Date: 1/18/2009 By WILL WEISSERTAssociated Press Writer HAVANA (AP) — William Potts calls himself the “Homesick Hijacker.” U.S. authorities have another name for him: fugitive harbored by an enemy government — one of dozens of Americans hiding in communist Cuba.…
AIDS battle burnishes Bush’s legacy in Africa
Date: 1/12/2009 By CLARE NULLISAssociated Press Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In her AIDS-scarred South African township, Sweetness Mzolisa leads a chorus of praise for George W. Bush that echoes to the deserts of Namibia, the hills of…
CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post
Date: 1/7/2009 By LAURAN NEERGAARDAP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama’s reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of star power to a job that hasn’t had that much clout in…
Art and Capital Punishment
Capital punishment is wrong. Even the most corrupt of Illinois governors figured that out. If no other reason persuades you, the risk that you execute an innocent person alone, makes it wrong. That someone could document this in art, is…
Dictator Stalin voted third-greatest Russian
Editor’s Note: I am intrigued by the below AP story for several reasons. My first concern is the likelihood that more than half of Americans have no idea who Josef Stalin was. In a day and age when much focus…
Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter dies at 78
Date: 12/25/2008 2:16 PM By PAISLEY DODDSAssociated Press Writer LONDON (AP) — British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter — who produced some of his generation’s most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq —…
Something Wrong here? Planned Parenthood suspends Ind. staffer in video
Date: 12/16/2008 10:46 PM BC-Planned Parenthood-Video/400 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Planned Parenthood has suspended a counselor after an anti-abortion group released its second video in two weeks showing what it says is a clinic staffer ignoring Indiana law to report sexual…