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President Barack Obama laid a wreath at Ground ordering the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Zero in New York City Thursday, just four days after Pakistan. SEE PAGE 3.

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NE W S B R I E F S CAB DRIVERS RALLY, SUBMIT PETITION FOR FARE HIKE City cab drivers hit hard by rising gas prices submit a proposal for another fare hike. They rallied in front of the Taxi and Limousine Commission’s office Wednesday, seven years since the last hike went into effect. Under the latest proposal, the per-mile metered rate would rise from $2 to $2.50. The wait time would jump from 40 cents per minute to 50 cents. The alliance says while fares have stayed the same over the past few years, gas prices have shot through the roof. “2004 incomes paying for 2011 expenses is going to take anybody deeper into poverty, especially when you already earn below minimum wage,” said Bhairavi Desai of the Taxi Workers Alliance. “The money we are earning is not the money we can afford our family, children, school and education,” said Mohammad Sultan, an alliance member. TLC Chairman David Yassky said he will consider the proposal. QUEENS TENNIS STADIUM DENIED LANDMARK STATUS The legendary Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens will not be landmarked. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission acknowledged the aging arena’s historical significance, but cited the “deteriorated state” of its architecture as the reason for denying landmark status. The Rego-Forest Preservation Council says the Landmarks Law does not reference a site’s condition for rejecting a public hearing. It also says other buildings around the city have been restored after being landmarked. In October, members of the West Side Tennis Club voted against selling the stadium to a developer planning to build luxury housing. The Forest Hills Stadium was home to the U.S. Open through the late 1970’s and hosted musical acts like The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Barbara Streisand. POLICE SAY BURGLAR HAS ATTACKED EIGHT APARTMENTS A burglar suspected of a slew of apartment burglaries on the Upper East Side is now blamed for more incidents. Police have linked two more break-ins to the pattern, bringing the total to eight. Investigators say the man man stole property from unlocked apartments between April 4-19. The break-ins happened on 63rd Street, 73rd Street and 82nd Street. The suspect is described as being 6-feet-2-inches tall and between 40 and 45 years old. Anyone with information on the case should contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com.

NASA marks 50th anniversary of U.S. manned space flight By IRENE KLOTZ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — The United States space program was down and out when Alan Shepard climbed inside a one-man capsule on May 5, 1961, for a 15-minute ride. Rival Russia had flown cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first, higher and longer, and some in the nascent NASA thought the game was over. “When (Shepard) took off, he carried NASA on his shoulders,” said Shepard biographer and long-time space journalist Jay Barbree. “If he failed, he knew it would be the failure of the space program.” At the wind-swept launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where Shepard blasted off, former astronauts, NASA guests and community leaders gathered Thursday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first flight of a U.S. astronaut into space. “Project Mercury gave our country something new,” said NASA administrator Charlie Bolden, a former space shuttle astronaut. Shepard’s fellow Mercury Seven astronaut Scott Carpenter also attended the event, which featured a high-definition rebroadcast of Shepard’s inaugural mission.

The 116-mile high jaunt beyond the atmosphere led to six successful moon landings and the space shuttle program. For 30 years, the shuttle program put hundreds of people, spacecraft and science experiments into orbit and helped build the International Space Station, a $100-billion, multinational orbital laboratory where astronauts have been living continuously for more than a decade. “We now move out on an exciting path forward where we will develop the capabilities to take humans to even more destinations in the solar system,” Bolden said. NASA is retiring the shuttles this year after two more flights due to high operating costs and to free up funds to develop spaceships that can travel beyond the station’s 220-mile high orbit. NASA hopes to hire commercial companies to fly astronauts to and from the station, breaking what will be a Russian monopoly on station crew ferry flights after shuttle retirement. China, the only other country that has flown people in space, is not a member of the station partnership. Commercial suborbital flights,

Alan Shepard, the first American in space, is shown planting a U.S. flag on the lunar surface during the Apollo 14 mission. similar to what Shepard experienced, also are expected to begin as early as next year for tourists, scientists and business ventures. In honor of Shepard’s flight, the United States Postal Service on Wednesday unveiled two commemorative stamps. One depicts a spacesuited Shepard, with the Freedom Seven capsule and Redstone rocket in the background. A picture of NASA’s Mercury-orbiting Messenger spacecraft is on the second stamp. Both are “forever” stamps, which can be used at any time in the future for first-class letter postage. Shepard, who went on to command America’s third mission to the moon, died of leukemia in 1998 at the age of 74. Of the original seven astronauts, Carpenter and John Glenn, a former senator and the first American to orbit Earth, are still alive.

So where are the jobs? For the U.S. economy, bouncing back is hard to do When it comes to recessions, the U.S. economy doesn’t bounce back like it used to, The Conference Board reports in an analysis recently released. In March 2011, the number of people employed in the U.S. was only 0.2 percent higher than in June 2009, when the recession ended, notes the report, entitled “So Where are the Jobs?” The current recovery is the second slowest on record since 1961 – continuing a trend that began in 1991 of weak growth in both jobs and GDP. In the last three recoveries, neither GDP nor employment “roared back” as was typical after earlier downturns. In the current recovery, some industries are doing better, others worse. “When looking across industries, the current recovery is showing some unique trends,” says Gad Lev-

anon, Associate Director of Macroeconomic Research at The Conference Board, and author of the report. “For example, employment in construction, finance and state/local government is not only declining, but declining much faster than in any other recovery since 1960. The decline in these industries is a result of forces that go beyond the ups and downs we see in typical recessions, and a strong bounce back is unlikely in the near future.” Since the end of recession, total employment in construction, finance and state/local government declined by 1.06 million jobs, while the rest of the economy added 1.3 million jobs. The Conference Board report includes a breakdown by industry, including a listing of job recovery rates by sector and over time. For example:

Hardest Hit: The number of jobs in construction (-8.1 percent), finance (1.8 percent), and state and local government (-1.0 and -2.6 percent respectively) continued to decline in the 21 months after the end of the recession. Disappointing: Healthcare and leisure and hospitality jobs have recovered, but at a rate slower than any since 1960. Doing OK: Manufacturing suffered less job loss than in recent recessions, and in the last 12 months, manufacturing employment has grown at the highest rate since the 1990s. Shrinking Government: The growth in federal government jobs during the recovery has been historically high (38,000), but not enough to offset the unprecedented losses in state and local government jobs (429,000).

California GOP member censured over joke FULLERTON, Calif. — A Republican Party official in California who sent an e-mail portraying U.S. President Barack Obama as a chimp has been censured, party officials said. Marilyn Davenport, an elected member of the Orange County GOP’s governing Central Committee, was censured Wednesday by the county’s executive committee in a 12-2 vote. “She was censured because she knew the e-mail she was sending out

was controversial,” said county Republican Party Chairman Scott Baugh. “After it went out, she downplayed it as a joke. Instead of owning up to her error, she immediately sought to blame others.” In an April 16 e-mail apology, Davenport said, “We all know a double standard applies regarding this president. I received plenty of e-mails about George Bush that I didn’t particularly like yet there was no ‘cry’ in the media

about them.” Davenport issued a statement April 18 in which she seemed contrite and sincere, but things quickly got worse for her, the report said. In a news conference April 20 in her Fullerton driveway Davenport read her April 18 apology, going on to say she wasn’t sure if Obama was born in the United States. Obama was born in Hawaii and last week released his birth certificate.

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Obama honors Sept. 11 victims President Barack Obama laid a wreath at Ground Zero in New York City Thursday, just four days after ordering the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The president did not deliver a speech, just bowed his head in silent prayer as hundreds of camera shutters clicked to record the event. Then he went off for a private meeting with some of the families of victims and survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people at the center, at the Pentagon and in an airliner forced down by passengers in a Pennsylvania field. Bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qaida, ordered the attacks. Aboard Air Force One on the way to New York, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president “believes it’s appropriate and fitting to travel to New York this week, in the wake of the successful mission to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, in order to recognize the terrible loss that New York suffered on 9/11, and to acknowledge the burden that the families of the victims, the loved ones of the victims, have been carrying with them since 9/11, almost 10 years, and in an effort to perhaps help New Yorkers and Americans everywhere to achieve a sense of closure with the death of Osama bin Laden.” Before laying the wreath, Obama visited the Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 Fire Station, which lost 15 firefighters among the 343 New York firefighters killed trying to evacuate the Twin Towers. “This is a symbolic site of the extraordinary sacrifice that was made on that terrible day almost 10 years ago,” the president told the

firefighters and other first responders. “Obviously we can’t bring back your friends that were lost, and I know that each and every one of you not only grieve for them, but have also over the last 10 years dealt with their family, their children, trying to give them comfort, trying to give them support. “What happened on Sunday,” Obama said in reference to the raid, “because of the courage of our military and the outstanding work of our intelligence, sent a message around the world, but also sent a message here back home that when we say, ‘We will never forget,’ we mean what we say. That our commitment to making sure that justice is done is something that transcended politics, transcended party; it didn’t matter which administration was in, it didn’t matter who was in charge, we were going to make sure that the perpetrators of that horrible act — that they received justice.” The president added: “It’s some comfort, I hope, to all of you to know that when those guys (Navy SEALs) took those extraordinary risks going into Pakistan, that they were doing it in part because of the sacrifices that were made in the states. They were doing it in the name of your brothers that were lost.” Obama shared an informal lunch with the delighted firefighters of shrimp salad, veal and eggplant Parmesan. After meeting with the firefighters, the president made a shorter visit to the First Precinct police station in lower Manhattan. Obama was accompanied to both sites by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was a symbol of the city’s

