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Embattled San Jose Councilman Terry Gregory, already facing a criminal grand jury probe and censured by his colleagues for accepting thousands in gifts, now faces a third front: civil grand jury hearings that increase the likelihood of his ouster from office. Civil grand jury subpoenas were issued to witnesses last week, asking them to appear next Tuesday, the same day the criminal grand jury is scheduled to convene and hear evidence pertaining to allegations that Gregory sought and received free meals, baseball tickets and a case of wine valued at more than $1,400. Gregory has denied any wrongdoing. According to...

Ms. Grace has become a near permanent fixture on Mr. King's show, appearing 44 times in the last six months--six times as guest host--and swallowing up airtime almost daily in November, during the Michael Jackson media blowout.Ms. Grace's hard nosed style-pointed almost snarling pre trial accusations at everyone from Congressman Gary Condit to Mr. Jackson-aren't exactly manna from heaven for Mr. King.Mr. King said he liked Ms. Grace as a person-they've hung out socially a total of four times he said since she began appearing on the show in 1999-but privately, some of Mr. King's friends and associates told The...

<p>A majority of voters in a statewide survey say they would remove Gov. Gray Davis if a recall election were held now against the unpopular second-term Democrat.</p> <p>The nonpartisan Field Poll released Tuesday found likely California voters would recall Davis, 51 percent to 43 percent, with 6 percent undecided.</p>

A few hours after the war in Iraq began March 20, a Saudi friend called me in Washington from Riyadh: "You are lucky you are in the U.S. You can demonstrate against the war," he exclaimed. I replied quietly, "You are lucky not to be in the U.S.; you don't have to look for excuses not to protest the war." Many fellow Arabs and other international friends expected me to rally against the war. I was ambivalent about the war because I have known since my days as a young reporter who frequently visited Baghdad in the late 1980s that...