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Longview News-Journal, January 31, 2007 Newseum Image

January 31, 2007: An excerpt from a story in the Longview, Texas newspaper, the News-Journal:

Stonehenge's secrets

By MARC KAUFMAN
(The Washington Post)

New excavations near the mysterious circle at Stonehenge in southern England have uncovered dozens of homes where hundreds of people lived -- at roughly the same time that the giant stone slabs were being erected 4,600 years ago.

The finding strongly suggests that the monument and the settlement nearby were a center for ceremonial activities, with Stonehenge probably a burial site, while other nearby circular earthen and timber "henges" were devoted to feasts and festivals.

The small homes and personal items found beneath the grounds of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site are the first of their kind from that late Stone Age period in Britain, and they suggest a surprising level of social organization and ceremonial behavior to complement the massive stonework nearby. The excavators said their discoveries, about two miles from Stonehenge itself, together constitute an archaeological treasure.
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Lexington Herald-Leader, January 30, 2007 Newseum Image

January 30, 2007: An excerpt from a column in the Lexington Herald-Leader:

Barbaro's courage, poise captured our imagination

By  MARYJEAN WALL 

Bye, Barbaro.

If only we'd had more time with you. You were beautiful. You were brave. You were the best.

You enriched us all, in the nanosecond that you flashed across our universe.

You caught the magic. You shared that spell with us.

Like all superior athletes, you lifted us above the world of the mundane into the universe of the gifted.

We soared with you.
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Philadelphia Inquirer, January 30, 2007 Newseum Image

January 30, 2007: An excerpt from a story in The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Derby winner Barbaro is euthanized

By MIKE JENSEN 

Barbaro, the champion racehorse who became far more famous for his battle to live than for his great feats on the track, was euthanized yesterday morning with his owners and surgeon at his stall.

The procedure took place at 10:30 a.m. at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, where he had been since suffering catastrophic fractures in his right hind leg during the Preakness Stakes on May 20, beginning his long medical saga under the supervision of owners Roy and Gretchen Jackson and surgeon Dean Richardson.

"We knew we had to put him down," Gretchen Jackson said in a telephone interview a couple of hours after Barbaro was euthanized. "It was too much, and the guy didn't need to go through anymore."

The end came 278 days after Barbaro romped to a 61/2-length victory in the 132d Kentucky Derby in front of 157,536 people at Churchill Downs.
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Irish Independent, January 29, 2007 Newseum Image

January 29, 2007: An excerpt from a story in the Irish Independent:

Now it's over to you
Adams urges Paisley to share power with Sinn Fein

By GENE McKENNA

Gerry Adams last night threw down the gauntlet to DUP leader Ian Paisley to share power with him after Sinn Fein's historic decision to back policing in the North.

Mr. Adams secured the overwhelming backing of party rank and file by about 10 to one and then put it up to Mr. Paisley to meet him half-way in a new deal to secure lasting peace.
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Florida Today, January 27, 2007 Newseum Image

January 27, 2007: An excerpt from a story in Florida Today:

Remembering Apollo 1
KSC marks 40th anniversary of astronauts' deaths

By TODD HALVORSON

CAPE CANAVERAL -- For Sheryl Chaffee, the memory is still crystal clear.

A little girl just 8 years old, she and her younger brother Stephen were at home with their mom in Houston, on Jan. 27, 1967. Dad was at Cape Canaveral, at a practice countdown for NASA's first Apollo mission, an Earth-orbit test flight scheduled for launch in less than a month.

It was 40 years ago today, a Friday evening, and suddenly the house started to fill with people.

A couple of women -- she does not remember exactly who -- herded Chaffee and her brother into the living room. They turned off the TV. Then they made idle conversation.

NASA astronaut Michael Collins was there, too. He took her mom off to talk.

"It's still very vivid to me," said Chaffee, 48, who now lives on Merritt Island.
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The Daily Reflector, January 26, 2007 Newseum Image

January 26, 2007: An excerpt from a column in the Greenville, North Carolina newspaper, The Daily Reflector:

Publisher's letter
In marking this anniversary, paper aims to build on the past

By D. JORDAN WHICHARD III   

On Jan. 26, 1882, brothers David Jordan Whichard and Julian R. Whichard published the first edition of The Reflector from their mother's converted one-room schoolhouse.

