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The New York Times, June 29, 2007
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June 29, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The New York Times:
Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
WASHINGTON, June 28 -- With competing blocs of justices claiming the
mantle of Brown v. Board of Education, a bitterly divided Supreme Court
declared Thursday that public school systems cannot seek to achieve or
maintain integration through measures that take explicit account of a
student’s race.
Voting 5 to 4, the court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr., invalidated programs in Seattle and metropolitan
Louisville, Ky., that sought to maintain school-by-school diversity by
limiting transfers on the basis of race or using race as a "tiebreaker"
for admission to particular schools.
Both programs had been upheld by lower federal courts and were similar
to plans in place in hundreds of school districts around the country.
Chief Justice Roberts said such programs were "directed only to racial
balance, pure and simple," a goal he said was forbidden by the
Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop
discriminating on the basis of race," he said. His side of the debate,
the chief justice said, was "more faithful to the heritage of Brown,"
the landmark 1954 decision that declared school segregation
unconstitutional. "When it comes to using race to assign children to
schools, history will be heard," he said.
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The Daily Telegraph, June 28, 2007
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June 28, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The Daily Telegraph:
A giant leap into the era of Gordon Brown
By BRENDAN CARLIN and CRAEME WILSON
Gordon Brown woke up yesterday as Chancellor of the Exchequer but went to bed last night as the Prime Minister.
The day began well and not just because he was about to achieve his long-frustrated ambition of succeeding Tony Blair.
Mr Brown, traditionally an early riser, will have smiled as he scanned the newspaper headlines.
They dwelt on the defection of the Tory MP, Quentin Davies, to the Labour benches.
At some stage, he reached not for his trademark red tie but for a
softer, blue version to wear on the most important day in his political
career so far.
For any normal person, what lay ahead was an agonising wait until the
Queen issued the formal invitation for him to go to Buckingham Palace.
But there were plenty of distractions for Mr Brown.
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The Guardian, June 28, 2007
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June 28, 2007: An excerpt from a
story in the London, England newspaper,
The Guardian:
"The road to No 10."
By MARK OLIVER
Gordon Brown, the man described by Tony Blair as the "great clunking
fist", today finally tightened his grip on what he must feel is his
rightful prize.
The journey to 10 Downing Street has been an epic, sometimes bad
tempered one for Mr Brown, not least because it must have seemed, at
different stages, so infuriatingly close and so maddeningly far away.
When the Labour leader John Smith died unexpectedly in May 1994, many
believed Mr Brown was the most likely to succeed him, but Mr Blair
emerged from the sidelines. There are two views of Mr Brown's handling
of this period: one that he was mourning his friend, the other that he
dithered.
Some commentators have tried to describe Mr Brown as a Shakespearean
character -- a Hamlet who has hemmed and hawed in his rivalry with Mr
Blair. But as he leaves Buckingham Palace this afternoon as prime
minister, Mr Brown may feel that All's Well That Ends Well.
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USA Today, June 27, 2007
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June 27, 2007: An excerpt from a
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USA Today:
CIA discloses past abuses
By RICHARD WILLING
WASHINGTON -- For three decades, reports of rogue CIA operations from
plotting Fidel Castro's assassination to collecting files on U.S.
citizens have trickled into the public arena. Now the agency is
acknowledging its past illegal activities and revealing in startling
detail how it crossed the line.
Tuesday's disclosure of the CIA's secrets from the 1950s until the
early '70s shows how the agency repeatedly violated its own charter. As
the CIA now endures criticism for its role in pre-Iraq war intelligence
failures, it has exposed past flaws by complying with a 15-year-old
request to disclose those activities.
One set of documents details a 1960 plot to poison Castro's food by
conspiring with organized crime figures and an aide to tycoon Howard
Hughes.
Gen. Michael Hayden, the CIA director, said the agency has learned
"from its history" and moved beyond the abuses detailed in the report.
"We will find in the press coverage of today's release reminders of
some things the CIA should not have done," Hayden said in a note to
agency employees. "The documents truly do provide a glimpse of a very
different era and a very different agency."
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Tahoe Daily Tribune, June 26, 2007
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June 26, 2007: An excerpt from a
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Tahoe Daily Tribune:
Angora fire: Reporting from a war zone
By SUSAN WOOD
FALLEN LEAF -- In a dozen years covering wildland fires, I've never run
from one out of fear for my safety. That all changed Sunday.
The
Angora fire, which consumed 2,000 acres and 165 structures as of
press time, raged in the wind and sent residents of the North Upper
Truckee Road neighborhood fleeing their homes and property.
It was scary and tragic in the worst sense.
In full fire gear, I paced up the road when people were going the other
way at about 2:30 p.m. shortly after the call came in and police
vehicles soon evacuated the area. People were crying and scared. I was
too, wondering if at one point I needed a breathing system so I
wouldn't be overtaken.
