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a1 zoning laws slow growth the 20-year building boom on staten island , long new york city 's fastest-growing borough , is decelerating dramatically , thanks to new zoning rules .
like them , he hopes that their gathering will signal the beginning of an official return to the settlement , one of four in the northern west bank that israel evacuated over the summer of 2005 together with the jewish settlements of the gaza strip .
if we can figure out how to program thousands of cores on a chip , the future looks rosy , '' said david a. patterson , a university of california , berkeley computer scientist who is a co-author of one of the standard textbooks on microprocessor design . ''
outsiders who have been mentioned as possible candidates include carol bellamy , former executive director of unicef , the first woman elected president of the new york city council and a former managing director for bear stearns ; and william j. mulrow , an investment banker close to mr. spitzer who ran for comptroller in 2002 , among others .
anselm kiefer 's '' falling stars , '' the first exhibition in the monumenta series , runs through july 8 at the grand palais , 3 avenue du général eisenhower , paris ; monumenta.com or 33 1 44-13-17-17 .
when gov. arnold schwarzenegger took the oath of office last friday , he called on legislators in sacramento to set aside party loyalty in favor of '' the party of california . ''
the united states maintains diplomatic relations with syria , but state department officials say no deeper engagement is warranted until the government in damascus halts support for radical organizations , including hezbollah in lebanon and hamas in the palestinian territories . ''
ever since hamas won palestinian legislative elections last january , president bush and prime minister ehud olmert of israel have done everything they could think of to isolate hamas and far less than they might have to help fatah 's most important remaining leader , the palestinian president , mahmoud abbas .
when the visitors from westchester entered adath israel , cuba 's only orthodox synagogue -- and one of three active synagogues in havana -- the feeling of connection between the cubans and the americans was palpable .
michael gazzaniga , a professor of psychology at the university of california , santa barbara , and author of '' the ethical brain , '' notes that within 10 years , neuroscientists may be able to show that there are neurological differences when people testify about their own previous acts and when they testify to something they saw . ''
alex salmond , the newly elected first minister of scotland , expressed concern thursday that the british government had struck a deal that might permit the only person convicted in the 1988 lockerbie bombing to return to libya to complete his sentence .
the blue devils face fourth-seeded cornell in a semifinal at m&t bank stadium in baltimore .
president jacques chirac , seeking to limit the diplomatic reaction over his remarks on iran 's nuclear ambitions , reaffirmed thursday that france remained committed to preventing iran from becoming a nuclear power .
the private groups that will be partnership support organizations include the city university of new york and new visions for public schools , a new york city group .
sheik sharif ahmed , the head of the islamic courts union executive council , was part of a group of islamist leaders being hunted down by american and ethiopian troops in southern somalia .
and meteorologists profiled an astounding storm : 7.57 inches of rain in central park on sunday made it the city 's second-wettest day since recordkeeping began in 1869 ; other rain records were set in philadelphia , newark , trenton , baltimore , washington and bridgeport , conn. ; 26 inches of snow hit tupper lake , n.y. , and winds were clocked at 72 miles an hour in milton , mass. , 81 m.p.h. in cape elizabeth , me. , and 156 m.p.h. at mount washington in new hampshire .
directed and shot with sensitive attention to detail by juan carlos rulfo , the film takes us into a world apart , populated by members of the construction crew building the second deck of the periférico beltway in mexico city .
on dec. 7 , 2006 , the day the prosecutors were told they were being removed , gerald parksy , a prominent california republican fund-raiser and friend of the president 's , '' put in an outraged call '' to the white house protesting the dismissal of the united states attorney in san francisco , kevin ryan , according to an e-mail message from a white house official to the justice department .
israel has more than 100 formal settlements in the west bank and many informal ones .
for mr. de mol , who created endemol with another television producer , joop van den ende , in the netherlands in 1994 , the deal is a triumphant return at a price that analysts said could turn out to be a bargain .
gretchen bleiler , 25 , of aspen , colo. , placed second with a score of 85.0 .
the israelis also shot and killed a 17-year-old palestinian who was trying to cut through a fence that is part of israel 's separation barrier near ramallah .
in st. petersburg , russia , summer advantage is giving teenagers early college credit for russian language classes .
times like these call for people like you to stand up and get to work , '' kamala d. harris , the san francisco district attorney , told graduates at san francisco state university . ''
9 p.m. -lrb- fox -rrb- on the lot -- sixteen aspiring filmmakers compete for their big break -- in the form of a $ 1 million development deal with dreamworks -- in this new reality series with mark burnett and steven spielberg as executive producers .
mr. sarkozy 's berlin visit underscored the centrality of franco-german ties , particularly important now , when germany holds the rotating presidency of the european union and will play host to the summit of the group of 8 industrialized nations next month . ''
according to people who are participating in the various transactions , beacon capital partners , a boston fund that recently sold the landmark john hancock building , plans to acquire equity office 's buildings in the seattle and washington , d.c. , areas , including market square on pennsylvania avenue , and reston town center in reston , va. , for $ 6.5 billion .
poe , evermore a mystery man arrived at edgar allan poe 's grave at the westminster burial grounds in baltimore on friday morning , as he has on poe 's birthday -lrb- jan. 19 -rrb- every year since 1949 , watched by the largest group of onlookers ever , the associated press reported .
when margaret fern knechtges was born in sioux city , iowa , on jan. 17 , 1905 , her parents had a piano waiting .
barbera , like dolcetto , has long been one of the everyday reds of the piedmont region of northwestern italy .
the british and irish governments said that sinn fein had met their conditions for joining in a belfast government by officially giving its support to the northern ireland police before the election .
bolivia 's skiers seem to approach the impending end at chacaltaya with a mixture of denial and resignation .
many y.b.a. 's , as young british artists were known in the 1990s , are now household names in france , while london 's share of the global art market last year was seven times larger than that of paris .
i had promotion ahead , flights , 5 a.m. pickups , starbucks cappuccino at the gate in lieu of breakfast , boston , dallas , minneapolis , washington , san francisco , los angeles , denver , seattle , chicago , miami , toronto , check in , check out , stay on track .
for example , as the lawyer for president bill clinton in the 1990s , he got a settlement of a lawsuit charging sexual misconduct brought by paula jones , a former arkansas state employee .
a day before lebanon prepared to mark the second anniversary of the assassination of its former prime minister , rafik hariri , three people were killed and about 23 others wounded when two minibuses were bombed as they ferried passengers to work , to shopping and to bible study classes .
how else did thomas dewey get to be governor of new york or rudy giuliani become mayor of new york city ? ''
com , which has a new jersey phone number but claims that it is based in russia and that it complies with russian copyright laws , still operates .
$ -lrb- 6 $ -rrb- kreisberg -- luisa , peacefully on february 1 , 2007 in berkeley , california .
someone brings a query that is broken to amit , and he treasures it and cherishes it and tries to figure out how to fix the algorithm , '' says matt cutts , one of mr. singhal 's officemates and the head of google 's efforts to fight web spam , the term for advertising-filled pages that somehow keep maneuvering to the top of search listings .
edward w. gnehm , who served as ambassador to jordan from 2001 to 2004 , said that in late 2003 the defense attaché in amman showed him a message from the pentagon describing a pentagon intelligence team that was being sent to amman to gather information about the stability of the jordanian government .
ms. tyler 's book will compete for the $ 60,000 prize against '' the inheritance of loss '' by kiran desai from india , winner of last year 's booker prize ; '' half of a yellow sun '' by chimamanda ngozi adichie from nigeria ; '' arlington park '' by rachel cusk from britain ; '' the observations '' by the belfast-born jane harris ; and '' a concise chinese-english dictionary for lovers , '' by xiaolu guo from china .
the bridegroom is a second-year fellow in infectious disease at massachusetts general hospital and brigham and women 's hospital in boston .
opening ceremonies will be held today in washington , london and strasbourg , france .
ms. royal was also widely criticized during a trip to the middle east in december in which she did not speak out when a hezbollah member of the lebanese parliament compared israel to nazi germany .
correction : march 4 , 2007 , sunday an article on feb. 11 about the world war i stage drama '' journey 's end , '' set on the eve of germany 's spring offensive , misidentified the rank of erich ludendorff , who led the campaign .
a1 darfuri community in indiana years of village burning , rape and mutilation have driven 2.5 million people from their homes in the darfur region of sudan , and a community in fort wayne , ind. , has become one of the largest concentrations of darfuri in the united states .
he also wants to win iran 's support for an international tribunal to try the killers of lebanon 's former prime minister , rafik hariri , who was a close friend .
maria was a dramatic presence in israel and instrumental in the founding of our jerusalem campus .
the new warner proposal and the resolution introduced last week by senators joseph r. biden jr. of delaware , and carl levin of michigan , both democrats , and chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , are similar in many respects .
mr. abssi reappeared on jordan 's radar in january when police had a three-hour battle with two suspected terrorists in the northern jordanian city of irbid , killing one of the men .
the four engagements collectively referred to as the battle of leyte gulf resulted from the japanese navy 's all-out effort to halt or fatally damage gen. douglas macarthur 's invasion of the island of leyte in the philippines .
backlash within india is a bigger problem , '' said kris gopalakrishnan , a co-founder and president of infosys , an indian company that has become one of the biggest winners from the era of globalization .
no , john smoltz , his former atlanta teammate and closest friend in baseball , did not put him up to saying that .
senator john d. rockefeller iv , the west virginia democrat who took control of the committee this month , said that the administration was building a case against tehran even as american intelligence agencies still know little about either iran 's internal dynamics or its intentions in the middle east . ''
one side raised photos of sheik hassan nasrallah , the hezbollah leader and a shiite , and burned those of former lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri , whose assassination in 2005 set off lebanon 's latest political turmoil , a witness said .
mr. calderón is one of the few conservative free trade advocates to win election in latin america recently , along with Óscar arias of costa rica .
dr. sunil kripalani of the emory university school of medicine in atlanta and dr. barry d. weiss of the university of arizona college of medicine in tucson suggest these strategies : doctors should assess the patient 's baseline understanding before providing extensive information : '' before we go on , could you tell me what you already know about high blood pressure ? ''
the wizards play host to the cavaliers tonight , the team that knocked them out of the playoffs in the first round last season after a memorable battle between arenas and cleveland 's lebron james .
coco chanel , who returned to paris with a dramatic suntan acquired during a holiday on the riviera in the 1920s , is credited with initiating the vogue for sunbathing .
in 1947 he received his law degree from new york university and practiced law in new york city for 40 years .
they will face third-seeded johns hopkins on saturday in baltimore .
secretary of state condoleezza rice pressed prime minister ehud olmert of israel on monday to agree to peace talks that would include three issues that have bedeviled middle east negotiations since 1979 .
just 3 per 100 travel by air each year in india , compared with about 10 per 100 in china , said t. srinagesh , the chief operating officer of the hyderabad airport project .
waitresses know that '' taking it '' includes a string of verbal and nonverbal slights : the '' give me this , give me that '' order , the '' you 're only a waitress '' show-off vocabulary , the '' you are my servant for now '' treatment , the noblesse oblige -lrb- or no oblige -rrb- power regarding a tip , the intrusion into one 's personal life , the twirling of an empty plate in the air until the waitress retrieves it -lrb- at chez panisse in berkeley ! -rrb-
the internet is very effective for our clients , '' said david kenny , chief executive of the online marketing agency digitas .
on iraq , the american people want a new direction , and we are providing it , '' said senator patty murray , democrat of washington , a leader of the congressional negotiators who came to terms on the legislation that has become a test of wills between mr. bush and the democratic majority on capitol hill .
after his death , generations of those followers carried his word , simplified or elaborated , beyond india and into the rest of asia .
this is a dangerously wrongheaded strategy that will drive america deeper into an unwinnable swamp at a great cost , '' said senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska . ''
although the regime of president bashar al-assad hails from an obscure offshoot of shiism -- the alawites -- syria is nearly three-quarters sunni , with alawites , members of other muslim sects and a considerable number of christians making up the rest .
blohm , alan r. , 21 , pfc. , army ; kenai , alaska ; 25th infantry division .
the tirana representative of the united nations high commissioner for refugees , which has helped to organize and finance the refugee program in albania , sounded more frustrated with the slow pace of resettlement . ''
trustees of new jersey 's state medical school , the university of medicine and dentistry of new jersey in newark , voted yesterday to approve dr. owen 's appointment .
in popular culture , goa has long embodied qualities hard to find in india -- it is quaint , laid-back , libertine -- and its real estate boom may be more about mythology than location .
the hunger and ambition of russian parents is uniquely strong , particularly when one considers how hard life is in russia right now and also that the patron saint of russian tennis parents is the ex-siberian oil-field worker yuri sharapov , who came to america with less than $ 1,000 and his 7-year-old daughter , maria , who now earns an estimated $ 30 million a year in endorsements .
the team will continue to ride under the discovery channel name this year , beginning with the tour of california , a one-week race that begins feb. 18 in san francisco .
and while port st. lucie , the largest city in st. lucie county , is n't on the ocean , it offers water of a different sort : the meandering st. lucie river , which was a setting in the james bond movie '' moonraker '' and which is like a piece of old florida preserved .
and to those who say that israel has respected palestinian private property since it occupied the west bank in 1967 , mr. nusseibeh can point to his father 's 200-acre jordan valley estate seized by the israeli authorities .
in his later years , pomus became an elder statesman in the new york city songwriter set , a larger-than-life connection to a lost era , knocking around town with dr. john and lou reed before succumbing to lung cancer in 1991 .
an article on jan. 7 about kochi , india , referred incorrectly to flights on delta air lines between new york and kochi .
and bawdier radio shows , like piolin 's , also do n't necessarily appeal to all of new york 's mexicans , almost half of whom come from the state of puebla , a socially conservative area of mexico .
it requires an exquisite kind of lunacy to spend hundreds of billions destroying america 's reputation in the world , exhausting the u.s. military , failing to catch osama , enhancing iran 's power in the middle east and sending american kids to train and arm iraqi forces so they can work against american interests .
iran is still there , with its large share of the middle east 's 57 percent of the world 's oil reserves , and 45 percent of its natural gas .
seattle \* shawn springs , cb -lrb- ohio state -rrb- what happened : solid , but rarely spectacular starter , with one pro bowl , he has played for washington since 2004 .
page a12 teddy kollek is dead the mayor of jerusalem from 1965 to 1993 , who worked to develop the city as israel 's capital and unite its two halves , he was 95 .
of the recent turn of positive events , including the decision by one of india 's major filmmakers , ravi chopra , to secure the rights and distribute the film , she noted , '' it feels very good to be here . ''
australia 's foreign minister , alexander downer , said authorities in the united states had told him that if mr. hicks was found guilty by the military tribunal , he would be allowed to serve out his sentence in an australian prison . ''
a native of woonsocket , rhode island , he receive a b.s. from the university of rhode island and an m.a. and ph. d. from fordham university .
then , once mexico won independence from spain in 1821 , creating a republic based on the federal system of the united states , the texan region was joined with its stronger neighbor , coahuila , to form a single mexican state .
a picture caption on monday with a sports article about the reaction of a community in new hampshire to the deaths of a police officer and a cousin of the ski racer bode miller in a violent confrontation misspelled the cousin 's given name .
alejandro gonzález iñárritu intertwines three seemingly disparate stories from mexico city -- about a dogfight entrepreneur -lrb- gael garcía bernal , above -rrb- trying to raise enough money to run away with his brother 's wife ; a middle-aged man -lrb- Álvaro guerrero -rrb- who leaves his wife and daughter for a spokesmodel ; and a revolutionary turned assassin -lrb- emilio echevarría -rrb- , now living on the streets -- and resolves them all with an astonishing car crash .
curators have been snapping up mexico city artwork in places like basel ; now they will descend on the city this april for mexico arte contemporáneo , its fledging contemporary art fair .
miguel terrazas , said his platoon had been told that haditha was '' an insurgent-controlled-and-occupied city . ''
later , in charleston , when asked if he worried that this stance might hurt his chances in the south carolina primary next year , he offered no apologies . ''
the one notable new recruit is rudy giuliani , who likened taming baghdad to '' reducing crime in new york '' without noticing that even after the escalation there will be fewer american troops patrolling baghdad than uniformed police officers in insurgency-free new york city .
j. gordon melton , the director of the institute for the study of american religion in santa barbara , calif. , traces the origins of '' prosperity consciousness '' to 19th-century christian science . ''
debralee hovey , a republican who represents monroe and parts of newtown , introduced a bill that would require all connecticut girls to have at least the first in a series of three hpv shots before entering sixth grade .
he is friendly with the nonroster pitcher jorge vázquez , who is from the same town , nagua , in the dominican republic , and knows josé reyes , too .
under the articles of confederation , annapolis , which is maryland 's capital , was once also the nation 's capital .
when howard stern was preparing to take his talk show to sirius satellite radio , following his former boss , mel karmazin , mr. hollander argued that the show should be immediately taken off cbs , according to a person knowledgeable about the situation .
since 1999 , before the second intifada caused israel , in the name of protecting its citizens , to reinvade the west bank and set up various security restrictions , the palestinian gross domestic product per capita has dropped 40 percent in real terms , according to the international monetary fund -- a severe depression .
he is survived by his wife , gloria ; a daughter , oriana , and a son , pascal , both of concord , calif. ; and three sisters , also of california : beth jacobs of san leandro , beverly lagiss of livermore and lynn robie of sacramento .
after he started a lucrative business making buttons and medals at home , a client in mexico hired him to set up a factory there , and in 1990 proposed a huge deal : commemorative jewelry that churches would sell for pope john paul ii 's visit that year to mexico city .
a1 train derails in kentucky a freight train carrying chemical cargo derailed and ignited south of louisville , ky. , forcing the evacuation of homes , shutting down roads and sending students home from school , kentucky emergency officials said .
it is hard to say whether the unusual heat behind the evening owes more to interest in mr. obama or to the three men who spearheaded the fund-raiser : the dreamworks co-founders david geffen , jeffrey katzenberg and steven spielberg .
a hunka , hunka an exhibition of elvis presley 's stage costumes from 1969 to 1977 opened on thursday in the visitor center at graceland mansion in memphis .
before the devils play their first game in october at their new arena , the prudential center in downtown newark , lamoriello will need to address two issues : hiring a coach and signing a top-line center , who may or may not be scott gomez .
bush administration officials have repeatedly argued that iran has been seeking to become the dominant power in the middle east .
charles v. antonicelli performed the roman catholic ceremony at st. joseph 's on capitol hill in washington .
hands-on culinary skills is what families will get at cooking vacations ' new secret garden positano trip to positano , italy ; (800) 916-1152 ; www.cooking-vacations.com .
the best seller '' 1,000 places to see before you die '' includes as one of its do n't - miss destinations the '' staggeringly beautiful '' backwaters of india 's kerala state .
lorena ochoa , the no. 1 player in the world , is one of two golfers from mexico on the tour .
now you have eight pieces of junk sitting at the yard , '' representative gene taylor , democrat of mississippi , said at the hearing , his voice cracking with anger .
the special cellar to buy wines from williams selyem winery in sonoma county in california you do n't simply pick up the phone and order from your neighborhood wine shop .
1 troubles for spain 's leader a car bombing last month by the militant group eta that destroyed the parking lot of madrid 's new air terminal has ripped apart spain 's political establishment .
there is a convergence across the atlantic , '' said hans-werner sinn , president of the ifo institute for economic research in munich , whose proposals to get the unemployed back to work have been partially adopted in germany .
the army declared a nighttime curfew throughout beirut amid fears that lebanon 's two-month-long political crisis had entered a decidedly violent phase .
the expectation has changed , '' said bill pierce , the chairman of the health and exercise science department at furman university in greenville , s.c. , and the creator of a popular three-day-a-week program . ''
and in romania , the real estate company dtz echinox estimates that residential properties in middle-class parts of bucharest sell for an average of 1,000 euros , or $ 1,292 , per square meter .
dr. ken rodriguez , chief of orthopedic medicine at beth israel deaconess medical center in boston , an affiliate of the harvard medical school , said there were several milestones after patients are removed from ventilators .
wolf videotaped a public demonstration where there may have been an attempt to set a police car ablaze and where a san francisco police officer 's skull was fractured when he was hit from behind by a demonstrator , '' said luke macaulay , a spokesman for the united states attorney for the northern district of california .
but on friday , a new top sonoma county pruner was crowned , after a showdown of 10 finalists that drew 150 spectators to a sun-drenched farm here , about 50 miles north of san francisco , in just one of several wine-rich california counties to hold the contests .
calling hours will be held wednesday , march 21 , 2007 , at the leo p. gallagher & son funeral home , 31 arch street , greenwich , connecticut , from 4:00 to 8:00 pm .
among those detained at a moscow airport was garry kasparov , the former chess champion , who was on his way to the latest in a series of protests organized by other russia , a loose opposition coalition he leads .
however , envoys for the palestinian authority president , mahmoud abbas , have been in contact with hamas 's exiled political chief , khaled mashal , who is in damascus , syria , palestinian officials said .
in the wake of the shin bet statement , david baker , an official in the office of israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , said hamas '' continues to target israeli civilians . ''
page b1 pelosi talks to syria 's leader house speaker nancy pelosi said she pressed president bashar al-assad on supporting militants .
a6 pelosi meets with syria leader nancy pelosi , the speaker of the house , said she had frank words with president bashar al-assad and other syrian officials in damascus , pressing the president over syria 's support for militant groups and insisting that his government block militants seeking to cross into iraq .
day out : calcata , italy correction : february 11 , 2007 , sunday the day out column on jan. 28 about calcata , italy , misstated the starting price in dollars for rooms offered there by i sensi della terra .
rishin -- marvin p. , 81 , of coconut creek , florida on march 16 , 2007 .
the louvre in paris withdrew a request to borrow the statue from the cleveland museum for an exhibition after the greek government threatened a boycott .
president jacques chirac of france conveyed the condolences of his country .
american friends of the hebrew university and the hebrew university of jerusalem are profoundly saddened by the passing of our much loved and admired lay leader , enid mckenna soifer , a source of inspiration to her many friends and colleagues in the united states and israel .
on dec. 11 , after the appointment of robert druskin as chief operating officer of citigroup , ms. bartiromo and charles gasparino , a cnbc on-air editor , had a brief on-air clash when ms. bartiromo remarked that an earlier report by mr. gasparino that sallie l. krawcheck would leave her job as chief financial officer did not pan out . ''
barnard -- allan , who was born in madison , wisconsin on august 8th , 1918 , died on monday , january 22nd , of complications from parkinson 's disease in forest hills , new york .
the former president of korea university in seoul sought to raise that share to 60 percent , but ultimately was not re-elected to his post in december .
a billionaire with manifest interests , he has a lot of time on his hands now that dreamworks , the mini-major studio he formed with steven spielberg and jeffrey katzenberg , has been bought and folded into paramount .
9 p.m. -lrb- 13 , 49 -rrb- faith without fear -- this '' america at a crossroads '' documentary follows the journey of the muslim dissident irshad manji , left , as she travels through yemen , europe and north america on what she sees as a quest to restore humanity and reason to islam . ''
taco trucks , cultural icons and social magnets in mexico , have become a flashpoint in at least a dozen cities in california -- including santa rosa , 55 miles north of san francisco , and gardena , 15 miles south of los angeles -- and in other states , like arizona , oregon and tennessee .
a railroad had just been completed linking savannah , ga. , and charleston , s.c. as the south carolina legislature deliberated , leading citizens of the two cities took part in a celebration .
dear father of leslie m. cross of long island , ny , barbara cross -lrb- roy call -rrb- of cleveland heights , oh , laurie cross -lrb- gerald knorr -rrb- of seattle , washington , steven frederick cross of olympia , washington , and david brian cross -lrb- lucia bowen cross -rrb- of wilton , ct .
although he never returned to russia and always wrote in french , russia remained present in much of his work , notably in a stream of biographies , of ivan the terrible , peter the great , catherine the great , alexander ii , nicholas ii , rasputin and other historical figures and of russian literary giants like tolstoy , pushkin , gogol , chekhov and , most recently , boris pasternak .
in marketing a 1904 tudor in chappaqua , in westchester county , bonnie golub , an agent with prudential holmes & kennedy , played up its location at the highest point in the hamlet .
in december , the islamists tried to seize all of south-central somalia , including baidoa , the seat of the transitional government .
then -- 25 million to 75 million years from now -- australia moves north , slamming into indonesia and malaysia before pirouetting counterclockwise to smash into the philippines and then asia , eventually merging with it .
sorkin -- rosalie , 92 , of boca raton , florida .
wine collecting is now a world-wide phenomenon , with collectors from russia and asia , along with brand new zillionaires , leaping into the game with seemingly bottomless pools of cash .
it 's business as usual for us , '' said jeffrey a. citron , above , vonage 's chairman and interim chief executive .
it 's universally accepted that porn is the biggest trailblazer in new technology , '' said netflix 's chief content officer , ted sarandos , who trolls the festival circuit for new material . ''
in a high school career that included 28 touchdowns on kickoff returns , dean forged a reputation on the field on par with oklahoma legends like bobby murcer , lee roy selmon and troy aikman . ''
he is a son of ellen karp of baltimore and jonathan karp of pikesville , md. .
we should be very careful about encouraging the creation of new dividing lines in europe or the return of an old order , '' president jacques chirac of france said last month when asked about the american antimissile missile plans .
as any student of american mass murder will tell you , nebraska was home to charles starkweather .
ex-foes sworn in to lead in northern ireland from left , martin mcguinness , deputy first minister of the northern ireland executive government ; the rev. ian paisley , the government 's first minister ; prime minister tony blair of britain ; and prime minister bertie ahern of ireland left the stormont parliament building in belfast after mr. mcguinness and mr. paisley , former enemies , were sworn in to forge a government .
she was born in ontario , canada and also lived in brazil , italy , spain and france , moving to greenwich , ct in 1983 .
international inspectors confirmed this month that iran is equipping its uranium enrichment plant at natanz , a step that brings it closer to building an atomic bomb and brashly defies a united nations resolution passed in december .
tom anderson , 31 , a myspace founder , said , '' myspace has a method of reaching people who are historically not interested in voting '' and may not read newspapers or watch news on television .
merrie also brought her high professional standards and unstinting energy to philanthropic and volunteer work , including as a member of the boards of the bill t. jones\/arnie zane dance company and the headlands center for the arts in sausalito , california , as well as to projects for the st. john 's episcopal church building committee in ross , california .
... dorothy was at another table sitting between muhammad ali and jack nicholson '' ; but before '' hillary saw dorothy '' -- mcauliffe 's wife -- '' and invited the entire family down to punta cana in the dominican republic to stay at julio iglesias 's spectacular oceanfront estate . ''
one of the dividends of a trip to an obscure place like montappone , italy -- an austere hill town in le marche and the center of italian hat production -- is how it can suddenly press your replay button .
a7 hamas rocket kills israeli an israeli man died from a qassam rocket launched from gaza , and prime minister ehud olmert vowed to continue israel 's military assault on hamas as an effort to stop the rocket fire , warning that '' no one involved in terror is immune . ''
nicolas sarkozy was elected president of france , by a margin of six percentage points , defeating ségolène royal by assembling a majority of older voters , high earners , farmers and professionals .
like the trees themselves , the chain saw sculptures are seen as a tangible link to the city 's past : among the local heroes waiting to be carved are harold arlen , who wrote songs like '' stormy weather '' and '' over the rainbow '' ; the aviation pioneer glenn h. curtiss ; and grover cleveland , mayor of buffalo , governor of new york and president of the united states . ''
maryland seafood festivals a directory of spring and summer seafood festivals in maryland is available at marylandseafood.org or by sending a stamped , self-addressed envelope to 2007 seafood festival list , maryland department of agriculture , seafood marketing program , 50 harry s. truman parkway , annapolis , md. 21401 .
during senate debate on monday , the republican leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , accused democrats of '' spending our time on a meaningless resolution about giving the president advice about who the attorney general ought to be . ''
she currently serves on the board of trustees at lesley university in cambridge , mass. .
after the intermission , ms. gosfield and her rock trio played '' ewa7 '' (1999) , a work based on visits to factories in nuremberg , germany .
highlighting how dominant the 1995-96 chicago bulls were , the mavericks -lrb- 46-9 -rrb- have lost more home games -lrb- three -rrb- than chicago did all season -lrb- two -rrb- on its way to a 72-10 finish .
it began in december , when eyes across the globe first focused on the dramatic rescue effort for three climbers lost near the 11,239-foot summit of oregon 's mount hood .
beloved husband of 57 years to wife , arline bleier prince , loving father of diane prince of chico , california and william prince of berkeley , california .
i am not sure her decision is really clear to all of us , '' said elizabeth stinson , the director of the peace and justice center of sonoma county in california . ''
the book 's author , corrado augias , one of italy 's best-known writers , agreed to a quick tour of the third caravaggio church , santa maria del popolo , at the northern end of piazza del popolo .
at a news conference in jerusalem on wednesday , prime minister ehud olmert said israel '' would not restrain itself forever '' in the face of the qassam fire . ''
president bush had been planning an address later this month to bolster secretary of state condoleezza rice 's recent attempts to broker a peace deal between mr. abbas and prime minister ehud olmert of israel .
there was good old sanath jayasuriya , the 37-year-old left-handed batsman for sri lanka , walloping the hard ball rising off the slippery grass , sending seven shots over the fences , a home run to us , a six to cricket fans .
this was mr. reagan 's ultimate challenge to the soviet union -- and , so they believe , mikhail gorbachev simply capitulated when , in november 1989 , he failed to respond with force as germans suddenly began tearing down the wall .
thousands from korea and taiwan , japanese colonies at the time , were dispatched aboard naval vessels to serve japanese soldiers in battlefields elsewhere in asia .
but senator dianne feinstein , democrat of california , said that ms. lam and kevin v. ryan , the united states attorney from san francisco , among others , were being pushed out '' without cause . ''
william randolph hearst , a rube from san francisco , came here at the turn of the last century and bought a newspaper that became the legendary new york journal .
in lebanon , he sought out nabih berri , the pro-hezbollah speaker of parliament , who is stalling efforts to convene a united nations tribunal into the 2005 assassination of former prime minister rafik hariri .
the talk among organizers of the tour of california this week has been about trying to build on the success of this year 's race , which ends sunday with a 77.5-mile circuit race in long beach .
donations in his name to hospice by the sea , boca raton , florida .
any party that does n't take the national security of canadians seriously will never be chosen by canadians to form the government of canada , '' prime minister stephen harper said .
the proposed city has its share of crime , mostly confined to '' mafia -lrb- or one unopened packet of cigarettes -rrb- , '' a one-room show imported from standard -lrb- oslo -rrb- , a gallery in norway .
and now that south florida has filled up , metropolitan new yorkers are popping up in nearly every place where florida sand meets the sea .
michael geoghegan , the chief executive of hsbc , sought to soothe analysts ' concerns yesterday , saying that the loan-loss difficulties were isolated to its american consumer finance arm , the hsbc finance corporation .
then , on sunday , the star-ledger of newark reported that christopher j. christie , the united states attorney for new jersey , had issued a broad subpoena to the state 's office of legislative services , which functions as the legislature 's counsel and administrative arm , seeking records related to millions of dollars in state grants .
the republican minority leader in the senate , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , said the two parties should find innovative ways to tackle the issues .
the state tournament at the veterans memorial auditorium in des moines was the ultimate event for iowa schoolgirls , and the championship game frequently sold out .
defense secretary robert m. gates said monday that iran was '' acting in a very negative way '' in the middle east and that the united states was building up its forces to demonstrate its resolve to remain in the persian gulf . ''
according to the n.h.l. , dowd and the boston defenseman paul mara , from ridgewood , are the only active new jersey-born players in the league .
she was in the early stages of a relationship with the man who would become her husband , a toronto film editor named david wharnsby .
i am here to support you all against aids , '' he told the crowd , which included president viktor yushchenko , ukraine 's former leader leonid kuchma , the russian envoy viktor chernomyrdin and top government officials .
in davos , switzerland , last month , larry page , a founder of google , mentioned that his founding colleague , sergey brin , had been using offsets to help reduce the carbon footprint he produced from flying their private boeing 767 .
as maritza corrales , a cuban historian who lives in havana and the author of '' the chosen island : jews in cuba , '' remarked , '' to be cuban and jewish is to be twice survivors . ''
grant strate , a founding member of the national ballet who became a successful choreographer , recalled in his autobiography , '' grant strate : a memoir '' -lrb- toronto : dance collection danse , 2002 -rrb- that when miss franca was invited to a gathering during her early days in canada , she '' effortlessly cut a swath through the room , exuding poise and sophistication . ''
in addition to its natural areas , gateway is also home to the nation 's oldest continuing operating lighthouse , sandy hook lighthouse , built in 1764 ; floyd bennett field in brooklyn , which was the city 's first municipal airfield ; fort wadsworth on staten island , which predates the revolutionary war ; and rockaway point in queens .
a recruiter he found on the internet arranged to meet him on a bridge in damascus , syria .
the foundation of the fortune that allows the westons to fraternize with royalty is the loblaw companies , canada 's largest grocery chain and once one of north america 's most innovative retailers .
10 p.m. -lrb- showtime -rrb- the black cat -- once upon a midnight dreary , in this latest '' masters of horror '' installment , edgar allan poe -lrb- jeffrey combs , above , with elyse levesque as virginia -rrb- pondered his writing , lately so weak and weary .
rabbi abraham cooper , associate dean of the simon wiesenthal center , met with the author , lee won-bok , a professor of visual arts in south korea , at the seoul offices of his publisher , gimm-young .
anne m. mulcahy , chief executive of xerox , faced the possibility of a company bankruptcy filing in 2001 and described how she felt : '' around 8:30 p.m. on my way home , i pulled over to the side of the merritt parkway and said to myself , ` i do n't know where to go .
in 1944 , they reunited and , after some work in new york , including writing special material for the comedy team of olsen and johnson , they attracted the attention of johnny mercer , who liked their work and opened doors for them in hollywood .
his parents decided not to push him into college full time , so he split his time between high school and flinders university , the local university in adelaide .
mchugh -- james j. , of westport , connecticut , died march 7 , 2007 .
a 17th-century eyewitness account of the coronation of a shah , written by jean chardin , a french jeweler , is inscribed to jean-baptiste colbert , then the finance minister of france .
another branch of jia is to open in krabi , thailand , next year .
i am not apologetic about why the koran says this , '' said seyyed hossein nasr , an islamic scholar who teaches at george washington university .
the new york post reported last year that ms. sandow voted in the bronx in 2004 while receiving mail at an address in new city , n.y. , about 30 miles to the north , in rockland county .
but miri eisin , a spokeswoman for prime minister ehud olmert of israel , said : '' we would like to see the palestinians doing something against terror .
northern ireland 's biggest protestant party , led by the rev. ian paisley , balked saturday at joining a government with the province 's roman catholics , only two days before a deadline to restore a power-sharing local government in belfast .
his own sense of tragedy -- forged from surviving a 1989 plane crash in sioux city , iowa , and rescuing three children from the wreckage -- has left matz with this sober perspective about barbaro : he will never forget the colt , but he can not let himself be consumed by barbaro 's memory . ''
a report in the world briefing column on wednesday about a court ruling that blocked nigeria 's president , olusegun obasanjo , from unseating his vice president , atiku abubakar , misstated mr. abubakar 's ethnic background .
at the center of the kerfuffle is shane doan , the captain of canada at the world championship being played outside moscow .
speaking on '' this week '' on abc , senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , said of mr. gonzales , '' he does have a credibility problem , '' adding , '' i think he 's going to have some difficulties . ''
carl friedrich von weizsäcker was born in kiel , germany , on june 28 , 1912 .
for two years m\/m -lrb- paris -rrb- served as the art directors for french vogue , redesigning the magazine for the current editor , carine roitfeld .
a navy officer during the vietn am war , he was first assigned to the navy base in coronado , california as boat crew training officer before the crews left for vietnam and he himself was later assigned to the swift boat base at da nang in cameron bay .
the darien scenario is a familiar one in connecticut , where the affordable housing appeals law frequently pits developers and affordable housing advocates against environmentalists and wetlands commissions .
russia has sought to bolster its military and trade relations with countries in the middle east and is hoping to win a major order from saudi arabia for russian weapons .
and so in asia , china competes with japan and south korea .
michael smith cynthiana , ky. , jan. 16 , 2007 to the editor : in expressing support for a recent ordinance in greenleaf , idaho , that encourages residents to own guns , glenn reynolds argues that a heavily armed citizenry benefits society .
this year , he and mr. blair participated in brokering a deal between the leaders of northern ireland 's dominant rival groups , gerry adams of sinn fein and the protestant leader , the rev. ian paisley , who agreed to form a joint administration for the british-ruled province on may 8 .
he went to westfield high school , one of the largest schools in fairfax county .
born in philadelphia , pennsylvania on may 1st , 1918 , daughter of the late john and emma hallowell , she attended miss porters school in farmington , connecticut , where she and her husband theodore later lived for fifty years .
despite having beaten no. 1 roger federer in an exhibition less than 48 hours earlier , roddick found himself down a set against jo-wilfried tsonga of france on monday after losing the first in a marathon tie breaker .
he also brought the orchestra into the world spotlight , taking it on its first tours of europe , asia and the soviet union , conducting it regularly at carnegie hall , and making many recordings with it .
you know , the arab world thinks that israel wants to conquer the middle east , '' he says inside the production van . ''
but both senator john mccain and senator barack obama have now had to express regret for saying that american lives have been '' wasted '' in battle .
has louisville eclipsed kentucky as the commonwealth 's favorite team ? ''
gutterman warheit memorial chapel , boca raton , florida .
coventry , warwick and west warwick are the rhode island communities affected .
painting the divide -lrb- jerusalem -rrb- , '' by the british artist mark wallinger , gets a little closer to what makes modern israel distinctive as the vital but driven and conflicted place it is .
raise your hand if this is the first political rally you 've ever attended , '' said andrew rice , an oklahoma state senator , warming up a crowd at a $ 25-a-head obama fund-raiser in oklahoma city last week .
a spokesman for mississippi 's governor , haley barbour , declined to confirm if the scheduled announcement was linked to toyota .
that almost all the inhabitants are from somewhere else -- either in italy or other parts of the world -- makes calcata unique , '' said pancho garrison , a former choreographer from texas who runs grotta dei germogli , a nouvelle italian restaurant in a mosaic-lined cave -lrb- rupe san giovanni ; 39-761-588-003 ; www.grottadeigermogli.org -rrb- . ''
a tall building means pride , '' said kim sang-dae , a professor of architectural engineering at korea university in seoul . ''
a sister-in-law , juanita jackson mitchell , was the first black woman to practice law in maryland and was considered the matriarch of the civil rights movement in baltimore .
like four other members of the subcommittee , the lone republican , steve king of iowa , spoke of an immigrant forebear -- a grandmother , who arrived at ellis island from kiel , germany , on march 26 , 1894 , as a 4-year-old .
hackers in the past attacked for mainly personal glorification , said ira winkler , vice president for the information systems security association and the author of several books about the subject . ''
shoring up an archive -- corbis , a corporation founded and owned by bill gates that holds rights to 100 million photographs , has appointed a new chief executive who is an expert in rights law .
american officials have suggested that some of these accounts helped north korea 's leader , kim jong-il , maintain a lavish lifestyle in pyongyang , the capital .
since 2005 , new york city 's population barely recorded any gain -- a statistically insignificant 587 people , with a steady influx of immigrants and growth in manhattan and staten island .
a7 violence worsens in gaza in some of the worst internal palestinian fighting to date , fatah security force members stormed the hamas-aligned islamic university in gaza city while rival factions battled throughout the gaza strip .
in a softly lighted and sumptuous suite , mr. berezovsky , a former mathematician who amassed huge wealth in business during the russian presidency of boris n. yeltsin in the 1990s , said he was prepared to meet russian investigators if that would help the british police inquiry , which is widely perceived to have stalled over russia 's resistance to extraditing suspects .
similar projects are under way at about a dozen other institutions nationwide , including the university of connecticut in storrs ; the university of notre dame ; furman university in greenville , s.c. , where a retirement community on campus is being planned ; and hampshire college in amherst , mass. , where construction will begin soon on 120 condominium apartments on campus for working people and retirees . ''
perched at the crossroads of france and germany , strasbourg was torn between the two for centuries .
rumblings were felt several hundred miles away in singapore and in kuala lumpur , malaysia , prompting the evacuation of several office towers in those cities .
mr. reid started the week by introducing a bipartisan ethics and lobbying proposal negotiated with the republican leader , senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky .
croatia is one of the most requested destinations simply because cruisers have not been there yet , '' said bruce good , spokesman for the yachts of seabourn , which will call on ports like split , dubrovnik , rovinj and zadar , as well as kotor in montenegro and koper in slovenia .
thailand is poised to take over a television station once controlled by its former prime minister , thaksin shinawatra , who was ousted in a coup in september .
he was leaving nevada , iowa , heading for a meeting with democratic legislators in des moines and a meeting in altoona when his wife called him to tell that doctors had found '' something that looked suspicious in a rib '' in her visit on monday and wanted her to return on wednesday for more tests .
the united states and israel said he was not being evenhanded in the middle east .
analysts contrast mr. chávez 's success at consolidating power in venezuela with the troubles faced by president evo morales in bolivia , where a constitution-writing assembly has been stalled by fractious delegates and regional power struggles .
the boxes appeared to contain shipments of tubes directly from factories in the middle east , none of them in iran .
the globe and mail of toronto , considered canada 's most serious newspaper , recently ran a front-page article about eating lobster dinner with mr. black in a restaurant ; the canadian newsmagazine macleans published a special edition last week devoted to the '' trial of the century . ''
in the interim , toronto and montreal built canada 's dynasty franchises , and edmonton created an era of its own in the '80s , the wayne gretzky years .
hank won an assignment to the oshkosh team in the class d wisconsin state league .
to the editor : re '' senators regret remarks on troops '' -lrb- news article , march 2 -rrb- : so senator john mccain and senator barack obama have both apologized for saying that american lives have been '' wasted '' in battle .
but the attacks have slowed markedly since the seizure of a public school in beslan in 2004 ended with more than 300 civilian deaths , and as russia and pro-kremlin chechen forces have gained the upper hand over separatists in the lingering war in chechnya .
it 's a very important , longer-term trend of incremental innovation , '' said david b. yoffie , a professor at the harvard business school .
i more or less set it up and then i forgot about it , '' said nicky gonzález yuen , an instructor in political science at de anza college in cupertino , who hired a company called nextenergy to install the modest three-kilowatt system in his 100-year-old berkeley duplex . ''
here are the familiar , and , more interestingly , some less familiar , shots of crowds in hyde park in london at george vi 's coronation , of picnickers on the banks of the marne in france and whores in valencia , spain .
the senate voted on monday to preserve current restrictions on the importing of lower-cost prescription drugs from canada and other countries , fearing that such imports could pose risks to consumers , even with new safeguards .
indeed , the party in staten island has developed one of the more successful political farm teams in all of new york city .
bono said that president jacques chirac of france had spoken eloquently of the need to support africa , though he added that france had not yet come through with the resources .
bobby cremins , the coach at the college of charleston and a former coach at georgia tech , became a close friend of mcguire 's because both played for frank mcguire , no relation to al , who coached al at st. john 's and cremins at south carolina . ''
sam querrey , a 19-year-old californian , continued to enjoy his first australian open by defeating florent serra of france , 6-3 , 6-4 , 6-3 , on wednesday night .
i 'm particularly concerned that the dissidents in cuba get the right message , '' ms. rice said , referring to a decision by mr. moratinos not to meet with mr. castro 's opponents during a visit to havana in april . ''
iran 's nuclear boasts come in the midst of an increasingly rancorous chess game between tehran 's mullahs and the bush administration over the aims of iran 's nuclear programs , its role in iraq and its ambitions to become the dominant power in the middle east .
in the snow-covered mountains of davos , switzerland , top executives of barclays , the british bank , and abn amro , a dutch rival , ran into each other at the world economic forum in january .
the rockefeller university deeply mourns the tragic passing of lisa goldberg , whose visionary and inspired leadership of the charles h. revson foundation has had and will continue to have a profound impact on the landscape of new york city .
mr. williams became a prominent part of the european faction of the fluxus movement when its first performance festival took place in wiesbaden , germany , in 1962 .
the exhibition has been organized with the musée des arts décoratifs in paris ; many of its works have never been exhibited outside france .
a3 saudi-iranian meeting ends president mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran and king abdullah of saudi arabia concluded a meeting promising a thaw in relations between the two regional powers , but stopped short of agreeing on any plans to tackle the escalating sectarian and political crises of the middle east .
for as long as stephen harper is prime minister of canada , i vow to send him every two weeks , mailed on a monday , a book that has been known to expand stillness . ''
the rockies wanted the promising relievers craig hansen and manny delcarmen from boston .
but the militant wings of all palestinian parties have said they will only commit to a cease-fire with israel that is mutually agreed upon and takes in the west bank .
colangelo credits the former raptors general manager rob babcock for signing point guard josé calderón from spain .
you see up-and-coming cities like hyderabad or ahmedabad , and it 's easy to believe that india will eventually surpass china .
correction : march 7 , 2007 , wednesday an article on sunday about an antigovernment protest in russia referred incorrectly to garry kasparov , a former world chess champion , who is also a member of russia 's liberal political opposition and who spoke to the crowd .
helgi tomasson , the icelandic-born artistic director of the san francisco ballet , was awarded the order of the falcon at the highest order , usually reserved for monarchs , by president olafur ragnar grimsson of iceland as part of the san francisco ballet 's engagement at the current reykjavik arts festival .
along with a chapter on dark tourism -lrb- the desire to visit places of '' death , disaster , and depravity '' -rrb- , the book , above , has a section about '' cities on the rise '' : riga , latvia ; vilnius , lithuania ; wellington , new zealand ; and tallinn , estonia .
international a3-11 in shift , saudis push to counter iran in region with the prospect of three civil wars looming over the middle east , saudi arabia has taken on a central , aggressive role in reshaping the region 's conflicts .
one angel network , the keiretsu forum , founded seven years ago in lafayette , calif. , east of san francisco , has grown to 500 members in colorado , idaho and washington as well as california .
the story 's location was moved from california -lrb- the book is set in compton -rrb- to new york .
mr. olmert also told mr. abbas , aides said , that rocket fire from gaza was regularly breaking a cease-fire there , and that while israel was not yet retaliating , it would not extend the cease-fire to the west bank until it was honored in gaza .
in 1990 , jacques chirac , who was then the mayor of paris , began a $ 45 million renovation project that broadened sidewalks , planted more trees , eliminated parking lanes and added elegant streetlamps and bus stops .
here are the familiar and , more interestingly , some less familiar , shots of crowds in hyde park in london at george vi 's coronation , of picnickers on the banks of the marne in france and whores in valencia , spain .
in return , israel is expected to release hundreds of palestinian prisoners , including numerous elected legislators belonging to hamas who were arrested months ago in the west bank .
still , mr. elghanayan said rockrose was in the process of selling off a couple of its assets in lower manhattan , while for the first time buying office buildings outside new york city .
he was drafted to work in the foreign ministry , where in 1937 and 1938 mr. papon helped form policy toward morocco , tunisia and the middle east .
the last time the united states faced spain in the davis cup , james blake was at home in tampa , fla. , recovering from injury , illness and the death of his father .
they travel to cleveland on saturday for a game against the cavaliers and lebron james .
israeli leaders say that mr. haniya has to enforce the gaza truce and stop rocket fire into israel before they will discuss the west bank .
mr. shields has formed the festival network with richard sands , the chairman and chief executive of constellation brands , the largest wine conglomerate in the world , whose brands include mondavi wine and corona beer .
saunders -- donald g. , of san juan capistrano , california , passed away peacefully at his home on april 13 , 2007 .
much of her day was spent traveling through the desert in police-escorted convoys for separate meetings with president hosni mubarak of egypt ; mahmoud abbas , the palestinian president , and prime minister ehud olmert of israel .
then the hospital signed up for telestroke , a program offered by two harvard teaching hospitals , massachusetts general hospital and the brigham and women 's hospital in boston .
my parents emigrated from northern ireland -- mom from belfast and dad from a village in county derry -- and for the first decade or so of my life , my parents still called ireland home .
the group includes mark redman , atlanta , 0-4 , 10.62 ; adam eaton , philadelphia , 3-2 , 8.18 ; jason schmidt , dodgers , 1-2 , 7.36 ; jaret wright , baltimore , 0-3 , 6.97 ; randy johnson , arizona , 0-2 , 6.50 .
for now , russian private companies are ahead of government rules , but they only do deals outside of russia .
in this episode dr. bruce patterson of the field museum of natural history in chicago tries to capture and fit a young male lion with a g.p.s. collar in order to reveal some of the animals ' secrets and rid them of their bad reputation .
libby lenton , a former world-record holder in the 100 , gave australia the early lead , but the americans took it with strong second and third legs from lacey nymeyer and amanda weir .
the serbian entity of the government of bosnia and herzegovina , the republika srpska , officially apologized to victims of the 1992-1995 civil war , two days after international judges in the hague ruled that bosnian serb forces had committed genocide in the killing of nearly 8,000 muslims in srebrenica in 1995 . ''
randolph f. dial , an artist and confessed hit man who fled a life sentence for murder to spend nearly 11 years on the run with a deputy warden 's wife , died wednesday in the infirmary of the oklahoma state penitentiary in mcalester .
-lrb- dargis -rrb- ` the italian ' -lrb- pg-13 , 99 minutes , in russian -rrb- this dark fairy tale from russia pulls you into a richly atmospheric , persuasively inhabited world teeming with young foundlings and pathos , and upended by one remarkable little boy .
prince turki was never able to match the role of prince bandar , whom the president , vice president and other officials regularly consult on every major middle east initiative -- from the approach to iran to the israeli-palestinian peace process to iraq .
he noted that the news conference was held at the carolina inn , the chapel hill resort where the edwardses had their wedding reception 30 years ago , a symbolic locale that might reinforce the image of a devoted married couple in the minds of voters . ''
for mrs. clinton , the strategy for reaching black voters at this early stage of the campaign involves strong outreach to black elected officials , business leaders and others , followed by phone calls to reinforce her candidacy from her husband and supporters like robert l. johnson , who founded black entertainment television .
the bartender , who came to new york from puebla , mexico , 14 years ago , lived in queens and had been working at de marco 's for two years .
many of the black and hispanic students live in the roxbury and dorchester neighborhoods of boston , and are bused in under a 35-year-old voluntary integration program .
but other complaints focus on other aides , including juan j. daboub , a former finance minister of el salvador who is one of two top deputies to mr. wolfowitz ; and ana palacio , a former foreign minister of spain , who is general counsel and vice president .
on a journalistic quest , i once visited jaffa looking for the childhood home of sabri al-banna -- a k a abu nidal , the most infamous of palestinian terrorists .
senator ben nelson , democrat of nebraska , said : '' i will vote for cloture , but not because i support the underlying bill .
virginia , another state in the chesapeake bay watershed , also provides credits and allows them to be traded among polluters , mimicking the cap-and-trade approach that has for the last decade been successful in getting electric utilities to cut emissions that lead to acid rain .
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , called mr. reid 's accusations spin .
while acknowledging israel 's legitimate security concerns , the report also censured the permit requirements that curb palestinian travel , saying that palestinians were barred from free access to large segments of the west bank , amounting to an estimated 50 percent or more of the total area .
in another development on thursday , prime minister ehud olmert testified for five hours before a commission investigating how israel conducted its war last summer against hezbollah in lebanon .
g.e. maps its future -- jeffrey r. immelt , chairman of general electric , has designated some fields as promising areas for the company , and jettisoned some others seen as slow-growers .
radisson hotels and resorts is now offering free high-speed internet access in all guest rooms of properties throughout latin america , including those in destinations like la paz , bolivia ; caracas , venezuela ; and curitiba , brazil -lrb- www.radisson.com -rrb- .
germany 's relations with russia were never likely to be as cozy under angela merkel as under her predecessor , gerhard schröder , who adopted a 3-year-old russian girl and , on his 60th birthday , invited president vladimir v. putin home to celebrate .
in the philippines , the asian development bank , which lends money at low interest rates to poor countries , had agreed to finance manila 's new aqueduct .
with iran steadily gaining power in the middle east , the united states recently made a strategic decision to encourage saudi arabia to take a more active role in diplomacy in the region .
as recently as 2004 , as american officials made plans for the arrival of 15,000 new hmong refugees , gen. vang pao said in an interview that he still longed for a day when all hmong -- those still hiding in laos or living on their own somewhere in thailand -- might return in safety to laos . ''
before joining the hazen foundation , he was on the faculty of hartford seminary , hartford , ct , and served as an officer of the rockefeller foundation in bangkok , thailand and new york , ny .
places like aspen and vail in colorado , as well as jackson hole , wyo. , and park city , utah , all had ample privately owned property at the bases of their ski lifts to allow for the construction of stores , condominium complexes , bars and restaurants .
pavel daneyko , the director of the institute for privatization and management , a business consultancy in minsk , the capital of belarus , said mr. lukashenko 's government faced two difficult options : a liberalization of the country 's economy or a populist propaganda war against russia . ''
morrow -- sidney s. , 89 , died sunday , january 7 , 2007 in belmont , california , formerly of tamarac , florida and the bronx .
in the 1980 's , tom va n't hof was instrumental in developing and managing the first three -lrb- of five -rrb- marine parks of the netherlands antilles , including saba 's , and his work as a conservationist and marine biologist has influenced the character of the lodge that he runs in saba with his wife , heleen cornet , an artist .
` idol ' finalist arrested jessica sierra , one of the top 10 finalists on '' american idol '' in 2005 , was arrested early yesterday in tampa , fla. , on a felony battery charge , the associated press reported .
one afternoon in february , al gore was waiting to board a commercial flight from nashville to miami , where he was to deliver the slide show that forms the basis of '' an inconvenient truth , '' his academy award-winning documentary on global warming .
the way we live now : 3-18-07 kwame anthony appiah , a philosopher at princeton university , is the editor , with martin bunzl , of '' buying freedom : the ethics and economics of slave redemption , '' coming this fall .
she will be replaced by the bass rené pape , singing arias by verdi in the joint concert by the philharmonic and symphonica toscanini of italy , conducted by lorin maazel and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of arturo toscanini .
ms. pelosi is going to be very happy in syria , '' said izzat abdoulkarim , who runs an optical shop in downtown damascus . ''
mr. glickman took mr. meyer and some of his peers -- brad grey of paramount and michael lynton of sony pictures -- to the capital for meetings with the new senate leader , harry reid of nevada ; senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the minority leader ; and representative steny hoyer of maryland , the house majority leader .
-lrb- try the crisp 2005 verlegen sauvignon blanc , from the stellenbosch region of south africa . -rrb-
for a different slant , there 's the portland documentary and experimental festival in oregon , where experimental filmmakers and documentarians will mingle with one another -lrb- and with audiences -rrb- to trade ideas and push the boundaries of both genres .
mr. zhu said that abundant information in chinese about foreign markets could now be found on internet sites run by alibaba.com , based in hangzhou , and by various government agencies .
the cultured traveler column last sunday about la paz , bolivia , misstated the surname in some copies for roberto cazorla guzman , the owner of the costilla de adán bar .
most of the work came from ivan basso , who is expected to lead the discovery team in the tour of italy and the tour de france this year ; from tom danielson ; and from george hincapie , who rode more than 100 miles saturday with a broken wrist , the result of a crash early in the stage .
california in connecticut : the joanne and william rees collection , '' new britain museum of american art , 56 lexington street , new britain .
the israeli government has said that it will never give up the three main settlement blocks -- maale adumim , gush etzion and ariel -- inside the west bank and within the security barrier that israel built .
small-town values triumph over flashy , big-city california relativism , as happens exclusively -lrb- and frequently -rrb- in hollywood movies .
at rikers island in new york city , muslim inmates are served halal meat and jewish inmates receive kosher meat , said stephen j. morello , a spokesman for the new york city department of correction .
the greatest remaining challenge lies in asia , where most measles deaths are in india , pakistan and indonesia .
houston is in costa rica for tonight 's game against puntarenas , with the return game march 1 in college station , tex. -lrb- today 's games will be shown live by fox soccer channel ; houston-puntarenas at 2:30 p.m. eastern , and d.c.-olimpia at 9 p.m. -rrb- m.l.s. wants its clubs to become more integrated in the fabric of the global game .
in berlin , investors hold the shares mostly for sentimental value ; they receive no dividends and few perks , aside from free admission to the zoo , in west berlin . ''
after her day in baghdad , ms. rice traveled to israel for a meeting on monday between the palestinian authority president , mahmoud abbas , and the israeli prime minister , ehud olmert .
-lrb- hers came , appropriately enough , while skiing with the swells at davos , switzerland . -rrb-
since 1999 , i , along with a team of educators and school policy experts , have been studying the adoption of equity , empowerment and choice in school districts in boston , california -lrb- namely oakland and san francisco -rrb- , chicago , houston , new york city , st. paul , seattle and edmonton , alberta .
if the u.s. takes more actions against china , it will harm paulson 's dialogue with china and future trade meetings , '' said chen jianan , a professor of economics at fudan university in shanghai .
in a meeting on saturday with foreign minister taro aso of japan , south korea 's foreign minister , song min-soon , criticized mr. abe 's recent comments on sexual slaves . ''
after several years of shuttling between california and poland , he finally settled in warsaw and married katarzyna figura , a polish actress .
in 1995 , mr. gillman , who has three children and whose wife , yael , is an art historian and writer , continued his peripatetic career as deputy director at the national gallery of victoria , in melbourne , australia , where he was involved in the construction of two buildings .
in '' life support , '' queen latifah and a first-rate cast -- including anna deavere smith and two children of diana ross , evan ross and tracee ellis ross -- collaborate on a glamorously produced neo-after-school special about the way the virus has hit women , many of them married and monogamous .
it was transferred '' to a special account to ensure the money does not reach the hamas government and can not be used for perpetrating terror against israel , '' according to a statement from the office of israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert .
of lake worth , florida , formerly of east rockaway .
when she was 17 and the youngest competitor in an ecothon that included biking , trekking , swimming , kayaking and rappelling , she swam five kilometers , against the current , in a chilly lake in guadalajara , mexico .
in two recent florida events , he finished far down , tied for 36th at the arnold palmer invitational at bay hill and tied for 23rd at the ca championship at doral . ''
ms. rice , shuttling between jerusalem and the occupied west bank , said she planned to continue to push a peace initiative between israel and the palestinian authority president , mahmoud abbas , despite his recent agreement in principle to form a unity government between his fatah faction and hamas , which the united states and israel view as a terrorist organization . ''
mr. barrett said the initiative arose from the changing population of north america as new immigrants continue to arrive from places like brazil , guatemala , costa rico , chile , argentina , venezuela , mexico and cuba . ''
he has already convinced the government of lackawanna county , home to scranton , to supply more than half of the $ 820,000 shooting budget for '' the trouble with cali . ''
8 p.m. -lrb- speed -rrb- two roads to baja -- two teams -- the repeat champion rod millen and his factory-backed support system , and kevin necessary and his band of misfits -- prepare to drive toyota fj cruisers in the baja 1000 , an off-road race on mexico 's baja california peninsula considered perhaps the world 's most demanding and dangerous motorsports event .
secretary of state condoleezza rice is set to meet with israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , and mr. abbas a week from tomorrow .
for key sunni regimes , intense communal warfare , shia gains in iraq , and iran 's assertive role have heightened fears of regional instability and unrest and contributed to a growing polarization between iran and syria on the one hand and other middle east governments on the other .
ryan has coached at wisconsin 's main campus in madison since 2001 .
when the koran is put above the german constitution , i can only say , ` good night , germany , ' '' ronald pofalla , general secretary of the christian democratic union , said in the mass-market newspaper bild .
a6 pelosi arrives in syria nancy pelosi , the speaker of the house , arrived in syria for a visit that is seen as part of an attempt to sway bush administration policy on iraq and the middle east .
some of the hats are worn by national police forces , like the guardia civil , in spain , which was founded in 1844 by queen isabella ii after the first carlist war , and whose spiffy uniforms were described about 100 years later by george orwell in '' homage to catalonia . ''
unveiling his foreign policy on wednesday , mr. sarkozy , who is the interior minister and head of the governing party , the union for a popular movement , called the american-led invasion of iraq a '' historic mistake '' and thanked president jacques chirac for his '' lucidity '' in keeping france out of it .
it has been an unusual tournament from the start for sharapova , who was two points from defeat against the underpowered camille pin of france in the first round as temperatures soared well above 100 degrees on court and left sharapova sluggish and disoriented .
israel 's education minister , yuli tamir , has ordered the green line border , which separates israel from the west bank , to be reintroduced in all texts and maps used in the israeli school system .
in another development , mr. olmert has asked security officials to examine the possibility of re-routing part of israel 's west bank separation barrier to bring two additional jewish settlements inside its walls , his office said wednesday .
colorful names adorn towns throughout this part of southern indiana -- places like beanblossom , pumpkin center , santa claus , hindustan , buddha and gnaw bone .
mark v. hurd , the chairman and chief executive of hewlett-packard , would prefer that the discussion at the annual meeting this afternoon focus on the company 's future , not its past .
russian officials have pointed out that this would mean two military missiles colliding over russia , and that the debris from any explosion could endanger russian people and property .
endless winter for shorebirds and snowbirds reservations for california state campgrounds , including those at san onofre , leo carrillo and carpinteria , can be made through reserve america -lrb- www.reserveamerica.com -rrb- or by calling (800) 444-7275 or (916) 638-5883 .
historically , the sporting energy of indiana has come mostly from notre dame football and indiana basketball and high school champions like crispus attucks in indy and tiny milan high , which won the state title in 1954 and inspired the movie '' hoosiers . ''
one administration official suggested wednesday that the united states might then try to prod israel into taking down israeli settlements in the west bank as a way to shore up mr. abbas and demonstrate to the palestinian population that the diplomatic route favored by mr. abbas can bear more fruit than the hamas way of open resistance to israel .
five people were killed in a multi-vehicle pileup east of toronto that brought traffic on canada 's busiest route , highway 401 , to a standstill .
a18 baltimore to track guns with violent crime rising sharply in baltimore , mayor sheila dixon announced plans to form a task force on illegal guns and start a system to track where and when guns have been used in crimes .
belleayre is less well known than new york 's other two state-run areas , whiteface mountain near lake placid and gore mountain in north creek , both in the adirondacks .
the resolution included amended language that stressed the importance of a nuclear-free zone in the middle east -- without reference to israel , a close american ally widely believed to have nuclear weapons -- and emphasized the importance of the role played by the international atomic energy agency in nonproliferation efforts and safeguarding nuclear materials .
i would prefer self-imposed and self-monitored practices by this industry , '' the finance minister , peer steinbrück , said , adding that germany 's intention to put the subject of hedge funds on the international agenda had been widely misunderstood as a call for more government regulation .
henry louis gates jr. , she said , '' turned me on to josephine baker , so i headed off to france with the intention of reading her reception in paris as a cultural text . ''
the buyout executives leon black and stephen a. schwarzman huddled in a corner , and bruce wasserstein , the chairman of lazard , chatted with richard d. parsons , the chief executive of time warner .
if successful , the buying companies face a decision , noted roger mcnamee , a managing director at elevation partners , a private equity firm that bought a stake last year in forbes , the financial magazine publisher and web site . ''
the provocative power of götz aly 's '' hitler 's beneficiaries , '' available in this fine english translation after having created a fierce debate in germany , is that it seeks to move beyond each of these explanations .
the elite clientele and the increasing focus on development issues evoke the annual world economic forum in davos , switzerland .
an estimated 18,000 apartments and homes , or a third of all the arab residences in east jerusalem , were built illegally because permits are so hard to obtain , mr. nasrallah said , adding that israel has not approved the development of a new palestinian neighborhood in east jerusalem since 1967 . ''
the issue of security was brought to the forefront of the presidential campaign last week after an eight-hour standoff between protesters and the police at the métro station at the gare du nord in paris .
speaking to reporters here after talks with prime minister ehud olmert and other top officials on his visit to the middle east , mr. gates said that he had emphasized that iran posed a greater threat to israel than did the arab countries that were to receive the sophisticated weaponry .
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it was a violin , of course , made in cremona , italy , by an old man named antonio stradivari , who is thought by many to be the greatest craftsman who ever lived .
lebanese troops fight islamists correction : may 24 , 2007 , thursday a map with a front-page article on monday about a clash between lebanese troops and islamic militants at a palestinian refugee camp in lebanon misidentified the city shown south of beirut , the capital .
peer steinbrück , the finance minister of germany and current g-7 chairman , is expected to introduce proposals at that meeting to increase transparency in the multitrillion-dollar hedge fund industry , a measure its advocates hope could one day help prevent a serious financial crisis .
but the russian goal of diversifying navigation signals used in commerce will be achieved , mr. ionin said , even if foreign manufacturers simply adopt the russian standard , and even if russia 's own attempt to make consumer devices fails .
only 1,000 people can attend ted live -lrb- it 's in monterey , california -rrb- .
one who seems to exemplify that search for a compass is tom freston , the co-founder of mtv networks , who was fired last september as the chief executive of viacom by sumner redstone , its chairman .
some israeli security officials say israel wants to see the west bank isolated from gaza , even more so with hamas in control there .
ms. esfandiari , 67 , director of the middle east program at the wilson center , went to iran five months ago on one of her twice-annual visits to her mother , who is 93 and ill. .
a smattering of applause erupted when senator chuck hagel of nebraska warned that mr. bush 's new plan would be '' the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam , if it 's carried out . ''
new york 's trade with all of canada totaled almost $ 38 billion in 2006 , while ontario did more than $ 285 billion of business with the united states , according to statistics provided by the canadian government . ''
in my travels i have found them only rarely : in jerusalem 's old city ; in arab villages in israel and the west bank ; on the caribbean island of montserrat .
he and mr. benjamin have been friends since they met as teenagers in paris , where both were students of the composer olivier messiaen and his wife , the pianist yvonne loriod .
the talks , in ankara , turkey , continued late into the evening .
and he might add that whatever deal the palestinians cut with israel regarding return of refugees or land swaps -- so some settlements might stay in the west bank in return for the palestinians getting pieces of israel -- the arab world would support .
after general surgery training in portland , oregon he came to montefiore hospital as the first resident in plastic surgery from 1959-1961 .
he mentioned that vermont has had more casualties in iraq per capita than any other state in the union , including one from south burlington high school . ''
wippern -- ronald f. , ph. d. died on january 31 , 2007 at his home in napa , california after a prolonged illness .
united states officials see the mexican president as a crucial ally in the ideological battle the united states is waging with leftists like mr. chávez , evo morales of bolivia , daniel ortega of nicaragua and fidel castro of cuba . ''
stevens -- marcia ennise , 88 , of north branford and madison , connecticut died january 10 , 2007 .
eric e. schmidt , google 's chief executive , discussed the implications of this '' emergent new software applications architecture '' in a meeting with computer scientists in washington last fall . ''
on thursday , rosneft , backed by a $ 22 billion loan from a consortium of western banks , paid $ 6.4 billion for oil fields in southern russia ; earlier , rosneft paid $ 6.8 billion in an auction for yukos 's siberian oil subsidiary in the tomsk region .
in a preamble , the motion '' notes that , during 2006 , israel invaded lebanon and gaza , withheld tax revenues form the palestine authority and refused dialogue with the elected authority following the democratic elections of january 2006 , resealed the borders of gaza , expanded illegal settlements in the west bank , and continued the construction of the illegal apartheid wall . ''
goldberg -- eli m. the membership and board of governors of the boca rio golf club , boca raton , florida announce with deep regret and sorrow the passing of our dear friend and esteemed member eli goldberg and extend our sincerest condolences to his wife grace and their family .
op-ed contributor tom segev , a columnist for the israeli newspaper haaretz , is the author , most recently , of '' 1967 : israel , the war and the year that transformed the middle east . ''
one reason , they said , is that despite the palestinian authority 's show of force , israel remains the real power in the west bank .
but since then , she has not come close to winning another tournament , not even last week 's minor event just across the bass strait in hobart , tasmania , where she returned after a four-month absence from the sport and lost in the quarterfinals to the unheralded sybille bammer of austria .
niagara falls , ontario , offers more flash , with the neon signs for wax museums , restaurants and souvenir shops lighting up clifton hill and lundy 's lane , the area 's main drags , and four new high-rise hotels and two observation towers lining the gorge .
the visit seemed to have a dual purpose : to deliver an in-person pledge of support for the town of greensburg , and to dispel any comparisons to the hurricane response , one day after his administration sparred with gov. kathleen sebelius of kansas over disaster readiness .
i ca n't believe that any parent , any husband , wife , son , daughter of any soldier serving in iraq does n't expect the congress to take that position , '' said senator mitch mcconnell , republican of kentucky , who had made some retooled overtures to democrats to try to break the deadlock .
the voting results , mr. paisley said , were a mandate for him to decide in the next two weeks whether to share power with sinn fein , which seeks to unite northern ireland with ireland .
the fall of mr. hartz , the chief architect of labor policy changes pushed through by the former german chancellor , gerhard schröder , created a sensation in germany when he resigned from volkswagen in july 2005 .
an article last thursday about the burial of boris n. yeltsin , russia 's first democratically elected president , at novodevichy cemetery , erroneously included a writer among other russian notables interred there .
then , last february , after three years of unusual openness , iran reacted to the growing pressure from washington and europe to suspend its enrichment -- or face sanctions -- by drastically reducing the access of international inspectors to natanz and dozens of other atomic sites , programs and personnel .
it 's a ` run less , ' not a ` train less ' program , '' said bill pierce , one of its creators and an exercise scientist at furman university in greenville , s.c. '' first '' stands for the furman institute of running and scientific training .
behind the news -- only nine nations in the world emit more greenhouse gases than california , according to the state 's climate change center at the university of california at berkeley .
in the past month , ms. rice has sought to reignite a peace initiative , even arranging a meeting between prime minister ehud olmert of israel and mahmoud abbas , the palestinian president , in jerusalem on feb. 19 .
in one of the most acrimonious disputes , montana filed a suit in february at the united states supreme court accusing wyoming of taking more than its fair share of water from the tongue and powder rivers , north-flowing tributaries of the yellowstone river that supply water for farms and wells in both states .
it was co-sponsored by the center for strategic studies at the university of jordan and the american enterprise institute , and the idea was to get americans and moderate arab reformers together to talk about iraq , iran , and any remaining prospects for democracy in the middle east .
new money made in asia , russia and the united states has been fueling this market for several years , but this season , as the number of dealers has significantly increased , the frenzy became overheated .
lobbying for a merger -- the chief executive of sirius satellite radio , mel karmazin , is taking the campaign to sell his company 's proposed merger with xm satellite radio to washington , where he will speak at a house panel hearing .
we feel that as our game continues to grow globally , that we have a responsibility to those communities , similar to the communities that we play and reside in now , '' said derek fisher , the president of the players union and a point guard for the utah jazz . ''
anthropologists say it now tenuously exists just in this isolated pocket of bolivia , seven hours southeast of la paz by bus on a washboard dirt road .
` strange days on planet earth : the one degree factor , ' new york aquarium , surf avenue and west eighth street , coney island , brooklyn , (718) 265-3474 .
controversy under ordinary circumstances , the opening of '' the hoohaa monologues '' on thursday at the atlantic theaters in atlantic beach , fla. , near jacksonville , would not attract much attention .
just last week , palm 's chief executive , ed colligan , told cnbc , '' we 're not focused on figuring out how to sell the company .
polls show benedict -- formerly known as cardinal joseph ratzinger -- in the middle of the pack among respected world leaders , and a survey last year in germany had the dalai lama and even the losing world cup coach jürgen klinsmann outpacing the first german pope as '' a role model and admirable person . ''
resolving the identity crisis in france is a very serious problem , but both nicolas sarkozy and ségolène royal have trivialized it in this election , '' said eric dupin , a political scientist and an author . ''
all of the items found in the hilla raid have been used by hezbollah in southern lebanon , said major weber , a master explosives ordnance technician who has studied many kinds of improvised bombs in the middle east and elsewhere and is closely involved in the effort in iraq .
five countries -- australia , brazil , new zealand , papua new guinea and samoa -- display the southern cross on their flags .
the winelands ' most established estates are west of franschhoek in stellenbosch , considered the center of south africa 's wine industry .
the bush administration apparently was not consulted in advance about the plan , and stephen j. hadley , the bush administration 's national security adviser , protested to jean-david levitte , france 's ambassador in washington .
nadel -- madge , died may 14th , of boca raton , florida , formerly of bayside , new york .
malentendu the news -- president jacques chirac of france told reporters that if iran had one or two nuclear weapons , it would not pose a big danger , and added that a nuclear strike by iran against a country like israel would result in tehran 's destruction .
a picture caption in business day on saturday with an article about the extravagant 60th-birthday party planned for stephen a. schwarzman , a founder of the blackstone group , referred incorrectly to katharine graham 's presence at truman capote 's black and white ball , the new york social event of 1966 .
a one-day turkucard -lrb- 40 euros -rrb- gave us free entrance to many attractions , and we started at aboa vetus & ars nova , a museum that is on the site of an excavation of medieval turku and features ruins from the time and exhibits , as well as a separate section with modern art .
a 17-year-old high school student was charged with reckless driving and speeding in connection with a crash last month in freehold township , n.j. , that killed four people , the monmouth county prosecutor said .
two other sections deal with the on-again , off-again relationship between the cities in the fifth century b.c. , greece 's glory years , and with the wars they fought : the persian wars -lrb- about 500 to 449 b.c. -rrb- and the peloponnesian war -lrb- 431 to 404 b.c. -rrb- , in which sparta defeated athens , only to fade not long after .
the racketeering case against the men , muhammad salah , 53 , a onetime grocer from suburban chicago , and abdelhaleem ashqar , 48 , a former university professor from suburban washington , was announced with much fanfare in 2004 by the united states attorney general at the time , john ashcroft , as an important part of the government 's fight against terrorism .
ann grew up in perth amboy , new jersey , and lived in bethesda , maryland .
these include french architects like the pritzker prize winner christian de portzamparc , who planned the zone 's masséna quarter ; paul andreu , who mapped development on the avenue de france , one of the site 's main commercial axes ; and bruno fortier , who designed the rue du chevaleret , another major artery .
the israeli prime minister , ehud olmert , said sunday that israel 's military activity in gaza '' will continue for as long as necessary , '' in order '' to prevent terrorist acts , attempts to infiltrate israel , and the firing of qassam rockets . ''
a federal judge yesterday rejected new york city 's attempt to use an obscure 19th-century maritime law to cap its liability in the 2003 crash of a staten island ferry at $ 14 million .
the russian proposal and a subsequent agreement to have experts from the united states and russia discuss the idea this summer , offered the possibility of a less menacing round of negotiations , diplomats said . ''
spain has vueling , scandinavia has sterling , and italy has a host of tiny carriers that focus on random , disparate cities -- evolavia , for example , flies between ancona , paris and moscow .
he and his wife own a pied - à - terre in paris and a home in st. tropez , and travel to france at least once a month .
readers under 35 will probably have no direct memories of the very bad news that came from northern ireland during the 1970s -- of the daily -lrb- or so they seemed -rrb- stories from places like belfast and londonderry relating horrors unmitigated by hope .
correction : june 9 , 2007 , saturday an article in business day on may 29 about russia 's strategy to gain a monopoly in natural gas exports to asia through gazprom misstated the percentage of ownership in the kovykta gas field by tnk-bp , which is being accused by the kremlin of having failed to meet license requirements .
it was big news in the town of smithtown in suffolk county when , just before the new year rolled in , 368 acres of land at a former state psychiatric institution in kings park were transformed into state parkland .
it is wartburg college in waverly , iowa , not the university of wisconsin-river falls .
political memo correction : march 12 , 2007 , monday a political memo article on thursday about the challenges rudolph w. giuliani faces in running for president as a former new york city mayor referred incorrectly to the presidency of theodore roosevelt , also a new york city mayor .
in security terms , israel would like to seal off gaza from the west bank as much as possible , to prevent the spread of hamas military power there , where israeli troops still occupy the territory .
it was the result of nine months of work by the committee and was delivered in late february '' to israel and to a small number of foreign governments we believe would be in the best position to help support our efforts for the implementation of humanitarian law , '' said bernard barrett , a spokesman for the committee in jerusalem .
people do n't think of newark as a college town , but i think that 's about to change , '' said gene a. vincenti , executive vice provost at rutgers-newark , at the school 's new $ 50 million administrative building , part of a $ 210 million capital improvement plan .
in estonia , officials blamed russian hackers for shutting down government web sites , while the president , toomas hendrik ilves , called on russia '' to remain civilized '' after days of protests in each country over the removal of a soviet-era monument in tallinn , the estonian capital , late last week .
next year he is planning to publish the poetry of aeronwy thomas , dylan thomas 's daughter , and to bring her to the united states for a book tour along with the welsh poet and publisher peter thabit jones .
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , seized on the differences emerging among some democrats . ''
the problem in iraq is the american army , '' mr. daini told a group of attentive american legislators gathered last week in the office of representative jim mcdermott , an antiwar democrat from seattle . ''
his father was a radiologist who practiced at mount sinai hospital in toronto and was an associate professor of radiology at the faculty of medicine of the university of toronto .
born in baltimore , maryland on january 6th , 1941 .
earlier this year , the photographer jehad nga , on assignment for the travel section , spent three weeks retracing part of the historic route in central asia , driving from bishkek , kyrgyzstan , to dushanbe , tajikistan .
no one in the government was involved in this matter , '' prime minister ehud olmert of israel said . ''
sara seager , a planet expert at the massachusetts institute of technology , said , '' for example , if the planet had an atmosphere more massive than venus 's , then the surface would likely be too hot for liquid water . ''
this year he had a geographic advantage , because unlike other parts of staten island , which is new york city 's most conservative and republican-voting borough , democrats in the north shore district have a 3-to-1 registration advantage over republicans .
most of them also grew up in new york city neighborhoods like hell 's kitchen , forest hills , washington heights and kew gardens , whiling away countless hours playing the quintessentially urban street game that consumed city children long before high-pressured little leagues and other organized sports programs took over the suburbs .
since rain will keep falling in florida -- even now , after some of the driest months on record , south florida has started seeing deluges again -- cities here may never press conservation to the extent that many of their western counterparts do , offering homeowners cash for every square foot of turf they tear up and rebates for water-efficient toilets and appliances .
narae choi boston , feb. 23 , 2007 the writer is a former intern at korea women 's hotline in seoul , south korea , a women 's rights group .
i am not certain that the full scope of this agreement is clear to anyone , '' israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , who was in turkey on thursday , said on turkish television . ''
he joined kukje international as a senior executive vice president in 1978 , where he pioneered south korea 's construction and real estate development in the middle east and asia .
in the months before the 1967 middle east war , israel was in a spiral of self-doubt , the 19-year experiment of an independent jewish state looking shaky .
in lieu of flowers , the family requests that donations be made to the wisconsin maritime museum at manitowoc , 75 maritime drive , manitowoc , wi 54220 , where the uss cobia is now a war memorial .
kevin v. ryan , the united states attorney for the northern district of california , left his post in san francisco on feb. 16 and was replaced by scott n. schools , a former general counsel at the justice department .
the play between postmodernism and modernism enters here in both the title of the work -- which comes from the original name for kurt schwitters 's '' merzbau , '' the famous proto-installation mr. schwitters erected in his house in hanover , germany , featuring found and created objects and called '' the cathedral of erotic misery '' -- and those easily missed cardboard prisms on the ceiling in the basement , which mimic some of the interior architectural configurations in '' merzbau . ''
whoever is the nominee is going to win , so the stakes are very high , '' says mr. geffen , the hollywood mogul and sultan of '' dreamgirls , '' as he sits by a crackling fire beneath a jasper johns flag and a matched pair of de koonings in the house that jack warner built -lrb- which old-time hollywood stars joked was the house that god would have built -rrb- . ''
but the ultimatum may also reflect an increasing displeasure and frustration on moscow 's part with iran over its refusal to stop enriching uranium at its vast facility at natanz . ''
mr. chirac , 74 , began his political career in 1962 as an adviser to georges pompidou , then the prime minister , and was elected for the first time as a member of parliament from corrèze in central france 40 years ago on monday .
on vienna , there is carl e. schorske 's classic '' fin-de-si ècle vienna '' and stefan zweig 's '' world of yesterday , '' as well as lesser-known works like friedrich torberg 's memoir '' die tante jolesch '' and george clare 's '' last waltz in vienna . ''
for mr. olmert and israel , the policy of treating the two territories separately would also be a way to justify the continued sealing off of gaza from the west bank on security grounds , to prevent the transfer of military equipment and skill .
figures from israel 's left and right , from former foreign ministry officials like alon liel to the former likud cabinet minister dan meridor , suggest that talking to syria could serve several purposes that are clearly in israel 's interests , even if a full peace with damascus is years away .
essentials montappone , italy getting there the nearest airport is in ancona .
google 's focus -- the chief executive at google , eric e. schmidt , speaking to shareholders , said the company 's long and varied array of initiatives was organized around three ideas : '' search , ads and apps , '' using a shorthand for applications , or software programs .
the second team , headed by john m. asara of the harvard medical school and beth israel deaconess medical center in boston , said its independent tests had confirmed the presence of proteins in the tissue .
a meeting scheduled for thursday between the prime minister of israel , ehud olmert , and the palestinian president , mahmoud abbas , has been postponed , largely over what appeared to be the issue of the conditions under which israel would turn over tax revenues it collects for the palestinians .
born in kingston , ontario , cherry dropped out of school at 14 .
in 1990 , melinder , a bear of a man with a bushy mustache and piercing blue eyes , visited minsk , now the capital of belarus but then still a part of the mighty soviet hockey machine .
the initiative offers israel recognition and permanent peace with the arab states in exchange for israel 's withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 middle east war , and the creation of a palestinian state with a capital in jerusalem .
based on recent estimates , suffolk county would save $ 580,000 annually from these fees , said senator flanagan , a republican from smithtown .
as part of a proposed class-action settlement , the company , assicurazoni generali , has agreed to give heirs of holocaust victims another 18 months to uncover documentation on unpaid life insurance policies at long-sealed nazi archives in bad arolsen , germany .
the other day , over lunch at angelina 's ristorante in annadale , he described a childhood familiar to gay men throughout the island : membership in the drama club at new dorp high school , sessions with a psychotherapist and clandestine visits to the sand castle and the bay club , two now-shuttered staten island gay bars .
but he also said his new government wanted to consolidate the current truce with israel and expand it from gaza to include the west bank .
he had grown up in louisiana and learned to ride on the region 's fabled cajun bush tracks .
but justice michael r. ambrecht of state supreme court in manhattan said that as a professional base -lrb- bridge , antenna , span , earth -rrb- jumper , mr. corliss , who has parachuted from the eiffel tower , the golden gate bridge and the petronas towers in kuala lumpur , malaysia , was experienced and careful enough to jump off a building without endangering his own life or anyone else 's . ''
the tempest began on may 9 when a lawyer accompanied by police officers and television news crews marched into the art department at the respected maharaja sayajirao university , a state-run institution in vadodara , in western gujarat state .
that is followed by a different re-enactment : in 1980 two boys exploring a building excavation site in the east talpiot , a jerusalem neighborhood built on land annexed by israel after the 1967 war , stumble on a crypt .
mr. deripaska , 39 , a former nuclear physicist , along with the other russian billionaires known as oligarchs , is making ever-bolder forays outside russia .
the refugees in bangkok , including 100 men and 314 women who had fled north korea and entered thailand through china , began their hunger strike tuesday evening , said lee ho taeg , secretary general of the international campaign to block the repatriation of north korean refugees . ''
claudia is one of about 1,500 jews who live in cuba ; 1,100 reside in havana , and the remaining 400 are spread among the provinces .
in bolivia , president evo morales is trying to use his country 's gas reservoirs to force neighboring chile to give his landlocked country a corridor to the sea .
this was the california coast , where a night in a hotel in the fabled beach towns between san francisco and san diego might run hundreds of dollars , and a week in even a modest beach house would cost $ 1,500 to $ 4,000 .
another convicted sex offender , brian nellis , 34 , who served time in an oklahoma prison with mr. rodreick , also lived with them .
there is a fine line between the open mind and sexual indulgence , '' said xie xialing , a professor of sociology at fudan university in shanghai .
bingo smith has enjoyed a great basketball life -- from being a high school star in memphis , to having a great college and n.b.a. career .
the war was reaching a climax by the time mr. papon left algeria in 1958 , telling superiors in paris : '' france is on the offensive on all fronts .
mitch lasky , former chief executive of jamdat mobile and executive vice president of mobile and online at electronic arts , has joined benchmark capital , the venture capital firm , as a general partner .
leading the opposition to the bill were three republicans , jim bunning of kentucky , jeff sessions of alabama and david vitter of louisiana .
rosenzweig -- maxwell of coconut creek , florida , formerly of bayside , new york , died peacefully on may 30 , 2007 .
