THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† We Fight Them Over There So We Don’t Have To Fight Them Over Here?: The
“I found the number stunning,” said Frances Fragos Townsend, a security consultant and former assistant to the president for homeland security. “It suggested to me that this was going to give us far greater insight into the relationships between individuals fighting against
In December 2001, an FBI team was sent on an unusual mission to
As they analyzed the results, they were surprised to learn that one out of every 100 detainees was already in the FBI's database for arrests. Many arrests were for drunken driving, passing bad checks and traffic violations, FBI officials said. …
The people being fingerprinted had come from the Middle East, North Africa and
Many of the detainees and insurgents with a rap sheet in the
† Pre-Pregnancy Health For Men: Tranny Thomas Beatie, 34, gave birth to a baby girl at
† Pay The Ho: Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the hooker who serviced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-NY) has dropped her $10-million lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis and his film company in which she claimed her name and image had been exploited for profit, and that she was tricked into signing a release form and exposing her breasts in 2003, when she was only 17, reports People magazine. For his part, Francis disputed her allegations, insisting that she “gave her consent on video when the footage was taken, and at that time provided his camera crew with identification that showed she was 18. Francis later released video clips that supported those assertions.”
† Updates To Previous Posts (Carrying The Torch For The “Genocide Olympics,” second item): Unlike the leaders of England and Germany, President Bush will attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics next month, The New York Times reports:
On Capitol Hill, some lawmakers, led by two representatives - Neil Abercrombie, Democrat of Hawaii, and Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California - have urged a boycott of the Games. In a telephone interview from
“I think that a president who has said we are conducting warfare in different parts of the world in order to promote democracy and human rights loses credibility when he announces that he is going to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in a country that is the world’s worst human rights abuser,” Mr. Rohrabacher said.
† A Flower Child’s Worst Nightmare: Young Republicans Have Taken Over Berkeley: The New York Times reports that liberal baby boomer college professors 50-years old and up – who made up more than 54 percent of full-time faculty members in the U.S. in 2005 – are expected to start retiring in the next decade will be replaced by politically moderate younger professors:
Baby boomers, hired in large numbers during a huge expansion in higher education that continued into the ’70s, are being replaced by younger professors who many of the nearly 50 academics interviewed by The New York Times believe are different from their predecessors — less ideologically polarized and more politically moderate.
“There’s definitely something happening,” said Peter W. Wood, executive director of the National Association of Scholars, which was created in 1987 to counter attacks on Western culture and values. “I hear from quite a few faculty members and graduate students from around the country. They are not really interested in fighting the battles that have been fought over the last 20 years.” …
Yet already there are signs that the intense passions and polemics that roiled campuses during the past couple of decades have begun to fade. At Stanford a divided anthropology department reunited last year after a bitter split in 1998 broke it into two entities, one focusing on culture, the other on biology. At
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