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Sweathog "Boom Boom" Busted Tue May 6, 8:00 PM ET By Joal Ryan Did Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs lower the "Boom Boom" on a gal-pal while in the act of Rollerblading? The 49-year-old Welcome Back, Kotter alum, who played high-schooler Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington on the 1975-79 sitcom, is free on $20,000 bail after an arrest Sunday for allegedly pushing his girlfriend to the ground while the two Rollerbladed, police said. Hilton-Jacobs was busted at 2:30 p.m. along Southern California's Venice Beach after police in the area "heard some kind of commotion," Officer Jason Lee (news) of the Los Angeles Police Department...

Armitaj: we will not attack Syria.. But our relations are difficult Syria-USA, Politics, 4/9/2003 US Department of State official, Richard Armitaj, yesterday expressed his hope that Damascus would have stopped sending supplies and fighters to Iraq and blocked its borders before any non -humanitarian supplies. He repeated his saying that the USA does not intent to attack Syria despite the many sources of "concerns from it." Armitaj was referring to the recent American accusations and criticism to Syria accusing it of providing Iraq of equipment of military and civilian use including night vision goggles as well as permitting Arab fighters...

The coming conflict with FranceTerence Jeffrey (archive) April 9, 2003 | Print | Send The April Fool's Day broadcast on Libyan radio might have been dismissed instantly as a joke had it not seemed of a piece with other recent moves by French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin. In a March 27 speech in London, Villepin would not say who should win the war in Iraq. "I naturally wish that this conflict finds a swift conclusion with the minimum possible number of casualties," he said. A reporter asked afterward: "Would you tell us who it is that you wish to...

Iraqis killed after ambush by grenadeU.S. soldiers trap two attackers in bushesBy FROM WIRE REPORTSHILLA, Iraq -- At times, this war has felt like an abstraction for the American side, a near-industrial exercise involving coordinated airstrikes against a specific grid on the map, followed by artillery strikes aimed with computer guidance systems, followed by tanks and then by infantry. Tuesday, while some of the killing was done from the air and with artillery, two Iraqi soldiers on a roadside were in grenade-throwing range, hiding in the bushes as they made what would turn out to be their final strike. The...

Chirac: Last Days of Grace? A weak economy could torpedo the President's popularity This ought to be Jacques Chirac's finest hour. At a time when just about every other major European leader is facing unprecedented political pressure -- think of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder -- France's 70-year-old President is riding high. Make that spectacularly high. Never in the 45-year-old history of France's Fifth Republic has a President enjoyed approval ratings like the ones Chirac can boast of today. Thumbing his nose at the U.S. and Britain on Iraq...

American Soldiers, at the Behest of an Iraqi Officer, Topple a Hussein Statue By JIM DWYER AJAF, Iraq, April 3 — At one end of the city, the Tomb of Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, occupies a place of honor that has been revered by Shiite Muslims for centuries. And dominating the four-lane boulevard approaching the holy site is a monument loathed by the Shiites for a decade: a gigantic bronze statue of Saddam Hussein on a horse, seeming to dare posterity to set its gaze on his grandeur. In a couple of hours today, a handful of American...

BabylonIn Babylon did Saddam Hussein A stately torture dome decree Where near the ancient rivers ran Through evil measureless to man Down to a sundrenched sea. So twice five miles of desert soil Walls were girdled by moats of oil; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many a terror plan And here were pools, statues and all the frills To flatter the vanity of a soulless man. But Oh! That bunker deep and daunting Below the palace near to hell, A savage place! For civilization’s taunting Forever its denizen’s cries will be haunting. By woman wailing...

    ArchiveE-mail AuthorSend to a FriendPrint Version   March 19, 2003 9:30 a.m. “Turned Their Backs”How Pat Buchanan et al. came to hate their country.EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece appears in the April 7, 2003, issue of National Review. "I respect and admire the French, who have been a far greater nation than we shall ever be, that is, if greatness means anything loftier than money and bombs." — THOMAS FLEMING, "HARD RIGHT," MARCH 13, 2003rom the very beginning of the War on Terror, there has been dissent, and as the war has proceeded to Iraq, the dissent has...

<p>Don't be mad at the Turks for nixing the U.S. military's staging plans in their country. What else was their parliament to do, given that 90% of the people are opposed to war with Iraq and don't want their ground used as a launchpad for attack?</p>

Ex-weapons inspector warns against Iraq war Leo Fransella Special to The Daily Yomiuri As U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell prepared to present evidence to the U.N. Security Council on allegations Iraq has weapons of mass destruction Wednesday, a former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq slammed U.S. moves to attack Iraq and warned of serious repercussions for Japan if an attack goes ahead. Scott Ritter, 42, speaking at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, said that there was no evidence that Iraq had acquired weapons of mass destruction since 1998, when the earlier team of U.N. inspectors...

