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LOS ANGELES - Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down Nazi war criminals following World War II, then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people, died Tuesday. He was 96. Wiesenthal died in his sleep at his home in Vienna, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. “I think he’ll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust. In a way he became the permanent representative of the victims of the Holocaust, determined to bring the perpetrators of the greatest crime to justice,”

PRESERVATION TRUST MOURNS LOSS OF HISTORIAN AND PRESERVATIONIST BRIAN POHANKA Historian was a true giant in the historic preservation community (Alexandria, Va.) - The Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) learned this morning of the untimely death of a true giant in the historic preservation community, historian and preservationist Brian C. Pohanka. CWPT President James Lighthizer made the following statement in the wake of Brian’s passing: “Today the battlefield preservation community, and the Civil War community at large, mourn the loss of historian and preservationist Brian C. Pohanka. Few people have contributed more to keeping the memory of the Civil War...

Kidnappers' who stole a Dalek from a Somerset tourist attraction have sent its owners a ransom note - and the robot's amputated plunger. The 5ft model, believed to be an original from the cult BBC Dr Who series, was taken from Wookey Hole Caves near Wells on Monday. On Thursday, staff found the plunger arm and a ransom note on a doorstep. The note read: "We are holding the Dalek captive. We demand further instructions from the Doctor." The group, signing themselves Guardians of the Planet Earth, added: "For the safety of the human race we have disarmed and removed...

Brooklyn College's School of Education has begun to base evaluations of aspiring teachers in part on their commitment to social justice, raising fears that the college is screening students for their political views. The School of Education at the CUNY campus initiated last fall a new method of judging teacher candidates based on their "dispositions," a vogue in teacher training across the country that focuses on evaluating teachers' values, apart from their classroom performance. Critics of the assessment policy warned that aspiring teachers are being judged on how closely their political views are aligned with their instructor's. Ultimately, they said,...

Ok, 1. I don't make many vanity posts, but I had to do this one. 2. What makes a Bush victory today so special? It is my second wedding anniversery. THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH FOR THE FINE GIFT FOR US BOTH!!! 3. I am a hard core Republican and she's a Libertarian, who voted for Bush. Now if we could just get out of NY.

Kerry, are you lacking a spine? Music : Running on Empty Mood : Frustrated Ok, Mr. Kerry, you lost the popular votes and you lost Ohio by a margin of 145,098? Can you tell me what in the world you are thinking? Let's see a little arithmatic: Difference in the two candidate's #s= 145,098 Upper end of predicted provisional ballots= 175,000 # of ballots after 10% are thrown out due to irreg= 157,500 Now, to tie the 145,098, Kerry will have to get 92% of said votes. Uh, OK, he's really gonna manage that. Bush won Mr. Kerry and we...

McCain, Guilani, and our sons and daughtersMusic : Amazing Grace and the soundtrack from GloryMood : Resolved, determined to winI am listening to the Republican Convention on 770. Man, McCain was incredible. I loved his shot on Moore, he deserves it. That's right Lumpy, you're no more a reporter than I am, bur at leasr I know the truth when I see it. Then I heard the wife of a firefighter who gave his life on 9/11 and is now sending her sailor son to Iraq. This is what America is. It isn't the protestors. It isn't the Kerriacs. We...

Ok folks, I have been out of work for over a year now since I graduated and I have been tearing apart just about every want ad and help wanted sign I can find. I am angry, frustrated and I WANT A JOB!! I didn't think it would come to this, but I am posting my reume on FR in hopes it will help. God knows, it's on Monster, USAJobs, Careerbuilder, Craigslist, etc. I want to work, I want something FT witha decent salary and that usese some of my skills at least. I am not proud, if it's shoveling...

