This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: http://www.wapt.com
September 9, 2008
JACKSON, Miss. -- Attorneys for reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale said on Wednesday that they are filing a motion to have him released from federal prison. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court overturned the 73-year-old's June 2007 conviction for his role in the kidnapping and deaths of two black teenagers in 1964. He was given three life sentences.A three judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled, in short, that the statute of limitations had run out on that kidnapping case th
Source: BBC
September 10, 2008
Politics, religion and marching can be a dangerous combination but on this occasion - a special service to remember the soldiers who died in the Troubles in Northern Ireland - they came together with great dignity.
At a time when critics say the Army no longer receives the recognition it deserves, people from all parts of the UK came together at St Paul's Cathedral to pay their respects.
In particular, they honoured the 763 servicemen and women killed as a direct resu
Source: Tehran Times
September 10, 2008
Once again, the Tehran City Council may abandon the plan to name a Tehran street after Mohammad Mosaddeq, the former prime minister who is viewed as an icon by many Iranians for his decision to nationalize the oil industry.
“The investigations carried out by the council show that Dr. Mosaddeq does not have the qualifications for being discussed in the council’s Naming Committee because his views and thoughts are not acceptable to Iranian officials,” committee director Masumeh
Source: Tehran Times
September 10, 2008
The nails found around ancient skeletons at a newly discovered cemetery of Tahluj have puzzled the team of archaeologists working at the 3000-year-old site.
The cemetery dating back early Islamic era was discovered during the rescue excavation, which has begun at the site near the village of Mirar-Kola in northern Iran in late August.
The Tahluj site, home to several sites dating back from Iron Age to early Islamic era, will be completely submerged under water a
Source: AP
September 9, 2008
The latest design for the Sept. 11 memorial entrance pavilion has a facade that evokes the World Trade Center's twin towers, and builders still hope the memorial will open by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
The three-story, asymmetrical glass and steel building is the last piece of the 8-acre memorial plaza at ground zero, a redesign of a building first introduced as a much larger museum space three years ago.
Craig Dykers, architect for the Norwegian arc
Source: BBC
September 10, 2008
A US appeals court has overturned the conviction of a former Ku Klux Klansman jailed last year over the deaths of two black teenagers in Mississippi in 1964.
James Ford Seale, 72, was serving three life terms on charges of kidnapping and conspiracy over the deaths.
The court agreed with arguments by Mr Seale's lawyer that a legal time limit for prosecuting the case had lapsed.
Dozens of black people were killed in the 1950s and 1960s by white people want
Source: Times
September 10, 2008
A 215-year-old Jewish manuscript stolen in Israel a decade ago will be returned by the German library where it resurfaced. The Book of the Levite’s Worship, left, a 1793 treatise by a Berlin rabbi, was found to be missing from the Rambam Library in Tel Aviv in 1998. One year later it appeared at auction in New York at Sotheby’s but went unsold. It was bought later by an unidentified dealer and lost again. In 2005 it was found in the German National Library in Berlin, which has agreed to return i
Source: Telegraph
September 9, 2008
Ryszard Siwiec's name may mean little to many Poles since any coverage of his dramatic act was suppressed by the communist authorities.
The Polish accountant and teacher wrote a series of letters and tape recordings expressing his disgust over the crushing of the Prague Spring and the subsequent Warsaw Pact in which Poland was complicit.
Then, on September 12, 1968, he set himself alight in front of 100,000 spectators, political dignitaries and foreign ambassadors dur
Source: Telegraph
September 10, 2008
The line is to be cut up and sold in pieces in an internet auction that is expected to attract millions of bids.
The hallowed strip from the old Wembley Stadium has been the subject of decades of debate thanks to Geoff Hurst's controversial goal.
His shot famously crashed into the underside of the crossbar and cannoned straight back down - prompting protests from Germany's players.
They insisted the ball didn't actually cross the line - but Swiss referee
Source: CNN
September 9, 2008
At 107, Frank Buckles must know that there is not much time for him to honor the memory of his comrades who served the United States during the first World War. He's the last surviving U.S. veteran of what then was called the Great War.
The old soldier comes to Washington on Tuesday hoping to turn a run-down local memorial on the National Mall into something in keeping with other, permanent monuments to Americans who've sacrificed in other wars.
