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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- An upstate New York college is being urged to cancel a speaking engagement by a man who has compared victims of the World Trade Center attacks to Nazis. Hamilton College has invited Ward Churchill to take part in a panel discussion next month. Churchill is chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he called the victims "little Eichmanns," comparing them to Adolf Eichmann, the architect of Hitler's plan to eradicate Europe's Jews. In his essay, the professor said the victims worked for a "mighty...

NAACP Blocks Paige Invitation to Speak Saturday September 11, 2004 2:01 AM CLEVELAND (AP) - The state NAACP has withdrawn a convention speaking invitation to U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige at the request of the group's national office. Paige, who was invited three weeks ago to discuss education reforms, was cut from the weekend program at the request of the national office, Ohio NAACP President Sybil Edwards-McNabb said Thursday. The state meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People opened Friday in Cleveland. Edwards-McNabb said national NAACP leaders told her there was an ``imbalance'' in her slate...

Does the thought of tropical islands, shimmering bays, powdery white beaches, warm azure waters, towering green hills, languorous climate, unsurpassed shopping and enjoying fine food for an entire week turn you on? The Free Republic Network (FRN) is sponsoring a seven-day Caribbean cruise on Holland America's "Zuiderdam" from May 22-29 - and you're invited to join this tropical getaway. The ship departs Ft. Lauderdale with stops at the alluring islands of Tortola, St. Thomas and Nassau. We'll also visit the cruise line's own private Caribbean island, Half Moon Cay, for a day of waters sports, a fabulous luau buffet, steel...

Bush keeps France waiting over D-Day commemoration By Kim Willsher in Paris (Filed: 15/02/2004) The official invitation has been lying in his in-tray for several months, but President George W. Bush has failed to let the French know whether he will attend the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings in June. France's president, Jacques Chirac, is expecting at least 15 heads of state to be present at the commemorations marking the decisive Allied offensive against the Germans in Normandy on June 5, 6 and 7. British guests will include the Queen, the Prince of Wales and Tony Blair, all of...

JUST before his September 11 attacks on the US, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden sent a friendly invitation to the now imprisoned Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. "Greetings from Osama bin Laden," the extremist leader said in the invitation, apparently forwarded to Indonesia via Jemaah Islamiah ringleader Hambali. Known as al-Qaeda's linkman in Asia, Hambali was then in Afghanistan for unclear reasons. He passed the verbal message on to Mohammad Rais - a detained Jemaah Islamiah operative who was then heading to Indonesia. "Osama bin Laden invites Ustad Abu Bakar Bashir to come to Afghanistan if the conditions for Ustad...

KENNEDALE, Texas — It's 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon, and inside a windowless adult video store a dozen people are perusing XXX-rated movie titles. Pastor Jim Norwood surmises this because he has photographed the customers' cars in the parking lot, carefully adjusting his digital camera so that each license plate is in focus. Each car owner will soon get a postcard in the mail from Norwood's Oakcrest Family Church. On the front will be a color photo of their vehicle in the video store parking lot. On the back will be a note: "Observed you in the neighborhood. Didn't know...

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has extended to Georgian President-elect Mikheil Saakashvili an invitation by the US President George Bush to visit the USA on 25 February. Speaking at a news briefing ahead of the inaugural ceremony in Tbilisi, Colin Powell said that the US president and the people of the USA looked forward to Mikheil Saakashvili's visit. "President Bush is looking forward to meeting the new president as soon as possible and I have extended to the new president President Bush's invitation for him to visit the United States on 25 February," Powell said. "The president, all of...

Fox Accepts Invitation to Bush Ranch Tuesday January 13, 2004 1:16 AM By ELOY O. AGUILAR Associated Press Writer MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Mexican President Vicente Fox on Monday accepted an invitation to visit President Bush's Texas ranch in March, another sign that the two leaders' sometimes rocky relationship is on the mend. After Fox took office in 2001, he made Fox's ranch his first international trip. Both leaders, who share a love of cowboy boots and rural life, said they wanted to focus on strengthening relations. But when Bush declined to halt the 2002 execution of a Mexican man...

A FReeper Wedding - and You Are Invited! Dear FReeper FRiends, On Monday, December 15th, 2003, my wife and I will be celebrating 10 years of marriage by renewing our vows at a small ceremony in Las Vegas, NV, and I would like to extend an invitation to all of my FReeper FRiends! There are two ways you can be there to share this wonderful moment - if you happen to be in Vegas, FReepmail me and I will provide the time, address, etc. Otherwise, you can attend virtually! Our ceremony will be broadcast live on the Internet. If you...

/begin my translation Clinton invited Kim Jong-Il, but Kim refused The former president Kim Dae-Jung disclosed that the former American president Bill Clinton invited chairman Kim Jong-Il for U.S. visit. But N. Korea refused. In his interview on KBS (TV program) "Sunday Special," the former president Kim recollected the time toward the end of Clinton presidency when U.S.-N. Korean dialogue was at its peak. He revealed, "President Clinton sent me a letter. In it he invited chairman Kim to visit U.S.. But he refused to go." He went on to say, "Why did he not go? He should have. He...

Pentagon Muslims Angered by Rev. Graham Invitation WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Muslims at the Pentagon are incensed by what they say is an insensitive invitation to evangelist Rev. Franklin Graham, who has called Islam an "evil religion," to preach on Good Friday at the Defense Department. In letters to the Pentagon chaplain's office this week, Muslim office workers complained strongly about Graham's plans to lead prayers on Friday, one of the most religious days in the Christian calendar. The letters urged officials to find a "more inclusive and honorable" religious leader to take his place. A spokesman for Graham, son of...

<p>The Bush administration is preparing for war against Iraq, saying Iraq could develop or acquire weapons of mass destruction that might be used against the United States. But it has done almost nothing since the Sept. 11 attacks to address what is widely seen as a greater danger: terrorists stealing a tactical nuclear weapon from Russia.</p>