President Barack Obama bows his head with members of the NYPD and the FDNY after placing a wreath at Ground Zero, the site of the former Twin Towers, days after Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals almost 10 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. defiance when he walked the streets after the towers collapsed. It was Obama’s first visit to Ground Zero, the site of the destroyed World Trade Center, since he became president. Obama invited former president George W. Bush to the Ground Zero events, but Bush declined. A spokesman for the former president said while Bush appreciated the invitation, he wanted to adhere to his policy of keeping out of the public eye now that he’s no longer in the White House. Bush visited Ground Zero when it was still a smoldering mass of rubble, delivering a speech using a firefighter’s bullhorn. The White House said it wasn’t offended by Bush’s decision not to attend Thursday’s events, adding that the former president was invited in the spirit of unity Obama said

he hoped would prevail in the wake of bin Laden’s killing, just as it did after the terror attacks bin Laden orchestrated nearly a decade ago. Coinciding with Obama’s visit was the National September 11 Memorial and Museum’s unveiling Wednesday of a navigable computerized guide to every name of the 2,982 victims inscribed on bronze parapets being installed along the edge of pools where the World Trade Center towers once stood. Announcement of the names arrangement was not timed to sync up with Obama’s visit, said Joseph C. Daniels, the memorial and museum’s president and chief executive officer. Rather, Daniels said, the idea was “to communicate with families significantly ahead of time so they can start familiarizing themselves with the locations.”

Rebel flag irks Blacks in Georgia county Washington Heights street may

be renamed for Betty Shabazz

Demonstrators protesting the use of the Confederate flag in the Georgia State flag. EASTMAN, Ga. — African Americans told Dalton County, Ga., officials the Confederate flag was a symbol of repression, not the region’s heritage. About 60 people attended this week’s county commission meeting to protest its decision to allow the Confederate flag to fly outside the courthouse year round. Edward DuBose, president of the Georgia chapter of the NAACP, said the civil rights organization was prepared to go to court to reverse the decision the commission made last month. “You can be legally right sometimes, but morally wrong,” DuBose

said. “I shouldn’t be in Dodge County because of this issue.” The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph said Thursday the commissioners cited equally strong public pressure to display the stars-and-bars every day. The previous policy raised the flag only on Confederate Heritage Day. DuBose and other NAACP leaders said they did not object to showing the Civil War flag on Heritage Day or hanging it from private homes despite its connection to slavery. In the end, the Telegraph said, the commission declined to vote on a motion to reverse last month’s decision, saying the issue had already been debated at length.

A Washington Heights street near where civil-rights icon Malcolm X was assassinated nearly five decades ago may be renamed for his wife, Dr. Betty Shabazz. The street renaming would be symbolic, which means a sign would be added to a pole on the corner of W. 165th Street and Broadway bearing Shabazz’s name, but the street would retain its current name. Community Board 12 voted last month for a resolution to rename the street, but the honorary renaming still must be approved by the City Council. The street sign, which would read Betty Shabazz Place, would be posted on the pole in front of what used to be the Audubon Ballroom and Theater, where Malcolm X was slain. The building is now an educational center – the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial Educational Center – that Shabazz worked tirelessly to create. She died before it was completed in 1997, but her daughters worked to carry out her dream and open the center, which

they did in 2005. One of Shabazz’s daughters, Malaak, tells the Daily News the renaming is long overdue, saying her mother was the cornerstone of the family and is a role model for young women. Malaak and her twin sister, Malikah, were born just months after their father was killed in 1965. “He died in 1965, and she raised six young girls by herself. She did it by any means necessary,” Malaak told the paper. “I hope it’s going to inspire young women. We don’t have many heroes.”

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JOURNAL OF THE PEOPLE’S PASTOR ‘WRITING THE HISTORY I’VE LIVED, LIVING THE HISTORY I WRITE!’

Fifty-two nights and half-a-day in the hospital: My experience

THOMAS H. WATKINS

Demanding the best education for Black children

By REV. DR. HERBERT DAUGHTRY

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Weathering the storm of adversity By LINDA TARRANT-REID Special to the NNPA from The Westchester County Press Spring has finally arrived in the northeast but not without devastating consequences. A band of wild weather swept across the country’s southeast region in April as a result of extreme climactic changes that spawned the second deadliest outbreak of tornadic activity in U.S. history since 1925. The death toll has risen in seven states to nearly 340, where reportedly more than 100 tornadoes, including at least one EF-5 (the highest rating) packing winds of 200 miles per hour or more, touched down. And in Alabama, the hardest hit state, an estimated 246 have died so far, with scores injured. Watching the images on TV, I was reminded of the tenuousness of life and how in a blink of an eye, all that you have acquired can be wiped out. As the residents reconnected with missing relatives, I witnessed their absolute joy and gratefulness that their family members had survived. These scenes of gratitude made me more conscious of the fragility of life and how important our connections to each other. Amidst the devastation in the

southeast, spring signals the start of the graduation and reunion season. These events provide an opportunity to remember and reflect on our own relationships as we reconnect with our families and friends. My 40th college reunion is in a few weeks and I’m not certain that I will make it because of prior obligations. Nonetheless, this occasion has inspired me to reach out to former classmates on Facebook and via email that I’d lost contact. It has also given me the opportunity to reminisce with college friends, that I see regularly, about our student days at Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, in Virginia. I had visited Hampton in the spring of my junior year in high school during a college tour sponsored by the local chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. I was a member of their youth group, La Jeunesse, which fostered the academic, cultural, and social development of young African American women. That visit confirmed my choice and I entered the freshmen Class of ‘71 in August of 1967. During the 60s and 70s, America was experiencing cataclysmic change. The era was characterized by political, social, and cultural upheaval. Protests against the Viet Nam War, demands by Black stu-

dents for Black studies programs, and the emergence of the Black Power Movement which inspired Black pride and Black identity were taking place on campuses all over the country. Young college students were swept up in this vortex of change and Hampton was no exception. In 1970, a group of us took over the Administration Building for four days demanding more relevant course offerings, co-ed dorms and student representation on the Board of Trustees and the Administrative Council. This was a bold move because Hampton was a fairly conservative institution. After much back and forth between the student leaders and the administration, our demands were met. When it was over, all students were asked to leave campus immediately, classes were cancelled for the remainder of the semester, and so was our graduation. All of our memories, both bitter and sweet, of the historically Black university experience, bind us forever. Sneaking off campus to parties, pulling all-nighters studying for finals, and consoling each other after a bad break-up are the stuff of good memories. My dear friends “ Sandy, Gwen, Cheryl, Adele, Donna, and Connie” easily transform into

Bin Laden: Equal opportunity killer By KENNETH J. COOPER Special to the NNPA from thedefendersonline.com Some African Americans, out of a naïve or uninformed sense of Third World solidarity, may be tempted to lament Osama bin Laden meeting his end with a bullet to the head. Don’t cry for Osama. In their maniacal pursuit of Americans to kill, bin Laden and Islamic fundamentalists of his breed have not cared whether they take the lives of African Americans—or Africans, for that matter. Half of the passenger airplanes used in the 9/11 attacks struck New York, home to more African Americans than any other city. The plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was probably headed for Washington, D.C., where most residents are Black. Not long after those surprise attacks, whose death toll of nearly 3,000 did include African Americans, a Black journalist suggested a frank, private conversation could calm down “Brother Osama.” I had no idea what that journalist was talking about. The pattern of Al Qaeda and affiliated crews killing Black folks began before 2001. Three years earlier, bin Laden’s operatives bombed two U.S.

