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British model/actress Elizabeth Hurley and her husband Arun Nayar have settled an unfair dismissal lawsuit filed against them by their former maid, who claimed she was paid just $2.40 (€1.63) an hour. Violet D'Souza, who was brought over to the UK from her native India by Nayar, lived and worked for the couple at their posh London home for four years before she was suddenly fired last year after falling out with her employers. D'Souza went to seek help from local Citizens Advice Bureau lawyers following the sacking, and soon filed for an employment tribunal claim, accusing the couple of...

English actress Elizabeth Hurley reportedly plans planning a traditional Indian wedding when she marries textile magnate Arun Nayar next year. The Mirror said Hurley has advised her friends to reserve a month for the festivities. The wedding is scheduled for February in Rajasthan in northeast India. The Mirror cited a source close to Hurley and Nayar, who said that she wants a "traditional Indian princess-style wedding." "She loves the colorful traditions of the country and wants to embrace them," the source said. "She is very keen to involve elephants in some way and hopes to arrive on one -- but...

As a longtime investigative researcher and journalist, I knew that politics could be down and dirty, but I didn't expect (despite premonitions thereof), that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., would betray my son in the same manner that he had betrayed his fellow Swift Boat servicemen, and then all the American servicemen and women who served honorably in Vietnam so long ago. But I was wrong. I thought that he might have a little decency left in him, a decency that would spare the fighting men and women of Operation Iraqi Freedom from his demeaning smears and lies. Al Qaqaa, the...

John Kerry's spokesman on veterans issues, John Hurley announced on Fox News Sunday August 22 that John Kerry was right when he accused US troops of committing atrocities against civilians "on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." Why would Hurley continue to repeat John Kerry's malicious slanders knowing that they had been completely discredited? Furthermore, why is the media trying to give credibility to the views of this John Kerry spokesman on veterans issues even though he has been exposed as a calculating liar? Well, I don't think I need repeat...

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Battalion still 'sullied' by Kerry aide's claim Vet says 'atrocity' charge against comrades remains publicly uncorrected despite promise -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 25, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A spokesman for John Kerry who was cited in the senator's Vietnam biography as a witness to "atrocities" in his battalion, privately revised his remarks when confronted by a colleague but has not corrected the public record. John Hurley, national coordinator of Veterans for John Kerry and a member of the 69th Engineer Battalion in Vietnam, is cited in Douglas Brinkley's...

Battalion still 'sullied' by Kerry aide's claim Vet says 'atrocity' charge against comrades remains publicly uncorrected despite promise -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 25, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A spokesman for John Kerry who was cited in the senator's Vietnam biography as a witness to "atrocities" in his battalion, privately revised his remarks when confronted by a colleague but has not corrected the public record. John Hurley, national coordinator of Veterans for John Kerry and a member of the 69th Engineer Battalion in Vietnam, is cited in Douglas Brinkley's "Tour of Duty," which was published earlier...

In one of the most-ignored stories surrounding the Swift Boat Vets flap, the head of "Veterans for Kerry" is himself a former Vietnam war protester, who has known Kerry since 1971, and worked on each of his campaigns since 1984. "Veterans for Kerry" was started by, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of, Kerry for President. It really isn't an organization at all, but the name of the Kerry campaign's outreach program to veterans, and it's head, picked by John Kerry, was indeed a veteran, but he first met Kerry when they were both war protesters. The head of the group,...

John Hurley is a very well preped Kerry truth spinner - professional media hitman. What is his back ground & ghosts?

MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. John O‘Neill is the co-author of “Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.” Mr. O‘Neill succeeded John Kerry‘s command of the PCF-94 swift boat in Vietnam. And John Hurley is the national director of Veterans for Kerry. Let me ask you gentlemen about these questions. But let‘s start with the central notion that a lot of us have of John Kerry. Whatever you think of his politics, he was a war hero. Is that true? JOHN O‘NEILL, SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH: That‘s not true at all. MATTHEWS: Why isn‘t it...

B O S T O N, July 28, 2004 — As Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards arrived in Boston today for the Democratic National Convention, so did the California man who is their single biggest contributor. He is Stephen Bing, a wealthy film producer who, with little fanfare, has managed to steer a total of more than $16 million of his money to Democratic candidates and the supposedly independent groups that support them. "To most of the people who track money and politics, they're like, who the hell is Steve Bing?" said Chuck Lewis, founder of the Center for...

<p>John Kerry mentions his service in Vietnam so frequently that it has become a running joke on the campaign press plane. He seldom if ever mentions his postwar activities as a national coordinator and principal spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a group he says he quit in 1971 because he was concerned about its radical agenda. One reason may be that a credibility gap has started to widen over his antiwar history, and he clearly doesn't want to discuss it at length. His campaign is issuing misleading and evasive statements on his antiwar service in a way that would do the Pentagon spinners of the Johnson and Nixon administrations proud.</p>

KANSAS CITY - (KRT) - Confronted with 32-year-old FBI records, Sen. John Kerry's campaign all but conceded he attended a 1971 Kansas City meeting where a fellow anti-war veteran called for political assassinations. Those active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War at the time stress that the suggestion for such a violent approach was angrily rejected. They say their memories do not include Kerry taking part in the radical discussion. A statement Thursday by Kerry's camp said the Massachusetts Democrat did not recall the meeting, although FBI surveillance material and the group's archives clearly show that Kerry resigned from his...