9 p.m. -lrb- tlc -rrb- american chopper -- the teutuls of orange county choppers take a family vacation in australia , where russell crowe asks them to build a motorcycle .
the hewlett-packard researchers , who are based in palo alto , calif. , have extended the stony brook concept and applied it to a class of computer chips known as field programmable gate arrays , or fpga .
on wednesday , senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , joined the calls by lawmakers for mr. gonzales to step down .
google 's chief executive , eric e. schmidt , above , said the company thought it could '' add value to this important medium by delivering more relevant ads to viewers . ''
harold dieterle of west babylon was the sole survivor of the debut season ; in the just-completed second season , with millions tuning in for the finale , the last chef standing was ilan hall of great neck , formerly a line cook at casa mono in new york city .
mr. gray of blackstone , a chicago native who had given up his seats to the game to stay in new york , missed seeing a remarkable kickoff return by the chicago bears as he jumped on the phone to strategize about what to do .
leslie fine sheila harkavy $ -lrb- 6 $ -rrb- wegman -- edwin h , of boca raton , florida , died february 16 .
during a middle east trip last year , she met a lebanese parliament member from hezbollah who compared israel to nazi germany and criticized american '' insanity . ''
the speaker , terence tao , a professor of mathematics at the university , promised '' a whirlwind tour , the equivalent to going through paris and just seeing the eiffel tower and the arc de triomphe . ''
and in chronicling the terrible suffering artists have endured in places like the soviet union , he makes the reader appreciate the luxury enjoyed by writers in the west , who have been able to focus on the '' tragedies of ordinary life , the events that nadezhda mandelstam was later to subsume under her concept of the privilege of ordinary heartbreaks . ''
sherry turkle , a professor at the massachusetts institute of technology who studies the social aspects of technology , said that the participants on these sites are slipping into virtual worlds more easily than their parents or older siblings . ''
a map on monday with an article about fears that tourism in the niagara falls area will suffer when tighter border restrictions take effect mislabeled an island in the niagara river between new york and ontario .
ms. kahf came to this country in 1971 from damascus , syria , before her fourth birthday , and like her , many immigrant muslim children find themselves caught between hostile worlds at school and parents who are basically clueless .
felix strobel , 24 , a law student from freiburg , germany : '' my family and i started hiking the alps maybe 10 years ago , and after a while it became a dream of ours to hike the highest mountain there , mont blanc .
but at the insistence of danone 's chairman and chief executive , franck riboud , mr. hirshberg introduced a line of products in september meant to tap into the growing demand for organic food in france , particularly in urban markets .
a16 australian denounces obama prime minister john howard of australia , a close ally of the white house , denounced barack obama 's proposal to withdraw american combat troops in iraq by march 31 , 2008 .
the report also warned that a further sectarian splintering of iraq could incite other countries in the middle east to arm and finance various sects in the country : saudi arabia , jordan and egypt supporting the sunnis , and iran coming to the aid of shiite forces .
users will be able to integrate full video files in the coming months , said mr. mccann , who caught the video bug after a conversation last year with chad hurley , one of youtube 's founders .
the web sites of george washington university and case western reserve university in cleveland show that they do , too .
dominique gisin of switzerland was second , 0.23 back .
north korea regards fleeing kim jong-il 's paradise as an act of disloyalty close to treason .
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the newspaper also said he was asked to select other potential recruits by luring them with '' money and women , '' and that he later moved to canada where he converted to christianity , changed his name to joseph , obtained canadian citizenship and got a job at a bank in toronto with the help of two other mossad agents .
the next crisis appears to be building around weakness in the united states , not in russia or asia or south america .
another prosecutor , john mckay of seattle , said he received a call in late 2004 from ed cassidy , a former chief of staff to representative doc hastings , republican of washington .
jan brenneisen , 28 , from rostock , germany : '' i 'm a professional tattoo artist , but i had never had anything to do with the text-based style of tattoos that the monks at this temple do .
the bridegroom , 26 , is a third-year medical student at creighton university in omaha .
avi dichter , a former shin bet director and now public security minister , said that khaled meshal , the political director of hamas who is in exile in damascus , syria , would not be immune from israeli attack . ''
but he sought to discourage expectations that a breakthrough could come during a meeting of trade ministers this week alongside the global economic forum in davos , switzerland .
a6 candidate off ballot in nigeria atiku abubakar , the leading opposition candidate in nigeria 's presidential election , has been omitted from the official list of candidates , which was released by the independent national electoral commission .
this police violence is only the latest example of the growing government hostility toward peaceful dissent in russia , '' holly cartner , the executive director of the europe and central asia division at human rights watch , said in a statement . ''
bob woodruff and martha raddatz , both of abc news , have stories to tell about devastating carnage in iraq .
he went to harvard business school , then worked as a venture capitalist in boston financing and creating companies that focused on dna sequencing and synthetic biology , which involves programming biological cells .
it is a motivational idea by howie dickenman , who has been the blue devils ' coach for the last 11 years after a long tenure as an assistant under jim calhoun at connecticut .
even with the $ 7.6 billion in donations and pledges , mr. siniora will still return to lebanon with a battle on his hands as he tries to establish an international tribunal that could eventually implicate syria in the assassination of rafik hariri , a former lebanese prime minister who was an outspoken critic of syria .
the exhibition , which runs through april 20 , was first shown at the grand palais in paris and was scheduled to reach the guggenheim museum in new york in late spring .
but senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , did not immediately agree to debate the measure , so it was almost certain to be shelved as other iraq bills have been this year . ''
but a year ago , ms. clevenger and her husband , alan greenacre , 65 , drove through southern mississippi , making a sweep of small towns like mccomb , magnolia , tylertown and columbia , assessing them as candidates for a second-home locale . ''
frank k. berry , a businessman from oklahoma , has put up $ 50,000 to stage the contest in stillwater , okla. , from may 15 to 23 .
a nostalgia for gandhian ideals hovers over '' parzania , '' which begins with a schoolroom lesson about the '' great secular democracy of india '' and ends with the anguished testimony of the lost boy 's mother -lrb- a wonderful , understated sarika -rrb- calling the government to account : we were middle-class people waiting for the police to protect us , she says ; is n't it the government 's duty to provide safety and security for its citizens ?
wednesday 's election is meant to decide what northern ireland 's 108-member assembly will look like : how many members will be from unionist parties -lrb- protestants who favor closer ties with britain -rrb- and how many from nationalist parties -lrb- catholics who favor a united ireland -rrb- .
it was then to be sent to russia 's central bank before a further transfer to an account controlled by north korea in a russian commercial bank .
mr. luhrmann is currently filming '' australia , '' starring hugh jackman , his first film since '' moulin rouge ! ''
john wayne at 100 marion morrison , who grew up to become john wayne , was only 4 years old when he left winterset , iowa , but his hometown is holding a rousing celebration to mark his 100th birthday , the associated press reported yesterday .
the plan also includes $ 52 million to shore up fragile retaining walls around the city , $ 44 million for an overhaul of the new york aquarium at coney island and $ 40 million for electronic voting machines .
but along with corporate titans , switzerland is also home to an assortment of celebrities , including the german racing champion michael schumacher , the cyclist jan ullrich , also of germany , and the pop singers phil collins of england and tina turner of the united states .
the committee was made up of seven leaders of prominent art museums , including glenn d. lowry , the director of the museum of modern art in new york , and michael e. shapiro , the director of the high museum of art in atlanta .
the boeing company announced on saturday a $ 3.5 billion sale of airplanes to aeroflot , the russian national airline , in a deal that defied the souring political relations between the united states and russia .
i do n't know that the american people will see the surge as a new direction , '' said senator ben nelson , a democrat from nebraska . ''
demand for everything from housing to beer is outpacing supply in part because white-collar salaries are rising faster in india than anywhere else in asia , climbing 13.7 percent on average over the last year , said sharad vishvanath , a labor cost analyst at hewitt associates .
a former military ruler , muhammadu buhari , also a northern muslim , is a leading candidate , representing the all nigeria people 's party .
last month , greenleaf , idaho , adopted ordinance 208 , calling for its citizens to own guns and keep them ready in their homes in case of emergency .
smith described the traditional southern boundary of the ice belt -- a region suitable for ice fishing -- as running from the east coast along the northern pennsylvania state line and continuing west to montana , taking in parts of ohio , indiana , illinois and iowa .
it could also be blamed for giving israel , the united states and others further reason to isolate hamas and work with fatah in the west bank at the expense of hamas in gaza .
at the meeting , the so-called quartet -- the united states , the european union , russia and the united nations -- expressed concern about the violence and pressed for a meeting soon of mr. abbas , prime minister ehud olmert of israel and secretary of state condoleezza rice to find a clearer '' political horizon '' toward peace .
so '' messiah '' lovers may be surprised to learn that the work was meant not for christmas but for lent , and that the '' hallelujah '' chorus was designed not to honor the birth or resurrection of jesus but to celebrate the destruction of jerusalem and the second temple in a.d. 70 .
mr. abbas was speaking in a televised address to mark the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1967 arab-israeli war , which ended in a stunning military victory for israel and a sobering defeat for the arab armies , and began israel 's occupation of the west bank and gaza strip .
i was born in oslo , norway , the son of a volvo factory worker and part-time ice fisherman , '' a mock self-tribute begins . ''
investors were unnerved by the announcement , in large part , because '' it was so vague , '' said meredith whitney , an analyst with cibc world markets . ''
speaking at the annual shareholder meeting on thursday , eric e. schmidt , the chief executive , said google 's long array of initiatives was organized around three ideas . ''
even officials in south korea and japan have been wary of assailing an increasingly assertive china for the periodic clouds of pollution that drift over seoul and tokyo .
miri eisin , a spokeswoman for mr. olmert , said israel had agreed to keep the karni commercial crossing between the gaza strip and israel open until 11 every night , instead of 7 p.m. , and to keep the rafah passenger crossing between gaza and egypt , which has been closed for long periods , open '' for several days every week . ''
one of the migrants was a 51-year-old plumber from acámbaro , guanajuato , who asked that his name not be used because he was ashamed of the criminal conviction .
'' dreaming lhasa , '' a dramatic feature film from the documentarians ritu sarin and tenzing sonam , is about a tibetan-american documentary filmmaker named karma -lrb- tenzin chokyi gyatso -rrb- making a movie about the plight of tibetans who fled persecution by the chinese and settled in dharamsala , the dalai lama 's exile headquarters in northern india .
doctors are storytellers , '' said kathryn montgomery , a professor of literature who directs the medical humanities and bioethics program at northwestern university 's feinberg school of medicine in chicago . ''
an offshoot of an online advertising technology company in san francisco called zedo , zebo has so far appealed mainly to a younger crowd that uses its personal belongings as a social lubricant of sorts .
fish advanced sunday with a 6-1 , 7-6 (4) , 2-6 , 7-5 victory over 16th-seeded david ferrer of spain , who had beaten fish in their two previous matches .
nowhere does mr. gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet , '' robert m. carter , a marine geologist at james cook university in australia , said in a september blog . ''
at this point , he added , '' all the information we have is that it is a localized situation to seoul , south korea . ''
and gov. haley barbour of mississippi , a republican , and 10 other governors have asked the f.d.a. to ease the way for generic insulin . ''
the state has declared monmouth county , freehold township and atlantic city off limits to the otb parlors .
as mr. khalilzad confronts many of the same issues for the united states that mr. bolton did -- darfur , iran , lebanon , the middle east , overhauling united nations management -- he emphasizes his confidence in the power of personal diplomacy and says he believes it can produce better results . ''
the palestinian president , mahmoud abbas , is trying to persuade militant factions like hamas , islamic jihad and his own al aksa martyrs brigades to stop firing rockets into israel for a month and then negotiate extending a cease-fire to the west bank .
$ 300,000 to $ 599,999 arden heights $ 355,000 20 susanna lane , staten island number of bedrooms : 2 number of full bathrooms : 1 number of half bathrooms : 1 weeks on market : 16 weeks 16-year-old aluminum-sided and brick town house ; eat-in kitchen , finished basement with family room , c\/a , 1-car garage , 14-by-73-ft .
he had settled with eight other institutions that agreed to end such practices , and yesterday he announced settlements with four more : salve regina university in rhode island and , in new york , pace university , new york institute of technology and molloy college .
ms. palfrey , who ran the washington escort service out of her home in vallejo , calif. , was convicted in 1991 of operating an illegal prostitution business in california and served 18 months in prison , according to federal authorities .
schlumberger , by far the largest and most diverse oil field services company , earns about 70 percent of its profit outside the united states and canada ; while baker hughes earns almost 60 percent of its profit outside of north america .
the democratic governor 's announcement ends months of speculation in louisiana political circles , fueled by dismal poll ratings that showed her capturing barely a third of the vote against a republican challenger , bobby jindal , a congressman from the new orleans suburbs .
j. w. robinson , 80 , remembers when the sweet auburn neighborhood in atlanta was a mecca for aspiring african-american professionals like himself .
far more inviting is first church in boston , in back bay , which replaced a gothic building that burned in 1968 .
vang pao , a military general in laos , was lauded for leading forces backed by the central intelligence agency in the '' secret war '' against communists there during the vietnam war and had , for 30 years since , made no secret of his hopes for a democratic laos .
but , happily , the dialogue is scheduled to continue with a meeting tentatively planned for ravenna , italy , in may .
if the breath of spring could be bottled as a dry wine , it might resemble pierre boniface 's 2006 apremont , a low-alcohol alpine white from savoie in eastern france .
the little comedy , '' a mannered operetta based on a short story by arthur schnitzler set in fin-de-si ècle vienna , opens the evening .
with jean-paul belmondo 's nickname , bébel , as an inspiration for his restaurant , sergio sorini , a native of montecatini in tuscany , features a few pizzas and dishes of all italy with ample representations of lombardy .
the decision to award the contract -- the supposed crime -- occurred in madison , in the jurisdiction of wisconsin 's other united states attorney .
tishman speyer , which recently bought stuyvesant town and peter cooper village in manhattan for a record $ 5.4 billion , is looking closely at the california holdings , including one market in san francisco .
kathryn s. wylde , president of the partnership for new york city , said the chief executives who attended the meeting included kenneth i. chenault of american express , victor f. ganzi of the hearst corporation , william p. lauder of the estée lauder companies , rupert murdoch of the news corporation , sy sternberg of the new york life insurance company , martin j. sullivan of the american international group and stephen a. schwarzman of the blackstone group .
the rev. miles m. fisher iv , a baptist minister , is to officiate at the carolina inn in chapel hill , n.c. the bride , 28 , is a production manager for the web site of vh1 in new york .
punak -- randy m. , 53 of nyc died march 5 , 2007 in paris , france .
while the location of the 500-slip marina in this community on the south shore of suffolk county is prime -- next to three restaurants , close to the ferryboats that run to fire island , and minutes from the train station and main street shops -- it has remained largely unused most of the time , even during the summer months .
writing on the google blog , matt cutts , the head of the google 's webspam team , said that google bombs had not '' been a very high priority for us . ''
as a longtime resident of greenwich , connecticut , she devoted herself to numerous charitable endeavors focusing on the arts and education .
through acquisitions , alessandro profumo , unicredit 's chief executive , has turned the bank into one of the fastest-growing in europe .
thus it is easy to understand the fascination of the battle of leyte gulf , the last great naval confrontation of the 20th century , fought from oct. 23 to 26 , 1944 , between the american and japanese navies in the waters off the philippines .
he also owns the cordt mansion , a 19th-century home in kingston , n.y. , which he bought in 2001 for $ 770,000 , and the albania plantation house in jeanerette , la. , a property so grand that it was used as a setting for the 2006 remake of '' all the king 's men , '' inspired by gov. huey long of louisiana .
they lived in omaha , nebraska , chicago , illinois , and moved to summit , new jersey in 1978 , when her husband became the chairman of the microbiology department at umdnj .
-lrb- sisario -rrb- lura -lrb- tomorrow -rrb- a young cape verdean singer who was born in portugal , lura specializes in bubbly , lilting acoustic songs that are quicker and more danceable -- but no less sensuous -- than the morna tunes popularized by cesaria evora .
i think we have to expand the boundaries of definition , but i 'm not sure what it should be at this point , '' said john canemaker , the oscar-winning animated filmmaker and new york university professor . ''
the runners included paul tergat of kenya , the world-record holder in 2:04:55 ; stefano baldini of italy , the reigning olympic champion ; jaouad gharib of morocco , the two-time world champion ; marilson gomes dos santos of brazil , the 2006 new york city marathon winner ; khalid khannouchi of the united states , the former world-record holder ; and haile gebrselassie of ethiopia , regarded as perhaps the greatest distance runner ever .
sitting in the club 's glassed-in atrium above the defunct railway track , blestel described the gradual northeastward creep of paris night life from the now passé strips in the bastille and the 11th arrondissement 's rue oberkampf .
for decades , she and her husband , ivo hammer , a professor of conservation at the university of applied sciences and arts in hildesheim , germany , and a restorer of murals , petitioned the communist and then post-communist governments to have it opened to the public and then to have it properly restored .
here on the mainland it has been performed hundreds of times since its 1986 premiere by mr. lai 's performance workshop in taipei , taiwan , and is now a standard of university theatrical troupes .
sheik hassan nasrallah , hezbollah 's leader , said wednesday that lebanon 's opposition movement had decided to stop short of toppling the government of fouad siniora , fearing civil strife .
mr. conway was a longtime resident of manhasset , new york ; quogue , new york ; and palm beach , florida .
in lieu of flowers , contributions may be made to st. michael the archangel roman catholic church , 469 north street , greenwich , connecticut 06830 , or to the paget foundation , 120 wall street , suite 1602 , new york , ny 10005 .
brian gionta , another rochester native , led the devils in goals with an impressive eight in 11 games .
for instance , in los angeles , long beach and santa ana areas of california , the average price of a home tumbled 19 percent from 1993 to 1998 , while on the other side of the country , in the hartford area , the average home price dropped 17 percent over the same period , according to the office of federal housing enterprise oversight .
they include ivan basso , who will defend his title at the tour of italy this year and who has previously finished second and third in the tour de france .
with the palestinians fighting among themselves , a new escalation in gaza and israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , searching for an agenda , israelis ' thoughts are turning toward -- syria .
middle east experts say their aim is , in part , to quell disquiet in their own capitals among restive groups angry about what they consider israel 's continued occupation of land that palestinians claim for a future state . ''
indeed , many brazilians blame bolivia and its president , evo morales , for much of the energy squeeze their country is beginning to feel , in the form of higher prices for natural gas and uncertainties about future supplies .
ratan tata washed dishes as a college student at cornell university because what was perhaps india 's richest family could not legally wire him money for food .
carving the granite a park as eight miles of exits the flume , cannon mountain and the old man of the mountain historic site are all part of franconia notch state park -lrb- www.franconianotchstatepark.com -rrb- in new hampshire .
since there was no site large enough for such a massive structure in washington , the army chose a prominent location in virginia , at the foot of the arlington memorial bridge , directly across the potomac river from the lincoln memorial .
even the culture minister , renaud donnedieu de vabres , has voiced concern that , along with france 's place in europe , culture appears to have vanished from the electoral agenda .
the 11-night alaskan voyage is scheduled to feature gwen ifill , moderator and managing editor of '' washington week , '' on pbs ; scott simon , the host of '' weekend edition saturday , '' on national public radio ; ric burns , the documentary filmmaker ; charlie cook , editor and publisher of the cook political report ; scott ellis , a theater director ; and david lee , a television writer , director and producer .
these are the same ingredients used in the first reactor ever designed , which was tested by enrico fermi at the university of chicago in 1942 .
the targets in the united states included the new york stock exchange and the citigroup headquarters in new york city , along with the offices in washington of the international monetary fund and the world bank , according to prosecutors in a lengthy series of trials .
gordon m. bethune , former chief executive of continental airlines , where mr. barger worked before jetblue , said the new chief would help with jetblue 's growing pains . ''
that uncertainty has coincided with iran 's growing influence throughout the middle east , including a nuclear program that american officials assert is intended to develop weapons . ''
google 's chief executive , eric e. schmidt , said last year that he planned to eventually have 1,000 employees working in the company 's radio unit .
-lrb- shafak is currently an assistant professor of near eastern studies at the university of arizona ; she commutes between tucson and istanbul . -rrb-
the challenge has been avoiding what peter guralnick , the author of the elvis presley biography '' last train to memphis , '' calls '' the whole hagiographic approach '' : stringing together the best-known moments from an artist 's career like so many life magazine snapshots . ''
mr. hernández 's minority partners are gian franco brignone and his son giorgio , italian real estate magnates who relocated to mexico and built a series of sumptuous properties in the state of jalisco that made it a magnet for the super-rich .
gere conciliates a day after a judge in india issued a warrant for his arrest for kissing the bollywood actress shilpa shetty in public , richard gere offered an apology and asked the media '' to end the circus '' over the matter , reuters reported yesterday .
he went to southeast missouri state university in cape girardeau for about three years , majoring in marketing , before dropping out to join the marine corps reserve .
among them are norman foster of britain , ricardo bofill of spain and luminous french names like valode & pistre , chaix et morel , arte charpentier , jakob & macfarlane , rudy ricciotti , nicholas michelin and francis soler .
there are a number of republicans who do think that some kind of benchmarks , properly crafted , would actually be helpful , '' said senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader .
a3 palestinian revenue released israel transferred $ 100 million in palestinian tax revenue to the office of the palestinian authority president , mahmoud abbas , and also suspended the establishment of a settlement in the west bank .
the company announced last month that it had reached an agreement to sell the vermont resorts killington and pico for $ 83.5 million to the dallas-based sp land company and powdr corporation of park city , utah .
celebrating the gift of 3,000 cherry trees from the city of tokyo for the 95th time this year is the national cherry blossom festival in washington -lrb- march 31 to april 15 -rrb- the 2007 parade will run along constitution avenue on april 14 , with floats , giant balloons and mickey and minnie dressed in japanese attire .
regional analysts said peace efforts had been undermined by the political crisis in israel , where prime minister ehud olmert has barely hung on to his job after being excoriated by a committee that reviewed the conduct of the war with hezbollah in lebanon last summer . ''
they included mr. kahn ; paul g. desmarais sr. , the head of one of canada 's wealthiest families ; and the former prime minister , brian mulroney , as well as mr. black . ''
that afternoon , the departing mayor of baltimore and governor-elect of maryland , martin o'malley , will dedicate a city street to mrs. pelosi .
a3 red cross denounces israel the international committee of the red cross , in a confidential report about east jerusalem and its surrounding areas , accuses israel of a '' general disregard '' for '' its obligations under international humanitarian law -- and the law of occupation in particular . ''
the educational system , politics , health care , child rearing and the national character are dealt with in well-organized chapters that move the reader briskly along from the basque country to catalonia , from flamenco bars to neon-lighted roadside whorehouses , from the ghastly tourist traps of the costa del sol to the galician clothing factories of amancio ortega , spain 's richest and most reclusive tycoon .
the site offers how-to information about starting a group , like the one in lagos , nigeria , above , an online network and a resource directory .
the charges against mr. ramírez stem from a bombing in march 1982 of a train bound from paris to toulouse in southwest france ; an attack in april 1982 on the paris offices of a newspaper , al watan ; and the bombing in december 1983 of a high-speed train and a marseille station .
in contrast , israel has established many jewish neighborhoods in east jerusalem , and more than 200,000 jews now live in the eastern part of the city .
in a short-notice inspection of iran 's main nuclear facility at natanz on sunday , conducted in advance of a report to the united nations security council due early next week , the inspectors found that iranian engineers were already using roughly 1,300 centrifuges and were producing fuel suitable for nuclear reactors , according to diplomats and nuclear experts here .
the theater company , which shares the woodruff arts center campus with the high museum of art and the atlanta symphony orchestra , has had trouble appearing hip and gritty in a city teeming with young people on the hunt for what ms. booth calls '' punky itchy scratchy '' theater , the kind that often turns up in atlanta 's many smaller houses like dad 's garage and pushpush .
deaths of skier 's cousin and officer divide a town -- a double shooting in bode miller 's hometown in new hampshire .
john edwards of north carolina hired a high school drum line to escort him into the show , while senator christopher j. dodd of connecticut exclaimed , '' we 're coming back to south carolina ! ''
if any of the quarters you plug into the coin-operated binoculars at the viewpoint atop cannon mountain are new hampshire state quarters , the old man is pictured there too .
a6 conduct report looms in israel as an official report on the israeli government 's failings during the recent war against hezbollah in lebanon is about to be published , the main topic of public debate is whether prime minister ehud olmert will be able to hang onto power .
a police report on an organization of artists called bands against bush noted that the group was planning concerts on oct. 11 , 2003 , in new york , washington , seattle , san francisco and boston .
the proposal has its critics , many of whom call it nothing less than modern-day prohibition , and an assault on personal freedom and the free market that flies in the face of madison 's traditional liberalism and wisconsin 's entrenched drinking culture .
bill delmar was 15 and living on staten island in 1992 when he joined navy sailors and marines as part of a color guard during fleet week , the annual visit to new york city by sailors and other members of the armed services .
she called repeatedly for israeli withdrawal from the west bank and gaza , and in recent years supported a european petition calling for an academic boycott of israel .
mr. valdez , a former teacher in mexico who has been working on the island on and off for 20 years , has made far more than he did in his native mexican state of sinaloa , enough to pay for private school for his two children there . ''
and there 's a more ominous threat in spain , where in 2005 an $ 88 million studio , ciudad de la luz , opened in the coastal city of alicante .
mr. zellnik began writing his play after a visit to polonnaruwa , sri lanka , where he participated in a wild-monkey study . ''
he then went out yesterday and won his 37th consecutive match , a 7-6 (2) , 3-6 , 6-3 victory against kristian pless of denmark in the first round of the dubai open .
laurie baker , a british architect whose chance meeting with mahatma gandhi in the 1940s started him on a lifelong career of designing low-cost and environmentally respectful houses in india , died on april 1 at the hamlet , a home he designed himself , in thiruvananthapuram , the capital of the state of kerala .
addressing tensions between europe and russia over energy exports , mr. putin said 26 percent of russian oil was extracted by foreign companies .
and the galata maritime museum in genoa , italy , has wireless infrared headphones that guide visitors with audio tours in eight languages .
when leland yee ran for the san francisco school board in 1986 , asian-american elected officials in california were rare and misconceptions about them rampant .
the curator , susan piedmont-palladino , wrote a letter recently to the board of commissioners in cuyahoga county , which includes cleveland , comparing the possible destruction of the tower to the razing in the 1950s of victorian masterpieces and several major buildings by frank lloyd wright . ''
raymond j. mcguire is now the co-head of global investment banking at citigroup .
lavan davis plays curtis payne , an atlanta firefighter who believes that his wife , ella -lrb- cassi davis -rrb- , is his queen and that his home is his castle -- but who has to share his castle with a few jesters , including his son , calvin -lrb- lance gross -rrb- ; his nephew c. j. -lrb- allen payne -rrb- ; c. j. 's wife , janine -lrb- demetria mckinney -rrb- ; and their children , malik -lrb- larramie doc shaw -rrb- and jazmine -lrb- china anne mcclain -rrb- .
for months , gov. kathleen sebelius of kansas and other governors have warned that their state national guards are ill-prepared for the next local disaster , be it a tornado a flash flood or a terrorist 's threat , because of large deployments of their soldiers and equipment in iraq and afghanistan .
before coming to washington last year , mr. foulke , a former republican party state chairman in south carolina and top political fund-raiser , worked in greenville , s.c. , for a law firm that advises companies on how to avoid union organizing .
john c. rood , the assistant secretary of state for international security , was traveling between warsaw and prague for what one department official said was '' the start of formal negotiations '' to deploy 10 interceptors in poland and tracking radar in the czech republic .
he also alluded to fidel castro 's recent illness , saying the day is nearing when '' the light of liberty will shine '' on cuba . ''
in other key euro 2008 qualifiers saturday , france and ukraine , two leaders in the three-way tie in group b , will play in paris ; in group a , belgium will play host to portugal in brussels .
altogether , districts in the suburbs of new york city , including northern new jersey , westchester , long island and fairfield county in connecticut , spend far more money -- about 75 percent more -- educating elementary and secondary school students than the rest of the country , with an average of $ 14,586 per pupil versus $ 8,315 nationwide .
the issue is a central one being discussed this week at the group of 8 meeting near rostock , germany .
recently the manic cries of jim cramer , the financial commentator , had the effect of a lullaby on terry j. lundgren , the chief executive of federated department stores , the parent company of macy 's .
returning to the united states , she completed her b.a. at carleton and went on to earn an m.a. in international relations from the university of chicago and an m.s. in education from madison college in harrisonburg , virginia .
i think even vienna is a bit of a myth , '' said ernest fleischmann , the former general manager for the los angeles philharmonic . ''
on two visits to russia in march , mr. browne introduced mr. hayward to president vladimir v. putin and heavyweights in the russian oil and gas business .
that splintering is the central fact of '' wall , '' a film by the british artist catherine yass , which is basically a continuous , traveling close-up pan of the concrete security barrier that has separated israel from the west bank since the second intifada of 2000 .
in a review of '' my france '' for the new york times book review , mr. judt gave an example of mr. weber 's feel for france and his '' richly textured sense of the complex otherness of the recent past '' by noting his discussion of why it took '' la marseillaise '' almost a century to emerge from a strasbourg drawing room on april 26 , 1792 , as the battle song of the rhine army to become the french national anthem . ''
thirteen percent of principals , 157 , chose to work with '' partnership support '' organizations , led by outside nonprofit agencies and educational institutions like new visions for public schools , a new york city group , and the city university of new york .
angela e. stent , director of the center for eurasian , russian and east european studies at georgetown university , said the bush administration had '' already been reassessing our policy toward russia , as we have understood at least since january of 2006 or even before that there is a newly self-confident russia , a russia that is awash in petrodollars and a russia that really feels it can say no and pursue its own interests . ''
for example , president evo morales of bolivia , which has substantial reserves of gas that supply brazil , has nationalized oil fields and refineries there , shutting out petrobras , and has suggested quadrupling the price of some of the natural gas his country supplies to brazil 's industrialized south . ''
a funeral mass will be celebrated at our lady of mount carmel church in ridgewood on friday march 30 at 10:45 am with interment at george washington memorial park , paramus .
but instead of going to the police in norwalk , her wireless signal hit a cell tower about 15 miles across the long island sound , in the north shore hamlet of greenlawn , n.y. , then was directed even farther away , to the suffolk county police in yaphank .
after more than a decade overseas , playing for wolfsburg and bayer leverkusen in germany , glasgow rangers in scotland , and sunderland and manchester city in england , reyna , 33 , will be surveying the midfield at giants stadium as one of the club 's two designated players .
with the move , middlebury , in vermont , jumped into a growing debate within journalism , the law and academia over what respect , if any , to give wikipedia articles , written by hundreds of volunteers and subject to mistakes and sometimes deliberate falsehoods .
ferrari also plans to use the track for extreme-temperature testing of vehicle prototypes , giving the company another facility to complement its fiorano -lrb- at the factory -rrb- , imola and mugello circuits in italy .
we shall do everything to persuade the president of ukraine to recall his decree , '' he said , in remarks carried on russian state television . ''
indian actress wins on show after racial taunts the indian actress shilpa shetty , left , emerged the winner of the british '' celebrity big brother '' reality show on sunday after a contest marked by accusations of racial bullying that touched off protests in india and debates about the state of race relations in britain , the associated press reported . ''
senator hillary rodham clinton of new york and senator robert menendez of new jersey , both democrats , and senator chuck hagel of nebraska , a republican , introduced an amendment to the bill yesterday that would eliminate the numerical limits on green cards for spouses and young children of legal immigrants .
for example , representative peter t. king , a republican from long island , is losing the chairmanship of the committee on homeland security , a position that he used to steer more money to new york city and other area localities considered at high risk of terrorist attack .
we very much want to work with congress , '' said derrick m. kuzak , group vice president for global product development at the ford motor company , echoing the official stance of the alliance of automobile manufacturers , an industry trade group .
jules was born in warsaw , poland , came to new york in 1947 after wwii to pursue a masters at columbia university in engineering .
prime minister tony blair offered an indirect endorsement of gordon brown , the chancellor of the exchequer , as his successor , saying that '' in all probability , a scot will become prime minister of the united kingdom . ''
the unlikely story of scranton as film center begins 25 years ago , when the town 's most famous native son , the actor and playwright jason miller , hired mr. sorvino for a role in the feature film adaptation of his pulitzer prize - and tony award-winning drama , '' that championship season . ''
born david william james on april 25 , 1949 in norman , oklahoma to john and mary james and beloved by those who knew him , david passed over , after a long and courageous battle with lung cancer on saturday , may 26 , 2007 at 2:28 pm surrounded by his loved ones at the home he shared with his partner , dinda andrews in manhattan .
now other california restaurants , like nopa in san francisco , are following suit .
maria pietilae-holmner of sweden took the silver and denise karbon of italy the bronze .
beloved mother of don harwood , boca raton , florida .
mr. radulovic , born in the former yugoslavia and now based in france , came to carnegie hall under the auspices of the rising stars series , having been nominated by the cité de la musique in paris .
in 1992 , at a conference of republican governors , kirk fordice of mississippi referred to america as a '' christian nation . ''
general electric too expects a number of new reactors to be built within the next decade , says ferdinando beccalli-falco , a ge manager .
critics have accused president jacques chirac of using the country 's museums to promote france 's political and commercial interests abroad . ''
music correction : january 28 , 2007 , sunday an article on jan. 14 about david byrne and his song cycle based on the life of imelda marcos , the former first lady of the philippines , misidentified the ethnicity of a singer in the production .
in two previous books , abani , who was born in nigeria , traced a path from third world to first : '' graceland , '' his bustling novel set in lagos , closed with a young man 's departure for the united states ; his novella '' becoming abigail '' followed the title character from nigeria to london .
he was george mcgovern of south dakota -- not frank church of idaho , who was involved in other antiwar legislation .
services will be held in malibu , california and he will be buried in utah .
pedro e. guerrero : a photographer 's journey '' was just published by princeton architectural press -lrb- $ 55 -rrb- ; a documentary , '' pedro guerrero : portrait of an image maker , '' will have its premiere at taliesin west in scottsdale , ariz. , on march 31 , (480) 488-2691 or gnosisltd.org .
airbus said it was already in discussions with third-party investors about the sale of three factories : a wing assembly plant in filton , england ; a nose-and-cockpit assembly site in méaulte , france ; and a fuselage-shell manufacturing site in nordenham , germany .
penrose -- charles jr. of darien , connecticut on january 19 , 2007 .
having so many operating systems makes it expensive to make software , said faraz hoodbhoy , the chief executive of pixsense , whose software helps users of camera phones save and share multimedia content . ''
in collaboration with assemblyman thomas p. giblin , a democrat whose family has roots in county roscommon and the vailsburg section of newark , mr. cummings , who was the assistant director for special collections at the newark public library , began searching archives for pieces of the story .
he was a giant in mind and spirit ; a prophet in his nation , israel , and his city , jerusalem ; and a dear friend of our founder , henry j. leir , with whom he shared creativity and resolve .
another eastern conference talent evaluator said oden and durant were '' players that can turn a franchise around single-handedly , similar to what lebron did , '' referring to cleveland 's lebron james , the no. 1 pick in 2003 .
the 38th president correction : january 10 , 2007 , wednesday an article last wednesday about prominent people who attended the funeral of former president gerald r. ford referred incorrectly to george allen , republican of virginia .
mr. gates , who arrived in paris on tuesday , was the first american defense secretary to visit france in nearly a decade .
he said that the last time ms. samaha was in lebanon visiting extended family , she got trapped in northern beirut by the war that broke out last summer and was among the american-lebanese civilians who had to be evacuated by an american warship . ''
she left her parents and her home at 14 to train in melun , france , with the taskmaster coach philippe lucas .
he is close to josef ackermann , the chief executive of deutsche bank and the siemens supervisory board member who reportedly led the opposition to renewing mr. kleinfeld 's contract .
lerner -- herbert , 89 , of boca raton , florida on january 8 , 2007 .
those invited included the republican fund-raiser georgette mosbacher and the former chief executives leonard a. lauder -lrb- estée lauder companies -rrb- and sanford i. weill -lrb- citigroup -rrb- , though it was not clear if all those invited attended . ''
rodgers -- katharine bolton , wife of christopher r.p. rodgers , died friday , february 23 , 2007 , after a long illness at their home in gulf stream , florida .
gov. haley barbour of mississippi , a former chairman of the republican national committee , toasted the political prowess of mrs. clinton . ''
and in mexico , rumors abound about development in a remote area of baja california known as scorpion bay .
both had worked in the 1990s in moscow for boris a. berezovsky , now the self-exiled russian tycoon living in london who was once among russia 's richest and most powerful men .
man , which was founded as a sugar trading company by james man in 1783 , opened an office in singapore two months ago as growth is shifting to asia from europe .
conocophillips , the third-largest american oil company , began producing some diesel from soybean oil last year at a plant in cork , ireland .
a brutal marxist dictatorship , known as the dergue , led ethiopia to boycott the 1984 summer olympics in los angeles -lrb- in support of the soviet bloc -rrb- and the 1988 summer games in seoul , south korea -lrb- in support of north korea -rrb- .
he said that new initiatives in central asia '' need not be competitive , but rather complementary '' with efforts by russia and china to bolster security in the region .
dozens of senior fatah leaders have been allowed to flee to the west bank through israel , but foot soldiers like mr. sharatha are trapped .
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according to glazer , philadelphia 's brian dawkins and jacksonville 's donovin darius have trained at a mixed martial arts gym .
ripudaman singh malik , an indian-born canadian sikh acquitted in 2005 of involvement in the bombing 20 years earlier of an air india plane traveling from toronto to new delhi that killed 329 people , has filed a lawsuit against the governments of canada and british columbia , where he was tried , claiming unspecified damages for wrongful imprisonment and malicious prosecution .
those that have fired rockets into israel say they do so to respond to israeli military activities in the west bank .
france has invited the new foreign minister , ziad abu amr , to paris , and british officials have said that they are considering dealings with ministers like mr. amr and finance minister salam fayyad .
he attended wagner college on staten island and was chosen walk on for the varsity basketball and football teams .
mr. stronach remains magna 's chairman and , along with family members , controls the voting shares of the company , which is based north of toronto in aurora , ontario .
they scour north america looking for players , visiting new england and the midwest and making road trips across canada .
a landmark event for modernism in america occurred in 1934 , when james laughlin , a harvard sophomore , went on a leave of absence to spend a few months in italy with ezra pound .
by virtue of the nets ' defeat and the toronto raptors ' victory over the philadelphia 76ers on friday night , toronto -lrb- 43-33 -rrb- secured its first division title in franchise history .
as ms. qin spoke on the eve of the holiday at the jade buddha temple in central shanghai , scores of worshipers strolled through the temple complex .
speculating again in hindsight -- israel may have been better off giving up the west bank and east jerusalem without peace than signing the 1994 peace agreement with jordan while keeping these territories .
michael smuin , the son of a safeway butcher , was born in missoula , mont. , on oct. 13 , 1938 .
9 p.m. -lrb- nbc -rrb- law & order : criminal intent -- when a respected judge is killed during a re-creation of the duel between alexander hamilton and aaron burr , detectives goren and eames question his gunslinging partner -lrb- xander berkeley -rrb- , the husband of maureen pagonis -lrb- donna murphy -rrb- , a candidate for mayor of new york city .
look at the contrast with a suburban school like mamaroneck in westchester county .
mark v. hurd , chairman and chief executive , told analysts that hewlett-packard 's computer sales were growing at three times the rate of the industry as a whole .
he is survived by his loving partner of 38 years , terry lilly , his nephews timothy fahey -lrb- fredericksburg , virginia -rrb- , patrick murphy -lrb- modesto , california -rrb- , and jim murphy -lrb- fredericksburg -rrb- , his niece kelly sigethy -lrb- woodbridge , virginia -rrb- , his sister-inlaw carleen murphy -lrb- fairfax , virginia -rrb- , nine grandnieces and - nephews , as well as scores of loving friends .
in the meantime , linden lab , the privately held san francisco developer of second life , is enjoying the increased attention from businesses .
the essential question , it seems , is whether mr. schwarzenegger 's proclaimed era of postpartisanship in california triumphs over gridlock to bring the sort of trend-setting legislation that the state has been known for , or instead results in watered-down compromises hammered out with equal parts threat and capitulation in a sacramento back room . ''
during a recent trip to italy , my wife and i booked extended stays in several cities that were obvious choices for first-timers -- rome , florence , siena and so on -- leaving only a two-day layover in milan before returning home .
cleveland took boozer with the 35th pick in 2002 , one season before they selected lebron james at no. 1 .
there were also performers who were born in louisiana , including lucinda williams , jerry lee lewis and johnny rivers , whose '' secret agent man '' had a touch of bayou-country swamp-pop .
it 's difficult not to react viscerally to the images -- repeatedly shown on television , in newspapers and on youtube -- of rats scurrying about the kfc\/taco bell restaurant in new york city 's greenwich village at night , like villains in a twisted children 's book .
in the first major test of his influence this past month , mr. khalilzad pushed for a vote on a resolution creating an international tribunal to judge suspects in the assassination of the former lebanese prime minister , rafik hariri , despite warnings that acting now could inflame the already volatile politics of lebanon .
it is the capital of catalonia against the capital of spain , the catalans versus the castilians .
recent interrogations of arrested members of hamas in the west bank town of qalqilya produced information that the islamic organization there was planning imminent terrorist attacks against israel , including one using a large truck bomb , the israeli shin bet internal security service said tuesday .
zagreb take vienna 's florid architecture , throw in budapest 's bubbling cafe culture , and you get zagreb , croatia 's grand capital .
ms. shaw , 34 , works in san jose , calif. , as the associate vice president of the public affairs department at a california affiliate of planned parenthood ; she is responsible for grass-roots and legislative affairs .
president jacques chirac of france , who met with mr. siniora in paris on wednesday , followed with a pledge of a 500-million-euro loan to lebanon , which a spokesman for mr. chirac said would be extended on '' highly preferential terms . ''
iran 's president , mahmoud ahmadinejad , arrived in the united arab emirates on sunday afternoon , the first trip there by an iranian leader since the country 's founding in 1971 , seeking to improve a strategic trade partnership just as vice president dick cheney landed in cairo as part of a middle east tour meant to mollify america 's regional allies and strengthen support against iran .
in new york , mr. paulison began his tour of the flood-ravaged areas on monday in mamaroneck , in westchester county , where he met with senator hillary rodham clinton , homeowners and the minister of the first baptist church , which was heavily damaged by floodwaters .
in nigeria , the golf resort in uyo is temporarily closed .
similarly , producers for adam carolla , the los angeles morning host whose program is carried on many cbs radio stations , regularly record vérité clips featuring mr. carolla and a co-host , danny bonaduce , for posting on the web .
chief among them is senator lindsey graham -- '' the most popular official in south carolina , '' mr. mccain called him in greenville -- who accompanies mr. mccain around the state .
the museum , which opened in the north beach neighborhood of san francisco last fall , has made plans to sponsor a spring tour of mr. morgan 's space scrap in a vintage airstream trailer , creating a kind of electric kool-aid acid test for the astronomy set .
a picture caption in the special museums section on wednesday with an article about campus galleries referred incorrectly to the status of the berkeley art museum and pacific film archive building at the university of california , berkeley .
several of the pieces italy is demanding from the getty originally belonged to barbara and lawrence fleischman , another important collecting couple .
and in nearby mattancheri , there is a jewish presence that locals date back to a.d. 72 , just after the destruction of the second temple of jerusalem .
arab officials said the united states had put enormous pressure on the saudis by calling on them to make a peace overture to israel , as ms. rice did tuesday in jerusalem .
documents showed the flights by mr. fields cost the company nearly $ 215,000 during the final three months of 2005 , or the equivalent of about $ 15,000 a weekend round-trip flight to west palm beach , an airport near his florida home .
yet , at virtually every encounter with western reporters , academics and business analysts here , the russian leaders have encountered skepticism and the same series of questions : is russia a reliable trading partner ?
like the prince , nell newman , the actor paul newman 's daughter , runs an organic food company whose profits go to charity .
among the holdings of the news corporation are the fox broadcasting company , harpercollins publishers and myspace .
grew -- henry sturgis , of new york city and west palm beach , florida , died suddenly on may 25th , 2007 in florida .
meanwhile , gov. martin o'malley of maryland was expected to endorse mrs. clinton in annapolis wednesday morning , according to a democrat close to mrs. clinton .
underscoring the rising tension in lebanon , a bomb went off in the berbeer neighborhood of beirut late sunday night , wounding four people .
their messages come across here as glossy packaging done in paris ateliers rather than workable political platforms for changing life in mainstream france .
if there seems to be no published playbook , there are informal rules , and these were gathered by interviewing militants and their leaders , islamic clerics and scholars in jordan , syria , lebanon and england , along with government intelligence officials in the middle east , europe and the united states .
after living in princeton , nj , and pinehurst , nc , she and her husband retired to gulf stream , florida , in 1986 .
wilma was a graduate of the state university of iowa at iowa city and did graduate work at new york university .
others have unimpeachable reasons : paul gailiunas , a doctor whose wife , helen hill , was murdered in their home last month , left immediately for south carolina .
at one end of the museum is '' broad street cañon , new york '' (1904) , a skyscraper scene that made the artist 's reputation ; at the other end is the dreamy , atmospheric '' palace of fine arts , san francisco '' (1916) , a high point in the movement now known as california impressionism .
he is next scheduled to perform with the ornette coleman quartet in kongsberg , norway , on july 6 .
i got a call from the menendez senate campaign , and they asked me to host a party with bobbi brown , who has the cosmetics line , '' mr. johnson recalled -lrb- his family and ms. brown 's live in montclair , n.j. , a state where robert menendez is a senator -rrb- . ''
this season , tauck begins a 21-day , transcontinental voyage from amsterdam to romania 's black sea port of cernavoda , cruising along the rhine , main and danube rivers through germany , austria , slovakia , hungary , croatia , serbia and bulgaria .
in every place he visited -- egypt , israel , the west bank , jordan , lebanon and saudi arabia , where the leaders of the 22 nation-arab league held a conference -- the united nations is a player , and people freely throw around resolution numbers with no need to explain them .
they also said they knew that some melamine-laced feed had been exported to other parts of asia , including south korea , north korea , indonesia and thailand .
later , he visited lots where the homes were to be built in the florida towns of north port and rotonda .
the six children mr. brown acknowledged in his will want his body placed in a mausoleum on his 60-acre property just across the south carolina state line near the savannah river , an estate they hope will become a museum and memorial park akin to graceland , the home of elvis presley in memphis , which has long been a lucrative tourist attraction .
because of an editing error , an article on thursday about the future of relations between turkey and armenia following the funeral for hrant dink , a turkish-armenian newspaper editor killed in istanbul on jan. 19 , misidentified the issue between the two countries that turkey has said should be examined by a governmental history commission .
behind johnny unitas , baltimore had been the league 's dominant team that season .
until stastny 's streak , evgeni malkin , the pittsburgh forward from russia , dominated calder talk .
decades back , jawaharlal nehru , the first prime minister of free india , said india lives in its villages , and this is still true today .
in an interview , howard hochhauser , the chief financial officer of martha stewart living omnimedia , said the company had '' a ton of credibility in food , '' adding of the new costco line , '' we think this can be pretty big . ''
brothers or cousins except for its drummer , oscar lara , the band originally comes from sinaloa , mexico , but has lived in san jose , calif. , for nearly 40 years .
in 1966 , the family moved back to quito , ecuador where mr. metz worked on restoring his wife 's family 400-year-old '' hacienda cusin , '' now a wellknown hotel near otavalo .
also , in the last few years , three low-fare carriers -- kulula , 1time and mango , the low-cost carrier of south african airways -- have emerged in south africa , offering one-way rates as low as 248 rand -lrb- $ 33.50 , at 7.6 rand to the dollar -rrb- from johannesburg to cape town .
moreover , if israel had not built settlements throughout gaza and the west bank , solving its dispute with the palestinians would probably have been -- and would be -- a lot easier .
canada is concerned that these u.s. subsidies continue to cause economic harm to our corn farmers , '' the canadian agriculture minister , chuck strahl , said in a statement . ''
hugo sánchez , who replaced the argentine ricardo la volpe as coach of mexico 's national team , will be on the sideline in his new position for the first time tonight .
already , the girl who grew up in volgograd , russia , the daughter of working-class parents , has broken 19 world records -lrb- both indoor and outdoor -rrb- and won a gold medal at the 2004 olympic games in athens .
in the early 1980s , reacting against the concentration of cultural institutions in central paris , france 's government , then led by the socialists , decided to turn this area , once crowded with slaughterhouses , into a new cultural district within easy reach of low-income suburbs to the east .
but late into the evening , mr. olmert still had not agreed to allow negotiations between israel and the palestinians to include discussions on the status of jerusalem , the borders of an eventual palestinian state , and the question of whether palestinian refugees who fled , or were forced to leave , their homes would have a right to return to israel .
the breeders ' cup was held at churchill downs in louisville , ky.
for vacation-home buyers who want the feel of tuscany but at lower prices , the peninsula of istria in northern croatia is proving to be a popular choice .
flynt leverett , a senior fellow at the new american foundation and a middle east specialist who worked for the central intelligence agency and on the staff of the national security council , also said he believed that iran was supplying munitions to shiite militias .
but here in rural bihar state in northern india , there 's no economic miracle to be seen .
president nicolas sarkozy of france and prime minister tony blair of britain called wednesday for a more constructive relationship with russia after months of threats by russian officials to withdraw from arms control treaties and the kremlin 's recent test of a new intercontinental ballistic missile that its officials said could pierce any defense system , including the planned american shield .
it is bad enough that louisville only had to make the 79-mile drive here for what is a virtual home game , while smith and his kentucky team were sent to chicago , where the no. 8-seeded wildcats play no. 9 villanova on friday in the first round of the west region .
priced at $ 300 in some plans from at&t , the 8800 will be aimed at corporate and business users , a market segment dominated by research in motion , based in waterloo , ontario .
he is survived by daughter diana and her partner ted rabinowitch , of fort bragg , california , son david of brooklyn , ny , son sebastian and his partner stephen mccauley , of cambridge , massachusetts , daughter rebecca of berlin , germany , three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren .
since the war in lebanon last summer , newspapers , tv news channels and web sites in egypt , saudi arabia and elsewhere have reported that sunnis , taken with hezbollah 's charismatic shiite leader hassan nasrallah and his group 's '' resistance '' to israel , were converting to shiite islam .
it was four months before he could resume hitting , but kuznetsov has shown encouraging signs of revival here , making it through qualifying and winning his first tour-level match in the first round of the main draw against peter luczak of australia in five late-night sets .
at an opening reception in december , los palalia , a band from veracruz , mexico , performed while partygoers noshed on indian samosas and chinese pork dumplings .
albania is for sure the most pro-american country in europe , maybe even in the world , '' said edi rama , tirana 's mayor and leader of the opposition socialists . ''
by summer , with the help of ms. russo 's boyfriend , david olson , who manages them as well as his own brooklyn band , a.d.d. nation , they had won a live music competition in suffolk county and were pounding out original songs for hundreds of the hamptons ' well-heeled at beach night in sag harbor , an annual outdoor concert .
she attended mills college in oakland , ca , prior to settling in sun valley .
it 's a new world now , '' mr. mccartney , the former beatle , said yesterday during a video chat with howard schultz , starbucks 's chairman , conducted in front of thousands of people attending the shareholders ' meeting . ''
on the ocean voyage to germany , he met another lawyer on the prosecutorial staff , phillis heller , whom he married in nuremberg .
mr. wenner said that mr. ertegun had insisted on taking the hall of fame 's architect , i.m. pei , to visit graceland , elvis presley 's mansion in memphis .
in south asia -- pakistan , india , bangladesh , sri lanka -- it has been common for a spouse or child to inherit a political office .
the antireligion perspective has been around on the internet since its beginning , though using youtube to express such thoughts is new , said lorne l. dawson , professor of sociology and religious studies at the university of waterloo in waterloo , ontario , who has studied religion and the internet . ''
from 1959 until his death , dr. landau held appointments in medicine , biochemistry , pharmacology and nutrition at case western reserve university in cleveland , where he researched how the body breaks down and harnesses carbohydrates like glucose .
mr. von wrede , who is originally from munich , was in charge of the east end office of engel & völkers , one of more than 100 offices the company , based in hamburg , germany , operates worldwide .
israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , said sunday , '' the platform of the new government includes very problematic elements that can not be acceptable to israel or the international community . ''
on the same day , sept. 9 , 1972 , two local bookstores opened -- totally independent of each other -- in this westchester county town and in chappaqua , the next town to the north .
the american people can see what is happening here , '' said senator ben nelson , democrat of nebraska . ''
american officials informed china of the meeting in berlin , and mr. hill is headed to beijing , as well as to seoul and tokyo , after he leaves germany .
at least 20 percent of russian natural gas destined for europe passes through belarus , less than the amount that transits ukraine but enough to raise new concerns in europe .
they will continue to be deployed as long as the americans are there , '' albania 's president , alfred moisiu , said proudly in an interview .
bombs kill 3 in lebanon on day before memorial a day before lebanon was set to mark the second anniversary of the assassination of its former prime minister , rafik hariri , three people were killed and about 23 others wounded when two minibuses were bombed as they took passengers to beirut .
last year at the world economic forum in davos , switzerland , officials suggested there was great opportunity for personal trainers , people who can keep the rich looking fit and thin .
but power plants have actually closed in some of the poorest and most chaotic parts of the developing world , from africa to dysfunctional states in india like bihar , which includes baharbari .
with the first round of france 's presidential election only 54 days away , the two leading candidates are grappling with the stunning rise in the polls of françois bayrou , the head of the centrist union for french democracy party and a former education minister who has been nicknamed '' the third man '' by the french media .
richard pearshouse , 32 , of toronto , canada , a policy analyst for the canadian hiv\/aids legal network : '' for the last two and a half years i 've been living in canada .
in mississippi , only one in five counties , including wealthy areas like tunica , have the phase ii system . ''
hence the need for a high-profile united nations negotiator like the former president of finland , martti ahtisaari , or the united nations envoy lakhdar brahimi , who brokered the deal for a transitional government in 2004 .
in downtown beirut on thursday night , many bristled at the idea that the security council could impose such a court in the first place , despite the will of the opposition , which is estimated to account for almost half of lebanon . ''
issenberg follows the tuna backward from the tsukiji market to its sources in the north atlantic , the mediterranean and the south pacific , stopping along the way at gloucester , mass. , where the rev. sun myung moon entered the market ; at port lincoln in south australia , home of the tunarama festival and a thriving bluefin ranching industry ; and at japan 's kinki university , a center of tuna breeding research .
led by its founder , steven jobs , and its top officers , john lasseter and ed catmull , pixar has been ferocious in its insistence on originality through a cycle of hits that has included only one sequel , '' toy story 2 '' in 1999 .
both of mr. hill 's co-defendants have died in cuba : ralph goodwin drowned years ago at a beach outside havana ; michael finney succumbed to throat cancer in 2005 . ''
in louisiana , in the area of new orleans , metairie and kenner , the average price fell by 11 percent .
judge daniels had interrupted an initial hearing on the fairness of the settlement on jan. 31 after samuel j. dubbin , a miami lawyer opposing the settlement , appealed for more time to give survivors and relatives a chance to look for evidence to support their insurance claims in long-sealed holocaust-era archives in bad arolsen , germany .
recently , though , they bought two historic houses they intend to weave together in downtown san miguel de allende , mexico , a carefully preserved colonial town in the mountains north of mexico city . ''
hewlett-packard , which reported strong sales of personal computers for the end of 2006 , will hold its annual meeting , where mark v. hurd , the chairman and chief executive , will speak -lrb- wednesday -rrb- .
he travels to cuba and meets fidel castro .
mr. abbas called for a truce with israel that would '' start in gaza and end in the west bank . ''
international a3-8 to pursue missile project , u.s. offers russia a deal the bush administration is offering russia incentives to drop its opposition to american missile defense sites in poland and the czech republic , including an invitation to begin linking some american and russian antimissile systems , according to senior administration officials .
last week , heinrich von pierer , the former siemens chief and one of germany 's most prominent industrialists , said that he would resign as chairman of the supervisory board to help bring the company into '' calmer waters , '' although he admitted no wrongdoing .
pelosi is in damascus not because she loves this dear city , but because she is aware that it is impossible to ignore syria 's role , '' an editorial in the daily al thawrah said . ''
the crisis has overshadowed completely what should have been a ringing success in northern ireland , where the archrivals gerry adams and the rev. ian paisley agreed to form a power-sharing government on may 8 .
those visitors can pass a barbershop on 181st street and see a customer who happens to be the nephew of joaquín balaguer , a former president of the dominican republic .
at least 67 people have been killed in the past four days in attacks in india 's troubled northeastern state of assam .
gauguin was the paragon ; Émile zola 's 1886 novel '' the masterpiece , '' based on cézanne 's early days in paris , offers further confirmation .
eric ettlinger berkeley , calif. , jan. 24 , 2007 to the editor : in his state of the union address , president bush once again tried to have the american people and the world believe that the maelstrom in iraq and the middle east is due entirely to a litany of acts of evil terrorists and the external influences of foreign powers , especially iran and syria .
an explosion destroyed a section of a pipeline in ukraine carrying russian natural gas to europe .
mr. alexander also placed full-page ads in local newspapers proclaiming his commitment to investing in namibia , and has mounted a large billboard conveying the same message opposite government park in windhoek .
putin discusses a gas cartel -- in qatar , president vladimir v. putin of russia , below , discussed trade , security and the formation of a natural gas cartel on the second leg of a three-day middle east trip thought to be an effort by russia to expand its strategic role in the region .
saad hariri , the sunni muslim leader of lebanon 's march 14 coalition , the largest bloc in congress , and the shiite parliament speaker , nabih berri , a major opposition leader , met late on thursday night to discuss ways of ending the country 's political crisis , news agencies reported from beirut .
if we can make progress on the palestinian front before adding syria to the mix , it would both avoid overloading israel 's negotiating capacity and increase the incentives for damascus to negotiate seriously .
but despite the retailer 's folksy arkansas image , few companies are as prickly -- or unforgiving -- about its employees ' wayward behavior , a legacy of its frugal founder , sam walton , who equated misconduct with inefficiency that would cost customers money .
until he had to have emergency surgery last year , fidel castro -- who turned 80 this year -- was considered a model of vibrant long life in cuba .
driven out of iraq by the war and political turmoil , western archaeologists who specialize in the first urban civilization that flourished in mesopotamia have had to shift their digging to the northern fringes of the tigris and euphrates river valleys , in syria and turkey .
at a september congressional hearing into the failure of a bp feeder line in the prudhoe bay area , both republican and democratic lawmakers held up alyeska 's maintenance program as an object lesson to bp , asking why , if pigs can be run through the 48-inch alaska pipeline every two weeks , bp had waited years to perform similar maintenance , allowing sludge and sediment to build up and hastening corrosion .
cleveland 's lebron james , anderson varejao , donyell marshall , daniel gibson and damon jones have produced a plus-28 rating , having scored 81 points as a group while allowing 53 .
but on tuesday , the suffolk county district attorney charged that some of the wildest behavior in ocean beach , fire island 's biggest village , might have come at the hands of the police department , which he called '' out of control . ''
the events on tuesday at the stormont parliament building -- once an emblem of protestant hegemony in northern ireland -- ended direct rule from london , which was reinstated in october 2002 , after the belfast authority was suspended in a dispute over allegations of espionage by the irish republican army .
in minnesota hockey circles , eveleth and the town of warroad near the canadian border have long been considered the cradles of hockey .
the whole benefit of berkshire hathaway was that warren buffett 's investment choices were n't driven by the kinds of crass manager-level incentives that seem to pervade the mutual fund business .
club -- in italy , parma , which is in 19th place in the 20-team serie a , hired claudio ranieri as coach .
prime minister stephen harper and the bill and melinda gates foundation pledged $ 119 million for an aids research center in canada to develop a safe aids vaccine within a decade .
completed merger volume in south asia , predominantly made up of india deals , more than doubled in 2006 from the year before , according to thomson financial .
nancy victoria lichterman , the daughter of marizon posas-lichterman of manhattan and the late monroe a. lichterman , was married on friday to gregory bret , the son of dominique lesaffre of le cap bénat , france , and jean-luc bret of paris .
it remains especially popular in italy , france , spain , hungary , poland , romania and russia , and it has lately been catching on in china and other parts of asia .
the options awards being scrutinized include a particularly profitable grant made to john lasseter , a director , screenwriter and the leader of the creative team at pixar .
others forms of resistance are reflected in objects that in ordinary times have no distinctiveness : a ritual slaughterer 's knife used at great risk to butcher kosher chickens in denmark so they could be smuggled into germany in the 1930s ; a blue-and-white wrestling sash from 1934 awarded to jewish contestants no longer permitted to compete with their fellow germans ; a girl 's 1938 report card from a school founded by jews in berlin after jewish children were banned from public schools .
in the years since , those properties have been conveyed to others , but their rightful owners and their descendants -- officially classified as '' absentees '' -- remain scattered beyond israel 's borders , living as refugees and in most cases not even allowed to visit jerusalem .
born in strasbourg , france , in 1971 , ms. shafak spent her teenage years in madrid before settling in turkey .
the benign figure looming over this new food consciousness is alice waters , the creator of chez panisse in berkeley , calif. , and the subject of thomas mcnamee 's illuminating '' alice waters and chez panisse . ''
and whenever i met someone from south africa who was of my mother 's generation , i asked not about nelson mandela or alan paton , but about `` wait a minim . ''
beyond the glitzy bars of central warsaw and their conspicuously successful clientele , however , huge swaths of poland 's capital city have been laid waste , and young people are largely noticeable by their absence .
but this time , the domestic scene would take place in goa , the sliver of a state on india 's western coast .
it was a leadoff bunt single in the first inning by josé reyes that seemed to discombobulate chuck james , atlanta 's starting pitcher , in what became a 7-2 mets victory .
one member of that clan , said hammami , was the p.l.o. ambassador to london in 1973 , when he published a pioneering article calling for a palestinian state in the west bank and gaza , alongside israel .
in an interview with kfox-tv in el paso , mr. bush was asked on thursday whether he would consider a pardon for the two former agents , ignacio ramos and jose alonso compean , who began serving their federal prison sentences of 11 years and 12 years respectively this week . ''
reed -- amy earl , 45 , of darien , connecticut .
tonight , over the even-faster 200-meter track at the reggie lewis center , he will run the mile in the boston indoor games against chris lukezic , gabe jennings and rob myers of the united states ; kevin sullivan and nate brannen of canada ; ivan heshko of ukraine ; and elkanah angwenyi of kenya . ''
gmr , an infrastructure and power operator , is building a more modern airport outside hyderabad , a central india city where traditional pearl trading businesses are complemented by software companies .
further , the author 's meditation on the sordid underbelly of classical-age paris would have benefited from a mention of michel foucault 's '' madness and civilization , '' which famously showed that by 1656 one in a hundred of the city 's inhabitants languished in mental asylums .
new york mayor michael bloomberg and more than 200 other mayors , including cory booker of newark , are waging a television ad campaign aimed at getting mr. frelinghuysen and rep. alan mollohan , a west virginia democrat and the subcommittee chairman , to support elimination of the provision .
this was at st. joseph 's college in rensselaer , ind. , right off interstate 65 where chicagoland meets indiana , the epicenter of this year 's regional super bowl .
tomorrow the high museum of art in atlanta will open '' decorative arts of the kings , '' a show of 53 french works of art from the louvre museum in paris .
correction : may 7 , 2007 , monday an article on april 21 about the removal of a mechanical ventilator from gov. jon s. corzine of new jersey eight days after he was seriously injured in a vehicular crash misstated the title of dr. ken rodriguez of beth israel deaconess medical center in boston , who discussed milestones for patients who have been removed from ventilators .
-lrb- seitz -rrb- ` the italian ' -lrb- pg-13 , 99 minutes , in russian -rrb- this dark fairy tale from russia pulls you into a richly atmospheric , persuasively inhabited world teeming with young foundlings and pathos , and upended by one remarkable little boy .
the jerusalem foundation in israel and the u.s. deeply mourns the passing of its founder , distinguished leader , and longtime mayor of jerusalem , teddy kollek .
` sesame street ' takes on a role in the middle east '' sesame street '' is returning to israel and the palestinian territories .
in 2004 , he rebuked mr. putin 's plans to eliminate direct elections for regional governors and individual members of parliament in the wake of the terrorist attack on the school in beslan , in southern russia , where more than 300 hostages died .
of retaliation protocol , pettitte recalled hitting boston 's kevin youkilis on friday night at fenway park in his last start .
the fashion for house calls is being driven in part by cesar millan , a k a the dog whisperer , whose weekly show by that name on the national geographic channel has inspired millions of viewers to consider that they , too , could hire someone to bring their pets to heel in their own homes .
but for the last 10 years , it has run a deficit as big-name acts skipped over new haven to play in connecticut 's casinos or other , newer venues .
she is employed by international projekt consult in frankfurt as a deputy project director in bishkek , kyrgyzstan for the european bank for reconstruction and development .
aimee , born in paris , and her parents fled france in 1942 , and made a new and happy life in the united states .
they talked tough about iran , with mr. obama calling iran '' a genuine threat '' to the united states and israel and forswearing '' a nuclear arms race in the middle east . ''
there had been growing diplomatic pressure on the bush administration to return mr. hicks to australia , where his case has drawn wide attention and where prime minister john howard , one of president bush 's most stalwart supporters , is facing a tough re-election fight .
canadian grocery struggles -- the loblaw companies , canada 's largest grocery chain and once one of north america 's most innovative retailers , is struggling with inventory problems and its first annual loss in 19 years .
in asia , we can keep contributing to society , '' said kazumitsu nakamura , 64 , a former engineer for hitachi who quit to go to taiwan , and was recently hired by a hitachi subsidiary to train taiwanese employees . ''
the captain of a cruise ship that slammed into a volcanic reef before sinking off the aegean island of santorini blamed strong sea currents for the accident , greece 's state-run television said sunday .
ann m. morrison next stop india correction : january 21 , 2007 , sunday an article on jan. 7 about kochi , india , referred incorrectly to flights on delta air lines between new york and kochi .
the twin threats facing russia 's polar bears -- the recent warming of the arctic climate and poaching -- have put vankarem and other villages along the coast of the country 's remote northeastern edge at the center of efforts to ensure the creatures ' survival .
and another boy , who was supposed to be flying to taipei , taiwan , via tokyo , ended up in his seat .
consider , for instance , the two northern california violinists : jenny scheinman -lrb- whose roots are there , though she now lives in brooklyn -rrb- and carla kihlstedt -lrb- who lives in oakland -rrb- .
a russia-iran gas alliance -- the russian president , vladimir v. putin , said that russia would consider opec-like cooperation with tehran on sales of natural gas .
speaking outside the stanford mansion in sacramento -- the site of the first presidential visit to california , by rutherford hayes , in 1880 -- mr. schwarzenegger , a republican , noted that presidential candidates had already come to the state to woo voters as the new primary date was being talked about . ''
his teammate andres nocioni barreled straight to the basket , and the chicago rookie thabo sefolosha did not merely defend miami 's dwyane wade , he gift-wrapped wade early .
they arrived about 20 minutes late for the news conference at the carolina inn , the chapel hill resort where the edwardses had their wedding reception 30 years ago , and which was also the site for parts of this week 's fund-raising retreat .
two years later she became a resident actor at the actors theater of louisville in kentucky , where her first role was in marsha norman 's first play , '' getting out . ''
the start of the program has been expected since a youtube founder , chad hurley , said at the world economic forum in january that the company would eventually share revenue with some of its most popular amateur content producers .
in israel , officials are mulling all alternatives -- from the saudi peace initiative to negotiating with hamas to opening talks with syria to reoccupying gaza to looking for a '' trustee '' for the west bank -- because no one is sure anymore what to do .
he made no reference to contradictory remarks this week by president jacques chirac of france about whether it would be acceptable for iran to have a nuclear program .
only 85 miles away , where the land flattens into the kind of pancake terrain more expected in kansas , is the busy city of wichita , which once served as a stopover for cowboys driving cattle along the chisholm trail from texas to northern kansas railheads .
palestinians have been calling for an extension of a gaza truce with israel to the west bank . ''
instead of the tarleton twins , the illinois senator is flirting with the dreamworks trio : mr. geffen , steven spielberg and jeffrey katzenberg , who gave him a party last night that raised $ 1.3 million and hillary 's hackles .
the rev. margaret duttera , a lutheran minister , officiated at the adamson house in malibu , calif. .
the idea of recreational shopping is not new , '' said juliet b. schor , a professor of sociology at boston college and author of '' born to buy : the commercialized child and the new consumer culture '' -lrb- scribner -rrb- . ''
her mother teaches online courses in sanskrit for potti sreeramulu telugu university in hyderabad , india .
jennifer chiu , a spokeswoman for david emerson , the international trade minister , said that canada did not have specific demands at this point .
westport is the only town in fairfield county that does not have sound barriers !
he became prefect of police in paris , one of the country 's top security posts , in 1958 , when divisions over how to deal with algeria 's war for independence threatened to bring on civil war in france .
george zoritch , in his youth an adonis the ballets russes alumnae still rhapsodize about , ended his career on the dance faculty at the university of arizona in tucson . ''
in thailand , north of bangkok , he came across an american priest named michael bassano who spends endless days with the most desperate of aids patients , massaging their feet , changing their diapers , helping them die .
9 p.m. -lrb- fox -rrb- america 's most wanted : america fights back -- in this '' sexual predator special edition , '' john walsh , the show 's host , zeroes in on child-abuse cases as law enforcement agents arrest sex offenders in broward county , florida .
to make matters worse , iran has taken british sailors and marines captive , making the middle east even more tense .
roughly one-third of corbis 's 1,100 employees are in downtown seattle , in an old bank building well suited to the company 's hip self-image .
corrales 's death came exactly two years after the first of his two memorable bouts in las vegas against josé luis castillo of mexico .
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , called it a '' responsible middle ground . ''
james dominic , of via travel design in philadelphia , which rents luxury vacation homes in italy , recalls spending pasquetta at the festa di focacette -- feast of the small focaccia -- in the tiny village of megli , south of genoa .
laboratory testing in california had detected melamine in urine from hogs at the american hog farm in ceres , calif. .
laure manaudou of france set a world record in the 200-meter freestyle .
in 1960 , she moved to chicago and , in 1976 , earned a degree in public health administration from chicago state university .
bertie ahern , who presided over ireland 's transformation into one of europe 's most successful and competitive economies during his 10 years as prime minister , appeared headed for a third term , according to preliminary results from parliamentary elections on thursday .
despite the property damage , no serious injuries were reported in the four-alarm staten island blaze , in the midland beach section of the island .
at the same time , stuttgart is in some ways playing catch-up with other auto-crazed cities in germany .
mr. jaynes , who earned a doctorate in botany from yale , worked for 25 years at the connecticut agricultural experiment station in new haven , specializing in chestnut trees and laurels .
helen fisher , an anthropologist at rutgers university , argues that three primary brain systems have evolved to direct reproductive behavior .
christopher j. christie , the united states attorney in newark , said 13 people were charged with running a gun and drug business from two newark housing projects .
white stripes after playing bonnaroo on june 24 , the white stripes -- whose new album , '' icky thump '' -lrb- warner brothers -rrb- , will be released june 19 -- go on a pretty thorough tour of canada -lrb- moncton , new brunswick ?
it is at this moment -- the end of the spanish pacto del olvido , the pact of forgetting -- that giles tremlett , the madrid correspondent for the guardian , opens his incisive and engaging book '' ghosts of spain . ''
and lisa henke , 32 , of seattle , said that it took a move from washington to the drenched air of washington state to make her skin problems go away . ''
republican senators chuck hagel of nebraska and olympia j. snowe of maine urged senate leaders late wednesday to cancel the recess so the iraq debate could proceed .
the other three -- haleh esfandiari , a scholar ; kian tajbakhsh , a social scientist ; and parnaz azima , a journalist -- have been charged with spying , which could carry the death sentence under iran 's law .
they have several churches in southern florida and a home in boca raton but were stopped at customs because brazilian authorities had issued an alert in their names for '' suspicion of money laundering and fraud related to brazilian organized crime , '' according to an affidavit filed by an agent of the united states bulk currency smuggling task force . ''
france to sign abu dhabi-louvre pact the french culture minister , renaud donnedieu de vabres , is to sign an agreement tomorrow to build a satellite of the louvre on saadiyat island , a tourist development off the coast of abu dhabi , capital of the united arab emirates , agence france-presse reported .
she was born on september 22 , 1925 in omaha , nebraska , the daughter of arthur and helen scribner .
in victory no. 18 , in last year 's north central regional semifinal , winona trailed by 16 points with 8 minutes 8 seconds left before rallying to beat minnesota state mankato in regulation , 74-71 .
in the early 1700s , this outpost was the home of the governor of the territory of louisiana , a link in an ambitious plan by french explorers based in canada to control southern north america .
last fall , senator barbara boxer of california issued a routine certificate of appreciation to the organization representative in sacramento , but she quickly revoked it when critics assailed her on the web under headlines like '' senators for terror . '' ''
attracting phone and text message votes from viewers across europe , ms. serifovic 's ballad , sung in serbo-croatian , beat out a gaudy drag show from ukraine and a russian girl band . ''
prime minister surayud chulanont of thailand on thursday rejected the advice of the general who put him in power , declining to declare a state of emergency in bangkok to clamp down on antigovernment protesters .
from mamaroneck and new rochelle in westchester county to bound brook and lodi in new jersey , the new york city region took stock and mopped up on tuesday from one of the rainiest april storms on record .
an accomplished 10,000-meter runner , grigoryeva overwhelmed her two closest challengers , including madaí pérez of mexico , as they ran three across only two miles before the finish . ''
cities like new york grow in their unbuilding : demolition tends to precede development , most urgently and particularly in lower manhattan , where new york city began .
arturo toscanini , who had fled mussolini 's italy , conducted the first concert in tel aviv on dec. 26 , 1936 , declining a fee and announcing , '' i am doing this for humanity . ''
but since israel withdrew from gaza in september 2005 , effectively severing the remaining links between the two territories , the west bank and gaza have grown even further apart .
although much of this retail kept moving westward into italy and beyond , venice skimmed off the cream to adorn its churches and merchant palaces .
jeffrey r. immelt , chief executive of general electric , said the new rules had eroded the relationship between auditors and boards .
whenever she had vacation time , she 'd fly somewhere , rent a car and simply drive around , indulging her love of american history everywhere from the shenandoah valley of virginia to sioux city , iowa .
b1 escapes f1-10 an eco-hideaway in mexico a texas-based developer is making the first large-scale attempt to build an environmentally sensitive , master-planned residential project in the inland region of the riviera maya in mexico , best known for beach resorts and the night life of cancún .
the announcement came after gunmen from a suspected drug gang killed four bodyguards for family members of gov. enrique peña nieto of mexico state vacationing in veracruz .
accompanying him and his father at the meeting were lawrence a. jacobs , the group general counsel of the news corporation , and david f. devoe , its longtime chief financial officer .
but these days such gatherings are an increasingly familiar sight , evidence of a gay migration that has traveled up the west side from the west village and then from chelsea .
a few days later , stricken with grief , clark competed in a district track meet for twin river valley high school in bode , iowa . ''
the researchers , led by dr. kenneth j. mukamal of beth israel deaconess medical center in boston , a harvard affiliate , matched the alcohol intake of more than 1,800 people with their cholesterol levels and the size of cholesterol particles .
to the surprise of some , the most articulate speaker at the council of fashion designers symposium was the model natalia vodianova , who talked about what food meant to her growing up poor in russia and what it meant once she became one of the world 's most sought after models , had a child and gained 15 pounds .
he cited the moderate government of alexander kerensky in russia after the fall of czar nicholas ii , which was soon swept aside by the radicals who imposed communist rule . ''
like much of florida , panama city beach has been hurt by the downturn in the real estate market .
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , called it '' unprecedented in the powers it would arrogate to the congress in a time of war . ''
since 1999 this artist , who divides his time between beirut and brooklyn , has been compiling an archive that blends fact and fabrication about the devastating cycles of violence in contemporary lebanon .
members of the art squad of the carabinieri paramilitary police said more than 50 artifacts , including columns and mosaics , had been excavated from the site , above , near crotone in southern calabria , to decorate a nearby hotel complex .
schoolchildren to dance with berlin philharmonic one hundred twenty new york city public-school children will dance with the berlin philharmonic when simon rattle , right , leads the orchestra in two performances of stravinsky 's '' rite of spring '' in the fall at the united palace theater at broadway and 175th street in washington heights , carnegie hall said yesterday .
the history baychester was largely marshland until a cucumber farm and pickle factory sprang up in the late 19th century , according to the encyclopedia of new york city .
kurt waldheim was born on dec. 21 , 1918 , in st. andrä - wördern , a village near vienna .
the week before the holiday , the grand palace in bangkok is host to a televised flower-strewn procession bearing a buddha relic into sanam luang park where the masses -lrb- 1.2 million visitors in 2005 -rrb- pay their respects .
but the judge , charles r. breyer of federal district court in san francisco , who is the younger brother of justice stephen g. breyer of the united states supreme court , rejected this request . ''
on msnbc , chris matthews was saying that '' it looks good '' for senator george allen , the incumbent in virginia , whose victory would have ensured a republican majority .
abbott competed for michigan , helped the united states win the 1988 olympic gold medal in seoul , south korea , and later pitched a no-hitter for the yankees .
a short staircase was carved from a marble quarry in pietrasanta , italy , where michelangelo got his marble .
and that silence harms america , middle east peace prospects and israel itself .
his burial , on the day before valentine 's day , was the final chapter of a love story that had taken the couple from fidel castro 's cuba to the heights of fame during a life in exile in the united states .
in the senate foreign relations committee hearing room , senator chuck hagel of nebraska , a republican who has been critical of the administration 's handling of the war , drew applause when he described the president 's proposals as a '' dangerous foreign policy blunder , '' and vowed to oppose them .
in lieu of flowers , remembrances may be made to the melvin b. & barbara k. nessel fund , massachusetts general hospital , 165 cambridge street , suite 600 , boston , ma 02114 , or a charity of one 's choice .
a search by the city of its files concerning cesar a. borja , the new york city police officer whose death from lung disease was held up as an example of the medical problems affecting thousands of ground zero workers and volunteers , found no record that he worked in lower manhattan until dec. 24 , 2001 , more than three months after the 9\/11 attack .
but the next day will bring the longed-for , dreaded future -- the specter of a new encounter with the outside world that will challenge the efforts of cuba 's current leaders to make certain that fidel castro 's revolution survives his death .
still , in the strategic game of energy-pipeline placements in europe and asia , where european nations and the united states are trying to increase oil exports while creating routes that loosen russia 's grip on the trade , a kind of slow-motion chess already spanning a decade , a russian hand on the new pipeline is seen as a mixed blessing for europe .
the report , citing a lawyer in the sacramento office , noted that ms. macdonald lobbied for a decision to combine three different populations of the california tiger salamander into one , thus excluding it from the endangered-species list , and making the decision legally vulnerable .
paul , it will remain in eveleth , in the heart of minnesota 's iron range , about midway between duluth and international falls .
the america 's cup has returned to the continent if not quite the time zone from whence it came , as can be confirmed by a long panoramic look at the huge amphitheater formed by the refurbished port in valencia , spain .
in suffolk county , fire island suffered the most damage , according to joe williams , commissioner of the county 's office of emergency management .
there is even talk of pushing israel to negotiate with mr. abbas to create a palestinian state in provisional borders in much of the west bank and east jerusalem , with gaza left for another time -- a way to use the road-map peace plan president bush endorsed .
roscoe lee browne was born on may 2 , 1925 , in woodbury , n.j. , the son of a baptist preacher .
he graduated summa cum laude from furman university in greenville , s.c. he is the son of carol varnadore aebersold and robert c. aebersold of marietta , ga. .
john served his country in kiel , germany , with the us army , who liberated him .
mel karmazin , the chief executive of sirius satellite radio , made a lot of phone calls seeking advice before he entered into a merger deal with xm satellite radio on monday .
his most recent book is '' murder in amsterdam : the death of theo van gogh and the limits of tolerance . ''
two other suspects , mohamad ibrahim shnewer , 22 , a palestinian born in amman , jordan , and serdar tatar , 23 , a turkish immigrant , were also charged with plotting the attack to kill soldiers on the army base in new jersey .
