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SkyWest Airlines has apologized to a passenger barred from a plane's restroom by a flight attendant. James Whipple says that after repeated pleas to empty his beer-filled bladder on a recent flight, he finally found relief - with an air sickness bag. Now, the Sandy man says SkyWest has issued him an apology for his distress.

Guest Column A Lie for a Lie, Uncouth for Uncouth What drives a Western-educated mind to mass murder? The Shorthorn: Lung Lin When Dr. Mel Bernstein of the Department of Homeland Security spoke to engineering students and others in Nedderman Hall last week, one improvement he said universities could make that would benefit security would be to have an open dialogue about terrorism and its roots. In the interest of fostering such a conversation on the Opinion page, I’m throwing out my opinion. Go ahead and reply, whatever your opinion, as we have freedom of speech and this isn’t 1940s...

Britain helped America to conduct a secret and potentially illegal spying operation at the United Nations in the run-up to the Iraq war, The Observer can reveal. The operation, which targeted at least one permanent member of the UN Security Council, was almost certainly in breach of the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations, which strictly outlaw espionage at the UN missions in New York. Translators and analysts at the Government's top-secret surveillance centre GCHQ were ordered to co-operate with an American espionage 'surge' on Security Council delegations after a request from the US National Security Agency at the end of...

Posted on Sat, Dec. 20, 2003 FREE TRADE MEETING Judge: I saw police commit felonies A judge who said he witnessed some of the anti-free trade protests complains in open court about how police handled the demonstrations. By AMY DRISCOLL adriscoll@herald.com A judge presiding over the cases of free trade protesters said in court that he saw ''no less than 20 felonies committed by police officers'' during the November demonstrations, adding to a chorus of complaints about police conduct. Judge Richard Margolius, 60, made the remarks in open court last week, saying he was taken aback by what he witnessed...

Alleged bin Laden aide: Stabbing guard was `biggest mistake in my life' Sep 11, 2002-8:46 AM NEW YORK (AP) - A reputed top aide to Osama bin Laden ended four days of testimony by recounting his confession to a clergyman that stabbing a prison guard in the eye was ``the biggest mistake in my life'' and that he wished he could donate his eye to the injured man.