Sign of Weakness? Do Overseas Terror Strikes Suggest Al Qaeda Inability to Hit U.S.? Analysis By Fawaz A. Gerges and Christopher Isham Nov. 22 — The recent suicide car bombings in Saudi Arabia and Turkey indicate a dramatic shift in al Qaeda's tactics. The militants who launched the car bombs clearly want to undermine the pro-Western governments in Riyadh and Ankara, but the attacks must also be viewed in broader terms. In the past year, al Qaeda (which officials have blamed in the Turkey attacks) and its regional affiliates have been attacking pro-Western Muslim regimes and soft targets from Tunisia...

BAGHDAD -- They were still young, and in the illusionary cocoon of their high school, they had not yet learned fear. When the secret police came for Ali Fouad Abdul Ridha, the 17-year-old glanced over his shoulder at his 10-year-old brother, Mohammed, before being hustled away

Conversation With Khomeini The ayatollah's grandson calls for a U.S. invasion of Iran. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Monday, October 6, 2003, at 11:03 AM PT I have no respect for the hereditary principle and neither does Shiite Islam, which considers earthly kingship to be profane. But no one can be completely uninterested in heredity per se, and my first thought, on meeting Hossein Khomeini, was that he has his grandfather's eyebrows. Still, our conversation quickly banished the notion that this 45-year-old cleric is the least bit interested in running for his grandpa's job. He is a relatively junior cleric—a sayeed—but...

Navy says about 12 people injured when jet skids off deck ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 — About a dozen crew members on the USS George Washington were injured Thursday when a fighter jet skidded off the deck of the aircraft carrier off the Virginia coast, a Navy spokesman said. THE THREE MOST seriously injured crew members were airlifted to shore for medical treatment, Navy spokesman Mike Maus said. He said he did not have details on how serious their injuries were. An F/A-18 Hornet was landing on the carrier when its gear that catches an arresting cable broke off,...

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<p>HEAVILY armed al Qaeda thugs practiced storming a school, shooting children and taking hostages in a videotaped training exercise, The Post has learned.</p> <p>The terror rehearsal took place under the mandate of al Qaeda's operations chief, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.</p>

<p>TACOMA, Wash. — Authorities in the Beltway Sniper investigation are looking for two "people of interest," law enforcement sources told Fox News.</p> <p>The two individuals they seek are John Mohammed, also known as John Allen Williams, formerly connected to Fort Lewis, an Army base south of Tacoma, Wash., and Lee Malvo.</p>

<p>BOWIE, Md. — A 13-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded Monday morning in front of a middle school in Prince George's County, Md.</p> <p>It was not immediately known if the shooting was related to last week's sniper shootings that killed six people and wounded one in the Washington area.</p>

March 22 — On Feb. 17, members of Pakistan's secret service, the ISI, broke into the offices of the News, the country's most-influential English-language daily, according to the newspaper's former editor. The government was upset with a story the News had planned to run the next day, the editor, Shaheen Sehbai, told ABCNEWS. Late that same night, or early the following morning, Sehbai says he also got a call from the government's chief information officer demanding they pull the story. When he refused, the information officer asked the publisher of the News to fire Sehbai. The government also pulled all...

<p>COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AP) -- A few weeks before ordering an escalation of the Vietnam War, President Nixon matter-of-factly raised the idea of using a nuclear bomb. The notion was quickly shot down by national security adviser Henry Kissinger.</p> <p>Nixon's abrupt suggestion, buried in 500 hours of tapes released Thursday at the National Archives, came after Kissinger laid out a variety of options for stepping up the war effort, such as attacking power plants and docks, in an April 25, 1972, conversation in the Executive Office Building.</p>

<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Somalis watching a bootleg video of "Black Hawk Down" on Monday cheered as helicopters crashed and U.S. servicemen were killed in the new movie.</p> <p>Just days after the film's widespread release in the United States, hundreds of Somalis crowded into an outdoor playground Monday to watch one of the first bootleg copies to reach Somalia.</p>

The Black Pledge of Allegiance We pledge allegiance of the red, black and green Our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain. One nation of Black people, with one God for us all, Totally united in the struggle for Black Love, Black Freedom, and Black determination.