-lrb- merz and solitude of stuttgart , germany , printed 800 copies , which are being sold for $ 20 each at the angola3 .
timbaland , 35 , was born timothy mosley in norfolk , va. , and he spent about a decade as a d.j. and fledgling producer .
on the list is prime minister nguyen tan dung of vietnam , newest member of the club of rising world economies , as well as chad hurley , the head of youtube , the internet site that allows anyone to post a video on the web . ''
in late january , canada created another unflattering contrast with united states policy when it offered a formal apology and financial compensation to maher arar , a canadian citizen who was a victim of mr. bush 's decision to approve open-ended detentions , summary deportations and even torture after 9\/11 .
even the nearby scene of the battle of the boyne , where in 1690 william of orange defeated james ii to reassert english protestant rule over ireland , and which was visited recently by ian paisley and prime minister bertie ahern in a spirit of great joviality , joshing and gift-giving , is now likely to be relegated to the status of theme park .
parren j. mitchell , who as the first black elected to congress from maryland led the congressional black caucus and spearheaded programs to aid minority-owned business , an effort he viewed as the second phase of the civil rights movement , died on monday in baltimore .
ecuador 's new president , rafael correa , joins not only chávez but also evo morales of bolivia and daniel ortega in nicaragua .
executives of r.i.m. , based in waterloo , ontario , did not answer phone messages seeking comment on the iphone .
thailand is the cheapest market in asia , and we 're pretty fully invested there , '' he said .
the georg büchner prize , germany 's most prestigious literary award , will be given this year to martin mosebach , the german academy for language and literature said yesterday .
israel has long asserted that it fully respects palestinian private property in the west bank and takes land there only legally or , for security reasons , temporarily .
while i was visiting the philippines last winter , president gloria macapagal-arroyo had declared a state of emergency , warning that the government feared a coup attempt .
10 p.m. -lrb- history channel -rrb- the states crash course no. 3 : new york as it evolved from the dutch settlement of new amsterdam ; the origin of cajun culture in louisiana ; the oregon trail ; the life of billy the kid in new mexico ; and a taste of ben & jerry 's ice cream in vermont .
to jump-start arab-israeli peace , ms. rice would encourage prime minister ehud olmert of israel to start talks with the palestinian authority president , mahmoud abbas , leap-frogging interim details and squabbles , and instead trying to define the big '' final status '' issues of a palestinian state , which have bedeviled peace negotiators since the camp david accords of 1979 . ''
five hundred miles away , on the remote , spruce-spiked island of gravina in southeast alaska , construction is set to begin this summer on three and a half miles of roads that are intended to connect the island 's airport and its 50 residents to the other proposed bridge , a 200-foot-high arc over the tongass narrows to the city of ketchikan .
this difference is evident at the picket fence creamery , a grass-based cow dairy in woodward , iowa , about 30 miles northwest of des moines .
he drove across florida from his home in jensen beach to see the yankees ' doctors in tampa .
the organization recently began holding a weekly outreach workshop at island academy , the new york city alternative high school on rikers island , where it is now trying to encourage young inmates to take its van directly to its offices upon their release .
the census bureau defines the south as the 16 states that stretch from texas to florida , including maryland , kentucky and oklahoma .
he owns a sports marketing and merchandising company based in niagara falls , ontario , where the demand for sabres merchandise has been a boon to his business . ''
the recent fatal shootings of two auxiliary police officers and a restaurant worker in greenwich village hark back to a time when new york city 's streets were far more deadly .
for this man of great ego and architectural vision -- responsible for the second temple in jerusalem , the desert fortress of masada , as well as building up the port city of caesarea and other major projects -- this was the place he had chosen to be buried and memorialized .
in south florida , bookings are strong and most homeowners prefer weeklong rental periods , but in orlando , clearwater beach and tampa , owners are more likely to accept partial-week stays or even a long weekend , said kathy jones , the florida representative for weneedavacation.com , a rental web site with about 800 homes . ''
deutsch -- sonja , holocaust survivor from warsaw , poland .
yonkers was once known as the city of gracious living , and i would like for people to start feeling that way again , '' said mr. kelly , who lives with his wife , rica , in blauvelt , in rockland county . ''
this is an engaging biography of the poised , private woman from monroeville , ala. , who wrote '' to kill a mockingbird , '' won a pulitzer prize and helped truman capote research his nonfiction masterpiece , '' in cold blood . ''
the association of surfing professionals men 's and women 's world tour seasons began last week on australia 's gold coast , near brisbane , with the men 's quiksilver pro and the women 's roxy pro .
aleksei pushkov , who has a foreign policy news show on russian tv , said : '' nato expansion was a message to russia that you are on your own .
at a news conference yesterday in chapel hill , n.c. , john edwards described his wife 's cancer as '' no longer curable , '' but '' completely treatable '' and said the family was optimistic .
the same year , 1971 , alice waters founded chez panisse in berkeley , calif. , as '' a simple little place where we could cook and talk politics , '' sparking a fresh-and-seasonal-foods revolution in america .
at the same time , he expanded the bank into corporate finance and money management and began competing for public deposits , opening new branches in paris and elsewhere in france .
a scarce two-pound lobster at the union oyster house in boston is $ 47.95 , the manager , troy c. thissell , said , and a one-pounder at warren 's lobster house in kittery , me. , is $ 29.99 , said the owner , scott cunningham . ''
record -- 14-2 1st-round opponent -- bye seeding -- 2 team -- baltimore ravens -lrb- north champions -rrb- baltimore beat buffalo yesterday , using its fifth interception return for a touchdown to secure the second seeding and a first-round bye .
for example , representative jim mcdermott , a senior member of ways and means , is a quintessential liberal , but he is also from seattle , a city heavily dependent on trade .
if this were all one community , they would do it by an assessment , '' said michael j. graessle , who was port chester 's village manager from 1993 through 1997 and has worked in municipal government in westchester county for more than 36 years .
those seeking a lesson in how to shake people up for money may want to take a page from the playbook of hilary m. weston , who has led fund-raising efforts for the royal ontario museum in toronto .
senator craig thomas , a wyoming republican who combined a deep love of western rural life with a 23-year public career in his home state and washington , died monday evening in bethesda , md. .
mahmoud abbas , the palestinian president , and ehud olmert , israel 's prime minister , will meet next week , their offices said tuesday , in a continuation of a washington-sponsored dialogue that will inevitably focus on another round of israeli-palestinian warfare .
from 1999 to 2002 , during the hopeful presidency of the reform-minded mohammad khatami -lrb- a former head of iran 's national library -rrb- , iran seemed to be undergoing a literary revival .
carter rightly accuses menachem begin , then israel 's prime minister , of deception regarding the expansion of west bank settlements .
look , it 's just unreal , '' said federer , a swiss , who will face tommy haas of germany or fernando gonzález of chile in sunday 's final . ''
headquarters for these organizations might be , respectively , in colorado springs , brasília , johannesburg , beijing , new delhi and amman , jordan .
david geffen , jeffrey katzenberg and steven spielberg of dreamworks are the hosts -- with a private dinner afterward at mr. geffen 's for those who sold 20 tickets or more .
when laila ali , a boxing champion and a daughter of muhammad ali , was finally voted off '' dancing '' on tuesday , she covered her face with both hands , pretending to cry .
pitino knows how vitriolic wildcats fans can be : he dreads bringing louisville to this building , where he was 107-7 with kentucky . ''
earlier , in jerusalem , he spoke at the state funeral for the city 's fabled former mayor , teddy kollek , who died tuesday at 95 and was buried in the area of the mount herzl cemetery reserved for israel 's leaders .
in the senate , champions of coal-to-liquid fuels include barack obama , the illinois democrat , jim bunning of kentucky and larry craig of wyoming , both republicans .
the president and vice president dick cheney also quote mr. lieberman in arguing the white house 's view on the troop increase , and the senate republican leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , repeatedly notes how happy the minority is to have mr. lieberman 's backing . ''
philip rylands , director of the peggy guggenheim collection in venice , said that the terms of the competition had been altered during the process , '' so the vision for the punta della dogana changed from a dynamic center of contemporary art to a static museum of modern art . ''
but officials at queen alia international airport in amman , jordan , said that all other flights were taking off and landing as scheduled .
two democratic senators , ben nelson of nebraska and mark pryor of arkansas , crossed party lines to oppose the withdrawal plan .
amazingly they show that not one of the cabinet ministers ever asked why it was in the interest of israel to control the arab parts of jerusalem .
that plan called for israel to give up 95 percent of the west bank , gaza and arab east jerusalem ; for palestinian refugees to be able to return to palestinian areas but not to israel ; for the most populated jewish settlements around tel aviv and jerusalem to remain in place and the others to be removed ; and for palestinians to be compensated for those settlements with land swaps and other arrangements from israel .
he also won a fulbright fellowship for study in italy , where he worked with luciano berio , luigi dallapiccola and franco donatoni .
last month , israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , met with mr. abbas and offered a number of concessions aimed at strengthening him .
speaking in brussels , mr. blair said that the northern ireland elections were an '' achievement '' and that he looked forward to transferring powers from london to the self-rule government in belfast '' in a few weeks . ''
one by loring brinckerhoff , director of disability policy at the educational testing service , highlights colleges with good comprehensive programs , including the university of arizona in tucson , curry college in massachusetts , stanford and the university of north carolina , chapel hill .
as an artist whose work grew directly out of the near-religious devotion to process that arose in the 1960s , he said he still considered every step associated with his sculptures -- from the models to the molten steel poured in a foundry in siegen , germany , to the long , complicated heavy-lifting finale -- to be part of his art .
mr. coleman said he saw the warner approach as less partisan than the plan offered by mr. biden and allies who included senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska . ''
to give an extra buzz to la villette , then , it was considered vital for the philharmonie to stand out as an architectural monument , one not only visible from the city 's busy ring road , but also as commanding in appearance as , say , i. m. pei 's glass pyramid at the louvre or the grande arche de la défense , to the west of paris .
senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , mentioned the possibility of running on an independent presidential ticket with mayor michael r. bloomberg of new york last week .
after attending columbia university , he joined a carnival -lrb- where he was billed as the '' persian lion '' -rrb- to earn money for medical school , graduated from syracuse university medical school at 54 , and married the author 's grandmother helen , a young nurse , who had grown up in a strict christian home in a small town , weiser , idaho .
poland 's current primate and archbishop of warsaw , cardinal jozef glemp , told an italian news agency last year that the overall percentage was 15 percent .
but a decade and a half after thailand began a battle for better air quality , this erstwhile icon of smog has emerged as a role model for pollution-choked capitals in asia , with considerably cleaner air than beijing , jakarta , new delhi and shanghai .
after a 69 , woods was alone in second place , one stroke ahead of justin rose of england , stephen ames of canada and bubba watson , the long-hitting floridian .
the headquarters of the federal environment agency in dessau , germany , occupies a low-slung building on the edge of an abandoned gasworks .
julie christianne thoma was born feb. 25 , 1958 , in le mars , iowa , one of eight children .
the general who led the coup in thailand last september on wednesday asked his appointed prime minister to impose a state of emergency in bangkok as public opposition to the government grew louder .
there is a lot of pressure on people who could be with us not to be with us , '' said senator susan collins , republican of maine , the co-author of one resolution along with senators john w. warner , republican of virginia , and ben nelson , democrat of nebraska .
she is also survived by her grandchildren andrea gross of tenafly , nj ; janice kaplan of west harrison , ny , harvey braverman of seattle , washington ; mollie and michael braverman of philadelphia , pa ; and her great grandchildren corey gross , drew gross , and jordan gross ; and carly kaplan , alex kaplan , and jillian kaplan .
a principal republican backer of the resolution , senator chuck hagel of nebraska , said on the same program that it was important for the senate to make a clear stand against the troop building , which he said would produce only more turmoil .
while the muralists diego rivera , david alfaro siqueiros and josé clemente orozco were celebrated for creating a politically engaged art form native to mexico , tamayo was criticized for borrowing too much from european masters like picasso and matisse .
at the forefront of the acquirers is alessandro profumo , chief executive of unicredit , italy 's largest bank , which last week agreed to buy a rival , capitalia , for 21.8 billion euros -lrb- $ 29 billion -rrb- .
the mohonk mountain house -lrb- 1000 mountain rest road , new paltz ; 800-772-6646 ; www.mohonk.com -rrb- has rooms starting at $ 445 a night , double occupancy , and includes three meals and most recreational activities -lrb- and its own array of hiking trails -rrb- .
as the rancor grew , the office of lt. gov. david dewhurst , a republican , released an open letter insulting the dean of the senate , john whitmire , a houston democrat -lrb- and a hunting buddy of mr. dewhurst . -rrb-
in another development , mr. abbas is traveling to syria , where he will hold talks with president bashar al-assad .
king abdullah ii of jordan met thursday in amman with dalia itzik , israel 's acting president and leader of parliament , urging israel to adopt the saudi plan as the '' foundation for negotiations . '' ''
he was 24th in the 15-kilometer freestyle , 2 minutes 33 seconds behind the winner , lars berger of norway .
the national ballet of canada eventually made its debut on nov. 12 , 1951 , at eaton 's auditorium in toronto .
a lot of people think climate change and the ecological repercussions are 50 years away , '' said thomas w. swetnam , director of the laboratory of tree-ring research at the university of arizona in tucson . ''
he is now finishing a documentary about winnipeg , the final installment of a personal trilogy that began with '' cowards bend the knee '' -lrb- a 2003 film that also featured a hapless hero named guy maddin -rrb- .
no wonder : he grew up in guadalajara , mexico , a notorious epicenter of drug-related conflict .
in damascus , syria , where the united nations began registering displaced iraqis this month , more than 5,000 people lined up this week to apply for refugee status , officials said .
born in warsaw to a musical jewish family , he endured the murders of his parents and sister by the nazis in poland after he fled east to minsk and later tashkent , in what was then russia .
ability beyond disability has offices in bethel and mount kisco , n.y. , and serves 700 to 1,000 people with disabilities like traumatic brain injuries , down syndrome and autism , in fairfield , hartford and litchfield counties in connecticut and in westchester , putnam and dutchess counties in new york .
they said they were a means to keep mr. khodorkovsky and mr. lebedev in prison beyond russia 's presidential election in early 2008 and throughout the remainder of the liquidation of yukos , their former oil giant , which is in russian receivership .
many republicans and law enforcement officials in washington say they are puzzled about the dismissal of mr. mckay , whose brother is a former united states attorney in seattle who was the state vice chairman of mr. bush 's 2004 campaign .
on a recent saturday , dave hardy , director of field programs for the green mountain club , led a group of a dozen snowshoers on a two-hour trek up willey hill , a modest , thickly wooded summit about 10 miles from stowe in central vermont .
ryan callahan , a rookie from rochester , has emerged as an inspirational player for the rangers this postseason .
in getting israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , to agree to such talks with the palestinian president , mahmoud abbas , ms. rice got more than some expected but less than she had hoped .
in 1999 , baltimore played a home-and-home series with cuba after the orioles ' owner , peter angelos , worked with the clinton administration to make the delicate arrangements happen .
sidney tillim : part ii imprinted abstractions , '' maurice n. flecker gallery , southampton building , ammerman campus , suffolk county community college , 533 college road , selden , through feb. 23 .
wood -- jack , 82 , pioneering television director and award-winning writer formerly of new york city , died february 18 , 2007 of heart failure at home in long beach , california .
an article on sunday about an antigovernment protest in russia referred incorrectly to garry kasparov , a former world chess champion , who is also a member of russia 's liberal political opposition and who spoke to the crowd .
chrysler is the most important customer of magna , which is based north of toronto in aurora , ontario .
is this really florida , where partisan division so vividly defined the presidential recount in 2000 , the terri schiavo case in 2005 and mr. bush 's efforts to end racial preferences in state college admissions ?
they twice registered as domestic partners in california , organized an elaborate commitment ceremony , and then married , ecstatically , under the watch of mayor gavin newsom of san francisco .
if brandan wright , a 6-foot-9 freshman from nashville , had been a senior in high school a year earlier , he most likely would have entered the n.b.a. draft .
russell w. kruse , whose sonorous voice auctioned off everything from funeral parlors to castles , but who achieved fame for thinking up and building the business of auctioning classic cars , including ones owned by the pope and al capone , died friday , in fort wayne , ind. .
she had just given up an overlapping career as a promising alpine racer at the same idaho mountains where the olympic medalists picabo street and christin cooper had been groomed .
people are very vulgar and like to ` get their jollies ' from harassing people , mainly girls , to take off their clothes , '' said chelsey , a 17-year-old user from saskatchewan in canada , who signed up after her 13-year-old sister violated the site 's age rules and joined the service . ''
meanwhile there was talk that in its independence war of 1948 israel should have taken the historic , biblical parts of the land of israel : old jerusalem , hebron , jericho , gaza .
mara yamauchi of britain leaned past benita johnson of australia to grab third place in 32:21 , providing the only real drama of the race .
mr. yanukovich , who , in general , represents russian speakers in ukraine and favors closer business and political ties with russia , leads a party that is likely to win a plurality in any new election , as it did in the vote last year .
lebanon revokes journalist 's visa -lrb- by the new york times -rrb- beirut , march 29 -- lebanon has revoked the visa it had granted an israeli journalist traveling with mr. ban on his current middle east tour , and she was unable to accompany the united nations party to beirut on thursday night .
on a rainy friday night in november 1991 , in a small farming town on the eastern edge of louisiana , peyton manning had his first brush with the big one .
lebron james , who banged his right knee when he tumbled into the cleveland bench in the final minute of game 5 , has been cleared to play .
but the talks will deal only with day-to-day concerns such as movement by palestinians and arms smuggling and not the big issues that have long bedeviled peace negotiations -- the status of jerusalem , the borders of an eventual palestinian state and whether palestinian refugees would have a right to return to israel .
its chairman , john w. snow , the former treasury secretary , spent many years running the csx corporation , the big railroad company .
the painting is on view at the grand palais in paris as part of the exhibition '' citizens and kings : portraits in the age of revolution , 1760-1830 , '' which moves to the royal academy in london in february and then to an american institution yet to be determined . ''
on sunday , the newly appointed archbishop of warsaw , stanislaw wielgus , abruptly resigned at a mass meant to celebrate his new position only days after admitting that he had worked with the communist-era secret police in poland .
this year , he succeeded arthur d. collins jr. , chairman and chief executive of medtronic , as chairman of advamed , the world 's largest medical technology association .
israel took two such risks -- withdrawing unilaterally from southern lebanon in 2000 , and from the gaza strip in 2005 -- yet was rewarded by continued missile attacks from gaza , terror strikes from the west bank , and the cross-border kidnapping of its soldiers into lebanon , the incident that precipitated last summer 's war .
her family survives her in mankato , minnesota .
america still has diplomatic relations with syria , including a chargé d'affaires at the american embassy in damascus .
prime minister levi eshkol of israel , too , is presented as a tragic figure .
to the editor : re '' bullying iran '' -lrb- editorial , feb. 1 -rrb- : having ignored the iraq study group , president bush seems intent upon betting america 's chips on a military solution in the middle east instead of one that offers more robust and effective diplomatic , economic and humanitarian efforts .
india 's outdated airports are staggering under the crush of passengers and flights , let alone giant planes , and the arrival recently in delhi of an airbus 380 required that the grassy edges of the runway be mowed and picked clean of rocks .
the changes apply to burger king suppliers in north america and canada , where the chain purchases more than 40 million pounds of eggs a year and 35 million pounds of pork , he said .
ocean view is near bethany beach on the delaware coast .
the two other semifinalists will be determined tonight when pachuca of mexico , leading after the first leg , 2-0 , plays deportivo marquense in guatemala , and w. connection of trinidad and tobago , leading by 2-1 , plays cd guadalajara in mexico city .
when wade 's 3-point attempt to tie the score in the final 12 seconds fell short , chicago had held off a spirited miami charge and claimed a 96-91 victory at the united center .
an israeli man died from a qassam rocket launched from gaza on sunday , and prime minister ehud olmert vowed to continue israel 's military assault on hamas as an effort to stop the rocket fire , warning that '' no one involved in terror is immune . ''
mr. zarqawi , who was jordanian , is believed to have been behind a failed rocket attack on two united states navy ships anchored off the coast of jordan in 2005 and , later that year , suicide bombings at three hotels in amman that killed 60 people .
10 p.m. -lrb- travel -rrb- 1,000 places to see before you die -- no , it 's not '' the apprentice , '' but tonight the ulles will be swimming with the sharks -- as well as riding elephants and discovering cape town -- as they explore south africa .
with strong family ties in annapolis and the surrounding area -- they raised their family of nine children in nearby dunkirk -- they had wanted a home base in maryland . ''
in israel , there were recriminations over a failed army arrest raid in the center of the west bank city of ramallah on thursday , hours before prime minister ehud olmert was to meet president hosni mubarak of egypt .
a memorial service will be held in annapolis , maryland , on a date to be announced .
dear diary : scene : direct flight from cancún , mexico , to newark .
critics of general halutz and of the israeli government of prime minister ehud olmert have said the military relied too heavily on air power and delayed too long sending in ground troops in the numbers needed to push back the hezbollah fighters and supporters who were firing katyusha rockets into israel .
in kano , a once vibrant manufacturing center , the contradictions of nigeria 's eight-year-old experiment with elected government are vividly on display .
the vagaries of racing keep you from knowing for sure , though dr. john gleddie , a chiropractor in st. catharines , ontario , offers a plausible theory : fatigue .
baltimore , dallas , phoenix , charlotte , n.c. , and fairfax county in virginia have cold-case squads that look into unsolved sexual assaults and abductions from years past , and in montgomery county in maryland , cold-case investigators focus on a variety of violent crimes besides murder , including armed robbery .
` kaffir boy ' banned -lrb- again -rrb- the award-winning '' kaffir boy , '' mark mathabane 's 1986 memoir about growing up poor and black during apartheid in south africa , has been banned from an intermediate school in burlingame , calif. , after a parent complained about two paragraphs describing men paying hungry boys for sex , the associated press reported .
brett keller , chief marketing officer at priceline.com , said mr. shatner was chosen in 1997 because it was the dawn of the online era and the actor , best known for his '' star trek '' role as captain james t. kirk , '' stood for the future , and we were a futuristic brand . ''
the suspect , the russian businessman andrei k. lugovoi , also contended that british intelligence officers had tried to recruit him to collect compromising material about president vladimir v. putin of russia . ''
iran has said that it plans to install 3,000 of the machines at natanz soon .
the muqata , the ramallah compound that is the west bank headquarters of the palestinian president , mahmoud abbas , is among the palestinian authority structures where israel says militants hide .
for all-out elegance and a blend of antebellum and neo-classical architecture , there is chapel hill 's historic carolina inn -lrb- 211 pittsboro street ; www.carolinainn.com ; 800-962-8519 ; from $ 159 a night -rrb- .
the canadian band is into eternity , an unpredictable group from regina , saskatchewan , that jumps from warp-speed riffs to off-tempo breaks to old-fashioned howling refrains , which should inspire plenty of singing along on monday .
collins and lapierre portrayed arabs sympathetically , but jerusalem lent itself to a pro-israeli narrative : the city symbolized jews ' ancient connection to the country ; the siege of jewish jerusalem stood for israel 's success against arab force ; and ethnic cleansing swept jews as well as arabs from their homes .
representatives of the association tell of many technology success stories , like that of xavier niel , 39 , a entrepreneur based in paris who in 2002 started free , now the no. 2 internet access engine in france , after orange , the france telecom unit .
a political memo article on thursday about the challenges rudolph w. giuliani faces in running for president as a former new york city mayor referred incorrectly to the presidency of theodore roosevelt , also a new york city mayor .
marie , mich. , would be indistinguishable from sioux city , iowa , save for the locks that allow three-story-tall floating warehouses to trundle eerily along the edge of downtown .
sharon stone , for one , divorced from the san francisco newspaper editor phil bronstein and living back in los angeles , has told close friends that she wants to find a partner outside of entertainment .
at l'espace an exhibit called '' surfaces '' was on display , which showed small bits of dirt from historic places in vietnam like my lai , the site of a massacre of civilians by american troops in 1968 .
new york city bam rhythm and blues festival metrotech commons , flatbush and myrtle avenues , brooklyn , june 7-aug .
israel , citing security reasons , has largely isolated gaza , strictly controlling the traffic of people and goods among israel , gaza and the west bank -- a policy which palestinians say has led to further impoverishment .
after falling in love at the École nationale d'administration , france 's elite breeding ground for civil servants , ms. royal and mr. hollande began in politics working on françois mitterrand 's successful run for the presidency in 1981 .
he was best known nationally for his pivotal role in the revival of downtown baltimore , which transformed a moribund port city into a model of urban renaissance through projects like charles center and the redevelopment of the inner harbor .
ryszard kapuscinski , a globe-trotting journalist from poland whose writing , often tinged with magical realism , brought him critical acclaim and a wide international readership , died yesterday in warsaw .
while eminent indian economists like jagdish bhagwati , a proponent of unfettered free trade , were arguing against regional trade alliances in the mid-1990s , india and other south asia countries were pushing for them , in part because mr. summers supported the alliances , said saman kelegama , the executive director of the institute of policy studies of sri lanka and co-editor of the south asia economic journal . ''
next up for the documentary series , tomorrow at 7 p.m. , will be '' 51 birch street , '' the much-admired memoir by doug block , who will be on hand to talk about the port washington house where he grew up and the family within it .
we are now five months into 2007 and , needless to say , it 's been a very challenging year , '' jeffrey a. citron , vonage 's chairman and interim chief executive , said in a conference call with analysts . ''
mr. erdman is survived by his wife , the former helly boeglin , whom he married in 1954 ; two daughters , jennifer erdman of healdsburg and constance erdman narea of greenwich , conn. ; a brother , donald , of waterloo , ontario ; a sister , lois erdman kress of south bend , ind. , and fort myers , fla. ; and two grandchildren .
ms. te kanawa , below , was sued in new south wales supreme court in australia for as much as $ 1.5 million after she canceled appearances with the 57-year-old australian pop star john farnham -lrb- known as the voice -rrb- upon discovering that his performances prompted women to toss their underwear at him . ''
mahmoud abbas , the palestinian president , and prime minister ehud olmert of israel held their second meeting in a month on sunday night , but aides said afterward that there was little concrete progress to report .
page a14 no cap to ferry crash claims a federal judge rejected new york city 's attempt to use an obscure 19th-century law to cap at $ 14 million its liability in the 2003 crash of a staten island ferry .
fidel castro , 80 , has experienced serious health problems in recent years , and his brother raúl is cuba 's interim president , a situation that has prompted speculation about the country 's future .
in 1977 , the envoys of prime minister menachem begin of israel and president anwar sadat of egypt quietly met and laid the groundwork for sadat 's historic visit to jerusalem and for the advent of the egyptian-israeli peace process .
most are casual restaurants called daily grill , but the grill on the alley is where hollywood power brokers like ron meyer , the head of universal studios , and david geffen , a co-founder of dreamworks , do lunch .
-lrb- scott -rrb- ` the namesake ' -lrb- pg-13 , 122 minutes -rrb- color is the stuff of life in the movies of mira nair , the indian-born director whose newest film , adapted from jhumpa lahiri 's popular novel , follows two generations of a bengali family from late-1970s calcutta to new york city .
there are many more in alaska , including the 20,320-foot denali , also known as mount mckinley , the highest peak in north america .
and maria alves , 39 , a dental assistant from the dorchester area of boston , who has two children , ages 9 and 14 , and a husband on disability . ''
during a recent conversation with mr. sinise , i kept thinking of the many wounded soldiers and marines i 've interviewed since the war in iraq began -- courageous individuals like sgt. eugene simpson jr. , a former athlete from dale city , va. , who was paralyzed when his spinal cord was severed in a roadside bombing ; and sgt. tyler hall , a baby-faced 23-year-old tough guy from wasilla , alaska , who made wisecracks about the bomb attack that shattered part of his face , broke his arm and three bones in his back , and caused him to lose his left leg below the knee . ''
judge sharon douglas of the pima county superior court in tucson is to officiate at the arizona inn .
it starts in chicago and ends in new york , and includes wrigley field , fenway park and yankee stadium .
services by hardage-giddens funeral home 1701 beach blvd jacksonville beach , florida .
the waiver is just one of the elements that seem to ensure that the case of united states of america v. conrad m. black et al. , which begins on wednesday in federal court in chicago , is going to be unusual .
but senator ben nelson , a nebraska democrat , said he would be reluctant to support it unless it attracted enough bipartisan support to offset criticism that it was shortchanging american troops .
dr. dovey is a postdoctoral research fellow at the center for cancer research at the massachusetts institute of technology in cambridge , where she studies the role of stem cells in lung cancer .
a quote from mr. blatter , who was once considered a defender of bolivia 's exceptionalism , is still engraved on a wall outside hernando siles stadium in la paz .
spencer 's mercantile -lrb- 905-525-6303 or mrsmcleans.com -rrb- , a company in hamilton , ontario , canada , sells handcrafted replicas of historic drums .
josh smith had 20 points and 11 rebounds , but he also committed 9 of atlanta 's 21 turnovers .
the company , karstadtquelle , will pay 88 million euros -lrb- $ 117 million -rrb- , to the conference on jewish material claims against germany , a new york-based group that filed suit on behalf of the wertheim family , which founded the elegant berlin emporium that still bears its name .
four days of festivities began on feb. 7 with a cocktail party at the nor-khill , a hotel in gangtok , india .
evo morales has put bolivia on the map , '' she said . ''
in a november interview , marissa mayer , google 's vice president for search and user experience , said : '' natural language is really hard .
but even if alexandria is able to hold down rents to recruit early-stage companies , there is no guarantee that the life sciences will flourish in new york city , said sheridan snyder , entrepreneur in residence at rockefeller university .
as south korean and american negotiators huddle in seoul for trade talks this week , corporate south korea is grappling with a troubling question : how can the country avoid being crushed by competition from low-cost china and high-tech japan ?
when mexico gets its own version of myspace later this spring -- myspace méxico -- the internationalism and stylistic diversity of the mexico city scene are bound to push artists even further from the more locally skewed alt-rock blueprints of the recent past .
iran said last year that it planned to install 3,000 centrifuges by this spring at natanz , as a first step toward putting more than 50,000 of the devices in operation to produce nuclear fuel .
his resignation came in the wake of a rape allegation against israel 's president , moshe katsav , as well accusations of corruption against prime minister ehud olmert and the suspension of his office director , whose house arrest is part of a widening investigation into the tax authority -- whose chief also just resigned under a cloud .
-lrb- dunning -rrb- jean-pierre frohlich and ` the dybbuk ' -lrb- monday -rrb- mr. frohlich , a ballet master specializing in the jerome robbins repertory at the new york city ballet , will speak about robbins 's '' dybbuk '' and its score by leonard bernstein in a lecture-performance .
i recall , several years ago , hearing pierre boulez calmly say : '' english composers are what we call in france the second knives .
the bridegroom , 32 , is a therapeutic endoscopy fellow at brigham and women 's hospital and at massachusetts general hospital , both in boston .
at a separate confirmation hearing on tuesday , the admiral picked to lead american forces in the middle east said iran was increasing its military capabilities and seeking to curb american influence . ''
calisto tanzi , parmalat 's founder and former chairman , and more than a dozen other former employees and advisers were jailed in the weeks after the collapse .
barry w. lynn , executive director of americans united for separation of church and state , a nonprofit group , criticized mr. bush as promoting an overtly christian tale in the public school system . ''
facing a potential drift of black support , the clinton campaign has recently taken several steps : dispatching former president bill clinton to speak before black and hispanic lawmakers in albany earlier this year , and then to address the rev. al sharpton 's group , the national action network , in new york last week ; using bill lynch , who was a top political adviser to former mayor david n. dinkins , to corral black support in new york city ; and enlisting heavyweights from the black political establishment like representative charles b. rangel , democrat of new york , to help mrs. clinton court black leaders .
yet two of the most popular parks remain two of the most historic : yankee stadium in the bronx and fenway park in boston .
the official , jendayi frazer , assistant secretary of state for african affairs , spent five hours in baidoa , somalia , meeting with top officials of the somali transitional government , which has been struggling to gain control of the country .
but it is portrayed by its contenders as much more -- a final verdict on prime minister tony blair 's decade in office , a prologue to mr. brown 's expected ascendancy to the premiership and the beginnings of moves to prise scotland away from the 300-year-old union with the united kingdom . ''
albert isaac bezzerides was born aug. 8 , 1908 , in samsun , turkey , then part of the ottoman empire .
in a separate development on wednesday , the israeli police arrested sheik raed salah , leader of the islamic movement in israel , on suspicion of provocative behavior at a rally in east jerusalem .
he was selected for a picture of the aftermath of the israeli bombing in lebanon , showing a group of lebanese driving through a devastated beirut neighborhood .
reporters on saturday passed the natanz enrichment facility but were not permitted to tour the site , where iran recently said it was installing 3,000 centrifuges .
lebanon has been divided by a seven-month sit-in in downtown beirut that has pressed mr. siniora to resign and paralyzed the government .
mother of raymond , of westport , connecticut , and kenneth , of islip , ny and grandmother of barry , benjamin , gordon and robert .
racetracks in northern and southern california also reported positive tests , and two horses that had contracted the virus died in january at los alamitos race course in california .
sixteen months ago , in the basement of a private home in the dorchester neighborhood of boston , four aspiring rappers , aged 19 to 22 , were summarily executed in a barrage of semiautomatic gunfire .
chilies came to india through goa , after the portuguese ferried them from the americas , and forever changed indian food .
rudolf arnheim , a distinguished psychologist , philosopher and critic whose work explored the cognitive basis of art -- how we interpret it and , by extension , the world -- died on saturday at his home in ann arbor , mich. .
the council , based in strasbourg , france , was set up to promote democracy and the rule of law , and it runs the european court of human rights , the paramount rights tribunal for the region .
on may 10 the annual royal plowing ceremony will be performed on the sanam luang parade ground near the royal palace in bangkok .
second and third place went to fritz strobl of austria (1:14.62) and bruno kernen of switzerland (1:14.92) , a pair of 34-year-olds , each the last to qualify for his nation 's four-man race quota .
the radio reporting polk went to '' early signs : reports from a warming planet , '' a seven-month project in which 11 journalism students covered what they called the human miseries and ecological perils of global warming in diverse locales , including the slopes of mount kilimanjaro in tanzania and the outskirts of auckland , new zealand .
kissinger 's efforts to make peace in the middle east after the 1973 arab-israeli war similarly laid the groundwork for a later breakthrough , in this case the landmark 1978 accord between egypt and israel .
an advantage mr. immelt has is that he does indeed expect to stay in the job for 20 years ; that 's just the way it 's done at g.e. jack welch used to say that it takes a c.e.o. five years to learn the job , and general electric is the rare company that wants its chief executives to be around for decades in order to leave their mark .
so warsaw sees moscow-berlin plots of sinister memory when russia and germany agree to build a gas pipeline directly between each other , under the baltic sea rather than over poland .
born in calgary , canada and raised in portland , oregon , jean died peacefully at home june 6 , 2007 .
today , those most opposed to israel 's withdrawal from the west bank are not the secular labor party leaders that carter worried about .
for more than three years , the grinding , often exasperating negotiations over north korea 's nuclear weapons program have been about taking the bomb away from kim jong-il .
her mother is an associate vice president of the morehouse school of medicine in atlanta , where she works on fund-raising ; she is also on the board of education for the public schools of gwinnett county , ga. .
but his message seemed aimed at wooing france 's right-wing voters , perhaps even more than those in the center or on the left who could potentially support his main rival , the socialist candidate ségolène royal . ''
tony blair of britain and jacques chirac of france are in the waning months of their lengthy tenures . ''
it 's so hypocritical for any network in this culture to go all puritanical on the subject of condom use when their programming is so salacious , '' said mark crispin miller , a media critic who teaches at new york university . ''
another of mr. tremlett 's heroes is gotzone mora , a university lecturer in bilbao who has spoken out fearlessly against eta , the violent basque separatist organization .
on the 500th anniversary of spain 's expulsion of jews , king juan carlos went to a synagogue in madrid and said , in essence , mistakes were made , welcome back .
and he has started a biennial ted global conference that will be held in june at the base of mount kilimanjaro in tanzania .
when there are openings popping like this , you never know what to expect , '' said hamilton , whose men 's basketball coach , bruce pearl , was a candidate for the opening at iowa , which hired butler coach todd lickliter on tuesday . ''
menu was founded in 1971 when donald b. green , the company 's former chairman , bought a pet food plant in the toronto suburb of mississauga , ontario , from quaker oats .
mr. kollek will be buried thursday in a state funeral in a section of mount herzl cemetery here reserved for israel 's leaders .
in 1960 , he prepared a map of mount mckinley in alaska , also known as denali , at 20,320 feet the highest peak in north america .
administration officials now describe iran as the single greatest threat the united states faces in the middle east , though some administration critics regard the talk about iran as a diversion , one intended to shift attention away from the spiraling chaos in iraq .
a sketchy portrait of one of the hijackers pales next to the carefully observed portraits that appeared in the los angeles times reporter terry mcdermott 's 2005 book , '' perfect soldiers . ''
because chicago has such a big sports community , he added , its parade has been led by quite a few athletes over the years , including david kopay , who was a national football league running back ; the former major league outfielder billy bean ; and the olympic diver greg louganis .
ernst haefliger , a swiss tenor who was most renowned as an interpreter of german art song and oratorio roles , died on saturday in davos , switzerland , where he maintained a second home .
mr. anderson , a native new yorker , began his career as a curator of greek and roman antiquities at the metropolitan museum of art before stints as director of the michael c. carlos museum in atlanta and the art gallery of ontario in toronto .
search '' is becoming an increasingly capital-intensive business , '' said marissa mayer , google 's vice president for search .
for shanghai 's would-be title holder , the delay resulted in the building being surpassed even before it could be built , with the additional indignity that the new champion , taipei 101 , a 1,671-foot structure , is in the capital of taiwan , the diplomatic rival that china considers a renegade province .
intercontinental paris le grand hotel , 2 rue scribe ; paris , france ; 331-4007-3232 ; www.paris-le-grand.intercontinental.com .
the plan for the tribes and the government to jointly run the national bison range in western montana , just north of missoula , had long been viewed as unworkable by the united states fish and wildlife service , the department of interior branch that manages wildlife refuges .
a political memo article on thursday , about the challenges rudolph w. giuliani faces in running for president as a former new york city mayor , referred incorrectly to the timing of the two-term presidency of another new yorker , theodore roosevelt .
the nbc news anchor brian williams arrived in baghdad yesterday , the first network news anchor to travel to baghdad since bob woodruff , who was then the co-anchor of abc news , was severely injured by a roadside bomb in january 2006 .
viswanathan anand of india , poised to become the world 's top-ranked player and generally acknowledged as the best rapid player , has won or tied for first six times .
but by thursday evening , mr. reid and senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , had resolved the impasse .
it 's like an austrian empire '' in parts of istria , said brian gallagher , the editor of the online newsletter croatia business report .
the white house in april sharply criticized the speaker of the house , nancy pelosi , for visiting syria 's capital , damascus , and meeting with president bashar al-assad , even going so far as calling the trip '' bad behavior , '' in the words of vice president dick cheney .
marissa mayer , google vice president , usa today , may 11 these -lrb- online -rrb- games , like phetch , employ a technique called '' human computation '' -- harnessing the human brain to collectively perform tasks that digital computers have yet to master it 's the same trick the fictional tom sawyer famously used to get his friends to whitewash a fence for him , only multiplied millions of times .
former gov. tommy thompson of wisconsin quipped , '' i certainly would not send him to the united nations , '' which stirred some slightly awkward laughter from the audience and blank stares from his rivals .
shortly afterward , however , mr. olmert 's office issued a clarification of his message , insisting that , '' although israel is interested in peace with syria , that country continues to be part of the axis of evil and a force that encourages terror in the entire middle east . ''
also on friday , defense minister amir peretz of israel suspended the establishment of a jewish settlement in the west bank .
for comparison , average sale prices in london , where real estate prices are the highest in the european market , are the equivalent of 5,758 euros , or $ 7,444 , per square meter , while those in genoa , italy , considered a mid-sized market , average 3,500 euros , or $ 4,524 , according to colliers international , a real estate consulting firm .
frankly , we have n't often sought these kinds of things out , but it 's a very sensible thing to do , '' said michael shapiro , director of the high museum of art in atlanta .
mr. lang said the monument was built in 1947 '' to symbolize the superiority of russia and russian rule '' and therefore had no place in independent estonia , now a committed member of the european union and nato .
hockey has gained a lot of support in california , '' anaheim right wing teemu selanne said . ''
it was a dish served , on demand , for members of a private club in umbria , italy , where he spent a formative eight-month sabbatical in 2000 .
with the construction of the separation barrier , the establishment of an outer ring of jewish settlements beyond the expanded municipal boundaries and the creation of a dense road network linking the different israeli neighborhoods and settlements in and outside jerusalem , the report says , israel is '' reshaping the development of the jerusalem metropolitan area '' with '' far-reaching humanitarian consequences . ''
meena was kidnapped from her village in north india by a trafficker and eventually locked up in a 13-girl brothel in the town of katihar .
if you are going to turn off a river -- 15 million acre-feet of water a day -- and alter this habitat , i would be very surprised if it does n't have an affect on the vaquita , '' said karl w. flessa , a geologist at the university of arizona in tucson .
its backers include senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska .
simone died on january 8 , 2007 and is survived by her husband of the past 19 years , richard c. miller , boca raton , florida .
by then , the celtics , with cousy orchestrating the fast break and red auerbach lighting up a cigar on the bench , were selling out boston garden while tom heinsohn led holy cross to a national invitation tournament title in 1954 .
in a unique gesture of reconciliation , which he consciously undertook , heinz berggruen returned to berlin art that had been despised and driven out by hitler 's germany just as he was , '' mr. schuster said .
mr. zucker began his career at nbc in 1986 as a researcher for the 1988 olympics in seoul , south korea .
two suspects were arrested in the town of aranjuez , in central spain south of madrid , and one in the southern port of málaga , the interior ministry said .
donskoi , only 36 years old , unknown outside of arkhangelsk and perhaps better off for it , would stand little chance in a real campaign to be the leader of a country as sprawling , complex and deeply troubled as russia .
king abdullah is scheduled to meet tuesday with prime minister ehud olmert of israel on the sidelines of a conference in petra , jordan .
in the next several years , dams on the elwha and white salmon rivers in washington and the sandy river in oregon are scheduled to be removed .
despite such complaints and suggestions that opponents of the bill are motivated by bigotry , mr. sessions and republican colleagues like jim demint of south carolina , jim bunning of kentucky and david vitter of louisiana have dug in against what they describe as a travesty .
in the town of north haven , the dichotomy can be stark between the 380 year-round islanders and the summer people , who include the actor oliver platt , and ned lamont , who unsuccessfully ran for the united states senate in connecticut in 2006 .
it is very clear they have a plot , '' he said by telephone from amman , jordan .
those talks , which began monday with a summit meeting between mr. abbas and prime minister ehud olmert of israel , ended a few hours later with little sign of progress .
hans schuettler , morgan stanley 's chief executive in asia , said thursday that it was '' the right time for morgan stanley to develop a wholly owned full-service india platform . ''
prime minister ehud olmert of israel has rejected mr. assad 's recent peace overtures , saying that damascus must first stop giving support and safe haven to terrorist organizations , and prevent the flow of weapons across the syrian border to the lebanese militant organization , hezbollah .
but a week later , several miles to the north in hamden , a new chapter in connecticut 's hockey history is being written .
science and technology minister mohammad soleimani said iran planned to accelerate its space program , the students news agency reported . ''
one evening friends took me to gota de agua , a popular club for traditional bolivian folkloric music , where artists , moviemakers and other creative types from bolivia and abroad go to soak up la paz 's aymara aesthetic .
i think that the handwriting is on the wall that we are going in a different direction in the fall , and i expect the president to lead it , '' the senate republican leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , told reporters .
that 's when a group of patrons at the stonewall inn , an unlicensed gay bar in greenwich village , grew fed up with one too many raids on the club .
mrs. somary is the managing director of the mendelssohn project , a nonprofit organization founded in manhattan and stuttgart , germany , by the bridegroom , its music director .
just as the jama article was being published , three dozen children began dying of acute renal failure at two hospitals in delhi , india .
several times this week -- while wrapping up a town hall meeting in des moines , or a conference call with bloggers from sioux city , iowa -- senator john mccain and his listeners were told that there was time for just one more question . ''
dozens of other evening vigils were scheduled in boston , los angeles , new york , philadelphia , seattle and washington , while atlanta , cincinnati , denver , detroit , kansas city , mo. , miami , phoenix and portland , ore. , also had activities planned . ''
ben ehrenreich the native new yorker ben ehrenreich did n't move to california because of hollywood -lrb- '' i might be the only writer in l.a. who never wanted to write a screenplay , '' he says -rrb- but rather for its '' deceptive but enchanting sense of possibility . ''
ethiopian-led forces routed somalia 's islamist army last month after the islamists attacked baidoa , the seat of somalia 's transitional government .
but given the history of the attacks on israel and the oppressiveness and aggressiveness of other countries in the middle east and elsewhere , boycotting israel indicated a moral blindness for which it is hard to find any explanation other than anti-semitism . ''
the biggest growth areas are clearly going to be in the mobile space , '' eric e. schmidt , chief executive of google , said when asked about new opportunities at a conference here this week .
the times does n't dispute the recent intimation by donald e. graham , chairman of the washington post company , that the times 's yearly news budget is more than $ 200 million , despite the cost cutting of the past few years .
in an e-mail response to questions , chad hurley , youtube 's co-founder and chief executive , said its success with smaller media companies '' validates the business model that we offer them and all partners , '' which he said included '' a platform for distribution , promotion and monetization of their content , and an opportunity to reach a whole new audience . ''
-lrb- that is a race that could well place him in direct rivalry with another young bronx official : city councilman joel rivera , who is the son of jose rivera , an assemblyman and the bronx democratic leader . -rrb-
israel had allowed its ground forces to be degraded in order to invest more money in its air force 's ability to deter iran and into policing the west bank .
the chief executive of sirius satellite radio , mel karmazin , is taking the campaign to sell his company 's proposed merger with xm satellite radio to washington .
-lrb- lurking in the background as the case unfolded was david duke , a former grand wizard of the ku klux klan who was very active politically in louisiana and always ready to inject his poison into the public issues of the day .
the false statements included a claim to have a medical degree from the state university of new york at stony brook , when he actually attended medical school in guadalajara , mexico ; a claim he was an associate clinical professor at the albert einstein college of medicine , when he actually was an assistant clinical professor , a lower-ranking and honorary position , and did not teach ; and a claim that he was a fellow of the american college of physicians , although he had lost that title six years earlier when he stopped paying dues and was no longer a member of the group .
every time alex rodriguez walks to the plate at yankee stadium , the smooth voice of mims , a rapper from washington heights , serenades him for each step and for each practice swing . ''
he was born in athens , greece , studied art at the ecoles des beaux arts in paris , france and at yale with josef albers .
the storms on mount hood and mount rainier here in washington can be just as severe as those on mount everest and k2 .
what i 'll be doing is trying to appeal to my republican colleagues to not pass a nonbinding resolution that basically says to the troops who are going there this is a mission that does n't have a chance of succeeding , '' senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , said on '' face the nation '' on cbs .
sportssunday new act for a media mogul robert l. johnson sold black entertainment television in 2000 .
however , when paul poiret reintroduced them in 1911 , le tout paris was in the thrall of the ballets russes , a decadent fantasy of the east , with sets and costumes by léon bakst .
with mr. eastwood as director and steven spielberg as a producer , '' flags of our fathers '' had pedigree , a portentous topic and ferocious backing from paramount and dreamworks .
mr. suleiman , who is also known as abe , emphasized that he did not '' speak for syria in any way , shape or form , '' but said his friends in damascus included '' high officials . ''
a1 israel raid sours peace talk prime minister ehud olmert of israel met president hosni mubarak of egypt in an effort to give momentum to the israeli-palestinian peace negotiations .
we are ecstatic about our financial results this past quarter , '' eric e. schmidt , google 's chief executive , said during a conference call .
services raymond funeral home , march 5th , 12pm , 5 east wall st , norwalk , ct , burial atchison , kansas .
sometimes i rattle off the names of movie stars from omaha : fred astaire , henry fonda , marlon brando , nick nolte ... of course , this pantheon also implies that it is a place that requires its most exciting citizens to move on .
a divot in the green mountains at the crossroads of routes 11 and 100 in south-central vermont , londonderry could be mistaken for just another white-steepled eye blink on the way to better-known destinations like the stratton mountain resort or manchester .
mr. nicks was a certified master teacher of the technique of katherine dunham , at whose manhattan school he had trained in the mid-1940s after early dance study with eleanor frampton at the influential karamu house in cleveland .
in asia , mr. herro has stakes in sk telecom in south korea and two japanese companies , daiwa securities and the semiconductor maker rohm . ''
after releasing a collection of standards , '' moonlight serenade , '' made in the rod stewart mode , ms. simon said , 61 , she longed to cut loose and make a rock 'n' roll album with booker t. jones , the legendary keyboardist , producer , and architect of memphis soul .
aides said friday that mr. warner , a republican who just stepped down as chairman of the armed services committee , was working with senators susan collins , republican of maine , and ben nelson , democrat of nebraska , to draw up a senate resolution they will unveil monday as an alternative to another bipartisan plan that flatly opposes troop increases in iraq .
from 1948 to 1967 , the west bank was administered by jordan , not israel , and a palestinian state could have been established at the stroke of a pen .
in virginia , a state with relatively few controls on insurance rates , clay williams , a 59-year-old self-employed real estate agent in falls church , said the cost of health insurance for himself , his wife and two sons , had tripled in six years .
not quite the brackish swamp that many imagine it to be , the everglades -lrb- first named pa-hay-okee , for '' grassy water , '' by the calusa indians -rrb- is actually a wide , shallow river flowing through florida 's 80 southernmost miles of mainland and in many places blending into the shores of the atlantic or the gulf of mexico .
next week , trade officials from 26 countries will meet at the world economic forum in davos , switzerland , in pursuit of an agreement .
said gen. yasar buyukanit , turkey 's chief of staff , speaking at a hastily convened news conference in ankara , his first since taking the position eight months ago . ''
mr. putin will continue his middle eastern trip tuesday by traveling to amman , jordan , where he will meet with king abdullah ii to discuss economic and political cooperation , and meet with the president of the palestinian authority , mahmoud abbas .
any minister who occupies the pulpit at riverside will have a built-in audience of hearers , both in this large and significant church and far beyond , '' said the rev. james hudnut-beumler , a presbyterian minister who is dean of the divinity school at vanderbilt university in nashville . ''
still , some early investors like peter munk , the founder and chairman of barrick gold , were skeptical at first .
steve newcomb , a powerset founder and veteran of several successful start-ups , said his company could become the next google .
bob woodruff returns in a documentary bob woodruff , the abc news anchor who was severely injured by a roadside bomb while covering the war in iraq last january , will deliver his first on-air report since then , when he is seen in a documentary to be broadcast by abc on feb. 27 .
senator harry reid , the majority leader , moved on friday to force a debate on a resolution opposing the troop increase that had been offered by senators joseph r. biden jr. , democrat of delaware , and chuck hagel , republican of nebraska .
prime minister josé luis rodríguez zapatero quickly fulfilled a campaign promise to pull spanish troops from iraq , and spain is marginalized in american foreign policy .
one of the bill 's sponsors , william h. nickerson , a state senator from greenwich , said connecticut was one of 13 states without such a law . ''
if some of abramoff 's misdeeds were known to washington insiders and reported over the years by regional news media -- the seattle papers when he lobbied for the marianas for a seattle-based firm , preston gates ; the miami herald when he moved to buy the local suncruz gambling boats -- they were largely ignored in washington until 2004 , when the washington post jumped on the story .
some use the time off to open their own golf courses , which is what phil mickelson and davis love did in cabo san lucas , mexico .
a memorial service will be held at trinity episcopal church on the green in new haven , connecticut at 11:00 am on saturday , june 9th .
a physicist who speaks russian and grew up in east germany , she has put stronger relations between the european union and russia high on her list of priorities .
lima goes to nicaragua , and disappears there ; two years later he has returned to mexico city , and is glimpsed by the secretary of octavio paz .
on the eve of the state of the union address , the proposal by mr. warner and two fellow republican senators , susan collins of maine and norm coleman of minnesota , along with ben nelson , democrat of nebraska , was offered as an alternative to an iraq resolution backed by democratic leaders and is to be debated this week by the foreign relations committee .
the combination -- taking one inexpensive antibiotic pill each day and sleeping under an insecticide-treated mosquito net -- reduced the incidence of malaria by 97 percent compared with a control group , dr. anne gasasira , an aids researcher at makerere university in kampala , uganda , said at a medical conference here on wednesday .
foonotes nicole kidman , below , received the companion in the general division of the order of australia -lrb- ac -rrb- , the country 's highest civil honor , at a ceremony at government house in canberra . ''
one easter , on a farm outside the old samnite town of venafro in molise , i shared a 40-egg frittata made by the farmer 's wife .
born in peoria , illinois , january 15 , 1947 and raised in buffalo , judge dunbar came to new york city as a teenager to attend new york university and stayed to become a prominent attorney in brooklyn before winning his judgeship in a city-wide election in november 2005 .
and so it is not surprising that bryant park , once synonymous with the worst of new york city , has become a brand name .
cape town is peacefully discussing the renaming of dozens of places after modern south africa figures .
he said he was considering '' with kid gloves '' a proposal from an italian company to help produce a miniseries that would be based loosely on the life of sonia gandhi , the italian-born leader of india 's ruling congress party who is the widow of the former prime minister , rajiv gandhi .
security restrictions and the barrier that runs around and through parts of east jerusalem were israel 's response to suicide bombings after 2000 , but they made it much more difficult for palestinians to move into and out of jerusalem .
his political awakening came two years later , at a lecture by the israeli scientist and dissident yeshayahu leibowitz , among the first to warn of the morally corrosive effect of israel 's occupation of the west bank and gaza .
judging from what was reported through march , the current leaders of the pack in greenwich are mr. romney , with $ 200,627 on the republican side , and senator christopher j. dodd of connecticut , with $ 190,900 on the democratic side .
in court documents , prosecutors said atlanta police officers regularly lied to obtain search warrants and fabricated documentation of drug purchases , as they had when they raided the home of the woman , kathryn johnston , in november , killing her in a hail of bullets .
in a ceremony on sunday at the french consulate in new york , renaud donnedieu de vabres , france 's culture and media minister , called mr. de montebello one of new york 's '' most eminent cultural figures , '' and added , '' the effects of your programs have reverberated well beyond the metropolitan , as they have set new standards for museums worldwide . ''
truex became the first new jersey native to win a top-series nascar race since frankie schneider , of lambertville , won at old dominion speedway on april 25 , 1958 .
this latest proposal mandates that , no matter how well the iraqi government meets its benchmarks and no matter how well our troops succeed in iraq , the surrender must begin no later than oct. 1 , '' said senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader .
however well passengers might be screened , they said , israel was very reluctant to allow regular travel that could enable militants and experts in the manufacture of bombs and rockets to move between gaza , which is unregulated by israeli troops , and the west bank , which is closer to the heartland of israel .
where the barrier has deviated from the green line , in practice annexing some parts of the west bank to israel , the international court of justice has ruled it illegal .
half those flights had fewer seats than were sold because of weather-related weight restrictions or substitution of a smaller plane , including a flight from phoenix to cabo san lucas , mexico , that left 37 passengers behind .
indeed , from downtown tel aviv to the heart of jerusalem , foreigners -- especially americans -- searching for second homes are redefining israel 's high-end real estate market .
correction : march 9 , 2007 , friday an article yesterday about troubles plaguing the coming presidential election in nigeria incorrectly described the career of atiku abubakar , the current vice president , who wants to run for president but so far has been blocked by legal maneuvers to disqualify him .
both were young , talented and ambitious ; both were personally recruited to citigroup by sanford i. weill , mr. prince 's predecessor .
the filmmakers cite the interpretation of a harvard professor , françois bovon , of the '' acts of phillip , '' a text from the fourth or fifth century and recently recovered from a monastery at mount athos in greece .
the race , which winds 640 miles through the central valley of california and down the coast to long beach , continues on monday with a 97-mile ride from sausalito to santa rosa .
the campaign , to install efficient light bulbs free in millions of households , is the latest product of president hugo chávez 's enduring embrace of cuba and its revolutionary patriarch , fidel castro .
at the time , neutrino was living in los angeles , singing on the venice boardwalk to raise money to go to tucson , where he had been invited to attend the university of arizona football team 's training camp .
b1 new restaurant rat patrol new york city 's health department is revamping how it inspects restaurants for potential rodent infestation after a review prompted by a widely seen news video of rats swarming in a kfc\/taco bell restaurant in greenwich village .
but philippe starck , the french designer who is consulting as art director for richard branson 's development of virgin galactic spacecraft , said that one of his original proposals was for future space explorers to travel naked . ''
her mother , sue bachman , formerly a nurse , is now ms. mazzo 's assistant , and her father , dan bachman , a financial planner in iowa , divides his time , in two-week increments , between new york and des moines . ''
mr. summers also visited singapore for the international monetary fund conference in september , then stopped in hong kong , where he told those attending an asia society dinner that 300 years from now , what will be seen as the most important event of these times will not be the end of the cold war , the terrorist attacks of sept. 11 , 2001 , or the war in iraq , but '' the rise of asia and all that it meant for people in asia and all that it meant for the world system . ''
last month , delta announced it would fly nonstop between atlanta and lagos , nigeria , starting dec. 3 .
he had built a house in northwestern louisiana , near grambling , where he went to college .
also in the west bank , fatah men kidnapped a deputy minister from hamas , one of the few hamas cabinet members and legislators not already in israeli military jails , part of israel 's effort to keep pressure on hamas .
a truer specimen of this breed might be barbara amiel , the big-spending wife of the media tycoon lord conrad black , who , as the daily mail of london reported , and lord black disputes , was spotted one day this past fall in toronto 's holt renfrew racking up shoes , dresses and blouses to the tune of # 15,000 -lrb- about $ 28,000 -rrb- -- only to return every last item the very next day .
according to syrian news reports at the time , he warned damascus of what he said were israeli plans to attack syria in order to restore israel 's deterrent capability .
russia unveiled a plan to build a tunnel between siberia and alaska under the bering strait , saying the $ 65 billion project could be used to export russian oil , natural gas and electricity to the united states .
a former aide to mr. abbas , walid m. awad , issued a long statement on friday in which he accused israel of working gradually to '' judaize '' the arab areas of jerusalem and to take over the noble sanctuary , also known as haram al-sharif .
in addition , mr. paulson 's deputy , robert m. kimmitt , discussed the matter on friday with leading finance ministers from the group of 8 who are meeting this weekend in potsdam , germany .
separately , in jerusalem , two israeli human rights organizations released a joint report accusing israel 's internal security agency , known as shin bet , of routine ill treatment , and in some cases torture , of palestinian detainees during interrogations .
fado , particularly in the style of portugal 's most influential singer , amália rodrigues , frames its volatile singing , with gypsy and arabic underpinnings , within elegant baroque-tinged accompaniments .
and in january , chad hurley , a youtube co-founder , announced at the world economic forum that his site , now owned by google , was exploring similar ways to '' reward creativity . ''
a19 barak returns to israeli politics ehud barak , the former prime minister of israel , returned to the political scene as the new leader of the labor party , and the deputy prime minister , shimon peres of the ruling kadima party , was elected by parliament to the largely ceremonial post of president .
in '' rice with things '' he 's seen in the harbor of valencia , spain , driving a speedboat -- add that to his accomplishments -- and quipping , rather appallingly , '' but we 're not here for the fast boats -- or even the fast women . ''
and they would never understand why , for bill elliott , there was no joy in dawsonville .
she said that bales , the blue devils ' center , proudly wore three-inch heels , which made her 6-10 , while the team was in cancún , mexico , in december .
this week , senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , said mr. gonzales should leave .
the essay summarized the kremlin 's control and manipulation of russia 's public political dialogue , saying the union 's monitoring of the russian news media had found that '' pro-president and ruling party propaganda amounted to roughly 30 percent of the total amount of information '' in 2000 , but rose to 92 percent in 2006 . ''
to try to draw a distinction between mr. radler and mr. black , , two seasoned journalists in canada and the united states -- kenneth whyte and john o'sullivan -- may be called to testify about mr. black 's merits as a man of letters and newspaper '' proprietor '' -lrb- a term he loved to use -rrb- .
in december , brad grey , the chairman of paramount pictures , stood up and greeted the celebrity-packed crowds at the premiere of '' dreamgirls '' in los angeles and new york .
the government in the state of michoacán promises to pay for the transport of returning bodies from any point in mexico to the deceased 's hometown in michoacán .
they went to a meeting to learn about adoption , and heard about a girl in irkutsk , russia , who was born without fibulas and was put up for adoption by her young mother . ''
the new york city police pension fund has approved line-of-duty death benefits for the family of cesar a. borja , the police officer whose death in january became a symbol of the plight of those who worked in lower manhattan after 9\/11 .
she was an emblematic figure of the central role of women in the resistance , '' jacques chirac , the president of france , said thursday in a statement .
among the women 's winners were sarah jamieson of australia in the mile (4:28.03) , marshevet hooker in the 60 -lrb- 7.24 seconds -rrb- , perdita felicien of canada in the 60 hurdles -lrb- 7.97 seconds -rrb- , monica hargrove in the 400 (52.85) and jenn stuczynski in the pole vault -lrb- 15-3 1\/4 -rrb- .
also on friday , in ra'anana , israel , family members attended the burial of liviu librescu , a 76-year-old engineering lecturer and holocaust survivor , who was shot while trying to protect students in a classroom . ''
he averaged 25.6 miles an hour over the entire course , which wound from san francisco through the napa valley wine country , through central california farmland and down the pacific coast highway .
a3 israel accuses hamas of plots interrogations of arrested members of hamas in the west bank produced information that the islamic organization there was planning imminent terrorist attacks against israel , the israeli security service said .
ms. ukeles , a longtime artist in residence at the former fresh kills landfill on staten island , presents a six-channel video piece combining actual footage of the landfill with interviews with city officials and biologists now working on the environmental restoration of the 2,200-acre site , which for 50 years was a dumping ground for new york city 's garbage .
born in chicago , died in winsor , ontario , canada , on may 3 , 2007 .
a12 deputy asks olmert to resign foreign minister tzipi livni of israel , prime minister ehud olmert 's deputy , called on him to resign after a critical government report about his management of the war with hezbollah last summer .
and as every california fourth grader knows , monterey was once the capital of california and is jam-packed with history , much of it on view in the city 's old adobe buildings , many open to the public .
he graduated with a degree in labor economics from the university of california , berkeley , began work on a doctorate and advised labor unions .
gov. bill ritter jr. of colorado , a democrat , said the party 's presidential candidates should study his election and the success of other moderate democrats like gov. kathleen sebelius of kansas . ''
he is survived by the families of his four daughters , barbara carr of norwalk , ct , virginia fisher of new canaan , ct , patricia dunning of new york , and elizabeth brown of charlottesville , va , and his nine grandchildren .
one is a four-week '' explorer 's trip '' to france , with a hike in the alps of chamonix , a river trip between switzerland and france , visits to d-day sites in normandy , and sightseeing in paris .
a few years ago , after mr. yeltsin developed symptoms of further heart trouble , doctors at the berlin heart center in germany performed an angioplasty .
with about 3,200 students , westfield is one of the largest schools in fairfax county , which is one of the fastest-growing counties in virginia .
it was of no small consequence to musharraf that he had gone to turkey as a boy of 6 in 1949 , when his father was assigned to his country 's embassy in ankara as superintendent of the accounts department .
eugen joseph weber was born in bucharest , romania , on april 24 , 1925 , the son of sonia and emmanuel weber , an industrialist .
the impact of italy on britten and , in a way , on britain , is a recurring theme of this year 's festival , an idea inspired by the presentation of '' death in venice , '' which opened the festival on friday night .
mr. chávez 's financial aid to cuba far exceeds what the island used to get from leonid brezhnev during the heyday of soviet communism , and it has dashed hopes for cuba 's opening as a result of fidel castro 's demise and the island 's bankruptcy .
in fact , russia 's business of maintaining soviet-designed plants in eastern europe may get a boost as these countries worry about excess dependency on russian natural gas from gazprom and reconsider nuclear energy as an alternative .
when she traveled to tasmania , to play in hobart , she was beaten in the quarterfinals by bammer .
ivrea , a town of 25,000 , is at the base of the italian alps , just north of turin , in one of italy 's industrial regions .
staten island is the one borough in heavily democratic new york city that usually elects republicans -- from congress to city council .
for all the wonderful games played by the giants ' hall of fame running backs -- frank gifford , tuffy leemans and ken strong -- and by joe morris and rodney hampton , none of those stars carried the giants the way barber did at fedex field , across the potomac river from virginia , where he grew up as a redskins fan .
and how different would ronald reagan 's presidency have been without the secret sale of arms to iran to win the release of hostages in the middle east ? ''
this year 's heal the bay report card , released on may 23 , found that the state as a whole had above-average water quality because of a drought over the last year , but a dramatic drop in quality in the long beach area meant that los angeles county retained its status as the state 's leading '' beach bummer . ''
santander , spain 's largest bank , is considering the brazilian and italian operations of abn .
mr. kofmehl retired from ibm in 1988 as ibm vice president and group executive america 's group , after serving as ibm president world trade europe\/middle east \/ africa in paris , france .
kuhn and his wife luisa relocated to ponte vedra beach , florida in 1990 , where he continued his many charitable and philanthropic activities .
the bride , 28 , is an intern in pediatrics at massachusetts general hospital in boston .
chad hurley , the co-founder and chief executive of youtube , said the company was still working on its filtering technology .
terrorist trial on the web -- with the click of a computer mouse , anyone can peek inside the inner sanctum of a courtroom in spain where 29 men are on trial for the deadly bombings of commuter trains in madrid in 2004 .
he oversees operations at the legends field spring training base in tampa , the nearby minor league development complex and the class a tampa yankees .
the draw : ned lamont , the greenwich democrat whose vocal criticism of the iraq war led to his upset victory in his party 's primary against senator joe lieberman , forcing mr. lieberman to run as an independent to hold onto his seat .
brian carroll is with d.c. united as it prepares for its match on tuesday against chivas in guadalajara , mexico , the second leg of their concacaf champions cup semifinal series .
dr. grace sangyun lee , a daughter of dr. hei suk lee and dr. jae yoon lee of todt hill , staten island , was married last evening to dr. william gee chang , a son of ya-huey chang and dr. ho-huang chang of charleston , w. va. .
he is also survived by his father , william sederbaum , of jacksonville , florida .
found in translation -- lucifer chu , a 31-year-old from taipei , taiwan , has made a small fortune in a relatively new business , popular chinese translations of fantasy novels .
those who favor some jordanian involvement argue that in the west bank , at least , jordan could help , especially because american and european troops are unlikely to risk policing a border or boundary with israel .
rinehart -- george henry doran , of annapolis , maryland , died tuesday , april 10 , at age 78 .
disney offers two 14-night trans-atlantic cruises between port canaveral , fla. , and barcelona , spain , with ports of call at castaway cay ; the canary islands ; cádiz , spain ; and gibraltar .
michael j. daly of the uniformed services university of the health sciences in bethesda , md. , and colleagues have filled in a piece of the puzzle .
only 18 months ago , alessandro profumo , unicredit 's chief executive , agreed to spend $ 21 billion for the hvb group of germany , an acquisition that gave unicredit access to the faster-growing markets of eastern europe .
international a3-11 north ireland rivals agree to a date for joint rule after years of hostility and recriminations , the leaders of northern ireland 's dominant rival groups , gerry adams of sinn fein and the protestant leader , the rev. ian paisley , held their first face-to-face talks and agreed to form a joint administration for the province on may 8 .
almost 36 percent of those voting withheld support from claudio x. gonzalez , chairman and chief executive of kimberly-clark 's mexico operations and the director who had headed the compensation committee when the company changed its performance goals midstream .
not at all inspired to make his name change by '' march of the penguins '' -lrb- a film he considered a near-atrocity due to its scenes of penguin death -rrb- , the kfkaj -lrb- kid formerly known as jin -rrb- is adopted , born in seoul , south korea .
mount hood is oregon 's highest peak , and given its close proximity to portland and its relatively unchallenging ascent , more than 10,000 people climb it each year .
but as one of the first buyers in eden hills -- a planned community 15 minutes southwest of jerusalem -- dr. schnabel , who is 49 , is emblematic of a new breed of visitor to israel : the foreign vacation-home buyer .
israel hits cell in gaza ; factional fighting persists the israeli army struck a palestinian rocket-launching cell near beit hanoun in the northern gaza strip .
henri troyat , the russian-born french writer whose novels and biographies earned him an immense following in france and considerable recognition abroad , died here on sunday .
the idea of surfing with an oar had intrigued me ever since i 'd first seen photos of maui 's legendary big wave rider , laird hamilton , cruising down the long , perfect waves at surfrider beach in malibu with a paddle .
the bride 's father , who was designated a deputy marriage commissioner for the occasion by the alameda county commissioner of civil marriages , officiated at the couple 's home in oakland , calif. .
in the philippines , president gloria macapagal-arroyo has put in place an economic program that is reversing this decades-old trend .
ms. carter , 27 , a seventh-grade math teacher in greenwich , has always lived in connecticut .
after beating louisville in kentucky , texas a&m will have the home-court advantage in the next round , which will be played in san antonio .
israel has rejected the idea of expanding the cease-fire to the west bank until it is properly carried out in gaza .
tarun anand , the co-founder and chief executive of the perfect future , a start-up near delhi , made his fortune in the united states , but returned to india to become an entrepreneur .
but as the fierce war critic chuck hagel , the republican senator from nebraska , argues in a must-read interview at gq.com , the war is '' starting to redefine the political landscape '' and scramble the old party labels .
peter munk , founder and chairman of barrick gold in toronto , has warned that an exodus of head offices to other countries will cause , among other things , lower levels of charitable donations and fewer opportunities for skilled workers .
because of an editing error , an article on friday about elections in ireland referred incorrectly to televised endorsements for bertie ahern 's campaign for re-election as prime minister .
but in april , the production moved to connecticut to film interiors in places like stamford , bridgeport , shelton , ridgefield and greenwich .
where -- puerto peñasco , mexico .
so far , he said , one of his biggest sales has been to the new hyatt regency hotel in kiev , ukraine .
the yas island racing circuit was designed by hermann tilke , a track architect known for his work on tracks in bahrain , shanghai and sepang , malaysia .
caroline m. bell and the peconic bay impressionists , '' suffolk county historicalsociety , 300 west main street , riverhead , through april 30 .
a few years ago , the novelist barbara kingsolver packed her husband and two daughters into a car and left their home in tucson for good , resettling on a farm in southern appalachia .
the hashing explosion has led to regional meets and '' interhashes '' like the one last october in chiang mai , thailand , where 6,000 hashers from more than 50 countries ran through jungle and rice paddies for singha light .
pat oines discovered the theft three weeks ago when she arrived at the mausoleum of her daughter jennifer at the moravian cemetery near todt hill on staten island .
the foray into iran was the work of mr. de margerie , who was in charge of total 's business in the middle east in the 1990s .
the woman , angel m. raich , 41 , of oakland , said in a statement that she had decided to concentrate on radiation therapy to treat a brain tumor , rather than appealing a federal court ruling that she was not immune to federal prosecution despite california law . ''
in a series of visits to china , india , singapore and hong kong since early 2006 , mr. summers has reiterated several themes that have special resonance in asia , but have yet to be widely accepted in the united states .
correction : may 17 , 2007 , thursday an article yesterday about the maison tropicale , a small house built in 1951 by the french designer jean prouvé that is on display in long island city , queens , pending an auction in june , referred incorrectly to another maison tropicale at the centre pompidou in paris .
for the museo picasso in málaga , spain , for example , which opened in 2004 , the firm restored a 16th-century palace , inserted six new buildings and created a new public plaza . ''
if you fly from new york to hong kong , for example , you may want to know that united is offering a bonus of 7,500 to 10,000 miles for flights between san francisco and taipei , taiwan , or that japan airlines is offering a 3,000-mile bonus for booking online .
david eun , a vice president for content partnerships at google , said that his company had been `` very serious '' about the talks , but that the companies could not agree on financial terms .
dieterich buxtehude -- to adopt the spelling of his first name from the new grove dictionary of music and musicians -- was born in helsingborg , then in denmark , now in sweden , in 1637 .
some of the biggest creative names in canada are choosing to introduce their new works in calgary . ''
in australia she went to work for the dallys agency in brisbane , the country 's oldest , and then in sydney for another agency called chic . ''
the student , joseph zahornacky , 22 , who lived in shelton , conn. , and was a student at manhattanville college in purchase , n.y. , was reported missing on monday night , just hours after he told relatives that he was on his way back to school from la guardia airport , the police said .
but the georgia aquarium in atlanta , which opened to much fanfare a little more than a year ago , was not on the list .
but he acknowledged that robert had played a larger role in trying to overthrow president fidel castro of cuba than mr. schlesinger had acknowledged in '' a thousand days . ''
dr. ihle was a retired captain in the us naval reserve and a former member of the new york academy of dentistry and the navy league of boca raton , florida .
barzin -- eleanor close , died at her home in paris , france , on november 27 , 2006 .
she is survived by her three siblings , james fuller of orlando , florida ; richard fuller of seattle , washington ; and laura fuller bates of hythe , england .
plants at three other sites -- in laupheim and varel , germany , and saint-nazaire , france -- are also expected to be parts of spinoffs .
after being expelled from france , he carried on his brilliant career as a polemicist by founding the free russian press in london , where his home was a magnet for the great revolutionary figures of the age , from giuseppe garibaldi and giuseppe mazzini to louis blanc and lajos kossuth .
so in 2003 mr. shapiro took four curators to paris to meet with 30 staff members of the louvre . ''
while the business shed its newspaper holdings to move into selling electronic information to professionals , the family still holds 40 percent of ctvglobemedia , which owns the globe and mail in toronto as well as ctv , canada 's largest private-sector television network .
the t2x , the hit of the 2005 seoul auto show , was designed by another australian , max wolff , with a team at the g.m.-owned daewoo auto and truck advanced design studio in inchon , south korea .
that is why jordan , with its long relationship with the palestinians , its former rule over the west bank , its peace treaty with israel and strong alliances with the united states , egypt , saudi arabia and the persian gulf countries , is seen by some as a kind of answer .
alexander gutierrez , the chairman of suffolk county 's hispanic advisory board , said his panel interpreted the legislation as being aimed at hispanics , and he said he feared passing the bill would encourage racist violence that has occurred in the past in towns like farmingville , where the day laborer issue has been heatedly debated .
in 2003 , she disclosed during an interview with citigroup 's chief executive , sanford i. weill , that she owned 1,000 shares of stock in his company .
the letter-writers argued for a nonpartisan approach but said they wondered if it could prevail given news accounts of mr. bush 's affinity for a conservative policy center along the lines of the hoover institution on war , revolution and peace , which has had a rocky relationship with its liberal-leaning host , stanford university in california .
ramón xilotl , mexico 's consul general in new york , who arranged for mr. romero 's remains to be flown back to puebla , mexico , and for plane tickets and emergency passports for ms. pioquinto and mr. romero 's family , said they had no plans to return to the united states .
prime minister bertie ahern , who has led ireland since 1997 , said saturday that he was confident of forming a new coalition government and securing a third term as complete results of a national ballot showed his party winning the largest share of seats in parliament but falling five seats short of a majority .
israeli officials are promoting a proposal that the west bank and gaza be viewed as separate entities , and that israel act more forcefully in gaza to crack down on hamas militants .
at least since 1846-7 , when giuseppe verdi and his librettist francesco maria piave applied themselves to transforming '' macbeth '' to opera , italy has been no stranger to abridging this tragedy ; this production retains the play 's highlights , including lady macbeth 's sleepwalking scene , banquo 's ghost , the witches ' recipe and the coming of birnam wood to dunsinane .
in a state that was pivotal to president bush 's election and re-election , cuyahoga county , which includes cleveland , has seen more than its share of recent election troubles .
a phi beta kappa graduate of smith college and m.a. from columbia university ; she studied at the sorbonne in paris , france .
-lrb- ap -rrb- hampton takes step back -- mike hampton , a left-hander attempting to win a spot in atlanta 's rotation after having reconstructive elbow surgery , injured his left side during batting practice and could miss the first two months of the season .
no red carpet -- the founder of the annual economic conference in davos , switzerland , has asked hollywood celebrities to stay home this year , as a means to restore the event 's seriousness .
songs from ` here lies love ' '' offered 20 selections from his forthcoming multimedia production about imelda marcos , the former first lady of the philippines and an enduring symbol of despotic extravagance and shoe love .
most of the settlement cost , $ 220 million , is owed by the north rockland school district , with the remainder to be paid by rockland county , the towns of haverstraw and stony point , and the villages of haverstraw , which includes garnerville , and west haverstraw .
oberoi vanyavilas , sawai madhopur ; rajasthan , india ; 800-562-3764 ; www.oberoivanyavilas.com .
after leaving tikrit , mr. cheney flew to abu dhabi , in the united arab emirates , the next stop on his weeklong tour of the middle east , which will include visits to saudi arabia , egypt and jordan .
kristian menchaca of houston and pfc .
house speaker nancy pelosi and her delegation said they had frank words with president bashar al-assad and other senior syrian officials here on wednesday , pressing the president over syria 's support for militant groups and insisting that his government block militants seeking to cross into iraq and join insurgents there .
the overall iranian role has been to work closely with us to bring karzai into power , '' said barnett rubin , an expert on afghanistan at new york university . ''
at a similar point a decade ago , russia defaulted on its foreign debt and asia came unglued , weakening global growth .
it retails for $ 7.95 at newbury comics and other stores in the boston area , has a print run of 10,000 and , atypically for a college publication , pays its contributors .
i just know there are a lot of restaurants , if there was a mechanism in place to deliver to their door or have a place to pick up at a time convenient to them , they would be buying more local , '' said michel nischan , the chef and co-owner , with the actor paul newman , of dressing room in westport .
he was a research microbiologist at merck & co. in rahway and madrid , spain , for 43 years retiring in 1992 as executive director of microbiology .
in egypt , gamal mubarak , son of president hosni mubarak and assistant secretary general of the ruling national democratic party , announced last september the country 's intention to resume its nuclear energy program , which was frozen after the chernobyl explosion and fire in 1986 .
the stamps featured images from five films released by paramount pictures and dreamworks .
it has long been believed that the easternmost reach of polynesian voyaging was easter island , some 2,200 miles off the coast of chile .
correction : may 2 , 2007 , wednesday an article on monday about the public debate in israel over whether prime minister ehud olmert could retain power despite a government report criticizing his leadership in the 34-day lebanon war misstated the date the war began last year .
kerry anne newman was married yesterday to paul thomas sullivan in ballintubber , ireland .
he studied music at the stern and klindworth-scharwenka conservatories in germany , and in 1939 , the family fled from berlin to london , where mr. landau continued his musical studies at the guildhall school .
carlo ponti was born on dec. 11 , 1912 , in the milan suburb of magenta , to leone ponti , a music printing shop owner , and the former maria zardone .
there is the big kahuna of a collector who is '' so far uptown he lives in greenwich , connecticut '' and whose admiration of art seems to rises in direct proportion to its market price . ''
in damascus , mounir ali , a ministry of information spokesman , conceded that controlling syria 's long border with iraq was difficult and blamed the americans for not supplying border-control technology .
a1 somali islamist surrenders sheik sharif ahmed , the head of the islamist courts union executive council and the second in command of somalia 's defeated islamist forces , has surrendered to the kenyan authorities and is staying at a hotel in nairobi .
1967 israel , the war , and the year that transformed the middle east by tom segev translated by jessica cohen .
the lead is composed of differing concentrations of isotopes depending on where the ore is from , and ms. thibodeau determined that the isotopic '' signature '' of la isabela 's gallena closely matched that of ore mined near cádiz , spain . ''
that could allow them to reach the final four in atlanta without leaving california , playing the first two rounds in sacramento and their regional games in san jose .
her father was the arthur o. lovejoy professor of american history at johns hopkins in baltimore , and was also a biographer of ernest hemingway and charlie chaplin .
david tang , the founder of the shanghai tang clothing chain and a leading arbiter of style among hong kong 's elite , said that feng shui advisers were losing their influence , especially among the young . ''
dr. l. stephen coles , a researcher at the university of california , los angeles , recalled the excitement when he first joined the doctors and about 10 other physicians near cancún , mexico , in 1992 to talk about hormones and aging .
and ian bremmer of the eurasia group , a political risk consultant in new york , said , '' energy sources are going to come from increasingly unstable regions in the world . ''
watching the game on television , with conflicting emotions , was nate robinson , the knicks guard and seattle native .
some leading democrats , including the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee , joseph r. biden jr. , and the chairman of the senate intelligence committee , john d. rockefeller iv , have criticized the bush administration for building a case against iran when american intelligence agencies still have a murky understanding of iran 's intentions in the middle east .
a8 chirac drops iran mission president jacques chirac of france arranged to send his foreign minister to iran for talks on lebanon , then abruptly canceled the visit at a time when most world powers have forged a united front against iran because of its nuclear program .
john paul did the same for mother teresa , the nun who cared for india 's poor .
kliot -- boris , 84 , born in riga , latvia , survived four concentration camps before he immigrated to the us where he became a successful entrepreneur .
these soldiers are us ; let 's treat them right ; let 's give them all the kind of care that bob woodruff of abc news got .
the charges against ms. dunn were dropped after several weeks of negotiations with california 's new state attorney general , jerry brown , the former california governor and the former mayor of oakland .
a number of years ago , in a moment of professional weakness , i bought exactly one share of warren buffett 's berkshire hathaway -lrb- the class b share , mind you , not the $ 100,000 kind -rrb- .
the essay , written by alvin h. rosenfeld , an english professor and the director of the institute for jewish culture and the arts at indiana university in bloomington , castigates a number of people by name , including the pulitzer prize-winning playwright tony kushner , the historian tony judt , the poet adrienne rich and the washington post columnist richard cohen , in addition to a number of academics .
in colorado springs , mr. friedman is again working with a civilians team , as well as students from colorado college , on a theater piece about religion and the social fabric of the city .
from an old new york family , one branch dating to staten island in the 1700s another to massachusetts in the 1600s , she lived her entire life in new york city , within blocks of where she was born , also at home .
she returned to canada in the mid 1960 's and sang many roles with the canadian opera company , toronto .
rebecca miller , daughter of the playwright arthur miller and wife of the actor daniel day-lewis , wrote and directed this intimate yarn about three women trying to escape the oppression inflicted by the men in their lives .
burial will be at holy cross cemetery in culver city , ca , at 10:30 am , wednesday , january 24 .
the 100-minute encounter between ms. royal , the candidate of the left , and françois bayrou , the centrist candidate who was knocked out of the race in the first round , was a first since presidential debates began in france in the 1974 race .
donations in her name to : yad lakashish , lifeline for the old , 14 shivtei israel street , po box 28 , jerusalem 91000 israel .
earlier , the armenian defense minister , serzh sarkisyan , called for improved relations so that armenia could '' establish ties with turkey with no preconditions , '' the turkish news channel ntv reported .
still , when he took the car to be repaired at a buick dealership near his suburban pittsburgh home , he said the service staff traced the car to a buick dealer in florida , where the staff told him several vehicles had been damaged by hurricane wilma .
from marvão one can see the entire land , '' josé saramago , the 1998 nobel prize winner for literature , wrote in '' journey to portugal , '' his 2001 travelogue . ''
since 1988 , mr. blanc has created dozens of these botanical tapestries in public and private spaces around the world , including the marithé & françois girbaud boutique in manhattan , the siam paragon shopping center in bangkok and the 21st century museum of contemporary art in kanazawa , japan .
a few years later , in iran , reza shah would copy ataturk 's approach wholesale .
the initial offering , '' la raison avant la passion , '' joyce wieland 's 80-minute film from 1969 , is a reflection on the author 's home country , canada .
as all of this was going on , ms. rice was working with tzipi livni , israel 's foreign minister , to organize peace talks between mr. abbas and israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , to present mr. abbas as the only leader capable of leading the palestinians to their own state .
