Date: 1/20/2009 By GREGORY KATZAssociated Press Writer LONDON (AP) — The arrival of a new American president triggered joy and jubilation Tuesday in a world made weary by warfare, recession and fear. Bulls and goats were slaughtered for feasts in…
Financial burden of homeownership spread unequally
Date: 1/19/2009 By ALAN ZIBELAP Real Estate Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to homeownership, Hispanics in New Jersey, single parents in California and senior citizens in Rhode Island all have something in common: More than a third have…
Cuba thaw, good or bad? US fugitives unsure
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 —…