embassies in east Africa. The truck bombing in Kenya killed a Black career diplomat, Julian Bartley, and his son, Julian Jr. The embassy in Tanzania was hit the same day. Charles Stith, an African American who is a longtime friend, was just weeks from being installed as ambassador there. Predictably, most of the 200 people killed in the coordinated bombings were Africans. Every American embassy employs “foreign service nationals” hired in the host country. And who else besides locals are likely to be on the streets of Nairobi and Dar es Salaam? In 1998, I was working as a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post in South Asia and had personal safety reasons for being aware and wary of the indiscriminate antiAmericanism of Islamic fundamentalists. I covered both Pakistan and Afghanistan at the time the Taliban rose to power and was hosting bin Laden, who issued his fatwa against America, despite lacking the religious authority to deliver a Muslim edict. One morning in 1997 I was in a hotel restaurant in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, about to take my first sip of coffee when the Post’s stringer called me urgently from Karachi , the country’s biggest port and financial center. He told me that four Americans had been killed there in a

carjacking, almost certainly by Islamic fundamentalists. The slain Americans were accountants working for a Texas oil company that did business in Pakistan . One was later identified as a Nigerian American. The heavily-armed attackers did not ask Ephraim Egbu to duck while they killed his three White coworkers. No, they blew his brains out too. Nor was the Pakistani driver spared. I had known, before my posting in India in 1996, that a CIA agent had been killed in a similar carjacking in Karachi . In doing background research, I learned that his secretary—an African American—was shot to death, too. Before the second carjacking, I had a habit of taking an exercise walk from the Marriott Hotel on the same route in Islamabad about the same time of day. Even though I could blend in with Pakistanis because of my light-brown skin, I started consciously varying my exercise routine when visiting the modern, planned city with leafy boulevards. On 9/11, I was national editor of the Boston Globe, responsible for directing the paper’s coverage in New York and D.C. Instantly, my hunch was Bin Laden was responsible, and I said so right after the second place crashed into the World Trade Center. I spent the next four

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the young 18-year old girls we were back in the day at our home by the sea whenever we spend time together. The teasing support, the gentle competitiveness, and most of all the enduring love we have for each other continues to this day. Hampton University also endures. Founded in 1868, the historically Black university has continued to flourish expanding its academic offerings, its physical plant, and its faculty. Booker T. Washington attended the school in 1872 and went on to become the principal and co-founder of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, one of the states tragically affected by the tornadoes. His work ethic and vision of educating African Americans to meet the challenges of their newly-freed status resonates through the decades. The residents of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and the other affected states have a daunting task in front of them to rebuild their lives and their communities. With support from the national community and all of our prayers, they too, will endure.

— Linda Tarrant-Reid is an author, historian and photographer. Her book Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century will be published in 2012. Send your comments to Linda TarrantReid, C/O The Westchester County Press, Post Office Box 152, White Plains, New York 10602. years closely tracking Bin Laden’s every utterance, reading detailed explorations of his mindset and wishing I had copied my file collected while monitoring his activities for the Washington Post. It was about then the Black journalist spoke of “Brother Osama.” Later, after Barack Obama was elected, a White pundit predicted in a national magazine that Al Qaeda would ease up on America with a Black president in the White House. I thought that pundit was delusional, too. Sure enough, followers of a downgraded and dispersed Al Qaeda have continued to hatch a series of foiled plots against the United States. But President Obama harbored no illusions about Bin Laden and did not ease up on him. All Americans— Black and White, Christian and Muslim, and everyone else—should rest a little easier knowing the intensive manhunt finally caught up with the 9/11 mastermind. He got him what he had coming.

— Kenneth J. Cooper, a PulitzerPrize winning journalist, is a freelancer based in Boston . He also edits the Trotter Review at the University of MassachusettsBoston.

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Bin Laden, Geronimo link angers Native Americans By MICHELLE NICHOLS The reported use of “Geronimo” as a codeword in the operation that led to Osama bin Laden’s killing has angered some native Americans and threatens to become an embarrassment for the Obama administration. Geronimo was an Apache warrior leader who fought for tribal lands against U.S. and Mexican forces in the 19th century and who, like bin Laden, evaded capture for many years. He was held as a U.S. prisoner of war from the time he was captured in 1886 until his death in 1909. Bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader who masterminded the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, was shot in the head by U.S. forces who stormed his compound in Pakistan on Monday after a decade-long manhunt.

It has been widely reported that U.S. forces said “Geronimo EKIA (Enemy Killed in Action)” to confirm bin Laden’s death. The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs was to discuss concerns raised over “the linking of the name of Geronimo, one of the greatest Native American heroes, with the most hated enemy of the United States,” said the committee’s chief counsel Loretta Tuell. While the Geronimo codeword for the bin Laden operation has been widely reported, the Pentagon has not confirmed it. Pentagon officials did not immediately respond to requests for reaction to the objections by Native Americans. “To equate Geronimo or any other Native American figure with Osama bin Laden, a mass murderer and cowardly terrorist, is painful and offensive to our Tribe and to all native Americans,” wrote Jeff Houser, chairman

of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, in a letter to President Barack Obama. Houser said that while he was certain the naming of the operation was based on “misunderstood and misconceived historical perspectives of Geronimo and his armed struggle,” he demanded a formal apology from Obama. “What this action has done is forever link the name and memory of Geronimo to one of the most despicable enemies this country has ever had,” he wrote. “Unlike the coward Osama bin Laden, Geronimo faced his enemy in numerous battles and engagements,” Houser said. Geronimo is also a motivational catchcry of U.S. Army paratroopers after a member of the first experimental parachute unit yelled “Geronimo” in 1940 as he leaped from a plane, inspired after watching a 1939 movie about the Apache warrior, historians said.

Chester Rodriguez, 55, an Apache descendant of Geronimo in Bisbee, Arizona, said it was not right to use Geronimo’s name for the bin Laden operation. “Geronimo wasn’t a terrorist, he was a good man, he spoke the truth about the white man and what they did to his people ... He wasn’t like that (bin Laden) at all,” said Rodriguez, whose Apache name is Eagle Bone. The Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs in New York state said that using Geronimo as the code name for the bin Laden mission was “reprehensible.” “To compare him to Osama bin Laden is illogical and insulting,” the Council of Chiefs said in a statement. “The name Geronimo is arguably the most recognized Native American name in the world, and this comparison only serves to perpetuate negative stereotypes about our peoples. The U.S. military leadership should

have known better,” they said. The U.S. Senate committee needs to look at the prevalence in American society of “these inappropriate uses of Native American icons and cultures,” said Tuell. “The impacts to Native and non-Native children are devastating,” she said. The U.S. government recognizes 565 Native American tribes whose members lived on the land for centuries before the United States, Canada and Mexico existed, speaking their own languages and following beliefs centered on the natural world. But there has long been problems with the use of American Indian symbols, particularly by sports teams. In 2009 the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by six American Indians in their long-running legal challenge of the Washington Redskins’ football team name, which they find racially offensive.

Drought worsens in Southwest as floods hit Midwest By CAREY GILLAM KANSAS CITY — The severe drought ravaging Texas and other parts of the Southwest was getting worse, weather experts said Thursday, with little respite seen for farmers, ranchers and others whose livelihoods and properties are suffering. The latest report from a consortium of national climate experts dubbed the Drought Monitor said while Texas remained the epicenter for devastation, “exceptional drought,” which is the worst category, expanded not only there but through parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Louisiana. The lack of moisture, coupled with high temperatures and wind, fueled wildfires that so far have ravaged 2.2 million acres and destroyed more than 1,100 buildings in Texas. Farmers are giving up on wheat fields, and ranchers are struggling to keep cattle fed and watered. The drought in the Southwest and Southern Plains comes even as persistent rains and flooding are plaguing parts of the Midwest and lower Mississippi Valley. “We have all this flooding in the East and the Mississippi Valley, and drought in the South,” said climatologist Mark Svoboda. “That is the

way Mother Nature seems to be dealing things right now, in the extremes.” Excessive rainfall has slowed the planting of corn in key growing areas and could become a threat for other key crops, including soybeans. Indeed, only 13 percent of corn was planted by May 1, well behind the average pace of 40 percent. Calling it one of the worst in decades, the drought in Texas has caused widespread crop failures, including the state’s hard red winter wheat crop, according to the experts. Texas is a key production area for U.S. wheat. The losses there and in other parts of the parched Plains will only aggravate already short sup-

plies of wheat around the world. According to data issued Thursday by the Drought Monitor, 94 percent of Texas was suffering severe drought or worse, with exceptional drought rising to 25.96 percent for the Lone Star State from 17.16 percent. Svoboda said higher-thannormal temperatures and lower-than-normal precipitation is forecast through July for Texas and southern Louisiana. The only hope is that a sudden storm system develops that is not yet on the radar screen. “Right now it doesn’t look very good as we head into the summer months,” said Svoboda.

Crop scouts calculate yields in a Kansas wheat field on the first day of their tour of the U.S. Plains hard red winter wheat region in Central Kansas.