An editorial that day declared: "In order to make a success of a paper, the interest of the people at large is the first requisite." Those earliest issues of The Reflector provided glimpses of what the newspaper would eventually mean to its stakeholders and its community.

The owners declared their commitment to improve the quality of life of its region, pledging to deliver valuable information to readers and measurable results to advertisers. Soon local editorials appeared advocating for improvements in public education, transportation, communications and commerce.

With the first sounding of these voices began a legacy of community service that we celebrate today, The Daily Reflector's 125th anniversary.

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Basler Zeitung, January 25, 2007 Newseum Image

January 25, 2007:

Page One news from the Basel, Switzerland newspaper, Basler Zeitung.







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USA Today, January 24, 2007 Newseum Image

January 24, 2007: An excerpt from a story in USA Today:

Bush defends Iraq plan to skeptical Congress, nation: 'America must not fail'

By DAVID JACKSON

WASHINGTON -- President Bush appealed Tuesday to a skeptical Congress to give his new Iraq plan "a chance to work," and he called on lawmakers to help expand health insurance coverage and reduce gasoline use by 20% over the next decade.

In his first State of the Union address before a Congress controlled by Democrats, Bush said failing in Iraq would create "a nightmare scenario" and urged support for his plan to boost U.S. troop levels there by 21,500. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins debate today on bipartisan resolutions opposing Bush's plan.

"On this day, at this hour, it is still within our power to shape the outcome of this battle," Bush said. "Let us find our resolve and turn events toward victory."
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The Times-Picayune, January 22, 2007 Newseum Image

January 22, 2007: An excerpt from a column in The Times-Picayune:

Cinderella season ends in mauling by the Bears

By PETER FINNEY

CHICAGO -- And so the fairy tale ended.

It ended with another fairy tale, a nightmare really: "How the Big, Bad Bear Ate Cinderella."

Sunday's losing locker room was littered with broken dreams.

And shattered glass slippers.

"The hurt we have now will go away," coach Sean Payton said. "But there are a lot of people back home, who were a big part of this season, who experienced a greater pain that won't go away."

"We had a special year," running back Deuce McAllister said. "But right now it stings."
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The New York Times, January 19, 2007 Newseum Image

January 19, 2007: An excerpt from a story in The New York Times:

Art Buchwald, Whose Humor Poked the Powerful, Dies at 81

By RICHARD SEVERO

Art Buchwald, who satirized the follies of the rich, the famous and the powerful for half a century as the most widely read newspaper humorist of his time, died Wednesday night in Washington. He was 81.

 

The cause was kidney failure, said his son, Joel. Mr. Buchwald, long a pillar of Washington life, died at his son's home, where he had been living for most of the last eight years.

Mr. Buchwald's syndicated column was a staple for a generation or more of newspaper readers, not least the politicians and government grandees he lampooned so regularly. His life was a rich tale of gumption, heartbreak and humor, with chapters in Paris, Washington and points around the globe.

But perhaps no year of his life was as remarkable as the last. It became something of an extended curtain call. Last February, doctors told him he had only a few weeks to live. "I decided to move into a hospice and go quietly into the night," he wrote three months later. "For reasons that even the doctors can't explain, my kidneys kept working."

Refusing dialysis, he continued to write his column, reflecting on his mortality while keeping his humor even as he lost a leg. He spent the summer on Martha's Vineyard, published a book, "Too Soon to Say Goodbye," in the fall and attended a memorial for an old friend, the reporter R. W. Apple Jr. of The New York Times. He gave interviews and looked on as his life was celebrated.
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The Washington Post, January 19, 2007 Newseum Image

January 19, 2007: An excerpt from a story in The Washington Post:

Art Buchwald, 1925-2007

By PATRICIA SULLIVAN

Art Buchwald, 81, the newspaper humor columnist for more than a half-century whose newfound comic material about death revived his celebrity, died of kidney failure Jan. 17 at his son's home in Washington.

Buchwald, an owlish, cigar-chomping extrovert whose column won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982, teased death for the past year, after kidney and vascular problems forced doctors to amputate one of his legs just below the knee. Refusing dialysis, in February he entered the Washington Home and Community Hospices, which he described as "a place where you go when you want to go."

