Sheikha Fatima Advocate of Arab Feminism
• theseoultimes.comThe Information Affairs Office of H.H. Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, has published a study entitled "Woman's Rights."
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CIA leak probe 'widening to include use of intelligence'
• News LinkEvidence is building that the probe conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor, has extended beyond the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name to include questioning about the administration's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence.
Martin Bashir To Present ABC's 'Nightline'
• News LinkABC News have finally revealed that British journalist Martin Bashir will be joining the ‘Nightline’ team, replacing broadcasting veteran Ted Koppel.
New York Daily News source believes senior White House official has flipped in leak case
• News LinkThe New York Daily News is set to report in Tuesday editions that a well-placed source interviewed by the newspaper believes a senior White House official has flipped and may be helping the prosecutor in the case
Stallone tries to regain eye of tiger (and RAMBO???!)
• News LinkYes, Rocky will go back into the ring and Stallone (who's now 59) says he is negotiating with former heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. to sign on as his ring opponent
What women want: exhibition charts 100 years of feminism
• Arifa AkbarAnd now - 100 years later - Nigella Lawson's laidback style hopes to guide the modern woman towards the pedestal of domestic goddess. Not without a hint of irony, those two recipe books feature next to each other in a collection of 200 items that
Big bang gives Cards life
• News LinkWith the Astros one out from their first World Series berth in 44 years, Pujols nearly hit a ball through the glass exterior of Minute Maid Park, crushing a three-run homer off closer Brad Lidge in the ninth inning to save the Cardinals from eliminat
Disney Deal Paves Way For Mobile Media
• News LinkWalt Disney Co. agreed last week to make five of its current prime-time TV shows--including the hit series Desperate Housewives and Lost--available for download to Apple's new video-ready iPod.
Schultz Drummed Out Of Armed Forces Radio
• News LinkHoward Kurtz reports in the Washington Post that Liberal radio talk show host Ed Schultz was set to debut this week on Armed Forces Radio, but before he even got on the air, his producer got word from Allison Barber -- the Pentagon's deputy assis
U.S. Economy: Producer Prices Increase By Most in 15 Years
• News LinkOct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. producer prices rose in September by the most in 15 years as higher crude oil and gasoline prices stemming from Hurricane Katrina filtered through into increased costs for chemicals, steel and plastics.
Saddam heads to Iraq court, two years after capture
• News LinkBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein and seven members of his Baath party, including his half-brother, will file into a marble-lined, chandelier-hung courtroom in Baghdad on Wednesday to face the stares of five judges and the world.
Bush approval hits 39%, lowest of his presidency
• News LinkAt the same time, job approval for Congress, which has a Republican majority, has fallen to 29%. That is its lowest level since 1994, the year Democrats lost control of the Senate and House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
Cheney may be target of probe
• News LinkWASHINGTON - A special prosecutor's intensifying focus into who outed a CIA spy has raised questions whether Vice President Cheney himself is involved, knowledgeable sources confirmed yesterday.
Timeline of White House Leak
• News LinkFrom Joe Wilson in Africa to release of Judith Miller
VIEW: Feminism, dictatorship and democracy
• dailytimes.comThose who grew up in the dark days of the 1980s are truly a lost generation. Most of them are compulsively devout, but at the same time they are entirely devoid of any of the ethical underpinnings that religion is really all about. Unfortunately they
Judy Miller's Reporting: A Cancer on the New York Times?
• News LinkSigns of trouble and Judy Miller were like Mary and her little lamb. Everywhere that Judy went, a flashing warning sign was sure to follow.
A Bite of Post-Feminism
• RENA XU, Crimson Staff WriterWhen my friend Anne and I had to cram for a calculus exam in high school, she brought a plate of warm cookies to our study session. Perhaps it was the melted chunks of chocolate, or perhaps it was my heightened appreciation for anything and everythin
Judith Miller from the New York Times security clearance
• News LinkAccording to an editor at the Times, Miller had helped negotiate her own embedding agreement with the Pentagon—an agreement so sensitive that, according to one Times editor, Rumsfeld himself signed off on it
70 Iraqis die after US bombs two villages
• News LinkThe US military today said all of those killed were militants, but witnesses claimed at least 39 innocent civilians died in the attack.
Wagoner's GM, UAW Agree On Healthcare Cuts
• News LinkThe company also said that GM and the UAW will look at other options for additional ways to cut healthcare expenses.
Israel Suspends Contacts With Palestinians
• News LinkGUSH ETZION, West Bank Oct 17, 2005 — Israel suspended negotiations with the Palestinian Authority on issues such as prisoner releases and slapped tough travel restrictions on the West Bank after Palestinian gunmen killed three Israelis and wounded f
The new iPod - VDO Podcasting begins
• News LinkWitness the evolution of the revolution. First it played songs. Then photos. Then podcasts. Now iPod plays video, changing the way you experience your music and more. Again. In lighter, thinner 30GB and 60GB models starting at $299, the new iPod is m
Casualties of the Bush administration
• News LinkSince almost the day he assumed power, George W Bush has left a trail of broken careers in his wake. Below is a list of but a handful of the most familiar names on the rolls of the fallen:
Injustice Displayed in Irwin Schiff Federal Tax Trial
• News LinkThe federal government and US District Court Judge Ken Dawson, on the other hand have gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent Irwin Schiff from revealing these truths to the general public and to the jury.
'Hidden Scandal' in Miller Story, Charges Former CBS Newsman
• News LinkThere is one enormous journalism scandal hidden in Judith Miller's Oct. 16th first person article about the (perhaps lesser) CIA leak scandal. And that is Ms. Miller's revelation that she was granted a DoD security clearance while embedded wi
Judith Miller: Answers, barely
• News LinkThe Times ran its long-promised story on Saturday, "The Miller Case: A Notebook, a Cause, a Jail Cell and a Deal," put together by the NYT's investigative team of Don Van Natta Jr., Adam Liptak, Clifford J. Levy and Janny Scott under th
Bad Drop DQ's Wie, Costs Her $53,126
• News LinkWie's troubles stemmed from the day before, when she took a drop from a Gold Lantana bush to the left of the par-5 seventh green, took a penalty drop for an unplayable lie, and escaped with a par.
Iraqis Vote on Constitution
• News LinkBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqis went to the polls Saturday to give a "yes" or "no" to a new constitution aimed at defining democracy in a nation once ruled by Saddam Hussein and now sharply divided among its Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish
Wilma ties Atlantic hurricane season record
• News LinkMIAMI, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season tied a 72-year-old record for busiest ever with the formation of Tropical Storm Wilma on Monday.
ChiSox Snap Jinx
• News LinkWell, that other Chicago baseball team, the one without a cult following, the one with a notorious pedigree, the one whose park is brand new and doesn't have ivy on its outfield walls, the one no one knows about outside the south side of the Wind
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