`` myspace is dedicated to ensuring that content owners , whether large or small , can both promote and protect their content in our community , '' chris dewolfe , the chief executive of myspace , said in a statement . ''
a land rush and building boom are reshaping los cabos , the upscale resort community at the tip of baja california in mexico , with about a dozen big projects and many more smaller ones either in the works or in the planning stages .
florence is on oregon 's central coast about 60 miles from eugene .
but andré boisclair , above , the leader of the separatist parti québécois , has promised to hold a referendum on taking the province out of canada if he is elected .
the charges , brought by the paris mosque and the union of islamic organizations of france , accused the newspaper , charlie hebdo , and its editor , philippe val , of '' publicly abusing a group of people because of their religion . ''
merritt -- ruth -lrb- nee bergs -rrb- died in boca raton , florida at the age of 95 .
familial ties , and particularly familial sacrifice , play extremely well in this part of the world , and aroon purie , the editor of the newsweekly india today , which sponsored the dinner , deployed them frothily in ms. bhutto 's favor .
goldman -- victor e. of boca raton , florida .
style map baden-baden : the curative waters of baden-baden , germany , a pristine spa town on the edge of the black forest , have lured the royal , rich and rheumatic since the 19th century .
the russian debate on the treaty is subtly shifting , with new attention to the missiles russia will really need .
the foreign relations committee approved the resolution by a vote of 12 to 9 , with a republican senator , chuck hagel of nebraska , joining 11 democrats in supporting it .
in 1925 martín ramírez -lrb- 1895-1963 -rrb- , the great self-taught draftsman , left his small ranch in the jalisco region of mexico for work in the promised land of the united states .
councilman tony avella , who joined the kennedy middle school parents at a bus stop , without the bus , on willets point boulevard in whitestone , queens , said : '' parents and the kids stood there for about an hour .
american friends of the hebrew university george a. schieren , president peter t. willner , national executive director the hebrew university of jerusalem prof. menachem magidor , president $ -lrb- 6 $ -rrb- sorkin -- rosalie , 92 , of boca raton , florida .
laure manaudou , france 's anchor-leg swimmer , has four medals .
a1 health inspector removed new york city removed from duty a health inspector who gave a passing grade to a fast-food restaurant in greenwich village one day before television cameras captured a swarm of rats scurrying about inside .
on tuesday , israel 's independence day , thousands of advocates plan to march to the site of homesh , a northern west bank settlement that the government evacuated in 2005 .
nicolas sarkozy , the conservative , and ségolène royal , the socialist , won the first round of the presidential election on sunday , setting up a classic left-right contest next month between two candidates with competing visions of how to govern france .
across from the red-brick collegiate gothic campus of hendrix college in central arkansas lie a few beat-up ball fields , tennis courts and an expanse of woods .
they drove up the hudson river valley and into connecticut and almost chose to settle in greenwich , he said .
for the rest of the week , attention in the senate will be focused on resolutions critical of president bush 's iraq policy , giving a platform to other presidential hopefuls , including senators barack obama of illinois , joseph r. biden of delaware , both democrats , and chuck hagel of nebraska , a republican who is considering running .
it 's a pretty dramatic development because txu 's position in electricity in texas is controversial and uncertain , '' said amy myers jaffe , an energy expert at the james a. baker iii institute for public policy at rice university in houston .
the bride is a second-year resident of internal medicine at beth israel deaconess medical center in boston .
but as events in the middle east have become more turbulent , there have been some back-channel talks , including talks between israel and saudi arabia .
popa -- ervin a. , of new york city , on april 18th , age 98 , formerly of bucharest , romania .
prime minister ehud olmert of israel on sunday invited arab leaders to join him for talks in a regional peace meeting in jerusalem .
he briefly rallied the pistons in the fourth quarter , but by then lebron james had taken over for cleveland , orchestrating an 88-82 victory with his 32 points , 9 rebounds and 9 assists .
donna was a graduate of the university of buffalo with a degree in graphic arts , having shown some of her paintings at the grand palais in paris .
the issue is expected to be discussed at next week 's group of eight foreign ministers meeting in potsdam , germany .
senator sheldon whitehouse , a rhode island democrat , was less charitable . ''
orange broadband shortlist announced '' digging to america '' -lrb- alfred a. knopf -rrb- , the novel by anne tyler of the united states about two baltimore families who adopt baby girls from korea , has been named to the shortlist for the orange broadband prize for fiction , an annual british award for works by women , the bbc reported .
a record profit at lazard -- lazard , the investment bank run by bruce wasserstein , said that strength in its merger advisory business helped lift its fourth-quarter profit 50 percent , to a record $ 85.8 million .
a1 thailand unsettled by bombings a string of lethal bombs that disrupted new year 's celebrations in bangkok has signaled the start of a difficult year for thailand as entrenched elites struggle for control of the country 's future .
california law will still allow parents to spank with an open hand on the buttocks even if there 's a physical injury , '' said ms. lieber , a democrat from mountain view , about 35 miles southeast of san francisco . ''
yet israeli security measures , imposed after the palestinian uprising in 2000 , have put the city , like the rest of israel , off limits to the vast majority of palestinians who live in the west bank or gaza strip . ''
the vermont ski areas association has helped support the project , as have six other vermont ski areas : bolton valley , bromley , jay peak , ascutney , sugarbush and okemo .
it covers manhattan , staten island and the bronx in new york city , and seven other downstate counties -- not all of new york city and five other downstate counties .
the sudden focus on the fallibility of a church thought to be heroically anti-communist followed the vatican 's choice of bishop stanislaw wielgus as archbishop of warsaw despite clear signals of his ties to poland 's secret police .
prime minister ehud olmert said in interviews published friday that israel would not allow a single palestinian refugee to return to what is now israel , and that the country bore no responsibility for the refugees because their plight resulted from an attack by arab nations on israel when it was a fledgling state .
the republican leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , defended the program , saying : '' temporary workers are obviously needed .
it happened in fairfield county in connecticut in october 2005 , when an f.b.i. task force arrested two men in unrelated cases who were suspected of trolling social-networking sites to lure young girls for sex .
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , took his turn on tuesday , saying such comments damage the morale of the troops . ''
by mid-1944 , with the allies landed in normandy and the days of the german occupation clearly numbered , mr. papon was cultivating contacts with gaston cusin , a resistance leader who named him prefect of landes , in southwestern france , after the allies took control in august .
rosneft buys yukos assets -- rosneft , the russian state oil company , won an auction for assets of the bankrupt company yukos , further tightening the kremlin 's control of energy industries in russia .
the $ 370 million prudential center , nicknamed the rock , is part of a plan by newark to revitalize the downtown area . ''
in addition to haaretz , those sharing carter 's view include the nobel prize winner desmond tutu , the father of human rights law in south africa ; john dugard , a south african professor of international law ; and the israeli human rights organization b ` tselem , among many others .
mr. berggruen , who fled hitler 's germany for the united states in 1936 , made his name in postwar paris as a gallery owner who enjoyed a close relationship with picasso and was also considered a specialist in the works of van gogh , cézanne , matisse , paul klee , hans arp and giacometti .
or when he sees news about iran 's efforts to build a nuclear bomb , which could set off a wave of nuclear proliferation in the middle east and thus significantly raise the possibility that terrorists will someday acquire a bomb .
irish leader calls election prime minister bertie ahern of ireland , who with his centrist party , fianna fail , has governed in a parliamentary coalition since 1997 , has called for a general election to take place on may 24 .
july also brings the tin house summer writers workshop , another by-admittance-only conference , at reed college in portland , ore. '' we 've been more selective lately , especially with fiction writers , '' said emily bliquez , the director , adding that 400 applications are expected for 175 slots .
he started the warehouse sales in 2001 because he wanted to introduce his friends and neighbors to the foods of his native catalonia and all of spain .
the debate about the israeli occupation '' will shape the future of israel ; it may also determine the prospects for peace in the middle east -- and perhaps the world . ''
on the opening day of spain 's trial of 29 men accused in the deadly madrid train bombings , police officers ringed the maximum-security brick courtroom while a helicopter whirled overhead .
at the world economic forum conference in davos , switzerland , audi promoted its reputation as a car for treacherous weather by offering a half-day safe-driving course on a field of ice .
rhonda clements , a professor of education at manhattanville college in purchase , n.y. , and a former president of the american association for the child 's right to play , said that this was already happening . ''
in recent days , the iranians have begun installing the machines and supporting gear in a cavernous plant at natanz , which would be a potential target if the united states or one of its allies decided that diplomacy would never keep iran from getting the bomb .
under the leadership of his son tyrrhenus , the emigrating lydians built ships , loaded all the stores they needed , and sailed from smyrna -lrb- now the turkish port of izmir -rrb- until reaching umbria in italy .
when they could , they flew to cancún , mexico , for a few days on the beach . ''
the hours each day of the pilgrimage will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. admission for each day of the tour , $ 25 , at any of the sites and pilgrimage headquarters , 1105-a providence road , behind the maryland presbyterian church in towson .
in a mild surprise to outside experts , the nuclear agency reported that iran was now operating or about to switch on roughly 1,000 centrifuges , the high-speed devices that enrich uranium , at its nuclear facility at natanz . ''
in addition , his fellow republican , george allen , lost his reelection bid in virginia to a democrat , senator jim webb .
joost was founded last year by janus friis and niklas zennstrom , creators of the internet telephone company skype .
this weekend 's features suggest some of the spread : '' murderers , '' directed by patrick grandperret , is a new wavish road movie about two teenagers who escape from a psychiatric institution and take their love on the road ; '' i do '' stars one of france 's most popular comedians , alain chabat , in the tale of a toxic bachelor whose family forces him into a series of hideous blind dates .
among the leaders in this field is james heckman , a university of chicago economist who won the nobel in economic science in 2000 .
nbc 's john madden , whose heart lies in the offensive line , would have mentioned it and would have wallowed in questions about the mudlessness .
in jerusalem , israel 's security cabinet met to discuss military options for dealing with a weapons buildup in the gaza strip and the continued rocket fire from gaza into israel .
what was unique about sembène was he began to challenge the dominant figure , senghor , '' recalled manthia diawara , a professor of africana studies at new york university who grew up in mali in the 1960s . ''
she is the highest-ranking american woman to speak before the country 's parliament , her spokesman said , and she plans to detail '' america 's commitment to israel and the challenges facing the two nations in the middle east . ''
it was three years later , shortly after the election of france 's first socialist president , françois mitterrand , that mr. papon 's vichy past resurfaced .
the decision by lackawanna county to funnel a half million dollars of its arts and culture budget into a low-budget film by a first-time feature director is not without critics in scranton . ''
nelly furtado 's weekend the pop singer nelly furtado was the big winner -lrb- and the host -rrb- when the junos , canada 's equivalent of the grammys , were awarded in toronto on sunday , reuters reported .
for $ 1.7 million , washington converted a warehouse in seattle into a home for men on conditional release .
lalji desai , 38 , left , from mera , india , after pulling to the side of the road during a family vacation -lrb- mr. desai is executive director of a nongovernmental organization largely dedicated to helping the maldharis , a group of seminomadic herdsmen in gujarat state -rrb- : '' i am from this same kind of pastoral community , and we 've been working in the remotest area of the kutch district for a while .
when ms. rice arrived in oslo , norway , on wednesday for a meeting with nato ministers , she declined to comment on the subpoena .
9 p.m. -lrb- fox -rrb- america 's most wanted : america fights back in this '' sexual predator special edition , '' john walsh , the show 's host , zeroes in on child-abuse cases as law enforcement agents arrest sex offenders in broward county , florida .
israel bombed a series of hamas facilities in gaza on saturday , killing at least five palestinians and wounding six , and arrested another palestinian cabinet minister , wasfi kabaha , a member of hamas , at his home in the occupied west bank .
kreisberg -- luisa , peacefully on february 1 , 2007 in berkeley , california .
mr. sarkozy mentioned france 's '' american friends '' in his acceptance speech after the election a week ago , but what he went on to say sounded no different than what president jacques chirac has been saying for years .
born on sept. 27 , 1907 , in kiev , ukraine , mr. maslow was the son of raeesa and saul maslenkov .
israel claims all of jerusalem as its capital , but only a tiny minority of the arabs who live there are citizens of israel .
mcingvale -- mattress mack , as he is known from his commercials for gallery furniture -- watched as vince young became a local high school legend , cheered as young won a national championship for the texas longhorns and despaired when it became clear before last year 's national football league draft that the houston texans were not quite as smitten with young as he was .
even when i visited my upscale cousin -lrb- he 's a psychiatrist -rrb- in westport , conn. , just down the road from paul newman 's place , i felt i belonged .
surviving is a son , andre fouilhoux houston of washington , d.c. ; three daughters , katherine houston bradford of new york , ny , jean clark houston of portland , oregon and marianna houston also of new york , ny , six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren .
i like mexico a lot , '' gordon said as he sat in the office of his nextel cup team in charlotte , n.c. , far from the dirt roads of baja california where he has raced so many times . ''
jonathan lash , the president of the world resources institute , said thursday that '' this signals that the differences in the interests between these sectors and within these sectors can be resolved . ''
as noted elsewhere in the article , it was the irish news , of belfast , northern ireland , not the irish times , of dublin .
the four-hour caminata nocturna -- nighttime hike -- traverses desert , hills , brambles and riverbeds in the parque ecoalberto , an eco-park communally owned by the hñahñu indians who live on some 3,000 acres of land in the state of hidalgo , about three hours northwest of mexico city -lrb- and roughly 700 miles from the border -rrb- .
the city is accessible from interstate 95 or florida 's turnpike , which are the two major north-south highways on south florida 's east coast .
those issues include sunni worries over rising shiite strength in iraq and iran , an international investigation into possible syrian involvement in the assassination of the former prime minister of lebanon , rafik hariri , and concerns over iran 's nuclear program .
jane hobson new orleans it seems curiously selective to discuss pierre vidal-naquet 's writings on anti-semitism at such length without mentioning the courageous positions he took on israel and the middle east -lrb- '' denying the deniers , '' paul berman -rrb- .
democratic leaders say that staten island is the city 's most republican-leaning borough and is far more conservative than most other parts of new york city .
a significant amount of equipment is in storage at a warehouse in larnaca , cyprus , including gas masks , monitoring cameras and laboratory equipment .
and perrianne simkhovitch , a curly-haired woman scribbling in a journal , said she lived in humboldt redwoods state park in california , had been in town for two weeks , and was dropping in on physics departments around the city to pose questions about '' a time asymmetry where time runs backward . ''
seattle 's qwest field is one of the loudest , most difficult stadiums in the league .
that leaves plenty of time to take inspiration from the cape cod national seashore and the town 's literary legacy -- a long line of heavyweights from norman mailer and michael cunningham to stanley kunitz have produced work in provincetown .
early monday morning , agents with the union county prosecutor 's office and state troopers raided 19 sites in plainfield , piscataway and scotch plains , the prosecutor , theodore j. romankow , said .
the former officer , keith dacosta , 44 , of newark , admitted using bank accounts affiliated with the organization for personal use , including hotel stays , meals and a $ 374 hat , and entering into leases for office equipment with his personal home health care company , said christopher j. christie , the united states attorney .
michael j. critelli , chairman of pitney bowes , the business services company , says he backs changes that emphasize preventive medicine . ''
in the west bank on friday , fatah supporters celebrated an anniversary by attending the weekly demonstration against israel 's separation barrier in the town of bilin , where the barrier cuts off the village from much of its farmland .
a1 syrian-israeli peace gesture a syrian-american peace advocate appeared before a parliamentary committee in jerusalem to convey a message to israel 's skeptical leadership that syria is serious about wanting to negotiate a peace deal .
in 1952 , the metz family moved to strasbourg , france , where mr. metz became a student advisor at the college of free europe .
mr. nasher also gave $ 7.5 million to his alma mater , duke , for the construction of a new museum there , which opened in 2005 , and he established a long-term association that enabled the guggenheim to exhibit some of his works at the peggy guggenheim collection in venice .
but he also appears to believe that israel has no reason to withdraw from the west bank , let alone make peace , unless the palestinians put their house in order .
lisa ray , the actress who said she wept unabashedly after first reading the script and who played one of the lead roles , was at her parents ' home in toronto when she heard the news . ''
she was born in russia , educated in poland and france , and orphaned in warsaw in september , 1939 .
think of senators ben nelson of nebraska and russell d. feingold of wisconsin as the yin and yang of democratic views on what to do about the iraq spending legislation now that president bush 's veto has been upheld .
it came about because mr. lee looked around at the new america -- in california , the first state with no racial majority -- and found that it looked very different from berkeley .
over the course of my reign and certainly since i first visited jamestown in 1957 , my country has become a much more diverse society , just as the commonwealth of virginia and the whole united states of america have also undergone a major social change , '' the queen said . ''
there is a spot in new york city where you can watch the dawn blush over jamaica bay in queens and slip swiftly down the shore to coney island in brooklyn , then hop across new york harbor to suburban stretches of staten island .
a memorial service will be scheduled in boca raton , florida .
yesterday , mr. sulzberger received support when donald e. graham , the chairman and chief executive of the washington post company , urged investors to support the times company .
toyota already has plants in ontario in canada , indiana and kentucky ; it recently opened one in san antonio .
his appearances on mr. letterman 's shows ranged from being a '' correspondent '' at the winter olympics in lillehammer , norway , to handing out hot towels at the port authority bus terminal in manhattan , to doing bad impersonations of ronald reagan , barbra streisand and elvis presley . ''
tacos al pastor -- shepherd-style tacos -- originated in the mexican state of puebla , which has a significant number of residents of lebanese heritage , said rick bayless , a chef , chicago restaurateur and authority on mexican food .
each aurelio zen novel took its hero to a different part of italy , from zen 's native venice to rome , milan , naples , perugia , tuscany , sicily , sardinia and elsewhere .
among the mourners were queen sofía of spain and bernadette chirac , the wife of president jacques chirac of france , president ilham aliyev of azerbaijan and young cellists , bearing witness to mr. rostropovich 's reputation as a man of the world whose appeal cut across class lines .
other finalists are per petterson of norway , peter hobbs and julian barnes of britain and sebastian barry of ireland .
it 's even better when you can just roll out of bed each morning and tackle a different menu , spending one day on neapolitan-style pizza and perhaps returning on another for pasta , as you can at the sorrento cooking school at the esperidi resort on the amalfi coast in italy .
ever since sanford i. weill orchestrated the 1998 merger of travelers and citicorp to form the company , citigroup had managed expenses in an episodic and decentralized manner .
but senator sam brownback of kansas , who is positioning himself as an alternative to mr. mccain among conservatives , denounced mr. bush 's plan , as did senator chuck hagel of nebraska , who like mr. mccain is a vietnam veteran but who long ago broke with the white house over its handling of the war .
cerberus was the only company that we discussed '' with daimlerchrysler 's chief executive , dieter zetsche , at a four-hour meeting in stuttgart , germany , on saturday .
at&t and américa móvil , a venture of the mexican billionaire carlos slim helú , will each get about $ 21 million if pirelli sells the stake to mediobanca and generali .
liberman -- pearl , 91 , of bal harbour , florida , died on january 9 , 2007 .
these include '' bistro cooking '' -lrb- workman , 1989 -rrb- , still a near-perfect collection of family-restaurant recipes from around the country ; the less-well-known '' patricia wells 's trattoria '' -lrb- william morrow , 1991 -rrb- , which is nearly as valuable ; '' simply french '' -lrb- william morrow , 1991 -rrb- , her carefully assembled and accessible recipe collection based on her collaboration with joël robuchon , then and now one of the world 's most creatively brilliant chefs ; and '' the food lover 's guide to paris '' -lrb- workman , fourth edition , 1999 -rrb- and '' the food lover 's guide to france '' -lrb- workman , 1987 -rrb- , in need of updating but still useful resources , and fonts of memories for people who discovered parisian food through ms. wells 's insights .
venezuela shut an aluminum plant in costa rica with 400 employees last week after Óscar arias , costa rica 's president , criticized mr. chávez 's recently acquired power to govern by decree .
miss america '' was born leah berliawsky in kiev , ukraine , to upper-middle-class jews with ties to the lumber industry .
i was backpacking once , going from france to corsica at night , and i was at the top of a giant boat at 2 in the morning , everything so black , and me feeling so small .
while kidd was looking forward to playing with kobe bryant , bibby could have played with lebron james in cleveland . ''
on the other hand , many older football fans in indiana feel strong ties to the bears because the team practiced at st. joseph 's college in rensselaer from 1944 to 1974 .
he has said that turkey is part of europe and deserves to join the european union ; mr. sarkozy has said that turkey is part of asia , not europe , and should never become a member .
in the end , she gave a nice speech for a minister of social affairs , '' said alain duhamel , a leading political analyst and the author of '' the 2007 pretenders , '' a book published in 2006 about france 's presidential candidates whose first edition failed to include ms. royal at all because mr. duhamel did not take her seriously .
mr. mcrae , president of bioniche in belleville , ontario , said the company would begin to distribute the vaccine in canada in june or july after it increases manufacturing capacity .
an explosion at the texas city refinery killed 15 people , and poor maintenance of pipelines from the prudhoe bay , a field producing 400,000 barrels a day in alaska , caused a partial shutdown of the facility .
a pair of 8-year-olds accompanying me found this quite fascinating , as they did david altmejd 's contribution on behalf of canada : a house of mirrors with stuffed squirrels , hair , berries , mushrooms , werewolves and other harum-scarum concoctions typical of the artist .
it will also include two nights of mr. byrne 's work : a performance of music from '' the knee plays , '' his 1985 theatrical collaboration with robert wilson , and a preview of '' here lies love , '' his new multimedia song cycle based on the life and reign of imelda marcos , the former first lady of the philippines .
when julian resuello , the mayor of san carlos city in the northern philippines , was killed by gunmen at a campaign rally on april 28 , his brother quickly stepped into his shoes .
for them , the names sani abacha , muhammadu buhari and ibrahim babangida , fearsome military rulers from nigeria 's past , signify security and decisive leadership , not autocracy and corruption .
they included gov. sonny perdue of georgia , chairman of the republican governors association ; gov. tim pawlenty of minnesota , vice chairman of the national governors association ; and gov. haley barbour of mississippi , a former chairman of the republican national committee .
ms. rice 's six-hour trip to spain , where she also met with prime minister josé luis rodríguez zapatero and king juan carlos , was the highest-level visit by a united states official since mr. zapatero made good on an election promise and pulled spanish troops out of iraq in 2004 .
he praised israel for conducting an inquiry into last year 's war with hezbollah -- an inquiry that accused prime minister ehud olmert of '' serious failure in exercising judgment , responsibility and prudence . ''
the blocker 's sales , along with those of several other hockey products under the rbk xpulse brand , will be closely tracked in a town far from canada 's hockey heartland : herzogenaurach , germany , home to the adidas group .
the government of prime minister ehud olmert of israel played down the prospect of quick results .
the court of appeal ruled that nigeria 's president , olusegun obasanjo , may not unseat his estranged vice president , atiku abubakar , because mr. abubakar had defected from the president 's party to become a presidential candidate for another party .
she points to chicago 's museum of contemporary photography -lrb- www.mocp.org -rrb- , and the art institute of chicago -lrb- www.artic.edu -rrb- , which is currently showing '' on the scene , '' featuring young contemporary artists -lrb- through sept. 3 -rrb- .
when antonio stradivari of cremona , italy , started making violins in the 1660s , newton had not yet discovered the principles of modern physics and the first piano had not yet been manufactured .
regent is now offering wilderness fishing in ketchikan , alaska .
the two leaders ' seesaw struggle for power reflects a deeper schism in ukrainian politics and society in a country balanced between russia and the west , and between russian speakers and ukrainian speakers .
for example , in the suburban connecticut town of darien , sunrise will be at 7:11 a.m. tomorrow and will move gradually earlier until it occurs at 6:58 a.m. on march 20 .
some have moved toward reducing their carbon footprint by switching to local bottled water instead of imported , as dan barber has done at blue hill at stone barns in pocantico hills in westchester county , n.y. a week ago he also added house-made seltzer , served from old-fashioned glass bottles .
when he talked to obstetricians , geneticists and medical students at massachusetts general hospital in boston about the subject last month , though , he was questioned sharply .
some middle east specialists point out that an effort to move against iranian agents could backfire and prompt iran to strike back against america troops . ''
an article in science times on march 13 about efforts to increase the number of minority students studying science referred imprecisely to the meyerhoff scholarship program at the university of maryland , baltimore county .
though they have dropped these charges , the prosecutors in braunschweig , a town near volkswagen 's headquarters , wolfsburg , in northern germany , will still pursue 44 charges of breach of trust , including accusations of payments to klaus volkert , the former head of the volkswagen works council , and his lover .
the more sharply worded of the two measures critical of the white house is one approved last week by the senate foreign relations committee , and backed by the democratic senators joseph r. biden jr. of delaware and carl levin of michigan , as well as senator chuck hagel , the nebraska republican .
one of the state department 's most experienced middle east hands , mr. crocker , 57 , has already served as ambassador to kuwait , syria , lebanon and pakistan , with postings as well to iran , qatar , egypt and afghanistan .
when i see france invaded by immigrants from everywhere , and we practically did nothing about it and it continues -- that 's why i 've always voted le pen even though i did n't share his most extreme opinions , '' said daniel baboz , a 75-year-old retired bailiff who voted in an upscale neighborhood of paris . ''
josef ackermann , chief executive of deutsche bank , earned 13.2 million euros -lrb- $ 17.6 million -rrb- last year , 11 percent more than the 11.9 million euros he got in 2005 .
teddy kollek , who as mayor of jerusalem for nearly three decades did more to build and develop the city as israel 's capital than any other figure while promoting coexistence with a sometimes hostile arab population , died tuesday in jerusalem .
mr. bloomberg , who last visited jerusalem in 2005 for the rededication of the holocaust museum at yad vashem , spent the rest of the day meeting with relatives of israeli soldiers and senior government officials including prime minister ehud olmert , acting president dalia itzik and the mayor of jerusalem , uri lupolianski .
it is inconceivable to me that in this era when both new york and connecticut have strong public policies against the public consumption of alcohol and strict drunken driving laws , that a state agency -lrb- metro-north 's new haven line has a full-fledged bar that is run in cooperation with connecticut -rrb- would actually encourage public drinking by selling alcohol to its patrons , most of whom must drive after getting off of the train .
some three million visitors are expected in cape town and the western cape in 2010 , when cape town will be one of nine host cities in south africa for the soccer world cup .
this week , senators carl levin , democrat of michigan , and john mccain , republican of arizona , released three letters demanding that ms. rice make public the administration 's requirements for actions to be taken by the iraqi government to earn continued american support .
ehud barak , a former prime minister of israel , returned to the political scene on wednesday as the new leader of the labor party , and the deputy prime minister and elder statesman , shimon peres of the ruling kadima party , was elected by parliament to the largely ceremonial post of president .
3 ukraine crisis defused ukraine 's battling political rivals agreed to hold new parliamentary elections , defusing a political crisis that had escalated with president viktor a. yushchenko 's decision to order extra interior ministry troops to the capital , kiev .
richard gere is a wanted man in india after showering the bollywood star shilpa shetty with kisses at an aids awareness rally in new delhi ; indians frown on public displays of affection .
with mr. chávez 's enthusiastic support , bolivia , led by his ally evo morales , is expected to apply formally for full membership in mercosur .
in seoul , south korea , where seung-hui cho grew up , his mother agonized over his sullen , brooding behavior and empty face .
ukraine 's battling political rivals agreed sunday to hold new parliamentary elections , defusing a political crisis that escalated with president viktor a. yushchenko 's decision to order extra interior ministry troops to the capital , kiev .
situated on the musi river in central india , hyderabad is experiencing an economic boom that is not only attracting business travelers , but has also put the city 's splendid monuments , spicy cuisine and bustling bazaars on the cultural map .
beloved wife and mother , passed away on the morning of monday , february 26th , in boca raton , florida .
zingerman 's is unique in that it has a continental reach '' in the united states , said peter foynes , curator of the butter museum in cork , ireland , who led a butter-tasting program at the deli last month . ''
but the senate minority leader , mitch mcconnell , republican of kentucky , said congress could not supplant the authority of the president . ''
i could go back even further to those precambrian times in the 1950s , when my mittens were connected by strings and dad was stemming down bromley mountain in vermont in leather lace-up boots and aluminum skis as long as rain gutters , or that time before i was born when he was a young reporter at the rutland herald , writing stories like the one about the local dog who tried three times to commit suicide , and he got to ski free at pico peak -- dad , not the dog -- because the company that ran the lifts liked reporters ... and now here he was , on a holiday from a house in north carolina where if you did n't pull a cord in the morning , a medical swat team would burst through the door , greasing defibrillator paddles .
in jacksonville , fla. , demonstrators used an unusual visual aid to illustrate rising sea levels : alltel stadium , home of professional football 's jacksonville jaguars , where they hoisted a boat 20 feet in the air outside an entrance .
indian actress blames the ` lunatic fringe ' the bollywood actress shilpa shetty , below , rebuked india 's '' lunatic fringe '' yesterday for the furious reaction to the kisses planted on her face by richard gere at a recent aids charity event in new delhi , agence france-press reported .
on thursday , more than 30 people were reported dead in madhya pradesh , in central india , and at least 20 in bihar , in northeastern india , because of a severe cold snap . ''
8 israel strikes militants in gaza the israeli army struck a palestinian rocket-launching cell near beit hanoun in the northern gaza strip , first with tank shells and then from the air , a spokesman said .
chios : while first-timers to greece flock to mykonos and santorini , prosperous locals have been quietly summering on chios for centuries .
when mr. van agtmael first visited south korea for bankers in 1971 , '' seoul looked like a city in the soviet union , which i had just crossed on the trans-siberian railroad , '' he writes . ''
last month , sergey v. lavrov , the russian foreign minister , called an emergency conference for next week in vienna to discuss the treaty on conventional forces in europe after mr. putin announced that russia would freeze its commitments under the pact .
le bon marché is the only point of sale for jo malone in france and has given the brand pride of place , right next to the escalator ; to the surprise of an american like me , jo malone -- like kiehl 's , which she added in 2002 -- is considered superluxury in france .
officials said they hoped at that meeting to smooth relations with syria after its president , bashar al-assad , insulted the saudi king and president hosni mubarak of egypt in a speech last summer .
their relations thawed with the election of a reformist president in iran , mohammad khatami , in 1997 .
merrie remains in the hearts of her husband , richard h. clarke , of westport ; her brother , frank j. hevrdejs , of houston and pebble beach , california ; and her sister , patricia m. hevrdejs , of portland , oregon .
lg electronics worldwide , seoul , south korea , chose y&r advertising , part of the young & rubicam brands unit of the wpp group , as agency of record for a new line of full-high-definition , flat-screen tv sets .
but they could not see eye to eye among themselves and ultimately filed empty-handed out of the office of senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader .
we worry about the seismic things in california , '' said loring a. wyllie jr. , a san francisco engineer and member of the international association for bridge and structural engineers who had frequently driven over the collapsed connector . ''
-lrb- sisario -rrb- chris knight -lrb- thursday -rrb- cold-eyed drifters , crooked yet sentimental cops , and prostitutes who kill their johns are characters in the brutal , deadpan songs of chris knight , a country singer from kentucky whose oeuvre resembles bruce springsteen 's album '' nebraska '' set in the south .
when the israelis and palestinians held their last round of full-fledged peace talks in january 2001 , the two sides discussed a plan to make jerusalem 's jewish neighborhoods part of israel , and the city 's arab neighborhoods part of a future palestinian state -- a sharp break from israel 's insistence that all of jerusalem remain part of israel 's '' eternal , undivided capital . ''
there is something maddening about the refusal of elected officials in suffolk county to resolve the farmingville day-laborer problem after all these years .
and it would also take the pressure off israel to lift security restrictions on gaza crossing points or to move very quickly to withdraw more settlers and soldiers from the west bank , let alone start negotiating with hamas .
a goodbye to susan , a pocket pat to jingle those keys , and out he goes into the wintry wisconsin sunset , roy ratcliff , minister of the mandrake road church of christ in madison .
the candidates , nicolas sarkozy and ségolène royal , each promised to remake france , deploring the joblessness , the bloated bureaucracy , the lack of entrepreneurial spirit .
nicola luisotti , an up-and-coming italian conductor , will become the new music director of the san francisco opera , the company said yesterday .
another presidential candidate , rudolph w. giuliani , a republican , sought thursday to further burnish his national security credentials by announcing his endorsement by louis j. freeh , the director of the federal bureau of investigation appointed by president bill clinton .
carbon is like a chair , and nitrogen is like a three-legged stool , '' said dr. geraldine richmond , professor of chemistry at the university of oregon in eugene .
xavier florencio of spain was second , and kim kirchen of luxembourg was third .
-lrb- ap -rrb- cavaliers 82 , jazz 73 -- lebron james scored 24 points and had a season-high 17 rebounds to help host cleveland win its eighth straight game .
his 10 home runs tie him with atlanta 's chipper jones for the national league lead .
speculation about a potential takeover of ipsco , which is based in regina , saskatchewan , but has executive offices in lisle , ill. , started over a month ago .
named for the new york city youth program founded in 1999 by chris rolle , known as kazi , a bahamian orphan forced to grow up on the streets of crown heights , brooklyn , the movie follows his efforts to encourage at-risk teenagers to express themselves in verse rather than violence .
chiang mai , thailand , 800-819-5053 ; www.fourseasons.com/chiangmai .
iran 's sprawling facility in the desert at natanz has a small pilot plant where for more than a year engineers have periodically shot uranium gas into scores of spinning centrifuges in an experimental effort to master enrichment , a complex kind of purification process .
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , said , '' we need to have the maximum opportunity for the largest number of amendments to be considered before we entertain the notion of shutting down debate on this important measure . ''
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , said friday that his party would unite to block senate debate next week on a bipartisan resolution opposing president bush 's troop buildup in iraq unless the democrats allowed votes on at least two republican alternatives .
meanwhile , saudi arabia 's newly assertive foreign policy , focused on quelling the middle east 's numerous crises while responding to iran 's encroachment into the region , has focused saudis ' attention outside their borders , further damping the impetus for change .
and then last week , a senior iranian official confirmed in an interview that mr. ivanov had threatened iran with an ultimatum : the fuel would be delivered only after iran 's enrichment of uranium at natanz was frozen .
in an essay published in the believer in 2005 before the georgia aquarium opened , ginger strand catalogs the relationship between aquariums and ruined ecosystems : the monterey bay aquarium in california is on the old cannery row , made obsolete by the depletion of sardine stocks ; the alaska sealife center in seward was paid for largely by the exxon valdez oil spill settlement fund ; in the ocean voyager exhibit in atlanta , there are scant and inconsistent facts about whale sharks -- they reach 45 , 60 or 65 feet depending on which sign is consulted -- but copious details on how they were airlifted from taiwan -lrb- '' via ups ! '' -rrb-
as amory lovins of the rocky mountain institute , who has been working with the pentagon , put it to me : the iraq war forced the u.s. military to think much more seriously about how to '' eat its tail '' -- to shorten its energy supply lines by becoming more energy efficient .
israel withdrew its soldiers and settlers from gaza in 2005 , but still retains overall control of the west bank .
also on wednesday , reuters said that a nonbinding report by experts from the united nations educational , scientific and cultural organization called on israel to halt excavations near jerusalem 's most sacred islamic site and to proceed only under international supervision .
returning to cuba , fidel castro 's right-hand man finds that sting guevara is just not gaining any traction with the campesinos , and the legend of che is born .
i looked around for pat brodowski , who runs the heirloom garden at the carroll county farm museum , in my neck of the woods in north-central maryland .
ms. rice returned from the middle east on tuesday after three intense days of shuttle diplomacy that largely revolved around trying to get israel to agree to allow peace talks with the palestinians to include the big three final-status issues : jerusalem 's fate , a palestinian state 's borders , and what to do about palestinian refugees who fled , or were forced to leave , homes in israel .
mr. fernandez , 39 , was born in santiago rodríguez , the dominican republic .
and his sober analysis of how the madrid train bombings of march 11 , 2004 -- an event known in spain simply as 11-m -- exposed deep fissures in spanish society is the best report i 've read on the subject .
he is survived by his wife , betsy greenberg stevenson ; two children from his first marriage , blake stevenson of essex , connecticut , and rhetta elser of camden , south carolina ; four stepchildren , andrew greenberg of new york city , daniel greenberg of garrison , new york , lee greenberg of bridgehampton , new york , and katherine gabbay of westport , connecticut .
on tuesday , as if to underscore the tensions over identity , roving bands of young people threw objects at the police , smashed store windows and damaged property for several hours at the gare du nord , a major train station in paris .
since 2001 , 1,832 city workers have been deployed for military service in iraq and afghanistan and collectively missed more than 600,000 days of work , at a net cost to new york city taxpayers of $ 57.1 million , according to a report released yesterday by representative anthony d. weiner of queens and city councilman michael e. mcmahon of staten island .
later , as a fledgling journalist in south africa , she would develop a deep affection for the mixed-race cape town enclave where she was living .
the town 's most famous son , the comedian john eric bartholomew -lrb- 1926-1984 -rrb- , left home several decades ago to make his name elsewhere under the stage name eric morecambe of the duo morecambe and wise .
page a10 an american friend in paris nicolas sarkozy , the president-elect of france , is an unabashed admirer of america who loves hemingway and sylvester stallone and wants to end the tension with washington that existed under his predecessor .
just a few weeks ago , google 's chief executive , eric e. schmidt , seemed confident that this courtship of old-line media companies would prove fruitful . ''
a device designed to clean waxy buildup from the walls of the 800-mile alaska pipeline broke apart inside the pipeline in december , raising the possibility that any remaining shards of machinery might damage sensitive valves , an executive of alyeska , the company that runs the pipeline , confirmed thursday .
correction : june 3 , 2007 , sunday the next stop column on may 20 about a cultural revival in san jose , calif. , misstated the amount and the donor of a gift to help restore the california theater there .
this year 's tour of california is expected to draw large crowds as it travels 640 miles through central california and down the coast to long beach .
the rev. barry w. lynn , executive director of americans united for separation of church and state , a nonprofit educational association , said the use of churches for graduation ceremonies was a growing phenomenon , but he was unaware of any other lawsuits over the issue .
the family will receive friends at riverside-gordon memorial chapel , aventura , florida , sunday , april 1 , between 1:00 and 4:00 pm .
to the editor : tom segev poses some interesting '' what if '' questions in connection with israel 's capture of east jerusalem and the west bank in the six-day war in 1967 -lrb- '' what if israel had turned back ?
home energy smart fair , gateway national recreation area , fort wadsworth visitor center , bay street and school road , staten island .
rothman -- sylvia , a longtime resident of cedarhurst , ny , died on march 15 at her home in boca raton , florida .
the day before , she returned from a trip to southern india , where she photographed the ruins of hampi , the 14th-century capital of the hindu kingdom vijayanagara , now designated a unesco world heritage site . ''
long neglected as one of spain 's secondary cities , valencia 's role as host of the america 's cup this year and its ambitious efforts to showcase new architecture are enticing an increasing number of expatriates to visit the city of oranges .
it appears to be seeking only one big fish : stephen a. schwarzman , the chief executive of the blackstone group .
celtikciolu , from ankara , turkey , was writing to me about my fantasy football book .
in addition , manchester city officials have been considering a takeover by a group of american investors and a former prime minister of thailand , thaksin shinawatra .
mr. gary was also a member of the french diplomatic service , and she followed him around the world to a series of postings , culminating in hollywood , when he was stationed in california .
india has been trying to become asia 's low-cost car manufacturing center , offering tax breaks and other incentives .
by 1960 , eisenhower was contemplating american support for opponents of both rafael trujillo , the dictator of the dominican republic , and , as a counterweight , president fidel castro of cuba .
building boom correction : april 2 , 2007 , monday a picture caption in the special museums section on wednesday with an article about campus galleries referred incorrectly to the status of the berkeley art museum and pacific film archive building at the university of california , berkeley .
that same night , nate robertson of detroit threw 115 pitches in five innings , dan haren of oakland 117 in eight innings , dontrelle willis of florida 95 in six , tomo ohka of toronto 91 in five , matt belisle of cincinnati 81 in five , brett tomko of los angeles 56 in two and a third and kevin millwood of texas 45 in one and two-thirds .
if i could put my name on a project in my lifetime and see a major medical breakthrough because of it , that 's what i would love to do , '' said mr. sanford in an interview from scottsdale , ariz. '' the idea that we could really put sioux falls and south dakota so much more on the map , that we could create additional employment and attract people from around the country and around the world , that was really a hot button for me , '' mr. sanford said .
the democrats , besides talking about a broader range of subjects , also have the freshest face among the top campaign advisers -- barack obama 's lead economist , austan goolsbee , a 37-year-old star professor at the university of chicago -lrb- who writes a monthly column for the new york times -rrb- .
houston hoped carr would flourish under gary kubiak , the texans ' new coach last season , but houston went 6-10 .
the numbers dwarfed anything that the middle east had seen since the dislocations brought on by the establishment of israel in 1948 .
set to music by omotayo wunmi olaiya , fred hammond , meshell ndegeocello and femi kuti , the piece travels with a man named truth , whose eventual death in his homeland , nigeria , does not stop him from spreading the word of god .
he was a history ph. d. student at the university of chicago when he was offered a teaching job at morehouse college in atlanta .
he went to pepperdine university in malibu , where he kept trying to play two sports .
after viewing the works , ellen landau , a professor at case western reserve university in cleveland and one of the world 's most respected pollock scholars , decided that they were authentic and agreed to help with scholarship for an exhibition of them , now scheduled to open on sept. 1 at the mcmullen museum of art at boston college .
setting aside his personal feelings for the sake of his party , jacques chirac on wednesday endorsed his longtime younger rival , nicolas sarkozy , as the person best suited to succeed him as president of france .
if i 'd gone away for the week and looked at prices , i would n't have noticed anything , '' said andrew feltus , a vice president and bond portfolio manager at pioneer investments in boston .
i was born in paris but had never heard of le perche , nor had any of my relatives in france .
ellen fuchs dear diary : a friend of mine , a transplanted new yorker visiting from swaziland , braved new york city traffic to drive her parents ' car and meet me in greenwich village .
now , for those who have been living under a rock , it was former senator george allen of virginia who was caught on video last august referring to an opposition aide -- who was of indian descent -- as '' macaca , '' a racial slur obscure to many americans , but potent enough to have caused a media frenzy when the video hit the internet .
recognizing that concern , lawrence lessig , a professor at stanford law school who frequently writes about technology , said that he favored a system that captures in time online sources like wikipedia , so that a reader sees the same material that the writer saw .
several hundred people , most of them fatah supporters , have been camped out at erez , saying they fear for their lives unless they are allowed to escape through israel to the west bank .
my role is to protect the client , particularly the client who wants only the best of the best , '' said jacques grange , a paris designer who has done projects with philippe niarchos , yves saint-laurent , ronald lauder and the financier leon black . ''
the pixar crew took cooking classes , ate at notable restaurants in paris and worked alongside mr. keller at the french laundry in yountville , calif. '' as a former actor and dancer , i have spent a lot of time in restaurants , but i had no idea of that vast difference between france and america , and especially the three-star restaurants in paris , '' said brad lewis , the director .
if ways can not be found to foster emissions cuts in fast-growing countries like china and india , any progress in industrialized counties is likely to be swamped by rapidly increasing pollution , particularly in asia .
rye bob woodruff , abc news journalist .
they had all gotten together the night before at the manhattan home of donald saddler -lrb- 1940-47 -rrb- , where they called alicia alonso -lrb- 1940-60 -rrb- in cuba to say hello .
the suncal site is about a mile from the magic kingdom and half a mile from the company 's second anaheim theme park , disney 's california adventure , which opened in 2001 .
an ancient spring training town in florida , lakeland is not on the way to north carolina from new york .
prime minister ehud olmert of israel and mahmoud abbas , the palestinian president , met here on sunday , resulting in some mixed messages regarding a resumption of their long-dormant peace efforts .
the resolution , proposed by senators joseph r. biden jr. of delaware and carl levin of michigan , both democrats , and chuck hagel of nebraska , a republican , would not be binding , and the white house said it would have no effect on mr. bush 's plan to send more than 20,000 additional troops to iraq .
that is when diplomats from the united states , north korea , china , japan , south korea and russia will reconvene in beijing with a docket that is still dominated by nuclear disarmament but that also now includes unresolved disputes that have bedeviled northeast asia for decades .
the meeting reflects a recognition on the part of all players that they have no interest in iraq falling apart , in its partition or in it disintegrating into a failed state , '' said joost hiltermann , director of the international crisis group 's office in amman , jordan .
a young man named yussie says that he returned to jerusalem from the united states because his '' heart and soul are in israel , '' though with his cd player and cool shades , he might be in america still .
among mr. shalit 's strategies has been to call on president bashar al-assad of syria to press mr. meshal into agreeing to the terms of a prisoner exchange .
business continues to be very , very good here at google , '' eric e. schmidt , google 's chief executive , said in a conference call with investors and reporters .
if they have the language right , i will be right there , '' said senator ben nelson , democrat of nebraska .
an information technology professional who lives in andover , he discovered a taste for teas on business trips to asia and india .
shirley shared more than 60 wonderful years with walt , becoming involved in ranching and many local activities around sheridan and aspen , colorado where they had a home for many years .
in it , the tops of palestinian houses are barely visible behind the hideous concrete barriers that israel has built in the name of security across the west bank .
the best reason yet to jump on the boat-shoe trend : the 32nd america 's cup yacht race in valencia , spain .
mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the senate minority leader , and representative john a. boehner of ohio , the house minority leader , and their deputies were scheduled to spend the evening at camp david on friday with the president .
christopher j. bishop , 35 a german instructor who was known as jamie , he received his bachelor 's and master 's degrees in german linguistics from the university of georgia , in athens , and then attended christian-albrechts university in kiel , germany , on a fulbright scholarship .
to the editor : in recent weeks , the travel section has touted the touristic virtues of both war - and strife-torn kabul , afghanistan -lrb- jan. 21 -rrb- , and trabzon , turkey -lrb- feb. 11 -rrb- , a hotbed of extreme turkish nationalism whose most recent claim to fame is that it produced eight suspects in the murder of hrant dink , a newspaper editor .
the army corps of engineers dispatched soldiers to deliver 100 emergency generators to the mcalester area of oklahoma , the associated press reported , and 50 generators were being sent by the federal emergency management agency .
jaime lerner , the archangel of the curitiba green movement , was anointed by the dragons of war .
an honors student at longfellow middle school in mount vernon , he talked about his goal on monday at the county 's first college fair for middle school students , held at the westchester county center . ''
skiing correction : may 17 , 2007 , thursday a picture caption on monday with a sports article about the reaction of a community in new hampshire to the deaths of a police officer and a cousin of the ski racer bode miller in a violent confrontation misspelled the cousin 's given name .
an article yesterday about the maison tropicale , a small house built in 1951 by the french designer jean prouvé that is on display in long island city , queens , pending an auction in june , referred incorrectly to another maison tropicale at the centre pompidou in paris .
the senators have been joined in their effort by the republican leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , senator john cornyn of texas and senator david vitter of louisiana .
acting under the influence of the age-old dream of return to zion as well as israel 's spectacular victory over egypt 's forces a few hours previously , the ministers decided with their hearts , not their heads , to take east jerusalem .
but the greatest player produced by guadeloupe was the stalwart defender marius trésor , who played for france in the 1978 and 1982 world cups .
the reference was to ayatollah ali khamenei , the iranian leader , and to an elite branch of iran 's islamic revolutionary guards command that is assigned the task of carrying out paramilitary operations abroad . ''
in california , where parents first started educational foundations in response to a statewide law capping property taxes , the combined district of santa monica and malibu requires that 15 percent of the gifts from parents to individual schools must go in an '' equity fund '' that is administered by an independent foundation .
then he flew to paris to meet with president jacques chirac and president-elect nicolas sarkozy in paris .
and malone 's pharmacy , which had '' looked like a mini-wal-mart '' was rebuilt '' with an old soda fountain and a nice little restaurant that made it like an old-fashioned drugstore , '' mr. nix said , adding that the redevelopment '' made arkadelphia more viable than a lot of other arkansas downtowns . ''
a concentration of the tents in the 10th arrondissement in paris brought the issue to a head , and on new year 's eve , president jacques chirac promised to ask the government to work on legislation .
schiller , jonathan e. , 20 , cpl. , army ; ottumwa , iowa ; first cavalry division .
take , for example , the european court of human rights in strasbourg , france -- the judicial body of the council of europe , which russia joined in 1996 .
mr. wolfe , who has written about a recent rise in what he calls '' jewish illiberalism , '' traces the heated language to increasing opposition to the iraq war and president bush 's policy in the middle east , which he said had spurred liberal jews to become more outspoken about israel . ''
israel has the right to defend itself , and it has exercised great restraint in the face of these rocket attacks , '' he told reporters , noting that secretary of state condoleezza rice had called mr. abbas and prime minister ehud olmert of israel .
a1 israeli prime minister to stay israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , survived three no-confidence votes against his government , part of the political fallout from a harsh report on the country 's leadership during last summer 's war in lebanon .
the main lesson , said sara seager , a planetary theorist at the massachusetts institute of technology , is that the idea of habitability is much more complicated than just the locations of planetary orbits . ''
prime minister ehud olmert called wednesday for president moshe katsav 's resignation , after israel 's attorney general announced his intention to indict mr. katsav on criminal charges including rape , abuse of power , obstruction of justice , fraud , sexual harassment and breach of trust . ''
many families wanted a cemetery close to washington heights , the center of new york city 's dominican community , specifically trinity , at 153rd street and riverside drive .
george becker , who at 15 literally followed his father 's footsteps into a steel mill in his illinois hometown and rose to become the sixth president of the united steelworkers union , died on saturday at his home in gibsonia , pa. .
the moth has since been found in nine california counties , including napa , where the discovery of a single specimen set off alarm bells for winemakers and farmers up and down the grape-happy region . ''
mr. rosenthal , 62 , said federal prosecutors had unfairly made him a target with an array of drug , money-laundering and tax-evasion charges , many of which closely mirrored charges he was convicted of in 2003 , when he was growing medical marijuana under california 's law at a dispensary in oakland .
at the time of the wedding ms. durkin was the high-powered advertising director for tommy hilfiger , always attending the coolest parties and restaurant openings ; mr. wignall was the low-key owner of crystal beauty products , his family 's supply company based in st. catharines , ontario , who liked sport-fishing in the caribbean or napping in a canoe .
it was not lost on ms. warren that mamaroneck 's archrival , lakeland high school in northern westchester county , which went on to win the 2006 state championship , had been playing on a synthetic turf field for two years . ''
in the middle east , where mixing religion with government has been seen as poisonous for modernity , turkey 's very light blend stands out as unusual , even unique . ''
president bush took his predecessor , junichiro koizumi , on a highprofile visit to graceland in memphis , where mr. koizumi put on elvis 's shades and played air guitar while mugging for the camera .
an acquaintance of mine in delhi who owns a house in goa put it bluntly : if you want to get out of india , come to goa .
mulderbosch 's floral 2006 cabernet sauvignon rosé from stellenbosch , in the heart of south africa 's wine industry , combines a white 's zip and a red 's oomph .
on sunday , though , there was a significant shift of the tectonic plates of bangladeshi politics as muhammad yunus , the founder of a microfinance empire known as the grameen bank and the winner of the 2006 nobel peace prize , announced that he would start a new party and step into the electoral fray . ''
lebanon will be turned into a battlefield after this , '' said hussein jammoul , 27 , a protester who has camped in the tent city in downtown beirut since december . ''
howard d. greenberg , an immigration lawyer in toronto , said canada 's experience showed the risks of relying too heavily on a point system . ''
in an interview , antonino-custodio said she felt that pacquiao was pressured into running by the administration of gloria macapagal-arroyo , the president of the philippines , who has faced accusations of corruption , including the allegation that she fixed her victory in the 2004 election . ''
republicans were stung by the defection of senator chuck hagel of nebraska , who has not supported a timetable for withdrawal before although he is his party 's most outspoken critic of the war in congress . ''
the domestic doyenne martha stewart rubbed shoulders with the actor michael douglas ; stephen a. schwarzman of the blackstone group donned his felt robin hood hat ; and steven tyler of aerosmith rocked out with the millionaires and billionaires for more than two hours .
mr. kollek , a former aide to david ben-gurion , israel 's founding prime minister , became mayor of small , jewish west jerusalem in 1965 and nearly resigned after a difficult first year .
freezing and disabling yongbyon is an important but modest step , '' said michael green , who negotiated with north korea as the top asia expert at the national security council until he left a year ago . ''
louisville 's rick pitino knows a thing or two about this tournament , winning it with kentucky in 1996 and reaching the final four four other times .
today , customers will be able to touch and feel the vast array of at&t 's full suite of services under one roof for the first time , '' said ralph de la vega , group president of at&t 's regional wire-line operations , based in atlanta .
the razr was largely the creation of mike s. zafirovski , who was brought in from general electric in 2000 to revive motorola 's handset business .
several banks beat a hasty retreat from india , shutting offices and pulling management back to hong kong or elsewhere in asia after business slowed and regulatory changes increased capital requirements .
he was referring to coverage in the mainstream newspaper hurriyet that said mr. asgari arrived at the istanbul airport on feb. 7 after moving his family to safety in damascus , syria .
the jump , it seems , was long a dream for mr. corliss , a 30-year-old californian who is said to have parachuted from grand heights everywhere from paris to kuala lumpur , malaysia .
in the highest-profile use of the anti-terror laws , 18 men , most of them young , were arrested last summer in the toronto area and accused of plotting to attack several government targets in southern ontario , including the parliament buildings in ottawa .
indeed , mr. chávez said sunday that he wished mr. correa the '' best of luck '' from venezuela , where he appeared on television with president evo morales of bolivia to commemorate the opening of a milk processing plant built in western venezuela with financing from iran .
but in recent interviews and public statements , senior members of the bush administration have made it clear that their agenda goes significantly further , toward foiling iran 's dream of emerging as the greatest power in the middle east .
even in the eight years since the last war ended , commerce has not revived in cities like leskovac , in southeastern serbia .
mr. reid noted that senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , reached out to him on thursday morning , before the senate voted on the spending bill , to begin preliminary discussions of what to do next .
on his first trip to iowa as a presidential candidate , senator barack obama , democrat of illinois , found himself responding to an unexpected critic : john howard , australia 's prime minister .
in this repeat of a november episode , mr. baryshnikov and ms. waters trade philosophies on art , food , teaching and community as they visit the baryshnikov arts center in manhattan and the edible schoolyard project in berkeley , ca. , and share a meal at ms. waters 's restaurant chez panisse .
he had tested positive for a banned substance three months earlier at a tournament in acapulco , mexico .
the aspen skiing company , which operates four resorts around aspen in central colorado , had 3,000 to 4,000 fewer skier-days through the christmas week than expected , with each skier-day worth $ 50 to $ 75 , said jeff hanle , a company spokesman . ''
ms. miller decided a decade ago that it was time she owned her own bar , and one happened to be for sale in rexburg , a place she adored in the breathtaking upper snake river valley of southeast idaho .
srgjan kerim , a former foreign minister of macedonia who has served as his country 's ambassador to germany , switzerland and lichtenstein , and the united nations , was elected president of the general assembly for the 62nd session of the 192-member body , which begins in september .
taras kuzio , a political science professor at george washington university and a ukraine specialist , said mr. yushchenko controlled the variables that mattered in ukraine 's young political system -- the army , the security service and popular support in the capital , kiev . ''
for decades , ivory coast 's booming agricultural economy had relied on immigrants from neighboring burkina faso , mali and guinea to plant and reap its rich cocoa and coffee crops ; the country 's longtime president , félix houphouët - boigny , had made it his country 's policy to defuse ethnic tensions for the sake of prosperity .
the overall report was approved in a 10-5 vote , with two republican senators , olympia snowe of maine , and chuck hagel of nebraska , joining with all eight democrats on the committee .
in advance of an anti-kremlin protest march set for today in nizhny novgorod , russia 's third-largest city after moscow and st. petersburg , the police detained several planners and confiscated 60,000 copies of an opposition newspaper , organizers of the protest , called the dissenters ' march , said .
mr. iribe became famous for illustrations he did for the paris couturier paul poiret .
now , in the internet and cellphone era , that name seems out of date as well , so the museum is renaming itself again , this time as the paley center for media , after the late cbs founder william s. paley .
fears of overheating have been especially pronounced in india , where a growth rate of more than 8 percent has been accompanied by rising prices for some consumer goods , and equities are among the most expensive in asia .
on april 5 , the rev. john r. kleinheksel , a minister of the reformed church in america and a pastoral assistant at the american church in paris , performed a ceremony in the garden of the monet house in giverny , france .
trufant , perhaps seattle 's best cornerback , stood at the top of qwest field before the game and raised the 12th man flag , a local tradition .
in the new york post the more sedate clive barnes sniffed , '' absurdity chases absurdity in a not particularly well-acted melodrama . ''
foujita 's paris , with its grinding poverty and appalling sanitation , was more like henry miller 's city of sex and squalor than hemingway 's more decorous moveable feast .
paulson in asia -- treasury secretary henry m. paulson jr. , below , will head to asia this week , stopping in japan on monday , south korea on tuesday , beijing on wednesday and shanghai on thursday .
an article on monday about the public debate in israel over whether prime minister ehud olmert could retain power despite a government report criticizing his leadership in the 34-day lebanon war misstated the date the war began last year .
mr. tetley -- who also succeeded john cranko as director of the stuttgart ballet from 1974 to 1976 -- choreographed in the united states for american ballet theater , dance theater of harlem , the houston ballet and in toronto for the national ballet of canada .
mr. lugovoi also said that mr. litvinenko , who made his name in part by stridently criticizing mr. putin and russia 's intelligence services , had proposed a racket to secure asylum for russians who would publicly criticize russian authorities .
when jonathan i. schwartz was named chief executive of the struggling sun microsystems last april , succeeding scott g. mcnealy , there was a great deal of skepticism about whether he could bring the company back .
yes , they will continue tonight on abc with san antonio leading , 3-0 , and yes , there will be hopes that lebron james can lead cleveland to a victory or two before his cavaliers succumb to the spurs .
prime minister ehud olmert of israel , in new york on a visit that will take him to washington for a meeting tuesday with president bush , said israel had concluded that the rockets were launched by '' a small palestinian section '' that he said was '' most likely '' tied to al qaeda .
during the 40-year occupation of the west bank and gaza , al qaeda was never involved in terrorist attacks against israel .
the vibe is so west coast mellow at this july fourth weekend jamfest in northeastern california -- about 200 miles from san francisco -- that attendees report sharing beers with musicians they had just seen onstage .
john mckay of seattle testified that the chief of staff for representative doc hastings , republican of washington , called to ask whether he intended to investigate the 2004 governor 's race , which a democrat won after two recounts .
edgar allan poe , who lived on and off in the city , died in baltimore in 1849 of mysterious causes .
the explosion , one of the most deadly in recent years , occurred at the ulyanovskaya coal mine in the city of novokuznetsk , in south-central russia , with about 200 people inside , said valery b. korchagin , a spokesman for the local emergency affairs ministry .
however , the separation barrier in the west bank being erected by israel , which israel says is for protection but greatly angers palestinians , is a particularly delicate issue among arabs .
-lrb- dave kehr -rrb- fares to remember : taxi '07 -lrb- today through sunday -rrb- the ifc center celebrates the 100th anniversary of the taxi in new york city with a month of cab-centric movies .
in his speech on wednesday , mr. chávez , who hinted at the possibility of seeking another term once this one ends in 2012 , seemed to evoke fidel castro 's leftward ideological evolution in the years after taking power in cuba in 1959 .
in 1981 , reagan granted clemency to two former high officials of the federal bureau of investigation , w. mark felt and edward miller .
michael dibdin , an internationally acclaimed british crime novelist whose best-known books feature the brooding italian police detective aurelio zen , died on march 30 in seattle .
leading cornell 's charge is the senior attackman david mitchell , who is from moose jaw , saskatchewan .
david dagon , a georgia institute of technology researcher who is a co-founder of damballa , a start-up company focusing on controlling botnets , said the consensus among scientists is that botnet programs are present on about 11 percent of the more than 650 million computers attached to the internet .
boeing has pulled ahead of airbus elsewhere , but the europeans are seen as having an edge in russia because a russian government bank is a part owner of airbus 's parent company , the european aeronautic defense and space company . ''
later , he said , '' the brits became interested in everything : my connections , financial potential , existence of direct access to the president of russia as well as contacts with employees '' of russian intelligence agencies .
but he said he '' would not have taken the job '' without a severance plan , especially since he had spent six months negotiating his exit at citigroup after a falling out with sanford i. weill , his former mentor and boss .
despite playing in minnesota for 12 years without winning a championship , garnett has been reluctant to request a trade , as iverson did when he asked out of philadelphia . ''
the illini also landed a player who originally committed to florida , d'angleo mccray , from jacksonville .
mr. colani said in a telephone interview from his studio in karlsruhe , germany . ''
though stamm has been dominating this race , previously known as around alone , the 15,000-nautical-mile leg that started in fremantle , australia , in january , served up its share of challenges .
the new york city ballet 's revival of jerome robbins 's '' dybbuk '' on friday , as part of its new program '' balanchine and robbins : masters at work , '' is n't necessarily a good thing , either .
over the past year , more attempted attacks against israel have originated in nablus than in any other west bank city , the general said .
a founder and youtube 's chief executive chad hurley received 694,087 shares of google and an additional 41,232 in a trust .
pellman did n't attend medical school for four years at the state university of new york at stony brook , but in guadalajara , mexico .
it speaks volumes when secretary of state condoleezza rice flies to jerusalem to try to revive peace talks between prime minister ehud olmert of israel and president mahmoud abbas of the palestinian authority and can not even get the two to show up when she reads out the content-free joint statement to which they have grudgingly agreed .
largely english-speaking , they were generally somewhere on the left of israel 's wide political spectrum , and they listened earnestly as mikhael manekin , 27 , spoke quietly about his four years of service with the golani infantry brigade in the west bank .
bangkok garden is the life 's work of an extended family from central thailand , about 100 miles northwest of bangkok .
last year , pacific retirement services , a nonprofit organization based in medford , ore. , began construction on the mirabella , a continuing-care community in the south lake union neighborhood of seattle .
he maintained his overall lead of 21 seconds over jens voigt of germany , a rider with the csc team , and of 54 seconds over his teammate jason mccartney , 33 , from coralville , iowa .
both israel and hamas have attacked a new american proposal for patrols by the palestinians while israel removes more of its checkpoints and begins bus convoys between the west bank and gaza , though mr. abbas has supported the idea .
the failure was not a result of secretary of state condoleezza rice 's having '' indulged '' the '' inherent caution '' of israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert .
international nuclear investigators have confirmed that iran is beginning to install equipment in the large underground chamber in natanz , the center where iranian officials have said they will move to industrial-scale enrichment of uranium , according to foreign diplomats and american officials .
in 1948 , rabbi kret came to new york city , and with the help of rabbi yosef eliyahu henkin , of blessed memory , he was hired as the rabbi of the old broadway synagogue in the west harlem neighborhood of manhattanville .
even so , he said , the bush administration , running out of options in the middle east , '' may be looking for another lever to pull in iraq , lebanon and the peace process . ''
additionally , adams served as interim associate minister at hancock united church of christ , in lexington , and at babson college , in wellesley , where she was protestant chaplain .
allen j. ross , president $ -lrb- 6 $ -rrb- goldberg -- eli malcom , age 93 , at home in boca raton , florida , january 20 , 2007 .
for research in motion , which is based in waterloo , ontario , the arrival of gameloft 's titles and other mass-market software could help it win over more of the coveted consumer market .
secretary of state condoleezza rice bluntly criticized spain 's increasingly close contacts with cuba on friday and prodded the spanish government to do more to support dissidents in cuba as it prepares for what she called a '' major transition '' -- a reference to the health of fidel castro . ''
villa san michele , fiesole , italy ; 800-237-1236 ; www.villasanmichele.com .
from the start of the investigation , russia has said its laws forbid any extradition of russian citizens .
sheldon whitehouse , democrat of rhode island , and claire mccaskill , democrat of missouri , both former prosecutors , were especially eloquent about the way in which mr. gonzales has betrayed the ideals of american law .
you can line up along the route to cheer for the 32,000 riders , whose 42-mile trip will start in battery park and end with a festival at fort wadsworth on staten island .
born in brooklyn , ny , resided in tamarac , florida .
in signing the 1993 oslo accords , israel pledged to treat the west bank and gaza as '' a single territorial unit '' and guaranteed '' safe passage '' for palestinians traveling between them .
many thousands of juleps will be poured at churchill downs during the kentucky derby this weekend .
within a year of that age were google 's sergey brin and larry page , apple 's steve wozniak , yahoo 's jerry yang , skype 's janus friis , chad hurley from youtube , and tom anderson from myspace . '' ''
ms. royal took her last rally to toulouse , in the south , where she appeared before 17,000 supporters side by side with prime minister josé luis rodríguez zapatero of spain , a socialist .
mr. rama , tirana 's mayor , says he is offended when albania 's pro-americanism is cast as an expression of '' provincial submission . '' ''
catalan spring in spring the catalonia region of spain is filled with the aroma of grilling green onions that are like leeks , a tradition called the calçotada .
the top united states negotiator on north korea 's nuclear weapons program , christopher r. hill , an assistant secretary of state , said in seoul , south korea , on tuesday that it was still possible to meet the deadline . ''
shopping kabul 's fabled chicken street is lined with sellers of carpets , jewelry , furniture and a wide variety of antiques from across central asia ; make sure to bargain hard for everything .
'' home design in new york city , '' a conference at the museum of the city of new york on april 14 , promises a glimpse inside some of the city 's most famous residences -- among them , john d. rockefeller 's apartment -lrb- michael gross , center at bottom right , the author of '' 740 park : the story of the world 's richest apartment building , '' will discuss its '' oil money look '' -rrb- and sister parish 's numerous interiors -lrb- the designer mario buatta , bottom left , will explain how they convey what he calls an '' automatically civilized '' look , as if the owners had been in residence for years -rrb- .
howard schultz , the chairman of starbucks , describes his key experience as occurring in the winter of 1961 when he was 7 and throwing snowballs with friends outside the bayview housing projects in brooklyn .
cons even though san clemente is more affordable than many california beach towns , a median home price of more than $ 800,000 makes it far from cheap .
in addition to the prospect of mr. trump being cross-examined about the 2003 shareholder meeting , there was concern that mr. black would attempt to exchange pleasantries with mr. trump in court , as he did last week with kenneth whyte , a witness for him who used to work for him as an editor in canada .
a memorial service will be held at 10:00 am on february 17th at the tulocay cemetery association in napa , california .
on may 8 , representative marcy kaptur , an ohio democrat , and a dozen other legislators wrote to president felipe calderón of mexico and the governor of the state of nuevo león , of which monterrey is the capital , urging them to thoroughly investigate the killing and provide protection for the rest of the mexico staff of the farm workers ' union .
hana el sahly houston , june 5 , 2007 to the editor : tom segev argues that , although '' some kind of retaliation '' by israel against jordan 's june 1967 attack was justified , it should have stopped short of taking east jerusalem and the west bank .
the practice of soothsaying , strictly forbidden in saudi arabia and most other countries in the middle east that see it as contrary to islam , has become a cottage industry here in lebanon , which has a more freewheeling attitude .
a company that announces it wants to make cars , televisions or pharmaceuticals in , say , east asia , will then send its representatives to negotiate with government officials in china , malaysia , the philippines and elsewhere , holding an auction for the best deal .
senator george allen , a republican from virginia , helped derail his 2006 re-election campaign when he mocked a rival campaign worker , who had been videotaping an allen campaign event , as a '' macaca . ''
if israel had '' refrained from colonizing the west bank , '' he asserts , there would have been '' a comprehensive and lasting peace . ''
it is the dominant carrier in ontario and quebec , the most populous provinces , and is one of canada 's largest corporations and employers .
except for the recently developed technology hubs of bangalore and hyderabad , india has not added cosmopolitan , globally connected metropolises to its old ones : calcutta , delhi , madras and mumbai .
forty years ago this week , in the june 1967 arab-israeli war , israel conquered the eastern , arab-populated half of jerusalem from jordan and declared that the city would remain united for eternity .
she is a daughter of ingeborg and karl nied of heilbronn , germany .
the american friends of the hebrew university and the hebrew university of jerusalem mourn the passing of rosalie sorkin , a loving parent and humanitarian devoted to israel , the jewish people and the cause of higher education .
details about the new package of invitations for russia to cooperate on missile defense were described by civilian administration officials and military officers who said they believed that the initiative was a major step forward in calming russian objections to the american plans .
the majority leader , harry reid , democrat of nevada , and the minority leader , mitch mcconnell , republican of kentucky , said they expected the bill to return to the floor before the fourth of july recess .
the bishops were met by israel 's deputy prime minister , shimon peres .
myanmar 's deputy foreign minister , kyaw thu , said it would be up to the north koreans to decide whether to open a diplomatic mission in the remote new capital , naypyidaw , 200 miles north of yangon , the largest city and former capital .
new york city 's transportation commissioner , iris weinshall , is leaving her post to become a vice chancellor of the city university of new york , officials said yesterday .
and it 's not as if israel has n't produced worthy composers : works by paul ben-haim and noam sheriff among the older generation , or oded zehavi and avner dorman , among the younger , would have been welcome .
'' the presidential election is no soap opera , '' ségolène royal , the first woman to be nominated by a major party for the top position in france , insisted recently .
bulls fans do n't need a lot of added incentive to cheer against isiah thomas and the knicks , '' said carmen defalco , co-host of a radio talk show on espn 1000 in chicago . ''
on thursday , secretary of state condoleezza rice , a scholar of russian affairs , used a speech in potsdam , germany , to describe the american-russian relationship as one of '' cooperation and competition , of friendship and friction . ''
there were no shortage of winners on wednesday night as gaël monfils of france knocked out marcos baghdatis , last year 's surprise finalist and sentimental favorite , in four sets in the second round .
in bucharest , romania , president traian basescu said sunday night that the entry into the european union signaled the end of a painful 17-year process . ''
as stephen a. schwarzman , the chairman of the blackstone group , strolled out of a panel , '' is bigger better in private equity ?
mr. sakka was arrested in 2005 in turkey while , according to the authorities , he was preparing a suicide attack on an israeli cruise ship that was to carry tourists to antalya , a turkish mediterranean port .
with each team able to call a recruit only once from april 15 to may 31 and not again until sept. 1 , the coaches jostled to be seen by brown , possibly the best player from wichita since the hall of fame running back barry sanders . ''
on sunday , elevation partners , the $ 1.9 billion private equity group that was founded by roger mcnamee , a veteran technology investor ; fred anderson , apple 's former chief financial officer ; the rock star bono and several others , agreed to buy 25 percent of palm for $ 325 million .
lazard , the investment bank run by bruce wasserstein , said yesterday that strength in its merger-advisory business helped lift its fourth-quarter profit 50 percent , to a record $ 85.8 million .
farley -- james b. -lrb- jim -rrb- died peacefully after a prolonged illness in gulf stream , florida on january 20 , 2007 .
in israel , the crisis speeded up a key appointment in the government of prime minister ehud olmert , who is traveling this weekend to washington to meet with president bush .
that 's why the bush administration needs to drop its stubborn resistance to diplomacy with syria -- and try to coax damascus away from both iran and hezbollah .
the preliminary injunction blocking the law before it could take effect was issued in june 2005 by judge karen e. schreier in rapid city , s.d. judge schreier wrote , '' the south dakota statute requires abortion doctors to enunciate the state 's viewpoint on an unsettled medical , philosophical , theological and scientific issue , that is , whether a fetus is a human being . ''
he owns an off-road race team and a shop in anaheim , calif. , and he still competes in the baja 1000 , an off-road race on a course through the baja california peninsula in mexico .
international a3-11 poverty stricken iraqis turn to selling sex in syria for anyone living in damascus , the fact that some iraqi refugees are selling sex or working in sex clubs is difficult to ignore .
senator ben nelson , democrat of nebraska , agreed . ''
with the prospect of three civil wars looming over the middle east -- and iran poised to gain from them all -- saudi arabia has abandoned its behind-the-scenes checkbook diplomacy and taken on a central , aggressive role in reshaping the region 's conflicts .
regardless of the cause , the disruption along the druzhba , or friendship , pipeline affected supplies of crude oil headed to poland , germany and ukraine .
the cat-and-mouse game of the news media is something mr. langella has had a chance to study recently , for his film roles as william s. paley , the chief executive of cbs , in '' good night , and good luck , '' and , for that matter , perry white , the editor of a major metropolitan newspaper , in '' superman returns . ''
the chicago dealer kavi gupta has presold -- in large part through jpegs -- his current exhibition of paintings by claire sherman , a 2005 graduate of the school of the art institute of chicago . ''
lot size : 0.21 acre date built : 2006 this new home inside the dallas beltway is located in preston hollow , a small oasis in an otherwise busy urban area near the love field airport .
for tips on traveling with your dog or leaving one behind when taking a vacation , i talked with cesar millan , a dog behaviorist and best-selling author , better known as national geographic channel 's dog whisperer .
he asserted that the four members of the united kingdom -lrb- england , wales , scotland and northern ireland -rrb- play by the rules of fair play '' but as soon as you hit africa it 's a slightly different kettle of fish . '' ''
other films that made the cut include a portrait of richard n. perle , the former bush administration adviser and iraq war advocate , who narrates a documentary in which he confronts his critics , as well as a '' frontline '' co-production that takes a critical look at the effort to train iraqi forces ; a profile of the muslim dissident irshad manji ; and an examination of islam in indonesia , produced by new york times television .
the army 's v corps , in heidelberg , germany , where general thurman is currently the commander , released a statement yesterday confirming the report 's conclusions and the reassignment of the platoon and company commanders .
red76 , a collective from portland , ore. , spearheaded by the artist sam gould , assembled a kind of lean-to from which street performances called '' revolutionary days '' have emerged during the course of the show .
bar stuzzichini with drinks , bars in italy serve snacks called stuzzichini -lrb- cicchetti in venice -rrb- : caponata , arancini , salume and the like .
paul sussman rye brook , n.y. , march 23 , 2007 to the editor : if , as it seems , shashi tharoor 's goal was to make me feel stupid for preferring baseball to cricket , he would have been better served had he not included the following : '' cricket is better suited to a country like india , where a majority of the population still consults astrologers . ''
we do n't think taxing folks is something that is popular in california , '' he said in a telephone interview from sacramento . ''
her father is a professor and the chairman of the computer science department at the university of oregon in eugene .
indonesia and qatar had proposed language supporting the establishment of a nuclear-free zone in the middle east .
france 's citoyennes were used in the streets of paris as stooges and enforcers or idolized as keepers of the revolutionary home and heart , but when they drew attention to themselves as individuals rather than symbols , they were disdained , despised and sometimes , like gouges , condemned to death .
the two of us and our two-man crew chugged around the busy container port , dry dock and indian navy base , saw the manmade willingdon island with its shipping company offices , warehouses and taj malabar hotel , and gazed toward the high-rises of kerala 's commercial center , ernakulam .
after the meeting here of representatives of the so-called quartet of middle east peace negotiators -- the united states , russia , the united nations and the european union -- the group released a statement that '' reaffirmed '' its support for a palestinian government that would recognize israel and renounce violence .
his father died when he was 6 , and he grew up on the rosebud indian reservation in south dakota , where his mother was a schoolteacher .
in only its second year , the tour of california , which begins sunday in san francisco , has become the country 's most important professional cycling event , attracting more than 1 million spectators last year and a field of riders this year that ranks as the strongest ever assembled for a race in the united states .
this is jaffna , the picturesque prize of sri lanka 's ethnic civil war , girding for a new storm .
at one point he traveled to amman , jordan , to meet with yasser arafat , the palestinian leader , to help restore order .
the embattled chief executive of siemens , klaus kleinfeld , said wednesday that he would step down when his contract expired in september , the latest casualty in a widening corruption scandal that has shaken corporate germany .
he had been in the united states for 15 days -- his home is in guanajuato , mexico -- and he wanted to spend the last of his mexican currency . ''
-lrb- ap -rrb- cavaliers 110 , hawks 76 -- lebron james scored 23 points , sasha pavlovic added 15 and host cleveland kept pace with idle chicago -lrb- 48-32 -rrb- for the no. 2 seed in the eastern conference .
in toronto , the renaissance toronto hotel downtown -lrb- 416-341-7100 , www.renaissancetorontodowntown.com -rrb- is part of the rogers centre , the blue jays ' stadium , and has 70 rooms with views of the field .
homebase abroad -lrb- 781-639-4040 ; www.homebaseabroad.com -rrb- specializes in opulent villas in italy , specifically the areas of tuscany , umbria , lake como and the amalfi coast .
she majored in music at san jose state university in california , when it was a teacher 's college , and she met her future husband in san francisco , where he was a longshoreman .
he grew up in california reading magazines like startling stories , thrilling wonder stories and fantastic universe , and then , after dropping out of the university of california , berkeley , began writing for them , often in manic 20-hour sessions fueled by booze and speed .
correction : june 13 , 2007 , wednesday a map on monday with an article about fears that tourism in the niagara falls area will suffer when tighter border restrictions take effect mislabeled an island in the niagara river between new york and ontario .
while they rarely compare notes -lrb- and even more rarely track results -rrb- , california institutions like the san diego museum of art , the museum of latin american art in long beach , the getty museum , the los angeles county museum of art and the santa barbara museum of art have all ramped up spanish-language programs in the last five years , easily outpacing the spotty or sporadic efforts in the rest of the country .
ms. rice will act as host for the meeting with mr. abbas and prime minister ehud olmert of israel at her hotel in jerusalem .
john mccain is a remarkable american hero who has experienced war , and in the post-9 \/ 11 period , what better kind of leader could we have than that ? ''
his father was a dentist and a baseball player whose family left cuba after the revolution led by fidel castro .
the attacks coincided with a visit to iraq by a republican congressional delegation led by senator john mccain , who declared at a news conference that the new american security plan was '' making progress '' and that there was cause for '' very cautious optimism . ''
this transaction , which is in the context of a fruitful and ongoing relationship between italy and russia , underlines the value of our strategic partnership with gazprom , '' paolo scaroni , the chief executive of eni , said in a statement .
melvin van peebles was born in chicago in 1932 .
sara seager , a planetary theorist at the massachusetts institute of technology who was a member of dr. richardson 's team , said the lack of such features was '' truly exciting . ''
maxed out opens today in new york ; austin , tex. ; dallas ; los angeles ; san francisco ; seattle ; and washington .
despite the decision by many members of his party to break with the white house over the troop increase , the republican leader in the senate , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , said he would use parliamentary tactics to try to thwart the democratic effort to adopt the senate resolution opposing the plan .
in january , youtube 's co-founder , chad hurley , said the company would in the coming months begin sharing advertising revenue with contributors .
the get correction : april 1 , 2007 , sunday an article last sunday in t : travel , about hat making in montappone , italy , misspelled the name of a museum there .
pentagon officials worry that among the just over 20 army brigades left in the united states or at army bases in europe and asia , none has enough equipment and manpower to be sent quickly into combat , except for an armored unit stationed permanently in south korea , several senior army officers said . ''
correspondence david e. sanger , chief washington correspondent of the new york times , testified under subpoena in the libby case .
at the february meeting of the american association for the advancement of science in san francisco , myriad choices were available at a reception -- dim sum to celebrate the chinese new year , italian delicacies to highlight the city 's north beach area , spanakopita , beef wellington -- but the scientists were on their own for all other meals .
anti-buildup measure has bipartisan support senator chuck hagel of nebraska , an outspoken republican critic of the administration 's iraq policy , will join two leading democrats in introducing a resolution opposing president bush 's buildup of troops in iraq , putting a bipartisan stamp on the looming congressional showdown over the war .
he won a seventh tour event -lrb- his first this year -rrb- , the buick invitational near san diego , last month but finished tied for third with niclas fasth behind henrik stenson and ernie els in the recent dubai desert classic , another non-tour event .
opposition candidate shot makhachkala , russia , feb. 14 -lrb- agence france-presse -rrb- -- a local legislative candidate was shot in the head wednesday in the southern russian region of dagestan less than an hour after making a campaign speech on television here , a police spokeswoman said .
jeffrey r. immelt , the chairman of general electric , nbc 's parent company , said the tough times at the network actually worked in mr. zucker 's favor by letting him demonstrate both his tenacity and his ability to inspire those working under him .
there is a housing deficit in juárez , and all over mexico , so speculators are now buying land and flipping it .
some were familiar names -- hermann göring , hitler 's second in command ; albert speer , the architect who ran germany 's war production operation ; joachim von ribbentrop , the onetime champagne salesman who became hitler 's foreign minister ; julius streicher , publisher of the fanatically anti-semitic nazi newspaper der sturmer .
peter a. chernin , the president of the news corporation , said the new site '' has absolutely no resemblance '' to youtube and that eric e. schmidt , the chief executive of google , is considering licensing the new venture 's fare just as other big internet players have .
the theme of this year 's issue is music , and this special goes behind the scenes with the models , who shimmied at locations like the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland and graceland , the elvis presley mansion in memphis .
the cannon spent the winter at the watervliet arsenal in watervliet , n.y. , and will remain there until the dispute is resolved .
this latest insult to our troops should come as no surprise since others in the democrat leadership have declared the war lost , '' said representative geoff davis , republican of kentucky .
a1 trip to ease tension opens rift a pilgrimage to israel by roman catholic bishops from germany last week , meant to be a symbol of reconciliation between jews and german catholics , caused new tension after two bishops compared the plight of palestinians in the west bank to that of jews in the warsaw ghetto during world war ii .
a poet , novelist and playwright of sorts , mr. kirstein was also an essayist who wrote about everyone from james cagney , marilyn monroe and ernest hemingway to robert gould shaw , the boston blueblood who commanded a regiment of black soldiers in the civil war .
the chief american negotiator , christopher r. hill , who is returning to asia next saturday , would have to negotiate to get north korea to give up its existing stockpiles and to explain what happened to equipment it bought to enrich uranium , another pathway to a bomb .
joost has attracted considerable attention since janus friis and niklas zennstrom , the entrepreneurs behind skype , an internet telephony service now owned by ebay , and kazaa , a peer-to-peer network that became the bane of the music industry , disclosed last year that they were working on an internet video project .
last october , when florida 's football team traveled to jacksonville to play the university of georgia , the gators stayed in a luxury hotel the night before the game .
they gathered in chicago last winter for a '' new views of the universe '' conference , and sean carroll , then at the university of chicago , had taken it upon himself to give his theorist colleagues their marching orders . ''
gilad shalit , who was captured by hamas in a raid into israel on june 25 .
the participants are expected to include senator sam brownback of kansas ; jim gilmore , a former governor of virginia ; mr. giuliani , mike huckabee , a former governor of arkansas ; representative duncan hunter of california ; mr. mccain ; mr. romney ; representative ron paul of texas ; representative tom tancredo of colorado ; and tommy thompson , a former governor of wisconsin .
senior administration officials said their initiative called for engaging russian leaders in private discussions to illustrate that the united states was putting extra effort into nurturing the relationship and that russia deserved a more thorough dialogue on american foreign policy and national security plans .
ms. hakes , born in muscatine , iowa , was the dear daughter of the late mr. and mrs. clifford crampton hakes ; loving mother of barbara ; grandmother of benjamin ; beloved sister of mary anne gallagher and the late elizabeth h. harrer .
another young brand manager in the same office was jeffrey r. immelt , who is now chief executive of general electric .
during trips to northern ireland from 1987 to 1994 , she saw the violence young people routinely encountered in belfast .
in turkey on thursday , the government held an opening ceremony for a museum in a restored armenian church near the city of van in eastern turkey that dates from the year 941 and is considered one of the most precious symbols of the armenian presence in anatolia .
in tehran , iranian officials said on friday that president jacques chirac of france was speculating when he first said this week that iran would not pose a big danger if it had one or two nuclear weapons .
israel also has removed some west bank roadblocks , but palestinians say they still face many obstacles when they seek to travel .
the russian government has billed the gathering in st. petersburg as a kind of davos for emerging markets , with an emphasis on russia 's oil-driven economy .
ms. close remembers visiting omaha at christmastime with her family when she was a child , living in a smaller nebraska town .
benjamin solomon evanston , ill. , april 8 , 2007 to the editor : david brooks reports that '' moderate arab reformers '' have traced the problems in iraq , iran and other middle east hot spots to a country roughly the size of massachusetts that dominates the affairs of its arab neighbors and operates a puppet government in washington as well .
eastern germany 's three southernmost states -- saxony , thuringia and saxony-anhalt -- are growing faster than germany as a whole , while the northern states in the east are languishing .
like other countries that have been the host in recent years for this gathering , germany is nervous about a repetition of the riots in genoa , italy , in 2001 , when the police killed a demonstrator .
although the development company has approached several art institutions about lending artworks to the museum , most notably the louvre in paris , its mission is still relatively vague .
at the end of 2006 -lrb- the last time helio publicized its subscriber figures -rrb- , 70 percent of its 70,000 members used myspace , said michael grossi , senior vice president of strategy and business development at helio .
mr. pionk exhibited with the pastel society of america in still life painters of the 20th century , at the hermitage museum , norfolk , virginia ; the monmouth gallery , new york ; the queens museum , the chapellier galleries ; the oak tree gallery , new york ; the allied artists of america ; portraits incorporated ; lever house ; union carbide , new york ; grand central art gallery ; and at the society of pastelists , lille , france , among others .
responding to a series of scandals , ohio 's new secretary of state said monday that she had demanded the resignation of the entire four-member elections board of cuyahoga county , which includes cleveland .
the san siro is one of 25 stadiums in italy that the country 's security and sports officials condemned for not having in place certain security measures aimed at cutting down on fan violence .
in june , these three female sea lions will return from an 18-month sojourn at the new york aquarium in coney island to their restored pool at the bronx zoo wildlife conservation park .
defensive backs that could be available with the 26th pick include safeties michael griffin of texas and reggie nelson of florida and cornerbacks jonathan wade of tennessee , josh wilson of maryland and eric wright of nevada-las vegas .
crawford mills , a former classmate of michael c. skakel 's , testified on wednesday that he tried to give lawyers information he thinks might have prevented mr. skakel 's 2002 conviction for the 1975 murder of martha moxley in greenwich .
closer to home , before the new york city police locked the place up , he transformed a ghostly turn-of-the-century industrial shed on pier 52 , near gansevoort street in greenwich village -lrb- where he grew up -rrb- , into a temporary cathedral of light .
mr. meridor , like many in israel , including prime minister ehud olmert , has traveled a long road since 1967 to accept a palestinian state on a large part of biblical israel .
she is a third-year resident in pediatrics at children 's hospital in boston and a research fellow in the division of viral pathogenesis at beth israel deaconess medical center in boston .
she is survived by her brother stanley h. rumbough and her sisters nina rumbough of greenwich , connecticut and stephanie saunders of charlesston , south carolina .
espn yesterday canceled stephen a. smith 's nightly series , '' quite frankly , '' which had suffered from low viewership since its inception in august 2005 .
the restoration of west baden springs is the last major piece of a plan to return tiny french lick , also known as the hometown of the basketball star larry bird , to its long-lost status as one of the midwest 's biggest resort destinations .
on wednesday , suicide bombings killed 33 people in algiers , the capital of algeria .
dr. dietz zeroed in on the san andreas fault , the deep gash beneath california that spawned the devastating san francisco earthquake of 1906 -- one among many -- and today also threatens the los angeles area .
in 2002 , the crystal harmony released 36,000 gallons of wastewater into the monterey bay national marine sanctuary in california .
mr. sarkozy , who was campaigning on saturday with labor minister jean-louis borloo in northern france , mocked the royal-bayrou debate . ''
in a flurry of public comments in the past month , russian officials acknowledged that russia was delaying the delivery of fuel to the reactor in the iranian port city of bushehr .
under the 2003 '' road map '' to peace drawn up by the united states , the united nations , the european union and russia , israel agreed to halt all settlement growth in the west bank and the palestinians agreed to disarm militant groups there .
jonathan lash , president of the world resources institute , said that while it was clear that china was aware of looming climate risks , the central government lacked the legal structures and institutions to enforce a mandatory emissions cap . ''
an article on april 18 about westfield high school in chantilly , va. , from which the killer in the virginia tech massacre and two of his victims graduated , referred incorrectly to the academic background of steve webb , who visited friends at the high school a day after the killings .
twenty years ago , another augusta native , larry mize , shocked greg norman in a playoff by holing a 140-foot chip for birdie on the 11th hole to win the masters in a playoff .
her comment was sharply criticized by canada 's prime minister , stephen harper , who said , '' experience teaches that it is highly inappropriate for a foreign leader to interfere in the democratic affairs of another country . ''
in recent months , we 've seen saudi arabia publicly blast hezbollah for launching an unprovoked war on israel ; we 've seen king abdullah forge a cease-fire between hamas and fatah in gaza ; we 've seen him try to tame iran 's president , mahmoud ahmadinejad , and there are rumors that a top saudi official met with israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert .
among the california drop-off locations are airports in burbank , long beach , los angeles , sacramento and san francisco .
in israel on sunday , the cabinet approved the appointment of gabi ashkenazi as the new military chief of staff , replacing lt. gen. dan halutz , who resigned over the war with hezbollah .
president mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran met with king abdullah here in the saudi capital on saturday to address the middle east 's growing sectarian and political crises .
maguire moved to boston and received a master 's degree in children 's literature at simmons college , where he taught for eight years .
if you use some of the things that we understand about finding appropriate value and targeting , we might get folks who have n't advertised on radio before to advertise now , '' said douglas merrill , vice president of engineering at google . ''
mr. obama has said in the past that both israelis and palestinians had '' suffered '' because of the lack of a peace agreement , and a spokesman said on tuesday that mr. obama believed '' the security of israel should be america 's starting point in the middle east . ''
among other exceptions are the amazing '' pre-columbian '' knockoffs produced by brígido lara , a native of mexico who , raised near archaeological digs in oaxaca and veracruz , tuned into maya , aztec and other ancient styles .
in the 1950s he served as assistant technical director at the old globe theater in san diego and the berkeley shakespeare festival -lrb- which later became the california shakespeare festival -rrb- .
earl rosenberg of boca raton , florida , beloved husband of lois rosenberg ; devoted father of dr. ronald rosenberg and linda reinig -lrb- marc -rrb- .
beth lee , president rabbi david j. gelfand $ -lrb- 6 $ -rrb- resnick -- mildred rothstein , of ellenville , new york and aventura , florida passed away on january 8 , 2007 at age 90 .
although a consummate vatican insider , he has a certain lack of savvy , as evidenced in regensburg and again in january when he appointed to the archbishopric of warsaw a man who , it turned out , had ties with poland 's communist-era secret police and who was forced to resign two days later .
zalmay khalilzad , the american ambassador to the united nations , said a resolution would be introduced this week calling on the security council to create a tribunal to judge the killers of rafik hariri , the former prime minister who was assassinated in a beirut car bombing in 2005 .
