This is the archive for January 2007
By Dion Nissenbaum
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Israeli President Moshe
Katzav speaks at a news
conference on Wednesday,
January 24, 2007, at his
residence in Jerusalem after
he was informed charges
would be filed that he sexually
assaulted four employees.
(Yossi Zamir/Flash 90/MCT)JERUSALEM — In a bid to salvage his job and his reputation, Israeli President Moshe Katsav offered Wednesday to step aside temporarily while he fights possible rape charges, then went on national television to deliver an impassioned pledge to clear his name.
With his wife, Gila, looking on, Katsav refused to resign during the hourlong address, categorically rejected the allegations and accused the Israeli news media of serving as a lynch mob.
"I will fight to my last breath Israel's president defends his reputation while offering to step aside even if I have to fight a world war Israel's president defends his reputation while offering to step aside to prove my innocence," Katsav said during his television appearance, which was interrupted briefly by a shouting match with a reporter whose television coverage the president had criticized.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
WARIOWARE: SMOOTH MOVES
For: Nintendo Wii
From: Nintendo/Intelligent Systems
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
If "Wii Sports" was an aptitude test for new Wii owners, "WarioWare: Smooth Moves" is akin to cramming for midterms. Whether you've beaten "Halo" on legendary or never handled a video game controller in your life, you can thank "Moves" for leveling the playing field and delivering an experience that will drive everyone equally crazy.
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By Craig Gilbert
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)
How many of the announced and expected
candidates can you identify? Check below
for who's who. Courier GraphicWASHINGTON — The next presidential election is more than 90 weeks away. So why does it feel like it's just around the corner?
In the space of five days, U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois have plunged into the race, injecting the political equivalent of rocket fuel into the 2008 campaign, giving junkies and journalists a Democratic duel to drool over.
"The intensity is going to heat up more than anybody can measure right now," said Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter last week, speaking before Clinton announced her candidacy on her Web site Saturday, declaring, "I'm in and I'm in to win."
On the Republican side, Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney already have assembled large and growing campaign networks.
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By Helen Kennedy
New York Daily News (MCT)
Sen. Barack ObamaNEW YORK — Vowing not to be "Swift boated," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., aggressively pushed back yesterday against "ludicrous" rumors reported on Fox News that he attended a radical Islamic school.
Taking on Fox hosts Steve Doocy and John Gibson by name, Obama's campaign blasted the "malicious, irresponsible charges" they aired.
"You have to take control and make sure that folks know the facts and not just these innuendos from the right-wing smear machine," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. "We will aggressively address any charges that are leveled."
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
A student wants to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements, so she can include pictures in a report. A teacher wants to insert charts in the PowerPoint presentation he is preparing for his classroom. A mother wants to know more about the blogs that her son has been reading every night.
Or, just for fun, someone wants to create a playlist in iTunes or compose a new song in GarageBand.
Students, teachers and parents in the New Haven Unified School District can learn all of the above and much more - for free - just by going online.
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By Veronica Brown, Courier Staff Writer
Video Surveillance is being considered
for the James Logan campusTuesday night, New Haven Unified School District Community Forum attacked the issue of the safety of it’s schools. The meeting was hosted by Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi. Two major topics that were being discussed were installing video surveillance cameras in the district schools and whether or not random searches should be conducted for students who have been previously punished for weapon possession or selling controlled substances.
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By Bill Radford
The Gazette (MCT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It's a new day and a new year — and another step into the future.
We all have a picture of the future in our heads, visions of spaceships, flying cars and robot servants shaped by everything from classic science-fiction novels to "The Jetsons." And in this age of medical marvels and personal computers and cars that parallel-park themselves, the question is: Has the future arrived?
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
KARAOKE REVOLUTION PRESENTS: AMERICAN IDOL
For: Playstation 2
From: Blitz/Konami
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (Lyrics)
The first "American Idol" game for the PS2, released by Codemasters in 2003, was a sloppy rhythm game that looked weird, involved no singing and only loosely resembled Fox's cash cow TV series.