Then, amazing himself, his doctors, friends and the scores of reporters who thronged to him for a last goodbye, Buchwald didn't die. His kidneys began to work again. By July, he left hospice for his summer home. "Instead of going straight upstairs, I am going to Martha's Vineyard," he wrote.
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International Herald Tribune, January 19, 2007 Newseum Image

January 19, 2007: An excerpt from a story in the
International Herald Tribune:

Obituary: Art Buchwald, columnist who delighted in the absurd

By RICHARD SEVERO

Art Buchwald, who poked fun at the follies of the rich, the famous and the powerful for half a century as the most widely read newspaper humorist of his time, died Wednesday night in Washington. He was 81. The cause was kidney failure, his son, Joel, said. Buchwald had been living with his son for most of the last eight years.

Buchwald's syndicated column was a staple for a generation or more of newspaper readers, not least the politicians and government leaders he tweaked so regularly. His life was a rich tale of gumption, heartbreak and humor, with chapters in Paris, Washington and points around the globe.

Once described as a "Will Rogers with chutzpah," Buchwald found enthusiastic readerships on both sides of the Atlantic. Early on he became nearly everyone's favorite American in Paris for his satirical column in the European edition of The New York Herald Tribune. When he returned from overseas to write a new column, from Washington, he became even more popular. At its peak it appeared in some 500 newspapers.
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Times Herald-Record, January 17, 2007 Newseum Image

January 17, 2007: An excerpt from a story in the Middletown, New York newspaper, the Times Herald-Record:

Rest in peace, editor, friend

On a raw, gray day that arrived much too soon, Mike Levine's extended family said a final goodbye to him.

Mike, who enriched the lives of so many of us as a reporter, columnist and, finally, executive editor of this newspaper, died early Sunday morning when his enormous heart stopped beating.

He was just 54.

Yesterday, a standing-room crowd of 700 at Temple Beth-El -- the Monroe Temple of Liberal Judaism -- heard Mike remembered as a man with "a reservoir of kindness the size of the Atlantic," said his pal and colleague, Terry Egan.

But the service to commemorate Mike's death turned out to be a lot like his life. He brought people together and made them feel "a love that is stronger than death," as he once wrote in a Thanksgiving column.

The tales of Mike's life also made all of us do something Mike loved: laugh.
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The Oregonian, January 17, 2007 Newseum Image

January 17, 2007: An excerpt from a story in The Oregonian:

What a mess!
 
By FRED LEESON and JAMES MAYER

For the second time in three years, transportation officials were explaining why a metro area that prides itself on mass transit was caught flat-footed by a winter storm that dumped 3 to 5 inches of snow.

As out-of-school kids frolicked and commuters fumed, officials said they relied on a forecast that predicted just a dusting of snow.

But when much more snow than expected hit the pavement, Portland's morning commute was transformed into a snarl of impassable streets.


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San Antonio Express-News, January 16, 2007 Newseum Image

January 16, 2007: An excerpt from a story in the San Antonio Express-News:

Determined marchers face down weather

By GUILLERMO CONRERAS and ABE LEVY 

The first few rows of marchers led the way with arms locked and hands clasped, braving near freezing weather and the threat of rain on the city's East Side.

Baptists next to atheists. Police officers next to college students. African Americans, Asians, Hispanics and Anglos.

The 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. March and Commemorative Program suffered a lower-than-usual turnout Monday but continued its 20-year legacy of honoring the slain civil rights leader with a human display of solidarity.

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Koran Tempo, January 12, 2007 Newseum Image

January 12, 2007:

The Jakarta, Indonesia newspaper, Koran Tempo, provides detailed Page One coverage about a recent plane crash.



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The Washington Times, January 11, 2007 Newseum Image

January 11, 2007: An excerpt from a story in The Washington Times:

Bush vows surge to fix 'mistake'

By JOSEPH CURL and STEPHEN DINAN

President Bush last night conceded that he made a mistake by failing to increase troops in Iraq last year and committed to boosting more than 21,000 troops, setting up a battle with the congressional Democrats, who vowed to fight the new war strategy.

In rejecting the Iraq Study Group's call to withdraw most combat troops within 15 months, the president will push the U.S. military presence in Iraq to its highest level in more than a year.

His plan, revealed last night in a prime-time address to the nation, came with no timetable, and senior administration officials said yesterday that the so-called "surge" in troops has no set end.
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Lancashire Evening Post, January 10, 2007 Newseum Image

January 10, 2007: An excerpt from a story in the Lancashire Evening Post:

Woman in hamster fraud

A trusted garden centre worker, who was in charge of buying hamsters and rabbits, dishonestly pocketed 10,000 from her employees, a court was told.

