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Hopes for a lasting peace in the Middle East were raised today when a comprehensive Mideast peace accord was signed by Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and Bono, the lead singer of the rock band U2.

He was lauded with a twenty minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. A.O. Scott of the New York Times calls his movie a "passionate expression of outraged patriotism." At the June showing of Faherenheit 911 before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science in Los Angeles, he received a standing ovation for over a minute. And Michael Moore's most recent work spits in the face of my dead countrymen.

Something that didn't make the news.Maybe you'd like to hear about something other than idiot reservists and naked Iraqis. Maybe you'd like to hear about a real American, somebody who honored the uniform he wears. Meet Brian Chontosh. Churchville-Chili Central School class of 91. Proud graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Husband, and about to be father. First Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. And a genuine hero! The Secretary of the Navy said so yesterday. At 29 Palms in California Brian Chontosh was presented with the Navy Cross, the second highest award for combat bravery the United...

When Senator Howard Baker was a candidate in the 1980 Presidential election, he ran across strong criticism of his support for Jimmy Carter's return of the Panama Canal to Panama from a Republican woman in Vermont. "Well, madam," replied the senator with sweet reasonableness, "I must have cast thousands of votes during my time in the Senate. You probably agree with almost all of them. Why focus on the one issue where we disagree?" "pontius Pilate probably made lots of good decisions too," responded the lady. "But we only remember one." She had grasped an important point that seems to...

John Debney is a major staple in modern film music about whom you may not know much.In the last 4 years alone, he's contributed to thirty some film and television projects.