20 bush approves aid for florida president bush approved federal aid to the four central florida counties where tornadoes left 20 dead and 1,500 homes severely damaged or destroyed , as the search for survivors continued .
yankees manager joe torre has said that it is unlikely clemens will start in the three-game weekend series against boston at fenway park .
mr. taliaferro is working with the national association of realtors in north america and with overseas property professionals in europe to expand his marketing and blogging activities throughout central america and mexico in the coming year .
however , israel has maintained tight restrictions on both places , and the last west bank suicide bomber to strike in israel was in april 2006 .
david and jody smith and their son nathan , of ankeny , iowa , stayed at the hotel , the doubletree grand key resort , and were treated at a local hospital on dec. 21 , less than a week before thomas lueders , 26 , died from inhaling carbon monoxide fumes that came from a boiler adjacent to his room .
friends of mr. geffen and mr. ellison said that each man wanted to create a resort they might frequent themselves , in a seaside colony that was the birthplace of california surf culture and more recently has been a weekend retreat for hollywood power brokers .
maría julia hernández , a prominent human rights advocate who braved death squads to speak for the victims of the long civil war in el salvador , died friday in san salvador , the capital .
i do n't think he understands the word no , '' said john lango , the coach at gavilan college in gilroy , calif. , garcia 's home town , and an assistant coach for a season during garcia 's days at gilroy high . ''
for purposes of study , the south is divided into three colonial regions : the chesapeake , encompassing maryland , eastern virginia and northeastern north carolina , which grew very rich from tobacco before the american revolution ; the low country , which includes the coastal areas of southeastern north carolina , south carolina and georgia , which prospered from trade in rice , indigo and cotton ; and the rural back country , including parts of virginia , the piedmont of north carolina , south carolina , georgia , tennessee and kentucky -- but not mississippi and alabama .
that was the case in tugela ferry , a rural town in kwazulu-natal province in south africa , when an outbreak of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis -- xdr-tb for short -- killed 52 of its 53 victims , all of whom were also infected with h.i.v. the outbreak was detected in 2005 , but it did not receive international attention until it was reported at the international aids meeting in toronto last august .
pandora 's box has already opened and everything has come out except hope and mutual trust , '' he said during a recent test run on one of the new trains from the capital , taipei , in the north , to the city of taichung , in west-central taiwan . ''
last month , the islamists attacked somalia 's transitional government , which was based in baidoa .
dan gilbert , the founder of the online mortgage company quicken loans , became the majority owner in march 2005 .
hellman -- bernard a. , age 88 of boca raton , florida .
that is viswanathan anand of india .
in an interview at the coastal administration 's headquarters in horten , in southern norway , mr. gjellan said other options , like raising the wreck or removing the mercury using a remote-controlled mini-sub , would be too risky and could simply spread the contamination .
a selden man has been charged with causing a fire last week that destroyed three cars and damaged a fourth at an auto repair shop on sunrise highway , the suffolk county police said yesterday .
buildings of similar style can be found throughout spain 's erstwhile colonial possessions -- crumbling to pieces in old havana , better preserved in old san juan , puerto rico , and veracruz , mexico .
yesterday , as part of the anniversary celebrations , iran took diplomats and journalists on a tour of another nuclear facility , at isfahan .
he is quoted in the new yorker as suggesting that a republican will win the white house by running against mr. bush as nicolas sarkozy won the presidency in france by running against his fellow party member jacques chirac , in whose cabinet he had served . ''
israeli security officials have been saying for months that hamas is building concrete bunkers along the gaza border , in the style of hezbollah in lebanon , to prepare for a possible israeli military campaign in the gaza strip .
wife of richard l. laudenslager of worcester , pa -lrb- d. 1950 -rrb- , daughter of minnie and austin fleming , she was born in elk garden , west virginia .
martin westby , managing director of croatia holiday and home , an english company that advises prospective buyers on the croatian real estate market , said that the success of sales in the region was partly because istria was the first area in croatia to be served by western european budget airlines and because it was easier to complete a transaction there than in some other parts of the country .
the deal ends months of speculation about the future of telecom italia , whose suitors had included at&t , and it represents a setback for telefónica 's arch rival américa móvil , owned by the mexican tycoon carlos slim helú .
pageant officials said ms. smith , 22 , was rattled by the denunciations , which echoed other booing she had received during her monthlong stay in mexico , notably when she showed off a sleek , white elvis outfit as her national costume on a runway on one of mexico city 's grand avenues .
even when i visited my upscale cousin -lrb- he 's a psychiatrist -rrb- in westport , just down the road from paul newman 's place , i felt i belonged .
-lrb- ap -rrb- cavaliers 105 , pacers 94 -- lebron james had 26 points , 7 rebounds and 6 assists as host cleveland clinched a playoff berth .
it owns most major french museums and , by all accounts , president jacques chirac has concluded that this is one global market where france can compete effectively .
the bride , 26 , and bridegroom , 28 , are both staff writers at mississippi newspapers , the bride for the hattiesburg american and the bridegroom for the sun herald in gulfport .
the record came on the same mountain in 1954 , when stein eriksen of norway won by 5.77 seconds .
senator hillary rodham clinton began her four corners of iowa tour as the sun was setting the other night on a farm outside fort madison , in southeastern iowa .
among the 52 who attended were the mayors of newark , buffalo , los angeles , chicago , philadelphia , baltimore , washington , milwaukee , seattle , denver , atlanta , miami , minneapolis and st. louis . ''
roddick played through the injury and won his singles match against fernando verdasco on friday to help the united states to a 4-1 victory against spain and a berth in the semifinals against sweden in september .
vallabhaneni is a tall , distinguished-looking woman who came to the u.s. from hyderabad , india , in march 1997 on a tourist visa .
lawrence lessig , the founder of the center for internet and society at the stanford law school , said that bostonnow 's business model was not unique . ''
despite all the western donor money and american-financed projects aimed at reforming the judiciaries here , this is all part of a bigger central asian trend to make their judicial systems subordinate to their presidents , '' said michael hall , an analyst in bishkek , kyrgyzstan , with the international crisis group , which seeks to prevent violent conflict . ''
laure manaudou of france won her latest gold medal in the women 's 400 freestyle , looking less than elated after she realized that she had failed to break her own world record .
a memorial is planned at a later date in paris , france .
he trained with garth fagan and others in his native rochester and with desmond richardson and dwight rhoden , the founders of the complexions , in manhattan .
but with a new defense minister -- the former prime minister and new labor party leader ehud barak -- and a successful campaign to elect shimon peres as israel 's next president , mr. olmert is considered to have a new beginning as prime minister , at least until the autumn .
as connecticut 's richest town , greenwich has always held some allure for politicians looking to raise money and make influential friends , but with several of the current presidential contenders wanting to raise upwards of $ 500 million to stay competitive through the general election , the richest of the town 's 61,000 residents are being wooed more than ever .
asia 's economic surge is among the grand stories of modern times ; it was part of -- yet broader than -- the collapse of the soviet union , which unexpectedly opened the second world to a slosh of investment capital , too .
though lucia has signed players from elsewhere , like the austrian wing thomas vanek -lrb- now of the buffalo sabres -rrb- , and grant and ryan potulny , from north dakota , all of his current players are minnesotans -- except goalie kellen briggs , who is from colorado springs .
pedro almodóvar 's '' volver , '' the tragicomic tale of a mother 's survival , won five awards , including best film , best director and best actress -lrb- penélope cruz -rrb- when the goya awards , spain 's counterpart of the oscars , were bestowed in madrid yesterday , reuters reported .
as secretary of state condoleezza rice moves into the final days of her middle east trip , she still needs to come up with a way to translate the current lull in the violence between israel and the palestinians into an opening for genuine peace negotiations .
the bush administration can point to precious few successes in its efforts to curb north korea 's mounting menace -- even last week 's celebrated nuclear deal with kim jong-il 's government is , for the moment , little more than a written promise from a highly unreliable negotiating partner .
automotive news , a trade weekly , reported last month that the company , under new management , planned to start making cars again -- about 200 a year -- in cancún , mexico .
singapore 's proximity to south asia is also luring ethnic indians , both those from india and those like mr. chandran from the indian diaspora .
houston , the defending m.l.s. champion , will play puntarenas of costa rica in college station , tex. .
now , nearly four decades on , it has survived the turbulence of post-soviet transition to undercut common perceptions of russian agriculture and life and to become a measure , in its way , of russia 's change .
others who have already indicated they will wear no. 42 include ken griffey jr. of cincinnati , florida 's dontrelle willis , carlos lee of houston , derrek lee of the cubs and detroit 's gary sheffield .
correction : april 17 , 2007 , tuesday an article in business day on friday about the return of jeffrey a. citron , founder of the internet phone company vonage , to be its chief executive misstated the company he was with in the late 1990s when he was accused of fraud by the securities and exchange commission .
he is at reed college in portland , ore. , not the university of oregon .
billik -- marilyn , of livingston , new jersey and boca raton , florida , died on april 18 of lung cancer at home surrounded by family .
on march 11 in brattleboro , vermont .
an article on june 9 about preparations for president bush 's visit to albania misstated the position of bernard kouchner , the new foreign minister of france , before the american-led invasion of iraq in 2003 .
at this latitude -- in chena hot springs , alaska , 60 miles northeast of fairbanks -- the aurora appears an estimated 200 nights a year .
an article in business day on friday about the return of jeffrey a. citron , founder of the internet phone company vonage , to be its chief executive misstated the company he was with in the late 1990s when he was accused of fraud by the securities and exchange commission .
she is always nodding , in an array of distinctive flavors : the stern , deferential nod -lrb- at a senate news conference , when her colleague evan bayh described conditions in afghanistan -rrb- ; the empathetic , lips-pursed nod -lrb- when a man in cedar rapids , iowa , tells her about his son 's epilepsy -rrb- ; the squinty , disbelieving nod -lrb- when a general testifies on iraq before the senate armed services committee -rrb- ; the dutiful acknowledgment nod -lrb- when being applauded -rrb- ; and the blushing nod -lrb- when a veteran in des moines tells her '' i think you look very nice '' -rrb- .
india 's foreign minister , pranab mukherjee , is expected to be in tehran on tuesday to discuss the proposed pipeline .
neighbors say the iraqi government bought the grasse house in the 1980s from count alexandre de marenches , who has since died but was director of france 's foreign intelligence service when mr. hussein visited southern france in 1975 , with jacques chirac , then the prime minister .
he said the speaker was following the iraq study group 's recommendations to '' discuss a wide range of security issues '' with middle east governments , including syria .
joost hiltermann , director of the international crisis group 's office in amman , jordan , agreed . ''
mr. joseph turned out reams of position papers , arguing for deeper sanctions against the likes of kim jong-il of north korea or the iranian mullahs .
this is the home of the oriental pearl tower , the silvery tiers of the jinmao tower and a feng shui fantasia of glass , steel and construction cranes -- a fitting symbol for the international coterie of businessmen currently transforming shanghai into a new symbol of globalization .
but on a rainy winter afternoon , as some 20 google employees hopped onto the 4:40 p.m. back to the mission and noe valley districts of san francisco , those concerns seemed distant .
created in 1978 by valéry giscard d'estaing during his presidency , it united christian democrats and liberals , and was meant to serve as an alternative to the rally for the republic party that jacques chirac founded two years earlier when he was running for mayor of paris .
martha e. stark new york city finance commissioner previous positions -- corporate and tax lawyer , white house fellow , deputy counsel for the manhattan borough president , professor at hunter college , assistant professor at baruch college , portfolio manager for the edna mcconnell clark foundation .
a3 chirac endorses political rival president jacques chirac of france , saying that he was setting aside his personal feelings for the sake of his party , endorsed his longtime younger rival , nicolas sarkozy , as the person best suited to succeed him .
well , let me tell you about the food : inopia -lrb- tamarit , 104 ; 34-93-424-52-31 -rrb- offers the classic stuff of spain -- especially , but not exclusively , catalonia .
he has played more than 400 games professionally in france for rennes , lille , paris saint-germain and marseille ; in italy for torino and inter milan ; and in spain for valencia .
using overhead electric lines instead of diesel locomotives , the trains will run from taipei down through western taiwan to kaohsiung , the main industrial city in the south .
a three-year study by the isabella stewart gardner museum in boston has found that grade-school students who spend time looking at and talking about art perform better in several areas of critical thinking than students without such art experience .
the man , david wayne , 48 , of croton-on-hudson , admitted in state supreme court that he had claimed to be wrapped in dynamite while robbing westchester county stores and hotels last year .
restaurants -- this type of veal is available at blue hill , il buco and telepan in new york city ; blue hill at stone barns in pocantico hills , n.y. ; l'espalier and icarus in boston ; blackbird in chicago ; and chez panisse in berkeley , calif. .
to this day , we have never been provided the presidential authorization that cleared that program to go or the attorney general-department of justice opinions that declared it to be lawful , '' said senator sheldon whitehouse , democrat of rhode island . ''
-- attributed to william allen white editor , the emporia gazette of kansas , in 1938 .
ms. mcclenney could be thinking of city college of san francisco 's one-day wine workshops , including '' france and italy vs. california '' -lrb- $ 40 -rrb- and '' basics for beginners '' -lrb- $ 40 -rrb- .
its portfolio is concentrated in some of the best neighborhoods in washington , southern california , new york , the san francisco bay area , boston and seattle .
indian airline expanding -- jet airways , the largest domestic carrier in india , says it will start service to the united states in late august with daily flights to kennedy international airport from delhi , via brussels .
3,932 number of chinese books bought by american publishers in 2005 ... ... ... 16 meanwhile , in the middle east ... books published in iran in 2002 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 35,854 percentage that were translations ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 23 new books published in turkey in 2004 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 15,398 percentage that were translations ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 17 books banned by turkey , 2000-5 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .
more times than he remembers , la ` markus cook has traveled south on interstate 65 from nashville , where he attends american baptist college , to his home outside montgomery , ala. .
power forward patrick patterson of huntington , w. va. , signed with kentucky yesterday , the final day of the late signing period .
so in 1998 , when they moved back to italy , venice was the natural choice . ''
tuesday brings two weighty films for the strong of heart : jacques rivette 's 1982 '' le pont du nord , '' in which a '60s radical -lrb- bulle ogier -rrb- is released from prison into an unrecognizable 1980s paris , and jean eustache 's essential 1973 work '' la maman et la putain '' -lrb- '' the mother and the whore '' -rrb- , in which the new wave aesthetic reaches some sort of terminal point , as jean-pierre léaud , bernadette lafont and françoise lebrun discuss the intricacies of male-female relationships for 215 fascinating minutes .
i think iran was becoming increasingly aware that what they had done was a mistake and that the longer they held these people , the more the whole thing began to resemble the ugly hostage crisis of 1979 , '' wayne white , former deputy director of the state department 's middle east intelligence office , said in a telephone interview . ''
so robinson returned to chicago and received a master 's of business administration in finance from the university of chicago .
he asked that the united states return its ambassador to syria ; the most recent ambassador , margaret scobey , was withdrawn in 2005 after the assassination of lebanon 's former prime minister , rafik hariri .
bjork has three new york city shows scheduled : wednesday at radio city music hall , saturday at the united palace theater and next tuesday at the apollo theater .
ms. briggs , who is based in san francisco , made her debut at the san francisco opera in 2004 as the dutchess of parma in busoni 's '' doktor faust , '' a role she also sang in stuttgart .
the european union similarly announced plans to resume direct aid to the palestinians , while prime minister ehud olmert said israel would release to mr. abbas palestinian tax revenues that israel has withheld since hamas took control of the palestinian parliament .
demanded senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska . ''
they have a political and security role , huge financial resources and assets that are not listed in the country 's budget , and manage the country 's nuclear program , '' said mehdi chehade , a professor of political science at the lebanese university in beirut , who often writes on iran . ''
new york city 's operating costs for the staten island ferry system have more than doubled in five years , largely because of reforms instituted after a deadly october 2003 crash , according to a report released yesterday .
a8 iran denies access to scholar swiss diplomats seeking to visit haleh esfandiari , a prominent iranian-american academic jailed in iran , have not been given access to her , the woodrow wilson international center for scholars said .
according to '' the atlas of american artisan cheese '' -lrb- chelsea green , $ 35 -rrb- by jeffrey p. roberts , 43 states have artisanal cheesemakers , including hawaii and alaska , where you can buy goat cheese at cranberry ridge farm in wasilla , 45 miles northeast of anchorage .
nate robinson 's suspension ends after friday 's game in seattle .
viacom 's movie studios , dreamworks and paramount pictures , will look for opportunities in india over the next few months , viacom said .
senator ben nelson of nebraska , a democratic co-author of the resolution who typically promotes comity in the senate , accused republicans of stalling . ''
he said israel 's first leader , david ben-gurion , had declared jerusalem to be israel 's capital in 1949 , but '' teddy kollek made it so . ''
as a lanky 16-year-old third baseman playing in the dominican republic town of salcedo , jorge sosa booted four or five balls during one game .
but the shins were n't actually playing at the garden on wednesday ; that distinction went to maná , a latin rock band from guadalajara , mexico .
he earned a master of fine arts degree at indiana university , in bloomington , and in 1960 joined the faculty for that school , becoming director of the graduate design program and designer of the university museum 's exhibitions and publications .
stamm , 42 , is expected to cross the equator this week en route to norfolk , va. , and the finish of the second leg of the competition , a 14,000-nautical-mile jaunt that began with seven competitors last month in fremantle , australia .
it is like the berlin wall that divided germany . '' ''
thailand 's battle against air pollution provides a virtual how-to manual of environmental cleanup , say mr. shah and other air quality experts in asia .
because there is a deep tectonic shift in the russian psyche that says , ` these guys are about exploiting russia 's weakness .
at least 11 families will be immediately affected by the v.a. 's decision , said the rev. selena fox , senior minister of circle sanctuary , a wiccan church in wisconsin .
it is in the interest of europe , its member states and its citizens to bring this process to a successful conclusion , '' she told parliament 's assembly in strasbourg , france , referring to the stalemate over the constitution , which was rejected in referendums in the netherlands and france in 2005 . ''
it cuts right through sloatsburg , a quiet village 36 miles northwest of new york city , where rockland county rubs shoulders with orange county and where local officials have puzzled over the mounting casualties . ''
melissa perlman , a mother of an 11-month-old and founder of amansala eco chic resorts -lrb- www.amansala.com -rrb- in tulum , mexico , knows firsthand that her yoga-inspired babymoons give expectant parents much-needed time to bond and regroup . ''
attributing the melting to the growing emission of greenhouse gases causing global warming , scientists say bolivia 's skiing tradition could be extinguished when chacaltaya 's modest ski run disappears forever in a few years . ''
france honors clint eastwood clint eastwood , 76 , below , had a good day at the Élysée palace in paris on saturday , when president jacques chirac of france inducted him as a knight in the legion of honor , the associated press reported .
a prime example is the 1965 portrait of alexander calder in his studio in connecticut -- he was a visitor to the east end -- which shows the artist surrounded by a mess of paintings , models and mobiles , along with bits and pieces of artworks-in-progress hanging from diagonal rows of string attached to the ceiling .
in the middle east , a region uneasy about iran 's nuclear program and seeking its own sources of power , interest in nuclear energy is strong .
california has been struggling to comply with a federal order to ease crowding in its jails and prisons , and sheriff lee baca of los angeles county has carried out a program of early release .
he said he remembers george steinbrenner , the yankees ' principal owner , as a kid in cleveland . ''
up and coming in germany with 150 works by cézanne , monet , gauguin and rodin , among others , a major exhibition of 19th-century french art from the metropolitan museum of art is to open in berlin on june 1 at the neue nationalgalerie , the berlin tourism board announced yesterday , the associated press reported .
as people filed into elmira 's quiet twilight , graham snyder recalled part of the message delivered by the event 's keynote speakers , jennifer botterill and sami jo small of canada 's national women 's hockey team .
triple play alternative arts in baltimore -- a tradition that includes the filmmaker john waters and the musician david byrne -- is alive and well .
here in connecticut , we occasionally hear about the sudden , traumatic on-the-job deaths like that of the new haven police officer who was run over directing traffic last year or the greenwich country club groundskeeper who died in january when a trench collapsed on him .
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , said , '' the president , obviously , as you already know , is not going to accept language that specifies a date for surrender or language that micromanages the efforts of our military in iraq . ''
the notion of a 24-hour cable news channel that trains its cameras exclusively on westchester county and the surrounding hudson valley probably conjures up images of live reports on the cheerleading squad at a new rochelle high school or news-you-can-use from the latest health forum at a county senior center .
on thursday , mr. savall offered a more focused look at music from the court of louis xiv of france , most notably works by marin marais , long one of mr. savall 's specialties .
the vienna archives , in their entirety , are believed to be the largest collection of material about a jewish community in the german-speaking world , ingo zechner , director of the vienna group 's holocaust victims ' information and support center , said .
the first president bush suspended loan guarantees to israel to force it to halt settlement activity on the west bank , bringing a storm of obloquy upon him from israel 's american supporters .
ms. rockmore , admitted to the st. petersburg conservatory in russia at 5 , was a student of the great violin teacher leopold auer , who also taught those future virtuosos .
their son , cyril , used to share a baby sitter with rebecca miller , the child of the playwright arthur miller , who lived at the hotel off and on throughout her childhood .
the president declared coffee county , which encompasses enterprise , a federal disaster area .
florida , tennessee , kentucky and vanderbilt , who all play in the league 's eastern division , are the only sec teams considered locks for the n.c.a.a. tournament .
it is clear now that the majority of the senate opposes a deadline for the withdrawal of troops , '' said senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader .
a3 concern raised by libya deal alex salmond , the newly elected first minister of scotland , expressed concern that the british government had struck a deal that might permit the only person convicted in the 1988 lockerbie bombing to return to libya to complete his sentence .
cuba 's government has no diplomatic relations with the united states , and some people charged with crimes on american soil have found a haven in havana .
the session followed a meeting last saturday between president mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran and king abdullah of saudi arabia to discuss ways of settling the growing sectarian and political crises in parts of the middle east .
senator joseph r. biden jr. , democrat of delaware and chairman of the foreign relations committee , has said he is open to changes in the resolution he drew up with mr. levin and senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska .
iran also announced this month that it had started industrial-scale production of enriched uranium at natanz .
and last week , jeffrey r. immelt , the chief executive of general electric , cnbc 's parent , voiced his support for ms. bartiromo and the cable network . ''
many liberals in the house said that , in the end , they could not make the perfect the enemy of the good , an argument advanced by representative steve cohen , a freshman democrat from memphis , in a caucus this week .
last fall , to the astonishment of france 's literary establishment , foreign-born writers won five of the country 's seven major book awards , with the coveted goncourt going to '' les bienveillantes '' -lrb- '' the kindly ones '' -rrb- by the new york-born novelist jonathan littell , who also won the académie française 's prize .
france 's new top diplomat bernard kouchner , france 's new foreign minister , is often undiplomatic and the political opposite of his boss , nicolas sarkozy .
as the first corporate investor on long island with well-regarded properties in california and oregon , leucadia 's purchase was seen as an endorsement of the region 's winegrowing potential .
directed by andrei zagdansky not rated ; 72 minutes in the documentary '' orange winter '' orange blooms throughout kiev , ukraine , the epicenter of dissent over that country 's stolen 2004 presidential elections .
several times he expressed reservations about the direction russia was taking under president vladimir v. putin -lrb- '' if you want to call him ` president , ' '' he said in a pointed aside in charleston , s.c. -rrb- , saying that the russian leader had shut down political opposition , had taken control of the news media and was being unhelpful when it came to iran .
in france , ségolène royal , the socialist presidential nominee , and her presumed main opponent on the right , nicolas sarkozy , have criticized the european central bank , which is responsible for setting monetary policy for the 12 countries that use the euro .
at volkswagen 's autostadt customer center in wolfsburg , germany , where many buyers pick up their new cars , two silolike glass towers hold cars fresh from the factory .
yul kwon , 32 , of san mateo , calif. , winner of last year 's television contest '' survivor '' and a lawyer , raised a similar concern . ''
the mixture of crocodile tears and threats from russian officials seems overly dramatic -- and very much in character for president vladimir putin , who is hoping to divert attention from his own thuggery at home , not to mention his desire to reassert power in russia 's old neighborhood .
he cited the restoration of the american museum of natural history 's historic west 77th street facade , above , and said that the city was also planning a major renovation of the new york aquarium near coney island and construction of an educational museum for the society for the preservation of weeksville and bedford-stuyvesant history , in brooklyn .
the palestinians say israel , and shin bet , have aided the chaos by waging war against the palestinian security forces in 2002 , after a spate of suicide bombings , and by the continuing israeli occupation of the west bank .
mr. de margerie , who was the senior vice president for the middle east at the time that the iran deal was signed , was elevated to the top job last month .
yet 78 percent of israelis said they would not consider living in jerusalem or would prefer to live elsewhere in israel .
drawing on hundreds of unpublished letters , diaries and minutes of cabinet meetings , as well as newspapers and extensive interviews with participants , mr. segev paints a deliciously detailed portrait of israel at the time , including the cost of refreshments at high school dances , sartorial habits of officials , the design of a typical apartment and the quirks of leaders like moshe dayan .
the scandals at siemens and the fall of its top leaders , mr. kleinfeld on wednesday and heinrich von pierer as chairman last week , have shaken corporate germany and raised questions about how german companies do business . ''
dushkin -- david , 70 , of guilford , connecticut , died on may 28th , 2007 .
they married in 1965 in juárez , mexico , coinciding with coltrane 's divorce from his first wife , naima grubbs .
western europe is benefiting from rising trade with eastern europe , russia , asia and the middle east .
back in france , the final round has been viewed as a contest to capture the middle-ground electorate that supported françois bayrou , the centrist candidate , in the first round .
there are tomato salad with fresh salt cod ; jabugo ham ; sliced confited tuna belly ; and an extraordinarily creamy cheese -lrb- torta cañarejal -rrb- that will destroy any notion of spain being anything less than the equal of france .
another outstanding selection is alejandro landes 's '' cocalero , '' which follows the rise of president evo morales of bolivia , a grass-roots politician backed by impoverished coca farmers threatened by the american war on drugs . ''
in chicago , he has to be a meteorologist as well , dealing with the notorious wind at wrigley field . ''
mr. fossella , who represents staten island and part of brooklyn and is the only republican house member from new york city , joined other lawmakers seeking federal aid .
all public services were cut off in marondera , a regional capital of 50,000 in eastern zimbabwe , after the city ran out of money to fix broken equipment .
gilad shalit , who was captured by hamas and two other militant groups in a raid into israel last june . ''
his victory set off scattered anti-sarkozy violence in paris and some other cities , but for the most part france stayed calm .
the interim report on the war , released monday , placed responsibility for what it described as israel 's '' severe failures '' squarely on the shoulders of mr. olmert , defense minister amir peretz and the former army chief of staff , lt. gen. dan halutz .
we are very happy to have china as our big brother in this region , '' president gloria macapagal arroyo of the philippines said at the opening ceremony of the one-day meeting in cebu , a central philippine province .
it offers views of paris rooftops , montmartre and trinité , the wedding cake of a church on the corner where the métro and neighborhood cafes are located .
for germany , the move not only symbolized a german jew 's willingness to turn the page on the past , but it also filled a hole in berlin 's art collections which had been largely stripped of so-called degenerate modern art by the nazi regime .
lawrence m. krauss , a cosmologist from case western reserve university , who once took him down in a submarine , said , '' stephen is a dreamer and an adventurer who enjoys the opportunities his celebrity brings in a way that happily perhaps compensates , although only minuscule-ly , for his physical affliction . ''
rush limbaugh suggested a theme song of sir mix-a-lot 's '' baby got back '' ; on '' the chris matthews show '' on nbc , david brooks , a columnist for the new york times , suggested hall and oates 's '' maneater '' ; on the web site townhall.com , jon sanders suggested r.e.m. 's '' it 's the end of the world as we know it '' and barry mcguire 's '' eve of destruction . ''
-- the annual world economic forum will take place wednesday through sunday in davos , switzerland , drawing political and business leaders -- plus a celebrity or two -- to brainstorm solutions to world problems .
persuading north korea 's leader , kim jong-il , to abandon his nuclear ambitions has seemed an increasingly hopeless exercise since october , when north korea tested a nuclear device and declared itself a nuclear state .
1 rebuilding just starting in gaza the israeli withdrawal from settlements in the gaza strip in 2005 raised palestinian hopes for new homes , schools and businesses , but internal turmoil , the conflict with israel and a lack of money have kept the settlements looking as they were the day the israelis left .
in 1942 , she was commissioned in the women 's army auxiliary corps officer candidate class at fort des moines , iowa , serving for three and one-half years and attaining the rank of major .
mayor dave cieslewicz and other officials find themselves grappling with a problem that is a direct result of madison 's successful transformation : how to tone down downtown .
mr. loomis has been at random house since the days of donald klopfer and bennett cerf , its founders , and the essence of that great publishing era still lingers in the halls -- at least for him , though the company has moved several times .
another case arose when george stephanopoulos of abc news asked mr. romney about a mormon teaching that jesus will come to the united states when he returns to reign on earth .
it relocates the tale 's doomed romantic triangle to khayelitsha , an industrial community near cape town , south africa ; sets the action in and around a cigarette factory ; and translates its libretto into xhosa , a regional language distinguished by its abundance of pops and clicks .
at last month 's world economic forum in davos , switzerland , mr. tillerson said during one of the 17 -lrb- that 's right : 17 -rrb- panels on global warming : '' it is clear that something is going on .
the panorama was patented in france by an american artist and inventor living in paris named robert fulton -lrb- known primarily for inventing the steamboat -rrb- .
does joe torre show bernie the respect normally given to elders -- allowing him to duck the long bus rides to fort myers or kissimmee when the exhibitions begin in florida ?
it would also make it nearly impossible for israel to pull out of more of the occupied west bank -- as it pulled out of gaza -- with no authority to whom to hand the territory .
it gave mr. bush a taste of what is to come in the next and final stop in his latin american tour , to mérida , mexico , where immigration is expected to be high on the agenda with president felipe calderón .
where to stay if money is no object , the ritziest option in downtown atlanta is , well , the ritz-carlton atlanta -lrb- 181 peachtree street ne , 404-659-0400 , www.ritzcarlton.com it has more than 400 rooms , is a short walk from the georgia aquarium , and offers a family aquarium package , starting at $ 309 a night , that includes accommodations , breakfast and admission for up to four people .
one veteran observer , ziad haidar , the damascus bureau chief for the lebanese daily al safir , said mr. suleiman 's efforts might pay off some day , if syria and israel ever sit down together . ''
fidel castro took power in 1959 , and the united states imposed sanctions on cuba in 1961 .
in paris , alain laurens , who in 2000 founded la cabane perchée , a treehouse design studio , said he will build 35 in 2007 , up from 25 in 2004 , for clients in spain , italy , france and portugal .
lloyd alexander , a national book award-winning author of fantasy novels for young people whose work was noted for its romantic locales , complex characters and barely concealed allegorical depictions of the struggle against tyranny , died on thursday at his home in drexel hill , pa. .
records of the church committee -- a 1975 senate investigation headed by senator frank church , democrat of idaho , into '' alleged assassination plots involving foreign leaders '' -- say , '' ambassador farland established contact with a group of dissidents regarded as moderate , pro-united states and desirous of establishing a democratic form of government . ''
ehud olmert , israel 's prime minister , announced that he would temporarily take over the finance portfolio for mr. hirchson , who is a close political ally .
our psychological architecture makes us think in particular ways , '' says bering , now at queens university in belfast , northern ireland . ''
norwegian novelist wins impac award per petterson of norway and his translator anne born were named the winners yesterday of the 12th international impac dublin literary award .
while the two have met often to discuss iran , most of the sessions have been in official formats including the five permanent members of the security council and germany , in contrast to the more ad hoc berlin session with mr. lavrov and counterparts from germany and the european union .
and as kellerman , paul adelstein is getting an acting challenge rivaling those of his chicago theater days , when he played roles like a mental-asylum patient cast as a rabble-rousing ex-priest in '' marat\/sade . ''
francine allyn hochberg and jeffrey tom giuffrida are to be married today by rabbi martin levy at the evergreen house , a museum and library in baltimore .
spring awakening , '' with music by the soft-rock singer-songwriter duncan sheik and lyrics by steven sater , is an anomaly : a theatrical song cycle adapted from the frank wedekind play and set in 1891 germany .
in '' transformers , '' which dreamworks and paramount pictures are scheduled to release on july 4 , robot warriors escape a planet laid waste by civil war , only to arrive on earth as it faces similar devastation .
barney miller , '' which ran from 1976 to 1982 , starred hal linden as the captain of a new york city police precinct whose officers dealt with the zany characters who came , not always by choice , into the station house .
with his former client sitting a few feet away , michael c. skakel 's former lawyer , mickey sherman , told a court on thursday that he was not given information until after the 2002 murder trial that might have spared mr. skakel from being convicted in the 1975 killing of martha moxley in greenwich .
the democrats also gained the vote of senator ben nelson , a nebraska democrat , who voted against a withdrawal date just two weeks ago . ''
there 's something striking about the laboratory of michael f. summers at the university of maryland , baltimore county .
lukashenko does not want to be the governor of a russian province , '' anatoly lebedko , one of the belarussian president 's fiercest critics , said in a telephone interview from belarus on thursday .
for chief petty officer gregory j. billiter , from villa hills , ky. , it was the writeup in the cincinnati post , which ended : '' he will be buried in kentucky , his aunt said , but as of monday evening , it was n't clear where .
watched by dignitaries from britain , ireland , the united states and elsewhere , the rev. ian paisley , leader of the democratic unionists , the dominant party among northern ireland 's protestants , and martin mcguinness , of the republican and mainly catholic sinn fein party , were sworn in as leader and deputy leader , respectively , of the northern ireland executive government . ''
françois bayrou , the centrist , declared that he loved france more than he loved power .
it confirmed the deaths of the following americans this week : allen , charles d. , 28 , staff sgt. , army ; wasilla , alaska ; second infantry division .
my job is to keep us together as a team and move forward , '' said ed colligan , palm 's president and chief executive .
deal for ` no deal ' creator a group of investors led by john de mol , one of the founders of endemol , which pioneered reality television series like '' big brother '' and game shows like '' deal or no deal , '' agreed to buy a controlling stake in the company .
ms. farrell says she believes that the continued growth of china , india and the rest of asia will come at the expense of slowly growing , aging japan and europe .
they simply do not understand that the problem lies with our justice system , '' irina yasina , the former head of open russia , a civic organization founded by mikhail khodorkovsky and since closed , told the newspaper kommersant in march . ''
lebron james hurled the ball with all his rippling strength high into the rafters , and the confetti -- like everything and everyone else here -- soon followed on cue in cleveland .
the archbishop of nigeria , peter akinola , issued a statement saying if an invitation was not extended to his bishop in virginia , martyn minns , he would regard that as '' withholding invitation to the entire house of bishops of the church of nigeria . ''
for rick owens , the gothic-glamour designer who lives in paris and is not much for suits and ties , the color summons up the elegant shades of the boldini portrait of the belle époque dandy robert de montesquiou . ''
at christmas , burpee landed on the seattle times 's '' naughty '' list along with north korea 's leader , kim jong-il . ''
diplomats and middle east analysts said that while mr. abbas could represent the palestinians and initiate peace talks with israel , he probably could not conclude those talks unless the entire palestinian government recognized israel .
this is still essentially a man 's town , '' said susan molinari , a republican and the former representative from staten island who runs the washington group , a government relations and lobbying firm . ''
the new price , $ 100 per thousand cubic meters , compared with $ 46 last year , infuriated mr. lukashenko , but a separate decision by russia to impose a customs duty of $ 180 per metric ton on russian oil prompted the belarussian transit fee .
that lebron james would n't pick up kidd 's moving expenses to cleveland and buy him a condo ? ''
at one point , directly addressing his french counterpart , minister of defense hervé morin , mr. gates said that disagreements between the united states and france that made for an often stormy relationship should not overshadow what the two nations had in common . ''
he said friday that he had accepted 17 of resignations , one of which was from shashi tharoor of india , the under secretary general for communications and public information , who finished second in the contest last summer to be secretary general .
muhammad yunus , who won the nobel peace prize last year , demonstrated with grameen bank the power of microfinancing .
he is survived by his sister dorothy -lrb- dodee -rrb- timberlake moncrief and jack b. moncrief of oklahoma city , oklahoma ; five nieces , their husbands and families .
the two of them are the inaugural fellows at a university of chicago research center run by gary becker -lrb- a nobel laureate -rrb- , steven levitt -lrb- co-author of '' freaknomoics '' -rrb- and kevin murphy -lrb- winner of a macarthur genius award -rrb- .
craig claiborne , a mississippi native who was a food editor and restaurant critic for the new york times , included a red velvet recipe with no cocoa in '' craig claiborne 's southern cooking '' -lrb- times books , 1987 -rrb- .
other fire departments in connecticut , from hartford , new haven and waterbury , have sponsored similar drives , according to gigi aguero , a recruitment specialist for the new england donor program .
mr. blair was interviewed shortly before he flew to davos , switzerland , to attend the world economic forum , where he seemed untroubled by events back home as he rubbed shoulders with the rich , the powerful and the famous .
south korea agreed to lift trade barriers to important american products like cars and beef , while the united states agreed to allow seoul to continue to subsidize south korean rice .
senator chuck hagel of nebraska , who has been one of the fiercest republican critics of the iraq war , intends to make clear on monday whether he will seek his party 's 2008 presidential nomination , a spokesman said wednesday .
a6 jordan pushes u.s. on mideast king abdullah ii of jordan made a passionate appeal for america to take the lead in pursuing arab-israeli peace , telling congress that without progress on that issue , none of the middle east 's other problems would be solved .
a1 senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , said he would not enter the 2008 presidential race -- for the time being , at least -- so he could concentrate on domestic and global concerns , particularly helping secure an end to the iraq war .
a1 tension as beirut honors hariri a ceremony in beirut honoring the second anniversary of the assassination of the former prime minister , rafik hariri , concluded without violence .
a1 ahmadinejad to visit saudi king president mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran will visit saudi arabia for a landmark meeting with king abdullah intended to tackle the growing sectarian and political crises wracking the middle east , iranian officials said .
representative bobby jindal , republican of louisiana , said he would enter the 2007 governor 's race , his second attempt at winning the office .
when the ottawa owner , eugene melnyk , told a local chamber of commerce gathering last week that he believed all of canada should be rooting for the senators because they were the last canadian team left in the stanley cup playoffs , he was exercising a bit of wishful thinking . ''
in florida , a glut of homes on the market combined with rising insurance premiums and higher interest rates will mean a slower recovery , said patrice p. yamato , a mortgage broker in jacksonville and president of florida 's mortgage broker association .
his predecessor , jacques chirac , often said he did not like to resort to sanctions , even though france supported the initial measures imposed by the security council in december 2006 and again two months ago .
findling -- katharine -lrb- kitty -rrb- , lustman , 87 , of hamden , connecticut .
mr. chabon , who lives in berkeley , calif. , with his wife , the writer ayelet waldman , is more available to his two boys and two girls , 4 to 12 , getting them ready for school , breaking from work when they return in the afternoons .
mr. ahern is also hoping for an electoral push from the power-sharing government in northern ireland , led by the protestant firebrand ian paisley , with martin mcguinness of sinn fein as his deputy .
in 2006 , the federal security service accused four british diplomats of communicating with russian agents using a device disguised as a rock , though russia chose not to expel them , as is standard practice in cases of suspected espionage .
likewise , in mexico , you might start with chalupas and end with chiles rellenos , as did joan leach , a retired school administrator from fort worth , tex. , when she and three friends headed to puebla last september for what she calls '' serious hands-on cooking classes '' at the boutique hotel mesón sacristía de capuchinas .
the late yitzhak rabin called him the greatest builder of jerusalem since herod the great .
the united nations secretary general , ban ki-moon , also in a third day of middle east diplomacy , said in jerusalem that representatives from saudi arabia , egypt , jordan and the united arab emirates , along with israeli and palestinian officials , could be invited to attend the next meeting of the so-called quartet working on middle east peace : russia , the united states , the european union and the united nations .
last year , a state screening committee recommended giving the franchise to excelsior racing associates , a new york city group led by richard fields , a casino developer , and stephen w. swindal , a partner in the new york yankees who is also george steinbrenner 's son-in-law .
at hawthorne park in chicago yesterday and at santa anita park in arcadia , calif. , two other colts punched their tickets to the kentucky derby .
correction : january 25 , 2007 , thursday a front-page article on friday about criticism of mahmoud ahmadinejad , iran 's president , by iranian religious authorities over his involvement in the country 's nuclear program misstated the connection between ayatollah ali khamenei , the supreme leader , and jomhouri-eslami , a newspaper that has rebuked mr. ahmadinejad .
but norman lear , the producer and people for the american way founder , said he was spreading his money around -- to senator clinton , senator obama , former senator john edwards and former gov. tom vilsack of iowa -- to help ensure that the issues get a full airing . ''
but in fact , essjay is a 24-year-old named ryan jordan , who attended a number of colleges in kentucky and lives outside louisville .
it was midnight here in hanoi , or already 2 a.m. back in seoul , south korea .
the cuisine , however , is at least as '' italian '' as it is in venice or palermo , which is to say that there is pasta , there is olive oil , there is rosemary -lrb- there is sauerkraut , too , but there 's sauerkraut all over northern italy -rrb- , and there is that certain sensibility of straightforwardness and seasonality , all of which put together has become almost universally popular and recognizable .
according to professor hayduk , takoma park and five other communities in maryland have given noncitizens the right to vote in local elections , and noncitizens may vote in school board races in chicago .
weingrad -- irving , 90 , of lake worth , florida passed away peacefully at home on april 10 , 2007 .
shapiro -- hyman r. , formerly of lake worth , florida , died peacefully on march 29 , 2007 at the age of 98 .
nowhere have i found this more true , though , than in australia , where '' the big dry , '' a six-year record drought , has parched the aussie breadbasket so severely that on april 19 , prime minister john howard actually asked the whole country to pray for rain . ''
his untimely passing on february 10 , 2007 , at the age 34 , occurred in his beloved community of greenwich village in new york city .
president vladimir v. putin of russia arrived in qatar on monday to discuss trade , security and the possible formation of a natural gas cartel on the second leg of a three-day tour of the middle east that is widely seen as an attempt to expand russia 's strategic role in the region . ''
goa , like much of india , is in the midst of a real estate frenzy , and patrao , a man nearly 60 , a veteran of the construction business in california and new york , is nothing if not an entrepreneur .
fred 's reputation was impugned by apple , '' said roger mcnamee , a managing director at elevation partners , the venture capital firm where mr. anderson is a colleague . ''
in court on tuesday , prosecutors introduced mr. lasane 's birth certificate from fairbanks , alaska , records indicating his parents served in the army , and a photograph taken shortly after his arrest showing a brace on mr. lasane 's right wrist .
the united nations development program announced monday that it was suspending work in north korea because the country had failed to meet conditions set up in response to american complaints that united nations money was being diverted to the government of kim jong-il . ''
aleksey kolupaev , 25 , works for an internet company in kiev , ukraine , and in his spare time , with his friend juriy ogijenko , he develops and sells software that can thwart captchas by analyzing the images and separating the letters and numbers from the background noise .
what is especially troublesome is how the four republican senators from new york city -- frank padavan , martin golden , serphin maltese and andrew lanza -- are standing with their leaders in albany even though their city would do better with the governor 's budget .
that basic concept has existed for a very long time : Ötzi the iceman , who died 5,300 years ago in the austrian alps , was found in shoes that you and i would recognize , says elizabeth semmelhack , curator of the bata shoe museum in toronto .
the study , released yesterday , was done by the united states pharmacopeia , which sets standards for the pharmaceutical industry , and by the uniformed services university of the health sciences in bethesda , md. , and two nurses ' associations .
jonathan gruber , an authority board member and economics professor at the massachusetts institute of technology , had argued against expanded subsidies , saying they were unnecessary and costly to the state .
tampa is the only n.f.l. city where the pat-downs have been successfully challenged , although lawsuits have also been brought in chicago , seattle and san francisco , according to attorneys in the florida case .
his distant relative , president franklin d. roosevelt , was born and raised in hyde park , n.y. correction : march 13 , 2007 , tuesday a political memo article on thursday , about the challenges rudolph w. giuliani faces in running for president as a former new york city mayor , referred incorrectly to the timing of the two-term presidency of another new yorker , theodore roosevelt .
israeli officials suggested that israel would work with mr. abbas and a fatah government in the west bank , and could gradually hand over to it the remaining palestinian tax moneys , about $ 562 million , withheld since hamas took power a year ago in march . ''
mr. hawass said he was also seeking the zodiac ceiling painting from the dendera temple , now in the louvre ; the statue of hemiunu in the roemer and pelizaeus museum in hildesheim , near hanover , germany ; and the bust of anchhaf at the museum of fine arts in boston .
week 's notables club -- in italy , inter milan won its 14th straight game to maintain its 11-point lead in serie a , but defender marco materazzi was again involved in a head-butting controversy .
when the views of the two countries get closer , they can play an influential role in the chaotic situation of the islamic world and the middle east , '' mohammad hosseini , iran 's ambassador to saudi arabia , told the official iranian news agency , irna . ''
in a weird twist , the model not tall or white or asian enough for asia appeared last year on the covers of harper 's bazaar in malaysia , singapore , hong kong and kazakhstan -- not because tastes in models have changed so drastically , but because she had a part in one of the biggest hollywood movies of that summer , '' mission : impossible iii . ''
he is survived by two daughters , susan fox rogers of tivoli , n.y. , who teaches creative writing at bard college , and rebecca rogers of strasbourg , france , who teaches french history at the sorbonne ; a sister , mary louise munts of kendall , pa. ; and two grandchildren .
a germantown woman was sentenced in federal court in baltimore to two years in prison for her role in transporting several hundred prostitutes from new york and new jersey to work in maryland .
traveling from the centre pompidou , musée national d'art moderne in paris , this comprehensive review of the artist 's drawings from the mid-1960s till now includes more than 70 works on paper .
sportssunday an east german symbol turns 50 , rust-free -lrb- it 's plastic -rrb- a proud trabant owner flying the east german flag was among 2,000 who gathered in zwickau , germany , to celebrate 50 years of the rattletrap cars , symbols of nostalgia for a time before the berlin wall fell .
no other place in sri lanka is so scarred because no place carries jaffna 's special curse : it is the heart of the homeland that the tamil tigers have fought to carve out , and the trophy that soldiers and rebels have fought over for nearly 25 years .
with : abhishek bachchan -lrb- rikki thukral -rrb- , preity zinta -lrb- alvira khan -rrb- , lara dutta -lrb- anaida -rrb- , bobby deol -lrb- steve -rrb- and in a special appearance , amitabh bachchan .
it 's destroyed the reputation of tony blair 's government in britain , ehud olmert 's government in israel and nuri al-maliki 's government in iraq .
but at the fourth annual globalfest , a world-music showcase with a dozen acts at webster hall on sunday night , many of the musicians cited dual origins : cape verde and lisbon for sara tavares , colombia and new york city for lucia pulido , cambodia and los angeles for the band dengue fever , mexico and minneapolis for lila downs .
but senator lisa murkowski , an alaska republican who made her first visit to the region a few weeks ago with three senate colleagues -- john e. sununu , republican of new hampshire , sheldon whitehouse , democrat of rhode island , and amy klobuchar , democrat of minnesota -- said she found there was '' no substitute for seeing things firsthand . ''
edgar m. bronfman and the leadership of the world jewish congress , mourn the passing of sol kanee of winnipeg , canada , former chairman of the wjc governing board , who will be remembered for his decades of devoted service to canada , canadian jewry and the world jewish congress .
john j. mackowski , insurance executive and proponent for corporate responsibility and ethical practice , died of lung cancer february 24 , at his home in ponte vedra beach , florida .
match names with faces : senator sam brownback of kansas john h. cox , chicago businessman former gov. jim gilmore of virginia rep. duncan hunter of california former gov. tommy thompson of wisconsin former gov. mike huckabee of arkansas rep. ron paul of texas rep. tom tancredo of colorado -lrb- one point for each correct match -- potential 8 points . -rrb-
the explosives stored in his basement were similar to those that have been used to destabilize lebanon since the assassination of the former prime minister rafik hariri in february 2005 .
the part of oak cliff that has best resolved the dallas\/not dallas conundrum , however , is the bishop arts district , a collection of small restored shops and office buildings from the 1920s that includes the nodding dog .
the aid group doctors without borders said that since saturday , more than 275 wounded people had been admitted and treated at donka hospital in the capital of guinea , conakry .
australia 's second-most-populous state , victoria , is in the grip of one of the worst bush fire seasons in recorded history , and the state 's government has issued warnings that with more hot weather on the way the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better . ''
in madrid on friday for a brief stop to try to mend the bush administration 's tattered relations with spain 's socialist government , ms. rice was asked whether she could assure that mr. cheney did not want to use military action to deal with iran . ''
the democratic unionists , the hard-line protestant party led by the rev. ian paisley , emerged as one of the main winners on friday in elections for a new assembly in northern ireland .
new data from such sites in 26 cities show that rates of drug-resistant gonorrhea among heterosexual men at the clinics last year reached 26 percent in philadelphia and more than 20 percent in honolulu and four areas in california , long beach , orange county , san diego and san francisco .
fair-minded observers know where the roadblock to peace in the middle east is to be found , and it is not israel .
paul secon , who in 1949 loaded the family station wagon with discontinued and slightly damaged ceramics from an upstate new york factory , drove to manhattan and opened the first pottery barn store , died feb. 24 at his home in rochester .
he does n't seem to be the sort of bloke we want in this country , '' australia 's immigration minister kevin andrews told macquarie radio in sydney , the associated press reported .
here lies love '' wasinspired by imelda marcos 's love of disco , so great that she installed a dance floor , complete with mirror ball , on the roof of the presidential palace in manila .
barbara canali , a connecticut justice of the peace , officiated at the carousel at lighthouse point park in new haven .
president bush delivered a two-pronged message to president vladimir v. putin of russia on tuesday , two days before their scheduled meeting in germany , chiding mr. putin for derailing democratic reforms while assuring the russian leader that he had nothing to fear from a missile defense system in europe .
based on statistics of reported crime , residents of nassau and suffolk are less than one-third as likely to be crime victims as new york city residents , said dr. andrew karmen , a sociology professor at john jay . ''
they 're a real gimmick , '' said state senator dianna schimek , a democrat who represents lincoln and who wrote the nebraska legislation .
i do n't think they were prepared to undertake the massive rebuilding efforts required after katrina , '' fred carl jr. , who was the hurricane katrina housing coordinator for gov. haley barbour of mississippi , wrote in an e-mail message . ''
page a13 not running , for now senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , said he would not enter the presidential race for the time being so he could concentrate on domestic and global concerns .
they 're allowing overdevelopment , and they do n't have the infrastructure to support it , '' said dennis schubert , a member of the upper saddle river borough council , which recently authorized the filing of a suit in federal court against the village of airmont in rockland county and rockland sewer district no. 1 . ''
for that kind of cooperation , to be treated seriously by the united states and nato , they would have to have more trust than people really do now toward the russian military , '' said stephen sestanovich , an expert on russia at the council on foreign relations . ''
according to m. j. rosenberg , the washington director for the israel policy forum and a veteran of capitol hill , '' the way it works is that most members of congress feel that saying things on the middle east that are not strictly the aipac line will get them in more trouble than it 's worth . ''
the overnight train , en route from delhi to the border post at attari , began service 30 years ago , and after a two-year suspension at a time of acute enmity between india and pakistan , resumed service in january 2004 .
when senator john mccain , republican of arizona , who has long favored sending more troops to iraq , asked if approval of a senate resolution assailing mr. bush 's new strategy could hurt the morale of american troops , the general replied , '' it would not be a beneficial effect , sir . ''
identity crisis for dreamworks -- on paper , 2007 is shaping up to be a promising year for dreamworks , the 12-year-old studio co-founded by the director steven spielberg .
martin feldstein , a professor of economics at harvard and the president of the national bureau of economic research , said in a statement issued by harvard , '' richard musgrave transformed economics in the 1950s and 1960s from a descriptive and institutional subject to one that used the tools of microeconomics and keynesian macroeconomics to understand the effect of taxes . ''
his party is pinning some of its hopes on mary lou mcdonald , who has held an elected seat in the european parliament representing sinn fein for ireland since 2004 .
on the same program , andrew speaker 's father , ted , said that he , andrew and others met with fulton county health officials in atlanta on may 10 , four days before andrew was planning to leave for europe .
these begin in the visitors center with a 45-minute slide show that explains the history of the mural movement from mexico in the 1920s through the work of diego rivera , the pre-eminent muralist who painted his first united states work , '' the allegory of california , '' in san francisco in 1931 .
finally , berlin can seem exhausting at times , but the peace of the country is just a 25-minute train ride from mitte .
with greenwich 's hedge fund industry booming , many of its newest moguls do not have entrenched political allegiances and reflect the larger shift toward democratic candidates seen elsewhere in fairfield county .
on feb. 21 , a hindu priest performed a religious ceremony at the taj exotica , a hotel in benaulim , india .
in the process , prime minister john howard , a conservative now in his 11th year in office , has moved from being a climate skeptic to what he calls a '' climate realist , '' who knows that he must offer programs to reduce global-warming greenhouse gas emissions in australia , but wants to do it without economic pain or imposed targets , like kyoto 's .
it 's not a simple case of information overload , according to a seminal article in the journal sociological theory by dr. ryan , a professor at mills college in oakland , calif. .
also , the russian president , vladimir v. putin , is scheduled to attend a group of 8 meeting of the leaders of industrialized nations in germany next week , where russia 's openness to investment will probably be discussed .
paul kocher , president of the security firm cryptography research , said the real issue for companies was trust . ''
now , with miami floundering , with detroit still the class of the conference but limping , and with cleveland not quite convincing behind lebron james , the nets merely have to win the hapless atlantic division to become the fourth-seeded playoff team .
sony corporation wishes to express its deepest and most heartfelt sympathy to his family , along with its utmost respect and gratitude for the instrumental role he played in assisting his middle school classmate and sony founder , akio morita , in establishing sony 's presence in the united states in the early 1960s .
jamie anderson , a 16-year-old californian , won the women 's final , followed by torah bright of australia and jenny jones of britain .
brahms certainly did hear the work with an ensemble similar in size to that of st. luke 's -lrb- a 49-member orchestra performed during the premiere of the work in 1885 at meiningen , germany -rrb- , although the piece is now usually associated with mammoth orchestras .
on march 10 , 2004 , the departing prime minister , josé maría aznar of the popular party , boasted in an interview that spain had enjoyed eight years of '' spectacular economic growth '' under his leadership and that terrorism '' is a lot weaker than it was '' when he took office .
from a customer standpoint , we 'd have nothing more than what we had before , '' said chase carey , the president of directv , '' but there are business terms that work for us .
the outsize robot adventure movie was born when the talent agency connected hasbro -- a client , and owner of the transformers toy line -- with dreamworks , paramount and another longtime associate , steven spielberg , among others .
five years after a similar project was announced but never built , ground has finally been broken on a $ 145 million biomedical laboratory for research on cancer and other diseases at landmark at eastview , an office park straddling the towns of greenburgh and mount pleasant in westchester county , n.y. redevelopment of the site as a biotechnology center was originally proposed by lcor inc. , a real estate firm in berwyn , pa. , but the firm shelved the project three years ago .
one elderly statesman noted that the four most pressing issues in the middle east are the arab-israeli dispute , instability in lebanon , chaos in iraq and the confrontation with iran .
mr. beck spoke publicly in 1991 of the '' barbarous '' cleaning of an important tomb sculpture by quercia in lucca , italy , saying it looked as though it had been scrubbed '' with spic and span and polished with johnson 's wax . ''
secretary of state condoleezza rice arrives in egypt on saturday after mr. ban departs for israel , and the two will meet in jerusalem on sunday .
mexico 's national team , led by its new coach , hugo sánchez , will play five games in the united states this year , in addition to next month 's match against the united states on feb. 7 in glendale , ariz. .
within days , she jetted off to paris , where she performed on '' hit machine , '' france 's answer to '' t.r.l. '' currently , she is preparing for a spring tour of africa and dubai , and making inroads toward recording a follow-up to '' cassie '' in new york . ''
in syria the presidential election was a referendum on one candidate , president bashar al-assad , in a country that has sentenced democracy advocates to several years in prison for signing a petition asking for political reforms and recently handed down a 12-year sentence to one man for membership in the muslim brotherhood . ''
a fatah government , shorn of hamas , '' can be a new opening , '' mr. olmert said , suggesting that israel would hand over $ 562 million in withheld tax and customs duties to help fatah turn the west bank into a model for the palestinian future , even if gaza was lost to extremism with last week 's takeover of the territory by hamas . ''
critics of the plan -- some 2,400 signers of a petition accusing france of '' selling its soul '' in hopes of scuttling the deal -- have been dismissed as '' grumpy spirits '' by the french culture minister , renaud donnedieu de vabres .
a mass of christian burial is scheduled for 11:30 am on thursday , march 22 , 2007 , at st. michael the archangel roman catholic , 469 north street , greenwich , connecticut , to be followed by burial in st. mary 's cemetery in greenwich .
situated on key highway , on the south side of baltimore 's inner harbor , the museum has fabulous outsider art .
the proposal would offer israel normalized relations with arab states , including saudi arabia , in return for israel 's full withdrawal from land it has occupied since 1967 , including east jerusalem .
the c.i.a. had received orders from both president dwight d. eisenhower and his successor , president john f. kennedy , to alter or abolish the revolutionary government of fidel castro in cuba .
at a news conference this week in stuttgart , germany , the usually secretive private equity firm cerberus capital management was in the spotlight , announcing an agreement to take control of chrysler .
correction : may 3 , 2007 , thursday an article last thursday about the burial of boris n. yeltsin , russia 's first democratically elected president , at novodevichy cemetery , erroneously included a writer among other russian notables interred there .
the message resonated with the senate republican leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , and senator jon kyl of arizona , the chief republican architect of the bill , who kept plugging for a deal .
israel sees jerusalem as a demographic problem , '' he said , '' and sees the solution as getting rid of palestinians . ''
we spent the year of my husband 's sabbatical -lrb- 1998-99 -rrb- in turku , finland , where our 6-year-old daughter , who would have entered first grade here , was eligible only for a half-day kindergarten program .
rebounds at 12:51 a.m. thursday , lebron james 's girlfriend , savannah brinson , delivered their second son , bryce maximus james .
citigroup , the financial services giant , has spent months courting the executive , vikram pandit , who left morgan stanley in 2005 after he was blocked for a chance at running the investment bank .
the white house took the unusual step of having mr. bartlett conduct a hurried briefing with reporters in mérida , mexico .
a low point for the world 's most unstoppable trend came on sept. 10 , 2003 , when lee kyung-hae , a distraught korean farmer protesting at the world trade organization summit in cancún , mexico , plunged a knife into his own heart after shouting '' death to w.t.o. '' in '' bound together '' nayan chanda , the director of publications for the yale center for the study of globalization , offers an alternative description of the term .
yun zhao , 31 , a bright woman who works in a large insurance company here , was drawn back here after studying in toronto and becoming a legal resident of canada , something that has long been close to an irresistible dream for many chinese . ''
in california , matthew lundin , 22 , a college student , dreamed up a demonstration in which ice cubes would be tossed into the pacific ocean at a beach in santa barbara county .
a palace that became a museum , the louvre is also a precursor of the barrel-vaulted arcades that sprang up in paris in the first half of the 19th century .
mr. gorlatch , who studies at the university of music and theater in hanover , germany , was presented as the winner of the 2006 hamamatsu international piano competition in japan , one of several competitions he has already won .
in fact , some of the old guard seems as firmly entrenched as ever ; 4 of the top 10 are older than 35 , including viswanathan anand , 37 , of india , who is no. 2 .
this weekend , ambassadors from several countries are invited by the iranians to visit the plant at isfahan , where iran produces the uranium gas that is fed into centrifuges for enrichment .
certified public accountants are also having a difficult time attracting new customers , said scott rothbort , a professor of finance at seton hall university , who uses a computer program to do his taxes . ''
other russia was refused a permit to march in moscow , but defied the ban , as it has in two previous marches in st. petersburg and the volga river city of nizhny novgorod .
known as the queen of the arabian sea , kochi has a multilayered colonial history , relaxing ayurvedic spas , colorful kathakali dance troupes , stately rajah palaces and a laid-back way of life that is a welcome change from india 's typical frenzy .
in japan , the only significant memorials to the battle of iwo jima , which took place in february and march 1945 , are on iwo jima itself , a fish-shaped island about a third the size of manhattan that is a two-hour flight south of tokyo .
the case has been turned over to wisconsin 's newly elected attorney general , j. b. van hollen .
after hurricane katrina , he was appointed by gov. haley barbour of mississippi to lead the governor 's commission on the recovery , rebuilding and renewal of the state .
the scientists and staff of the weizmann institute of science in rehovot , israel , mourn the passing of steven pavony , beloved son of our dear friend and colleague , hank , and arleen pavony .
even though capitol hill is 12 miles away , and the city border of washington even closer , here it is leafy , walkable and clean , evoking the european-style '' garden city '' that it was built to resemble .
dibaba 's performance shared the spotlight with bernard lagat 's triumph in the wanamaker mile ; a huge pole vault by the women 's world-record holder , yelena isinbayeva of russia ; a victory in the 60 hurdles by the 40-year-old gail devers ; and a spill in the 60 dash by maurice greene , who holds the meet record in that race .
a8 more criticism for evo morales political opponents of president evo morales of bolivia have stepped up criticism of the country 's strengthening military relationship with venezuela after that more than two dozen uniformed members of the venezuelan military had recently entered the country without congressional approval .
they began dating while doing h.i.v. research at the kilimanjaro christian medical center in moshi , tanzania ; she was studying the impact of free h.i.v. testing as a fulbright fellow , and he was studying tuberculosis and h.i.v. infection .
senator chuck hagel of nebraska , who has been the loudest republican critic of the president 's iraq policy , also signed the letter after his vote contributed to a delay of the iraq debate . ''
the next day , terrorists set off bombs on commuter trains in madrid , the most deadly terrorist attack in spain 's modern history .
ethiopia has a longstanding border dispute with eritrea , but of more concern to washington , ethiopia was also focused on neighboring somalia , where islamic forces that had taken over mogadishu , somalia 's capital , six months earlier and were attacking baidoa , the seat of a relatively powerless transitional government that was formed with the support of the united nations .
in trying to find comfort with the nine players colangelo initially brought in , mitchell was reluctant to give playing time to the no. 1 overall pick from italy , the 7-footer andrea bargnani , or the free-agent forward jorge garbajosa of spain .
in all , at its sprawling plant at isfahan , iran has produced some 200 tons of uranium now ready for enrichment at natanz .
at least 33 super-tall buildings have been completed in the past 80 or so years , including the world 's current tallest , the 1,667-foot taipei 101 in taiwan , built in 2004 .
chevron , based in san ramon , calif. , declined to comment on the assertion by two russian officials -- including the chief executive of gazprom , russia 's natural gas monopoly -- that american companies were interested in participating in an auction of yukos 's assets .
prime minister josé luis rodríguez zapatero of spain , a fellow socialist , and prime minister romano prodi of italy have endorsed her for president .
president gloria macapagal-arroyo , in a statement released after she voted in her province of pampanga , north of manila , said the country '' is at a crossroads as we wait for the proclamation of winners . ''
by a 2-to-1 ruling , the united states court of appeals for the fourth circuit in baltimore found that the maryland requirement -- which affected only wal-mart -- violated a 32-year-old federal labor law known by its shorthand , erisa .
now that may not be necessary , with israel and the west embracing the idea of a non-hamas government , even if its powers are limited to the west bank .
at newspapers like the asbury park press in new jersey , florida today in brevard county and the news-press in fort meyers , fla. , citizens can dial into databases and public records , or contribute their own experiences to provide grist for reported efforts .
she is booked at massey hall , toronto 's equivalent of carnegie hall , and she comes to town hall in manhattan on june 11 .
a government-appointed committee examining israel 's failures during the war in lebanon last summer says it will publish an interim report in mid - to late april apportioning responsibility to top officials , heightening uncertainty about the future of the beleaguered prime minister , ehud olmert , and his government .
survivors include his wife , sue harrington salomon of new york ; a son , david b. salomon of beverly hills , california ; and four grandchildren .
the biggest festival in new york city is actually not one series but many , combined into a single marketing umbrella after 9\/11 to help revive lower manhattan .
this red grape from the campania region of italy is used to make still and sparkling wines , and samples of each will be available for tasting , free , on saturday from noon to midnight at lenell 's , 416 van brunt street -lrb- coffey street -rrb- , red hook , brooklyn .
israelis may want peace in principle , but they are very reluctant to give up more territory in the occupied west bank , as they have done in gaza , to a palestinian authority dominated by a group unwilling to recognize israel 's right to exist or to forswear the use of violence .
remember also that israel is home to several hundred thousand non-jewish russians and guest workers from africa , asia and the balkans .
maskaev is the w.b.c. champion , and chageav took the world boxing association title from nikolay valuev , the 7-foot , 300-pound russian , last month in a majority decision in stuttgart , germany .
and the democrats control the senate in large part because former senator george allen , republican of virginia , blew up his own campaign beginning with the most egregious -lrb- and perhaps the only -rrb- public use of the m-word -lrb- '' macaca '' -rrb- in american political history .
tom douglas , a well-known seattle chef , has opened five restaurants with his wife , jackie cross , which he said have sales of almost $ 30 million . ''
in a news conference , the russian industry and energy minister , viktor b. khristenko , said that in time russia would be able to reroute oil around belarus , possibly by increasing the capacity of the baltic pipeline system or hurrying the completion of the east siberia-pacific ocean pipeline .
aug. 31 bordertown the director gregory nava , who nudged jennifer lopez toward stardom with '' selena , '' reunites with her for a fictionalized treatment of the plague of unsolved murders of women in ciudad juárez , mexico .
she said that the israeli-hezbollah conflict in lebanon '' was a major contributor to that shift in alignment '' and that it made a middle east peace deal more promising , and that toppling saddam hussein , despite the current violence within iraq , removed what she called an '' eastern front '' against the israelis .
david eun , google 's vice president for content partnerships , said that rather than dwell on what is being left behind , he preferred to take a more optimistic view . ''
can israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , tell his public that demography and practicality mean that the arab neighborhoods of east jerusalem will have palestinian and not israeli sovereignty ?
because tax rates in asia are generally low , singapore 's lure to asians is less about escaping taxes and more about protecting assets from political vagaries .
first up is the tgv est , set to begin service in june , which will not only cut the travel time from paris to strasbourg nearly in half -lrb- to 2 hours and 20 minutes -rrb- , but will also open up fast routes between paris and cities in eastern france and luxembourg , germany and switzerland .
we want the war to end , '' said the author of one such bill , jeanne kohl-welles , who represents seattle in the washington state senate . ''
in the middle east , iran bids for dominance .
jana hunter jana hunter is another curious folk singer in devendra banhart 's address book -- her output thus far has been on gnomonsong , mr. banhart 's label -- but she sounds happily uninterested in being part of a team , or any outsider-folk continuum dating to the 1960s . ''
survivors include his loving wife , barbara spector of hartsdale , ny and jupiter , florida ; three adoring children ; a son scott l. spector of washington , dc ; and two daughters stacey spector of philadelphia , pa and jaimie field of philadelphia , pa ; and six wonderful grandchildren .
and so it goes at cafe gratitude , a raw-food restaurant in san francisco , where every order is a self-affirmation -- i am open , i am beautiful , i am powerful -- mirrored back to you by your server .
in florida , daytona beach promotes a spring family beach break season , which runs from march 12 to may 24 , with area hotels offering discounts and resort credits .
we were told about spooky trees and chilly black water a few hours earlier as we planned our route through the woodbury tract -- a newly created 25,668-acre nature preserve along the little pee dee river in south carolina , part of a $ 300 million purchase of timber company lands by conservation groups . ''
he became particularly well known for his outspoken and visible role in condemning the 1999 shooting of amadou diallo , who was killed in a barrage of 41 bullets fired by four new york city police officers .
wildflower hall is perched at around 8,300 feet , amid a forest of cedar and pine , roughly eight miles outside simla , which had become by the mid-19th century the official summer retreat for india 's british rulers .
israel annexed jerusalem in 1967 and offered full citizenship at the time to all of jerusalem 's residents .
they include lloyd c. blankfein , chairman and chief executive of goldman sachs ; charles o. prince iii , chairman and chief executive of citigroup ; stephen m. cutler , a former director of enforcement at the securities and exchange commission and now general counsel at jpmorgan chase .
recently declassified israeli government documents show that according to these policy planners , taking over the west bank would weaken the relative strength of israel 's jewish majority , encourage palestinian nationalism and ultimately lead to violent resistance .
it often serves as a stop for people on their way to ski resorts in the val d'aosta and is known , as is its region of piedmont , as one of the culinary gems of italy .
a3 bomb kills 6 in turkish capital a powerful explosion tore into a shopping district in ankara , turkey , killing six people and wounding more than 70 , turkish officials said .
on hand will be 150 galleries , some from as far away as asia and israel .
mack louden worries that his 30,000-acre ranch sits in the cross hairs of the army 's plans to expand its piñon canyon maneuver site at fort carson , and he , along with other colorado ranchers , are increasingly upset about the idea . ''
thanks to projects like the quai branly museum and the outdoor wall for the bhv , a popular paris department store , which mr. blanc completed this spring , plant walls have become increasingly fashionable in france , and various imitators have stepped in to offer alternatives , including less expensive do-it-yourself systems with hanging clay pockets or iron grid systems . ''
this merger is really a part of a global growth strategy for google , '' eric e. schmidt , google 's chief executive , said in a conference call .
the cape winelands of south africa , stretching roughly 100 miles north and east from cape town , have been in production since the dutch east india company established the cape colony in 1652 and planted gardens at the foot of table mountain .
most countries do not recognize israel 's claim of sovereignty over east jerusalem , dating from the 1967 middle east war .
in 1989 , mr. ferré was hired by the french luxury-goods executive bernard arnault to replace the designer marc bohan at christian dior , a rare invitation for a designer living outside paris to become the stylistic director for one of the most famous fashion houses in france .
democrats said that mr. kyl and senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , needed to squeeze concessions from the senators fighting the bill though they were skeptical it could be done since some critics appear determined to kill the measure . ''
the daughters huddled around their mother , mr. ramírez 's oldest grandchild , as she gazed at the work before her : the obsessive , hypnotic renderings of horses and riders , trains and tunnels , madonnas and the landscape of the jalisco region of mexico .
france 's new president , nicolas sarkozy , wants to forget the acrimony that marked his predecessor 's relations with the united states , even appointing a pro-american foreign minister , bernard kouchner , who supported the united states ' invasion of iraq .
the issue , mr. marissen suggests , is not one of anti-semitism per se but one of triumphalism , a rejoicing in the misfortune of the jews , specifically with the destruction of the second temple in jerusalem by the romans in a.d. 70 .
a survey of chief executives around the world , released at the world economic forum in davos , switzerland , this week , found widespread optimism about profits and nearly universal complaints about excessive regulation of business .
it is n't omaha , it is n't warren buffett and it is n't berkshire hathaway -- but it 's mighty close .
... lastings milledge , who has been sidelined with a sprained ligament in his foot , has begun working out in florida and will soon start a rehabilitation assignment with port st. lucie , mets general manager omar minaya said yesterday . ''
part modern social history , part travelogue , '' ghosts of spain '' is held together by elegant first-person prose that allows readers an occasional glimpse of tremlett 's personal life in madrid amid the more general accounts of family life -lrb- children are coddled and fussed over and considered almost '' public property '' -rrb- , the medical system -lrb- respect for the white coat , he writes , is still absolute -rrb- , nocturnal entertainment -lrb- spaniards are said to be the most enthusiastic brothel-goers -- and cocaine users -- in europe -rrb- , and so on .
at the world championship tournament under way in the moscow suburbs , the united states national team 's leading scorer is lee stempniak of the blues , a native of the buffalo suburb of west seneca .
also on tuesday , prime minister ehud olmert of israel met with king abdullah ii of jordan in the jordanian port of aqaba .
mr. skovmand was born in frederiksberg , denmark , and was a danish citizen .
xanadu , an enormous shopping and entertainment complex , is being built around continental arena , and the devils scheduled to move next season to the prudential center , a 17,625-seat arena under construction in downtown newark .