For two years Margaret Chippendale charged Barton Grange Garden Centre at Barton, near Preston, for purchasing the animals, either forging invoices from genuine small-scale suppliers of animals or making up fictitious ones, Preston Crown Court heard.

The garden centre owners became suspicious last summer when she asked for a particularly large amount from petty cash and when challenged, Chippendale confessed to two years of offending.
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The Gainesville Sun, January 9, 2007 Newseum Image

January 9, 2007: An excerpt from a story in The Gainesville Sun:

Believe It!
Gators Stun Buckeyes to Make History

By PAT DOOLEY

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- History wears orange and blue today.

Florida's football team made it twice as nice to be a Florida Gator on Monday night, thrashing No. 1 Ohio State 41-14. For the first time in the history of college sports, the college basketball and football titles both belong to one school.

Florida played a dominant defensive game and a ball-controlled offensive game to win the second national football championship in school history and second in 10 years.
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Glos Szczecinski, January 8, 2007 Newseum Image

January 8, 2007:The Szczecin, Poland newspaper, Glos Szczecinski, reports on the resignation of Archbishop Wielgus.

According to the BBC Web site: "The controversial Archbishop of Warsaw has resigned, less than an hour before he was due to be installed in his post. Stanislaw Wielgus has been at the centre of a communist-era spying row, and recently admitted collaborating with the secret police.

He announced the decision in person at a special Mass for his installation, to a mixture of applause and shouting. The Vatican's mission in Poland said in a statement that Pope Benedict XVI had accepted the archbishop's resignation.

The Pope has asked Cardinal Jozef Glemp, Archbishop Wielgus' predecessor, to return to his post temporarily 'until further decisions have been taken concerning the archdiocese', the brief statement added. The BBC's David Willey in Rome says the archbishop was under tremendous pressure to resign, but the decision to step down minutes before his lavish inauguration is unprecedented."
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San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2007 Newseum Image

January 5, 2007: An excerpt from a  story in the San Francisco Chronicle:

MADAM SPEAKER

By EDWARD EPSTEIN and ZACHARY COILE 

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco took control of the House of Representatives on Thursday, declaring herself proud of her historic role as the first woman elected speaker and determined to offer "a new vision, a new America.''

The 233 jubilant Democrats in the new 110th Congress cheered and clapped as they voted unanimously for their 66-year-old party leader.

The election capped Pelosi's remarkable rise through the congressional ranks since her first election in June 1987, culminating in what she called the shattering of the "marble ceiling'' that had blocked women from the House's top post since the chamber was organized in 1789.

The 202 Republicans -- looking downcast, even funereal, after losing their 12-year majority in November's elections -- voted for their leader, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio.
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Detroit Free Press, January 4, 2007 Newseum Image

January 4, 2007: An excerpt from a  story in the Detroit Free Press:

GERALD R. FORD,  1913-2006: At home. At rest.

By ZACHARY GORCHOW

GRAND RAPIDS -- The celebration of former President Gerald R. Ford's life ended with tears of loss, comfort in the Ford family's deep faith in God and pride in the only Michigander to serve as president.

Six days of ceremonies for the 38th president concluded Wednesday with a funeral in the rebuilt church where he married Betty Ford in 1948 and burial at sunset on the grounds of his presidential museum.
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The Washington Post, January 3, 2007 Newseum Image

January 3, 2007: An excerpt from a story in The Washington Post:

In State Funeral, a Farewell to Ford
First Families and Other Dignitaries Honor Him During a Fifth Day of Official Services

By PETER BAKER 

Gerald Rudolph Ford, the Boy Scout, football star and congressman thrust by history rather than ambition into the presidency at a fateful moment for his nation, was bidden farewell by Washington in a regal state funeral yesterday and taken home to Michigan for burial.

As cannons boomed and bells pealed and 10,650 organ pipes echoed through the cavernous Washington National Cathedral, Ford received a sendoff he could hardly have imagined as a young Midwestern boy abandoned by his father shortly after birth 93 years ago. A "Norman Rockwell painting come to life," as former president George H.W Bush described him, Ford was honored as a man of little pretense whose impact extended beyond his 895 days in office.