This, on the other hand, makes sense. Konami will find any reason it can to churn out another "Karaoke Revolution" game — this is its fifth in barely more than three years on the PS2 alone — and it's almost ridiculous that such a popular show has no worthy video game counterpart after all these years. It's a dual back-scratching match made in heaven, and it (mostly) works in both parties' favor.
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By Barbara Barrett
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The plan House Democrats will push Wednesday to slash rates on some student loans falls short of a proposal they pitched nearly a year ago when the Republicans controlled Congress.
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By Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Alberto GonzalesWASHINGTON — In a major retreat, the Bush administration disclosed Wednesday that it has obtained approval for its domestic spying program from a special national security court and no longer will resort to warrantless telephone taps to search for terrorists.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales revealed the secret arrangement with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on the eve of his first appearance before the Democratic-controlled Congress and amid an appeals court fight over a federal judge's ruling striking down the spying program as illegal and unconstitutional.
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By Tim Johnson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Only a modest sign advertises the
location of a Starbucks' coffee bar
in the Forbidden City section of
Beijing, China. The presence of a
foreign company in the most
historical area of the city has drawn
the ire of some. For centuries the
Forbidden City was the sanctuary
of imperial dynasties.
(Tim Johnson/MCT)
BEIJING — The discreet outdoor sign is gone from the Starbucks coffee shop in Beijing's most famous historical site, the Forbidden City.
But the outlet there is generating sudden heat on the Internet and in newspapers, sparked by a journalist who contends that its presence is "obscene" and a "trashing of Chinese culture."
"All I want is for Starbucks to move out of the Forbidden City peacefully, quietly. And we'll continue enjoying Starbucks elsewhere in the city," said Rui Chenggang, a popular television anchorman who set off the drive.
By Tuesday, the issue hit the front page of the high-selling Beijing News, and Rui's personal blog on the matter drew a half-million page views and thousands of responses, many of them nationalistic calls for the removal of the Starbucks outlet.
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By Christina Jewett
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ten employees of KDND were fired Tuesday and the "Morning Rave" morning radio show has been cancelled in wake of a water-drinking contest Friday that left a woman ill hours before she died, apparently of water intoxication.
Jennifer Lea Strange, 28, drank one and three-quarters of a gallon of water — according to another contestant — Friday morning during a "Hold your Wee for a Wii" contest in which competitors had to drink as much water as they could without going to the bathroom for a Nintendo game system.
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From Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Logan Teacher Erin Cross won a
grant for her "Interactive
Homework" project.
Courier PhotoOne teacher is getting money for a treasure chest, an aquarium, a suitcase and other props that she can use to help English language learners understand classroom stories. Two others will be able to buy puppets that will help them promote dialogue, critical thinking and problem-solving as part of their lessons. Still others will purchase extra books, learning games, science materials and supplies for school and community gardens.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
"
Safety in Our Schools" will be the topic Tuesday, January 23, when the New Haven Unified School District holds its second New Haven Community Forum, at James Logan High School.
The meeting, hosted by Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi, will begin at 4 p.m. in Logan's student union, "The Spot."
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Barricades and rock salt were used
to lessen the "black ice" hazard.
Michelle Morimoto, Courier Photo
Frigid morning temperatures and overnight rain combined Wednesday to create slippery conditions on walkways and prompted maintence workers to cordon off the worst areas and spread rock salt on the ground to melt the dangerous ice, but not before several students slipped and fell.
Junior Bobbie Maas was one of the students who fell after encountering the "black ice."
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By Constance Loizos
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., displays
the new iPhone during his keynote speech
at Macworld, Tuesday, January 9, 2007,
at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
(Gary Reyes/San Jose Mercury News/MCT)SAN FRANCISCO — Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the long-rumored Apple phone last week, describing it as a "revolutionary" product that combines a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a mobile phone and an Internet communications device.
Saying it was a "day I've been looking forward to for two and a half years," Jobs framed the phone — dubbed the iPhone — as the latest in a string of world-changing products from Apple like the Macintosh and the iPod.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night received the second in a regular series of quarterly updates on the District's Strategic Plan, the New Haven community's guide to budgeting and decision-making during the next five years. As part of a separate report, the Board also saw how Strategy 1 - assuring implementation of standards-based curriculum and using assessment data to drive research-based instructional practices - is being carried out.