Home -> News -> Content Thursday 2 January, 2003 NEWS SEARCH   Advanced search      News     Top Stories   Government   Police/Courts   Youth/Schools   Obituaries   Columnists   Editorial   Letters to the Editor   Weather   Regional News      Community News      Sports      Entertainment      Real Estate      Classifieds      Links      Business Directory      Society Page Photo Galleries             SECTION LINKS Movie Showtimes TV Listings Top Stories Police enforcing public drunkenness laws at local bars By Michelle Zimmermann December...

You might have thought that Madeleine Albright — the one who could never quite figure out whether she was Jewish or not, or was it whether or not her father was? — the woman who will go down in a sad footnote to history as the first American Secretary of State to actually, literally, dance with a dictator (in North Korea no less), would be so ashamed of her miserable performance in office that she would restrain herself when asked her opinion of the president's request for authorization to blast Saddam to a higher level of reality. But no. She...

LOCAL 8 EXCLUSIVE: WESTERFIELD’S GRANDFATHER ACCUSED OF MOLESTING RELATIVES (09-06-2002) - Westerfield’s Grandfather Accused of Molesting Relatives In-Law Says She was One of Many Victims By David Gotfredson, LOCAL 8 News In the trial of a 50-year-old man who murdered a 7-year-old girl, the jury has heard from people who thought they knew David Westerfield best, people who gave a vivid picture of Westerfield’s childhood. On the witness stand, Westerfield’s high school sweetheart, Margaret Hennon, wore the earrings the defendant gave her as a teenager. Two of Westerfield’s aunts told the jury stories of childhood happiness, of picking blueberries with...

What Is Really Happening in Venezuela By Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton The news on April 11 could not have been better for the cause of freedom in the Americas: Chavez, the dictator of Venezuela, had been deposed by popular, pacific demonstrations reminiscent of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, is a close friend and ally of the last tyrant in this hemisphere, Fidel Castro. In addition to Cuba, he is associated with other equally anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-democracy terrorist states including Libya, Iran and Iraq. Chavez also sought and obtained an alliance...

A chip that will automatically create hundreds of cloned embryos at a time is being developed by a Californian biotech company, New Scientist has learned. If it lives up to its promise, the chip should help make cloning cheap and easy enough for companies to mass-produce identical copies of the best milk or meat producing animals for farmers. It might even be used for cloning human embryos. The chip automates the laborious process of nuclear transfer, the key step in cloning. At present it takes hours of painstaking work with a microscope to remove the nucleus of an egg cell ...

OKLAHOMA CITY--Rural wireless operator Dobson Communications on Tuesday said it planned to upgrade to an advanced data-capable network based on the world's dominant wireless technology. Dobson's decision follows two of its largest roaming partners, Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless Services. Cingular and AT&T Wireless are the nation's No. 2 and No. 3 wireless operators. The three companies currently have digital wireless networks based on the TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) standard, but that technology cannot easily be upgraded with a high-speed data capability. They have chosen instead to build a parallel network based on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), ...

ALDINE, Texas (January 27, 2002 10:38 a.m. EST) - Awhirl on the gym floor, teacher's aide Becky Allen is a little early for the day's first physical education class, but she's eager to test out the rollerskates. The white-booted skates are Black Elementary School's newest experiment in physical education, one of many creative ways that this district north of Houston is making sure students learn how to flex their muscles - as well as their minds. "When I was in school, I remember how we used to make fun of the one fat kid in school," says Allen. "Nobody does ...

Wealth spawns corruption Physicists are explaining how politics can create the super-rich. Solvent socialist economies could be more at risk from corruption than liberal ones, according to a team of physicists, mathematicians and economists. Some political systems, say the researchers, contain the seeds of 'wealth condensation'1. This is the process whereby a sizeable fraction of a society's total assets end up in the hands of one super-rich individual. The super-rich can arise only when average individual wealth exceeds a certain value. Such is the unhappy conclusion of a mathematical model developed by Zdzislaw Burda of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, ...

Newspaper says Milberg Weiss is grand jury target By Michael Kinsman January 25, 2002 Milberg Weiss, the nation's most aggressive proponent of shareholder lawsuits, is a target of a federal grand jury investigation over the solicitation of investors and fabrication of shareholders for class-action securities suits, according to a Los Angeles legal newspaper. The secret Los Angeles grand jury investigation centers on Milberg Weiss but could include other law firms, the Los Angeles Daily Journal reported. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles has issued subpoenas to a wide range of individuals, including workers at large stock brokerages who are ...

Pakistan wants to sign no war pact with India Washington, January 23: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday said he was prepared to accept denuclearisation of South Asia and sign a no war pact with India. In an interview to NBC-TV, he, however, said that he would not reciprocate India's no first use of nuclear weapons pledge. Pakistan was prepared to go much farther: accept denuclearisation of South Asia and sign a no war pact with India, he said. When suggested that India realises the danger of nuclear war better than Pakistan and that is why it had pledged no ...