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , said he believed republicans would have eventually relented had they been given more time to work out an agreement on what amendments would be considered . ''
big '' jim thompson , the chicago federal prosecutor , claimed many political scalps in the 1970s , not least that of former gov. otto kerner jr. .
mr. wagoner said g.m. would more than double its production capacity in india , to 225,000 vehicles a year , by making more vehicles at its halol factory in the state of gujarat and building a new plant in talegaon , maharashtra , both in western india .
the first generation of native-born military leaders -- dayan , yitzhak rabin , ariel sharon , ezer weizman -- felt contempt for the european-born political leaders like eshkol , a gap of generation and culture that also pushed israel to war .
john morgan , an economics professor from the haas school of business at the university of california , berkeley , said he expected online commerce to continue to increase , partly because it remains less than 1 percent of the overall economy . ''
on the day in november when i first met donskoi in moscow , intrigued by the audacity of his decision to run for president of all russia , investigators raided his office up in arkhangelsk .
from there , he could travel to ramallah and address the palestinian parliament , making clear that the abdullah initiative aims to give palestinians the leverage to offer israel peace with the whole arab world in return for full withdrawal .
intelligence analysts have been divided over whether it is the policy of the government in damascus to aid the flow of foreign fighters who enter iraq from syria , or whether that assistance is the work of lower-level syrian officials acting on their own .
a sayville man was charged yesterday with driving while intoxicated after he was involved in an accident in which one of his passengers died , the suffolk county police said .
it is known as the heart of paisley protestant country , the town that started the long political career of the rev. ian paisley , the hard-line northern ireland protestant leader once nicknamed '' dr. no. '' but a day after mr. paisley did the once-unthinkable by agreeing with his catholic republican archenemy gerry adams to form a joint administration for the province , many shoppers and workers in ballymena , a busy market town 27 miles northwest of belfast , said their leader had done the right thing by finally saying '' yes . ''
in a separate development , israel 's deputy prime minister , shimon peres , met in qatar with the emir , sheik hamad bin khalifa al-thani .
the show 's largest work , which the catalog calls the most significant example of valencian tile design in any museum , is a piece known as the disdier paving , from the royal family 's tile factory of valencia , made in 1808 , the year napoleon invaded spain .
stolzer parkhaus has built 28 automated garages in 11 countries since its first , in kronach , germany , in 1996 .
seven years ago , when nader tehrani and monica ponce de leon , partners at office da , an architecture firm in boston , were asked to renovate a five-story town house in the back bay neighborhood , they faced a singular design challenge .
essentials omaha , nebraska hotel good lodging options in omaha are fairly limited .
it is less clear , however , how the middle east would have turned out if israel had restrained itself in 1967 .
he was referring to senator sam brownback of kansas , who has formed a presidential exploratory committee , a step that allows him to raise money as he gauges support , and senator chuck hagel of nebraska , widely mentioned as a possible candidate in 2008 .
seth goldman , the president and chief executive of honest tea , which makes organic teas and juices , said the glacéau deal was '' the best indicator that the growth in the beverage industry is n't going to come from tiny bubbles . '' ''
but he says the man , who is now awaiting trial in lebanon , confessed , and mr. rifi recalled that the sept. 11 hijacker who came from lebanon frequented discos in beirut .
in california , the small west fresno district , with some of the lowest test scores in fresno county , added an hour more of school a day for students in the fourth to eighth grades .
mr. rangel is , by most measures , a liberal , although he said in an interview last month that he would no more be a '' harlem chairman '' than representative nancy pelosi , democrat of california , would be a '' san francisco speaker . ''
new york city will supply bullet-resistant vests to all of its 4,500 auxiliary police officers , city officials announced yesterday , less than two weeks after two of the officers -- who are unarmed volunteers -- were gunned down in greenwich village .
asked by the forum 's moderator , george stephanopoulos of abc news , about mrs. clinton 's explanation that her vote was cast based on a sincere belief in military intelligence provided at the time , mr. edwards replied : '' whether it 's good enough i think is between her and her conscience .
abbé pierre , who in the 1950s as a gaunt priest with a crook-handled cane and a profoundly persuasive passion mobilized france to attend to its homeless , then kept pressing his crusade until he became known as the country 's moral compass , died yesterday in paris .
griffin o'neal was sentenced to 18 days in jail for failing to perform 400 hours of community service after a judge found him guilty of reckless boating in an 1986 accident that killed gian-carlo coppola , the son of the director francis ford coppola .
among board members reportedly playing an important role is josef ackermann , the chief executive of deutsche bank .
after years of hostility and recriminations , the leaders of northern ireland 's dominant rival groups , gerry adams of sinn fein and the protestant leader , the rev. ian paisley , held their first face-to-face talks on monday and agreed to form a joint administration for the province on may 8 .
babel , '' from the mexican director alejandro gonzález iñárritu , spanned three continents and five languages -- japanese , berber , spanish , english and sign -- and two of its actresses , rinko kikuchi of japan and adriana barraza of mexico , received nominations .
he was drafted to work in the foreign ministry , where he helped form policy toward morocco , tunisia and the middle east .
she is survived by her husband , dr. austin s. murphy , her sister trudy ferguson , of ringgold , virginia , her son thomas romero , daughter - in - law kimberly romero and twin granddaughters , katie and tessa romero , of westport , connecticut and gerrit and lizzy murphy .
for lunch or -lrb- on saturday only -rrb- breakfast -lrb- $ 4.50 for biscuits and gravy , a kansas classic -rrb- , visit the 75-year-old old mill tasty shop -lrb- 604 east douglas avenue ; 316-264-6500 -rrb- , which has a gorgeous marble soda fountain and vintage wichita photos .
a11 fragile cease-fire in gaza after five days of clashes in the gaza strip , palestinian factions mostly observed the latest cease-fire , though one hamas member was shot dead .
or the painter giancarlo croce , who runs a subterranean gallery , studio d'arte porta segreta -lrb- via porta segreta , 15 ; 39-761-587-563 -rrb- , that carries the works of the local sculptor costantino morosin , who is known throughout italy for his sculptures made of a volcanic rock , tufo , including the three etruscan-style thrones that grace calcata 's square .
the trentino-alto adige region in italy and the autonomous region of madeira in portugal are examples , as are catalonia and the basque provinces in spain .
mr. abbas moved quickly to capitalize on the shift , telling mr. bush that it was time to restart middle east peace talks with israel , his spokesman said .
russian officials said they banned petro o. poroshenko , a chocolate and television magnate and former ukrainian national security adviser , on feb. 3 in retaliation for ukraine 's visa ban on russian ultranationalist politician vladimir v. zhirinovsky and others , interfax reported .
president jacques chirac of france appealed to mr. karzai for help in gaining their release in a telephone call on saturday . ''
housing was then france 's most urgent need : more than 2,000 people slept each night on the paris streets and one in five french people lived in what a government report called '' inadmissible '' living conditions .
germany is still trying to salvage some kind of a strategic partnership with russia , while a majority of european countries question whether that even makes sense anymore , '' said alexander rahr , an expert on russia at the german council on foreign relations in berlin . ''
giuseppe rossi , who grew up in clifton , n.j. , but moved to italy with his family , will spend the rest of the season with parma on loan from manchester united .
because of an editing error , a report in the n.b.a. roundup in some copies last thursday , about the toronto raptors ' 90-77 victory over the milwaukee bucks , misstated the team that toronto tied for the lead in the atlantic division as a result .
but mr. bush rekindled his argument that a withdrawal would doom to failure the american experiment in iraq , touch off chaos throughout the middle east , provide a launching pad for attacks in the united states , and embolden iran to develop nuclear weapons .
iowa is important for everybody 's prospects , '' mr. edwards said friday in an interview between appearances in council bluffs and sioux city . ''
senator ben nelson , democrat of nebraska , said the benchmarks would ensure that the iraqi government understood it must stabilize the country both politically and militarily . ''
dr. tod h. mikuriya , a california psychiatrist who was widely regarded as the grandfather of the medical marijuana movement in the united states , died on may 20 at his home in berkeley .
mr. abbas went to damascus , syria , last week to meet with the hamas political director , khaled meshal , who lives there in exile , and the two said they had made progress .
john smoltz , the veteran atlanta pitcher , called cox ' approach toward the ejection record '' much ado about nothing . ''
ankara 's governor , kemal onal , identified the bomber as guven akkus , from the sivas district in southeastern turkey , a predominantly kurdish region , the anatolian news agency reported .
after a childhood in adelaide , australia , and graduate school at princeton , dr. tao has settled into sunny southern california . ''
in new york , these spurs would have become the toast of the united nations with their rich blend of international stars , beginning but not ending with duncan of the united states virgin islands , ginóbili of argentina and tony parker of france .
china is starting to market and sell this technology to developing countries that need it , '' said shen dingli , a professor in international relations at fudan university in shanghai .
the west , he proposed at davos , switzerland , on jan. 26 , might suspend its economic sanctions against iran while tehran simultaneously suspended its enrichment of uranium .
a group of investors led by john de mol , one of the founders of endemol , which pioneered reality television series like '' big brother '' and game shows like '' deal or no deal , '' agreed monday to buy a controlling stake in the company from telefónica , the spanish telecommunications company .
lebron james , the cavaliers ' 24-year-old superstar , fought off foul trouble and swarming defense as cleveland dominated the final quarter , 27-12 . ''
kamiya also decided to send three employees to california in the summer of 1957 on a survey mission ; a few months later , toyota set up a small dealership in hollywood to sell an austere , ugly and underpowered vehicle called the toyopet crown -- '' toyopet is your pet ! ''
palestinian leaders condemned israel 's arrests in the west bank .
one of the most popular islamist leaders in the arab world today , he notes , is hezbollah 's sheik hassan nasrallah in lebanon .
isaac reed , a friend of the couple who was named a deputy marriage commissioner by los angeles county for this event , officiated at saddlerock ranch in malibu , calif. .
walk down the streets of hargeisa , the capital of somaliland , and instead of gunmen you come across the thriving jewelry and financial market : scores of vendors , most of them women , are hawking millions of dollars worth of gold , precious stones and foreign currency out in the open air .
following a meeting in paris with andré boisclair , head of canada 's pro-independence parti québécois , she spoke to canadian journalists of '' common values , namely the freedom and sovereignty of quebec , '' infuriating canada 's prime minister .
waters herself tells us of the first day of her first visit to france in 1965 , when the heavy blue draperies of a paris hotel and the good vegetable soup served there represented something of an awakening for her .
actually there are three systems , '' dr. cordova said , because cuba has two : one is for party officials and foreigners like those mr. moore brought to havana . ''
they test in the short term for immediate reactions to make sure the product does n't cause your skin to itch , get red or fall off , '' said jeanne rizzo , executive director of the breast cancer fund , a nonprofit group in san francisco that was one of the sponsors of the new california law . ''
he was later placed in important posts at venezuela 's embassies in canada and cuba , where he was put in charge of overseeing the various bilateral agreements reached between fidel castro and mr. chávez .
at&t owns about 9 percent of américa móvil , which is controlled by the mexican billionaire carlos slim helú . ''
a miracle of catfish '' takes place in larry brown 's world , northern mississippi .
in a closed session on may 23 , two democrats , senators sheldon whitehouse of rhode island and dianne feinstein of california , proposed barring spending on interrogation techniques that go beyond the army field manual , which bans physical pressure or pain .
the publication of these new histories came just after a second transición in spain -- the election of josé maría aznar , head of the rightwing popular party and the first conservative leader of the country since francisco franco 's death in 1975 -- a time when spain began , quite literally , to unearth its dead .
oregon 's timber and agricultural industries had long been struggling , driving up unemployment , and the high-tech boom that had benefited places like portland had started to unravel .
turnaround in toronto the toronto raptors have won 12 of their last 20 games and are a game and a half behind the nets in the weak atlantic division , a nice turnaround for a team that started 5-10 .
israeli officials have rejected the idea of extending the cease-fire to the west bank unless it is properly enforced in gaza first , and israel continued its military operations in the west bank on monday .
6 a.m. -lrb- tcm -rrb- command decision -- (1948) turner classic movies salutes the armed forces with a memorial day marathon starring some a-list heroes , beginning with clark gable in this colorized world war ii drama about a general who must battle his own government to send his planes deeper into germany .
mr. burns said the indian foreign secretary , shiv shankar menon , had been invited to washington for talks early next month , and mr. burns planned then to travel to india .
a8 archbishop resigns in poland the newly appointed archbishop of warsaw , stanislaw wielgus , abruptly resigned at a mass meant to celebrate his new position after having admitted that he had worked with poland 's communist-era secret police .
we get cursed on in every language in new york city , '' said matthew ancrum , 49 , a production assistant who lives in bedford park in the bronx .
the company said that it has been informed by the united states attorney in newark , christopher j. christie , that a review found no violation of securities laws or breach of an earlier consent order the company had signed with the securities and exchange commission .
additionally the jury for un certain regard , a sidebar to the main competition , gave its highest honor to '' california dreamin , ' '' a first feature by cristian nemescu set in romania during the kosovo war of 1999 .
israel is not going to be dragged into the gaza strip the way that hamas wants , '' said miri eisin , spokeswoman for prime minister ehud olmert . ''
and with the devils moving to the new prudential center in newark , you have to wonder how many of their fans will follow them to the inner city after 25 years at the meadowlands , where this hockey team put the name new jersey on the sports map .
page a3 spurs close in on title san antonio prevented the cleveland star lebron james from attempting a potential game-tying shot in the final seconds and held on to win , 75-72 , in game 3 of the best-of-seven n.b.a. finals .
ever since the verrazano-narrows bridge was completed in 1964 , linking staten island to the rest of new york city , people have flocked to the island , developers have worked frenetically to accommodate them , and longtime residents have bemoaned the disappearance of open space and the strain on the island 's infrastructure .
dan brucker , a spokesman for the metro-north railroad in new york , which operates the new haven line for new york and connecticut , said any decision to allow the state 's elderly residents to ride free was strictly '' a state of connecticut issue . '' ''
we do no one any favors , least of all the russian people and even their government , by abstaining from speaking out when necessary , '' the russia expert , david kramer , the deputy assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs , said in a speech thursday night before the baltimore council on foreign affairs .
evans -- tilghman boyd , age 74 , of bainbridge island , washington , died on january 8 , 2007 .
on jan. 24 , the bar association of san francisco requested that the state bar of california investigate mr. stimson for possible violations of california ethics rules , the san francisco group 's web site says .
born in berlin on jan. 5 , 1914 , mr. berggruen was working as a journalist for frankfurter zeitung , the forerunner of today 's frankfurter allgemeine zeitung , in the mid-1930 's when he was informed that , because of his jewish surname , his articles would in future be signed only by his initials , h. b. soon afterward , he left germany for the united states , where he studied art in san francisco and eventually became an art critic for the san francisco chronicle .
but in the past decade , for most israelis , the green line has once again become the line separating the relatively safe roads of israel from the danger of the west bank .
in his first feature film , '' 12:08 east of bucharest , '' which opens wednesday at film forum in new york , corneliu porumboiu goes in search of them , not on the streets of timisoara , where the national mutiny erupted , or in bucharest , where the revolution culminated , but in his hometown , vaslui in eastern romania , where heroism was apparently in short supply .
7:30 p.m. -lrb- sundance -rrb- the last victory -- (2004) in siena , italy , the palio horse race , a bareback scramble around the main square , has been an annual source of glory for one of the city 's 17 districts for centuries .
the sons have gravitated to other family business pursuits -- hank to the horse farm in ocala , fla. , and hal , who owns and is licensed to fly a single-engine plane , to the real estate and hotel interests in florida .
in 2004 , the last major flood , the death toll stood at 351 in bihar state , which is home to this village and many others sitting on some of the most vulnerable floodplains in india .
zhongxing is a regional producer in baoding , in the western chinese province of hebei , that produces mostly pickups .
a philosophy professor , also party to this discussion at the local barbershop , adds that '' the world is run by the forces of international finance , for which peace is equivalent to layoffs , '' and that '' bringing iraq to its knees would make it possible for israel to dominate the middle east . ''
mr. greenspan agreed to take on the case only because he knew he would be paired with edward genson , a criminal lawyer in chicago who shares a propensity for defending high-profile people caught up in a scandal , like the singer r. kelly and a former governor , george h. ryan .
tinku is a sublime , beautiful act , '' said wilson araoz , the mayor of sacaca and a leading official in the popular indigenous movement , a party that is part of the coalition supporting evo morales , bolivia 's first indigenous president .
pending approval of a state charter , tepeyac will open its doors as a retail bank in huntington park , a heavily latino city of 62,000 in los angeles county .
the diplomat richard holbrooke , whose career began during the vietnam war , told me that security worries then were addressed by a vetting process carried out in safe , preliminary asylum camps for refugees set up beyond vietnam 's borders in asia .
correction : june 16 , 2007 , saturday an article on june 9 about preparations for president bush 's visit to albania misstated the position of bernard kouchner , the new foreign minister of france , before the american-led invasion of iraq in 2003 .
it 's enough to say that '' hugo cabret '' sits at the nexus of magic and storytelling and film , and that brian selznick -- who , perhaps not so coincidentally , has the hollywood legend david o. selznick in his family tree -- shows us a little magic of his own .
call it a shotgun introduction to stuttgart , the prosperous city in southwest germany where car worship , like one 's taxi driver , seems to know no limits .
let 's see , syria is being investigated by the united nations for murdering lebanon 's former prime minister , rafik hariri .
another winner was terra industries , an agricultural and industrial chemical company in sioux city , iowa .
he wrote a book , '' witness to nuremberg , '' and has spoken on it frequently , including many times in germany .
nhpf , which has its louisiana office in baton rouge , gets the funds to build from government grants , tax credits and low-interest loans , as well as conventional financing .
in a 1997 study , mr. alesina , along with reza baqir , an economist at the international monetary fund , and william easterly , an economics professor at new york university , looked at the relationship between social spending and ethnic diversity in 2,700 cities , counties and metropolitan areas across the united states .
he said much of his work was influenced in mexico by the colorful art of muralists and indigenous artists , whom he was first exposed to when he lived in mexico city as a child .
representative vicki berger , a republican from salem , introduced herself as '' the only living witness to the actual birth of the oregon bottle bill . ''
behind the news -- the suicide attacks in algiers , the capital , were the deadliest in more than a decade and followed warnings by officials in the united states and europe that algeria was becoming a center for terrorism that could threaten europe and north america .
farah has lived in india , europe and south africa , and only started revisiting mogadishu in 1996 , after two decades away .
among the more macabre relics that dr. lattimer collected , in this case from his service at nuremberg , is a glass ampoule that contained the dose of cyanide taken by hermann göring , the luftwaffe commander , to commit suicide rather than go to the gallows .
president bush , who once declared that he loathed north korea 's leader , kim jong-il , is n't eager for another fight these days .
11 p.m. -lrb- bravo -rrb- work out -- jackie warner , left , the owner and managing director of sky sport & spa in beverly hills , returns for a second season of shaping some of california 's hardest bodies .
the dining halls at furman university in greenville , s.c. , are offering more fresh produce from local farms .
in a telephone interview from hong kong , alan vandermolen , vice president for asia and the pacific at edelman , said , '' we 're working with him in his capacity as a private citizen and supporting some media outreach to support his efforts to return to thailand . ''
as for problems in the middle east itself , these speakers added , they have a common source , israel .
if you have parachute training and an urge to jump off the empire state building -- or the brooklyn bridge -- there may be nothing wrong with it , a new york city judge ruled yesterday .
the documents they prepared were approved by prime minister levi eshkol and the army 's chief of staff , yitzhak rabin , and therefore reflect israel 's strategic thinking six months before the war .
they favor yellowknife , in the northwest territories , where you 'll see them bundled up in the red snowsuits provided by the lodges .
the reason , said dr. isaac schiff , chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at massachusetts general hospital in boston , is that there are safe and readily available alternatives to the banned method , which the law calls partial birth abortion . ''
the man , wayne toney , 23 , of wyandanch , was arrested on monday shortly after a robbery in which someone kicked in a house door and stole jewelry , the suffolk county police said .
in colorado three theater companies -- the curious theater company and paragon theater , both in denver , and theater13 in boulder -- have gone so far as to sue the state , arguing that smoking in the course of a play is a form of free expression .
investors snapped up 19 buildings in the washington , d.c. , area ; 17 in seattle ; 17 in portland , ore. ; and 17 in san diego .
this is a first sift through these images , '' said werner vogels , chief technology officer at amazon , who had dr. gray on his ph. d. committee at vrije university in amsterdam . ''
the proposal from mr. warner and senators susan collins , republican of maine , and ben nelson , democrat of nebraska , also declares that the president is the commander in chief and that it is not the senate 's intent to contravene his authority -- wording that drew the attention of some lawmakers . ''
this week , during a congressional spring break , the presidential candidates whose day jobs normally are on capitol hill have been given a reprieve from flying back to washington to cast votes .
jeff higbee , an investigator with the ontario police department in california , who participated in the bell operation . ''
the plot involves an aid worker , jacob , played by the eloquently unhappy-looking mads mikkelsen , who reluctantly returns to his native denmark from mumbai , where he helps run an orphanage .
a senior bush administration official in jerusalem cautioned that it remained unclear early on monday whether saudi arabia would agree to a public meeting with israel . ''
in his witty and informed manual of male dress sense , '' men 's style : the thinking man 's guide to dress , '' russell smith , a columnist in canada who has written about style , insists that '' women like men in suits , '' even if they do n't particularly notice what the suits look like .
rock around the rock local talent in the form of the new jersey rock band bon jovi will make history on oct. 26 as the opening attraction of the rock , the new arena at the prudential center in newark .
about 1,600 jobs will be eliminated in new york city , where citigroup has its headquarters .
dreamgirls '' is a solid hit in the united states , with more than $ 100 million in domestic box office sales , and its backers at dreamworks and paramount pictures have been tiptoeing into the international marketplace .
and , in a show of his resolve , the white house announced late friday that mr. bush called senators mitch mcconnell of kentucky , trent lott of mississippi , and jon kyl of arizona , all republicans , to discuss the bill 's resuscitation as he flew aboard air force one to italy from poland . ''
it was a good give and take , '' said senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader . ''
but many feel the project is a costly denigration of paris 's elegant urban core , citing , for example , the unadventurous , profit-conscious corporate projects lining the much-maligned avenue de france and surrounds .
the americans have shifted from buying one - to two-bedroom to four - to five-bedroom apartments over the past half decade , '' said werner m. loval , managing director of the jerusalem office of anglo-saxon real estate in jerusalem , one of israel 's largest real estate agencies . ''
among the industry players who have contributed are peter a. chernin , chairman and chief executive of news corporation 's fox group ; ron meyer , the president of universal studios ; richard cook , chairman of walt disney studios ; and brad grey , chairman of paramount pictures .
in mid-january esther was thrilled to receive an acceptance letter from centre college , one of her fallback schools , in kentucky .
all we want is a whole middle east that is free from weapons of mass destruction , '' an arab reference to both israel 's and iran 's nuclear programs .
james hillier was born in brantford , ontario .
a court in rome acquitted five people accused of conspiring to murder roberto calvi , who was president of banco ambrosiano , one of italy 's largest private banks , and a financial adviser to the vatican when he was found hanged under blackfriars bridge in london in 1982 , his pockets stuffed with rocks , bricks and cash .
a8 russia lifts bear hunting ban for the first time in more than five decades , the russian government is preparing to allow hunters to kill polar bears , which are descending with greater regularity on coastal villages in parts of the far north as a result of shrinking sea ice generally attributed to a warming planet .
the accord by the european union -- unveiled after two days of heated negotiations and hailed by president jacques chirac of france as '' a great moment in european history '' -- will require the bloc to derive a fifth of its energy from renewable sources like wind and solar power by 2020 .
among the major rivers that overflowed were the housatonic , still , saugatuck , norwalk , quinnipiac , farmington , naugatuck , mill , rooster and connecticut .
we 're confident we 're providing a new outlet for them for distribution , '' said chad hurley , chief executive and co-founder of youtube , a division of google . ''
when the fences come down , eatontown and the neighboring monmouth county boroughs of oceanport and tinton falls could inherit and divide 1,126 acres of fort monmouth property within their borders .
israel began excavation work near jerusalem 's most fiercely contested religious shrine , drawing palestinian protests .
armed with little more than the name of town called mazamitla in the state of jalisco , the butcher at the meat market contacted a cousin who lived nearby .
but senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , said he did not want to hold up financing for the war by spending more time than necessary on a measure that will never become law .
i have known kevin law for 25 years , '' said wayne r. horsley , a democratic suffolk county legislator from lindenhurst . ''
we must just allow the process to work through , '' said trevor manuel , the finance minister of south africa , referring to the bank board 's announcement on friday that it would continue to weigh mr. wolfowitz 's role in the transfer and pay raise of his companion after he became president in 2005 .
because of an editing error , an article last sunday about the history of israel 's difficulties in lebanon referred incorrectly to a commission that issued a scathing report on prime minister ehud olmert 's handling of the war with hezbollah last summer .
for the uninitiated , the annual orange battles of ivrea in northern italy are a lesson in both physics -- the impact of the thrown fruit as it hits the flesh -- and the history of this medieval town and its need to act out a legendary tale of civic rebellion in such a bruising fashion . ''
asked about the prospect of irish reunification , he cited ian paisley , the unionist leader in northern ireland and a staunch opponent of the republican cause : '' ian paisley is one of the best agents the i.r.a. ever had .
the quartet encouraged israel and the palestinian authority '' to consider resumption '' of the tax transfers via the temporary international mechanism '' to improve the economic and humanitarian conditions in the west bank and gaza . ''
he plans to be in california on sunday to deliver a speech -- about selma and civil rights -- at the university of california , berkeley .
fifteen cadets have been expelled and three others have resigned in a cheating scandal at the united states air force academy near colorado springs , an air force official said yesterday .
in what would have put mr. leary in the rarefied territory of mr. wolf and jerry bruckheimer -lrb- as executive producer of at least three law enforcement dramas running in prime time -rrb- , mr. leary nearly got another series on next year 's television schedule : '' fort pit , '' set in a dysfunctional new york city police precinct .
when kyle was 5 , his mother organized a local prayer vigil for amadou diallo , the african immigrant shot to death by the police in new york city . ''
after the fall of saigon in 1975 , she reported on the rise of the khmer rouge in cambodia , the assassination of rajiv gandhi in india and the strife in east timor .
lorraine nicholson , the daughter of jack nicholson and rebecca broussard , is the 2007 miss golden globe .
the arab states can reach out to the israeli center , and to olmert , '' referring to prime minister ehud olmert of israel , who mr. makovsky pointed out is politically weakened right now within his country . ''
we will not fear for our future and that of our children anymore ; we can relax at last , '' said rana ramadan , 24 , a member of the future movement , led by saad hariri , rafik hariri 's son and political heir , speaking on thursday . ''
if you 're going to cut down 11,000 trees in new york city , northwestern staten island is apparently the place to do it . ''
the international committee of the red cross , in a confidential report about east jerusalem and its surrounding areas , accuses israel of a '' general disregard '' for '' its obligations under international humanitarian law -- and the law of occupation in particular . ''
elsewhere the costumes ' main color scheme -- tybalt is yellow , romeo blue , mercutio purple -- reminded me of the old national ballet of cuba production of '' giselle , '' which was arranged around the fading eyesight of its prima ballerina , alicia alonso , with all the key characters in giselle 's life dressed in individually bright colors , so that she knew what to do with the dancer wearing orange as opposed to the one in mauve .
the harsh comments about the troop plan from well-known republican critics like senator chuck hagel of nebraska was one thing .
it must address the growing challenges and opportunities of regional integration , the major shifts in the asian landscape brought about by the rise of china and india , and asia 's widening links with the rest of the world . ''
sosa was 13-3 in 2005 for the atlanta braves , but last season he went 3-11 for atlanta and the st. louis cardinals .
melek boz , who was the chef and owner of restaurants in istanbul and bodrum , turkey , will prepare special dishes from feb. 8 through 18 at pasha , 70 west 71st street : (212) 579-8751 .
born in toronto , canada , she went to italy at 17 and made her european debut with the san carlo opera , naples , in 1956 in ` die zauberflote ' .
it was built on advice from several economists , including austan goolsbee at the university of chicago , david cutler at harvard and stuart altman at brandeis .
to the editor : re '' editor who spoke for turkey 's ethnic armenians is slain '' -lrb- news article , jan. 20 -rrb- : hrant dink , whom i met in yerevan , armenia , in 2005 , was a fearless fighter for truth and human dignity .
a hamas-orchestrated suicide bombing in the park hotel in the coastal city of netanya on the eve of passover in 2002 killed 30 , and precipitated israel 's reinvasion of the palestinian cities of the west bank .
eliane zbinden , 29 , a teacher from fribourg , switzerland . ''
mr. sarkozy already has shaken up the french political world in other ways , by apparently offering cabinet posts to members of the opposition socialists , most notably the job of foreign minister to bernard kouchner , a co-founder of the nobel-prize-winning médecins sans frontières and an icon of leftist politics in france .
among them was judith ann scheitheir , who pleaded guilty in january to stealing $ 350,000 from the plant nursery where she worked to cover her credit-card debts and losses at casinos in niagara falls and ontario .
but whoever emerges as the winner will be the first president of france born after world war ii and will be expected to make changes -- however undefined at the moment -- after 12 years of the stagnant presidency of jacques chirac .
expatriate friends of mine wrote that bangkok seemed normal , and they planned to spend new year 's day engaged in one of thailand 's favorite activities , cellphone shopping .
celebrating its 75th-anniversary season , the royal ballet of britain will tour mexico for the first time in 30 years , visiting mexico city , guadalajara and puebla from june 14 to 30 with kenneth macmillan 's '' romeo and juliet , '' ninette de valois 's '' coppélia '' and a mixed program .
she said opposition came primarily from a '' handful of primates , '' led by archbishop peter akinola of nigeria , with support from those in uganda and rwanda .
he quickly discovered that europe was too amorphous for him to stand out beside the bigger players , especially beside the president of france , jacques chirac .
relatives and friends are invited to attend arthur 's life celebration service at kraeer funeral home at 1353 north federal highway , boca raton , florida on tuesday , may 29 , 2007 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm .
vichy did go on trial with him , and the verdict seemed to confirm , as president jacques chirac had first acknowledged in 1995 , that france bore criminal responsibility for what officials like mr. papon had done in collaborating with the germans .
mutual interest , '' something mr. hamilton repeatedly insists the united states and clerical iran share , is n't a phrase i 've seen used by ali khamenei , iran 's virulently anti-american and anti-semitic ultimate leader .
many of our members are not going to be happy by the amount of spending beyond the core purpose of this supplemental , which was to fund the troops , '' said senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader . ''
iran is the only muslim country in the middle east where photography developed in a natural environment , '' said mohammad reza tahmasebpour , a photographer and researcher on the topic . ''
on the other hand , mr. brin and mr. page recruited a tech-industry veteran , eric e. schmidt , born in 1955 , to run google 's day-to-day business while they come up with ways to make their brainchild pay .
josé martín and pilar lópez of the national museum of natural sciences in madrid made this discovery by experimenting with lizards they captured in the mountains of central spain .
washington , which will sponsor a meeting of middle east diplomats on feb. 2 before holding joint talks with mr. abbas and prime minister ehud olmert of israel , is trying to provide a '' political horizon '' for a peace settlement to the palestinians , again to try to bolster fatah , which supports a palestinian state next to an independent israel .
the biggest u.s. investor in class h shares of petrochina , a chinese oil concern whose parent company is active in sudan , is warren buffett 's berkshire hathaway .
in a letter sent this week to senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , gen. peter j. schoomaker , the army chief of staff , and pete geren , the acting army secretary , said that without new money in april , the army would '' be forced to take increasingly draconian measures which will impact army readiness and impose hardships on our soldiers and their families . ''
despite a seeming reconciliation between the saudis and president bashar al-assad of syria , the leaders were not able to help settle the five-month political crisis in lebanon that has brought much of the country to a halt .
the concern is that al qaeda in the islamic maghreb want their reach to be larger than it is now , '' said rear adm. william h. mcraven , commander of special operations command europe , speaking last month at his headquarters in stuttgart , germany . ''
jerome robbins choreographed two of his late ballets to bach in the first few months of 1994 , and both were on the third themed program of the new york city ballet 's winter season , '' jerome robbins : an american icon . ''
at the halfway point , viswanathan anand of india , the no. 2 player in the world , was tied for the lead with magnus carlsen , the 16-year-old prodigy from norway .
during her lifetime , miss shelton performed in recitals in new york city , in toronto , canada , and throughout florida .
in connecticut , where up to eight inches of rain fell , rivers overflowed in sections of westport , fairfield and trumbull .
sgt. russell newell of the maryland state police said the accident occurred shortly after 10 a.m. in glenarden , md. , where arrington crashed into a guardrail after losing control of his 2007 kawasaki zx-14 motorcycle on a highway exit ramp .
a year ago , the maryland legislature blocked an attempt to take over the baltimore schools .
michael bar-zohar 's '' shimon peres : the biography '' is an effort by a friend and former assistant to give a more balanced and judicious picture of this complicated politician , who has spent most of his life working for israel 's defense and is best known for failed efforts to reach peace .
possibilities for more conflict in iran and elsewhere in the middle east are adding to the surge .
in lebanon , the leader of hezbollah , sheik hassan nasrallah , said that he '' respects '' israel for its ability to concede failure in the war . ''
the program is part of a solemn project , something that sheila nevins , the enterprising president of hbo documentary films , has called '' didactic television . ''
ankara was offended by a sentence that explained how genocide came to be recognized as a crime under international law : '' following world war i , during which one million armenians were murdered in turkey , polish lawyer raphael lemkin urged the league of nations to recognize crimes of barbarity as international crimes . ''
a4 2 die , many injured in thailand at least six small bombs exploded around bangkok , killing two people and wounding more than 20 in a city that remains under martial law after a coup .
from among many cases pending at the supreme court on the question , the justices selected an appeal filed by the federal public defender 's office in virginia on behalf of a man from norfolk , derrick kimbrough , who pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing and distributing more than 50 grams of crack cocaine .
luce has no patience for the more extreme hindu nationalism , which seeks to write other identities out of india 's history and helps to foment the sort of horrific violence that erupted in gujarat in 2002 , when some 2,000 muslims were slaughtered while the police looked on -lrb- or collaborated -rrb- .
a survey by the sierra club in neighborhoods southeast of the brooklyn bridge , including red hook , brooklyn heights and park slope , found similar results , said suzanne y. mattei , the club 's new york city executive . ''
northwoods of wisconsin the area along wisconsin 's northern border is called the northwoods region , known for its abundance of lakes and more affordable property , at least compared with places like lake geneva or door county .
the senators eyeing the white house -- there are six or seven , depending on whether one counts chuck hagel , republican of nebraska -- face a scheduling problem that does not torture their non-senate rivals .
miikka ryokas , whose user name is kizor and in an e-mail message said that he was a 22-year-old computer science student from turku , finland , wrote : '' as the popular joke goes , ` the problem with wikipedia is that it only works in practice .
both men are from trabzon , on the black sea in far eastern turkey , a city known as a nationalist stronghold .
he saw service during world war ii in the middle east and italy and , after india became independent in 1947 , he commanded the royal deccan horse in jammu and kashmir for four years .
after bidding that lasted just four minutes , the russian state oil company rosneft won an auction tuesday for assets of the bankrupt company yukos , further tightening the kremlin 's control of energy industries in russia .
we are very pleased with where it is today , '' anne m. mulcahy , xerox 's chief executive , said about parc .
but the talks collapsed , and since then israel has built a west bank separation barrier that runs largely along the eastern border of jerusalem .
officials familiar with the intelligence prepared for mr. bush say american assessments conclude that iran sees itself at the head of an alliance to drive the united states out of iraq , and ultimately out of the middle east .
although mr. fodor grew up in france and studied law in paris , some aspects of his background parallel those of many american computer entrepreneurs .
tanet charoenmuang , the vice president of the urban development institute foundation in chiang mai , thailand , which advocates for historical preservation in the rapidly modernizing city , is worried that his country is slowly losing its identity , as old teak villas , docks , hotels , tobacco barns and granaries vanish . ''
he prides himself on having predicted events like the 1996 earthquakes in turkey , the 1997 death of princess diana and the 2005 assassination of rafik hariri , a former prime minister of lebanon .
nor is the idea popular in the middle east , though some countries are desperate for a strategic counterweight to iran 's growing power .
his parents , who spoke russian and yiddish to each other , emigrated from ukraine -lrb- then part of russia -rrb- in 1905 , and his four older siblings were born there .
klaus kleinfeld , chief executive of siemens , the engineering conglomerate , said that it had 2,500 positions open in germany alone .
the america 's cup sailing match , which starts april 16 in valencia , spain , for instance , attracts less television coverage than some international events .
the initiative is a set of principles that would offer israel full recognition and permanent peace with the arab states in return for israel 's withdrawal to 1967 lines , the establishment of an independent palestine with east jerusalem as its capital and '' an agreed , just solution '' to the issue of palestinian refugees in accordance with united nations general assembly resolution 194 of 1948 .
brad grey , the chairman of paramount pictures , '' used to work for me , and when i saw the amount of nominations he got at the golden globes , i was the first guy to send him an e-mail , '' he said .
the arts are valuable in the real challenges we face in educating students in this century , '' said john l. hennessy , the president of stanford university .
for a change of scenery , mr. vallebuona sold his house on staten island and moved to new city in rockland county .
prison sentences in munch thefts sentences from five and a half to nine and a half years were imposed yesterday by an appeals court in oslo on the gunman , the mastermind and the getaway driver in the theft of the edvard munch masterpieces '' the scream , '' above left , and '' madonna , '' right , the associated press reported .
a private memorial service was held in corona del mar , california on tuesday , april 17 , 2007 .
she is estrella morente , right , whose albums are big hits and who is about as much pop-culture royalty as you can be in spain : her father is enrique morente , one of the giants of flamenco ; her mother is the dancer aurora carbonell ; and she is married to javier conde , a top bullfighter .
he noted that his father , king hussein , traveled to washington in 1994 , when jordan and israel signed a peace treaty , and addressed congress in a joint appearance with israel 's prime minister at that time , yitzhak rabin . ''
for instance , in february , king abdullah effectively torpedoed plans by secretary of state condoleezza rice for a high-profile peace summit meeting between prime minister ehud olmert of israel and the palestinian president , mahmoud abbas , by brokering a power-sharing agreement with mr. abbas 's fatah and hamas that did not require hamas to recognize israel or forswear violence .
a formal memorial will be planned for september 2007 at the salmagundi club in new york city .
dr. hawking announced on his 65th birthday , in january , that he hoped to take a longer , higher flight in 2009 on a space plane being developed by richard branson 's company virgin galactic , which seeks to take six passengers to an altitude of 70 miles .
-lrb- holden -rrb- ` the italian ' -lrb- pg-13 , 99 minutes , in russian -rrb- this dark fairy tale from russia pulls you into a richly atmospheric , persuasively inhabited world teeming with young foundlings and pathos , and upended by one remarkable little boy .
france , where ms. satrapi has lived for much of her adult life , does not figure much in the narrative apart from a few framing scenes at a paris airport .
miss franca came to canada in 1950 at the invitation of some toronto arts patrons and members of the city 's business community who hoped to form a company there .
range fuels is partly financed by khosla ventures , the silicon valley venture capital firm run by vinod khosla , an influential voice on ethanol in washington .
the nation 's top intelligence official said thursday that the spiraling violence in iraq , along with iran 's ascendancy in the middle east , had led to a rebirth of shiite islamic radicalism that could fuel sectarian violence and destabilize nations across the region .
vichy did go on trial with him , and the verdict seemed to confirm , as president jacques chirac had first acknowledged in 1995 , that france bore criminal responsibility for what officials like mr. papon had done .
the orthodox church 's resurrection in russian society is now firmly established , but the striking tableau of mr. yeltsin 's coffin , draped in the russian tricolor , accompanied by a military honor guard and presided over by bearded priests , embodied symbols of a new russia -- state , military and church -- very much like the russia of old . ''
canada shaw festival niagara-on-the-lake , ontario , through oct. 28 . ''
henceforth , government dietary guidelines would shun plain talk about whole foods , each of which has its trade association on capitol hill , and would instead arrive clothed in scientific euphemism and speaking of nutrients , entities that few americans really understood but that lack powerful lobbies in washington .
she learned the skill at 20 from watching a videotape of bill russell and the boston celtics with her teammates in paris at the french national institute for sports and physical education , known in france by its acronym , insep .
king abdullah ii of jordan made a passionate appeal on wednesday for the united states to take the lead in pursuing arab-israeli peace , telling congress that without progress on that issue , none of the middle east 's other problems would be solved . ''
ankara 's fear of fears is that a quasi-independent , kurdish statelet on its borders could embolden turkey 's 15 million-strong kurdish minority to demand autonomy or independence .
at the center of this manufactured maelstrom is the preternaturally beauteous figure of shilpa shetty , 31 , a bollywood movie star from india whose treatment by british contestants in the so-called reality show on television here has provoked more than 16,000 viewers to complain to regulators that she is the victim of racist bullying .
beloved stepson of hazel e. campbell of florence , mississippi and brother of margaret jean edwards of vicksburg , mississipi .
all the various differences within germany are coalescing around germany 's relationship with russia , '' said john c. kornblum , a former american ambassador to germany who now works as a banker in berlin . ''
along with the deals and intrigue , mr. cohan spends considerable time on human foibles , and recycling rumors of a sexual assignation involving mr. rohatyn in his office , mr. rattner 's real estate maneuverings in martha 's vineyard as well as the tax strategies of the current lazard chief executive , bruce wasserstein .
gary vikan baltimore the writer is director of the walters art museum in baltimore .
but their show of unity , with war critics including mr. warner of virginia and senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , siding with the leadership , lent some credibility to republican claims that democrats were being unfair . ''
in many ways , he observed , the story of his own family is that of post-independence india : the movement from villages to cities , the rise of the middle class and an obsession with education that laid the groundwork for a generation of accomplished writers from the subcontinent , including salman rushdie , arundhati roy , jhumpa lahiri , vikram seth and kiran desai .
no israel talks yet , assad says by the new york times damascus , syria , may 10 -- president bashar al-assad on thursday dismissed rumors of secret peace negotiations between israel and syria , saying israel was too weak to make a deal .
in australia , prime minister john howard is facing accusations that the relatively brief sentence and yearlong order of silence on guantánamo detainee david hicks resulted from governmental pressure , charges he dismissed as '' absurd . ''
while the book 's emphasis is on the national media , roberts and klibanoff also survey the regional press , providing incisive portraits of black editors like emory jackson of birmingham , moderate and liberal dissenters like hodding carter of mississippi , and die-hard segregationists like james jackson kilpatrick of virginia and thomas waring of south carolina .
ankara , the nerve center of turkey 's government , is heavily guarded and has rarely been the target of a bombing .
it would not allow drilling within 50 miles of the virginia shore and would wall off an additional '' obstruction zone '' near the mouth of chesapeake bay .
her father , javier , a real-estate agent , and her mother , marcela , an artist , raised the family comfortably in guadalajara , mexico , and ochoa recognizes how golf and education played a part in her success .
page a18 baron guy de rothschild dies the heir to the house of rothschild banking family , who rebuilt its paris bank after it was seized by france during world war ii , was 98 .
tanet charoenmuang , the vice president of the urban development institute foundation in chiang mai , thailand , which advocates for historical preservation in the rapidly modernizing city , is worried that his country is slowly losing its identity , as old teak villas , docks , hotels , tobacco barns and granaries vanish .
the trail will run between lambertville on the delaware river in hunterdon county and belle mead in somerset county , and go through mercer county . ''
toyota is the world 's premier auto manufacturer , and our state will be the best partner the company has , '' said mississippi 's governor , haley barbour , who announced the plant during an event at tupelo high school .
ohlendorf and the 6-5 jackson , a native of south carolina who went to clemson , benefited from rooming and playing together at class a south bend in 2005 and at class aa tennessee last season .
stadelman -- egon , p. a native of berlin , germany , adored husband of marian -lrb- nee stern -rrb- passed away peacefully in his home in riverdale at age 96 on may 27 , 2007 after suffering a stroke four and a half years ago .
they have taken vacations to asia , europe and india , with mr. podell footing the bill .
in december , bill lockyer , then california 's attorney general , met with a majority of the nine journalists in an attempt to get settlement talks started ; the journalists ' lawyers were at the meeting , as were lawyers for some of the news organizations they represented .
a '' west bank first '' strategy would mean leaning on the israeli government to dismantle settlements , ease up on travel restrictions for palestinians moving around the west bank , and release a substantial number of palestinian prisoners being held by israel , middle east experts said .
the comos were at the first meeting of the society , held on nov. 4 , 1969 , at the staten island home of jack boies , a professor of english literature at wagner college on staten island , and his wife , elaine .
dozens of moderate politicians and several conservatives gathered last week at the office of mehdi karroubi , a former speaker of parliament , to discuss their concerns over the future of iran . ''
the arrests , in morning raids in california , florida and new york capped an investigation by san francisco police into the murder of sgt. john v. young , who was killed by a shotgun at a desk in the ingleside stationhouse on aug. 29 , 1971 .
one of them , allen d. hertzke , a professor at the university of oklahoma in norman , said , '' i never heard religious lobbyists talk about earmarks . ''
all the research indicates that we are certain to find more gas in the amazon , '' eduardo braga , the governor of amazonas , said in an interview in manaus , the state capital . ''
john was treated like a rock star in switzerland , '' said senator patrick j. leahy , democrat of vermont , who traveled to davos , switzerland , with mr. kerry and other colleagues last month for the world economic forum .
the eastern arc mountains of tanzania may not be terribly tall -- only half the height of their famous neighbor , mount kilimanjaro .
we could have waited it out and kept pushing and pushing , '' mr. franco said about the decision to abandon plans to sell 180 luxury condominiums with floor-to-ceiling windows offering views of the washington monument and capitol hill . ''
free trade between the united states and south korea -- the world 's largest and 11th-largest economies , respectively -- could give american companies an important stronghold in asia , where they have steadily ceded market share to european , japanese and chinese competitors .
by the time they had made the turn and thrashed back to where they started , filippo magnini of italy had defended his world title and brent hayden of canada had won his first .
la vie en rose marion cotillard plays france 's most famous torch singer , edith piaf , in a biography directed by olivier dahan -lrb- '' la vie promise '' -rrb- .
for families with children 12 and older , echo river trips is launching a new six-day duckie expedition -lrb- using inflatable kayaks -rrb- down the middle fork of the salmon river in idaho , and a four-day trip down the rogue river in oregon ; (800) 652-3246 ; www.echotrips.com .
subscribers will '' receive a better product , with more content and more features , '' chase carey , the president of directv , wrote in a seven-page letter to the federal communications commission .
the directors ' credits for this deluxe sampler come from all over : france -lrb- olivier assayas , sylvain chomet -rrb- of course , but also brazil -lrb- walter salles and daniela thomas -rrb- , spain -lrb- isabel coixet -rrb- , japan -lrb- nobuhiro suwa -rrb- , mexico -lrb- alfonso cuarón -rrb- and germany -lrb- tom tykwer -rrb- .
if there is a president in the country , if the president loves ukraine and respects ukrainians , if the president understands all the dangers facing the country , he will either dissolve the parliament or lose the remaining support of society , '' yulia v. tymoshenko , once mr. yushchenko 's prime minister , said friday , the russian news agency interfax reported from kiev .
curry -- lorraine vocco , on february 7 , 2007 in palm beach , florida .
from the start the season had an official governing body , the council for the summer of love ; a hit theme song , scott mckenzie 's '' san francisco -lrb- be sure to wear flowers in your hair -rrb- '' , written and produced by the organizers of the monterey festival ; and a television deal , when a young abc executive named barry diller bought the rights to monterey for a never-realized movie of the week .
one account holder , daedong credit bank , north korea 's only foreign-managed bank , which reportedly holds $ 7 million , is threatening to sue the chinese and the macao authorities if the funds are transferred to someone else , according to news reports in asia .
but joe giordano , the founder , chairman and also vice president for product development at payscale , said its information was accurate . ''
the last of them , ocean falls , 36 hours north of vancouver , reachable only by boat , had a smaller-than-regulation-size indoor pool and a gifted coach who birthed a succession of great swimmers , the best of them pound , who by the time he reached mcgill university was known as dick pound the swimmer , a man on his way to a sixth-place finish in the 100-meter freestyle at the 1960 summer games in rome and a place of prominence in montreal and , beyond that , greater canada .
peter matthiessen , the writer , recalled meeting mr. styron in montparnasse in paris , just weeks before the publication of '' lie down in darkness . '' ''
spokesmen for germany and italy in washington said yesterday that they would reserve comment until the report is formally released at a news conference in berlin today .
prime minister ehud olmert of israel has said the work will continue , even after his rival and defense minister , amir peretz , simultaneously gave him and israeli newspapers a letter warning him to stop the work to avoid security problems .
the roster includes vladimir kramnik of russia , the world champion ; viswanathan anand of india , no. 1 in the world ; alexander morozevich of russia , no. 4 ; and peter svidler of russia , no. 9 .
an appeals court rejected the government 's renaming of the limpopo town of louis trichardt to makhado .
the paynes are considered political royalty in newark , holding seats not only in congress but also in the state legislature : donald payne jr. , the son of donald m. payne , sits on newark 's municipal council and a cousin , phil thigpen , is the essex county democratic chairman .
google 's chief executive , eric e. schmidt , said last year that the company would eventually have 1,000 employees dedicated to radio advertising alone .
in wales and scotland , which had been more integrated into the english-dominated united kingdom , there were movements that similarly resented what they saw as the subjugation of their culture , but most of the population were happy to go along with the union .
igor a. yakovenko , the union 's general secretary , said that russian officials had told the union 's lawyer that its space was needed for russia today , the state-owned channel . ''
for many years , the only business leaders openly calling for universal coverage were mavericks like howard schultz , the chairman of starbucks , who has long preached the need for business to show greater social responsibility .
that 's the general idea , said ian bogost , an assistant professor of video game criticism and video game rhetoric -lrb- bet you did n't know there was such a discipline -rrb- at the georgia institute of technology and a founding partner of persuasive games , which is based in atlanta .
the film focuses on ms. smith 's preparation of sculptures and other materials for an eight-room installation at the fondazione querini stampalia in venice in 2005 .
in the 1860s , leskovac was serbia 's second largest city , and by the start of the 20th century , its wool and cloth exports brought the city renown as a second manchester , after the english city famed for its textiles .
science times , page f3 and other small details officials at the massachusetts museum of contemporary art in north adams are at odds with the swiss artist christoph büchel about the feasibility of his gigantic installation piece , which is set to open on saturday .
elsewhere in havana , there is the sephardic hebrew center of cuba , and the conservative beth shalom synagogue , largest of the three synagogues , with more than 500 members .
in remote rural corners of india , particularly in conflict zones like chhattisgarh , police ranks are woefully understaffed , and isolated police posts are among the rebels ' favorite targets .
11 p.m. (13) charlie rose -- mr. rose talks with warren buffett , chief executive of berkshire hathaway .
specializing in seasonal dishes from the poitou-charentes region in central-west france -lrb- where the socialist presidential candidate ségolène royal is regional president -rrb- , le clou might offer a home-made foie gras or blood sausage to start , followed by grilled tuna with ratatouille or a rack of veal in a ginger and lemon balm sauce and its signature frozen nougat .
in the early 1960s , mr. dylan had shown up at mr. von schmidt 's doorstep in harvard square in cambridge .
cherished grandfather of david , michael , jason , vicky , andrew , sam and nathan .
kliot -- boris , age 84 , born in riga , latvia was the only member of his family to survive the latvian massacres of 1941 .
asia society deals with asia from iran to the pacific , '' said ms. gluck , who also serves on the asia society board . ''
five years after he was convicted of killing his 15-year-old neighbor , martha moxley , as a teenager in greenwich in 1975 , a teary michael c. skakel returned to court on tuesday seeking a new trial .
the couple had already bought and restored one dream weekend home , casa fizie , a rectangular stone house on five acres between the towns of todi and orvieto in italy 's umbria region .
charlize theron packed on 30 pounds and wore gnarly false teeth to become aileen wuornos , the florida prostitute turned serial killer who was put to death via lethal injection in 2002 for murdering six men .
patients are being unnecessarily exposed to radiation , '' said lt. col. gina dorlac , medical director of the intensive care unit at a hospital in landstuhl , germany , where most severely wounded soldiers are taken from iraq .
they suggest that if elected , he would immediately align himself with president hugo chávez of venezuela and president evo morales of neighboring bolivia .
once in singapore , travelers will journey by bus , boat , rickshaws , trains and even elephants through asia -lrb- above -rrb- and will take the trans mongolian express from beijing to moscow .
prensa latina , the cuban news agency , reported last night that 50,000 people had gathered at a demonstration in bayamo , a city in southeastern cuba , to protest the release of mr. posada and to demand that he be tried for the jetliner bombing .
pacella -- bernard l. , m.d. born on july 25 , 1912 , toronto , ontario , canada .
prime minister bertie ahern of ireland called sunday for a general election on may 24 .
mr. olmert is expected to tell mr. bush that israel favored sealing off the israeli-occupied west bank from the infection of gaza , continuing to prevent contact between them .
in the past , the best players to come out of new york state tended to be products of playground roller hockey in new york city : joey and brian mullen of hell 's kitchen , and nick fotiu of staten island .
a8 little progress in mideast talks mahmoud abbas , the palestinian president , and prime minister ehud olmert of israel held their second meeting in a month , but aides said that there was little concrete progress to report .
to the editor : re '' california coasting '' -lrb- march 9 -rrb- : thank you for capturing the natural beauty of san onofre state beach park and specifically the san mateo campground , in an '' unspoiled , oak-lined river valley '' where coyotes , quail , rabbits and owls bring us to peacefulness away from the pace of modern life .
last year , with one eye on the community , another on the academy and its third eye meditating squarely on posterity , the high museum of art in atlanta made a big splash after the opening of two new buildings , both designed by the italian architect renzo piano .
while the arab league did reaffirm a 2002 land-for-peace proposal for settling the israeli-palestinian conflict at its meeting in riyadh on thursday , many arab officials have expressed anger that prime minister ehud olmert of israel balked at allowing new peace talks with mr. abbas .
ségolène royal , the socialists ' candidate , has a joan of arc complex -lrb- in her declaration of candidacy last october she spoke of hearing '' calls '' and accepting '' this mission of conquest for france '' -rrb- , and she practices what could be called a '' soft '' demagogy .
this is the first of many products that are going to come out of the at&t - bellsouth merger , '' said ralph de la vega , group president of regional wireline operations for at&t , of san antonio .
one of those arrested , gen. vang pao , is a prominent hmong fighter and a leader in exile in the united states since the communist takeover of laos in 1975 .
during that run , graves had 28 points against notre dame , 20 points against indiana , 15 points against tennessee and 26 points against gonzaga .
jacques chirac , the president of france , pinned on him the rosette of the legion of honor , but he is too proud of who he is and where he came from to wear it in his lapel .
immigration advocates in connecticut were fond of referring to danbury and new haven as two poles on the spectrum -- the same immigrants who were shunned in the former were welcomed in the latter .
two republicans , senators chuck hagel of nebraska and gordon smith of oregon , joined 49 democrats in backing the bill , which totaled $ 123 billion when money for gulf coast hurricane relief , agricultural aid and other domestic projects was added .
mr. gibson showcased segments from iraq featuring the correspondent martha raddatz , as well as a series from dan harris titled '' test of faith '' -lrb- among those profiled was a woman who was the product of a rape -rrb- and an exclusive interview by diane sawyer with bashar al-assad , the president of syria .
the deal came on the day britain and ireland had set as the deadline for restoring northern ireland 's local government , more than four years after it was suspended in october 2002 in a dispute over espionage activities by the irish republican army . ''
ready for n.b.a. throne , but not like mike -- the multidimensional lebron james comes of age and takes cleveland to the finals .
mr. greenspan , who grew up in niagara falls , ontario , also went to high school with ms. amiel .
jeffrey r. immelt , general electric 's chairman and chief executive , said recently that he did not think that chief executives should have contracts .
a map with a front-page article on monday about a clash between lebanese troops and islamic militants at a palestinian refugee camp in lebanon misidentified the city shown south of beirut , the capital .
lipton wonders again , this time looking for answers in her vexed relationship with her father , an alluring '' dreamer and fantasist '' who , without ever having traveled to france himself , urged his young daughter : '' darling , go to paris .
mr. jimenez , the chef and an owner of xochitl in philadelphia , immigrated from puebla , mexico , nine years ago .
he is not the only republican waiting in the wings to see if any or all of these candidates falter : newt gingrich , the former house speaker , has said he might enter the race later this year ; tommy g. thompson , a former governor of wisconsin got in last week ; and senator chuck hagel of nebraska , a critic of the war , has not ruled out running .
a day after president nicolas sarkozy 's conservative party captured a smaller majority in parliament than expected , france 's socialist party was struggling to adjust to the awkward reality that its first couple -- ségolène royal and françois hollande -- had split up .
-lrb- never mind that the chrysler group 's parent , daimlerchrysler , is actually based in stuttgart , germany ; its american base is in auburn hills , mich. -rrb- so far , no automaker has complained about this semantic downsizing . ''
prizes for hockey film '' the rocket , '' a french-language film about maurice richard -lrb- 1921-2000 -rrb- , the goal-scoring star of the montreal canadiens and a hockey hall of famer , won nine genies , canada 's foremost film awards , in ceremonies on tuesday night in toronto , the toronto star reported .
mr. romney 's '' turnaround '' touts his successful stewardship of the 2002 olympics ; mr. giuliani 's '' leadership '' dwells on his successful efforts to cut crime in new york city and his 9\/11 heroics ; mr. richardson 's '' between worlds '' is filled with boasts , from his description of a 1995 negotiation session with saddam hussein as '' a typical adventure for me in more than 30 years of public service '' to his assertion that he '' shattered theodore roosevelt 's long-standing record for handshaking and made it into the ` guinness book of world records . ' ''
russia advances -- marat safin defeated paul-henri mathieu , 7-6 (3) , 6-3 , 6-2 , in the decisive singles match sunday to send russia , the defending champion , past france , 3-2 , for a spot in the davis cup semifinals .
the figure does not include residents of east jerusalem , which israel captured in the 1967 war and later annexed .
in a visit to beirut on may 22 , foreign minister bernard kouchner said france was '' determined '' to establish the tribunal , squelching hopes that the new government of president nicolas sarkozy would be more lenient on syria than that of jacques chirac . -rrb-
and she is often seen at corporate or political events : she is spending this week leading the network 's coverage from the world economic forum in davos , switzerland .
sean payton , the saints coach who had been a spare bear replacement quarterback for three games during the 1987 labor stoppage after a determined career at eastern illinois , had hoped to upset the team he had grown up rooting for in nearby naperville , ill. .
as he sought to sell the proposed merger of sirius satellite radio and xm satellite radio to congress , and by extension to regulators like mr. martin , mel karmazin , the chief executive of sirius , vowed last wednesday that prices would not be raised and that listeners would benefit enormously by getting the best programming from both companies .
in the house , six staunch opponents of any legal status for illegal immigrants , including representatives lamar smith , republican of texas , and steve king , republican of iowa , wrote an open letter criticizing the senate proposals for overhaul .
mr. feldman was sent to meet quietly with israeli leaders , particularly david ben-gurion and golda meir , about matters including arms sales , palestinian refugees , and whether israel was building a nuclear weapon .
cutler -- rebecca moore manning , died peacefully at home in greenwich , connecticut , at 100 years .
when cassius clay became muhammad ali , a lot of people in louisville really resented that , '' he said . ''
in december , the authorities refused to grant a permit for a march organized by other russia , an amalgam of disaffected political organizations , including one created by garry kasparov , the former chess champion who retired in 2005 to wage a lonely campaign to make russia politically free .
lane merrifield , chief executive of club penguin , which is based in kelowna , british columbia , said that he decided on a subscription fee because he believed advertising to young people was a dangerous proposition .
representative steve buyer , republican of indiana , said he sought a meeting with defense department officials after visiting a v.a. hospital in minneapolis where doctors lacked direct access to the patient tracking system and were still receiving faxed medical records from military hospitals .
he served in washington dc and germany , -lrb- berlin , frankfurt and bonn -rrb- , vienna , geneva , new york , moscow and brasilia .
john logsdon , director of the space policy institute at george washington university , said nasa now deals with safety issues far more thoroughly than it did before the columbia disaster .
members use the web site to schedule '' photo strolls '' two to three times a month , meeting at destinations like the atlanta botanical garden and the georgia aquarium .
i receive them in mexico city and take them anywhere in mexico . ''
speaker sheldon silver and the members of the new york state assembly offer our sympathy and our prayers to the zebrowski family , to assembly member ken zebrowski 's many friends , and to the citizens of new city , haverstraw , and all of rockland county .
seeking to protect itself from suicide bombers , israel largely throttled all the border crossings out of gaza , making it virtually impossible for hope fund candidates to get to visa interviews at the american diplomatic stations in tel aviv and jerusalem .
the membership and board of governors of the boca rio golf club , boca raton , florida , announce with deep regret and sorrowthe passing of our dear friend and esteemed member , eugene goldman ; and extend our sincerest condolences to his wife , marion and their family .
an article in the arts on tuesday about '' the diary of petr ginz : 1941-1942 , '' a teenager 's chronicle of life in wartime prague , omitted a translator of an untitled poem in the book that was quoted in the article .
the socialist government of spain will never again negotiate with the basque separatist group eta after a deadly attack on madrid 's main airport terminal nine days ago , interior minister alfredo pérez rubalcaba said monday . ''
the first president george bush created tv martí , to beam american programming into fidel castro 's cuba , though mr. castro managed to jam it for years so people in cuba could not actually see it .
later dr. kinoy became a noted authority on the treatment of eating disorders , serving as director of professional development at the wilkins center for eating disorders in greenwich , connecticut .
if mr. bush heeded thomas l. friedman 's advice to work to restore our embassy in iran , the president could make a significant contribution toward peace and the growth of democracy in the middle east .
and he introduces us to the witty observations of the little known polymath egon friedell , who , he says , was '' a figure unparalleled '' in pre-world war ii vienna .
meanwhile some muslim leaders are unhappy about '' faith without fear , '' in which a canadian journalist , irshad manji , gets an hour to outline her call for changes in what she sees as overly monolithic muslim societies .
ferrari cleans out its garage , so to speak , with an auction at its track near maranello , italy , on may 20 .
he was wilbur mills of arkansas , not wilber .
it 's the only answer , it is simply the only answer in mississippi , '' said fred carl jr. , the founder of the viking range corporation , who served as the hurricane katrina housing coordinator for gov. haley barbour .
israel could have reinforced mr. abbas 's position and increased the chances for progress with a series of low-risk steps : committing to serious negotiations , freezing the expansion of settlements and easing restrictions on civilians ' movements in the west bank .
areas with such clusters include san diego , seattle , philadelphia and washington , d.c. the new york-new jersey biotech market is driven by research institutions like princeton , columbia , new york and rutgers universities ; the sloan-kettering institute , which focuses on cancer research ; and by companies like johnson & johnson , merck , wyeth and pfizer .
ms. rice , speaking last week in potsdam , germany , described the american-russian relationship as one of '' cooperation and competition , of friendship and friction . ''
the meeting planned for next week between the palestinian president , mahmoud abbas , and prime minister ehud olmert of israel is expected to take place in the palestinian territories for the first time , aides said thursday .
dr. raichel had taught acoustical theory and noise control at cooper union and the pratt institute in new york city and worked as a consultant on sound in the aerospace and electronics industries .
once the dowdy sister of stylish barcelona , madrid has at last emerged as spain 's coolest city .
prime minister ehud olmert of israel , deploring the '' brutality of the palestinians against their own people , '' said that israel would '' cooperate fully '' with a new government installed by the palestinian president , mahmoud abbas .
then , as with alice waters in 1970s berkeley , so with dick bradsell in 1990s london : his ideas , his trainees and his drinks went forth and multiplied .
i had no idea how big the show was until the second season , when we 're in italy to shoot , and me and vincent pastore , who played pussy , decided to go to the isle of capri -- you know , because they wrote a song about it .
but what really makes abe foxman shray -lrb- cry -rrb- gevalt is the claim that an '' israel lobby '' or a '' jewish lobby '' -- aipac and the a.d.l. and a few others -- has effectively gained control over u.s. policy toward the middle east and suppressed voices calling for alternative policies .
rufina amaya , who in 1981 saw salvadoran troops slaughter her family and many others in her village , then , as the only witness , dedicated her life to telling about it , died tuesday in san miguel , el salvador .
it 's an emergency to get this place preserved , because if it goes there 's nothing to replace it , '' said mr. maxwell , who is curator of the chiang mai herbarium in chiang mai , thailand . ''
the prime minister of israel , ehud olmert , said , '' i call on my friend abu mazen , '' referring to mr. abbas , who was in ramallah , '' to take the opportunity , now that almost the entire world understands the viciousness , the brutality of hamas , to exercise his authority as the leader of the palestinian people . ''
she said there would be no negotiations on the three '' final status '' issues that have bedeviled peace negotiations for three decades : the status of jerusalem , the borders of an eventual palestinian state and the question of whether palestinian refugees who fled , or were forced to leave , their homes would have a right to return to israel . ''
among them was noor 's father , a shiite who has since fled baghdad with the couple 's 4-year-old son for the relative safety of damascus , syria .
the delay will also ensure that mr. abbas 's meeting in jerusalem with prime minister ehud olmert of israel , scheduled for tomorrow , can go ahead .
he hinted , as russian officials have before , that russia would veto any security council resolution seeking to recognize kosovo as an independent country , unless serbia agreed first , which diplomats said was very unlikely . ''
riot police officers swarmed on a group of several dozen journalists and demonstrators on saturday in nizhny novgorod , russia 's third-largest city , cutting off a protest against the government of president vladimir v. putin .
in the 1960s the town of jindabyne was intentionally flooded by the damming of a river and left at the bottom of a newly created lake in the middle of the snowy mountains in southeastern australia .
mr. fitzpatrick said iran would need this year to install the 3,000 machines at natanz , next year to get them running smoothly , and 9 to 11 months of spinning to have them produce the fuel for a single bomb .
satisfy both desires at the nearby russian art gallery -lrb- 518 sw yamhill street , 503-224-5070 -rrb- , which carries religious icons -lrb- $ 600 to $ 5,000 -rrb- , nesting dolls -lrb- $ 10 to $ 700 -rrb- and gzhel pottery , all imported from russia .
timberlake -- craig allison , of ogunquit maine -lrb- formerly of new york city -rrb- , passed away december 31 , 2006 , at the age of 86 , at mercy hospital , oklahoma city , oklahoma while visiting his sister and brother-in-law , dodee and jack moncrief .
mark v. hurd , the chief executive of hewlett-packard , cited four reasons why the proposal is not in the interests of shareholders : they can already recommend director candidates ; the proposal will result in divisive elections ; nominees could be in the pockets of special interest groups ; and the forum for deciding on such issues as director elections lies with the securities and exchange commission .
a burglar has struck at least 13 homes in the past month in the west brighton and westerleigh areas of staten island in the past month , the police said yesterday .
senator olympia snowe of maine joined senator chuck hagel , a fellow republican from nebraska , in the protest .
today a great many of oregon 's returned glass bottles are trucked to a plant near the portland airport .
the announcement , first made in baghdad and confirmed by ms. rice , that the united states would take part in two sets of meetings among iraq and its neighbors , including syria and iran , is a shift in president bush 's avoidance of high-level contacts with the governments in damascus and , especially , tehran .
mr. masoud grew up poor in zarqa , jordan , about 15 miles outside of amman , where he said he had limited access to a library .
pixar 's founder , john lasseter , and his chief animator spent a research week in winslow , and several '' cars '' scenes -- a motel with cabins shaped like tepees , a great historic hotel designed like a spanish hacienda -- were inspired by their visit . ''
but mr. haniya said that resistance to israeli occupation would continue , though he said his government would seek '' to consolidate and broaden '' to the west bank an often-broken truce with israel in the gaza strip .
mesón sacristía de capuchinas , puebla , mexico , 800-728-9098 ; www.mexicoboutiquehotels.com/capuchinas .
in 1948 , as a member of moma 's young collectors club , he was asked by the museum 's director , rene d'harnoncourt , to bid on the museum 's behalf for several african pieces coming up for auction in stuttgart , germany .
an article on feb. 11 about the world war i stage drama '' journey 's end , '' set on the eve of germany 's spring offensive , misidentified the rank of erich ludendorff , who led the campaign .
an article in the arts on tuesday about the indian film '' parzania , '' about a boy who disappeared during violence in gujarat state , where theater owners have refused to show it , referred incorrectly to the reason another film encountered problems being screened in india .
investors include the bill & melinda gates foundation , which granted the institute for oneworld health $ 42.6 million to finance amyris 's antimalarial drug , and two princes of silicon valley venture capital , john doerr of kleiner perkins caufield & byers , and vinod khosla of khosla ventures , who , with the private equity group of texas pacific group ventures , invested $ 20 million .
an article in business day on may 29 about russia 's strategy to gain a monopoly in natural gas exports to asia through gazprom misstated the percentage of ownership in the kovykta gas field by tnk-bp , which is being accused by the kremlin of having failed to meet license requirements .
the israelis take the view that mr. abbas arrived at mecca weakened by the recent fighting in the gaza strip , in which forces loyal to hamas took over northern gaza and large parts of gaza city .
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mr. katsav has left his official residence in jerusalem and is living in southern israel .
we live culture , '' said mr. pierce , one of several louisiana natives who talked of the attempt to recapture bolden with near missionary fervor .
the bush administration is offering russia a new package of incentives to drop its strong opposition to american missile defense sites in poland and the czech republic , including an invitation to begin linking some american and russian antimissile systems , according to senior administration and military officials .
built from a series of acquisitions by sanford i. weill , the company 's former chairman , citigroup has since encompassed both retail and investment banking operations , credit card businesses , wealth management and a host of other services .
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prime minister ehud olmert of israel said thursday that even though the iranians were not as far along as they would like to be , they were still far closer to learning how to make bomb-grade uranium than israel was comfortable with .
a5 ireland head calls for elections prime minister bertie ahern of ireland called for a general election next month .
in march , amnesty international reported that thousands of hmong people remain in the mountainous jungles of laos , the last remnants and descendants of the c.i.a.-financed secret army that gen. vang pao led .
in this repeat of a november episode , mr. baryshnikov and ms. waters trade philosophies on art , food , teaching and community as they visit the baryshnikov arts center -lrb- above -rrb- in manhattan and the edible schoolyard project in berkeley , ca. , and share a meal at ms. waters 's restaurant chez panisse .
ernst haefliger -lrb- pronounced heff-ligger -rrb- was born in davos on july 6 , 1919 , and studied at the wettinger seminary and the zurich conservatory before moving to vienna , where he became a student of the tenor julius patzak .
gilad shalit , captured by hamas and two other militant groups in a raid into israel on june 25 .
when former president bill clinton and senator hillary rodham clinton took a family vacation in january 2002 to acapulco , mexico , one of their longtime supporters , vinod gupta , provided his company 's private jet to fly them there .
awash with cash from south korea 's economic takeoff , incheon and seoul are being joined in the building rush by busan , which also plans two skyscrapers of more than 100 stories .
shimon peres , a deputy prime minister , has said that the arab initiative would work only as a negotiating position , and that israel would be happy to sit down with arab leaders and negotiate . ''
it is the second stoppage of russian energy supplies to european countries since last winter , when natural gas shipments were shut down briefly during a gas pricing dispute between russia and ukraine .
to nab the kind of deep-pocketed backers she coveted , she plied her democratic connections to help arrange a breakfast meeting featuring a well-known greenwich resident , connecticut 's attorney general , richard blumenthal .
he received his medical degree from queens university in kingston , ontario .
he is survived by his wife , margaret terry red evans , of bainbridge island , washington ; a brother , elwyn evans , and sister , katharine reese may , both of wilmington , delaware ; a daughter , shelley evans , of cambridge , massachusetts ; a son , lloyd tilghman boyd evans of rosemont , new jersey , and five grandchildren .
rhonda l. clements , a professor of education at manhattanville college in purchase , n.y. , and the author of nine books on children 's play , called it an exciting and much-needed concept .
prime minister ehud olmert recently appointed raleb majadele as israel 's first muslim arab cabinet minister , in charge of science , culture and sports .
she was hidden by a family in central france during the war , and returned after liberation to her small alsatian town near strasbourg .
two leaders of what is left of russia 's liberal opposition , garry kasparov , the former chess grandmaster , and mikhail a. kasyanov , a former prime minister , spoke to the crowd .
spread across 140 acres along a wooded ridge on the edge of the water some 11 miles from aldona , aldeia de goa , a lavish gated community , bears little resemblance to the rest of india .
mr. marks graduated from the pennsylvania academy of fine arts , and lived most of his life in paris , france , where he exhibited his paintings frequently .
for years , he has been a regular at the aspen institute and the world economic forum in davos , switzerland . ''
dr. schnabel is already practicing for her new , part-time life in israel with monthlong stays in jerusalem apartments to gain a sense of the country off the typical tourist track .
given the growth of g.m. 's manufacturing in asia , a company base in india would provide new opportunities for indian suppliers , he said , indian manufacturing costs are already '' extremely competitive and among the lowest in the world , '' mr. wagoner said during the conference .
this subculture is not mandated by the bible , but it 's the marrow of towns like siloam springs and schools like john brown university .
but envoys for mr. abbas have been in contact with hamas 's exiled political chief , khaled mashal , who is in damascus , syria , palestinian officials said .
the world correction : may 13 , 2007 , sunday because of an editing error , an article last sunday about the history of israel 's difficulties in lebanon referred incorrectly to a commission that issued a scathing report on prime minister ehud olmert 's handling of the war with hezbollah last summer .
they noted that '' a nearly perfect quasi-crystalline penrose pattern '' is found on the darb-i imam shrine in isfahan , iran , which was built in 1453 .
john g. laurie , a retired judge of the circuit court of cook county in chicago , performed the ceremony at the joseph bond chapel of the university of chicago .
a woman of great style and taste , marcia was a world traveler living in tokyo and london before settling with her family in greenwich , connecticut in 1991 .
saeb erekat , the chief palestinian negotiator and a close aide of president mahmoud abbas , of fatah , said israel 's actions in the west bank had been '' undermining the chances '' of reaching a new cease-fire . ''
mr. daniels was born in toronto and attended the university of toronto , then oxford university .
proponents of the program cast it as not only a valuable tool in the global economy , but also as a way for palo alto to lead the way for other california school districts . ''
the physical aesthetic of calcata -- one of the best preserved medieval hill towns in italy , is reason enough to draw people like prince stefano massimo , who hails from one of the oldest noble families in europe -lrb- and whose family owned calcata in the 19th century -rrb- .
the ferrari mystique exerts a powerful draw , reaching well beyond those fortunate drivers who have experienced the sublime sports cars made in maranello , italy , and extending beyond the devoted fans of its formula one racing team .
brothers ; ron -lrb- toronto , canada -rrb- , wayne -lrb- hull , quebec , canada -rrb- , george -lrb- california -rrb- , and his sister , helen -lrb- katsikaris -rrb- beck -lrb- texas -rrb- .
the town was apparently a target because israel 's web of defenses and travel restrictions on palestinians has made it extremely difficult for bombers to reach israel from the west bank , the source of virtually all suicide bombings in israel in recent years .
alex szogyi was a published author in the united states and france with works including his novel carnaval , and books on the pleasures of chocolate , moliere , and the fables of la fontaine with preface by jeanne moreau and illustrations by claudine suret - canale .
he has been a civic leader in new rochelle and westchester county for many years where he was active in local politics with his former wife , norma .
some renowned restaurants have shut down and reopened in amman , jordan , a city brimming with iraqi refugees .
mr. mela , who is based in boston , was born and raised in bayamo , cuba , and his heritage figures prominently in his music .
they 're writing about jamaica plain or dorchester or the boston music scene or windsurfing on massachusetts bay . ''
marina y. gridneva , a spokeswoman for the russian prosecutor general 's office , said that '' a citizen who has committed a crime on the territory of a foreign state can be prosecuted with evidence provided by the foreign state , but only on the territory of russia . ''
garry kasparov , the former chess champion turned opposition politician in russia , was arrested with nearly 200 other protesters during a rally in moscow on saturday that ended in clashes with riot troops .
minucci -- ulpio , 89 , resident of los angeles , california , passed away march 9 , 2007 , at his home in brentwood .
the problem is that prices for photovoltaic panels for solar energy have surged as governments in industrialized countries , especially germany , have encouraged greater use of renewable energy , said hemant lamba , the coordinator of aurore , a renewable energy service company in auroville , india . ''
nbc anchor in baghdad -- brian williams , the nbc news anchor , is in baghdad , the first network news anchor to travel there since bob woodruff , then the co-anchor of abc news , was severely injured by a roadside bomb in january 2006 .
a check-cashing and money-transfer company based in michoacán , mexico , order express has been offering videoconferencing at a dozen of its 300 locations throughout the united states and latin america .
when gilmore clark , the landscape architect who worked on many new york-area highways for robert moses , came to new jersey to design the garden state parkway in the early 1950s , he held to certain principles to keep it both beautiful , like connecticut 's merritt parkway , and efficient , like the pennsylvania turnpike .
many foreign investors say the investigation is emblematic of the political uncertainty they face in investing in south korea , a concern that looms large as washington and seoul are negotiating a free trade agreement .
for example , the in-state tuition rate per semester at central connecticut state university in new britain is $ 3,367 .
on thursday in vienna , headquarters of the international atomic energy agency , diplomats said iran had begun installing centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant at natanz , agence france-presse reported .
the tables of navarre food and wine from the navarre region of spain will be served at a nine-course dinner on jan. 30 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the w new york hotel on union square .
those salaries were paid despite israel 's decision -- beginning in march 2006 , when hamas took office -- to withhold from the palestinian authority some $ 50 million a month it collects for the palestinians in duties and taxes , after it deducts the cost of electricity and water that it supplies to the west bank and gaza .
the bishop is to be officially elevated to archbishop during a ceremony on sunday in warsaw at st. john 's cathedral , though many voices in poland have called for him to step down .
his father is the president of the southern arizona homebuilders association , and his stepmother is the executive assistant to the vice president of external relations at university of arizona , both in tucson .
i like eli manning , '' the nbc football analyst john madden said in a conference call thursday . ''
a graduate of both virginia 's undergraduate college and law school , mr. middleditch has practiced law for 50 years in charlottesville and has been active with the university as a lawyer , adjunct professor and trustee .
the irish republican army , an ally of sinn fein , fought the northern ireland police and the british army in a military campaign to unite ireland until an i.r.a. cease-fire in 1994 .
laurent merlin , a 22-year-old forward from france , and rui fortes , a 24-year-old midfielder from portugal who has lived in the united states for 11 years , will train with the team and try to land roster spots .
in an interview , google 's chief executive , eric e. schmidt , declined to comment about 23andme 's business or its future products , but he said that in the course of evaluating the potential investment , the company had instituted an array of checks and balances to ensure objectivity , including the recusal of mr. brin from any discussions . ''
ms. rice 's clear message to all palestinians -- those in the room and those outside it -- needs to be that if their new government is ready to stop all terrorist attacks against israel , ms. rice is ready to press israel to take matching steps , like halting all settlement construction and easing onerous restrictions on movements within the west bank that have throttled economic development and stoked almost universal anger among ordinary palestinians .
the bridegroom , 26 , will complete his medical degree next week at the university of medicine and dentistry of new jersey , in newark , and is to begin an internship in neurological surgery in july at the university hospital in newark .
phillips -- frederick , of north woodmere , ny and boca raton , florida passed on february 22 , 2007 .
in a major election campaign theme , mr. ahern focused on cementing the peace agreement in northern ireland , where he worked with prime minister tony blair of britain in persuading former bitter political rivals this month to share power in a local government in belfast .
hamas is warned by olmert , as rocket kills israeli civilian a rocket launched from gaza killed an israeli civilian , and prime minister ehud olmert vowed to continue israel 's military assault on hamas as an effort to stop the rocket fire , warning that '' no one involved in terror is immune . ''
we rested a few minutes , then plotted our evening : could we do cocktails up in verbier , plus some last-minute shopping -lrb- thanks to switzerland 's tax rebate for foreigners , gear is occasionally cheap -rrb- , and still make it home for fondue at café bar la ruinette ?
niagara will play a first-round game against kansas , the no. 1 seed of the west region , on friday at the united center in chicago .
not your normal w-2 google paid its top executive , eric e. schmidt , a salary of $ 1 and a holiday bonus of $ 1,723 in 2006 , according to a regulatory filing .
the man , dean arthur schwartzmiller , 65 , was convicted by a santa clara county jury last year for sexually abusing the two boys at his san jose home from 2002 to 2005 .
another study , by dacher keltner , a psychology professor at u.c. berkeley , correlated the smiles that the female graduates of mills college in oakland , calif. , displayed in two mid-20th-century yearbooks with life satisfaction and found that the bigger the smile , the more satisfying the marriage and the greater their well-being .
one of his friends , the saxophonist joe lovano -- who is 54 now -- spoke of how his father , the bop-era cleveland saxophonist tony lovano , adored the fairly far-out ornette coleman record '' new york is now ! ''
-lrb- his parents are the folkies kate mcgarrigle and loudon wainwright iii ; his sisters , martha wainwright and lucy wainwright roche , often join his tours . -rrb-
the scene leavenworth sits beside the wenatchee river between the pine and fir forests of the craggy cascades and the rolling shrub steppe and orchard lands of eastern washington .
and any hope of driving a wedge between iran and syria will have to start by giving damascus hope that there is a way in from the cold .
the buyer , jon asgeir johannesson , is president and chief executive of the baugur group , which has investments in grocery , fashion , real estate and media , including interests in more than 3,700 stores in iceland , england and scandinavia .
gilad shalit , for 10 months had for the first time presented israel with a list of palestinian prisoners they wanted released in exchange for his freedom , reuters reported .
munjed farid al qutob london , may 2 , 2007 to the editor : re '' a harsh , healthy verdict in israel '' -lrb- editorial , may 2 -rrb- : your analogy between the israeli government 's reaction to prime minister ehud olmert 's failures in his military response to hezbollah provocations in lebanon last summer and the lack of a similar response on the part of our government to american failures in iraq misses one important point .
written more than a thousand years ago , the '' shahnameh , '' or '' book of kings , '' recounts the mythological history of iran from the first moments of creation to the arab conquest of the persian empire in the seventh century a.d. davis renders the epic poem in an accessible blend of poetry and prose , bringing to his translation a '' nuanced awareness of ferdowsi 's subtle rhythms and cadences , '' reza aslan wrote here .
gordon m. bethune , the former chief executive of continental airlines , said that little other than low fares would do much to win back customers , but if an airline makes a bad judgment call , '' you better be good at recovery no matter what . ''
thailand warned yesterday that it might add further restrictions to foreign investors , ignoring warnings that the move was ill timed and damaging for a fragile economy already struggling to overcome the stigma of a military coup and the instability caused by recent bombings in bangkok .
he was in hospice care for liver cancer and lived with his daughter , ann , in riverside , california for his last five months .
las vegas 's ties to asia have grown more extensive over the last decade with mgm mirage , las vegas sands and wynn resorts all spending billions on lavish hotel-casinos in the chinese province of macau .
the show surveys -- takes snapshots of -- five topics , which , presented in no particular order , are the crimean war ; the introduction of paid holidays in france in 1936 ; the fall of the berlin wall ; the attacks on the world trade center ; and the conquest of the air by men like latham and louis blériot , the mustachioed frenchman who , in a monoplane called the blériot xi -lrb- guess what happened to the first 10 -rrb- , first crossed the channel , gladdening his countrymen while causing the english , a few decades early , to dread the prospect of aerial assault .
a planned visit to syria next week by house speaker nancy pelosi drew criticism on friday from the white house , which accused the democratic congressional leader of failing to heed the administration 's admonitions against travel to damascus .
it is also odd that the author hardly touches upon the influence of the pro-israel lobby , or on the issue of united states financial and military aid to israel , factors undeniably crucial to any understanding of america 's involvement with today 's middle east .
the restaurant is across the street from atlanta 's oldest and loveliest cemetery , oakland cemetery -lrb- 404-688-2107 ; www.oaklandcemetery.com -rrb- , where margaret mitchell , 25 mayors and thousands of unidentified confederate soldiers are buried .
giles tremlett , madrid correspondent for the guardian of london , begins '' ghosts of spain , '' his affectionate , deeply informed tour of the country that has been his home for 20 years , by disturbing the dead .
the decision follows a similar move by australia and by canada 's most populous province , ontario .
there is a desire by chávez to accelerate what he views as a strategic alliance with iran , '' said alberto garrido , author of '' chávez 's wars , '' a book recently published here that explores venezuela 's ties to the middle east . ''
it 's one of the things that makes this slog north or east palatable , '' said richard shea , a public relations executive who helped start a group called commuters allied for responsible enjoyment , to defend what he described as '' the romantic ideal '' of the suburban commuter enjoying a drink on the way home -- in his case , a bud light on the 6:52 to chappaqua , in westchester county .
ms. royal also says she wants warmer relations with israel , but during a trip to the middle east last december was widely criticized when she did not speak out when a hezbollah deputy compared israel to nazi germany .
such is the case with navarre , a historic region in northern spain , just south of the city of pamplona and a little northeast of rioja .
the jewish communist composer hanns eisler , a student of schoenberg , was an outcast in both nazi germany and mccarthy-era america .
distilled into four 90-minute segments and broadcast later that year , the interviews were shot in california , near nixon 's san clemente estate , in a rental house whose appointments seemed a threat to whatever dignity the former president might have hoped to reconstruct .