Providence rehires roughly 75 percent of laid off teachers PROVIDENCE — Providence has rehired 1,445 of the nearly 2,000 teachers it had dismissed in February as part of an effort to boost the city’s precarious finances. Rhode Island’s capital city is shutting five schools and will ultimately lose 40 to 70 teaching positions, according to Melissa Withers, a spokeswoman for Mayor Angel Taveras. The closures are expected to shave $12 million from the

school budget, she added. “There’s understandably a lot of anxiety,” Withers said. “But I think there are 1,445 teachers who are very relieved.” Termination letters had been sent to the city’s 1,926 teachers to comply with a state law requiring they be notified before March 1 of any possible changes to their employment status. The move sparked an uproar among teachers

unions, which called the terminations unlawful. Mayor Taveras said Providence’s looming $110 million deficit next fiscal year warranted the cuts. Teachers were informed of the rehiring process on Tuesday, following a vote by the Providence School Board in a closed session on Monday, Withers said. The school board also outlined a plan to match about 370 teachers with open posi-

tions in the district. “There will be fewer positions than there are teachers,” Withers said. “But not by much.” She added that 119 teacher contracts were being terminated for specific reasons, such as disciplinary or performance problems, but the positions won’t necessarily be axed. The process should be finalized by the end of the month, Withers added.

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U.S. wants to give frozen Libyan assets to rebels By ALESSANDRA RIZZO & MATTHEW LEE ROME - The United States is trying to free up part of $30 billion it has frozen in Libyan assets so it can better support opponents of Moammar Gadhafi, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton told a conference Thursday on Libya. Twenty-two nations and international organizations met in Rome to figure out how to help the Libyan rebels, who say they need up to $3 billion in the coming months for military salaries, food, medicine and other basic supplies. Clinton said the Obama administration, working with Congress, wants “to tap

some portion of those assets owned by Gadhafi and the Libyan government in the United States, so we can make those funds available to help the Libyan people.” The U.S. has already pledged $53 million in humanitarian aid and authorized up to $25 million in non-lethal assistance to the rebels, including medical sup-

Police officer, child killed in northeast Nigeria MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Police say members of a radical Islamic sect likely killed a high-ranking police officer and a child in northeast Nigeria. Borno state Assistant Police Commissioner Usman Baba said Thursday that the police superintendent assigned to guard the state government headquarters died in the morning attack, as well as a child opening a garage door. Baba said the three

gunmen likely belonged to a radical sect known locally as Boko Haram, which is blamed for a series of targeted assassinations. Meanwhile, in neighboring Gombe state, three boys died in an explosion Thursday apparently caused by a bomb left over from a bank robbery the day before. Police say the boys picked up the explosive while playing in a garbage dump without knowing what it was.

South African minister’s wife guilty in drug case JOHANNESBURG Prosecutors say the wife of the South African Cabinet minister in charge of intelligence has been convicted of dealing in illegal drugs. National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman Natasha Ramkisson says Sheryl Cwele and her co-defendant were found guilty in an eastern South African court Thursday. They face a minimum of 15 years in prison, and sentencing

is expected Friday. The two were accused of recruiting women to smuggle drugs from Turkey and South America. One of the women was arrested in Brazil in 2008 with more than 20 pounds (10 kilograms) of cocaine in her luggage and is now in a Brazilian jail. Cwele’s husband, State Security Minister Siyabonge Cwele, has not commented publicly on the case.

plies, boots, tents, rations and protective gear. The first shipment is to arrive in the western, rebel-held city of Benghazi in the coming days. Clinton declared that ousting Gadhafi was still a top goal. “We have made it abundantly clear that the best way to protect civilians is for Gadhafi to cease his ruthless, brutal attack on civilians from the west to the east, to withdraw from the cities that he is sieging and attacking and to leave power,” Clinton said. “This is the outcome we are seeking.” The Rome conference agreed to establish an internationally monitored fund the rebels can access to provide basic things like food and medicine. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, co-host of the Contact Group conference, said nations have already pledged $250 million in humanitarian aid. It will be “an international fund in which nations can make their contributions in a

transparent way,” Foreign British Secretary William Hague said. Britain has so far provided 13 million pounds ($21.5 million.) But Britain did not plan to offer direct funding to Libya’s rebels beyond the aid money and the nonlethal equipment - satellite phones and body armor - it has already offered. Jibril, Mahmoud head of the rebels’ executive body, welcomed the financial pledges. “We are more than satisfied,” he told reporters. Jibril said he briefed the conference for the first time on a “road map” for the future of Libya, including writing a constitution and calling parliamentary elections. The conference also focused on isolating Gadhafi’s regime, which has launched a relentless military assault against dissidents. Since the uprising against the authoritarian leader broke out in mid-February, the two

S.Africa to rebury Zulu queen for $45m JOHANNESBURG South Africa will rebury the mother of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini at a cost of $45 million after a more than two-year search for her remains, public broadcaster SABC said Wednesday. The king, the traditional leader of the country’s largest ethnic group, had asked officials in the eastern province of KwaZuluNatal to help him find the remains of his mother, Queen Thomozile J e z a n g a n i KaNdwandwe Zulu. SABC said officials plan to rebury her exhumed remains Saturday and hold an unveiling and memorial ceremony Sunday at a total cost to taxpayers of 300 million rand ($45 million, 30 million

euros). The final resting place of the queen, who died in the 1950s in her early 30s, had been unknown. After a more than two-year search that was drawn out by legal red tape, officials from the province’s largest city, Durban, announced they had found a grave containing the remains of a woman named Thoko Zulu and carried out DNA tests that identified her as the queen. She will be reburied at a memorial site in the Durban neighbourhood of Cato Manor, where she lived at the end of her life and where the city plans to develop a cultural museum and heritage centre, officials said.

sides have largely been locked in a stalemate. A U.S. and now NATO-led bombing campaign launched in mid-March has kept Gadhafi’s forces from advancing to the rebel-held east, but has failed to give the rebels a clear battlefield advantage. NATO says its warplanes will keep up the pressure on Gadhafi’s regime as long as it takes to end the violence in Libya. But NATO member nations are increasingly realizing, however, that air strikes and other military action alone won’t end Gadhafi’s attacks on rebel-held areas, and that funding the opposition and working for his ouster could be the key to success. Clinton said the world must keep isolating the Gadhafi regime, including imposing travel bans on top officials, suspending Libyan embassies and sending envoys to work with the opposition’s Transitional National Council. “Isolating Gadhafi means pulling the plug on his propaganda and

incitements to violence,” she said. The conference’s document said the group “will intensify the pressure on the regime, politically, militarily and economically.” “Time is running out for Gadhafi’s regime,” it said. Foreign French Minister Alain Juppe said he expected NATO’s military campaign to last “months.” He insisted the Rome meeting showed “the determination of the coalition to maintain all means of pressure to get the departure of Gadhafi, military pressure but also sanctions and other means of pressure.” NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, also at the conference, refused to “guess about dates” on when NATO’s military campaign would end. He insisted the mission aims to achieve its twin goals of protecting Libyan civilians and guaranteeing humanitarian aid. NATO’s campaign has reduced Gadhafi’s forces by 40 percent, according to Frattini.

Count under way after vote in volatile Sudan state KHARTOUM - The count was under way on Thursday in the volatile Sudan state of South Kordofan after three days of voting for a new governor and assembly, which international observers described as largely calm. The hotly contested elections have pitted former civil war enemies against each other in what was a key battleground during Sudan’s 22-year civil war between north and south, with analysts warning of explosive consequences if the vote fails. South Kordofan’s incumbent governor, Ahmed Harun, the candidate of President Omar al-Bashir’s ruling National Congress Party, is competing against his deputy, Abdelziz al-Hilu, who is number two in the northern branch of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, the ex-rebels who are the south’s ruling party. “Generally, it’s been calm and peaceful,” said Barbara Smith, the country director of the Carter Centre foundation of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. “There have been tensions in some areas. But we have not seen any major irregularities... The party agents have been using the complaints system, and I think that has helped to reduce the tensions,” she added. Sudan’s official SUNA news agency said after the polls closed on Wednesday that voter turnout ranged between 75 and 80 percent, citing the National Election Commission.

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INTERNATIONAL Mubarak’s interior minister jailed in new-era Egypt

Ivory Coast’s top court declares Ouattara president

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara waves during his first visit to the presidential palace in Abidjan. Photo/Luc Gnago ABIDJAN - Ivory won, reversing an Ouattara and incumC o a s t ’ s earlier decision to bent leader Laurent Gbagbo that killed thouC o n s t i t u t i o n a l reject them. The court’s initial sands and displaced Council ratified rejection of electoral more than a million. Thursday the Constitutional results results of a presi- commission Council President Paul the November dential election from 2010 poll sparked a Yao N’Dre said the top showing that four-month power legal body now accepted Alassane Ouattara struggle between that Ouattara won the election.

Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes off Japan: U.S. geological survey TOKYO - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck off the coast of eastern Japan early on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage. Japan is recovering from a magnitude 9.0 quake which struck on March 11 and triggered a huge tsunami.

