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Western steakhouses struggle Pinnacle Peak growth encroaches Mike Rynearson/The Arizona Republic Greasewood Flat owner Doc Cavalliere sits in his regular chair at the bar of his Western tavern in north Scottsdale. Old dollar bills cover the ceiling and walls of the place. By Peter CorbettThe Arizona RepublicFeb. 23, 2002 In Greasewood Flat's dusty parking lot, gleaming Harleys line up along Benzes and Beemers outside the historic hideaway near Pinnacle Peak. Only the occasional faded pickup seems to match the saloon's gritty character. But this is north Scottsdale, where the city's barbed-wire roots hold tight against a stiff wind of upscale ...

Is this article The "reason" for Berkley's stolen papers?? MEChA: Student Funded Bigotry and Hate? It is without doubt that Marxian class-conflict theory is the dominant theory and political orthodoxy in the classroom, in the curriculum and on the campus of U.C. Berkeley. Our university – the “marketplace of ideas” – has in fact become a monopoly, run by a pedantic autocracy armed with an iron fist that crushes academic freedom. For in the classroom, individual identity is stripped from the student through university-imposed group identity tactics that use gender, race and ethnicity as a means to lump students into ...

Gone With the War?Ideas whose time has passed. By Victor Davis Hanson, author most recently of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power.February 1, 2002 8:20 a.m.   ver the last few months we have heard a litany of politically correct lamentations: The orcs were too predictably dark in Lord of the Rings, fiction which employed a "good" North and West against an "evil" East and South. The Somalians of Black Hawk Down were all black, their American opponents nearly all white. The photo of the three white firemen at Ground Zero should be transmogrified, ...

A 70-year-old Israeli man was lynched in Bethlehem today. His body was found with signs of severe and brutal violence in a soccer field in PLO-controlled Beit Sachur. The man also held American citizenship. PLO naval police, who man a nearby roadblock, were eyewitnesses to the lynch but did nothing. The victim entered Bethlehem with an Arab acquaintance, who apparently reported the lynch to Israel security forces. Lieut.-Col Sharon Levy, commander of the Bethlehem District Coordinating Office, told Israel Radio that when they received reports of an Israeli in distress, they checked with the PLO police who denied that any ...

Glitch halts Windows XP updates By Reuters January 14, 2002, 7:20 p.m. PT http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8484261.html?tag=prntfr Engineers are working to fix a glitch in a Microsoft Web server that has prevented Windows XP users from downloading software updates, including a patch for a security hole, a company spokeswoman said Monday. The problem, discovered last Thursday, was created when engineers attempted to update software on a server, she said, adding that it is expected to be corrected before Tuesday. The spokeswoman said she could not confirm the number of people affected by the problem, but said about 8 million people download Windows ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 — The military tribunals that may be used to try Al Qaeda members and others accused of terrorism will require a unanimous verdict to impose a death penalty, although a two-thirds vote of the panel of military officers will be enough to find someone guilty, according to rules drafted by senior Bush administration officials. In addition, the draft regulations stipulate that a defendant is presumed innocent and that the military panel may find someone guilty only after deciding that the proof of guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt, the highest standard of proof and the one used ...

What the heck is up with all these freepers hanging on every note this hack sings? For some folks, all of a sudden he's gone from a Clinton butt-boy to the best reporter in the TV news business. Is it just because the do-no-wrong Fox News Channel has picked him up, or because they like his cheesy mustache? Sheesh!

GOTTA SEE THIS - Strike Videos from Enduring Freedom Released DoD News Briefing, Wednesday, 14 Nov 2001 - 2:00 pm A Taliban Tank Platoon (2.5 MB) A Taliban Facility (1.9 MB) Multiple Hits on a Group of Armored Vehicles( 1.7 MB) A Truck (2.1 MB)

Israeli morale at all-time lowas search for answers goes on By Jessica Steinberg JERUSALEM, March 12 (JTA) #151; As a wave of terror attacks and shootings shake the usual shrug-it-off Israeli mentality, there is an increasing sense that the government is not doing enough to improve the situation. On the left, a growing number of voices is calling for the government to unilaterally leave the territories. On the right, people are demanding that the government crush the Palestinian Authority, and bring security back to Israel. quot;Our message is a national consensus against terror and that it has to be...

