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Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon issued an apology on Friday for her polemic, antisemitic comments made during a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City last month. The incident led to her separation from top Hollywood talent agency UTA. Sarandon, addressing the crowd at Union Square on Nov. 17, asserted that Jews were "getting a taste of what it is like to be Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence." The New York Post reported that she "intended" instead to express concern about the rise in hate crimes. In an Instagram post, Sarandon said, "This phrasing was a terrible mistake,...

Actress Susan Sarandon, an ardent leftist during her professional life who routinely retweets other ardent leftists, posted a message on social media akin to the message that actress Gina Carano posted in early 2021 that got her canceled. In early 2021, Carano, then starring in Disney’s “The Mandalorian,” posted a message on Instagram to illustrate her feelings about the hate directed toward political conservatives. She posted a photo with the caption: Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to...

Netflix isn't alone: Agencies and others are balancing demands for money against the fears of stolen data ending up online. Phones are the lifeblood of a talent agency like UTA, but on April 11, its IT department discovered an intruder lurking in the voicemail system and computer network and quickly decided to shut them down, sending agents to conduct business on their iPads. Soon thereafter a demand from a hacker arrived: Pay a ransom or watch the agency's most confidential data get posted online. It turns out UTA was lucky — an outside cybersecurity firm was brought in and, after...

Hide in Plane Sight Family of Possible 727 Pilot: "He Is Not a Terrorist" W A S H I N G T O N, June 18 - While international authorities continue their search for a missing jetliner, fearful that it could be used in a terror attack, the family of the American believed to have been piloting the aircraft worries about his fate. Workers at Luanda Airport in Angola watched dumbfounded on May 25 as a Boeing 727 taxied down the runway and took off - without permission. The plane - which ABCNEWS has learned was refitted to haul...

Was Plane That Vanished From Angola the Same One That Crashed off Benin on Christmas Day? ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writ By Nafi Diouf and Published: Jan 2, 2004 DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - American authorities are investigating whether a Boeing 727 shattered in a deadly Christmas Day crash off West Africa was the same jet that vanished in Angola last year, setting off a worldwide search, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Friday. Also, a Canadian humanitarian-flight pilot told The Associated Press he saw a 727 with the missing Angola jet's tail number at Guinea's airport in June - a...

Even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi twisted arms for the final votes to pass her climate bill in June 2009, Democrats feared they might be "BTU'd." Many of them recalled how Al Gore had forced the House to vote in 1993 for an energy tax, a vote Democrats later blamed for helping their 1994 defeat. The politics isn't the same this time around. This time, it's much, much worse. Ask Rick Boucher, the coal-country Democrat who for nearly 30 years has represented southwest Virginia's ninth district. The 64-year-old is among the most powerful House Democrats, an incumbent who hasn't been seriously...

The public will finally get an opportunity to speak about federal stimulus funding. A state legislative committee will conduct a field hearing Saturday morning in Arlington to take public testimony about the American Recovery and Investment Act. In Texas cities and counties, some officials see the federal funds as a jump-start for long-overdue purchases, but others worry that the one-time of use of federal funds will create unforeseen expenses down the road. "Pretty much across the board, people are concerned about the strings," said state Rep. Vicki Truitt, R-Keller and a member of the House Select Committee on Federal Economic...

Campus Fusion brings "Week of Dialogue" to The University of Texas at Austin Sponsored by The University Co-op, The Multicultural Information Center, and Student Government Campus Fusion, a collaborative vision built by the Multicultural Information Center and Student Government at The University of Texas at Austin, and sponsored by The University Co-Op, brings a "Week of Dialogue" to campus from October 16-19. Through different programs during the week-long event, the campus community recognizes the importance of talking about diversity issues at the University. The Kick-off Rally took place this morning on Gregory Plaza and in the Gregory concourse. Also on...

UTA students protest Iran, North Korea By JOHN AUSTIN Star-Telegram Staff Writer ARLINGTON ?Three University of Texas at Arlington freshmen sparked a small flareup when they burned what looked like facsimiles of the North Korean and Iranian flags on campus Monday, the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The flag-like images, which were printed on what appeared to be paper, and photos of the nations?leaders, were doused with charcoal starter and burned in a galvanized metal washtub on the sidewalk outside Arlington Hall as an estimated 50 to 100 students, administrators and campus police watched shortly after noon. “This is...

The University of Texas would be prohibited from condemning a nearby restaurant for a campus parking garage under eminent domain legislation approved by the state House on Sunday evening. The prohibition was tacked onto Senate Bill 62 as an amendment by Rep. René Oliveira, D-Brownsville, who said his cousin is a co-owner of the restaurant, Player's . . . UT wants to acquire the restaurant property for a parking garage as part of a hotel and conference center for post-graduate educational programs involving law, business and other fields. The UT System Board of Regents authorized the use of condemnation, if...