Volunteer workers dump bags of sludge cleaned up from housing areas damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The disaster killed numerous aftershocks about 26,000 people. since then. There have been

Syrian army pulls back in Deraa, advances elsewhere By SULEIMAN AL-KHALIDI AMMAN - Syria said on Thursday army units have begun to leave Deraa, the heart of an uprising against President Bashar alAssad, but residents described a city still

under siege. Soldiers also raided homes across the country as President Bashar al-Assad grappled with the most serious challenge of his 11-year authoritarian rule. Assad ordered the army to enter Deraa 10 days ago. The city is the place where demon-

strations calling for more freedoms and later for his overthrow started in March. Activists and residents said soldiers backed by tanks had shelled and machinegunned the city’s old quarter and rounded up people in mass arrests.

By EDMUND BLAIR CAIRO - Egypt’s publicly reviled former interior minister was jailed for 12 years on Thursday, the first member of Hosni Mubarak’s cabinet to be sentenced, a step that sent a message that no one in the new Egypt is above the law. Habib al-Adli, hated for the brutality of his police by the protesters who ousted Mubarak on February 11, led a powerful security apparatus and was once seen as untouchable. “Justice couldn’t taste sweeter and will most definitely prevail,” said interior designer Karim El Hayawan, 33, who joined the protesters who massed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Adli’s jail sentence for profiteering and money laundering shows the generals now ruling Egypt are responding to public demands to hold Mubarak’s officials to account and end the abuse of power, analysts say. Adli faces graver charges of killing protesters, as well as squandering public funds. A lawyer on the committee that charged him with murder has called for the death sentence. More than 800 people died in the uprising after police fired rubber bullets, live ammuni-

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tion, water cannon and tear gas at protesters who took to the streets on January 25. Days later, the police lost control and were withdrawn. Then the army moved in. “This is just an appetizer. Twelve years for profiteering only gets us rolling. That is just for someone who abused his power for personal gains, let’s hold our breath when he falls for killing protesters,” Khaled Tawfeek said on a Facebook group set up in memory of an activist who died in police custody. Egyptians have been closely watching the fate of Adli, whose police crushed the smallest of protests for years and frequently rounded up Islamists without charge. Rights groups say torture was routine in Egypt’s jails under Adli. CAGE Adli has been held in a prison on the outskirts of Cairo alongside a former prime minister, other cabinet members and top officials, and Mubarak’s two sons. One of those, Gamal, was once tipped as a future president. Investigators questioned Gamal and his brother Alaa in prison on charges of amassing wealth based on the status of their father, the state news agency reporting citing a deputy justice minister. They face a range of charges. The former president himself is also under

investigation for abuse of power, embezzlement and responsibility for the deaths of some protesters, and is being held in a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh. In his trial, Adli stood in court in a cage, where defendants traditionally stand — a scene that would have been unimaginable just three months ago. “In the long history of Egypt, no minister of the interior — and ministers of the interior are among the most powerful of ministers — has ever been charged, tried and convicted,” said political scientist Mustapha al-Sayyid. “This is very important because we are beginning to see the principle of rule of law being exercised,” he said. A judicial source said Adli had received seven years for money laundering, with a further five years for profiteering. The state news agency put the value of fines and confiscated assets at 23.2 million Egyptian pounds ($3.9 million). Several police stations were torched during the uprising, partly because Egyptians were frustrated with a police force many say was corrupt and acted as if it were above the law. Ordinary Egyptians accuse Adli of deliberately causing chaos during the revolt when thousands of prisoners walked out of prison and even traffic police left the streets.

Hamas leader calls to keep truce with Israel GAZA - The Hamas leader in Gaza urged militant groups Thursday to stick with a de facto truce with Israel, announced after fighting last month, so as to give a Palestinian reconciliation deal with Fatah rivals a chance. “I call for giving the coming government a chance by maintaining” the ceasefire deal, Ismail Haniyeh said in a speech, a day after Hamas and Palestinian

President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement signed a unity pact in Cairo. “We do not fear threats. We do not fear the occupation,” he added, referring to Israel. “We always said that we seek and have sought to avoid a new war,” Haniyeh said in a two-hour address. Haniyeh’s comments seemed the first concrete sign of progress for the unity deal brokered by Egypt for which security had been envisaged as a potential pitfall.

The agreement seeks to resolve a four-year split in the Palestinian national movement that had hindered the quest to achieve statehood in land captured by Israel in the 1967 war. In reaching the deal, the sides had set aside the issue of bridging their policies toward Israel. Unlike Abbas’s group, which recognizes Israel, Islamist Hamas refuses to recognize the Jewish state, hostility to which often results in cross-border violence. - Nidal al-Mughrabi

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St. Kitts-Nevis PM warns of increasing xenophobia BASSETERRE, St. Kitts — A call for renewal and a enhancement of the Caribbean’s foreign policy coordination has come from St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas. He said that the challenges that the Caribbean faces are real and there is the reality of increasing xenophobia. Delivering the feature address at the official opening of the 14th meeting of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) in St. Kitts, Douglas said the input and recommendations of COFCOR is key and there must be an ongoing examination of the principles, practices, and mechanisms in the coordination of the approach to foreign policy, in the same way that there needs to be a review of the mechanisms by which the

region engages third countries and groups of countries. “As we do so, we must pay particular attention to our bilateral relations, framework agreements including memoranda of understanding and cooperation agreements; the regular scheduling of high-level meetings; the joint commission of mechanisms; similar and the accreditation of plenipotentiary representatives,” said Douglas. “There is the matter of global corporate attempts — not always obvious or openly admitted — to secure, and place in private hands, fresh water sources from every continent — the ‘oil’ of the twentyfirst century. There is the issue of illegal drugs and weapons. There is global warming. All of these challenges demand exactly what we have already committed ourselves to: serious introspection and selfanalysis as a region, so that we would be able to

effectively chart the type of course that we must, in order to preserve the environmental, sociopolitical, and economic integrity of both our individual member states, and our broader Caribbean community,” said the St. Kitts and Nevis leader. Douglas told delegates, among them representatives from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), as well as Slovenia, Hungary, Africa and South Australia, that co-ordination will assume an increasingly important role in the months and years ahead. “Co-ordination in the form of joint representation, co-ordination in order to continue the adoption of joint positions on matters of regional and international import, co-ordination within the context of non-Caribbean intergovernmental organizations,” said the prime minister, who noted that the region is fortunate to already have in place a

number of foreign policy coordinating mechanisms and structures such as the Bureau of the Conference of Heads of Government, the Bureau of the COFCOR; the regular and informal meetings of COFCOR; consultations among senior officials of CARICOM member states and the Secretariat and caucuses of CARICOM ambassadors in Washington, New York, Ottawa, Geneva, and Brussels. “These we must continue to utilize and build upon, while also striving to strengthen existing ties with members of the Caribbean Diaspora whose numerical, financial, political or other strengths beyond the Caribbean, when strategically applied could redound to the benefit of the region from which they, our nationals, originated,” said Douglas. He told the meeting that the advantages of establishing mutually beneficial, mutually respectful relations with

like-minded nations in both the industrialized and the non-industrialized world can be significant, “as we strive to develop our resources; preserve the security of the Community; and expand our economic space.” “In this era of rapid technological changes, our relations with nations with which we can partner as we strive to develop our own technological capabilities can also be significantly advanced by the coordinated regional foreign policy orientation of which we often speak as are the objectives, positions, and initiatives that we, as a region, have already identified as being key to our prosperity, stability, human resource development, and national security,” said Douglas, who called for a pursuit of these goals to shape and guide both the bilateral as well as the multilateral relations. “Let us within this region, find ways, via

St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas addresses the delegates to the 14th COFCOR meeting Photo by Erasmus Williams collaboration, coordination, and ongoing communication amongst ourselves, to advance precisely those national and regional interests that we have identified as key, and which, properly pursued would provide the type of momentum that we, as policy makers, desire to see not only in terms of the process, but far more importantly, in terms of the results,” he said.