Fires started all around me and ash blew everywhere. In some cases,
blazes came down to the road. I kept moving my vehicle in the hopes of
not being trapped.
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La Presse, June 25, 2007
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June 25, 2007:
Page One news from the Montreal, Canada newspaper,
La Presse.
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Asahi Shimbun, June 22, 2007
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June 22, 2007:
Page One news from the Tokyo, Japan newspaper, the
Asahi Shimbun.
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The Herald, June 20, 2007
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June 20, 2007: An excerpt from a story in the Rock Hill, South Carolina newspaper,
The Herald:
Worst firefighting loss since 9-11
(From McClatchy Newspapers)
CHARLESTON -- It began with an early-evening 911 call, urgent but not
unusual. A furniture store on U.S. 17 was on fire. An employee might be
inside.
It ended nine hours later, with firefighters' families huddled at a
nearby station, praying and waiting until, finally, someone began to
call names.
The news was grim. Nine firefighters were killed after fire collapsed
the roof at the Sofa Super Store, a former Piggly Wiggly on a busy
retail highway. The deaths are the worst loss of firefighters since the
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The dead, who included three captains, had more than a century of combined experience.
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Dallas Morning News, June 19, 2007
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Dallas Morning News:
5 killed in N. Texas flooding
By DEREK KRAVITZ, MICHAEL GRABELL and MICHAEL E. YOUNG
Survivors mourned the five who lost their lives, and hundreds of others
left homeless began the overwhelming task of rebuilding after
devastating storms swept across North Texas on Monday, leaving whole
neighborhoods under water.
Five people were still missing late Monday.
The worst of the damage stretched from Gainesville to Sherman, where
flash floods trapped victims in their homes and in their cars early
Monday, the water surging 6 to 8 feet deep in some areas before it
receded as quickly as it came.
Gone is a young girl pulled from her mother's arms in Haltom City. In
Gainesville, the bodies of a woman and her granddaughter were
recovered, but another granddaughter was still missing late Monday. A
Denison woman died on her way to work, her Jeep overwhelmed by the
water. Rescuers found another man, still unidentified, dead in his
pickup in the receding flood.
"Mobile homes floated away like boats," said Haltom City Deputy Fire Chief Fred Napp.
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The Washington Post, June 18, 2007
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June 18, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The Washington Post:
Little Relief on Ward 53
At Walter Reed, Care for Soldiers Struggling With War's Mental Trauma Is Undermined by Doctor Shortages and Unfocused Methods
By ANNE HULL and DANA PRIEST
On the military plane that crossed the ocean at night, the wounded lay
in stretchers stacked three high. The drone of engines was broken by
the occasional sound of moaning. Sedated and sleeping, Pfc. Joshua
Calloway was at the top of one stack last September. Unlike the others
around him, Calloway was handcuffed to his stretcher.
When the 20-year-old infantry soldier woke up, he was on the locked-down psychiatric ward at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
A nurse handed him pajamas and a robe, but they reminded him of the
flowing clothes worn by Iraqi men. He told the nurse, "I don't want to
look like a freakin' Haj." He wanted his uniform. Request denied.
Shoelaces and belts were prohibited.
Calloway felt naked without his M-4, his constant companion during his
tour south of Baghdad with the 101st Airborne Division. The year-long
deployment claimed the lives of 50 soldiers in his brigade. Two
committed suicide. Calloway, blue-eyed and lantern-jawed, lasted nine
months -- until the afternoon he watched his sergeant step on a
pressure-plate bomb in the road. The young soldier's knees buckled and
he vomited in the reeds before he was ordered to help collect body
parts. A few days later he was sent to the combat-stress trailers,
where he was given antidepressants and rest, but after a week he was
still twitching and sleepless. The Army decided that his war was over.
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San Antonio Express-News, June 15, 2007
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June 15, 2007: An excerpt from a
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San Antonio Express-News:
The real kings: Spurs finish off sweep of Cavs, capture fourth championship
By JOHNNY LUDDEN
CLEVELAND -- Bruce Bowen leaped into Tim Duncan's arms, Manu Ginobili
wrapped Tony Parker in a long hug and, together, they danced,
celebrating another championship that only four months earlier seemed
improbable, at best.
The Spurs continued to bounce up and down in the center of Quicken
Loans Arena, sharing the moment with only a few family members and
friends in an otherwise somber sea of red, and who could blame them?
They had been called old and tired, soft and dirty, and now they were
only champions.
NBA commissioner David Stern handed the Spurs their fourth Larry
O'Brien Trophy, the past three of which have come in five years, then
labeled them a "team for the ages." Their playoff march had ended with
an 83-82 victory Thursday night over the Cleveland Cavaliers in a
gritty and, yes, sometimes unsightly, game that symbolized the
determination they had shown throughout the season.