The Anti-American Academy: Robert Jensen Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He says the United States is a depraved criminal nation bent on dominating the world, and Ward Churchill is right. Ward Churchill is right about 9/11. I state that bluntly, even though I disagree with some aspects of the University of Colorado professor’s now-infamous essay, because so many (including some on the left) have defended his First Amendment rights while either remaining silent about, or condemning, the article’s analysis. So, for the record: The main thesis Churchill put forward in “’Some...

UTA didn't check ex-prof's references Former city attorney's classroom demeanor upset, scared students 09:36 PM CST on Friday, February 6, 2004 By EMILY RAMSHAW and TERRI LANGFORD / The Dallas Morning News Officials at the University of Texas at Arlington said they made no reference checks before hiring a communication law professor who wept during his first lecture and talked about his sexuality and the devil. Had the university made one phone call to lawyer Ronnie Robert Molina's previous employer – the Dallas city attorney's office – officials would have found out that he was fired from his job as...

PARIS (Reuters) - A negotiator for families of 170 people killed in the 1989 bombing of a French UTA airliner said Thursday Libya had agreed a long-awaited compensation deal. "The essential details have been settled," Guillaume Denoix de Saint Marc told Reuters, adding he expected a formal signing ceremony with Libyan officials to take place in Paris Friday. Denoix, who lost his father in the mid-air bombing over the west African state of Niger, which France blamed on six Libyans, declined to give the settlement figure. Earlier, a spokeswoman for the head of the upper house of the French parliament...

Fire at UTA cuts power to campus, area streets11:27 PM CDT on Friday, October 24, 2003By JAIME JORDAN / The Dallas Morning News A three-alarm fire at a University of Texas at Arlington utilities building disrupted power to most of the campus Friday night. Firefighters responded to a call about 5:20 p.m. at the utilities building at 606 S. West St. The building was scheduled for demolition to make room for a new research building, UTA spokeswoman Donna Darovich said. Two workers were on the roof when a fire started there, she said. Officials are still investigating the cause. One...

PARIS (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son said in an interview to be published on Friday there would be no further payout for victims of the 1989 bombing of a French UTA plane without Libya getting something in exchange. Saif al-Islam, chief Libyan negotiator in compensation talks with the families of the 170 bombing victims, said in Le Figaro daily that discussions now were at crisis point. They have dragged on since August and failed to reach a deal by an October 11 deadline. Libya has never acknowledged responsibility for the UTA bombing, but it agreed after a French...

The deadline for a compensation deal between Libya and the families of those killed in the 1989 French airliner bombing passed on Saturday without agreement. Hours before the ultimatum, Libya invited a delegation of relatives to continue talks in Tripoli on Monday - a move welcomed as a "positive sign" by the families' spokesman. Earlier, French President Jacques Chirac warned Libya that ties with France would suffer if it failed to stick to its commitment to offer an increased settlement. Last month France lifted a threat to block a United Nations resolution ending sanctions against Libya over the 1988 Lockerbie...

Ever since he came to power in a military coup against the ancient King Idris, who was off having treatment in a Turkish spa in September 1969, the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has been a master of mercurial manoeuvres. Colonel Gaddafi defending deals It remains to be seen whether his latest flourish - an agreement to increase compensation for the bombing of the French UTA DC-10 in 1989 - represents another clever diplomatic stroke or is the sign of a weakening figure getting desperate to see off his enemies at any price. Certainly he could not afford to have France...

Libya's ambassador to Britain says his country has agreed to a compensation deal with the relatives of those killed in the bombing of a French airliner over Niger in 1989. But in Paris, lawyers for the families say the deal has not yet been signed, and the French foreign ministry says it is unable to confirm an agreement. The family representatives and Libya "arrived at a final accord satisfying both parties", ambassador Mohammed al-Zuai said, adding that the deal was finalised during a telephone conversation between French President Jacques Chirac and Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. "During the telephone conversation between...

Gadhafi: Agreement Reached With Families of Victims From 1989 French Airline Disaster By Salah Nasrawi Associated Press Writer TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Sunday a second agreement over compensation has been reached between his country and the families of 170 victims of a French airliner that exploded in 1989. "The Gadhafi charitable organizations have been dealing with the families to reach an agreement and they have reached an agreement," Gadhafi said during a speech broadcast live on state-run television on the eve of the anniversary of the 1969 coup that brought him to power. The Libyan...

He admitted considering suicide-bomb attack 02/08/2003 By TODD BENSMAN / The Dallas Morning News In a rare glimpse at the government's domestic war on terror, a Jordanian student from Arlington admitted in court Friday that he had considered becoming a suicide bomber if the United States invaded Iraq. Tahir Ibrihim Aletwei, a 30-year-old software engineering graduate student at the University of Texas at Arlington, spoke freely about his inclinations toward terrorism and divulged details of his interviews with federal agents during his deportation hearing. "I was looking at America as my enemy," he said. "If someone would have approached me...