Turks and Caicos land sale scandal now a criminal investigation PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands — It has now been revealed that the special investigation and prosecution team (SIPT), headed by special prosecutor Helen Garlick, is heading the investigation into the sale of a reported 2,500 acres of Crown land in the Turks and Caicos Islands for extremely low prices to a financially challenged Miami developer. It was previously reported that the civil asset recovery teams were investigating the scandal, which broke last year when it was revealed that the transfer documents of whole blocks of land had the acreage seriously understated. The fact that the SIPT is heading the probe throws a different light on the case. It is no longer a situation where recovery of the land is the primary concern but the focus now shifts to the possibility of laws

Special prosecutor Helen Garlick having been broken. According to reliable sources, the names of 15 people have surfaced in connection with the sale — reported to be the largest, yet secretive, sale of Crown land in the history of the Turks and Caicos Islands. A team of investigators is reported to be traveling widely to interview the individuals in question. The land was transferred to a corporation reported to be owned by a Miami-based developer after the 2007 election and, with only a 50 percent down payment,

freehold title was granted. The second payment was due on February 11 of this year but it is unknown if it was paid. The Miami development firm has been experiencing financial difficulties and shortly after the Middle Caicos deal was consummated it lost its office building in Florida as a result of foreclosure. The land in question, reportedly worth between $100,000 and $300,000 per acre, was sold for only $6,000 per acre with only $3,000 per acre paid into the Treasury. The land transfer documents indicate the whole blocks of land transferred total 1,050 acres; however, surveyors’ records for the same blocks place the acreage at more than twice that amount and reportedly over 2,500 acres. Local attorney Clayton Greene, former Speaker of the House and current leader of the Progressive National

Party (PNP) reportedly represented the purchaser of the Middle Caicos land and he has consistently denied any other involvement in the matter. The investigators have reportedly been in contact with Provo residents, revisiting one who is said to be providing vital information, and the team has also interviewed other individuals on North and Middle Caicos. Sources have indicated that some of the North and Middle Caicos-based individuals are claiming no knowledge of the use of their names. In some cases, named parties were not present in the TCI at the time their names were used. The investigators are seemingly dedicated at getting to the truth of the situation and have told at least some of those interviewed that it will best serve their personal interests if they tell all they know about

the situation earlier rather than later. The case has also been addressed by the Attorney General’s Office, saying it is expected to reach the courts later this year.

In related news, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the TCI, Mark Capes, has responded to questioning on the status of the overall efforts of the Helen Garlick team.

Cuba will not reduce prices of tourism offerings, says minister HAVANA, Cuba — Cuba will improve the quality of its tourist offerings without reducing prices, despite the decrease of tourism worldwide, and Cuba not having access to the U.S. market, said Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero. “Cuba will never consider the reduction of prices as a solution to the fluctuation between the high and the low seasons, because that will damage Cuba’s image as a tourist destination,” he said. Marrero spoke at the opening of the 31st FITCUBA Tourism International Fair, where he pointed out that, while the United States forbids its citizens to freely travel to Cuba, other countries like Canada, the UK, and France, among others, are increasing the amount of travelers they send. He highlighted that tourist arrivals have grown 11.7 percent in the first four months of 2011, which translates in close to 1.2 million visitors already, and that Varadero, Cayo Santa María, Cayo Largo and Holguin are among the favourite sites for tourists. Havana city, the venue of this fair, remains the most important tourist centre, and it is where most of the visitors (95 percent) arrive.

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Federal court to rule on Carl Lewis bid for Senate seat, request to delay printing of ballots By JARRETT RENSHAW TRENTON - On the track, Carl Lewis dominated. But in his bid to run for state Senate, he’s assuming a much more unfamiliar role: a long shot. With time running out to enter the race, Lewis’ attorney asked a federal appeals court in P h i l a d e l p h i a Wednesday to compel state officials to allow the Olympic track star to compete in the June Democratic primary or delay printing ballots until his appeals are exhausted. The three-judge panel did not issue a ruling but appeared apprehensive about intervening in an issue that deals with the New Jersey Constitution, especially since the case is also under review in state courts. But the panel did express concern that no judge has looked at

Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis is headed to court to battle Republicans who say he hasn't lived in New Jersey long enough to run for state Senate. Photo/Brian Donohue Lewis’ specific situation and appeared willing to remand the case back to U.S. District Court for a more extensive legal analysis. Lewis, 49, is asking the judges to issue an emergency stay in his effort to win a state Senate seat in his South Jersey district. Three county clerks told the

judges that they are already late in printing ballots for the June 7 primary and that their “drop-dead” deadline was Friday. The hearing at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit came on the same day the state Supreme Court denied Lewis’ emergency petition to keep

county clerks from printing ballots without his name. Lewis, a Democrat who grew up in Willingboro, wants to challenge state Sen. Dawn Marie Addiego (R-Burlington) in the 8th District. Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, in her dual role as secretary of state

and overseer of the Division of Elections, decided last week Lewis did not meet the state’s four-year residency requirement for state Senate candidates, in part because he voted in California as recently as 2009. That decision overturned an administrative law judge’s order. So far, a U.S. District Court judge and state appellate judge have refused to overturn Guadagno’s decision. Talking outside the federal courtroom Wednesday, Lewis equated the political setbacks to the time he sat out the 1980 Olympics because of a United States boycott of the games. “This is just a bump in the road,” he said. “Like I said then, we are headed to ‘84.” Lewis, a nine-time Olympic gold medalist, also expressed cynicism about the politics of the situation: “It’s hard to understand how you go from New Jersey’s favorite son to a carpetbagger in three weeks.”

Inside the courtroom, attorney William Tambussi argued that his client has owned homes in the state since 2005 and has been a track coach at his alma mater, Willingboro High School, since 2007. “This is someone who lived in this state 25 of his 49 years. He knows this state,” Tambussi said. “It should be left up to the voters.” He said the fact that the state has a different set of residency requirements for the Assembly (two years) and Senate (four years) violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. But Assistant State Attorney General Donna Kelly said that senators have significantly more responsibilities, which is why the requirements are more stringent. As for the question of leaving the decision of Lewis’ candidacy to the voters, Kelly said, “You do want a choice, but you want a choice of a qualified candidate.”

N.J. Sen. Codey leads call to shut down Newark boarding home following attack on resident By MEGAN DEMARCO NEWARK - All she wanted was a cigarette. A resident at a Newark boarding home for the mentally ill stepped outside Monday night for a quick smoke. Hours later, she was found lying unconscious behind the house, beaten beyond recognition and naked from the waist down though not sexually assaulted, according to police. The 64-year-old victim, whom police did not identify, was in critical condition at UMDNJ, breathing with the help of a ventilator. The police, who have been joined in the investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, said there was

no suspect in custody. The brutal attack prompted an army of Essex County officials, led by Sen. Richard Codey (D-Essex), a longtime advocate of the mentally ill, to demand the closing of the state-subsidized Hills Boarding Home and the transfer of its 25 residents. Codey had exposed unsanitary conditions during a surprise inspection of the home in February. “No human being should be forced to live like this,” he said. “The mentally ill, they’re not going to file a police report. These crimes don’t get reported.” When Codey visited the Hawthorne Avenue home in February, he said he found feces on the floor, bed bugs, bathrooms without toilet paper, and no heat.

During his visit, he criticized the state for lack of oversight and follow-up, though a spokeswoman for the Department of Community Affairs said inspectors have been at the home several times since the senator’s visit. The spokeswoman, Lisa Ryan, said the inspectors found 40 building code violations on Feb. 16, and eight service code violations on Feb. 8, including inadequate changes of linens and towels, supplies of soap and toilet paper, and problems with food preparation and storage. In subsequent inspections, she said, the violations were found to have been dealt with. Ryan said department inspectors found overflowing trash receptacles, spilled cof-

fee in a bedroom and a dirty bathroom, but no code violations. “At the present time, the boarding home is in compliance with state regulations,” she said. “There is no just cause to close down this facility.” Charles Hill, the owner of the multilevel home with rusted red numbers marking the address, refused to let a Star-Ledger reporter tour the building. Across the street, a rundown playground next to a shuttered, graffitiscarred grocery store was empty. Hill said the home is run on meager resources and cannot afford security, adding that Monday night’s victim was supposed to have been in bed when the attack occurred. “This is not a horror house,” he said. “We

(L-R) Sen. Richard Codey provides a handkerchief to Barton Everitt Clark, a resident of the The Hill Boarding Home, who said he was suffering from a bad cold. care for these people.” The assault on Monday night fed the debate over placement of the state’s mentally ill. The Christie administration wants to shut down Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital in Glen Gardner and discharge patients to boarding homes, while Codey supports keeping Hagedorn open. Robert Davison, exec-

utive director of the Mental Health Association of Essex County, said attacks like the one at the Hills Boarding Home are commonplace, and that New Jersey’s mentally ill should be in “supervised, safer areas.” “There’s abuse in the homes,” he said, “and many of these homes are in difficult neighborhoods.”

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Opening Night Highlights of ‘Baby It’s You!’ on Broadway

Beth Leavel and Jane Fonda enjoy a moment at the opening night party.