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By John Reinan
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
MINNEAPOLIS — The federal government wants your Internet provider to keep track of every Web site you visit.
For more than a year, the U.S. Justice Department has been in discussions with Internet companies and privacy rights advocates, trying to come up with a plan that would make it easier for investigators to check records of Web traffic.
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By Adam Phillips, VOANews.com
New York
Dr. King in Atlanta SCLC Office
(Gandhi on wall), 1966
Photo by Bob Fitch,
www.stevenkasher.comToday is a national holiday in the United States honoring the birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He led the non-violent struggle in the 1950s and 1960s to promote civil rights and end racial segregation in America, until his murder in April 1968.
Today, Dr. King is hailed as a true American hero with whom almost all Americans are familiar. What many may not realize is that Dr. King's non-violent methods were largely inspired by a man who lived a continent and a generation away. He was Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi, the statesman and sage who helped colonial India win independence from Britain in 1948.
Gandhi's own beginnings as a world leader occurred in what was an otherwise unremarkable experience for colonials. In 1893, as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa, Gandhi was ejected from the first class train seat he had paid for, and told to sit among the other non-whites in the third class compartment. It was a moment that would profoundly affect the world.
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By Tamer El-Ghobashy, Alison Fox and Carrie Melago
New York Daily News (MCT)
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn principal refused to allow a special education student to compete in a districtwide spelling bee because he wasn't smart enough, the student and teachers charged Wednesday.
"She said, `You don't have the brains to do it. You're gonna go to the first round and get eliminated and make the school look bad,'" said 13-year-old Lamarre St. Phard.
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By Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON —The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 by 2009, giving millions of poor Americans who work their best prospects in a decade to earn higher standards of living.
The legislation, which passed 315 to 116, doesn't include tax relief for small businesses, which President Bush says must be part of any increase he signs. Many Republicans say any such wage hike must be matched by incentives for small-business employers, particularly in the restaurant industry, which they say could lose the most when the minimum wage is raised.
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By Dan Robinson, VOANews.com
Capitol Hill
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates faced sharp
questioning from both Democratic and Republican
members of the House Armed Services Committee
hearing about Iraq on Capitol Hill in Washington,
D.C., Jan. 11, 2007.
Defense Dept. photo by
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen President Bush's plan to send more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq in a temporary surge to help the Iraqi government fight insurgents has been met with sharp criticism from majority Democrats.
In the official Democratic response, Senator Richard Durbin said the president is ignoring the advice of his military commanders, and the will of Americans.
"Escalation of this war is not the change the American people called for in the last election," he said. "Instead of a new direction, the president's plan moves the American commitment in Iraq in the wrong direction."
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By Paula Wolfson, VOANews.com
Washington
President George W. Bush prepares to sign
H.R. 5946, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Reauthorization
Act of 2006, Friday in the Oval Office at the
White House. President Bush is joined by, from
left, Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, Sen. Olympia
Snow of Maine, Rep. Nick Rahall of West
Virginia., Rep. Jim Saxton of New Jersey, Rep.
Frank Pallone of New Jersey; Rep. Don Young of
Alaska, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos
Guiterrez and Rep. Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland.
White House photo by Paul MorsePresident Bush says mistakes have been made in Iraq, and more U.S. troops and economic aid are necessary.
The president unveiled his new Iraq strategy in a long-awaited address to the nation Wednesday night. "The new strategy I outline tonight will change America's course in Iraq, and help us succeed in the fight against terror," he said.
Mr. Bush left no doubt he believes the stakes are high, and the setbacks of the last year in Iraq must be reversed. He vowed to set a new course. "The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people, and it is unacceptable to me. Our troops in Iraq have fought bravely. They have done everything we have asked them to do. Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me," he said.
