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Theodore Roosevelt Dies Suddenly at Oyster Bay Home; Nation Shocked, Pays Tribute to Former President; Our Flag on All Seas and in All Lands at Half Mast This event took place on January 6, 1919, and was reported in the The New York Times the following day. EMBOLISM CAUSED DEATH Blood Clot, Physicians Announce, Killed Col. Roosevelt in His Sleep WORKED UP TO THE LASTWorn by Illness, Former President with Indomitable Will Kept Up Activities WAS IN PERIL IN HOSPITAL Embolism Then Threatened His Life--Rheumatism Traced to Tooth Infected 20 Years Ago Special to The New York Times Oyster Bay,...

Wishing the republicans of the Great State of California victory tomorrow. You folks have fought a hard fight and my hat is off to all you. Best of luck from Texas.

Tuesday, September 02, 2003   International   Why America slept bares Saudi-Pak-Osama triangle   ASIAN NEWS INTERNATIONAL   WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 1: Startling revelations about connections linking Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Osama bin Laden has been made by a commander of the Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah, claims a new book by Gerald Posner. The book, Why America slept, reviewed in the current issue of Time, goes on sale on September 2. According to the review, the book is ‘‘a lean, lucid retelling of how CIA, FBI and US leaders missed a decade of clues and opportunities that might have forestalled...

August 27, 2003 Two Former Priests Moved By a Massachusetts Prison By FOX BUTTERFIELD with MARC SANTORA BOSTON, Aug. 26 — Two former priests convicted of sexual abuse of children have been moved to the hospital wing of their prison after the killing of another jailed priest last weekend, prison officials said today. The officials described the transfers as new details emerged about an inmate's account that he had tried to warn guards of an impending threat. The two former priests, Kelvin Iguabita and Ronald J. Paquin, were in the state prison at Concord and were transferred at their request...

Man dies after allegedly being run over by girlfriend By The Associated Press (8/25/03 - SAN ANTONIO) — San Antonio police today detained an Atascosa woman after her boyfriend was run over in the parking lot of a bar -- and died. Investigators say the man allegedly was seen with another woman early today, shortly before he was run over. His girlfriend was driving an SUV. Initial reports indicated 35-year-old Andres Salazar was married to his alleged attacker. But police later said the 23-year-old driver was the victim's girlfriend. Veronica Alaquinez has been charged with murder. Bond is $250,000 dollars....

Even if cable TV host's penis tells jokes, court isn't laughing By The Associated Press (8/14/03 - GRAND RAPIDS, MI) — An over-exposed TV host is appealing. Tim Huffman was convicted of indecent exposure because of a skit on his cable-access TV show in Grand Rapids, Michigan. One sketch featured a male organ, with a face drawn on it. The talking organ told jokes, but one woman in the audience wasn't laughing. She complained to a friend in the county prosecutor's office. Huffman's lawyer argues the conviction was unconstitutional. But prosecutors counter there's no right to expose yourself in public....

The Real Anti-Catholic Bias CRISIS Magazine - e-Letter August 6, 2003 ********************************************** Dear Friend, What's the fastest way to make a Democrat angry? Call him anti-Catholic. That's exactly what happened last week when the Committee for Justice ran a controversial ad that pictured a closed courtroom door with a sign on it that read, "Catholics need not apply." Referring to the recent trend in the Senate to stall voting on Catholic nominees to federal court positions, the ad implied that Democrats were beginning to apply a religion test to those nominees, effectively barring Catholics from federal benches. The issue came...

<p>The Pentagon has approved one-year rotations for nearly all troops in Iraq, top military leaders tell the Times.</p> <p>All members of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division will be on their way home by the end of September, Gen. John Keane, acting Army chief of staff, said Tuesday in a joint interview with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.</p>

July 23, 2003, 2:28PM Robber nabbed after writing holdup note on resume Associated Press FORT WORTH -- A bank robber wrote a holdup note on the back of his resume -- the ultimate bad career move. Police used the job-search information to identify the man, who was arrested and charged with robbing a Wells Fargo bank branch on Fort Worth's east side. The man had tried to hide the personal information by taping black construction paper over it. But then he forgot to retrieve the note and take it with him after giving it to the teller. Police then just...

July 15, 2003, 12:30PM Claudette chases off all but one tree protester By JEFFREY GILBERT Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle "There's a hurricane?" the sole remaining Memorial Park tree-sitter joked in the rain Tuesday morning, still perched atop a 110-foot tall pine tree. "Trust," as he refers to himself, is sticking it out through Hurricane Claudette, but he's the only one. His companion, "Bear", came down this morning. "We knew it was going to get rough," Trust said. "So we decided that only the most experienced person stay up here." Trust has survived wet and stormy weather for the past week,...

Pentagon to Oppose STT-Global Crossing Deal-SourceTue July 08, 2003 06:18 PM ET By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Singapore Technologies Telemedia's plan to buy a majority stake in bankrupt Global Crossing Ltd. GBLXQ.PK ran into trouble when U.S. officials said on Tuesday the government had national security concerns about the deal. Concerns by the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security could make it difficult for STT, which is owned by an arm of the Singapore government, to complete its acquisition of a 61.5 percent stake in the telecommunications company. Defense Department officials cited national security concerns in a memorandum...

