall Street Journal Europe reported.The advisory board would be chaired by Philip J Carroll, a former chief executive of Shell Oil, the US unit of the Dutch-British oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell, the newspaper reported.Mr Carroll would work closely with an Iraqi...

<p>''THE NOVEL is a Protestant art form, requiring the free play of the mind,'' George Orwell wrote. ''There are few Catholic novelists who are any good, and most of them are bad Catholics.'' Orwell did not know the work of Walker Percy or Flannery O'Connor. I'll leave assessments of my own novels to others, but in truth I can't read that phrase ''bad Catholic'' without a shudder. What is a bad Catholic anyway?</p>

Perhaps you remember George W. Bush's innocent use of the word "crusade" six months ago, and perhaps you recall the furor it provoked. Commentators around the globe quickly pounced: Why, the word is a provocation, they insisted. It will rattle Muslim moderates and confirm the worst fears of the radicals who hate us so. There are two things to keep in mind, however, about Bush's use of "crusade": He meant it in the familiar secular sense, not as a synonym for holy war. And he never used it again. Now comes Yasser Arafat, one week ago today, exhorting Palestinians to...