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By Jessica Rosales and Dana Llarena, Courier Staff Writers
Thousands of high school students from around the country began arriving Friday afternoon for their chance to give speeches and take part in competitive debates in the 13th annual Martin King Jr. Invitational forensics tournament, also known as the MLK Tournament, at Logan.
The MLK Tournament will be held from4 p.m. today until Sunday evening, in honor of the late civil rights hero Dr. King. This tournament is the largest debate event west of the Mississippi River and the largest high-school-based forensics in the United States.
"King lives," said nationally acclaimed Head Coach Tommie Lindsey, founder of the event. "Even in death, he lives through speech and debate."
Students from Mission San Jose High School's forensics team arrived Friday afternoon for the start of the MLK Tournament. (Courier Photo)
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ACTIVITIES:
Any boys interested in playing volleyball please come to Open Gym on Monday, Jan. 15, from 3-6 pm in the Old Gym.
Attention swimmers! Anyone interested in joining the swim team this year must attend the swim meeting right after school today in Room 475.
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By Ann Doss Helms
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tango and his two penguin daddies won't face a formal review from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, CMS officials said this week.
The district stirred up unwanted international coverage last month by banning "And Tango Makes Three," a picture book that some say promotes homosexuality. Superintendent Peter Gorman said top staffers mistakenly sidestepped CMS process and pulled the book from four elementary school libraries after a few parents and Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James questioned the controversial but true story.
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Nearly two hundred Logan students spent most of Tuesday morning in the Alfonso Rodriguez Gym taking the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, better known as the ASVAB, in order to get some insight about what they're good at.
The ASVAB is the most widely used multiple-aptitude test in the world. There are three versions. Approximately 900,000 students take the high school version of ASVAB each year. The test is offered at more than 13,000 high schools and post secondary schools in the United States.
Proctors monitor the 186 juniors and seniors who took the ASVAB Tuesday morning. Courier photo
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By Margaret Talev and Ron Hutcheson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — President Bush set Wednesday night for the unveiling of his new Iraq war plan, an announcement certain to touch off a bruising battle with Congress over his expected proposal to dispatch more U.S. troops to Iraq.
Democrats on Monday reiterated their pledge not to cut off money to ground troops, but they were considering a range of other ideas to counter the Bush plan, including cutting off funding for private contractors profiting from reconstruction efforts.
They also may vote on resolutions recommending that Bush demand measurable progress from the Iraqis or begin redeploying U.S. troops. Such resolutions failed in the previous Congress, but Democrats now have two factors working in their favor: majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate, and more Republicans than a year ago who might be willing to support a phased withdrawal.
At the White House, Bush and his advisers worked on a draft of Wednesday's speech and braced for a fight with Congress. The prime-time speech, expected to last about 25 minutes, will kick off an intensive White House effort intended to shore up support for the war. Recent polls have shown that 72 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush has handled Iraq.
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By Bill Glauber
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)
MILWAUKEE — You are an American and you surf the Internet, listen to music, watch television (oh, boy, do you watch TV), play videogames and even read books, magazines and at that old standby called a newspaper.
So, have you ever added up all your media time? Put a price tag on all that spending for cable, books, videogames and other assorted media items?
It turns out that in 2007, American adults and teens will spend an estimated 3,518 hours — or nearly five months each — plus $936.75 per person consuming media.
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By Rebecca Soltau, Courier Staff Writer
Though the crime rate is low at the James Logan campus, there is an entire class devoted to the study of forensic science, nicknamed the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation class.
A popular course, the class focuses on preparing students for a career in forensic science by introducing them to scientific methods, field and court procedures, and proper paper work skills necessary for solving crime.
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By Nancy A. Youssef
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (right),
commander of Multinational Force Iraq,
passes the Multinational Corps Iraq colors
to Army Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno,
commander of 3rd Corps, in the MNCI
transition of authority ceremony Dec. 14.
Photo by Spc. James P. Hunter, USA BAGHDAD, Iraq — In his first wide-ranging interview, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq conceded Sunday that a military "surge" escalation would not be enough to rescue Iraq, advocating economic and political changes as well, as top Democratic lawmakers in Washington stiffened their opposition to any escalation of U.S. troop strength.
Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno said he believed that a combination of jobs, provincial elections, anti-militia legislation and stronger Iraqi security forces could stop the nation's plunge toward all-out civil war. Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, his predecessor, spelled out the same approach before his departure one month ago.
By echoing his predecessor, Odierno's comments raised concerns in both Washington and Iraq that the U.S. war effort is exhausting old tactics that haven't worked. Indeed, many Iraqis do not trust that a new Baghdad security plan can change their circumstances because the U.S. and Iraqi government have touted at least five such plans before, all of which failed to stop the violence.
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By Kate Folmar
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
Governor Schwarzenegger works from
his hospital room in Santa Monica and meets
with his staff at the Capitol via
videoconference Dec.28. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — He may have trouble cutting a rug while clutching crutches, but a hobbled Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to christen his second term in inimitable style next week with a lavish, $1 million-plus celebration.
In contrast to his somewhat subdued 2003 swearing-in, the governor's aides are planning a two-day fete this time around. The highlight will be Schwarzenegger's swearing-in at 11 a.m. Friday in front of about 3,000 guests at Sacramento's historic Memorial Auditorium, where guitarist and singer Jose Feliciano will perform the national anthem.
The governor, who broke a thigh bone in a recent ski accident, has made no attempt to scale down the festivities. Schwarzenegger said in a recent statement released by his staff that he is looking forward to the event "even if it means I have to walk into my swearing-in ceremony on crutches."
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By Adam Lisberg
New York Daily News (MCT)
Muslims ritually slaughter a sheep as part
of their observance of Eid al-Adha. (Photo
from hikmah.ekhwan.com)NEW YORK — Saddam Hussein may be a devil but in the end religion almost saved him — at least for a few days.
Iraqi authorities were reluctant to hang the deposed strongman during the Eid al-Adha holiday, which begins today and marks the end of the annual hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca.
Iraqi law — written during Saddam's dictatorship — bars executions during a religious holiday.
So there was some thought on whether to give Saddam a reprieve if the hanging did not take place before the new day dawned.
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By Aamer Madhani and Tom Hundley
Chicago Tribune
(MCT)
Saddam Hussein died
on the gallows SaturdaySaddam Hussein's trials and his march to the gallows were intended to be turning points in Iraq's history in which justice was delivered on behalf of hundreds of thousands of people killed by the dictator's brutal regime.
But for many human rights advocates and legal experts who followed the trials, Hussein's rapid conviction and execution instead left them with doubts about the emerging Iraqi government and the fairness of its judicial process.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a report on Professional Learning Communities, teams of educators meeting during collaboration time to work on improving student achievement.
Using an inquiry cycle - "plan, teach, reflect, apply" - these grade-level and subject-matter teams seek to answer four "critical corollary questions": 1) What is it we expect students to learn? 2) How will we know when they have learned it? 3) How will we respond when they don't learn it? 4) How will we respond when they already know it?
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By Michael Matza
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
Jimmy Carter has a bull's-eye on his back. Critics are taking shots. But that's OK, the former president said, because the rising volleys aimed at him are boosting sales of his latest book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
More important, the burst of publicity focuses on issues he feels need an honest airing, issues widely hashed over in Israel, but given short shrift in the United States.
Targeted by defenders of Israel who say the title is inflammatory and the text full of spin, Carter, 82, is under attack for a volume whose goal is "to provoke debate" about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offer proposals, via U.S. mediation, to revive peace talks that have been frozen for six years.
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By Frank Davies
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The next Bill Gates is more likely to come from China or Japan than the United States, according to a poll of Americans' Internet attitudes released Wednesday.
Most Americans polled also think that new camera and Internet technologies are turning the United States "into a nation of voyeurs and paparazzi."
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By Kenneth R. Bazinet
New York Daily News(MCT)
WASHINGTON — Political operatives and officials from both parties usually take long lunches, long weekends and long vacations in the two months right after an election — win or lose.
But fired up by the outcome of the November midterm elections, Democrats scrapped that practice and are going after potential 2008 Republican candidates.
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