] In the next logical step for a pop vocalist with
] questionable vocals, "American Idol" reject and UC
] Berkeley civil engineering major William "She Bangs" Hung
] has banged out a record deal.
]
] Hung's accidental superstardom took its latest incredible
] turn Monday when KOCH Records and Fuse Music Network,
] both of New York, announced they had signed the Hong Kong
] native to a multi-album deal. Because fame is fleeting,
] Hung spent the weekend recording a 10-song album
] tentatively called "The True Idol." It is scheduled for
] release on April 6.
]
] "It's fun, it's exciting, and I want to see how the album
] turns out," Hung, 21, said Monday, adding that there was
] a lesson in his success: "Never give up on your dreams.
] Keep going. Keep trying."

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'American Idol' cast-off cashing in on his celebrity

] Betting that Hung, this season's biggest American Idol
] loser, has a few more media cycles in him, Juris' Fuse
] network joined with Koch Entertainment this week to offer
] the 20-year-old college student a $25,000
] recording-slash-music video contract.
]
] If all goes according to plan, Hung will sign by next
] week; the album--more like a five- or six-song
] mini-album--will be on sale three weeks after that.
]
] Said Juris: "The kid is a true phenomenon."

E! Online News - William Hung - a true phenomenon

] Genesee County %u2014 (02/18/04)--Two separate sex
] scandals were involving Genesee County corrections
] officers Wednesday. Six deputies -- two men and four
] women -- have been fired. Michael Rosenfield had more
] details.
]
] Five deputies are accused of allowing two inmates to have
] sex with each other inside the jail. Another deputy is
] accused of having sex with an inmate who was on the
] tether program. All six deputies are now out of jobs and
] one faces criminal charges.
]
] Inside the Genesee County Jail, authorities say five
] corrections officers allowed two inmates -- a male and
] female -- to have sex with each other. It happened over a
] one-month period in the activity center and the
] basketball court.

ABC12.com: 6 deputies fired from a county jail

] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS television on Friday
] apologized for any offense taken at the American
] Indian-motif Grammy Awards performance by the hip-hop
] group OutKast that some Native Americans have condemned
] as racist.
]
] The San Francisco-based Native American Cultural Center
] (NACC) posted a notice on its Web site this week calling
] for a boycott of CBS, OutKast's label, Arista Records,
] and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,
] which sponsors the Grammys.
]
] "It was the most disgusting set of racial stereotypes
] aimed at American Indians that I have ever seen on TV,"
] NACC board member Sean Freitas said in the online
] statement. "It was on par with white people dancing
] sexually in black face, or yarmulkes ... I am shocked and
] outraged."
]
] NACC Chair Andrew Brother Elk said he has lodged a formal
] complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over
] the telecast, which he branded as "racist TV programing.

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

] Acid-based life form Simon Cowell built his "American
] Idol" reputation on his snide comments, but he met his
] match in UC Berkeley civil engineering student William
] Hung.

I saw William Hung on ET last night. He has become an "American Idol".
] Cowell and fellow judges Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul
] sunk to sophomoric humor about the contestant's name
] during the San Francisco auditions -- having him sing
] Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" as a not-so-subtle play on
] Hung's moniker.
]
] Leaning back in his trademark too-cool-for-the-room
] attitude, Simon cattily commented in his snooty English
] accent, "You cawn't sing. You cawn't dance. So what do
] you want to say?"
]
] That's when polite trumped snark.

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Talk about PR Stunt?

Terry Carlin had filed suit and sought class-action status for it, asking for billions of dollars on behalf of viewers she claimed were injured by the exposing of one of singer Janet Jackson's breasts.

The Knoxville banker must be quit pleased with herself - making the morning national news.

Knoxville Woman Drops Lawsuit over Super Bowl Halftime

] VERNON -- Two half-starved brothers who emerged from the
] bush two weeks ago are telling an astonishing tale of
] growing up in complete isolation in the remote backwoods
] of B.C.'s Interior.
]
] Initially, the story of Tom and Will Green seemed like
] Swiss Family Robinson fiction.
]
] But now a wide-ranging group, including a young mom, a
] lawyer, a counsellor, Salvation Army staff and the local
] Member of Parliament have come to believe it just might
] be true.
]
] "They are not like other street kids," says Carol Anne,
] who once ran a group home for runaways and now works as a
] receptionist for Okanagan/Shuswap MP Darrel Stinson.
] "They don't have that what's-it-to-you, in-your-face
] demeanour."
]
] The kind-hearted group of residents has put the brothers
] up in a hotel and given them food. They are also fiercely
] protecting the privacy of Tom, 22, and Will, 16. None
] would arrange an interview, for fear of spooking the boys
] back into the bush.
]
] Born in the wilderness, the brothers claim they were
] raised in complete isolation by their mom and dad, who
] call themselves Mary and Joseph Green. They believe they
] were born in Canada, but that their parents are American.

Will says he was ordered to leave home this summer when he became a vegetarian and his mother declared him an "alien influence" in the home, says Rhelda Evans, a case worker for Stinson.

National Story - canada.com network

] LONDON, May 30 %u2014 A British soldier was arrested today
] after he left a roll of film at a photo store that
] appeared to show an Iraqi prisoner being tortured, the
] Defense Ministry said today.
]
] The film depicted a bound and gagged Iraqi inside a net
] that was suspended from a forklift, according to The Sun,
] which first reported the story this morning. The Sun also
] reported that the roll included pictures of soldiers
] performing sex acts near Iraqi prisoners.

Photos Raise Allegations of Torture

] The New York Times newsroom has erupted in anger over
] reporter Rick Bragg and his aggressive defense of relying
] heavily on stringers and interns, with many reporters
] denouncing the practice and insisting that's not the way
] they do business.
]
] Bragg, who had made plans to leave the newspaper this
] summer after being hit with a two-week suspension,
] yesterday "offered his resignation, and I have accepted
] it," Executive Editor Howell Raines told the staff in a
] memo. "We know this has been a difficult period. We have
] full confidence in our staff."
]
] Bragg said last night that he had hoped to stay a little
] longer, "but it's only going to cause more hurt feelings
] if I do. I don't want to cause any more hurt feelings,
] not my own or anyone else's."

Rick Bragg Quits At New York Times (washingtonpost.com)

] WASHINGTON, May 27 - There is no evidence that
] American forces were fired on from the Palestine Hotel in
] Baghdad before they shelled the building, killing two of
] nearly 100 journalists staying there, a journalist
] advocacy group said today.
]
] The Committee to Protect Journalists, which chronicles
] abuses against news personnel worldwide, said that its
] investigation of the April 8 incident concluded that the
] attack on the journalists, while not intentional, could
] have been avoided.

Six days after the incident, the Pentagon spokeswoman, Victoria Clarke, notified the committee in writing that "coalition forces were fired upon and acted in self-defense by returning fire."

In a letter to Spain's foreign minister, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said last month that the American tank had fired in response to "hostile fire appearing to come from a location later identified as the Palestine hotel." He called the use of force "justified" and "proportionate."

Written by Joel Campagna, CPJ's senior program coordinator responsible for the Middle East, and research consultant Rhonda Roumani, "Permission to Fire" is based on interviews with a dozen reporters who were at the scene of the attack, including two embedded journalists who monitored radio traffic before and after the shelling occurred, and journalists who witnessed the strike from inside the Palestine Hotel.

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http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2003/palestine_hotel/palestine_hotel.html

American Account of Killing of 2 Journalists Is Disputed