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'Vengeance' swipes cake, eats it, too |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
3:24 pm EDT, Aug 30, 2004 |
A 6-foot-tall, 275-pound bearded man crashed a children's birthday party in Oak Forest, identified himself as "vengeance," then helped himself to a piece of cake, police said. When the owner of the home asked the man who he was, the intruder replied, "I am vengeance. I am the knight. I am Batman." Then the man went into the kitchen, cut a piece of birthday cake, took it into the living room and ate it. After continued questioning by the homeowner, the man left the house and drove off in a red 1988 Cadillac. 'Vengeance' swipes cake, eats it, too |
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Come Back to the Mainstream -- Republican Leaders Speak Out |
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12:43 pm EDT, Aug 30, 2004 |
Republican Leaders Speak Out In a statement published August 30 in The New York Times, seventeen leaders and former elected officials called on the Republican Party to come back to the mainstream, including: Gov. David Cargo, New Mexico, 1967-71 Gov. Dan Evans, Washington, 1965-77 Gov. A. Linwood Holton, Virginia, 1970-74 Gov. Willam G. Milliken, Michigan, 1969-83 Gov. Walter R. Peterson, New Hampshire, 1969-73 Sen. Charles M. Mathias, Jr., Maryland, 1969-87 Sen. Robert T. Stafford, Vermont, 1971-89 Come Back to the Mainstream -- Republican Leaders Speak Out |
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Iran-Contra II? Fresh scrutiny on a rogue Pentagon operation |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
10:25 am EDT, Aug 30, 2004 |
On Friday evening, CBS News reported that the FBI is investigating a suspected mole in the Department of Defense who allegedly passed to Israel, via a pro-Israeli lobbying organization, classified American intelligence about Iran. The focus of the investigation, according to U.S. government officials, is Larry Franklin, a veteran Defense Intelligence Agency Iran analyst now working in the office of the Pentagon's number three civilian official, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. The investigation of Franklin is now shining a bright light on a shadowy struggle within the Bush administration over the direction of U.S. policy toward Iran. In particular, the FBI is looking with renewed interest at an unauthorized back-channel between Iranian dissidents and advisers in Feith's office, which more-senior administration officials first tried in vain to shut down and then later attempted to cover up. Iran-Contra II? Fresh scrutiny on a rogue Pentagon operation |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
10:12 am EDT, Aug 30, 2004 |
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Marathon wrecker avoids jail term |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
9:54 am EDT, Aug 30, 2004 |
An ex-priest who lives in Britain has been given a 12-month suspended sentence after ambushing the front-runner in the men's marathon in Athens. [Cornelius] Horan, who pushed Brazil's Vanderlei De Lima off the road, told police it was to "prepare for the second coming". BBC NEWS | Europe | Marathon wrecker avoids jail term |
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200,000 in N.Y. Protest Bush (washingtonpost.com) |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
12:56 am EDT, Aug 30, 2004 |
] By the tens of thousands, demonstrators marched, chanted ] -- "No More Years!" -- and danced through the streets of ] Manhattan on Sunday, voicing their anger with President ] Bush, the war in Iraq and the Republicans' decision to ] hold a national convention in this most Democratic of ] urban bastions. ] ] Hundreds of police officers in riot gear lined the ] sidewalks, SWAT vans idled, and police helicopters ] whirred overhead. But the protest was as peaceful as it ] was vast. More than 200,000 demonstrators, according to a ] police estimate, packed dozens of blocks along Seventh ] Avenue and snaked down side streets. 200,000 in N.Y. Protest Bush (washingtonpost.com) |
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The New York Times - News Analysis: Upstaging Before the Show - The RNC Convention Protest March |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
12:49 am EDT, Aug 30, 2004 |
] "I've been going to Republican conventions since 1972, ] and I've never seen a convention with as many protesters ] in the streets," said David Gergen, who has worked for ] several Republican presidents, and Bill Clinton. "The ] irony is that was a convention held here because of ] echoes of 9/11, but it opens with echoes of Chicago and ] the Vietnam war. ] ] "The protests are anti-Bush, with heavy antiwar ] overtones, but this is Chicago without the fisticuffs, ] without the fight, without the bloodshed - so far," Mr. ] Gergen added. "To interpret this politically is hard, but ] my gut is that large, peaceful protests are not what the ] Republicans want. The protesters are stealing the story ] for the first day and drowning out the Republican ] message. If there's violence, that could all change." The New York Times - News Analysis: Upstaging Before the Show - The RNC Convention Protest March |
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Yahoo! News - Cleaner Thinks Modern Art Is Garbage |
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9:53 am EDT, Aug 29, 2004 |
] A cleaner at London's Tate Britain modern art gallery ] threw out a bag of garbage which formed part of an ] artwork because it was thought to be trash, British ] newspapers reported Friday. Yahoo! News - Cleaner Thinks Modern Art Is Garbage |
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Yahoo! News - Sexually frustrated chimp takes up smoking |
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9:52 am EDT, Aug 29, 2004 |
] Sexual frustration has turned a Chinese chimpanzee from a ] mild-mannered simian into a problem primate who smokes ] cigarettes and spits at visitors Yahoo! News - Sexually frustrated chimp takes up smoking |
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Yahoo! News - 'Gloria' Singer Laura Branigan Dies at 47 |
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12:22 am EDT, Aug 29, 2004 |
] Branigan died of a brain aneurysm Thursday in her sleep ] at her home in East Quogue, said her brother Mark ] Branigan. He said she had complained to a friend of a ] headache for about two weeks before she died, but had not ] sought medical attention. "Self Control" was my favorite song for years. Cheesy, I know; but in the eighties, cheesy was cool. Yahoo! News - 'Gloria' Singer Laura Branigan Dies at 47 |
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