10 p.m. -lrb- comedy central -rrb- comedy central presents chelsea handler , the youngest of six children , was born in livingston , n.j. , to a jewish father and a mormon mother .
we thank the appellate court for its thoughtful consideration of the merits of our case , '' jeffrey a. citron , vonage 's chairman and interim chief executive , said in a statement . ''
mohamad ibrahim shnewer , 22 , a palestinian born in amman , jordan , had for the last year kept up an exhausting routine of work , sleep and prayer , according to his mother .
foreigners have always been drawn to kensington -- by its museums , including the natural history museum and the victoria and albert ; by its proximity to hyde park ; and by the many restaurants and specialty stores lining kensington high street .
great interest is paid to the sport 's satanically possessed stepbrother : the scripted , costumed and slick-chested professionals of vince mcmahon 's world wrestling entertainment , whose stars write best-selling memoirs -lrb- steve austin -rrb- , become action movie hunks -lrb- the rock -rrb- or get elected governor of minnesota -lrb- jesse ventura -rrb- .
now they have lost their son , and his death on april 29 -- somewhere between a coin laundry in mount kisco and the side of a desolate dirt road in nearby bedford -- has become a source of sadness in apantes , the guatemalan town where he was born , and a mystery involving two police departments in his adopted westchester county . ''
9 p.m. -lrb- tlc -rrb- american chopper -- after building a custom bike for russell crowe while on their family vacation to australia , the teutuls of orange county choppers immerse themselves in aboriginal culture .
as detailed in susan quinn 's biography , '' marie curie : a life , '' she was nearly hounded out of paris in 1911 when it was discovered that she was having an affair with paul langevin , one of pierre 's students , who was married with four children .
the whole experience is like a corporate version of graceland , elvis presley 's former home : the same fresh-faced docents , the same reverent fans , the same relentless merchandising .
and so the sanctions are immediately focused on the nuclear weapons research program , but we also are trying to limit the ability of iran to be a disruptive and violent factor in middle east politics . ''
marriages with vietnamese women are considered so successful that the local government of at least one city , yeongcheon , in south korea 's rural southeast , subsidizes marriage tours only to vietnam .
who 's hot , who 's not , in davos -- the world economic forum convenes its annual conference in davos , switzerland , with the theme '' shaping the global agenda : the shifting power equation . ''
all these elements can be found in films that range from taiwan -lrb- the magnificent work of hou hsiao-hsien -rrb- to portugal -lrb- in the stately urban studies of pedro costa -rrb- and many points in between .
hood river , in the columbia river gorge on the border of oregon and washington , is a windsurfer 's paradise .
there have been five bombings in and around beirut in the month since the lebanese army laid siege to a palestinian refugee camp in northern lebanon where it surrounded islamic militants .
san onofre is california 's fifth-most-popular state park , but a proposed six-lane toll road would cross near the campground .
mrs. cortes , 29 , is a housing planner in seattle for aids housing of washington .
wave 's longtime board members include george gilder , the conservative technology analyst and author , and nolan bushnell , the founder of atari .
j. robert bradley , whose deep , swooping , octave-leaping voice and charismatic presence made him one of the most important figures in gospel music , died yesterday in nashville .
6 5 killed in gaza fighting five palestinians were killed in fighting between two clans in the gaza strip .
she called on the arab states to '' show israel that they accept its place in the middle east , and to demonstrate that the peace they seek is greater than just the absence of war . ''
the other dioceses that have filed for bankruptcy protection are tucson -- represented by ms. boswell -- davenport , iowa ; portland , ore. ; and spokane , wash. .
by making a wide circle around baltimore , the troops avoided inflaming a city already on the brink of revolt and kept maryland , however tenuously , in the union .
subir gokarn , the chief economist at crisil , a ratings agency in india , said that mr. summers 's remarks about '' the race to the bottom , and the adverse effects of globalization '' strike a chord in asia .
nor does it seem incidental that france is the only place shown in color in marjane satrapi and vincent paronnaud 's '' persepolis . ''
the company president says i was meant for this , '' said mr. gaskin , who once worked with mother teresa 's missionaries of charity in calcutta . ''
lewin -- sandford -lrb- sandy -rrb- , passed away , april 17 , in charleston , south carolina .
while still a student at carleton college in northfield , minnesota , she traveled to china to teach in a government school , leaving as the japanese-chinese fighting approached the town .
one leading voice in this camp is the university of chicago 's james heckman , a nobel prize-winning economist , who contends , after years of studying the subject , that all the low-wage jobs and adult training programs on the planet wo n't succeed in eliminating poverty unless government intervenes in the earliest stages of childhood , when tax dollars have been shown to yield the most return . ''
mr. nobay was born in new york , but spent most of his youth in kenya , his parents ' birthplace , and also in goa in india , where their ancestors originated .
sacyr vallehermoso , a spanish construction company , bid 9.75 billion euros -lrb- $ 13.26 billion -rrb- to take over eiffage of france , a diversified construction company that built the eiffel tower , setting the stage for a cross-border struggle for control of the company .
france 's socialist presidential candidate , ségolène royal , presented her long-awaited presidential program in a two-hour speech on sunday , hoping to dispel criticism that she is a pretty face without fundamental policies and to reverse a slide in opinion polls .
last may , officials of a multinational group said they were taking steps to open half a dozen warehouses in bad arolsen , germany , that have been sealed for 60 years and are filled with documents compiled by the nazis and by american and allied forces .
that changed on monday morning , when the delta creditors ' new consultant , gordon m. bethune , the 65-year-old former chief executive who turned around continental airlines , met with us airways ' chief , w. douglas parker , 45 .
moves to minsk , belarus , in 1939 and tashkent , uzbekistan , in 1941 both saved his life -lrb- his family in warsaw was killed in the holocaust -rrb- and resulted in a lifelong friendship with shostakovich .
though the regions of mexico retain their very distinct cuisines , mexico city acts like a food processor , puréeing ingredients until you ca n't tell what went into the final mix .
a1 israel rejects ` right of return ' prime minister ehud olmert said that israel would not allow palestinian refugees to return to what is now israel , and that the country bore no responsibility for the refugees because their plight resulted from an attack by arab nations on israel when it was a fledgling state .
among the images in the exhibition , organized by wendy salmond , an art history professor at chapman university in california , are his precisely rendered pictures of the cap and orb of monomakh -lrb- a medieval russian leader -rrb- , imperial regalia used by the czars during coronation ceremonies until peter the great -lrb- who , when he designated himself emperor , commissioned the imperial crown of russia -rrb- .
it is a much more powerful way to find out about this time period in history , '' said marissa mayer , vice president for search products and user experience at google .
winter park , the fourth-largest ski resort in colorado after vail , keystone and snowmass , has a ski for free program , in which volunteers help to operate the resort 's racing events in return for free skiing .
for all that nicolson delves into the conditions of the poor , it is the follies and yearnings of the upper classes that more naturally call out the talents of this author , the granddaughter of harold nicolson and vita sackville-west , mistress of sissinghurst castle .
senators joseph r. biden jr. , democrat of delaware , and chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , said they would back mr. warner 's alternative , which declares that '' the senate disagrees with the ` plan ' to augment our forces by 21,500 , '' calls on the president to consider other alternatives and urges him to limit the american role in countering sectarian violence . ''
mr. hariri was an outspoken critic of syria , and his killing , in a beirut car bombing in february 2005 , caused an outcry that eventually led to the withdrawal of syrian troops and security services from lebanon .
about 1.3 million ethnic malay muslims form a majority in thailand 's three southernmost provinces -- yala , narathiwat and pattani -- a tiny percentage of the population of 65 million , which is overwhelmingly buddhist .
he won his first stanley cup , anaheim won its first stanley cup , and california won its first stanley cup . ''
in addition to houston , he also went to oklahoma city on friday , where he visited the oklahoma city national memorial and museum and delivered the commencement address at the university of oklahoma . ''
senator chuck hagel of nebraska , an outspoken republican critic of the administration 's iraq policy , will join two leading democrats in introducing a resolution opposing president bush 's buildup of troops in iraq , putting a bipartisan stamp on the looming congressional showdown over the war .
study of the 2,114 sex offenders who live in new york city and are listed in the state 's publicly available database , 85 percent live within five blocks of a school and 32 percent within two blocks of a school , according to a report released yesterday by representative anthony d. weiner , a democrat who represents parts of queens and brooklyn .
i knew that paris , france , existed , '' said patrick dunne , the proprietor of a french quarter antique shop called lucullus , who declined to give his age . ''
alfred blumstein , a criminologist at carnegie mellon university , called the connecticut situation '' mind-boggling . '' ''
i checked in with barbara pierson , greenhouse manager at white flower farm , the venerable nursery in litchfield , an area otherwise known as '' the refrigerator of connecticut . ''
an article yesterday about troubles plaguing the coming presidential election in nigeria incorrectly described the career of atiku abubakar , the current vice president , who wants to run for president but so far has been blocked by legal maneuvers to disqualify him .
twice during his recent trip through asia , gen. peter pace , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff , broke with military officials in baghdad and said he was not ready to conclude that iran 's top leaders were behind the attacks .
mr. posada , a former c.i.a. operative , denies involvement in downing the airliner , as well as cuba 's claims that he is responsible for a string of bombings at havana hotels and nightclubs .
they are taking advantage of the weakened position of prime minister ehud olmert , who , after the rise to power of hamas and israel 's war with hezbollah in lebanon last summer , is in no position to challenge the settlers .
cuyahoga county , including cleveland and 58 suburbs , has one of the country 's highest foreclosure rates , and officials say the worst is yet to come .
it has become the outsourcing visa , '' said kamal nath , the commerce minister of india .
last week , the intelligence committee heard testimony from john d. negroponte , the director of national intelligence , that an emboldened iran was casting a shadow across the middle east and could decide to send hezbollah operatives on missions to hit american targets .
we think we can add value to this important medium by delivering more relevant ads to viewers , providing better accountability for advertisers and better monetize inventory for tv operators and programmers , '' google 's chief executive , eric e. schmidt , said in a statement announcing the echostar partnership .
that 's just one sequence in '' jhoom barabar jhoom , '' a giddy romantic comedy with star power -lrb- the father-son team of amitabh and abhishek bachchan ; preity zinta ; bobby deol ; lara dutta -rrb- , wanderlust -lrb- i see london , i see france , and , yes , is n't that india ? -rrb-
mr. anschutz attended grade school in hays , a town in western kansas , before moving to high school in wichita .
despite the fact that the armenian-turkish border has been sealed since 1993 and diplomatic relations severed , armenia is sending a deputy foreign minister , arman kirakossian , to the funeral , and the archbishop of the armenian church of america , khajag barsamian , also accepted the government 's invitation to the ceremony .
a1 chirac recasts iran stance president jacques chirac , seeking to limit the diplomatic backlash over his remarks on iran 's nuclear ambitions , said that france remained committed to preventing iran from becoming a nuclear power .
ms. rice was headed from berlin for discussions with her counterparts from russia , france , germany and britain in potsdam on wednesday about how to rein in iran 's nuclear ambitions .
two years earlier , citigroup moved 1,900 employees out of lower manhattan , most of them to a corporate campus in warren , n.j. '' the flip side of all this prosperity , '' said kathryn s. wylde , president of the partnership for new york city , '' is that lower - and middle-income workers are being priced out of the housing market and the technical and operational jobs at our major industries can no longer afford the rents . ''
in another on staten island , on the south shore , louis tobacco , a republican , was elected to complete the term of former assemblyman vincent m. ignizio , who was elected to the city council in a special election on feb. 20 .
the list of the top 10 companies requesting h-1b visas in fiscal 2006 , the most recent government data available , was dominated by indian-based technology outsourcing companies like infosys technologies , wipro technologies and tata consultancy services , and a few other companies that offer outsourced services and have sizable operations in india like cognizant technology solutions , accenture and deloitte & touche , according to a paper last month by mr. hira , which was published by the economic policy institute , a liberal research group .
i want to pay homage to jacques chirac , who honored france when he opposed the war in iraq , which was a mistake , '' said mr. sarkozy , who has often been accused of being too pro-american .
et cetera air france says it will start flying new a380 superjumbo jets in the spring of 2009 , and has begun testing gates and other operations with an a380 at charles de gaulle airport near paris continuing its aggressive international expansion , delta air lines has added nonstop flights between atlanta and dubai , and atlanta and seoul , south korea .
nelnet , based in lincoln , neb. , with $ 23.8 billion in student loan assets , forged the agreement with the nebraska attorney general , jon bruning .
he said he later learned that adolf eichmann '' complained violently '' to antonescu about his mother , who was posthumously honored for her effort to save jews as a '' righteous among the nations '' by yad vashem , the holocaust museum in jerusalem .
a recent sale of 33 ferraris at the company 's factory in maranello , italy , brought the highest price paid for a ferrari at a public auction .
esa-pekka salonen , the onetime wunderkind from finland who has led the los angeles philharmonic as music director for 15 seasons , has decided to leave the orchestra when his term ends in 2009 .
pittman , michael p. , 34 , pfc. , army ; davenport , iowa ; first infantry division .
in doing so , he said the company was shaking off russia 's dark legacy of the 1986 chernobyl disaster by convincing foreign governments of engineering advances in russian designs since then .
indeed , last year , the conference was perhaps better known for sightings of ms. jolie and her boyfriend , brad pitt , than for the comments of shimon peres of israel on the day that hamas was elected .
brighenti -- laura , born october 2 , 1954 , desio , italy ; died new york city , april 27 , 2007 , after a painful battle with cancer .
over the last two decades , as successive french governments have poured money into renovating the louvre and building new museums , an opera house and a national library in paris , lovers of orchestral music here grew resentful .
the show features artists who are little known outside italy , including giovanni segantini , emilio longoni , angelo morbelli and the quirky vittore grubicy de dragon , a milanese critic , dealer and painter who championed pointillism .
mr. schama leapfrogs across time and place , focusing on eight artists and their masterpieces , like caravaggio 's '' david with the head of goliath '' and picasso 's '' guernica , '' framing each work with a dramatic turning point in history : the counter-reformation in italy -lrb- '' the greatest propaganda campaign christendom has ever seen '' -rrb- or the rise of fascism in europe .
nicolas sarkozy , who will take over the presidency from jacques chirac tomorrow , has often been dubbed by the left in france as '' sarkozy the american . ''
some are not even quite sure if staten island is part of new york city .
another plane carrying africans was headed to the ship 's last port of call , conakry , guinea , but unrest there obliged it to land in the cape verde islands .
from 1991 to 1996 working out of his studio in darien , connecticut , he exhibited at the rowayton arts center the silvermine guild and the darien council on the arts .
ségolène royal , the socialist candidate for president , took her campaign on tuesday to the tough parisian suburb that set off nationwide unrest in 2005 , assuring residents there that they were '' not a problem '' for france .
after playing home games at continental airlines arena in the meadowlands for 26 seasons , the men 's basketball team at seton hall university will begin playing at the new prudential center in newark this fall , officials announced last week .
but the accusations prompted ms. royal to disclose that they had taxable assets worth about $ 435,000 and owned an apartment in paris and houses in western france and in the alps .
salvador valdés , secretary general of cuba 's central workers union , the lone speaker at havana 's labor day parade , was the first to suggest to the crowd that fidel castro , who underwent intestinal surgery in july , would not be appearing . ''
wherever you dig in palestine , you find remains of one side or the other , '' said abdel kader husseini , son of the late jerusalem leader faisal husseini and a resident of shuafat . ''
the republican senate leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , convened a conference call with reporters to taunt democrats for failing to agree on a means for winding down the war .
and joshua redman , dewey redman 's son , played a startling piece on tenor saxophone , unaccompanied , and very unlike the rest of his music : it was slow and minor and wary , using the horn 's full range , putting space between short phrases .
the conciliatory remarks came as leaders of the group of 8 industrialized nations gathered for a meeting that was at risk of being overshadowed by the threat by president vladimir v. putin of russia to aim russian missiles at nuclear sites in europe if the united states places the installations in poland and the czech republic . ''
but as germany 's carmakers each try to outpolish the competition with these brand-driven monuments , only stuttgart can claim a high-octane mix of automotive bravado and seminal tradition . ''
some time after midnight near fenway park in boston , where myers was scheduled to start the next game for the phillies , he was spotted in the altercation with his wife .
the fund has also done well with vimpel communications , a russian wireless telecommunications company , which '' is experiencing a profit surge related to the overall strength of business in russia , '' he said .
still , middle east experts say it is a fine line that ms. rice will have to walk , keeping her distance from hamas ministers , so as not to alienate israel , and working with moderate palestinian officials , to keep that side engaged . ''
born in 1915 in berlin , where her father w.w. yen was serving as chinese ambassador to germany .
senator mitch mcconnell , republican of kentucky , and elaine l. chao , secretary of labor .
senior aides in both parties said mr. reid was negotiating with senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , to try to work out a bipartisan package of changes .
there was general agreement that it would be to israel 's advantage for king hussein of jordan , whose country controlled the west bank , to remain in power : he had , in effect , accepted israel 's existence , so israel naturally had an interest in strengthening his regime .
papa abe is also survived by his extended family adam , susan , andrew , max and jordan sahn of new city , ny , jonathan , kathy , samantha , and erin sahn of boca raton , florida , and eric , amy , zach and lucas of redwood city , ca .
that 's the difference in the mentality in atlanta and the mentality in philadelphia , '' chipper jones , the braves ' leader , said when asked about rollins 's remark . ''
mr. sarkozy , who argues that turkey is culturally not a part of europe and that most of its territory is in asia , vehemently opposes turkey 's membership . ''
and while some say that hatred of israel is caused by israel 's occupation of the golan heights and west bank , and the conflict in lebanon , '' she says , '' others note that overt calls by arab leaders for the destruction of the entire jewish state were commonplace even before the occupation which began in 1967 . '' ''
cris nolan mundelein , ill. , april 5 , 2007 to the editor : re '' pelosi , warmly greeted in syria , is criticized by white house '' -lrb- news article , april 4 -rrb- : intelligence and reason are finally finding their way to the middle east , and the feckless bush administration is seeking to vilify the effort .
color is the stuff of life in the movies of mira nair , the indian-born director whose newest film , '' the namesake , '' follows two generations of a bengali family from late-1970s calcutta to new york city .
if passed by the senate , the bill would mean that president jacques chirac , who has been in office for 12 years and has not ruled out running for a third term as an independent , could be investigated on allegations of corruption in the paris region during his 18 years as mayor .
so while mitt romney , the former republican governor of massachusetts , was able to meet voters and donors in south carolina yesterday and john edwards , the former democratic senator from north carolina , can do the same in new hampshire and new york tomorrow , members of the senate presidential caucus will be glued to washington for a vote on raising the minimum wage .
four other google executives -- the chief financial officer , george reyes ; the senior vice president for business operations , shona brown ; the chief legal officer , david drummond ; and the senior vice president for product management , jonathan rosenberg -- earned salaries of $ 250,000 each .
gianni agnelli is a near mythic figure in italy : a fabled industrialist who turned his family 's car company into the most important company in italy and one of the major european car builders .
adams was born on october 11 , 1954 and moved many times as a child , graduating from e.o. smith high school in storrs , connecticut in 1972 .
mr. anand , who is 34 , grew up in delhi , where his father taught political science at the university of delhi -lrb- his mother was a chemistry teacher at a local school -rrb- .
in march 2005 nine students from moravian college in bethlehem , pa. , along with a teacher , a chaperone and the chaperone 's young son , walked some 33 miles over three days , from new brunswick , n.j. , to manhattan .
in the dozen years that followed , the author goes on , perception of the united states ' role in the middle east steadily deteriorated , as america '' came to be perceived in the region , rightly or wrongly , not only as wearing the british imperialist mantle but as acting increasingly on behalf of israel , professing peace but engaging in delaying tactics that facilitated the expansion of the settlements . ''
some state department officials argue that the administration could only support such a separation if israel agreed to make political concessions to mr. abbas in the west bank , with the goal of undermining hamas in the eyes of palestinians by improving life in the west bank .
so it 's a great opportunity for connecticut and for greenwich to have the future president of the united states there . ''
when his followers in paris sang france 's stirring , if sanguinary , national anthem , the fiaf crowd joined in .
president mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran will visit saudi arabia on saturday for a summit meeting with king abdullah intended to tackle the middle east 's growing sectarian and political crises , iranian officials said thursday .
another lure was the close-knit group of jewish immigrants from bukhara , uzbekistan , his family homeland .
there was really only one of those -- jürgen klinsmann , the touchy-feely coach who had just coached germany to a glorious third place .
but this season he started posts as music director of the montreal symphony and the bavarian state opera in munich .
some middle east experts say that lebanon needs at least $ 5 billion in aid to cover reconstruction and debt payments .
a vote in congress would be purely symbolic , but turks have warned that it would be felt as a bitter slap , and could cause enormous public pressure on the government in ankara to chill its cooperation with washington , which has strong military ties to turkey , a nato member .
in lieu of flowers , donations may be given in lorraines memory to the rehabilitation center for children and adults , 300 royal palm way , palm beach , florida 33480 .
prime minister josé sócrates , who was overwhelmingly elected on a pledge to modernize portugal , has mixed feelings about fado . ''
now this same penchant for working on a monumental scale has made mr. kiefer the ideal artist to inaugurate an annual solo show -- called , appropriately , monumenta -- that opened on wednesday in the cavernous space of the grand palais in paris .
in 2006 , the annual meeting morphed into a three and a half hour celebration of sanford i. weill , citigroup 's departing chairman .
dive information the village of kleinbaai , a two-hour drive from cape town , is the south africa 's cage-diving mecca .
as a u.s. national team goalkeeper , he started all three games for the u.s. at the 1988 olympics in seoul , south korea , and was a member of the u.s. team that competed in the 1990 fifa world cup in italy .
just in time for spring break , jetblue airways began service to florida from westchester county airport last week , and by the end of the week the airline will offer four departures and arrivals a day serving fort lauderdale , west palm beach and orlando .
this week , the nations of the arab league revived a 2002 initiative offering israel peace and acceptance as long as it withdraws to pre-1967 territorial boundaries , accepts an independent palestine with east jerusalem as its capital , and agrees to a solution to the problem of palestinian refugees from the 1948 war and their descendants .
in south korea , billboards advertising marriages to foreigners dot the countryside , and fliers are scattered on the seoul subway .
the 15 florida counties that have adopted touch-screen voting in recent years , including miami-dade , broward , palm beach and hillsborough , would move to optical-scan voting under the proposal before the presidential election of 2008 .
he is samuel adams -- not john adams , who is buried at united first parish church in quincy , mass.
we shall draw the conclusions and learn the lessons , and instruct our security people to continue their ongoing and never-ending struggle against terrorists and those who send them , '' israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , said after the bombing .
-lrb- $ 49.98 , not rated -rrb- also out today the untouchables , season 1 , volume 1 -- fourteen episodes from the inaugural 1959-60 season of the classic television series , with robert stack as the unsmiling eliot ness , the federal agent charged with cleaning up prohibition-era chicago .
this kitchen , only gently used and impeccably , professionally restored , was trucked here from greenwich , connecticut 's teardown capital .
he is survived by his wife , linda , and daughters , sharon kofmehl of charleston , sc , and sandy kofmehl of paris , france , and granddaughter , emma kofmehl of charleston .
mr. williams went to paris that same year for his honeymoon and decided to live in france and later switzerland .
he created a page on myspace , the social networking site , for his beach house ; under about me he listed fishing off the florida coast and attending nascar races in nearby daytona beach as some of his interests .
with the end of the northern ireland conflict and the power-sharing agreement of the rev. ian paisley of the democratic unionist party and martin mcguinness of sinn fein , this area of county meath has rapidly become the most disputed terrain in the country .
in 1942 , he became headmaster at the graham eckes school in palm beach , florida .
his city of arts and science project , an award-winning triumph of soaring beams and white steel domes hugged by blue lagoons , was built on one of the city 's wastelands six years ago , and has helped put valencia on the map in much the same way as frank gehry 's guggenheim draws crowds to bilbao , spain .
the new york aquarium is in coney island at surf avenue and west eighth street -lrb- 718-265-3474 , www.nyaquarium.com ; $ 12 , $ 8 for under 13 -rrb- .
paul watzlawick , a therapist who advanced a novel strategy for rapid diagnosis and treatment of problems that occur in marriages and families , died on march 31 at his home in palo alto , calif. .
there is also the massachusetts museum of contemporary art in north adams , five miles east on route 2 in a former textile mill , and from june to august , the tony-award-winning williamstown theater festival , which has sent plays to broadway .
siemens chief to step down the embattled chief executive of siemens , klaus kleinfeld , said that he would step down when his contract expired in september , becoming the latest casualty in a widening corruption scandal that has shaken corporate germany . ''
one doctor she consulted was nadine tung , director of the cancer risk and prevention program at beth israel deaconess medical center in boston .
south africa 's deputy foreign minister , aziz pahad , urged zimbabwe '' to ensure that the rule of law , including respect for the rights of all zimbabweans and leaders of various political parties , is respected , '' according to a statement issued in his name .
raleigh , the state capital , offers big-city amenities -- museums and galleries , the defending stanley cup champion carolina hurricanes and live music at the hideaway bbq and the lincoln theater .
i am not surprised , '' said herwig langohr , professor of finance and banking at the insead business school in fontainebleau , france . ''
stephen a. schwarzman , the co-founder of the blackstone group , which is in the process of going public , made $ 400 million last year .
if derek v. smith ever loses his job as chief executive of choicepoint , he will collect as much as $ 38.6 million , but he will probably not spend much of it on air travel .
the popular party is , once again , spain 's no. 1 party , '' mariano rajoy , the popular party leader , told supporters in madrid .
in 1999 , she acted in '' selma , lord , selma , '' about the civil rights march , and in 1996 appeared in '' ghosts of mississippi , '' about efforts to track down the killer of medgar evers , the civil rights leader .
only a few visible traces of yukos oil remain in nefteyugansk , a remote siberian town so inseparable from russia 's energy wealth that it has neft , or oil , in its name .
one of ramadan 's fiercest critics in france , caroline fourest , fears that he has long-term plans to challenge european secularism through religious bigotry .
the war was reaching a climax by the time mr. papon left algeria , in 1958 , telling superiors in paris : '' france is on the offensive on all fronts .
and , out of his rearview mirror , while driving along u.s. 97 in oregon , south of klamath falls , he spotted , against a magnificently clouded sky , a billboard with a painting of a snow-peaked mountain .
all came from nuremberg , germany , a center of brass production since the middle ages .
the democratic presidential contenders are appearing wednesday in carson city , nev. , for a forum sponsored by the american federation of state , county and municipal employees ; george stephanopoulos of abc news will be asking them questions .
in six days of war in 1967 , israel captured , among other areas , the west bank and the eastern half of jerusalem from jordan , and the gaza strip from egypt .
without comment , the justices declined to hear a case from port chester in westchester county , n.y. , that challenged the village 's use of eminent domain in a dispute between a property owner and a private company designated as the developer of a run-down 27-acre urban renewal area .
from santiago , i flew on lan chile -lrb- www.lan.com -rrb- to punta arenas , at the southern tip of chile .
but if you want to experience three peaks with every kind of skiing and riding in an uncluttered , noncorporate vermont setting -lrb- sugarbush has one-third the visitors annually of killington -rrb- , sugarbush is worth the extra hour .
among the shore activities , most of which are geared toward all ages , disney is rolling out a tour of narni , italy , which served as an inspiration for c. s. lewis 's creation of narnia , which turned into a hit movie last year for walt disney pictures .
ms. esfandiari , 67 , director of the middle east program at the wilson center , went to iran five months ago on one of her twice-annual visits to her ailing 93-year-old mother .
lydia polgreen correction : february 27 , 2007 , tuesday a report in the world briefing column on wednesday about a court ruling that blocked nigeria 's president , olusegun obasanjo , from unseating his vice president , atiku abubakar , misstated mr. abubakar 's ethnic background .
the lay character of french institutions does not allow them to accept a religious reference , '' the president of france , jacques chirac , said .
nadine gordimer awarded french legion of honor the south african novelist and 1991 nobel laureate in literature nadine gordimer was awarded the french legion of honor in ceremonies yesterday at the french embassy in pretoria , south africa , agence france-presse reported . ''
instead , the administration is leaving it mainly to the republican leadership , including the senate republican leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , and the republican whip , trent lott of mississippi , to work toward an alternative .
he was studying design in copenhagen in 1938 when he was hired by mr. jacobsen and erik moller to design furniture for the town hall they were creating in aarhus , denmark .
running as a parallel investment universe to power , is the family 's 50 percent stake , along with the financier albert frère of belgium , in the parent company of groupe bruxelles lambert .
the united states men 's under-17 national team , despite a 3-2 loss to jamaica on friday , clinched a berth in the fifa u-17 world cup when trinidad and tobago defeated canada , 2-1 , in an earlier game in kingston , jamaica .
opposing israel 's settlement of the west bank or treatment of palestinians '' is , in itself , not anti-semitic , '' he writes ; it is questioning israel 's right to exist that crosses the line .
last week a 24-member jury that included france 's culture minister and the mayor of paris picked mr. nouvel 's design over those of mr. portzamparc , francis soler , zaha hadid , the vienna-based firm coop himmelb -lrb- l -rrb- au and the dutch firm mvrdv .
mr. avsar , who was born in turkey , was planning to move back to ankara , where he had a teaching position .
most also agree that branford 's neighborhoods , like stony creek , while insular , are critical organizationally . ''
mr. wong 's gentle fantasy of america was followed by cristian mungiu 's harshly realistic look at romania in the last years of the ceausescu dictatorship in '' 4 months , 3 weeks and 2 days . ''
we also have thousands of parts manufactured in asia , india and south america , '' mr. kanter said . ''
president felipe calderón continued a crackdown on drug cartels and sent more than 1,000 soldiers into the pacific resort town of acapulco and other areas of guerrero state .
correction : april 14 , 2007 , saturday an article in the arts on tuesday about '' the diary of petr ginz : 1941-1942 , '' a teenager 's chronicle of life in wartime prague , omitted a translator of an untitled poem in the book that was quoted in the article .
often mentioned as a candidate to receive the nobel peace prize , or , perhaps less seriously , to run the world bank , u2 's 46-year-old lead singer , bono , has toured africa with senior american officials to campaign against aids , and hobnobbed with financiers and policymakers while speaking out on global poverty issues at the world economic forum in davos , switzerland .
edwin j. day , the rockland county legislator whose district includes new city , said he heard the same thought over and over from his constituents and did not disagree with it . ''
to create and showcase his nostalgic , impressionistic paintings , mr. kreindler has commandeered much of his childhood home in airmont , in rockland county , where he still lives with his parents .
there are a number of members of my conference who do think that benchmarks could be helpful , depending upon how they 're crafted , '' said senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader . ''
when he was 15 , he moved with his family to brisbane , australia , where he formed a band , the chelsea set , playing r&b and motown .
if he had stayed in paris and hugged a few prize bulls , france would probably still be a monarchy .
he is survived by his wife elaine of 54 years ; his daughter marina lugovoy scofi of teaneck , and daughter june lugovoy and her husband michael flynn of los gatos , california and grandchildren alex scofi , neil and natalie lugovoy-flynn ; and his sister nina lugovoy libove and her husband charles libove of manhattan .
supplies of russian crude oil headed to european markets came to a halt overnight , officials said monday , in the latest manifestation of rapidly deteriorating relations between russia and belarus .
she suggested that if this meeting had not been scheduled beforehand , the israeli prime minister , ehud olmert , might not have agreed to meet with mr. abbas , whom she praised nevertheless for supporting international and israeli demands that the palestinians recognize israel 's right to exist , forswear violence and accept previously negotiated agreements with the israelis .
in westchester county , flooding forced the closing of sections of the cross county , saw mill river , bronx river , taconic and hutchinson river parkways , and officials in mamaroneck ordered 20 families to evacuate two gated waterfront communities on long island sound .
op-ed contributor shashi tharoor , a departing under secretary general of the united nations , is the author of '' the great indian novel '' and the forthcoming '' the elephant , the tiger and the cellphone : india , the emerging 21st century power . ''
the russian ambassador , vitaly i. churkin , said the revision '' has not changed anything , '' and when asked whether russia would veto it , he said : '' i do not like use of this word .
the resignation of the president of paramount pictures , gail berman , one of hollywood 's highest-ranking female executives , carried a message this week for those with a stake in the success of her boss , brad grey : the turmoil is not over .
for all the hard words coming out of jerusalem , it seems as difficult for israel as for the united states to find credible military means of stopping the iranians .
feud leads to oil cutoff -- supplies of russian crude oil headed to european markets came to a halt overnight , in the latest manifestation of rapidly deteriorating relations between russia and belarus .
there 's violence everywhere , '' said ms. mesquita , who , like her friend , lives in belo horizonte , the capital of minas gerais state . ''
when comcast made a hostile bid for at&t 's cable unit , its chief executive , c. michael armstrong , hemmed and hawed , saying , '' we have no intention of selling our broadband business . ''
tomorrow , 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. , the pathmark gospel choir competition , with choirs from the new york area , as well as maryland , michigan , new jersey , north and south carolina , pennsylvania and virginia ; (866) 893-1812 .
after greg nixed a variety of wamsutta offerings -- terming them '' not nice enough for our symbolic relationship towels '' -- and i clucked in disapproval at some slightly wanton nicole miller numbers with sparkly silver threads in them , we finally bought some fluffy white lenox towels , 70 percent cotton and 30 percent bamboo .
follow the danube northwest out of vienna by car , train or bicycle , and the cityscape shaped by the hapsburgs and the secessionist architect otto wagner quickly slides away into verdant countryside .
almost any kind of situation where one employee has a serious health condition almost makes the group uninsurable , because of cost , '' said the governor of kansas , kathleen sebelius , a member of a group studying health care issues for the national governors association . ''
when robert r. provine tried applying his training in neuroscience to laughter 20 years ago , he naïvely began by dragging people into his laboratory at the university of maryland , baltimore county , to watch episodes of '' saturday night live '' and a george carlin routine .
mr. gates said russian fears that missile defense sites in the region could be altered in years to come to counter moscow 's sizable nuclear missile fleet '' is a matter that can be negotiated over time , '' and he stressed that russia as well as nato allies would benefit from american missile defenses .
the findings , while offering little solace to the relatives of sean bell , amadou diallo and other minority victims of police gunfire in new york city , suggest that the impact of race on police behavior is subtler than previously understood , and is strongly shaped by professional training .
the new route would have planes coming from the north and west cross over lower fairfield county and then fly along the coasts of stamford and greenwich .
in his annual presentation on the global threats facing the united states , the departing director of national intelligence , john d. negroponte , spoke of the '' shadow '' that iran was casting across the middle east and warned members of congress that iran could be emboldened to dispatch hezbollah operatives to attack american targets .
he was acquired when colangelo jettisoned the disappointing fred jones to portland by getting jones to waive the final year of his deal to go home to oregon .
israel vowed to keep up its attacks in order to try to deter further rocket firing into the israeli town of sderot , even as preparations for rocket attacks increased in the larger israeli city of ashkelon . ''
roberto gonzález echevarría , a professor of literature at yale university and the author of '' the pride of havana : a history of cuban baseball , '' said he was informally advising garagiola and had the impression that baseball officials wanted to work with cuba .
like chagall , who grew up in a hasidic household in vitebsk , belarus , the painter ben-zion and chaim gross , represented here by a beautiful teakwood sculpture of judith , also came from religious families .
for those seeking to get in touch with their inner-rebel , princess cruises is offering a new three-and-a-half-hour motorcycle tour through the rugged , thickly forested hills that surround the port town of ketchikan , alaska .
correction : february 24 , 2007 , saturday an article in the arts on tuesday about the indian film '' parzania , '' about a boy who disappeared during violence in gujarat state , where theater owners have refused to show it , referred incorrectly to the reason another film encountered problems being screened in india .
south carolina furniture was made in huge quantities , but there 's not much on the market , '' said david silliman , owner , with his wife , ann silliman , of a. fairfax antiques , a charleston gallery at the fair . ''
the strategy is in many ways a throwback to new york city 's '' model block '' program , which mr. mccarthy presided over in the late 1990s in the washington heights neighborhood .
vault after vault was filmed and analyzed , using software from dartfish , a company based in fribourg , switzerland .
saudi arabia and iran have expressed alarm at the sectarian violence in iraq , worrying that it could fuel similar tensions throughout the middle east .
ms. pelosi and the five democrats and one republican who accompanied her are scarcely the first to raise such questions during the three years that mr. bush has instructed his top envoys -- and reportedly israel as well -- to avoid negotiations with syria 's president , bashar al-assad .
mr. clendenin joined home depot 's board in 1996 and had a close relationship with a co-founder , bernard marcus , and their paths often crossed at social and business functions in atlanta , according to a person close to the board .
prime minister ehud olmert of israel may be as well .
the senate republican leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , said that the immigration bill '' ca n't possibly be completed before memorial day . ''
despite madrid 's efforts to catch up , barcelona arguably remains the design capital of spain , and vinçon -lrb- passeig de gràcia , 96 ; 34-93-215-6050 ; www.vincon.com -rrb- is among its most revered shrines for smart and stylish house wares .
the modest rink at the gateway playhouse here was a far cry from the olympic arena in lillehammer , norway , where ms. baiul , then 16 , skated to victory and fame in 1994 .
arlene white , executive director of the binational tourism alliance , which has offices in niagara falls , ontario , and buffalo , said the niagara falls region would be hit particularly hard .
it remained the administrative boundary separating israel from the occupied territories , with one law for the jewish and arab citizens of israel , and quite another one for the stateless palestinian residents of the west bank .
for the 45 years since its inception , port st. lucie has often been seen as something of a florida nowheresville , a suburban city idling between the more attention-worthy municipalities of south florida -lrb- miami , fort lauderdale , palm beach -rrb- and the tourist magnet of orlando .
if you caught elizabeth and john edwards in the couric interview on '' 60 minutes '' or at their joint news conference in chapel hill , you saw a couple speaking as couples chasing the presidency rarely do .
drexler -- beatrice c. , who ran candy mountain day camp in new city , rockland county , new york for more than 30 years before her retirement , died april 16 , at the age of 92 , her husband , the late elias j. drexler , was the senior vice president in the u.s. of fujfilm .
but there is one area in new york city where the republicans have dominated and show little sign of losing control : staten island .
the new deaths created a furor , and prime minister fouad siniora of lebanon asked ms. rice to cancel her trip to beirut .
the owner of the wall , john m. d'amato , is a lobbying partner of the former staten island borough president guy v. molinari and is also the new york city chairman of rudolph w. giuliani 's presidential campaign .
but on a pouring day last summer in dharamsala , home to the tibetan exile community in india , i did .
metropolitan portland regional government , oregon , $ 125.4 of general obligation bonds .
-lrb- just one is within the new york city limits : goethals garden homes community in staten island , a clutch of 130 trailers between a marsh and the staten island expressway near the goethals bridge . -rrb-
these days , mr. smith has assignments across the country , including redesigning the bars and restaurants at the hyatt regency in atlanta , the original john portman hotel .
charles ramseyer , below , who was the chef at ray 's boathouse in seattle , will cook with raw materials from that area , including wild alaskan salmon , black cod , spot prawns , mushrooms , fruits , berries and cheeses , along with wines from oregon and washington .
a1 senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , said his party would unite to block senate debate next week on a bipartisan resolution opposing president bush 's troop buildup in iraq unless democrats allow votes on at least two republican alternatives .
david eun , a vice president for content partnerships at google , said that his company had been '' very serious '' about the talks , but that the companies could not agree on financial terms . ''
indeed , '' a long way gone '' is poised to outsell mr. albom 's book , said howard schultz , the chairman of starbucks , in a telephone interview from seattle . ''
russia last month provided iran with $ 700 million worth of tor-m1 antiaircraft batteries whose likely target in the event of conflict would be american fighters and bombers , just as russian anti-tank weapons , originally sold to syria , were used against israeli forces fighting hezbollah in lebanon last year , prompting diplomatic protests from israel .
beyond the seaside curtain of megahotels , theme restaurants and jam-packed beaches that have made cancún , mexico , a spring break mecca , there lies an idyllic , veiled city .
martti ahtisaari , a former president of finland who is overseeing talks on the future of kosovo , is expected to unveil his proposals for a settlement soon after the election .
but that does n't stop conservatives -- especially the straussians who pushed for going into iraq -- from being obsessed with ancient greece , and from believing that they are the successors to plato and homer in terms of the lofty ideals and nobility and character in american politics -- while democrats merely muck about with policies for the needy .
mauresmo ousted eighth-seeded anna chakvetadze of russia , 7-6 (5) , 7-5 .
washington state adopted the first civil commitment law in 1990 after men with predatory histories killed a young woman in seattle and sexually mutilated a boy in tacoma .
i mentioned to him that surely the soviet union died because oil fell to $ 10 a barrel shortly after mikhail gorbachev took office , not because of anything ronald reagan did .
leaving that affair , mr. obama then met with a mostly greenwich crowd of 150 people in a gated section of town known as conyers farm , which straddles connecticut and new york .
the third new reality is that hamas 's shelling of israel from gaza means israel can never hand over the west bank to the palestinians , without an international trustee -- because from there palestinians could close israel 's airport with one rocket .
frank caliendo , a short comic impressionist with a giant head and cherubic face -lrb- his descriptions -rrb- , stood in his dressing room at cbs 's '' late show with david letterman '' studying his lines and waiting to become john madden .
it 's very hard for us to prove that a person is actually doing that , '' said ellis jacob , the president and chief executive of cineplex entertainment , canada 's dominant theater chain , speaking from toronto . ''
she is survived by four children and their families : peter and sharon robohm of bath , maine ; john and johanna robohm of jacksonville , vermont ; dorothy and john brownley of columbus , ohio ; donald and natalie robohm , of ocean springs , mississippi ; eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren .
mr. pouzilhac , the former head of the advertising agency havas , has embarked on a charm offensive to promote the idea that france 24 is breaking into the big time .
but the arrest of gen. vang pao , 77 , has also revealed a split in the hmong population that has sprung up in this country : between old and young , between those who fled laos and those who grew up here .
other winners were alain mabanckou from congo , nancy huston from canada and léonora miano from cameroon .
10 p.m. -lrb- sundance channel -rrb- the day of the jackal (1973) an english hit man -lrb- edward fox -rrb- -- code name the jackal -- agrees to kill charles de gaulle , the president of france , for half a million dollars in this espionage thriller by fred zinnemann , adapted from the novel by frederick forsyth .
kurt waldheim , the former united nations secretary general and president of austria whose hidden ties to nazi organizations and war crimes were exposed late in his career , died yesterday at his home in vienna .
managers ' praise of extraordinary achievement can inspire other employees to continue the trend , according to chester elton , senior vice president for performance recognition at o. c. tanner , a consulting and training company in salt lake city . ''
to the editor : in '' what we can learn from britain about iran '' -lrb- op-ed , april 5 -rrb- , vali nasr and ray takeyh arrive at some curious conclusions regarding america 's relations with iran .
when seen at legends field in tampa , fla. , for roger clemens 's first minor league start since re-signing with the yankees , steinbrenner looked ashen and shuffled his feet , perhaps the result of a bad knee .
dmitri medvedev led a large delegation of russians to the world economic forum , the annual gathering of the world 's business and political elite in davos , switzerland .
mr. blount , who grew up in decatur , ga. , and attended vanderbilt university in nashville as an undergraduate , does not come out and announce a thesis about his homeland , but he has a point of view and a list of favorite things and moments that allow the reader to draw inferences .
they have led to the alice in wonderland situation we now have , in which the government of northern ireland has been placed in the hands of two sworn enemies -- the extreme protestant minister ian paisley and the former i.r.a. guerrilla martin mcguinness .
but it is far from the happy ending predicted six months ago by prime minister josé luis rodríguez zapatero of spain , whose government fought to keep endesa out of e. on 's hands , only to now see a proposal for the company to be carved up and shared out .
the paris mosque and the union of islamic organizations of france contend that the newspaper , charlie hebdo , and its director , philippe val , are guilty of slander , an offense that carries a possible six-month sentence and a fine of up to 22,500 euros , or about $ 29,000 . ''
digital divide still a concern -- concerns over a growing digital divide have taken a back seat to the challenge of climate change at this year 's world economic forum in davos , switzerland .
the 105-mile stage saturday , to santa clarita from santa barbara , was won by juan josé haedo , an argentine sprinter for the csc team , who won his second stage this week and his fourth in the california tour 's two years .
to chief executives , the threat of global warming seems very real in asia , but not in the united states or russia .
prime minister recep tayyip erdogan said in sharp language on wednesday that turkey would move against kurdish militants in northern iraq if necessary , hours after the turkish authorities said they had identified the suicide bomber in an attack on tuesday in ankara as a man from a predominantly kurdish city .
twelve first-round women 's matches were postponed on tuesday , but the men all managed to finish , including the american qualifier alex kuznetsov , who defeated peter luczak of australia in a five-set match that finished shortly after 1 a.m. kuznetsov , 19 , was considered one of the most promising juniors in the world until he broke his right femur during a car accident in may 2005 .
these new deals -- which more than doubled the price belarus pays for natural gas and imposed an export duty on oil shipments -- will generate billions of dollars of added revenue for the russian energy giant gazprom , as well as russia 's state and private oil companies , much as recent deals did with ukraine , moldova and armenia .
the top states were hawaii -lrb- 24.7 % -rrb- , new york -lrb- 24.4 % -rrb- , alaska -lrb- 22.2 % -rrb- , new jersey -lrb- 20.1 % -rrb- and washington -lrb- 19.8 % -rrb- ; the bottom states were texas -lrb- 4.9 % -rrb- , georgia -lrb- 4.4 % -rrb- , virginia -lrb- 4.0 % -rrb- , and north and south carolina -lrb- both with 3.3 % -rrb- .
now , across the political spectrum , there is pressure on prime minister john howard to have mr. hicks returned to australia soon .
according a source close to the campaign , the itinerary includes fund-raisers in florida on tuesday followed by more stops across the country before appearing as the keynote speaker at the california republican convention in sacramento on saturday .
the ministate , which occupied one-third of croatia , lasted from 1991 to 1995 , when the croatian military , backed by american advisers , restored zagreb 's control .
the ascension in january 2006 to bolivia 's presidency of evo morales , an aymara indian who previously served as the head of a coca-growing syndicate in the country 's chapare region , has dramatically boosted mr. ugalde 's profile and his fortunes .
for example , mr. ballmer opened settlement talks over a round of golf in california with scott g. mcnealy , sun microsystems ' chairman , and addressed the french senate in fluent french .
a frenetic schedule -lrb- a toronto native , she logged 36 flights on air canada alone last year -rrb- has forced her to make some style concessions . ''
the ecological policies in mexico are being manipulated by private family interests , '' said octavio gonzález reyes , a columnist who covers tourism for the area 's newspaper , el occidental , in guadalajara . ''
if you 'll only stay at st. regis hotels , for instance , '' said michelle peluso , chief executive of travelocity , '' you 're probably better off going to their site . ''
the four gold medals awarded sunday , the opening night at the world championships here , went to four different continents , with asia surprisingly striking first as 17-year-old park tae-hwan of south korea sprung a final-lap ambush on his elders , including the defending champion grant hackett of australia , to win the men 's 400-meter freestyle .
these partnerships are among many that google is pursuing with government agencies to better serve the public , '' eric e. schmidt , google 's chief executive , said in a statement .
settling one of the last big property restitution cases arising from the nazi era , germany 's largest retailer agreed on friday to pay the heirs of a department store once owned by a jewish family more than $ 100 million for the confiscation of what is now prime real estate in berlin .
unlike previous mexico city alternative rock radio ventures , reactor made breaking independent and underground bands from mexico as central to its mission as playing the latest from franz ferdinand . ''
princeton '' kiki 's paris , '' lecture and vintage photographs about the artists and writers of montparnasse ; presented by the alliance française of princeton .
hamas would like to discuss a comprehensive cease-fire that would cover gaza and the west bank , but israel says that the rocket fire from gaza must stop first .
mr. bolaño grew up in mexico and returned to chile out of enthusiasm for the allende government , only to be briefly imprisoned after it was overthrown .
ms. crews , a resident of woodbridge , has previously worked in radio and television in virginia , connecticut , massachusetts , florida , pennsylvania and west virginia .
1 mccain says ` no plan b ' for iraq in a discussion of how he would handle iraq if elected president , senator john mccain said that the buildup of american forces in the country represents the only viable option to avoid failure in iraq and that he had yet to identify an effective fallback if the current strategy failed .
a8 calls for australian 's return john howard , the prime minister of australia , is under mounting pressure to have david hicks , an australian citizen who was charged by the american military with a terrorism-related offense , tried and returned home .
she grew up in amman , jordan , in a westernized family , and attended the american community school , for american and european expatriates and a few well-to-do jordanians .
let us not stop boasting of eli whitney and his cotton gin , of a. c. gilbert and his erector set , or of how buffalo bill cody carried a winchester rifle , built with pride in new haven .
he gave $ 250 in 2000 to frank don , a professional astrologer who ran -lrb- and lost , with five-tenths of 1 percent of the vote -rrb- as an independent in connecticut 's fourth congressional district , which includes greenwich and bridgeport .
newark 's new hockey arena will be called the prudential center under an agreement announced yesterday by the new jersey devils and prudential financial inc. , the newark-based financial services company .
the country code to call india is 91 ; the city code for kochi is 484 .
to the editor : it is appalling that john mccain would claim that it is democrats '' who deny our soldiers the means to prevent an american defeat '' -lrb- '' mccain says democrats play ` small politics ' over iraq , '' news article , april 12 -rrb- .
a quick change -- the outsize robot adventure movie '' transformers '' was born when the talent agency creative artists agency connected hasbro -- a client , and owner of the transformers toy line -- with dreamworks , paramount and another longtime associate , steven spielberg , among others .
continues through march 31 at the massachusetts museum of contemporary art , north adams , mass. ; (413) 602-2111 or www.massmoca.org .
boston what : a two-bedroom condo how much : $ 599,000 per square foot : $ 836 located in the back bay area of the city , this 716-square-foot condo has views from the apartment and its private roof deck of the charles river , one block away .
for a true getaway with your dose of music , there 's the international guitar festival scheduled in march in zihuatanejo , north of acapulco on mexico 's pacific coast .
but this is serious software , serious quantitative methods and social networking technology brought to the green world , '' said ron dembo , the chief executive of zerofootprint , a nonprofit group that provides information and services to combat global warming .
the bridegroom 's father is a trustee of the art institute of chicago and a trustee of the newberry library , a research library in chicago .
with : cécile de france -lrb- jessica -rrb- , valérie lemercier -lrb- catherine versen -rrb- , claude brasseur -lrb- jacques grumberg -rrb- , albert dupontel -lrb- jean-fran çois lefort -rrb- , laura morante -lrb- valentine -rrb- , sydney pollack -lrb- brian sobinski -rrb- , christopher thompson -lrb- frédéric grumberg -rrb- and dani -lrb- claudie -rrb- .
after 30 years as a dealer and decorator , mr. skeel said , he is selling his belongings in england and the united states , including both residences , and moving for part of each year to cape town , south africa .
mr. lasseter and edwin catmull , a pixar founder who was named president of the combined animation groups of disney and pixar and who oversees operations , have designs for a new headquarters in nearby glendale .
when yitzhak rabin was prime minister in the 1990s , he used to say that israel would fight terrorism as if there were no peace negotiations and negotiate peace as if there were no terrorism , meaning that decision making for each track was separate .
no one can seriously say that either iran , the u.s. or the middle east is better for the change .
alma de méxico , which flies to 13 destinations in mexico , has been advertising flights between san josé del cabo and guadalajara for 1,324 pesos at www.alma.com.mx .
efforts to meld differing resolutions opposing the troop buildup faltered thursday when senators john w. warner , republican of virginia , and ben nelson , democrat of nebraska , chose not to negotiate with those behind a competing plan approved by the foreign relations committee .
given the hamas buildup in men and new weaponry , israel now viewed a battle in gaza as '' high-intensity warfare , '' no longer the kind of policelike operation still being carried out in the west bank , where israeli forces roam at will .
the idea was to encourage brokers to steer their wealthy new york customers with a yen for florida sun to boca , rather than to palm beach or fort lauderdale .
eric e. schmidt , who is chief executive of google as well as a member of apple 's board , and jerry yang , co-founder of yahoo , came on stage to endorse the new hand-held . ''
last year , 13 muslim men and five youths were arrested in the toronto area in connection with a suspected plot to attack several targets in southern ontario .
the real estate market though prices have risen sharply in recent years , real estate agents and developers still talk up port st. lucie as a florida bargain .
the senate republican leader , mitch mcconnell of kentucky , said , '' the overwhelming majority of our conference would insist on having additional days to make sure that all of our important amendments have been given an opportunity to be considered . ''
sex mob 's '' sexotica '' -lrb- thirsty ear -rrb- is the avant-gutbucket new york city brass-and-saxophone band 's tribute to martin denny , a purveyor of lounge-music exotica in the 1950s and 1960s .
last november , officials here realized that a democratic upset could spell major changes for the middle east : a possible pullout from iraq , fueling further instability and , more important , allowing iran to extend its influence in the region . ''
worse , the plea bargain seemed timed to help prime minister john howard , a bush ally whose inaction on the case was becoming a re-election issue in australia .
the narrative in this mosaic , discovered in 1974 , traverses greek and roman mythology and would have been familiar to citizens of fourth-century kelibia -lrb- now in northeastern tunisia -rrb- .
much of the middle east tension stems from the sense that shiite power is growing , led by iran .
last month , the united states ambassador to spain , eduardo aguirre jr. , met with repsol executives in madrid to advise them against going forward with a deal to develop iran 's south pars field , which contains one of the world 's biggest natural gas deposits .
chris does not have the same stage personality as wurman had , '' said doug rowan , the former chief executive of corbis , a photo archive owned by bill gates . ''
the obvious choice for that role is senator chuck hagel of nebraska , a decorated veteran who has been a consistent critic of the administration 's conduct of the war and who has not ruled out a run for the presidency .
the next morning , a bomb eta had planted in a renault van exploded in the five-story parking garage of madrid 's new air terminal , killing two people and causing tens of millions of dollars of damage to spain 's glittery showpiece of modernity .
the security council approved a request from lebanon 's prime minister to have the united nations commission investigating the 2005 assassination of the former lebanese prime minister , rafik hariri , help investigate last week 's killing of a legislator , walid eido .
since the first bali bombings , more than 400 members of jemaah islamiyah have been arrested in indonesia and elsewhere in the region , said zachary abuza , an expert on terrorism who teaches at simmons college in boston .
additionally , he built a memorial in the rumbula forest outside riga , latvia to honor the 27,000 jews who had been mass-murdered at the site .
it was the filmmaker pier paolo pasolini who first pronounced doom on italy 's aesthetic and moral standards based on the decadence he saw emanating from the boob tube .
it 's interesting that everything 's inside a wall , '' said josé manuel pallero , 25 , a student who was visiting for the day from cáceres , spain .
telenor , the norwegian cellphone company , said tuesday that a russian telecommunications company paid journalists in ukraine to publish negative articles about telenor in the midst of a business dispute .
in 1940 he produced the first great success of the director mario soldati , '' old-fashioned world , '' dealing with italy 's 19th-century struggle against invading austrians .
the meetings of about 25 trade ministers in late january during the world economic forum meeting in davos , switzerland , are also considered crucial .
but you 'd have to be a blind , deaf and dumb visitor to israel today not to see that the vast majority of israelis recognize this historic mistake , and they not only approved ariel sharon 's unilateral uprooting of israeli settlements in gaza to help remedy it , but elected ehud olmert precisely to do the same in the west bank .
harvey reinstein , a well known and widely respected television syndication salesman for such companies as four star , metromedia , mgm and lorimar , died early on the morning of his 78th birthday on april 6th at his home in lake worth , florida .
a9 captain cites currents in crash the captain of a cruise ship that slammed into a volcanic reef before sinking off the island of santorini blamed strong sea currents for the crash , greece 's state-run television reported .
the bride and bridegroom met at reed college in portland , ore. , from which they graduated .
the proposal would offer israel full recognition and permanent peace with the arab states in return for israel 's withdrawal to 1967 borders ; the establishment of an independent palestine , with east jerusalem as its capital , and '' an agreed , just solution '' to the issue of palestinian refugees and their descendants in accordance with united nations general assembly resolution 194 of 1948 .
they were joined in a teleconference by neurologists at suburban hospital in bethesda , md. , the only other stroke center in the washington and suburban maryland area .
the university of ibadan in southwest nigeria , the intellectual home of the nobel prize-winning writer wole soyinka , was regarded in 1960 as one of the best universities in the british commonwealth .
she held talks with prime minister ehud olmert of israel early monday in jerusalem , a day after a session with the palestinian authority president , mahmoud abbas , in the west bank city of ramallah . ''
for sponsors , triumph is a sporting bottom line that results in about a three-to-one return on investment , said andrea zamboni , a marketing director for arbiter in verona , italy .
today , wichita is the largest city in kansas .
from 2000 to 2002 , he was a peace corps volunteer in gyumri , armenia , establishing a summer camp for village children .
she also resided in fribourg , switzerland .
andy england , 39 , a jewelry seller from portsmouth , england , near the remains of a capital city that was pillaged in 1565 : '' i went with some friends through goa for a three-week getaway , but we wanted to get a bit more of the cultural flavor of india , so we drove our small rental car inland to the modern city of hampi and the ruins of vijayanagar .
this month , afghan officials have said , dozens of civilians were killed after a joint american and afghan army patrol was ambushed near shindand , in herat province , and called in airstrikes .
it confirmed the deaths of the following americans on saturday : uruo , iosiwo , 27 , sgt. , army ; agana heights , guam ; second infantry division .
paul l. stepanovich , associate professor of management at southern connecticut state university in new haven , said bosses might also take a form of passive-aggressive retaliation , like demoting a complaining employee or withholding a raise . ''
the bride , 29 , is to become an intern next month at beth israel deaconess medical center in boston .
a 3-year-old boy was found lying unharmed next to his father 's body on tuesday afternoon near their house in east patchogue , the suffolk county police said yesterday .
her notes show she considered david e. sanger of the new york times , walter pincus of the washington post or a '' newsmag '' like time or newsweek .
but here in konya , a leafy city on the plains of central turkey , mr. erdogan 's party has done no such thing .
i ca n't begin to imagine how our troops in the field , who are risking their lives every day , are going to react when they get back to base and hear that the democrat leader of the united states senate has declared the war is lost , '' senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , said .
the majority can not tell the minority what we are going to have one vote on , take it or leave it , '' said senator jim bunning , republican of kentucky , defending his party 's stance as senators squared off at noon .
the cases , $ 150 each , consist of three bottles each of 2005 lillà trebbiano , a crisp italian white ; 2006 torrontés plata , a well-perfumed white from argentina ; the shadow 2002 , a syrah from edmunds st. john in california ; and castello della paneretta 2004 , a complex chianti .
but it 's also something much more unusual : a quiet , understated , resolutely noncartoonish african-american family drama , with a winning cast that includes queen latifah , wendell pierce -lrb- '' the wire '' -rrb- , anna deavere smith , tony rock and two of the talented offspring of diana ross , tracee ellis ross and the teenage actor evan ross .
prime minister ehud olmert of israel warned of '' regional consequences '' if gaza fell under the complete control of hamas , an islamist movement that does not recognize israel 's right to exist .
the lack of a pipe organ in new york city 's concert halls is a sore point for mr. jacobs , who points out that avery fisher is the only home of a major symphony orchestra in the united states without such an instrument .
in 1987 , george ellis , a mathematician and astronomer at the university of cape town , in south africa , and tony rothman , currently lecturing at princeton , wrote a paper showing how even ordinary expansion would gradually carry most galaxies too far away to be seen , setting the stage for cosmic ignorance .
over the last five years , however , iranian donors have financed the restoration of half a dozen shiite tombs and shrines in syria and built at least one shiite religious school near damascus ; the school is named after iran 's supreme leader , ali khamenei .
her parents led her across the frozen tumen river from north korea in the middle of winter , but then they became separated while trying to flee the police . ''
the competition demonstrates '' nothing less than the digitalization of an entire major industry , replacing archaic mechanical illumination with smarter lighting , '' said william sims , president of color kinetics inc. of boston , which has lighted the hollywood bowl , los angeles international airport and the broadway musical '' wicked . ''
mr. mashhadani , the parliamentary speaker and a sunni , is often called '' mashhadi '' -- a reference to the iranian town of mashhad , iran 's holiest shiite city .
ms. pelosi is leading a bipartisan delegation on a weeklong tour of the middle east that is scheduled to include a meeting with syria 's president , bashar al-assad .
american companies would be largely exempt from this rule because of a treaty with thailand that dates to the vietnam war , said kitipong urapeepatanapong , a partner at baker & mckenzie in bangkok . ''
in the connecticut mastery test in 2006 , amistad 's student body -- 98 percent black or hispanic , with many children enduring difficult home circumstances -- performed better than the state average in reading and math , near the level of greenwich and twice that of the district average .
it was iran 's former president , mohammad khatami -- not mr. ahmadinejad -- who visited pope benedict xvi in the midst of the controversy .
he is a son of gisela struth of königsdorf , germany , and the late heinrich struth .
` opening doors : a journey in musical theater ' -lrb- tomorrow and sunday -rrb- take the songs of stephen sondheim , cy coleman and other modern composers and combine them with the talents of selected new york city middle and high school students , and you have this cabaret show , presented by wingspan arts .
his current players will attend the ceremony , then drive three hours to iowa city for a big ten game tomorrow against iowa .
compare her portrait of american weddings with the brides and grooms from all over the world on display in alice harris 's '' the wedding album '' -lrb- powerhouse books -rrb- : an underwater wedding in taiwan , with the couple in full formal regalia and scuba gear ; a group of brides in brilliant-colored and patterned tribal wedding gowns from iran 's various provinces , at a mass wedding in tehran ; five solemn , white-clad brides filing into a prison in ciudad juárez , mexico , to marry inmates ; a hindu couple in trinidad and tobago -- the barefoot bride in a gold-embroidered red sari , the groom in a gold-embroidered white silk suit and a pearl-festooned gold turban .
and just as laos is often overshadowed by vietnam , thailand and cambodia , vientiane is usually left in the shade by scenic luang prabang .
wearing a chartreuse cotton kurta , the traditional knee-length shirt of northern india , he arrived at my hotel and drove me through the squawking chaos of delhi 's industrial suburbs .
correction : january 31 , 2007 , wednesday a picture caption in business day on saturday with an article about the extravagant 60th-birthday party planned for stephen a. schwarzman , a founder of the blackstone group , referred incorrectly to katharine graham 's presence at truman capote 's black and white ball , the new york social event of 1966 .
he is survived by his brother carl ginsburg of bad soden , germany , and his sister deborah ramsden of woodstock , ny .
the bush-koizumi bond culminated with the ultimate buddy road trip : a jaunt down rock 'n' roll memory lane to graceland , the presley manse in memphis , where the two frolicked amid gold records and gold lamé suits .
only 16 deputies are black , 15 of them from france 's overseas territories , one of them being george pau-langevin , a guadeloupe-born female lawyer from the working-class 20th arrondissement in paris .
under general manager omar minaya , the mets have worked diligently to shorten games with the use of effective relievers , but john schuerholz , the atlanta general manager , said he was n't copying the mets when he bolstered the braves ' bullpen this winter . ''
in '' charity girl , '' a 17-year-old immigrant named frieda is a bundle wrapper at the jordan marsh department store in boston .
whether it is providing a personalized video tribute -- shot from inside the cnbc newsroom -- to stephen a. schwarzman , the chairman of the buyout giant blackstone group to celebrate his 60th birthday or mingling with a source at a benefit for the new york city ballet , ms. bartiromo 's proximity to the people she covers has created a model of journalism that jibes perfectly with cnbc 's mandate to ramp up its ratings by adding pizzazz and drama to its coverage .
mr. bar-zohar , a noted biographer of david ben-gurion , first wrote this book in hebrew with the title '' like the phoenix , '' and it was published in israel in december 2005 .
his aides said he told his cabinet that mr. abbas '' blatantly violated a series of commitments given to israel , especially a commitment not to form a national unity government before the release of gilad shalit , '' who was captured near gaza in june .
the family was german , probably stemming originally from the town of buxtehude , but buxtehude 's father was an organist first in helsingborg and then in elsinore , denmark , where dieterich was raised .
miri eisin , a spokeswoman for the israeli prime minister , ehud olmert , said israel would not '' reward '' hamas and the others for breaking the gaza cease-fire by extending it to the west bank .
as an instructor at vail and beaver creek ski schools in eagle county , colo. , i have several very wealthy and very powerful clients .
we have had too many instances where people could opt out of things , '' said robert druskin , citigroup 's chief operating officer , who oversaw the cost review and will now be responsible for putting those plans to work . ''
it 's not that the episcopalian john mccain is less comfortable with his faith ; it 's that his faith 's tradition no longer seems convincing to an american public whose expectations have shifted .
on a wing and a prayer leonardo da vinci 's '' annunciation , '' the 15th-century masterpiece that almost never leaves its home in the uffizi gallery in florence , italy , safely reached the national museum in tokyo yesterday , the associated press reported .
this was so far below demand that , in april , a senior vice president of the testing service 's international division , paul ramsey , told reporters in seoul that an additional 70,000 slots would be created for south korea in 2007 .
the rev. alane cameron miles , a unitarian-universalist minister , officiated at pavilion vii on the university of virginia campus in charlottesville .
cape girardeau , mo. , industrial development authority , $ 104.4 million of health facilities revenue bonds for southeast missouri state university .
dr. , of mill valley , california died peacefully on january 12th , 2008 , after a long struggle with alzheimer 's .
jeanne lived in palm beach , florida and houston , texas , and was a loving stepmother of alfred w. lasher , iii and stephen a. lasher ; and a devoted grandmother and great-grandmother .
although the basic outlines of this story come from heinrich böll 's novel '' the lost honour of katharina blum , '' written in response to the terrorism scares that germany suffered in the late 1960s and '70s , mr. flanagan has turned the story into an armature for a brilliant meditation upon the post-9 \/ 11 world , a globalized world in which fear is a valued commodity for terrorists and governments alike , a world in which rumors and misinformation circumnavigate the globe in the flash of an eye , and narratives -- constructed by politicians and tabloid reporters , and avidly consumed by a spectacle-hungry populace -- replace facts and truths .
the most visible and one of the most outspoken is vinod khosla , a founder of sun microsystems and now a partner at khosla ventures .
once the world 's dominant and most intimidating player , williams has slumped to 81st in the rankings and was knocked out of a warmup event in hobart , tasmania this month by the undistinguished austrian sybille bammer in the quarterfinals .
magnus -- margaret , dr. , rn , ph. d. born in athenry , county galway , ireland .
boquete -lrb- pronounced bo-kett-eh -rrb- boarded a shrimp boat in the port of mariel , cuba , in 1980 , when he was 25 , leaving behind one son , two marriages , a career as a diesel mechanic in havana and a jail record as a cuban army deserter -- this last credential essential , he believed , to helping him clear bureaucratic hurdles for departing cuba .
in an interview , mr. spector said he would try to make similar inroads into asia for the conference board , particularly in china and india , where the board already has operations . ''
to the editor : the bronx 's large german population in the 1890s was only one reason that a fountain commemorating one of germany 's greatest poets was placed there -lrb- streetscapes : '' sturm und drang over a memorial to heinrich heine , '' may 27 -rrb- .
of course it 's just a game , where you 're always safe and where there are no real fights , '' said antonio flores , a sociology professor from querétaro , in central mexico , who hiked the caminata in november with a group of students . ''
in 1977 , wheni was 9 , my father and i moved away from the protected maryland suburbs of washington -- and away from his latest wife , my latest stepmother -- to my grandmother 's apartment in inner-city baltimore .
spain , said mariano rajoy , the president of the popular party , '' is a ship drifting without a rudder . ''
at that time it seemed crazy , '' eni 's chief executive , paolo scaroni , said . ''
alliance atlantis , based in toronto , is in a dispute with canada 's broadcast regulator over the true nature of '' csi : ny , '' which is being broadcast two or three times a day on history television , a cable channel also owned by alliance atlantis .
the new york road runners also announced yesterday that the field would include such world-class runners as catherine ndereba of kenya , benita johnson of australia , mara yamauchi of britain and nina rillstone of new zealand .
he has none of the glitz of some of his constituents in the 30th congressional district , which includes beverly hills , malibu and santa monica , some of california 's richest and flashiest communities .
there is n't any democratic regime in the whole world , '' abbas mroue , 29 , said as he sat in a coffee shop with friends in beirut , lebanon , one day recently chatting about politics and governance . ''
in new york city he rents 30,000 square feet -- about 80 rooms -- of former office space in the west village , which houses 35 birds , tropical plants and wildly colored areas .
the jet , which has a range of 1,100 miles , flew to friedrichshafen , germany , last week for the aero 2007 show , with stops in canada , greenland , iceland and britain .
the leadership of ireland 's green party agreed wednesday to support a deal with prime minister bertie ahern that could make it a part of the government for the first time .
authorities there allowed him to go to cuba , where he is still spotted around havana .
be brief , be good and be generous , '' president jacques chirac of france , the host , exhorted the group before the event .
and on wednesday , google 's chief executive , eric e. schmidt , said the company was placing fewer ads in front of users , yet receiving more clicks .
another possible situation , noted gary sick , a professor of middle east politics at columbia university and a one-time national security council adviser on iran , is that tehran may be seeking a swap .
at the world economic forum in davos , switzerland , last month , john a. thain , the big board 's chief executive , praised the london stock exchange as having the second strongest brand in world stock markets , behind his own .
we were a little surprised by the results , '' said sandy praeger , kansas ' insurance commissioner and the president-elect of the association .
syria is a different story , and damascus in particular has a variety of iraqis seemingly ready to live together .
by car , take interstate 95 north to connecticut exit 47 , downtown new haven .
in reaction israel conquered the arab sections of the city as well as the west bank .
-lrb- dave kehr -rrb- ` mala noche ' -lrb- tonight through thursday -rrb- gus van sant 's first feature , shot in portland in 1985 , announces many of the themes of his later work but operates with a ragged spontaneity that has largely vanished from his highly formalist recent features .
russia and the united states on wednesday appeared to step back from their confrontation over american plans for installations in europe relating to a missile shield , as president bush said russia was not a threat to europe and the russian foreign minister withdrew a threat to pull out of a conventional arms treaty .
political opponents of president evo morales of bolivia have in recent days stepped up criticism of the country 's strengthening military relationship with venezuela after bolivian officials acknowledged that more than two dozen uniformed members of the venezuelan military had recently entered the country without congressional approval .
critics of russia 's economic tactics say the license is being stripped on a pretext ; russian officials say they are merely sticking to the letter of the contract .
but before mr. joffe , a recent computer engineering graduate of the university of california , san diego , accepted a job , a friend suggested he check out a san francisco start-up , powerset , which is trying to build a rival search engine . ''
it means that wholesale prices would be the same in , say , north-central connecticut , litchfield county and fairfield county , even though they are all very different markets .
on weekends , the blanched-yellow old pueblo trolley -lrb- 520-792-1802 ; www.oldpueblotrolley.org -rrb- , a 1936 belgian streetcar , rumbles through 10 of tucson 's most historic city blocks , ending at the gates of the university of arizona .
what : four-bedroom house how much : $ 575,000 per square foot : $ 193.21 this 2,976-square-foot , newly built chalet-style house is near deep creek lake and the wisp ski resort in the mountains of western maryland , about 100 miles south of pittsburgh and 175 miles west of baltimore .
milledge begins workouts the minor league outfielder lastings milledge , who has been sidelined with a sprained ligament in his right foot , has begun working out in florida and will start a rehabilitation assignment with port st. lucie , fla. , shortly , omar minaya said yesterday , '' he is running and swinging the bat and doing those kind of things , '' he said . ''
darryl stingley , a receiver for the new england patriots who became a quadriplegic after an intentionally violent hit in a 1978 preseason game , died yesterday in chicago .
and beaufort -lrb- pronounced '' bow-fort , '' not '' byoo-fort , '' like its south carolina namesake -rrb- , because it sits just a few miles east of the waterway , has become a popular cruiser pit stop , said joseph brearey , known as jeb , who is beaufort 's dockmaster .
not long ago , brunnenstrasse -- a road that starts on the northern edge of mitte , the trendy center of berlin -- looked like an elegy to post-communism .
connecticut , which recently strengthened its anti-bullying law , has seen a spate of suits in greenwich , berlin and stonington . ''
a3 national a17-22 debate with white house after kansas tornado for months , gov. kathleen sebelius of kansas warned that the state 's national guard was ill-prepared for the next local disaster because of large deployments of its soldiers and equipment to iraq and afghanistan .
produced by the canadian broadcasting corporation and created by don mckellar , a renaissance man of the toronto indie film scene who won a tony last year as a writer of the hit broadway musical '' the drowsy chaperone , '' the comedy ran for a mere 13 episodes over two seasons in 1998 and 2000 .
ankasa 's palm beach bedding , inspired by 1970s lilly pulitzer style , is embellished with cording , embroidery and beading .
among those joining petty in that criticism is another former champion , bill elliott , who accused nascar in his recently released book , '' awesome bill from dawsonville : my life in nascar . '' ''
his troops had been forced out of lebanon , his government faced accusations of collusion in the assassination of the former lebanese prime minister , rafik hariri , and the bush administration had imposed sanctions that affected everything from the fleet of boeings in syria 's national airline to medical equipment .
no sooner had a huntington town councilman announced a joint town-county purchase of the two-acre lewis-oliver dairy in the village of northport than suffolk county said no deal .
germany 's culture minister , bernd neumann , has rejected a campaign from a hamburg-based lobbying group to send the famous 14th-century b.c. painted limestone bust of nefertiti from the altes museum in berlin to egypt on loan , bloomberg news reported . ''
germany has already balked at requests to lend the 3,000-year-old bust of nefertiti from its egyptian museum in berlin .
he lives in new city , rockland county , with his wife , joan , who joined him at the news conference , along with their two adult sons , theodore iii and wesley , and other relatives .
this is the year of the angry documentary , of the ` take back america ' documentary , '' sheila nevins , president of hbo documentary films , said in a telephone interview . ''
georgia powers , who was kentucky 's first black state senator and a champion of open-housing laws that enacted here in the 1960s , said louisville was finally ready to welcome muhammad ali home . ''
mr. barber , the chef and an owner of blue hill in greenwich village and blue hill at stone barns in pocantico hills in westchester county , had just been introduced to the wonders of eggs that are described , with varying degrees of delicacy , as immature , unborn , unlaid or embryonic .
-lrb- scott -rrb- ` dreaming lhasa ' -lrb- no rating , 90 minutes , in tibetan and english -rrb- this documentary from ritu sarin and tenzing sonam is about a tibetan-american documentary-maker named karma -lrb- tenzin chokyi gyatso -rrb- , who is making a movie about tibetans who fled persecution by the chinese and settled in dharamsala , the dalai lama 's exile headquarters in northern india .
with iran poised to gain from possibly two civil wars in the middle east -- one in iraq and a potential one in lebanon -- saudi arabia in recent months has abandoned its behind-the-scenes checkbook diplomacy to take a central , more aggressive role in tempering the region 's conflicts .
we have not made miracles , but we have tried to move the dossier forward a little bit , '' javier solana , left , the foreign policy chief for the european union , said in ankara , turkey , at the end of two days of talks with iran 's negotiator , ali larijani . ''
the company designated five florida airports as its initial '' day ports '' : boca raton , gainesville , lakeland , tallahassee and pensacola .
a requiem eucharist celebrating her life will be held at 10:30 am on saturday , may 5 , 2007 , at christ church , 254 east putnam avenue , in greenwich , connecticut .
in another development on sunday , the american embassy said that the united states ambassador to israel , richard h. jones , was not scheduled to attend a special session of the israeli parliament on monday celebrating 40 years of the reunification of jerusalem .
spain , the 19th-century writer Ángel ganivet wrote , '' is a cage full of madmen all suffering from the same manía : their inability to put up with one another . ''
mr. tatar , 54 , came to new jersey from ankara , turkey , in 1992 , and worked his way up from dishwasher .
texas conducts nearly 40 percent of the nation 's executions , and a third of texas 's death verdicts come solely from harris county , which includes houston .
jules verne 's '' journey to the center of the earth , '' a survey of mid-19th - century geological controversies thinly disguised as a ripping yarn set in a dinosaur-inhabited subterranean realm , was a best seller when it was first published in france in 1864 .
breaking news reporting the oregonian the staff of the oregonian in portland won for its coverage of a family that disappeared in the oregon mountains during a blizzard .
i have more jobs pending in south carolina than in connecticut , and at the moment , in connecticut , i have zero , '' said robert j. friedland , senior vice president of hydrogen technology at proton energy systems in wallingford , the state 's third-largest fuel-cell-related company . ''
heavy rains in malawi , zambia , zimbabwe , angola and mozambique have filled to overflowing some of the major streams that feed the zambezi , one of africa 's mightiest rivers .
for visitors , all this activity means a revived downtown core with restaurants whose chefs -- and prices -- could vie with those in toronto or montreal ; spruced-up , outlying neighborhoods ; and new places to stay like the hotel arts near the cultural heart of the city , or , the west-end sandman hotel & suites , just across from canada olympic park , site of the 1988 winter games .
an article on dec. 31 about winter events in st. petersburg , russia , referred incorrectly to the cathedral of our lady of kazan , the city 's holiest shrine .
an apparently unimportant event : self-taught from the centre d'art in the 1940s and 50s , '' kresge and pascal galleries , berrie center , ramapo college , 505 ramapo valley road , mahwah , through march 7 .
but russia and other post-soviet republics also offer several museums dedicated to the socialist state 's technical and military might , a sector of the economy and a martial state of mind in which much of russian society was invested .
shortly after that , beard , a native southern californian who attended the university of arizona , put her house in tucson up for sale and moved back to los angeles .
torah bright of australia , the defending champion , finished third .
less than a decade ago , stephen a. schwarzman , the chairman of the blackstone group , used to spend his days flying from city to city to drum up money for his private equity funds . ''
winona showed its late-game grit early this season by winning two of three exhibition games against division i teams , winning at minnesota and drake before losing at bradley the night after the drake game .
in another letter on tuesday , two democratic senators , patrick j. leahy of vermont and sheldon whitehouse of rhode island , asked mr. gonzales how the justice department would respond to issues stemming from ms. goodling 's refusal to testify .
he passed away on february 13th at his home in boca raton , florida .
mr. taylor begins , therefore , with the awkward , hastily improvised partition of germany and berlin after the war , and the irreconcilable differences that would make berlin a trigger for potential east-west conflict , and an insoluble problem for both adversaries , especially as german leaders , east and west , learned how to manipulate their masters .
two years later , nada stotland , a psychiatry professor at rush medical college in chicago and now vice-president of the american psychiatric association , was even more emphatic . ''
the bridegroom , 29 , is a general surgery resident at massachusetts general hospital in boston .
treatment of wounded soldiers has also been spotlighted recently in a documentary recounting the treatment received by the abc news anchorman bob woodruff , who was wounded in iraq last year .
hamas is demanding that any renewed truce with israel must be applied simultaneously to the west bank .