"It never gets old," Duncan said. "It never gets old."
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National Post, June 14, 2007
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June 14, 2007: An excerpt from a
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National Post:
Postings from Afghanistan (Drawing is on Page One)
About this blog and artist: Richard
Johnson is in Kandahar, continuing a tradition of news combat art
dating back to before the First World War. His biggest influences are
artist Howard Brodie and foreign correspondent Joseph Galloway.
"Brodie was doing it for the humanity
of all and Joe was doing it so that no one forgot the sacrifices that
were being made by young men and women far from home."
Richard's mandate is to write and draw everyday life for Canadian troops in Kandahar province.
Remembering Darryl Caswell
June 13 - Take 2
In the afternoon, I tagged along on a television interview of two Royal
Canadian Dragoons who were good friends of Trooper Darryl Caswell, a
fellow Dragoon killed two days ago in a convoy about 40 kilometres
north of Kandahar city.
I was not sketching. I was there only to observe and listen. I took
only a few photos because I felt so awkward. Their pain was so obvious
-- this is something I will have to overcome. I snapped a few
out-of-focus shots as Corporal Wade Wick broke down and his buddy
Trooper Steve Davidson helped him hold it together. I took the photos
-- all of them bad -- and my memory of the moment and got out my
drawing pad. I am not happy with the way it looks but it is fairly
accurate, and it seems to hold some of, if not all, the power of the
moment.
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Trud, June 13, 2007
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June 13, 2007:
Page One news from the Sofia, Bulgaria newspaper,
Trud.
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Orlando Sentinel, June 12, 2007
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June 12, 2007: An excerpt from a
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Orlando Sentinel:
Repairs extend space shuttle Atlantis' flight
The astronauts must fix insulation torn during launch.
By ROBYN SHELTON
CAPE CANAVERAL ---Shuttle Atlantis'
mission
will be extended two days so spacewalking astronauts can fix an
insulating blanket that was blown out of place on the ship's exterior
during launch.
A top NASA manager said Monday that the decision was easy because a
loose blanket might expose the ship to excess heating during re-entry
through the atmosphere on its landing later this month.
"The better part of valor was just to go and secure [this blanket] and
not worry about it anymore," said John Shannon, chairman of the
Atlantis mission-management team.
The repair could be carried out during a walk already set for Friday,
or it might be added to a fourth walk Sunday. Mission planners are
still working through the details, including how the fabric, which is
covering a section of Atlantis' left orbital maneuvering pod, will be
tacked down.
Shannon said air apparently got underneath the blanket during the
shuttle's climb to orbit last week, tearing out some stitches and allowing a corner to peel back and expose 4 square inches of the underlying structure.
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The Age, June 11, 2007
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June 11, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The Age:
Nine dead, thousands told to flee floodwaters
By MALCOLM BROWN and HARRIET ALEXANDER
Thousands of people abandoned their homes last night as the Hunter
Valley braced for floods and families grieved for nine people killed in
NSW's continuing weather disaster.
Premier Morris Iemma said the storms and floods could cause the state's
greatest financial disaster. Insurers said it could cost billions,
rivalling the 1989 Newcastle earthquake.
With the torrential downpours and gale-force winds of Friday easing by
yesterday, the focus turned to the dangers posed by floodwaters. The
Hunter Valley centres of Maitland and Singleton were last night
preparing for the worst.
The State Emergency Service issued an evacuation order for residents of
Maitland and nearby Lorn after predictions that floodwaters would peak
at 11.4 metres and overwhelm levees by 9pm. About 6000 people in the
Maitland and Singleton areas have been advised since Saturday to leave
the area.
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Kleine Zeitung, June 8, 2007
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June 8, 2007:
The Graz, Austria newspaper,
Kleine Zeitung , reports on the G8 summit.
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OC Post, June 7, 2007
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June 7, 2007: An excerpt from a
story in the Santa Ana, California newspaper, the
OC Post:
Ducks win Stanley Cup
By DAN WOOD
(The Orange County Register)
ANAHEIM -- The
Ducks threw the ultimate hockey party Wednesday night, with the guest of honor -- the Stanley Cup -- arriving exactly on cue.
The Stanley Cup landed in the arms of team captain Scott Niedermayer,
courtesy of NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, shortly after the Ducks
completed a decisive 6-2 triumph over the Ottawa Senators and confetti
rained on 17,372 standing-room-only revelers at Honda Center.
By capping a five-game series victory over Ottawa, the Ducks became the
first California team to win the Stanley Cup and the first from the
West Coast to claim hockey's biggest prize since the Victoria Cougars
in 1925.
"I think we've been holding back on our emotions for the last couple of
days," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. "It's kind of surreal at this
point. You can't really fathom that we got it done."