THE TEXAS PART OF THE ISRAELI SPY RING Using documents in our position, we have pieced together the activities of the Israeli spy ring (See P. 1) as far as its branch in Texas is concerned. The same level of activity took place in California, Arkansas and Florida. Only the most important people figure on our chart. At present, the total number of persons involved in the ring is estimated at 120. copy; INTELLIGENCE ONLINE 2002 Intelligence Online ndeg; 424 ETATS-UNISIntelligence Onlineamp;#8217;s Revelations Examined A report that a huge network of Israeli nationals was engaged in intelligence operations in...

A former National Security Agency Palestinian communications analyst in the Middle East is appealing to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in his latest effort to blow the whistle on Yasser Arafat's role in the murder of two U.S. diplomats in Sudan in 1973. James J. Welsh, a former NSA Palestinian analyst, broke his vow of silence last year to charge the U.S. government was hiding recordings of Arafat planning and directing the murders of U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel, diplomat Charge d'Affaires George Curtis Moore and Belgian Guy Eid March 2, 1973. After telling his story first in WorldNetDaily, Welsh...

GAZA, Mar 13, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Deputy Commander of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Force 17 bodyguard, Abu Fadih, was killed Wednesday in a fierce battle with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian security officials confirmed. It was one of Israel's largest military operations in two decades in the major Palestinian city, as dozens of tanks patrolled the streets and about 20,000 Israeli soldiers were involved in the move, said Israel's Channel 1 television on Tuesday. The raid met tenacious resistance, including a fight-back from Force 17, an elite Palestinian force, whose main duty...

TEL AVIV, Israel, Mar 13, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A rising Israeli casualty count was a key factor in the Israeli government's decision two years ago to pull troops out of Lebanon, and there are signs that heavy losses are once again shaping Israel's actions. With every attack on Israeli civilians by Palestinian militants, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon comes under intense pressure to take decisive action, with a confused and shaken public expecting the government to both intensify military strikes against targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to negotiate an immediate cease-fire. In launching...

UN passes U.S.-drafted resolution on Palestinian statehood By Reuters UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council has passed a U.S.-drafted resolution referring for the first time to a Palestinian state existing side by side with Israel. The 14-0 vote late on Tuesday, with Syria abstaining, also marked the first time the 15-nation council had approved a resolution on the Middle East since October 2000 and was the first text in recent memory touching on the troubled region to be written by Washington. U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said Washington's surprise move aimed to give momentum to the peace mission being...

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Mar 13, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Israeli forces moved into Palestinian refugee camps and took command of this key West Bank city Tuesday, killing 31 Palestinians in one of the largest military operations ever in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Seven Israelis died in Palestinian attacks. Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state for the first time late Tuesday, approving a U.S. resolution that also called for an immediate cease-fire. Syria abstained from the vote, criticizing the resolution as quot;very weakquot; because it failed to address Israeli occupation...

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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheneynbsp; told a group of American troops stationed in Egypt on Wednesday that fighting by their comrades in Afghanistan was only the beginning of a long and unrelenting war against terrorism.But Cheney's efforts to drum up support for a wider offensive against terrorism was overshadowed by spiraling violence in the Mideast.quot;This region is both the site of many conflicts and one of the critical centers of American interest - economic, military and political,quot; Cheney said. quot;Our country is engaged in the Middle Eastnbsp; as a fore for stability and long-term peace.quot;The...

RAMALLAH (Reuters) - An officer in Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s guard and an Italian war photographer were killed Wednesday as Israel pressed on with its biggest offensive in decades against the Palestinians on the eve of a U.S. peace mission. Abu Fadi, deputy commander in Ramallah for Arafat's Force 17 elite guard, was killed in new fighting, Palestinian security sources said. They gave no details. Photographer Raffaele Ciriello, who had worked in many of the world's hot spots, was shot six times in the chest while covering the Israeli takeover of the West Bank city of Ramallah, the...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) #151; The United States endorsed a Palestinian state late Tuesday for the first time in the Security Council, introducing a resolution that also calls for a cease-fire in the escalating Mideast conflict. The resolution, the first offered by the United States since the latest round of fighting began in September 2000, was circulated hours after Syria introduced a Palestinian-backed measure. The council convened shortly before midnight and was expected to vote on the U.S. resolution. As a result of intense negotiations, the United States decided late Tuesday to amend its text by ``affirming a vision of a...

The single burden which Anthony Zinni will not have to shoulder as he returns to the Middle East is that of excessive expectations. While his mere arrival is quite properly viewed as significant in itself, no one expects him to be able to impose a watertight truce or establish a structure for a new series of negotiations on the sensitive issues which divide Israelis and Palestinians. This overpowering atmosphere of pessimism will have been reinforced by the latest round of violence yesterday. Israel is in the midst of its most determined drive to seize Hamas activists right across the West...