24 militant leader killed in gaza a field commander from the palestinian militant faction islamic jihad was killed in an israeli air attack on his vehicle in khan yunis , in the southern gaza strip , army officials and islamic jihad said .
at a news conference in baghdad , the hard choices the war has placed before american politicians were evident as senator chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , spoke with reporters about his two-day visit here , his fifth since the invasion in march 2003 .
one of mr. woodcock 's calls was to raoul bova , a movie star in italy and hollywood .
toronto , an expansion team , played the first m.l.s. game in canada last saturday , drawing a capacity crowd of 20,148 to its new $ 56.6 million bmo field .
varying reports in asia suggested that north korea had demanded two million tons of heavy fuel oil and two million kilowatts of electricity in exchange for its approval of any new agreement , far less than it got .
fries -- jerome e. -lrb- jack -rrb- , 103 died tuesday , february 6th in boca raton , florida .
for all its pre-eminence as connecticut 's richest municipality , greenwich educates many less advantaged children , too .
the american people are not buying it , '' said senator jim bunning , republican of kentucky .
stuart rosenberg , a hard-working director of series television and theatrical films who captured the simmering anti-authoritarianism of the late 1960s in the widely popular paul newman prison drama '' cool hand luke , '' died on thursday at his home in beverly hills , calif. .
but first , she will do some more shuttling : to amman , jordan , where she will meet again with mr. abbas and then with king abdullah ii , and then back to jerusalem for more meetings with israeli officials .
a route through north korea would provide overland access to the rest of asia .
israel , he said , '' is committed to a diverse and pluralistic jerusalem , to improving the conditions of all the city 's inhabitants and to protecting their interests as part of our sovereign responsibility . ''
geneviève mcmillan was born in france and educated in paris , where she developed an interest in african culture and where she did a little buying .
rosenzweig -- maxwell , of coconut creek , florida , formerly of bayside , new york , died peacefully on may 30 , 2007 .
venezuela , of course , has latin america 's largest natural gas reserves , followed by those of bolivia , where the administration of president evo morales is a close ally of mr. chávez .
in hailey , idaho , turzian 's classmates at wood river high school were incredulous . ''
his 1978 book on the president 's brother , '' robert kennedy and his times , '' lauded the subject as the most politically creative man of his time but acknowledged that robert had played a larger role in trying to overthrow president fidel castro of cuba than the author had acknowledged in '' a thousand days . ''
neal broten -lrb- one of the stars of the 1980 olympic team -rrb- is considered by many the best college player in minnesota history .
it was really difficult ; it was really tense , '' said mr. touraine , who worked with a former boss , the flamboyant french architect jean nouvel , and shuttled for four months between france and california . ''
hitler comedy is the top draw in germany a jewish filmmaker 's comedy depicting hitler -lrb- helge schneider , right , with ulrich mühe -rrb- as an impotent , bed-wetting drug addict became the most popular film in germany in its first week in theaters , agence france-presse reported , citing cinemaxx , the country 's biggest theater chain .
these are available at calistoga ranch in napa valley , calif ; the esperanza in cabo san lucas , mexico ; and the inn at palmetto bluff in bluffton , s.c. to ensure your pet 's privacy , you will also receive a '' do not disturb doggie '' sign .
the most dramatic change in france 's foreign policy in a new presidency may not be the arrival of either nicolas sarkozy or ségolène royal , but the departure of president jacques chirac .
vinod khosla , a co-founder of sun microsystems who formed khosla ventures in 2004 , has invested in more than a dozen start-ups involved in '' clean fuel '' technologies .
the theater has never been so popular , said the actress joanne woodward , a westport resident who organized the restoration effort . ''
in the detroit case , martha nathan , a member of a jewish banking family that emigrated from germany to france in 1938 to escape nazi persecution , sold the van gogh , '' les bêcheurs '' -lrb- '' the diggers '' -rrb- , right , to a consortium of three dealers in paris in 1938 for $ 9,360 .
mr. hartman was one of the founders of bacon , hartman and vollbrecht , a st. augustine and jacksonville , florida advertising agency .
florida : peanut island of course , the president needed fallout protection even if he was kicking back in palm beach , as john f. kennedy often did .
devoted widow of the late james a. dobkin , she was the wise , loving and vibrant head of her own family and as well that of her late sister natalie grumet , while building an interior design practice in bethesda , maryland that made historic inroads in the furtherance of universal design as a concept for interior living for the physically challenged .
ex-lawmakers -- george allen , former senator , republican of virginia ; newt gingrich , former republican house speaker ; alan k. simpson , former senator , republican of wyoming ; and fred thompson , former senator , republican of tennessee .
its parent , daimlerchrysler of germany , said in february that it would consider selling chrysler , and board members are expected to receive a barrage of questions from shareholders about a sale at the company 's annual meeting in berlin today .
even when i visited my upscale cousin -lrb- he 's a psychiatrist -rrb- in westport , conn. , down the road from paul newman 's place , i felt i belonged .
to the editor : re '' documents from vast nazi archive to be made available to scholars '' -lrb- news article , may 16 -rrb- : the 11-nation board governing the international tracing service archives at bad arolsen , germany , announced an agreement allowing the transfer of digitized documents to archives around the world while the formal treaty ratification process continues .
in the last four weeks alone he has taken separate trips to russia , china , turkey and the middle east . ''
business along the border -- juárez , mexico , has become one of north america 's fastest-growing markets for commercial real estate , as manufacturers build assembly plants for products like computers , appliances and medical devices .
peter salameh carlsbad , calif. , june 5 , 2007 to the editor : the major obstacle to peace between israelis and palestinians is not israel 's control of east jerusalem , despite what tom segev writes .
since last summer the administration has asserted that a realignment is occurring in the middle east , one that groups saudi arabia , egypt , jordan and lebanon along with israel against iran , syria and the militant groups that they back : hezbollah and hamas .
a day after belarus agreed to drop a transit fee of $ 46 a ton that prompted russia to turn off for three days a pipeline that moved oil across europe , the crude oil started flowing again on thursday morning , as did the russian profits that belarus had hoped to share , as it had for the last decade .
he has been recruited by the chinese to work on the 2008 olympics and to teach at tongji university in shanghai .
recently , one customs curmudgeon relieved me of some drop-dead delicious fried pork rinds from jaén in spain , where the pork is miraculous , the single most worshipful substance on the face of the earth .
massacre in virginia correction : april 27 , 2007 , friday an article on april 18 about westfield high school in chantilly , va. , from which the killer in the virginia tech massacre and two of his victims graduated , referred incorrectly to the academic background of steve webb , who visited friends at the high school a day after the killings .
in the advertisement , atlanta 's three most prominent black leaders , mayor shirley franklin , representative john lewis and andrew young , the politician and civil rights leader , evoked the police dogs and water hoses of the civil rights movement to urge voters not to support a republican candidate for the fulton county commission .
she attended mills college in oakland , california prior to settling in sun valley .
the palestinians declared a cease-fire in gaza last november and reached informal understandings over it with israel , but it did not include the west bank .
details in the green mountains of north-central vermont , this project is the first slopeside development in stowe , the center of a resort area long popular with weekenders -- especially in winter .
mr. abbas is trying to persuade palestinian factions to halt the rocket fire from gaza and work toward a new cease-fire with israel that would extend to the west bank .
the upbeat sprinter libby lenton of australia is entered in seven events here and already has gold medals in the 4-by-100 freestyle relay and the 100 butterfly .
we 've studied this closely , and their claims , as stated , are not true , '' eric e. schmidt , the chief executive of google , said in an interview last night .
carrie sheinberg -lrb- inducted in 2006 -rrb- , an olympic skier who raced in lillehammer , norway , can be excused for leaving port washington .
arrest warrant issued for richard gere in india richard gere was a wanted man yesterday after a judge in india issued arrest warrants for him and the bollywood star shilpa shetty , saying their kiss at a public function , right , '' transgressed all limits of vulgarity , '' according to news media reports cited by the associated press .
for me to improve , i have to depend on a whole bunch of people , '' he said recently , sitting in his office at brigham and women 's hospital in boston , where he keeps a copy of sylvia plath 's poem '' the surgeon at 2 a.m. '' next to his desk . ''
i had a job lined up as a river guide on the salmon river in idaho for the off-season .
a preliminary design for a plant , to be located in mount pleasant and greenburgh in westchester county , already sits in a drawer ; the plant would cover an area larger than 15 football fields and be capable of filtering 2.4 billion gallons of water a day .
in asia , the migration of gazelles has been curtailed by the fence that the chinese government built along the border with mongolia in the 1990s .
archaeologists have now found that not only were philistines cultured , they were also literate when they arrived , presumably from the region of the aegean sea , and settled the coast of ancient palestine around 1200 b. c. at the ruins of a philistine seaport at ashkelon in israel , excavators examined 19 ceramic pieces and determined that their painted inscriptions represent a form of writing .
meena thus joined the ranks of some 10 million children prostituted around the world -- more are in india than in any other country .
the first season followed trademark properties , based near charleston , s. c. and run by richard c. davis .
shonali bose 's film was censored in india for daring to refer to the riots in delhi that followed the assassination of indira gandhi in 1984 .
analysts more critical of mr. chávez have drawn a parallel with fidel castro 's successful effort to create a single ruling party in cuba in the early 1960s .
under its empire-building director , thomas krens , the solomon r. guggenheim foundation in new york led the way , first by adding the guggenheim bilbao in northern spain to its traditional outpost in venice , where it houses the peggy guggenheim collection .
a memorial service will be held on sunday , january 21 , at 3:00 pm at the unitarian church , 10 lyons plains road , westport , connecticut .
house speaker nancy pelosi arrived in syria on tuesday for a visit that is seen as part of an attempt to sway bush administration policy on iraq and the rest of the middle east .
jordan ruled the west bank from the armistice that concluded the 1948-49 war until 1967 , when israel conquered the area , which it still occupies .
for instance , is the russian gene pool really that innately superior to that of ukraine or slovenia or southern california ?
they plan to consult with the family of elvis presley on graceland , the presley mansion in memphis , tenn. , which draws 600,000 visitors annually .
for example , vacationers planning to sightsee in guadalajara , mexico 's second-largest city , and then hit the sand in cancún , used to have to stop in mexico city .
mr. rezko got his start in business and politics after graduating from college in chicago in the late 1970s , when he met a son of the late nation of islam leader , elijah muhammad .
ken shwedel , an agricultural economist in mexico city for the dutch agribusiness bank rabobank , said prices were likely to remain high in the united states , which supplies about 25 percent of mexico 's corn . ''
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , has promised to raise procedural arguments against any proposal he sees as undermining the president .
sharansky would not have been surprised to learn that kennan also felt '' fairly at home '' in berlin in the years before america 's entry into world war ii , and '' regretted '' our involvement in the war -lrb- though he later wrote that the holocaust was sufficient reason to fight germany -rrb- .
for the area of king county east of lake washington , where bellevue is located , the median household income was $ 82,228 last year , versus $ 57,378 in seattle , according to scarborough research , a consumer research firm .
they want to be here because jerusalem is the holy city and they are prepared to pay for this privilege , '' said yaron tzuberi , marketing and sales director for africa israel , one of israel 's top residential real estate developers .
what followed was what some here describe as the first war in cyberspace , a monthlong campaign that has forced estonian authorities to defend their pint-size baltic nation from a data flood that they say was set off by orders from russia or ethnic russian sources in retaliation for the removal of the statue .
senator lieberman was the first jew on a major party 's presidential ticket , losing in 2000 to the first connecticut native to be elected president : george w. bush , born in new haven on july 6 , 1946 .
the company is currently operating under a similar agreement with the united states attorney in newark , christopher j. christie , after a settlement of a criminal investigation into whether it misled investors about its wholesale inventories .
the flight , which was inaugurated here on friday and includes a stop in damascus , syria , is operated in a code-share agreement by the venezuelan state-controlled airline conviasa and iran 's national carrier , iran air .
page a6 deputy asks olmert to quit the day after a government panel criticized prime minister ehud olmert 's actions in israel 's war last year , his deputy , tzipi livni , called on him to quit .
he was born in sri lanka in 1977 and divided his childhood among england and various countries in south asia where his father , a professor of nuclear chemistry , worked .
hincapie , who rode in all seven of lance armstrong 's tour de france victories and who is the current american road-racing champion , will concentrate his spring efforts on winning the one-day race from paris to roubaix , france , on april 15 . ''
a few prominent democrats quickly came out for the warner plan , which was written with senators susan collins , republican of maine , and ben nelson , democrat of nebraska , even as they expressed reservations .
david sloan wilson , an evolutionary biologist at binghamton university , takes a different and decidedly refreshing approach .
tracinda , the investment vehicle of the billionaire kirk kerkorian , announced a $ 4.5 billion offer for chrysler in early april .
the vote on sunday allows the british and irish governments to move ahead in coming days with plans to persuade the northern ireland protestants , led by the rev. ian paisley 's democratic unionist party , to share power with sinn fein catholics in a belfast-based government .
prime minister ehud olmert 's deputy called on him to resign on wednesday after a harshly critical government report about his management of israel 's war against hezbollah last summer .
ian stevenson , an academic psychiatrist who 45 years ago abandoned freud as too unscientific and turned to the paranormal as a tool with which to plumb the human psyche , died on feb. 8 in charlottesville , va. .
syria wo n't touch the water , '' mr. liel said , adding that damascus understands '' the fears in israel over a lack of water . ''
both are now building striking new satellites -- the louvre in lens northwest of paris and the pompidou in metz in eastern france -- to display parts of their collection , much of which is permanently in storage .
panama city beach , too , has a glut of condos , but the area was one of only two in florida where sales rose in march , compared with a year earlier .
a new york city police detective was acquitted yesterday of some of the most serious charges relating to a 2004 off-duty car accident on staten island in which he was accused of driving drunk and injuring two women in another car .
on paper mr. hou 's film sounds unfortunate at best : a tribute , set in paris and starring juliette binoche , to albert lamorisse 's enchanting '' red balloon , '' which won the palme for shorts in 1956 and has since inspired generations of children to look toward the sky .
ethan kostbar , the chef at rose water in park slope , brooklyn , is leaving in a few weeks to become the chef de cuisine at the dressing room , the restaurant in westport , conn. , owned in part by paul newman .
with the two palestinian territories increasingly isolated from each other by a week of brutal warfare between rival factions , israel and the united states seem agreed on a policy to treat them as separate entities to support fatah in the west bank and squeeze hamas in the gaza strip .
in 2005 , for example , the bush administration labeled banco delta asia a '' primary money laundering concern '' and charged that it was helping north korea carry out counterfeiting , narcotics trafficking and other illicit activities .
shimon peres , a deputy prime minister , said in interviews on friday and saturday that israel was prepared to enter '' serious talks in order to find common ground '' with the arab league .
catherine gilbert bennett , a daughter of ellen and robert s. bennett of washington , was married there last evening to sophien lazhar bennaceur , a son of dalila and taieb l. bennaceur of nabeul , tunisia .
a8 russia copter crash kills 18 a russian military helicopter crashed in chechnya , killing all aboard , according to russian news agencies .
on a visit to tashkent , uzbekistan , in central asia , he appeared to nearly fall over as he listened to a band .
other lawyers reached back 23 years to find a connecticut case , gionfrido v. wharf realty , in which a plaintiff 's lawyer left middletown for hartford on a lunch break to retrieve a file and was 26 minutes late returning to court because he '' lost track of time '' and hit traffic .
other members are representative xavier becerra , democrat of california ; l. hardwick caldwell , chairman of the institution 's national board ; anne d'harnoncourt , a regent and director of the philadelphia museum of art ; senator patrick j. leahy , democrat of vermont ; walter e. massey , president of morehouse college in atlanta ; jeffrey minear , administrative assistant to chief justice john g. roberts jr. ; and roger w. sant , a regent and chairman emeritus of the board .
honors for best director went to the american-born israeli filmmaker joseph cedar for '' beaufort , '' about the lives of soldiers in a military outpost just before israel 's withdrawal from lebanon in 2000 .
the group , called the united states climate action partnership , had its origin in conversations last spring among mr. lash ; fred krupp , the president of environmental defense ; and jeffrey r. immelt , the chief executive of general electric .
already a favorite of latin american actors , models and rockers , such as the '' y tu mamá también '' stars gael garcía bernal and diego luna -lrb- mr. luna is an investor -rrb- , naco 's mexico city flagship store is emerging as a sartorial pilgrimage site for the brand 's early adopters .
ms. frazer told the transitional parliament in baidoa : '' somalia 's people have a historic window of opportunity .
in the senate , john sherman cooper , a kentucky republican , and frank church , an idaho democrat , proposed a ban on funding for american military action in laos and thailand , and the bill passed .
mavroleon -- george m. on december 29 at home in greenwich , connecticut , after a long and fulfilling life and successful career in ship owning .
russia is not the soviet union , so this is not a u.s.-soviet relationship , '' ms. rice said , speaking en route to moscow and planned meetings with president vladimir v. putin and senior russian officials . ''
her life began in munich , germany in 1916 .
gloria a. haskins , a state representative from south carolina who is supporting senator john mccain for the republican nomination , said discussions with her constituents in greenville , an evangelical stronghold , convinced her that a mormon like mr. romney could not win a republican primary in her state .
fatah , which began with that same philosophy in the late 1950s , favors a two-state solution with israel returning to its borders from before the 1967 war and a palestinian state built in gaza , the west bank and east jerusalem .
iran has kept up efforts to give the isfahan facility more publicity , and a senior tourism official said late last year that iran planned to open it and other nuclear sites to foreign tourists .
mr. reid and senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , have been negotiating over how to win quick senate approval of a preliminary war spending measure , so compromise talks can begin with the house and white house over a final bill .
chicago 's response to losing its floor leader was one that miami -- without its two superstars , shaquille o'neal and dwyane wade , who were also in foul trouble -- could not replicate .
officially a citoyen jonathan littell , the american author whose novel on the holocaust '' the kindly ones '' was last year 's literary hit in france , has been granted french citizenship , agence france-presse reported yesterday .
these two bay area restaurants were pretty much alone in kicking the bottle habit until alice waters , the godmother of things organic , sustainable and local , banned bottled still water at chez panisse in berkeley last year and started serving only house-made sparkling water this year .
but lawyers for such civil defendants as the paramount pictures chairman , brad grey ; the entertainment lawyer bertram fields ; and the phone company argued that they would be severely hamstrung in defending themselves until the conclusion of the criminal trial , now set to begin on aug. 22 .
france 's laure manaudou , who successfully defended her title in the 400 freestyle sunday , qualified for two more finals monday , in the 100 backstroke and 1,500 freestyle .
she is a first-year nursing student at samuel merritt college in oakland .
the amendment is almost sure to be vetoed by turkey 's departing president , ahmet necdet sezer , who has often opposed mr. erdogan .
the only other recent israeli military action in gaza occurred in late january , when the air force attacked a tunnel militants had dug near the karni commercial crossing between israel and the gaza strip .
it stood for the number of people in north america -- not '' north america and mexico . ''
as the pair struck up a conversation and subsequently became friends , mr. assiba , then a security guard , said she told him that her father was the former military ruler of nigeria , gen. muhammadu buhari , and that her american friends included politicians like mr. jefferson of louisiana .
correction : march 30 , 2007 , friday an article in science times on march 13 about efforts to increase the number of minority students studying science referred imprecisely to the meyerhoff scholarship program at the university of maryland , baltimore county .
yet foreign minister luís amado has said that the authorities have not found any evidence of c.i.a. wrongdoing and contested a european parliament committee report that said 91 c.i.a. flights had made stopovers in portugal .
last saturday , jennifer dines , 35 , her husband and a friend drove 45 minutes from oshawa , ontario , to the inaugural crumpler sale at queen street west in toronto .
we try to inspire people to understand that they do not just have to work for paramount or sony -- that does not necessarily validate their lives , '' said lloyd kaufman , the longtime president of troma entertainment , whose book-and-dvd combination program , '' make your own damn movie , '' offers lessons on everything from script conferences to presentations to potential investors to creating inexpensive yet realistic special effects .
-lrb- an exhibition under construction in germany will split the difference , presenting all the episodes simultaneously in separate screening rooms arranged around a space resembling a berlin apartment-house courtyard -rrb- .
for my eighth-grade daughter 's spring break this year , we drove , on minor roads , from seattle through washington , oregon , nevada , utah and arizona , to see the grand canyon -- past 1,500 miles of landscape utterly new to her , although , born in seattle , she is a native westerner .
he declined to engage in deeper comparisons , including the fact that president lyndon johnson 's dire warnings about what would happen if the united states pulled out of vietnam -- that communism would spread across asia -- never came to pass .
prime minister josé sócrates , a socialist whose center-left government enjoys a comfortable majority in parliament , has campaigned hard in favor of the referendum , calling the country 's estimated tens of thousands of illegal abortions every year '' portugal 's most shameful wound . ''
these include the office equipment maker ricoh 's $ 725 million purchase of i.b.m. 's digital printer unit , announced late in january ; the $ 5.4 billion takeover early last year of westinghouse electric , which has evolved into a nuclear reactor maker ; and bridgestone 's $ 1.05 billion agreement in december to buy bandag , a muscatine , iowa , company that specializes in retreading worn tires .
he stayed in italy for the rest of his life , writing operas for turin , venice , florence , bologna , milan , padua and rome -lrb- at least 26 in all -rrb- .
the russian energy minister , viktor khristenko , piously declared on tuesday that russia 's meetings with other gas producers were intended only to improve energy security , and that any talk of a cartel was the product of a '' sick imagination . ''
the lawmaker , wajid khan of toronto , a former pilot in the pakistani air force , said he had defected partly because he had to choose between staying a liberal and continuing as a special adviser to mr. harper on south asia and the middle east .
mr. hosseini said that iran was surprised that european leaders had ignored comments by israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , recently that seemed to confirm that israel possessed nuclear weapons .
unlike other reborn regions , navarre lacks both industry leaders to set examples -- like the mastroberardinos of campania in southern italy and the palacios family of bierzo in spain -- and distinctive indigenous grapes to carve out identities .
he is survived by his wife , kathrine kristine beck , who writes crime novels under the name k. k. beck ; his father , john , of chichester , england ; two daughters from his earlier marriages , moselle kennedy of vancouver , canada , and emma dibdin , a student at cambridge university ; and three stepchildren , emma marris of washington ; andrew marris of seattle ; and alexander marris , a student at evergreen state college in olympia , wash. .
when a young serb named gavrilo princip stepped forward on a sarajevo street and fired a pistol at a middle-aged couple 93 years ago , he sent history stumbling down an unexpected new path .
lebanon was central to that discussion , and rumors have since circulated both in riyadh and beirut that a deal was imminent in lebanon .
that measure , by senators chuck hagel , republican of nebraska , and joseph r. biden jr. of delaware and carl levin of michigan , both democrats , is scheduled to be considered by the foreign relations committee on wednesday .
brand , emerson n. , 29 , sgt. , army ; rigby , idaho ; first cavalry division .
the next two games are to be played monday and wednesday at the st. pete times forum in tampa , fla. '' he 's had his struggles throughout the year at certain times and always seems to bounce back , sometimes within a game , sometimes the next game , '' tampa bay coach john tortorella said of holmqvist .
but in a letter she sent to senator mitch mcconnell , republican of kentucky , she wrote of dr. holsinger as a friend who helped without judging her . ''
francis clark howell was born on nov. 27 , 1925 , in kansas city , mo. .
in the oxycontin case , anderson kill arranged with james r. fogarty , a greenwich lawyer , to act as its sponsor in obtaining temporary privileges to practice law in connecticut for the team of lawyers who were advising purdue pharma , a stamford company , and some related defendants in a dispute with the company 's insurers over their handling of the product liability lawsuits .
because the commerce in firearms is hardly impeded by state boundaries , lowered crimes rates in towns like greenleaf , idaho , have to be considered with respect to increased homicide rates in cities like atlanta .
the mi-24 is a russian attack gunship in abundance just over the border inside russia , where several aviation units support counterinsurgency operations in chechnya .
but it 's a good bet that fidel castro 's government will turn a blind eye to bootleg copies of '' sicko , '' michael moore 's newest movie , if they show up on the streets of havana . ''
born in nuremberg , germany , she escaped nazi rule by moving to greece and then the united states with her first husband , the late dr. ernst myller and her two sons , rolf and ulrich , who predeceased her .
what if israel had n't taken east jerusalem and the west bank in the six-day war ?
belarus has refined subsidized russian oil and resold it at significant profit .
a pulsating , dynamic new india is emerging , '' amitabh bachchan , a bollywood actor , says in a television ad for the times of india . ''
this is an important moment for portugal because it 's a chance to shed the image that we are in the middle ages , '' said maria de belém roseira , a socialist deputy and a former health minister . ''
in an interview on friday , before she left on her latest middle east trip , secretary of state condoleezza rice described what she called an '' evolving '' strategy to confront '' destabilizing behavior '' by iran across the region .
although we know there are still terrorists outside of algiers , we did n't believe they were capable of making this kind of attack so near the government headquarters , '' said mahmoud belhimeur , a senior editor of el khabar , algeria 's largest-circulation arabic newspaper .
coming off its best season in nearly 20 years , arkansas is embroiled in a controversy involving the heralded quarterback mitch mustain that has bitterly divided razorbacks fans .
founded to serve newly freed slaves , it has educated generations of the black elite , counting among its graduates maynard jackson , the first black mayor of atlanta ; david satcher , a former surgeon general ; the film director spike lee ; and the rev. dr. martin luther king jr. .
in addition to mr. novak , the other reporters were bob woodward , walter pincus and glenn kessler of the washington post , david e. sanger of the new york times and evan thomas of newsweek .
over time , could this predominantly sunni country change its religious orientation -- solidifying its ties to iran and creating strong repercussions throughout the middle east ?
ms. rice has been shuttling between jerusalem and several arab cities to try to get the arab leaders to offer mr. olmert , whose popularity in israel is low after the war with hezbollah in lebanon last july , enough political cover to enable him to make a deal . ''
those around mr. olmert say that they , too , are concerned about how israel and its will to defend its people are perceived -- not just by the militants of gaza , but by the syria of president bashar al-assad .
one of the biggest and best known north american winter festivals , the winterlude in ottawa and across the ottawa river in gatineau , quebec , draws 650,000 people , including many from outside canada .
palestinian moderates in gaza have voiced concern recently over what they call the growth of '' al qaeda-type thinking '' in the gaza strip .
gov. jon s. corzine may dream , but short of a fiscal miracle , the best-positioned candidate might be someone running against the state 's image -lrb- hypothetically , someone like united states attorney christopher j. christie -rrb- or apart from it -lrb- equally hypothetically , mayor cory a. booker of newark -rrb- .
similarly , the druzhba -lrb- friendship -rrb- sanitarium in yalta , ukraine , designed by igor vasilevsky and completed in 1986 , is an object lesson in bold architectural strokes .
nestlé , based in vevey , switzerland , would probably try to expand the gerber business , mr. mcmillan said , by fortifying baby food with antioxidants or other beneficial ingredients in much the same way that yogurt is being fortified with beneficial bacteria . ''
ian bogost , an assistant professor atthe georgia institute of technology and co-founder of the game-development company persuasive games -lrb- whose slogan is : '' think games are just for fun ?
a2 israeli strikes continue in gaza the israeli army continued its airstrikes against the hamas infrastructure in the gaza strip , hitting at least eight different locations , including a guard post close to the home of the palestinian prime minister , according to palestinian officials .
reverend run , a k a joseph simmons , a former member of the hollis rap group run-dmc , threw his hat into the ring , though he lost out to ishle yi park , a whitestone native who had won a pen american center award for outstanding writers of color and was a frequent guest on the hbo program '' def poetry jam . ''
secretary of state condoleezza rice will meet with mr. abbas and israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , on feb. 19 in jerusalem to work on a broader peace initiative .
woody harrelson 's father dies in prison woody harrelson 's father , charles harrelson , 68 , has died in the high-security federal prison in florence , colo. , where he was serving two life sentences for the murder of a federal judge , the associated press reported yesterday .
it 's definitely been a little different situation , '' said forward jamie langenbrunner , a 10-year veteran who was born in minnesota . ''
similarly , in chiang mai , the foodie capital of thailand , the four seasons resort begins its class with a venture to one of the city 's legendary markets .
the excitement among albanians over this visit is immeasurable , beyond words , '' said albania 's new foreign minister , lulzim basha , during an interview in his office , decorated with an elegant portrait of faik konica , who became the first albanian ambassador to the united states in 1926 . ''
all of this meant , mr. segev argues , that when israeli jet fighters knocked out the egyptian air force in just over an hour , and king hussein of jordan foolishly joined in , israel found itself unable to think clearly about the risk of taking the gaza strip and west bank with their biblical locales and hundreds of thousands of palestinians .
-lrb- jeannette catsoulis -rrb- ` the italian ' -lrb- pg-13 , 99 minutes , in russian -rrb- this dark fairy tale from russia pulls you into a richly atmospheric , persuasively inhabited world teeming with young foundlings and pathos , and upended by one remarkable little boy .
the government buried him in fort yates , on the north dakota side of this sprawling reservation that straddles the dakotas .
senator john mccain said that the buildup of american forces in iraq represented the only viable option to avoid failure in iraq and that he had yet to identify an effective fallback if the current strategy failed . ''
part of the charm of these piers comes from the way they thread through the affluence of california with an ordinary workadayness : fishermen pulling up their lines and crab baskets , the amtrak pacific surfliner croaking and clanking by in san clemente and the rough wooden boards through which you can see the green water stirring in some places .
ames morison , who used to teach school in the south bronx , bought -lrb- with the help of a friend , christopher medlock james , '' a money manager '' -rrb- a 320-acre property in sonoma county , california , in 1998 .
in a measure of how competitive the northeast could be next year , white house political strategists have put together a list of vulnerable house republicans that includes five from the region : mr. shays , mr. ferguson , representatives john randy kuhl jr. from new york 's southern tier , james t. walsh from the syracuse region and jim gerlach of pennsylvania .
mr. kapuscinski , the son of schoolteachers , was born march 4 , 1932 , in pinsk , a city now in belarus .
and two democrats , ben nelson of nebraska and mark pryor of arkansas , sided with republicans .
officials from 21 governments in and around the middle east warned at a meeting of arab leaders in march that iran 's drive for atomic technology could result in the beginning of '' a grave and destructive nuclear arms race in the region . ''
the separation barrier that israel is building along and inside parts of the west bank is not to stop suicide bombers and other violent attacks .
as technology companies mature , they are realizing that the rule of law is better than the anarchy in which they were formed , '' said paul kocher , chief executive of cryptography research , a company that has studied the security of digital fingerprinting technology .
if only the same could be said for new york city ballet 's latest compilation program , '' three by bach , '' an evening of dances by george balanchine , christopher d'amboise and jerome robbins , whose portion was a revival of his sparkling 1997 '' brandenburg . ''
she is now back in the fourth round , where she will face 11th-seeded jelena jankovic of serbia , a 6-3 , 6-4 winner over victoria azarenka of belarus .
more recently , yasir arafat was offered a state in almost all the west bank , gaza and parts of jerusalem by ehud barak and then more generously by bill clinton , and turned it down because the offer did not include the destruction of israel by flooding it with returning refugees .
haczynski -- leo j. , ph. d. , 81 , died march 4th at briar cliff manor in johnston , rhode island .
winthrop coach gregg marshall said he was not sure which player would receive the junk yard dog award for the game , but he said the victory was significant for his team , for the big south conference and for the state of south carolina .
for the noted 20th-century design dealer patrick seguin and his wife and business partner , laurence bergerot , modernity means combining furnishings by modernist masters like jean prouvé and charlotte perriand and art by contemporary stars like jeff koons , cindy sherman and andreas gursky within the walls of a 17th-century paris apartment .
hall , curtis r. , 24 , petty officer second class , navy ; burley , idaho ; explosive ordnance disposal unit 11 .
his interrogation led to arrests in algeria , italy and france , where mr. majrar 's associates were quickly linked to an attempted robbery of 5 million euros at an armored car depot in beauvais , north of paris .
that would change the whole middle east and open up the way to solving the israel-palestine conflict , because iran is the key backer of hamas , islamic jihad , hezbollah and syria .
the clerical regime today is no more interested in reaching a peaceful modus vivendi with the united states than it was in the 1990s , when president bill clinton and secretary of state madeleine albright all but begged president mohammad khatami of iran to just talk to them .
andré desmarais is the paper 's chairman and president ; the editor , whom the family appoints , is always a supporter of a united canada .
mr. spanswick predicted that france 24 's future was secure even though it was a pet project of president jacques chirac , whose term ends in may . ''
at night , when students from karadeniz technical university come out to play , trabzon embraces every cliché of a turkey torn between east and west .
a picture caption on dec. 31 with an article on restaurants in el paso , n.m. , and ciudad juárez , mexico , misstated the name of a restaurant in ciudad juárez .
nick welch will head to barksdale air force base in louisiana for a three-year maintenance program for b-52 bombers .
he is older than arkansas quarterback mitch mustain and georgia quarterback matthew stafford , who both played in the all-american bowl last year and started several games during their freshman seasons in college .
and that web of settlements and roads has carved up the west bank in an ugly and brutal manner -- much uglier than israel 's friends abroad ever admit .
mount shasta , a 14,162-foot stratovolcano in northern california , is the second-highest peak in the cascade range , measuring a couple hundred feet short of mount rainier in washington .
whatever they think my wife did seems to be in their imagination ; she has n't done anything wrong , '' said shaul bakhash , her husband , a well-known iran expert who is a professor of middle east history at george mason university in fairfax , va. '' i hope they realize that they made this mistake and let her return to her family . ''
mr. snow asked , referring to ayatollah ali khamenei , iran 's supreme leader , and mahmoud ahmadinejad , iran 's president . ''
born in 1939 in germany , baltes had established a reputation as a leading quantitative psychologist by the time he returned to germany in 1980 to become director of the max planck institute for human development in berlin .
born august 3 , 1952 , in coronado , california , she was the youngest of four children born to ruth and captain harold fuller , usn retired .
and from there it can be dragged to a user 's friend 's page , theoretically as easily as myspace members now swap songs by their favorite bands , said mr. anderson and his fellow founder , chris dewolfe .
after miró 's contribution , clive barnes wrote in the new york times , '' lucky old state department -- being subsidized by european painters . ''
mr. cheney was to next visit egypt and jordan to wrap up a weeklong middle east visit .
other films include '' the unknown woman '' -lrb- '' la sconosciuta '' -rrb- , a thriller about a ukrainian immigrant to italy directed by giuseppe tornatore -lrb- '' cinema paradiso '' -rrb- ; angelo longoni 's biopic '' caravaggio , '' photographed by the great vittorio storaro and starring alessio boni , who played the younger brother in '' the best of youth '' ; and '' primo levi 's journey '' -lrb- '' la strada di levi '' -rrb- , a documentary that retraces the tortuous route levi had to take to return home from auschwitz in 1945 .
but senators sam brownback of kansas , who has announced a presidential run , and chuck hagel of nebraska , who is considering a run , have denounced the planned troop increase .
isabel hoving of the netherlands , rita williams-garcia of the united states and markus zusak of australia will participate .
8 p.m. -lrb- fox -rrb- american idol -- southern discomfort as week 3 auditions begin in birmingham , ala. 9 p.m. (13) the cell next door -- last summer , 18 young men in toronto and two in atlanta -- most of whom had grown up in moderate , middle-class homes in canada and the united states -- were arrested on terrorism charges after being accused of plotting to blow up buildings and behead members of the canadian parliament and attending a terrortraining camp in ontario .
in 2002 , a government investigation found that jack b. grubman , then an analyst with citigroup , had bragged in an e-mail message that his boss , sanford i. weill , had helped get his twins into the y 's nursery school after mr. grubman upgraded his rating on a stock as a favor to mr. weill .
he settled in spain , criticized the castro government as tirelessly as he had once hounded its enemies , and founded the exile journal encuentro -- which remains widely read nearly five years after his sudden death , at 60 , in madrid .
no firm agenda emerged for a planned meeting later this year of president bush , president felipe calderón of mexico and prime minister stephen harper of canada .
in early 2006 , he joined khosla ventures , a silicon valley venture firm started by vinod khosla , a founder of sun microsystems .
if olmert agrees to talk about jerusalem , someone could threaten to leave his government , '' said martin s. indyk , the united states ambassador to israel in the clinton administration . ''
the next match up , between chris guccione of australia and rochus 's brother olivier , was played under a closed roof .
everyone knows that jim morrison 's grave is in paris , but who knew that dusty springfield 's grave , above right , is in henley-on-thames or that the grave of the former rolling stone brian jones , above left , is in cheltenham ?
'' rise and fall of the city of mahagonny , '' first presented in leipzig , germany , in 1930 , is the most ambitious product of the brief but dynamic collaboration between bertolt brecht and kurt weill .
jessica lopez she is 43 , with a sociology degree from sweet briar , a women 's college in virginia .
not surprisingly , then , reading '' the curtain '' is like spending a long desultory afternoon into the evening sitting over coffee and cigarettes in a pleasant cafe listening to milan kundera hold forth on history , literature , music , politics , large countries versus small , east versus west , the lyric versus the novelistic , paris versus prague and so on into the night .
returning to israel for the first time in 10 years mr. rollins gets a personalized tour from ziv korren , a photojournalist , with stops at the western wall , the church of the holy sepulcher and the west bank security wall , punctuated of course by mr. rollins 's commentary on pop culture , world events and the resilience of the israeli people .
the easy flow of audiences and artists between chicago 's large , established theaters and the scrappy up-and-comers has been instrumental in maintaining its stature as the country 's most vibrant dramatic capital after new york , allowing now-celebrated artists -- from david mamet to john malkovich to mary zimmerman -- to make their way from the fringes to the mainstream .
these indexes cover two florida areas , miami and tampa , which seem to still be doing well .
holesha -- winifred m. '' winnie '' , 57 , of palm harbor , florida , passed away peacefully on good friday , april 6 , 2007 at hospice house woodside , hospice of the florida suncoast , in pinellas park , fl .
18 new york\/region 23-27 acquitted officer sues seven years after being acquitted in the killing of the unarmed west african immigrant amadou diallo , kenneth boss is still a new york city police officer , but he is forbidden to carry a gun and he works at tasks like repairing power tools .
a1 israeli president asked to quit prime minister ehud olmert called for president moshe katsav 's resignation , after israel 's attorney general announced his intention to indict mr. katsav on criminal charges .
how is it that john mccain now believes american lives are being wasted , yet he so stubbornly supports the president 's plan to escalate the war in iraq and put more american lives in harm 's way ? ''
this is not a panacea , '' said jerry robock , 56 , of community biofuels in yorktown heights , n.y. , who lectures on biodiesel use in westchester county . ''
last year , it opened offices in warsaw and bucharest , the capital of romania . ''
ms. rice 's israeli and palestinian negotiating partners have been weakened -- the palestinian president , mahmoud abbas , by the victory a year ago of the militant group hamas in legislative elections , and prime minister ehud olmert of israel by perceptions that the war with hezbollah militants in lebanon during the summer was bungled .
a1 science times f1-8 tribes market carbon credits the market for carbon credits promises to be a boon for some land-rich but cash-poor tribes like the nez perce in lapwai , idaho .
at another point in the debate , tommy thompson , a former governor of wisconsin , said he would allow an employer to fire an employee solely for being gay .
the republicans who broke ranks were senators john w. warner of virginia , arlen specter of pennsylvania , chuck hagel of nebraska , gordon h. smith of oregon , norm coleman of minnesota , and olympia j. snowe and susan collins , both of maine .
investigating his client 's connections , he winds up in israel , where he gets deeper in touch with his own jewish heritage and finds himself at the center of a case that threatens to send the middle east -- if not the entire world -- spiraling into chaos .
the initiative , led by saudi arabia , offers israel full recognition and permanent peace with the arab states in return for israel 's withdrawal to 1967 lines , the establishment of an independent palestine with east jerusalem as its capital and a '' just solution to the palestinian refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with u.n. general assembly resolution 194 '' of 1948 .
pressure to slim general electric 's corporate portfolio at home has not stopped jeffrey r. immelt 's aggressive plans for expanding in emerging markets .
it includes three broad regions in california -- los angeles , san diego and san francisco -- as well as boston , new york , miami and washington in the east .
it seems likely that mr. graham , who is one of the '' grand bargainers '' and is up for re-election next year , has been burned by the uproar on the hard right and feels the need to act tough , lest he be saddled -- as representative steve king of iowa has urged -- with the scarlet letter a , for amnesty .
there is golgotha in the holy land , where our lord jesus christ suffered for our sins .
teddy kollek established the jerusalem foundation in 1966 and soon confronted with developing the city after its reunification , the foundation became and remains to this day the primary instrument in jerusalem for empowering communities , enhancing education , providing access to culture , building bridges of co - existence , beautifying the city and strengthening jerusalem 's status as the capital of israel .
this was the pine leaf boys ' seventh show in five days , and if you had spent the mardi gras weekend in lafayette , the biggest city in the cajun region known as acadiana , you could have also seen the lost bayou ramblers at the blue moon saloon on saturday night and the red stick ramblers at 307 downtown on sunday night .
the leaders of russia 's 86 regions , which include moscow , have served at the president 's behest since constitutional changes passed after the beslan terrorist attack in 2004 .
yossi vardi , one of the founding fathers of israel 's high-tech industry , told me that in the last month alone , four start-ups that he was an investor in were sold : one to cisco , one microsoft , and two to israeli companies . ''
in an effort to keep him at the bank after the winterthur sale , credit suisse in december named mr. fischer as its head in europe , a step that was widely seen as putting him in place to succeed oswald grübel as chief executive in may .
her husband , wendell cherry , was the president and chief executive of humana , the hospital management corporation based in louisville , ky. .
mr. voulgaris lives in oyster bay but has summered on shelter island since he was a child growing up in huntington in western suffolk county .
the day out column on jan. 28 about calcata , italy , misstated the starting price in dollars for rooms offered there by i sensi della terra .
even beyond its nuclear program , iran is emerging as an increasing source of trouble for the bush administration by inflaming the insurgencies in iraq , afghanistan , lebanon and in gaza , where it has provided military and financial support to the militant islamic group hamas , which now controls the gaza strip .
in recent months , mr. thaksin has been traveling through asia , from hong kong to bali to china to singapore to japan , meeting with supporters and keeping his name in the newspapers at home .
same weekend , different state : rudolph w. giuliani , the former mayor of new york , addresses the california republican convention in sacramento .
soenksen , katie m. , 19 , pfc. , army ; davenport , iowa ; 410th military police company , 720th military police battalion , 89th military police brigade .
jihadi mouse show off the air ramallah , west bank , may 9 -lrb- ap -rrb- -- hamas militants have suspended a television program that featured a mickey mouse look-alike urging palestinian children to fight israel and work for global islamic domination , mr. barghouti said wednesday .
she was greeted tuesday afternoon at the airport in damascus , the capital , by walid al-moallem , syria 's foreign minister , and was taken on a tour of the old part of the city .
he 's wonderful , '' said charles fefferman of princeton university , himself a former child prodigy and a fields medalist . ''
or , as charles a. rosenthal jr. , the district attorney of harris county , which includes houston , argued , '' the presumption of innocence does not make the person innocent . ''
smaller private dams have been breached around the country , and there are plans to do so at dams on the elwha and white salmon rivers in washington .
the next stop column on may 20 about a cultural revival in san jose , calif. , misstated the amount and the donor of a gift to help restore the california theater there .
president bashar al-assad of syria enjoys similar favor .
-lrb- ben sisario -rrb- apostle of hustle , memphis -lrb- tomorrow and monday -rrb- more evidence that canada might have more side projects than actual bands : apostle of hustle , featuring andrew whiteman of broken social scene , plays dreamy washes of guitar over an easygoing rock pulse , recalling the soft points of u2 's '' unforgettable fire . ''
tensions within russia over international adoptions have intensified in recent years after several widely publicized cases of neglect , abuse and death of russian adoptees by american parents .
correction : january 31 , 2007 , wednesday because of an editing error , an article on thursday about the future of relations between turkey and armenia following the funeral for hrant dink , a turkish-armenian newspaper editor killed in istanbul on jan. 19 , misidentified the issue between the two countries that turkey has said should be examined by a governmental history commission .
now , the state is retooling the program to include all of cook county , which encompasses chicago and many of its suburbs .
correction : may 30 , 2007 , wednesday because of an editing error , an article on friday about elections in ireland referred incorrectly to televised endorsements for bertie ahern 's campaign for re-election as prime minister .
haleh is a renowned scholar and spent much of her life trying to enhance the conversation and dialogue between this country and countries in the middle east , including iran . ''
in recent days , for instance , gov. brian schweitzer of montana and senators barack obama of illinois and jim bunning of kentucky -- any politician , that is , with coal to sell -- have jumped aboard the coal-to-gasoline bandwagon as the answer to dependence on foreign oil .
first-round redux last year 's first-round matchup between cleveland and washington ended in the sixth game with lebron james 's psych-out of gilbert arenas on the free-throw line .
the magistrate also continued mr. alexander 's bail conditions , including a bond of 10 million namibian dollars -lrb- about $ 1.4 million -rrb- and restrictions on his movements to the magisterial district of windhoek , namibia 's capital .
the toll of 33 dead was the worst in three decades of violence between republicans , who wanted northern ireland to unite with ireland , and unionists , who wanted it to remain a british province .
general motors , despite continuing its traditional clinics , has put its emphasis on working with local doctors and hospitals to improve the quality of health care in communities like flint , mich. , where g.m. retirees and their families vastly outnumber the company 's active work force .
he is the longest-held westerner in gaza , and rallies calling for his release by his colleagues in gaza , israel and the west bank , as well as london , have not been successful .
a few years after the funeral , a young scranton lawyer who had been elected one of three commissioners of lackawanna county was introduced to mr. sorvino . ''
he traveled to jerusalem in 2003 to dedicate a health center at hadassah university medical center to his mother , and then began thinking about what he could do to honor his father in israel as well .
israel has refrained from responding to violations , which it says include almost daily rocket fire from gaza by the militant group islamic jihad , and continuous weapons and ammunition smuggling into the gaza strip .
sunday at 1 p.m. , '' made in new york : the archaeology of new york city 's industrial past , '' a conference sponsored by the professional archaeologists of new york city that covers the history of a dutch windmill on governors island , an 18th-century tannery in lower manhattan and a ship repair facility in brooklyn .
so-called honor killings among muslims are a phenomenon across the middle east , including in israel , where arabs , most of them muslim , make up almost 20 percent of the population .
bode miller , the former olympic medalist and world cup champion , announced his departure from the united states ski team yesterday , a day after his cousin liko kenney had a violent confrontation with a new hampshire police officer that left the officer and kenney dead .
israel says that there are issues -- in particular borders , refugees and the status of jerusalem -- that remain unclear and problematic .
but many armenians living abroad hold a much harder line and are lobbying the united states and european governments to deny turkey entrance into the european union until ankara recognizes the killings as genocide .
the kremlin is hoping it can put the focus on gains in the russian economy at a forum for business leaders next month in st. petersburg , highlighting growth that has been overshadowed by negative political news from russia .
a film from croatia , '' armin , '' directed by ognjen svilicic , also fits the mold of downbeat european realism , though its story of a father accompanying his son from their hometown in bosnia to a movie audition in zagreb is funny and warm as well as sorrowful .
having spent a lot of time in california , the caliber of women you get in the hollywood community -- these are models , actresses -- they 're airheads , essentially , '' he said . ''
an article on april 21 about the removal of a mechanical ventilator from gov. jon s. corzine of new jersey eight days after he was seriously injured in a vehicular crash misstated the title of dr. ken rodriguez of beth israel deaconess medical center in boston , who discussed milestones for patients who have been removed from ventilators .
fidelin and man ray parted ways in 1940 , when he fled france for the states during the nazi occupation while she chose to remain in paris to care for her family .
ken golub , a chicago public school teacher who has spent $ 50,000 remodeling his 100-year-old house near wrigley field , estimates that he has saved another $ 50,000 by doing much of the painting , plastering and wood stripping himself .
joyful and doting grandfather of amanda , lindsay , david , alexa , reese , paige and nathan .
with his israeli partner , zohar shapira , a former member of an elite commando unit , mr. aramin has been speaking to students and community groups in israel and the west bank . ''
the closing program includes two of hungary 's most famous composers , gyorgy kurtag and gyorgy ligeti , as well as two others , endre szervanszky and laszlo tihanyi , who are less well known but , judging by this festival 's track record , are likely to be worth investigating .
but throughout central asia and the caucasus , and extending to the outskirts of russia 's capital , a form of the sport has thrived , cementing local legitimacy and gaining new followers since the soviet union 's collapse 15 years ago .
lucifer chu , a 31-year-old from taipei , taiwan , is as good an example as any of the shrinking distances between east and west .
suspicions about mr. kadyrov and his subordinates have also figured in the investigation of the killing of anna politkovskaya , a journalist shot to death in moscow in october , according to the committee to protect journalists , which is based in new york city , whose leaders met with russian officials in moscow in january .
the ultimate status of jerusalem has not been decided to the satisfaction of either israel or the palestine authority .
on wednesday , the world bank issued a report strongly criticizing the restrictions imposed by israel on palestinian movement in the west bank , saying they were having a grave effect on the palestinian economy .
at citigroup 's park avenue headquarters , mr. spitzer met with the executive committee of the partnership for new york city , the city 's leading business group .
spruce peak at stowe , the vermont ski destination 's new base-area development , is the first mountain resort in the country to have earned the audubon green community award from audubon international .
it has been speculated that plummer would prefer a trade to the texans , where he would be reunited with gary kubiak , houston 's head coach and a former offensive coordinator with the broncos . ''
israel 's annexation of east jerusalem has not been recognized internationally , and the 190,000 jews who moved into it are considered illegal settlers by much of the world .
the republican senators who joined democrats in voting to take up the bill on negotiating prices were norm coleman of minnesota , susan collins of maine , chuck hagel of nebraska , gordon h. smith of oregon , olympia j. snowe of maine and arlen specter of pennsylvania .
a north amityville man was fatally shot as he returned to his garage apartment early yesterday , the suffolk county police said .
arne duncan , a top chicago public school official , is helping with mr. obama 's education platform .
senator chuck hagel of nebraska just signed a contract with harpercollins for a '' book about america 's future , '' his spokesman said .
after the fall of france in 1940 , the pro-nazi vichy regime seized the family bank , which had been moved from paris to the small southern town of la bourboule in the auvergne region .
michael smuin , a choreographer who worked for major ballet companies and led his own , marshaling eclectic dance forms , robust athleticism and striking theatricality to create works that appealed to broad audiences , died yesterday in san francisco .
said mr. cho , 25 , who was born in seoul , south korea , and educated at a boarding school in scotland .
and that transition will no doubt gather steam when france 's high-speed train , the tgv , arrives in june , reducing travel time from paris to strasbourg to two hours and 20 minutes from more than four hours .
as many as 300 people originally from darfur are living in fort wayne , with others scattered across smaller indiana cities like elkhart , south bend and goshen .
gere 's kiss ignites protests richard gere touched off demonstrations and protests in india when he planted several kisses on the face of the actress and '' celebrity big brother '' winner shilpa shetty , right , at an aids awareness rally in new delhi , the bbc reported .
despite the recent killings of two auxiliary police officers and a restaurant worker in greenwich village , new york city continues to ride the largest and longest municipal winning streak in the recorded history of crime control in the united states .
also on sunday , a french envoy arrived in beirut to meet lebanese leaders in preparation for a meeting later this month aimed at breaking a political deadlock between lebanon 's western-backed governing coalition and the opposition , which includes the militant group hezbollah , reuters reported .
in ontario , canada , the niagara international music festival , organized by don harper , who puts together many choral events , will have its 13th season this year with performances in the communities of niagara falls , st. catharines and grimsby .
serbia later became an international pariah , and so many other youngsters were generating more sparks and sponsorship : richard gasquet and gaël monfils of france ; tomas berdych of the czech republic ; andy murray of britain ; and , above all , rafael nadal of spain .
the initiative sets out principles that would give israel full recognition and normal relations with its arab neighbors in return for its withdrawal to 1967 borders and creation of an independent palestinian state with east jerusalem as its capital .
the most massive poll ever taken on any subject is taken on the subject of using tax dollars for political campaigns , '' senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the senate republican leader , said in a statement . ''
ségolène royal , the socialist candidate in the french presidential election on may 6 , accused nicolas sarkozy , her conservative opponent , on wednesday of having '' apologized '' to president bush for france 's decision not to back the united states militarily in iraq .
unlike many in lebanon 's political stratum , general aoun comes from humble origins , having been born into a poor maronite family in haret hreik , which became a hezbollah stronghold in beirut 's southern suburbs in the 1980s .
the militant wounded saturday in the west bank , mr. zubeidi , has been on israel 's '' most wanted '' list for years and claims to have survived numerous assassination attempts .
in rockland county , c. j. miller , a spokeswoman for the county executive , said that residents of stony point had called their local police to report smoke at 11:09 a.m. , but that the county did not have any information from entergy until an e-mail message at 11:36 , and then a phone call 20 minutes after that . ''
the european union 's trade commissioner , peter mandelson , telephoned the indian commerce minister , kamal nath , on sunday evening to emphasize its wish that india be open to foreign bids for hutchison essar .
-lrb- dave kehr -rrb- jubilo -lrb- tonight -rrb- will rogers 's earliest surviving feature film (1919) , about a drifter who finds a home on an oklahoma ranch , gets a rare screening in a print preserved by the museum of modern art .
swiss diplomats seeking to visit haleh esfandiari , a leading iranian-american academic jailed in iran , have not been given access to her , the woodrow wilson international center for scholars said yesterday .
the tensions with estonia , along with russian disputes with poland and lithuania , overshadowed a meeting in southern russia near the city of samara on friday between mr. putin and the european union 's leaders , including chancellor angela merkel of germany , the union 's rotating president , and josé manuel barroso , the president of the european commission , the union 's governing body .
at boston 's fenway park , the green monster is a tall , hard wall in left field .
calgary is home to canada 's biggest oil and gas companies and the administrative headquarters of the $ 50 billion oil sands extraction projects centered 470 miles north in fort mcmurray , alberta , and is certainly not the most obvious spot for a cultural renaissance .
mr. harris , 22 , is a political science major at manhattanville college in purchase , n.y. he also takes journalism courses at brooklyn college .
the $ 16,000 in top awards recognizing women for works of outstanding quality for the english-speaking theater were divided among lucy caldwell of northern ireland for '' leaves , '' sheila callaghan of the united states for '' dead city , '' stella feehily of ireland for '' o go my man '' and abbie spallen of ireland for '' pumpgirl . ''
easyhotel , a budget hotel chain , is scheduled to open a property in luton , england -- about three miles from the london luton airport -- by the end of the year .
banco bilbao vizcaya argentaria , spain 's second-largest bank , after santander , agreed to buy compass bancshares of the united states for $ 9.6 billion , making its biggest acquisition abroad in a market where it seeks to strengthen its foothold .
bce ultimately acquired canada 's largest private broadcaster , ctv , and the globe and mail , a national newspaper based in toronto .
charles lee remington , the intellectual patriarch of modern american lepidopterology , the scientific study of butterflies and moths , died on may 31 in hamden , conn. .
the thing i like about rudy giuliani is that in new york city he demonstrated he was willing to try big things , '' mr. forbes said .
israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , survived three no-confidence votes against his government on monday , part of the political fallout from a harsh report on the country 's leadership during last summer 's war in lebanon .
this sparkling cove at boulders beach , less than an hour outside cape town , south africa , is part of table mountain national park , and one of the most protected places along false bay for kids -- and birds -- to swim .
no single factor explains heroism , said samuel p. oliner , a sociology professor at humboldt state university in arcata , calif. .
washington can begin by ending its provocative naval deployments in the persian gulf , easing its efforts to get european and asian banks to divest from iran and inviting iranian representatives to all regional and international conferences dealing with the middle east .
but there is already some dissent among unions and automakers , who see jobs being lost to asia , as well as members of congress concerned that south korea is blocking exports of american beef . ''
we also had a son and his father : jeff bridges in '' the contender '' and lloyd bridges in '' hot shots !
mr. sneider 's company also recently completed the $ 12 million los jardines , an 80,000-square-foot center in bell gardens , also in los angeles county .
the federal charges filed yesterday will be added to state charges brought against mr. von wrede this month after the suffolk county police , acting on a tip , obtained a search warrant for his home in sag harbor .
she was particularly pleased by a seminar that the center arranged with michael moritz , a venture capitalist at sequoia capital .
the pilot will be one of india 's best-known businessmen , ratan tata , chairman of the tata group , an industrial conglomerate .
the bush administration hopes to replicate the north korean experience with iran , but american officials involved in the planning acknowledge that this might be more difficult because iran has a web of banking relationships throughout europe and the middle east .
to those who say that , at israel 's creation , no palestinian was forced out , mr. nusseibeh can note that his pregnant mother and grandmother were expelled from their home in ramle by soldiers led by yitzhak rabin and obliged to walk into jordan-controlled east jerusalem .
four boroughs grymes hill $ 225,000 755 narrows road , staten island 1 1 0 10 weeks 690-sq .
city of houston , higher education finance corporation , $ 315 million of higher education revenue bonds for rice university .
my neighbor kim , a jazz musician who owns two vintage bmw motorcycles , considers the garelli a kid 's bike , something he would have ridden for fun as a youngster in his hometown , ribe , in denmark .
cultured traveler la paz , bolivia correction : june 3 , 2007 , sunday the cultured traveler column last sunday about la paz , bolivia , misstated the surname in some copies for roberto cazorla guzman , the owner of the costilla de adán bar .
.20 arabic titles published in english translation in the united states last year ... .49 fiction titles translated this year by the arabic book program of the united states embassy in amman , jordan : cormac mccarthy , '' blood meridian '' ; amy tan , '' the joy luck club . ''
this past week iran 's capricious and dangerous government jailed the iranian-american scholar haleh esfandiari .
he spent his sophomore year of high school in the orkney islands , scotland and his senior year in kassel , germany .
a deal with south korea is central to washington 's strategy of stemming the loss of economic influence in asia to china .
a1 no cap to ferry claims a federal judge rejected new york city 's attempt to use an obscure 19th-century maritime law to cap its liability in the 2003 crash of a staten island ferry at $ 14 million .
israel 's premier university is giving ph. d. 's to arab students , two of whom were from east jerusalem -- i.e. the occupied territories -- supervised by jewish israeli professors , all while some far-left british academics are calling for a boycott of israeli universities .
a12 prime minister ehud olmert of israel paid an unannounced visit to the border town of sderot to show solidarity with its residents after days of rocket fire from the nearby gaza strip .
senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the minority leader , this week promised to vigorously fight democratic efforts to bring up a resolution challenging the buildup even as he conceded the political damage the war has inflicted . ''
in recent weeks , google 's chief executive , eric e. schmidt , has said that the company will soon unveil new tools that will make it easier for copyright owners to spot their content on youtube .
ex-governor testifies conrad m. black and other hollinger international executives improperly diverted more than $ 15 million to a holding company mr. black controlled , former gov. james r. thompson of illinois told jurors in chicago .
a csx freight train carrying chemical cargo derailed and ignited south of louisville , ky. , yesterday , forcing the evacuation of homes , shutting down roads and sending students home from school , kentucky emergency officials said .
when lorena ochoa left mexico seven years ago to attend college in the united states , she gave up a cocoon of familiarity for long bouts of homesickness .
this spring , she noted , the agency is pushing two manuscripts it received last week : '' the white tiger '' by aravind adiga , a former journalist from india , and '' atmospheric disturbances , '' a first novel by rivka galchen , an american of israeli extraction .
corte gardoni 's 2005 le fontane -lrb- $ 13.50 -rrb- , a weightless bardolino red from veneto , in northeastern italy , exudes tea roses ' perfume .
the only full-fledged bar cars that remain are on metro-north 's new haven line , and are run in cooperation with the state of connecticut .
frequently to travel from south florida to tallahassee or pensacola , we 'll hop on a commercial airline , go to atlanta , change planes and fly back into florida .
the student , william gerhard , 20 , of yorktown , pleaded guilty to second-degree forgery in november , said janet difiore , the westchester county district attorney .
nigeria 's highest court ruled monday that electoral officials had illegally excluded a top opposition candidate for president , atiku abubakar , from the ballot for the presidential election on saturday .
the 2007 michelin red guides for france and for paris go on sale today .
the accident occurred in the heart of an unruly tangle of freeways known as the macarthur maze , where several major arteries converge at the approach to the san francisco-oakland bay bridge , which connects san francisco with the cities on the east side of san francisco bay .
kimberly marie young , the daughter of ada ortúzar - young and roger young of cedar knolls , n.j. , was married last evening to stefano rivella , the son of liliana perta curtis of cervaro , italy , and attilio rivella of turin , italy .
an aide said the prince , a son of the retired king , norodom sihanouk , might seek a pardon from the current king , norodom sihamoni , who is his brother .
mr. meshal lives in exile in damascus , syria , where the government has rebuffed all western requests to close his office . ''
love dorothy , richard , sandi , and families $ -lrb- 6 $ -rrb- kornreich -- morton a. the membership and board of governors of the boca rio golf club in boca raton , florida , announce with deep regret and sorrow the passing of our dear friend , esteemed member and former governor , morton a. kornreich , and extend our sincerest condolences to his family .
she left for amman , jordan , a few months ago , in time to register him for classes there . ''
but in the mid-1990s , mr. young found himself urging gen. sani abacha , then nigeria 's president , to release a number of political opponents he had jailed , including mr. obasanjo .
but after israel conquered the city 's eastern sector in the 1967 war , he threw himself into the project of a reunited jerusalem and was re-elected five times before losing in 1993 , at age 82 , to ehud olmert , now the prime minister .
prime minister ehud olmert of israel told visiting american jewish leaders tuesday that he would meet on feb. 19 with secretary of state condoleezza rice and mr. abbas .
my appeal to you today , young people present at this gathering , is this : do not waste your youth , '' he told the crowd at the stadium in the pacaembu area of são paulo . ''
i am certain that on may 1 , comrade fidel will resume his role leading cuba and latin america , '' evo morales , bolivia 's president and a close ally of mr. castro 's , said over the weekend .
the committee , which does not accept israel 's annexation of east jerusalem , says israel is using its rights as an occupying power under international law '' in order to further its own interests or those of its own population to the detriment of the population of the occupied territory . ''
the arts , page e1 rice works to hold together plan to restart mideast talks secretary of state condoleezza rice , shuttling between jerusalem and the occupied west bank , said she planned to continue to push a peace initiative between israel and the palestinian authority president despite his agreement in principle to form a unity government between his fatah faction and hamas , which the united states and israel view as a terrorist organization .
three of the better-known candidates -- mr. romney , mr. giuliani and mr. mccain , saying he was speaking with the benefit of hindsight -- said congress made a mistake in interceding in the legal question of whether to maintain life support for terri schiavo , a brain-damaged florida woman .
the next year this hunch was confirmed by the presence of two films from romania , '' the way i spent the end of the world '' and '' 12:08 east of bucharest , '' both of which looked back , one with sentiment , the other with jaundice , at that country 's 1989 revolution . ''
the park is divided into two districts on either side of tucson , the larger saguaro east -lrb- 520-733-5153 -rrb- and saguaro west -lrb- 520-733-5158 -rrb- , where there are denser stands of cactus and which has the added advantage of being close to the arizona-sonora desert museum .
melvin van peebles -lrb- left -rrb- was born in chicago in 1932 .
as globalization continues , by working with mexico , we can keep some of that manufacturing in the u.s. '' in addition to the low cost of labor , there are a number of other reasons that multinational corporations are putting their light assembly in juárez .
the proposal clearly rankled a co-founder of the blackstone group , stephen a. schwarzman , who was speaking at an awards presentation during a yale-sponsored conference at the new york stock exchange yesterday .
an article on jan. 14 about david byrne and his song cycle based on the life of imelda marcos , the former first lady of the philippines , misidentified the ethnicity of a singer in the production .
the french critic and provocateur jean baudrillard , whose theories about consumer culture and the manufactured nature of reality were intensely discussed both in rarefied philosophical circles and in blockbuster movies like '' the matrix , '' died yesterday in paris .
the catch is that spirit lake gets steady winds off buffalo ridge , which funnels them through western minnesota and northwestern iowa .
chez panisse , the famed restaurant in berkeley , calif. , is not on opentable .
dr. martin married the former mary coverdale folger on may 6 , 1944 , at st. andrew 's presbyterian church in kingston , ontario .
of all the cavalier players who have come and gone in the organization 's 37-year history and for all the vitality lebron james has brought , bingo smith remains the cavaliers ' soul : the light-skinned black man with the huge afro , reigning jumpers from downtown cleveland .
business day , page c1 the grandmaster vs. putin a protest in st. petersburg shows the commitment of garry kasparov , the ex-chess champion , to dismantling the system built by russia 's president , vladimir v. putin .
an article last sunday in t : travel , about hat making in montappone , italy , misspelled the name of a museum there .
norman lived his entire life in new york city , attending dewitt clinton high school and new york university .
the yeltsin democratic experiment is over , to be sure , added rose gottemoeller , director of the carnegie endowment 's moscow office , '' because it was delegitimized by the 1998 ruble crash and because it was a time of supreme corruption and dominance by oligarchs -- but the russian democratic experiment is not over because russia is such a changed place . ''
speaking to reporters on wednesday , ms. pelosi announced that she had conveyed a message to mr. assad from israel 's prime minister , ehud olmert , that he was ready to negotiate for peace .
prime minister ehud olmert of israel and foreign minister tzipi livni have spoken of '' positive '' elements in the saudi initiative , but they have expressed reservations about many parts , especially the issue of the refugees .
a recent ad in the chicago maroon at the university of chicago offered $ 35,000 for a chicago egg and stipulated , '' you must be very healthy , very intelligent and very attractive , and most of all , very happy .
we saw our justice system at work today as john couey was convicted for his heinous crimes against one of florida 's children , '' mr. crist said in a statement .
it finished last over all in the pre-cup regattas and will struggle to win a race when the real thing begins with round-robin competition today in valencia , spain .
b1 border rules may hurt tourism many people in the niagara falls tourism industry fear that a set of new rules suggested by the 9\/11 commission requiring americans traveling by land or sea to canada , mexico , bermuda and the caribbean to present a passport could discourage millions of visitors from crossing the border and result in billions of dollars a year in lost revenue .
it was wonderful to see the composer tania león , who was born in cuba in 1943 , recalling her youth in havana .
in a less important but symbolic defeat for the conservatives , jean-louis bruguière , who had earned a global reputation as france 's leading antiterrorist investigative magistrate , also lost to a socialist .
wechsler -- rosalind , of lake worth , florida died february 16 .
in an effort to broaden her appeal , ségolène royal engaged in a televised debate on saturday with a man who is no longer even a candidate for the presidency of france .
if they have a residence in canada , they can buy farmland in saskatchewan through the agriculture development corporation , a private company , for a minimum buy-in of $ 20,000 .
the senate 's top leaders , harry reid , democrat of nevada , and mitch mcconnell , republican of kentucky , convened a bipartisan meeting at 9 a.m. to discuss bipartisanship . ''
pope benedict xvi met friday with iran 's former president , mohammad khatami , who spoke earlier here about the '' very deep '' wounds between muslims and christians .
but , with wall-covering silk-screened drawings designed by another dealer , ralph harvard , she has transformed it into the great hall of an 18th-century colonial georgian plantation house -- one that actually exists , named westover , in virginia .
this is a richly anecdotal history of the american newspaper people -- ernest hemingway and henry miller among them -- who flocked to paris during the 15 years after the armistice that ended world war i. a writer at war : a soviet journalist with the red army , 1941-1945 , by vasily grossman .
robyn asimov , the daughter of the science-fiction master isaac asimov , has become a friend of the seti institute despite her upbringing : dad was more of a robot guy than an alien guy , and agnostic on the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence , except for one instance when father and daughter mistook the goodyear blimp for a u.f.o. -lrb- '' he nearly had a heart attack , '' she told me in a telephone interview . ''
indeed , the only terminal repository apparently free from political opposition is that in finland 's eurajoki where such a site is now under construction .
the only way to reach liberty island from new york city is to file onto one of the old circle line boats , after enduring a long wait for tickets and a line at the security checkpoint where all visitors must remove their shoes , jackets and belts .
some murmured about a new rink that may open as soon as next month in richmond valley on staten island .
martin j. o'malley was sworn in as governor in a ceremony in annapolis that included a surprise guest , speaker nancy pelosi of california , a maryland native .
for gholam hossein nozari , the managing director of iran 's national oil company , continued interest from europe and asia is '' a sure sign companies do not cower to u.s. pressure , '' according to iran 's official news agency , irna .
his idea -- one that has rarely , if ever , been tried on a large scale by a major museum -- is to collect significant pieces of midcentury residential architecture , including houses by rudolf m. schindler , richard neutra , frank lloyd wright and his son lloyd wright , and to treat them as both museum objects and as residences for curators .
the extended ramírez family -- a surviving daughter , nieces , nephews and grandchildren , great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren -- stretches from guadalajara , mexico , to california .
this has become the typical government response to the so-called dissenters ' marches put on by the other russia , an uneasy coalition of liberals and radicals led by the former chess champion garry kasparov and mikhail m. kasyanov , president putin 's former prime minister , among others .
the american embassy in berlin said it would tighten security measures at diplomatic and consular facilities in germany because of a '' heightened security threat . ''
herzen was tireless in his crusade for freeing russia 's serfs and reforming russian society .
however , mr. fitzpatrick , a former state department official in the field of nuclear nonproliferation , said the industrial push made little sense given iran 's problems , as reported the i.a.e.a. , in getting its experimental centrifuges to run smoothly at the pilot plant near the cavernous halls of natanz . ''
they live under '' a suffocating blanket of permanent restrictions , '' they are unable to move freely between their villages , they are poor -lrb- with the prospect of yet deeper poverty -rrb- and they are helpless as israel 's settlements -- and those barriers -- expand on west bank land that , in theory , is to be the nucleus of a palestinian state .
in a recent ranking of the most competitive and economically promising regions of germany , 3 of the top 20 cities are in the east : dresden , potsdam and jena .
i think arnault asked a lot of people about marc , '' mr. mccarthy said , referring to the designer marc jacobs , now at louis vuitton . ''
russian officials have begun formulating their starting positions , but german o. gref , russia 's trade minister , told reporters tuesday evening that moscow would start talks only after belarus had lifted transit duties and resumed oil transit .
a pitcher on that baltimore team , steve barber , died sunday at 67 .
the fossil , found in slovenia a century ago , is described in the journal of vertebrate paelontology by alessandro palci of the university of modena and reggio emilia in italy and michael w. caldwell of the university of alberta in canada .
battle for blue skies -- a decade and a half after thailand began a battle for better air quality , this erstwhile icon of smog has emerged as a role model for pollution-choked capitals in asia .
torah bright , 20 , of australia was fifth at turin , but won gold at the x games with a series of technical tricks .
she attended a french-language high school , then simultaneously earned degrees in mathematics at american university in beirut and in literature at the lebanese university .
those differences increased after the creation of israel in 1948 , when gaza fell under the administration of egypt and the west bank was annexed by jordan .
with a final stop in lisbon on friday , house speaker nancy pelosi headed home to a washington that is still ringing with complaints from senior bush officials that her stop in damascus to visit with bashar al-assad , the syrian president , bolstered the image of syria at a time when united states policy is to isolate it .
business day , page c1 castro missing on may day the throngs were out in the streets of havana as they always are on may day , but cuba 's holiday honoring workers came and went without fidel castro .
donations can be made to indiana university 's kelley school of business , care of tom bewley , at tbewley@indiana.edu , or 1275 e. tenth street , bloomington , ind. , 47405 .
tony parker became the first european named the most valuable player of the finals , a month after dallas 's dirk nowitzki was the first european named the regular season m.v.p. as a child in france , parker , 25 , watched michael jordan win championships on television at 3 a.m. late thursday night , he hoisted the trophy before a new generation . ''
they range from the removal of specific checkpoints in the west bank to the deployment of better-trained palestinian forces to try to halt the firing of rockets into israel from gaza and the smuggling of weapons , explosives and people into gaza from egypt .
tomoko yoneda 's photographs , on inspection , revealed themselves to be views of a minefield in the demilitarized zone in south korea , a sniper 's post in beirut and of israel from a hezbollah-controlled village in lebanon .
whenever laura lippman takes a work break from the lively adventures she 's been writing for the past 10 years about a quick-witted baltimore sleuth named tess monaghan , it 's more a stretch than a vacation , an opportunity to examine more closely the criminal behaviors and psychological motivations that have to be wrapped up swiftly and neatly in action-oriented procedurals .
people do not think of connecticut , and especially fairfield county , as a place with pockets of the poor .
-lrb- ap -rrb- yacht racing light winds delay race -- the start of the louis vuitton cup was delayed again yesterday because of light winds off valencia , spain .
in 2004 , the bank sold its majority stake in the bank of asia , based in thailand , for 442 million euros -lrb- $ 600 million -rrb- .
early successes with saxes inc. and record hits with johnny mathis and paul desmond , prince 's career advanced with international success from his score for jerome robbins ' ballet usa opus jazz which was recently revived to the regular repertoire of the new york city ballet .
new arts center in chicago the new york architects tod williams and billie tsien have been chosen to design a $ 100 million arts center at the university of chicago , the university is to announce today .
the trip , on a wind star yacht that sleeps 148 guests , will sail to italy and greece , with stops in rome ; athens ; sorrento , italy ; and the island of mykonos . ''
a front-page article on friday about criticism of mahmoud ahmadinejad , iran 's president , by iranian religious authorities over his involvement in the country 's nuclear program misstated the connection between ayatollah ali khamenei , the supreme leader , and jomhouri-eslami , a newspaper that has rebuked mr. ahmadinejad .
they come from brooklyn -lrb- arkansas 's gary ervin -rrb- all the way to nigeria -lrb- michigan state 's idong ibok -rrb- .
job opening in omaha -- warren buffett , chairman of berkshire hathaway , said in his letter to shareholders that he is seeking a new candidate to become chief investment officer when he steps down .
when i was my daughter 's age , i lived with my grandparents for several months in hyderabad , india , while my parents , who were in england , found their footing in a foreign land .
the candidate , atiku abubakar , who is currently nigeria 's vice president , had been barred from running by the country 's electoral body because a federal panel had indicted him on corruption charges .
zahra eshraghi , the granddaughter of the founder of iran 's revolution , ayatollah ruhollah khomeini , has signed the petition on discriminatory laws , the daily newspaper kayhan wrote monday .
he is a doe-eyed , full-lipped , tousle-haired songwriter from paisley , scotland , who just turned 20 .
we want a debate about iraq that includes funding for the troops , '' said senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader . ''
a1 greenwich 's sway in campaign as connecticut 's richest town , greenwich has always held some allure for politicians looking to raise money and make influential friends .
a former wisconsin governor , tommy thompson , who has been acquainting himself with iowa republicans on many weekend trips this year , held his first rally as an official candidate .
inexpensive iraqi prostitutes have helped to make syria a popular destination for sex tourists from wealthier countries in the middle east .
senegal has created new universities in provincial capitals like saint louis and ziguinchor , but few students want to attend them because they are new and untested , and the government has not forced the issue . ''
gian carlo menotti was born on july 7 , 1911 , in cadegliano , italy , a small town near lake lugano in lombardy .
besides his wife marge , he is survived by his son ari of concord , new hampshire , his daughter ilana of boulder , colorado , his grandchildren andrew and emily of concord , new hampshire , his brother myron of rye brook , new york and his brother barry of bel aire , california .
a7 turkey and armenia reach out the killing of hrant dink , an armenian-turkish editor , and the sorrow it has generated are leading to rare gestures between turkey and armenia , historic enemies .
-lrb- pareles -rrb- you am i -lrb- sunday -rrb- with its exhilarating rave-ups and tim rogers 's windmill guitar slashes -- both recalling the best of the who -- you am i is one of the most exciting bands to come out of australia in a decade , though it has struggled for recognition here .
ken kennedy , a rice university computer scientist whose software design work paved the way for the broad scientific and engineering use of modern supercomputers , died wednesday in houston .
but '' creekers , '' as many shoreline residents in the stony creek section of branford call themselves , say they wonder what she will do with her nine islands , whether she will rent , resell or keep them for family members .
the charges against the defendants were brought by the former attorney general , bill lockyer , who was elected california state treasurer in november . ''
the zydeco and cajun musicians from the bayou country to the west , which was harder hit by hurricane rita , also sang about the storms ; the cajun rocker zachary richard had a song that vowed , '' seven generations we 've been stuck here in the mud\/but the only way that i 'm leaving louisiana is if i 'm swept away in a flood . ''
by day fariello -- tall , with rough , sun-stained skin , an unkempt beard and a few blackened teeth from years of smoking -- tends his bar along the main strip of marina di pisciotta , a sleepy village about 70 miles south of italy 's amalfi coast .
pizza purists from around connecticut have long debated the relative merits of new haven pies in general , and specifically those made by pepe 's , versus its wooster street neighbor , sally 's .
libby lenton of australia was the leading women 's swimmer here , winning five gold medals , including the 50 freestyle on sunday .
the deadlock came after democrats refused a proposal by senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky , the republican leader , that would have cleared the way for a floor fight on the warner resolution in return for votes on two competing republican alternatives that were more supportive of the president .
soon he was drawing money -- and , just as valuable , buzz -- among wealthy chicago families like the crowns and the pritzkers , as well as friends from harvard law school and the university of chicago , where mr. obama taught constitutional law and his wife worked in community relations .
stone harbor shares a seven-mile-long barrier island in cape may county with avalon , a slightly less manicured town to the north .
steeping himself in california 's 1960s counterculture , mr. malone worked in san francisco on rock shows that had psychedelic lighting while studying ceramics and carpentry .
before finishing high school , she danced six days a week , five times a day at holiday world in , '' get this , '' she says , laughing , '' santa claus , indiana . ''
the australian open was to begin in four days , and serena williams was so upset about the state of her game that she had locked herself in her hotel room after losing early in a low-level tennis tournament in hobart , tasmania .
eve best actress willowy and patrician , eve best is hardly the '' ugly , overgrown lump of a woman '' eugene o'neill imagined in josie hogan , the slatternly connecticut farmer 's daughter at the center of '' a moon for the misbegotten . '' ''
speakers included david bonderman of the texas pacific group , which helped to lead monday 's $ 45 billion txu takeover ; todd fisher of kohlberg kravis roberts & company , the other lead investor in the txu deal ; and stephen a. schwarzman of the blackstone group , considered one of the most likely candidates to try to crash the txu sale .
one row behind them , chelsea clinton spoke animatedly with a fellow stanford university alumna , secretary of state condoleezza rice .
a team with a 22-year-old star , lebron james , had helped cleveland pull off a stunning upset . ''
q. are there buildings extant in new york city associated with the life of the ragtime composer scott joplin ?
except for sociopaths , humans are built to feel and act out of empathy , said stephen g. post , a professor of bioethics at case western reserve university 's medical school and co-author of '' why good things happen to good people , '' scheduled to be published in may .
france 's numerous vacant investment lodgings '' will have to be rented , '' ms. royal said in her new year 's speech yesterday in paris , which was broadcast on national television . ''
as the son of pierre bourdieu , france 's leading sociologist -lrb- known in his last years for his intense engagement with political causes -rrb- , the younger mr. bourdieu had a front-row seat for the vivid drama of intellectual life in a country where prominent scholars maintain something of the allure of rock stars .
the students , who a minute before had been restless and talkative , turned suddenly still as she projected photos of her hometown , jaworzno , poland , on a screen .
toshio sasaki , a japanese sculptor known for works in public spaces , particularly '' the first symphony of the sea , '' a 322-foot-long wall relief at the new york aquarium at coney island , died on march 10 near his home in nagakute in the aichi prefecture of japan .
in a national poll conducted by the cbc in 2004 , cherry was voted the seventh-greatest canadian , ahead of wayne gretzky , alexander graham bell and sir john macdonald , canada 's first prime minister .
ms. berman left her post as president of paramount pictures more than two weeks ago after enduring what several studio executives described as a rocky relationship with the chairman , brad grey .
holtom , james j. , 22 , sgt. , army ; rexburg , idaho ; 321st engineer battalion .
besides greenwich , the only other district connecticut found in violation of the law last year was west hartford , an affluent town also on the problem list since 2000 .
his reaction was clearly a relief to the cerberus chairman , john w. snow , the former treasury secretary , who joined daimlerchrysler officials in stuttgart , germany , at a news conference on monday . ''
john mckay , the ousted united states attorney in seattle , said last week while in washington to testify before congress that white house lawyers interviewing him for a possible federal judgeship had asked him why he had '' mishandled '' an investigation into voter fraud allegations in his state following the 2004 elections .
and they had to look good parked in front of places like brenner 's park-hotel and spa in baden-baden , germany , or the gstaad palace hotel in switzerland .
ms. gottemoeller , an american , told me she recently visited ulyanovsk , lenin 's birthplace , in the heart of russia 's aging industrial rust belt , and went out to dinner with three russian couples , all new entrepreneurs . ''
an article last wednesday about prominent people who attended the funeral of former president gerald r. ford referred incorrectly to george allen , republican of virginia .
elton john in ukraine an audience of 200,000 turned out in independence square in kiev on saturday night to hear elton john , above , in a concert to foster awareness of aids and h.i.v. in ukraine , agence france-presse reported . ''
-lrb- dargis -rrb- ` i do n't want to sleep alone ' -lrb- no rating , 115 minutes , in taiwanese , malay , mandarin and bengali -rrb- a dreamy , melancholy tale of three-way desire , shot in kuala lumpur , malaysia , and imagined by the director tsai ming-liang with his usual blend of sensuality and formal rigor .
germany 's now-retired franziska van almsick set the record of 1:56.64 in berlin in 2002 . ''
hong kong and shanghai are not just competing with each other -- they are also vying with tokyo and singapore to become the most important financial center in asia .
4 israeli prime minister ehud olmert said israel would cooperate fully with a fatah government .
online pc gaming -lrb- as opposed to consoles plugged into televisions -rrb- has become the main form of gaming across asia outside japan , especially in china and south korea .