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The Washington Post, June 6, 2007
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June 6, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The Washington Post:
Libby Given 2 1/2-Year Prison Term
By CAROL D. LEONNING and AMY GOLDSTEIN
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President
Cheney, was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for lying to
federal investigators about his role in the
leak of a CIA officer's identity
by a judge who declared the evidence against him "overwhelming" and
concluded that Libby "got off course" as a White House employee.
As U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton imposed the stiff prison
sentence and a $250,000 fine, he said his decision came "with a sense
of sadness" because he was torn between admiration and disappointment.
"I have the highest respect for people who take positions in our
government and [try] . . . to protect this country," Walton said
somberly.
At the same time, the judge said, "I also think it is important we
expect and demand a lot from people who put themselves in those
positions. Mr. Libby failed to meet the bar."
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The Daytona Beach News Journal,
June 5, 2007
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June 5, 2007: An excerpt from a
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News Journal:
NASCAR loses its driving force
By KEN WILLIS
DAYTONA BEACH -- Bill France Jr., the son of NASCAR's founder, who took
over the family business and became the most powerful man in American
motorsports, died Monday at his home on the Halifax River. He was 74.
France had been battling a variety of health problems, including
cancer, during the last several years of his life. He was still a
familiar figure within NASCAR's Daytona Beach headquarters, but as the
illnesses took their toll, the once-active France turned to a motorized
scooter as his mode of hallway transportation.
He's survived by his wife, Betty Jane, as well as their son, Brian, who
followed his father as head of NASCAR, and daughter, Lesa Kennedy, who
serves as president of the family-run International Speedway Corp.
France's younger brother, James France, is ISC chief executive officer
and on Monday assumed the role of ISC chairman.
"He had a remarkable career and an even more remarkable life," said
Brian France, who took over as NASCAR chairman and chief executive
officer in 2003. " 'Words cannot express how much he'll be missed by
myself and the rest of our family and by the NASCAR industry overall."
William Clifton France was less than 2 years old when his parents, "Big
Bill" and Annie, moved to Daytona Beach from Washington, D.C.
Bill Jr. -- called that, though his dad's full name was William Henry
Getty France -- was a teenager when his father formed NASCAR in 1947.
He held a number of jobs within the organization through 1971, when his
father retired as NASCAR president and handed the controls to him.
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Newsday, June 4, 2007
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June 4, 2007: An excerpt from a
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Newsday:
Hometown residents stunned
By LETTA TAYLER
LINDEN, Guyana -- To Christians as well as Muslims in this scrappy mining city, former Mayor Abdul Kadir
was far more than a politician. A spiritual leader and mentor, he went out of his way to help denizens in greatest need.
Yesterday, Linden and the rest of Guyana were reeling from the news
that Kadir might have yet another persona -- a terrorist wanna-be
plotting to blow up Kennedy Airport.
"His path was never violence. He taught us to respect the law, to
make something of ourselves," said Denzil Lovell, 22, an Internet
center manager who attended spelling bees and history lectures Kadir
hosted for visitors of all creeds at his dilapidated but rambling
wooden house.
Kadir, 55, a civil engineer and participant at his mosque who was mayor
from 1994-96 and ended a five-year term as an opposition party member
in Guyana's Parliament last year, was one of three men of Guyanese
origin named in the
JFK plot.
He was to be arraigned today in Trinidad. An impoverished, former Dutch
and British colony, Guyana has a turbulent political history but has
been largely spared militant Muslim violence that has struck the
neighboring island of Trinidad, where U.S. officials say part of the
JFK plot also was hatched. About 10 percent of Guyanese are Muslim.
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Contra Costa Times, June 1, 2007
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June 1, 2007: An excerpt from a
story in the Walnut Creek, California newspaper, the
Contra Costa Times:
Danville teen triumphs in national spelling bee
By SARA STEFFENS
In the end, all his hard work -- the years of preparation, the
incessant writing and recitation, the memorization of Greek roots and
weird letter combinations -- came down to just one word: "serrefine," a
small forceps for clamping a blood vessel.
Thirteen-year-old Evan O'Dorney of Danville smiled the moment he heard
it, knowing what was about to happen: He had just won the Scripps
National Spelling Bee.
It was a triumphant end to a long day in the ballroom of Washington, D.C.'s, Grand Hyatt.
Early Thursday morning, Evan began the early rounds of the 80th annual
competition alongside 59 other spellers, aiming chiefly to make it to
the nationally televised finals.
"We're hoping he gets to ABC," his mother, Jennifer, said early that day, "but either way, we're going to celebrate."
Evan, a three-time winner of the regional bee sponsored by the Times, knew it would be his final trip to the national bee.
During 12 rounds of competition, he faced down a staggering array of
seemingly impossible words, correctly spelling "compunctious,"
"corrigenda," "affiche," "corinne," "rascacio," "schuhplattler" and
"laquear."