Buckles, who left the Ar
Source: CNN
September 9, 2008
Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
The goal: To bring justice in long-ignored murders from the civil rights era.
The outcome: Not one case has been prosecuted under the FBI's Cold Case Initiative, which actually began two years ago with no fanfare at all.
Source: Fox News
September 9, 2008
A 215-year-old Jewish manuscript discovered missing a decade ago will be returned by the German library where it surfaced, an Israeli official said Tuesday.
Israeli Embassy officials are currently arranging the manuscript's transfer from the German National Library in Berlin back to Israel, said Avigdor Levin, the top cultural official at the Tel Aviv municipality.
A 1998 inventory check at the city's Rambam Library revealed that the one-of-a-kind manuscript was missin
Source: McClatchy
September 7, 2008
John McCain made a quick stop at the Capitol one day last spring to sit in on Senate negotiations on the big immigration bill, and John Cornyn was not pleased.
Cornyn, a mild-mannered Texas Republican, saw a loophole in the bill that he thought would allow felons to pursue a path to citizenship.
McCain called Cornyn's claim "chicken-s---," according to people familiar with the meeting, and charged that the Texan was looking for an excuse to scuttle the bill. C
Source: LiveScience
September 8, 2008
A new study has found that Neanderthal brains grew at much the same rate
as modern human brains do, knocking down the idea that they grew faster in
a style considered more primitive.
The recent discoveries of two very young Neanderthal skeletons, as well
analysis of a little-studied infant Neanderthal skeleton, allowed the
researchers to trace how quickly the species' skulls grew.
The results showed a greater similarity than expected between modern
humans and Neanderthals, a h
Source: AP
September 8, 2008
BANDELIER NATIONAL MONUMENT, N.M. (AP) — Inside the dark, cliffside cave
last occupied by the people of Frijoles Canyon some 500 years ago is
evidence of more recent human activity: graffiti proclaiming"2008" and"I
love you" carved into a wall."Oh, man," art conservator Larry Humetewa muttered as he bent to inspect
the damage in the" cavate," a large, cave-live room.
Vandalism is just one of many threats to the fragile archaeological sites
that are the heart of national parks and
Source: Chicago Tribune
September 8, 2008
Though the two women had never met, they soon were trading names, each taking stock of whom the other knew in Chicago's Jewish community.
Before long, they learned their paths had almost crossed once before—six decades ago in the Jewish ghetto of Shanghai. It turns out they were neighbors, one at 83 Wayside Rd., the other at 91, and they had some mutual friends too....
Both women were among the Jews who found a haven in Shanghai during World War II. Sephardic Jews had l
Source: WSJ
September 9, 2008
WASILLA, Alaska -- Sarah Palin and John Bitney go way back. They were in the same junior-high band class. Mr. Bitney was a key aide in Gov. Palin's 2006 gubernatorial campaign. When she took office, she gave Mr. Bitney a job as her legislative director, and a few months later stood beside him at a news conference and praised his work.
"Whatever you did, you did it right," she told Mr. Bitney and his team.
Seven weeks later she fired Mr. Bitney for what her spo
Source: NYT
September 8, 2008
CAIRO — Seven years later, it remains conventional wisdom here that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda could not have been solely responsible for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that the United States and Israel had to have been involved in their planning, if not their execution, too.
This is not the conclusion of a scientific survey, but it is what routinely comes up in conversations around the region — in a shopping mall in Dubai, in a park in Algiers, in a cafe in Riyadh and all ove
Source: Telegraph
September 7, 2008
Speculation has recently grown again that Kim, who is 66 and has not been seen in public for more than three weeks, is unwell. Some media have long thought that Kim, a former smoker and heavy drinker, was ill but Seoul intelligence officials say they believe he has diabetes and heart problems, but those are not serious enough to affect his job.
But a book by Japan's Professor Toshimitsu Shigemura at Japan's respected Waseda University says Kim died in the autumn of 2003 and a serie
Source: Times (UK)
September 9, 2008
Google has taken another step towards its stated goal of indexing the world’s information by scanning newspaper archives and making them searchable on the internet.
The company that leads the way in cataloguing online information has been stepping up efforts to digitise material created before the advent of the internet. Google Books has been gradually scanning millions of books from publishers and libraries, making the text as easily searchable as that of a website.