Allan Louis Jane Fonda, Clive Davis, Valerie Harper and Chester Gregory were among the celebrities who joined Florence Greenberg’s children, Stan Greenberg and Mary Jane Greenberg Hoff, at the opening night of “Baby It’s You!� Inspired by the true story of Florence Greenberg, the woman who in the late 1950’s took the male-dominated music industry by storm. “Baby It’s You!� is a new Broadway musical conceived by Floyd Mutrux, directed by Mutrux and Sheldon Epps, and written by Tony nominated book writers Mutrux and Colin Escott, the team behind Broadway’s “Million Dollar Quartet.�

Erica Ash

Kyra DaCosta Packed with doo-wop, pop and rock ‘n’ roll classics hits such as “Dedicated To The One I Love,� “Soldier Boy,� “Duke Of Earl,� “He’s So Fine,� “I Say A Little Prayer,� “It’s My Party,� “Louie Louie,� “Mama Said,� “Shout,� “Tonight’s The Night,� “I Met Him On A Sunday,� “Rockin’ Robin,� “Twist

Kyra DaCosta, Erica Ash, Beth Leavel, Christina Sajous and Crystal Starr pose for our cameras,

Crystal Starr, Kyra DaCosta, Erica Ash, Christina Sajous who portray the Shirelles in "Baby It's You!� take a bow opening night.

Joan H. Allen, Host of Inside New York and Challenge Editor and Jane Fonda. and Shout� and many more, “Baby It’s You!� stars Tony Award winner Beth Leavel, who just received a Tony nomination for her role as Florence Greenberg, the woman who

Geno Henderson, who portrays Jocko, Chuck Jackson, Ronald Isley and Gene Chandler. changed the recording world forever when she created Scepter Records. Before Motown and the British invasion, the most famous woman in music you have never heard of, Greenberg,

Beth Leavel, who portrays Florence Greenberg, hugs her children, Stan Greenberg and Mary Jane Greenberg Hoff opening night. launched the careers of tures an outstanding some of the biggest ensemble that stars recording stars of the Allan Louis, Geno era including the great- Henderson, Erica Ash, est girl group of all time. Kelli Barrett, Kyra After discovering The DaCosta, Crystal Starr Shirelles at her daugh- Knighton, Barry Pearl, ter’s high school in Christina Sajous, Passaic, New Jersey, Brandon Uranowitz, Greenberg packed the Alison Cimmet, Erica girls in her car, drove Dorfler, Berlando Drake, across the George Adam Heller, Jahi A. Washington Bridge to Kearse, Annette Moore, New York City, and Zachary Prince, Ken embarked on a trailblaz- Robinson and Chelsea ing journey from New Morgan Stock. Jersey housewife to -All Photos by Kevin record mogul. Mason “Baby It’s You!� fea-

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OBIE AWARD WINNER DANIEL BEATY PREMIERES HIS NEW MUSICAL “TEARING DOWN THE WALLS� IN HARLEM The Riverside Theatre, Voza R i v e r s / N e w Heritage Theatre Group, and Walk Tall Girl Productions present the New York premiere of “Tearing Down The Walls,� a new musical featuring direction, book and lyrics by Obie Award winner Daniel Beaty (“Through the N i g h t , � “Emergency�) and music by Beaty and the Oscar and Grammy-nominated songwriting team of Jamal Joseph and Charles Mack (“August Rush�) for a very limited engagem e n t . Performances begin this Friday at The Riverside Theatre (91 Claremont

(L-R) Adrienne Moore, Daniel Beaty, Kelechi Ezie, Umi Shakti, Rumando Kelley, Dietrice Bolden and Jevon McFerrin

Avenue). “Tearing Down The Walls� will officially open on Thursday, May 12. This production follows on the heels on the acclaimed, awardwinning, and extended run of Beaty’s solo show “Through the Night,� which premiered at the Riverside Theatre last year.

Infused with soulful music, impassioned spoken word and laugh-out-loud humor, “Tearing Down The Walls� is about the residents of a tight-knit Harlem community upended and pushed to the limit by life's challenges, but who find hope in the most unusual places. The cast features Dietrice Bolden, Umi Shakti, Adrienne C. Moore, Rumando Kelley, Jevon McFerrin,

DANIEL BEATY NOMINATED FOR DRAMA LEAGUE, OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AND DRAMA DESK AWARDS! Daniel Beaty, writer, director and co-composer of “Tearing Down The Walls,� has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for his acclaimed production of “Through the Night.� “Through the Night� has also been honored with the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award and United Solo Award nominations for Best Solo Show, two LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards for the show’s 2010 Geffen Playhouse run (Lead Actor in a Play and Sound Design), the 2010 Voice of Change Award, and

Daniel Beaty the 2010 Vivian Award for Excellence Robinson AUDELCO in Off-Broadway Recognition Award for Writing and Outstanding Solo Performing and the Performance. For his 2007 Vivian Robinson acclaimed solo show AUDELCO Recognition “Emergency!,� Beaty Award for Outstanding received the 2007 OBIE Solo Performance.

and Kelechi Ezie. The creative team includes

Dell Howlett (choreography), Bryan Collier (scenic and projections design), Catherine Fisher (costume design) and Andrew Merkel (lighting design). The performance schedule during previews will be Friday, May 6, at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, May 7, at 8:00 p.m., Sunday, May 8, at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 10, at 8:00 p.m., and Wednesday, May 11, at 8:00 p.m. After opening night, the performances will be

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., with 3:00 p.m. matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are available via theriversidetheatre.org or (212) 8706784. All preview tickets are $15.00, and all regular performance tickets are $25.00. Opening night tickets are available for purchase at $50, and include exclusive access to the VIP reception where there will be an exhibit of original artwork by Bryan Collier.

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One Thought - One Humanity

Idris Elba happy that Thor casting was ‘color blind’

For the conclusions of these stories check out the May 5th - May 11th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Toni Braxton’s life may be in danger. Toni was scheduled to perform a Mother’s Day concert in Trinidad but was asked to pull out by one of the concert promoters who had threats made against his life. According to freddyo.com, who is close with Toni’s sister Tamar, Toni not only fears for her life, but she doesn’t want to be mixed up in the cross fire between the promoters. Toni is so worried that she has pulled out of the show and forfeited her check. Chris Brown’s single “Look At Me Now” has logged its sixth week atop the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart. Featuring veteran rapper Busta Rhymes, “Look At Me Now” is lifted from Brown’s latest offering, F.A.M.E., currently in stores. “Look At Me Now” is looking to follow in the footsteps of Brown’s 2010 hit “Deuces,” which spent over thirteen weeks at No. 1. In New York City, Keyshia Cole attended the 14th Annual EIF Revlon Run/Walk For Women. We guess Keyshia didn’t participate in the actual run” becasue she had stilletto heels on...but the fans were happy to see her. Frank Ocean is not happy with the LAPD. The hot newcomer recently tweeted is dislike for the boys in blue after he was arrested and detained for an unknown incident. “Just got out of jail,” Ocean tweets to his Twitter followers. “Would like to go on record saying..f**k the police. F**k LAPD to be specific. F**k a cop, non-stop. frank will never speak to a cop again in his natural life. i have no respect for police.” Frank continues, “I swear if i

weren’t sane in mind I’d throw a f**kin Molotov in a cop car right now,” adding “Cuh had napoleon complex. and seemed really sad that he was on that lame a** bike patrol.” No word from authorities regarding the incident. Monica has officially been announced as an advisor on NBC’s new talent hit show “The Voice.” Monica will pair up with the show’s coaches Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton to help contestants hit the high notes. The coaches will eventually put two of the artists on each teams against each other in a series of dueling duets. Enrique Iglesias and Shakira were the toast of the 2011 Billboard Latin Music Awards as they each landed a haul of trophies. Iglesias scooped nine honors, including Latin Artist of the Year, while his Euphoria disc was named Latin Album of the Year and Latin Pop Album of the Year. Colombian superstar Shakira picked up six prizes included Latin Pop Airplay Solo Artist of the Year and Hot Latin Songs Female Artist. Her track Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) was voted the Latin Digital Download of the Year. Other big winners were newcomer Prince Royce, who took home four awards, Aventura, Daddy Yankee and Juan Luis Guerra, who all received three honors apiece. It was ladies’ night at FFAWN’s 2nd Annual Mary J. Blige Honors Concert in New York City. The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul presided over the evening’s festivities at Hammerstein Ballroom. Her fellow divas including Jennifer Hudson, Christina

Aguilera, LeToya Luckett, and Jill Scott were on hand to perform and help award scholarships to tomorrow’s young female leaders. MJB started the organization to ensure that educational opportunities are made available to women so that they can get the training needed to be successful. Waka Flocka Flame can rest a little easier today -- because a grand jury just CLEARED the rapper of all drug related charges stemming from a police raid on his Georgia home last year. A grand jury in Henry County, GA ruled ... there was not enough evidence against Waka to warrant a trial for the drug charges filed against him -- possession of a controlled substance and possession of weed measuring less than an ounce. Three other charges stemming from the raid were dropped before the case went in front of the grand jury. In the spirit of First Lady Obama's "Let's Move" campaign, music maven, Beyonce crashed PS/MS 161 in Harlem to surprise students. The middle schoolers were shocked beyond words as the superstar led a workout routine with them. Beyonce has been doing her part to help Michelle Obama's fight against childhood obesity by remixing her hit 'Get Me Bodied' to be a workout song now titled 'Move Your Body' for the keep-fit initiative. While there, Beyonce was spotted working out and dancing with the students - all in stilettos by the way. Afterwards, the fans were allowed to take pictures with Bey. It is amazing to see so many celebrities have taken an interest in what the First Lady is doing.