<p>Incorruptible labor legends Samuel Gompers and George Meany must be spinning in their graves. After becoming the first president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1886, Mr. Gompers founded the Union Labor Life Insurance Co. (now the major subsidiary of the ULLICO holding company) in 1925 in order to provide affordable insurance and other financial services to union members. Mr. Meany, who became the first president of the merged AFL-CIO in 1955 and served in that capacity for a quarter-century, worked inexhaustibly to eliminate corruption within the labor movement &#8212; which included expelling the Teamsters from the AFL-CIO in 1957. That same year, the AFL-CIO adopted a rule mandating the expulsion of any union official invoking the Fifth Amendment to avoid scrutiny in a corruption case.</p>

Former Ullico exec refuses to testify to lawmakers (GLOBAL CROSSING, TERRY MCAULIFFE) Tue June 17, 2003 05:08 PM ET WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - The former top executive of union-owned insurer Ullico Inc. refused to testify to lawmakers on Tuesday about a sweetheart stock deal that netted board members some $5.6 million and caused his replacement last month. Former Ullico Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Georgine invoked his constitutional right not to testify at a hearing by the House Education and Workforce Committee on the scandal, which is also being probed by regulators and prosecutors. Rep John Boehner, the Ohio...

<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Senator John F. Kerry pledged yesterday to lead a filibuster in the US Senate to block the appointment of any Supreme Court nominee who opposes the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision.</p> <p>''There are three words that ought to motivate everybody to guarantee that we have maximum output in this election in 2004. They are simple: the Supreme Court,'' the Massachusetts Democrat told a meeting of party leaders in Minnesota, the longtime home of the late Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who authored the 1973 decision.</p>

June 20, 2003, 10:23PM 2 senators unsure on redistrict vote Republican, Democrat may hold fate By CLAY ROBISON Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau AUSTIN -- Two state senators whose votes may be key to a redistricting battle with national implications said they haven't made up their minds but acknowledged pressure was building. "I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm in a very difficult position," said Sen. Frank Madla, D-San Antonio, one of four senators considered swing votes in a GOP effort to redraw congressional districts to increase the number of Republicans elected to Congress from Texas. Sen....

‘Survivor’ winner poses for Playboy Jenna Morasca, Heidi Strobel will appear in August issue By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper MSNBC June 10 — Jenna Morasca, who won $1 million on the Amazon edition of the popular CBS show “Survivor,” has posed nude for the August issue of Playboy Magazine, E! Online has reported. Also appearing in the feature is Heidi Strobel, Morasca’s friend and a fellow “Survivor” contestant. MORASCA, a 21-year-old swimsuit model from Pittsburgh, and Strobel, a 24-year-old physical education teacher from Missouri, became fast friends on the show. E! Online reported Monday that Morasca could earn up to $1...

Jury Finds 3 Immigration Officers Guilty Sentencing Hearing Set For September POSTED: 12:42 p.m. EDT June 9, 2003 UPDATED: 3:09 p.m. EDT June 9, 2003 HOUSTON -- A jury found three federal immigration officers guilty Monday of failing to render aid to an illegal immigrant whose neck was broken during a raid more than two years ago at a Bryan home. Louis Rey Gomez, 37; Richard Henry Gonzales, 37; and Carlos Reyna, 43, all of San Antonio, were found guilty of willfully denying Serafin Olvera-Carrera medical care after his paralyzing injury. The officers said they thought Olvera-Carrera, 47, was faking...

STRING THEM UP Fri Jun 6, 7:01 PM ET By William F. Buckley Jr. Ahmed Jubarah said that he did not consider himself a murderer; he was simply a man who wanted peace and freedom. That's all. He traveled extensively in his young life, including, at age 20, a voyage to Colombia, where there have been a lot of people over a lot of decades who have sought peace and freedom at gunpoint. He went then to Paterson, N.J., and on to Chicago. He later returned to the West Bank, his native land, and joined Al-Fatah. He put an old...

Admit your lies: Former UN inspector tells Bush, Blair Agence France-PresseGeneva, June 6 The United States and Britain should admit they lied when claiming that the ousted Baghdad regime had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), Scott Ritter, a former UN senior weapons inspector in Iraq, said in an interview published in Geneva on Friday.Ritter, speaking to the Swiss daily Le Temps, called on US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to "have the courage to be held responsible" for telling lies to the public into backing the conflict.An outspoken critic of Bush's handling of the conflict,...

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Local & State June 4, 2003, 9:16PM Legislators: July session to resurrect redistricting By CLAY ROBISON and R.G. RATCLIFFE Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau AUSTIN -- Gov. Rick Perry is preparing to call a special legislative session for July on congressional redistricting and government reorganization, two well-placed Republican legislators told the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday. One lawmaker said he was informed that a 30-day session could begin about June 30. He said he expected Perry to announce the special session next week and the House Redistricting Committee to hold public hearings throughout the state before lawmakers...