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INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis oral surgeon died and three other people were hospitalized with injuries after a small plane that the surgeon was piloting crashed into a retention pond on the city's west side Monday morning, officials said. Dr. Robert Edesess was piloting the plane when it crashed into a pond at a housing subdivision near 21st Street and Raceway Road at about 10:40 a.m., officials said. The plane had just taken off from the Eagle Creek Airport en route to Hilton Head Island, S.C., said Gene Konzen, chief of the Wayne Township Fire Department. A bystander jumped into the...

It's good to be US January 5th, 2005 In the immediate aftermath of the Asian tsunami, the early words of the New York Times and Washington Post were not a plea to Americans to open up their pocket books and be generous to the afflicted. No, the tragedy was viewed as an immediate opportunity to criticize President Bush as being "slow to respond" by waiting several days to have a press conference to offer words of condolence. As if words could actually do something. Others carped that it was a lost opportunity to win back the affections of Muslims around...