Idris Elba, the BBC “Luther” star or Luther – that seems to be a comexplains how his role in the Marvel mon denominator in the characters I comic movie sparked anger from a play.” white supremacist groups. We’re glad Idris is playing the Idris recently spoke about how role of the Norse god Heimdall, it much he respected director Kenneth gives diversity and another perspecBranagh for being “color blind” in tive to the film. his approach to the blockbuster. So far, the signs are looking pretElba explains: ty good for Thor, Marvel’s trickiest “When Kenneth asked me to be Avenger to slot into our universe. So part of it, I did find myself question- as you’d expect, director Kenneth ing race. Branagh was in a good mood when “But Kenneth hadn’t even given we spoke to him. He did address the that a thought. He just needed an biggest controversy that has actor who has presence and com- attached itself to his film so far: the mand, and felt that I fit the bill. casting of Idris Elba as Norse god “It was so refreshing – and a tes- Heimdall. tament to him as an actor and direc“Idris Elba is a fantastic actor - we tor that his casting was genuinely were lucky to get him. He provides color blind. I feel very proud of being all the characteristics we need from part of that movie.” Asgard’s gatekeeper, the man who Elba also added how Thor fits into says, “Thou shalt not pass”. When his catalog of work: Idris says that, you know you’re “It’s different from anything else gonna have a problem. He’s smart, I’ve done; but at the same time, it’s intelligent, handsome and an been pointed out to me that here I absolute joy to work with. If you am playing a central, solid figure have a chance to have a great actor again – the one that people should in the part, everything else is irreletrust. vant. “Take [The Wire’s Stringer Bell] “If you’re going to say the color of - Full Story In This Week’s New American Newspaper -

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Paula Patton’s career ‘Jumping’ toward success

By GEORGE LANG Patton, who achieved a breakthrough dramatic performance as teacher Ms. Rain in “Precious,” resorted to peculiar Internet advice to keep the beasts at bay, and it worked for a while — even if it made the 35-year-old actress smell like an old man’s medicine cabinet. “I looked on the net because I know that mosquitoes eat me alive,” Patton said during a press day at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. “I found that if you use amber Listerine — you know, the yellow kind that your dad used that no one uses anymore? You spray that all over your body and it keeps mosquitoes away. I smelled so bad and it worked for a while, but then they were like, ‘Whatever.’ At one point, I was using amber Listerine, DEET and an armband — we tried everything to keep these guys away, but they were resilient and aggressive.” It was an unusually rustic environment for a lavish wedding film: Lunenburg has a population of 2,300 humans and, joining the mosquitoes in the unpleasant infestation department, a large community of bats. But Patton said the cast, including Loretta Devine, Angela Bassett, Mike Epps, Meagan Good and Laz Alonso, bonded through it all. “I say this all the time — I can’t help it — but it’s hard to get that many people together, especially actors, and have them get along,” she said. “And we did — we all did. In some ways, it was a luxury, because it brought us together.” Patton gained her first wide exposure in “Idlewild,” the ambitious 2006 period musical by the Atlanta

hip-hop duo OutKast. Despite her convincing performance and a family background that suggests musicality — she is married to blue-eyed soul singer Robin Thicke — Patton said that she didn’t actually sing in the film. Or, to be clear, her voice wasn’t used. “Well, I really sang, but it was like singing to Aretha Franklin in the shower. You think you sound like Aretha, but it’s not true,” she said. “I would love to do it again: It was a period piece, all the beautiful costumes and to look like I was a beautiful singer when I truly am not.” From there, Patton’s career stayed on an upward trajectory, appearing in Tony Scott’s “Deja Vu” with Denzel Washington, “Precious” and last year’s romantic comedy with Queen Latifah and Common, “Just Wright.” Later this year, Patton’s career gets its biggest boost when she appears with Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner in director Brad Bird’s “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.” She said her recent opportunities keep her ridiculously busy, but she feels lucky to get such high-profile work. And it’s happening just a year after giving birth to her first son, Julian, which presents its own set of challenges. “It’s called lots of coffee and no sleep,” Patton said, laughing. “It obviously feels great — all of it’s a dream. “It’s a miracle to be able do the thing you love, especially in Hollywood where you know how difficult that is and you know how competitive it is. I think you always have to stay in a place of thankfulness and remember how precious it is to do what you love in such a competitive art form.”

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‘Songs’ raises $5 million Diddy blames canceled shows on for Japanese Red Cross ‘logistics’, not slow ticket sales Sales of the compilation CD “Songs For Japan” have raised $5 million for Japan earthquake and Pacific tsunami relief, Legacy Recordings said. Proceeds from the album are being donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society, which is providing relief to those affected by March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. More than 500,000 digital and physical copies of “Songs For Japan” have been sold. The album includes tracks by John Lennon, U2, Bob Dylan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lady Gaga, Beyonce (right), Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, David Guetta, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Josh Groban, Keith Urban, Black Eyed Peas, Pink, Cee Lo Green, Lady Antebellum, Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, R.E.M., Nicki Minaj, Sade, Michael Buble, Justin Bieber, Adele, Enya, Elton John, John Mayer, Queen, Kings Of Leon, Sting, Leona Lewis, Ne-Yo, Shakira and Norah Jones.

The participating songwriters, record labels, music publishers and iTunes have waived their royalties and proceeds to ensure that the JRCS receives as much support as possible from this initiative, Legacy said in a news release Wednesday.

Diddy’s camp is saying that the cancellation of five Diddy-Dirty Money tour dates in Florida and Missouri had less to do with sluggish ticket sales and more about technical issues. “A few dates for the Coming Home tour in Florida and Missouri were canceled due to production and technical logistics which made it impossible for Diddy-Dirty Money to perform the best show for their fans,” a rep told TMZ. The rep would not explain the exact nature of the “technical logistics,” but TMZ claims the reasons range from lighting to stage problems as possible speedbumps. Diddy-Dirty Money, comprised of Diddy, former Danity Kane singer Dawn Richard and singer Kaleena Harper, plans on hitting its last three tour stops within the next two weeks. “The remaining shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix are scheduled as planned and will

mark the ending to a widely acclaimed tour,” the rep continued. The trio released their debut “Last Train to Paris” in December of 2010. The album surpassed industry expectations selling 101,000 units in its first week. The Coming Home tour wraps up May 10 in Phoenix.

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THE RELIGIOUS ROUTE BY VELMA HART Happy Mother’s Day! There is nothing too valuable that cannot be presented to a mother to say “I love you.” The following article is very much in line with Mother’s Day. On May 1 all day at the St. John’s Baptist Church, Inc., 11`2-=07 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, it was Women’s Day. Rev. Lawrence DeArmon Dorsy is the pastor. Sister Ella Laster was the co-chairperson. The morning celebration was presided by

First Lady Marina. On the program were Sister Geneva Floyd, Minister Kathleen Rucker, Sister Rosemore Wiggins, Sister Dysteni Frazier, Sister Simone Reid, and the Women’s Day Choir provided the ministry with songs. The guest preacher was Evangelist Alesha Caldwell. She is from Rhema House of Prayer and Deliverance. Dinner was served after the worship service. It was very delicious, and most politely served. At

5 p.m., with Sister Ella Laster presiding, the Women’s Day celebration resumed. On the program were Sister Shayeeda Wisdom, Deaconess Linda Parris, Sister Rosemaria Wiggins and selections by the Women’s Day Choir. The theme for the day was “Women of the Kingdom Arise; It’s Time to Wage War.” Scripture Judges 4:410. The preacher of the hour was Dr. Karen Williams. She is from the Vision From The

Heart Ministries. Dr. Williams expounded on the theme of the day. On a lovely day weather-wise, to the lovely dressed ladies, my compliments. Coming up at the SJBC May 16-22 will be services for the 14th Pastoral Anniversary Celebration for Pastor Dorsey and Lady Dorsey. There will be many invited speakers and congregations on each day. All are welcome. Also, on May 1 at 1300 hours (1 p.m.) I attended the

Police Officer John Scarangelia street renaming ceremony. It was held at the 113th Precinct, Baisley Blvd. and 167th Street, Jamaica in the parking lot. There were so many policemen present, I wondered who was watching the store (smile). On the program were Lt. Tony Giorgio of the Ceremonial Unit, P.O. William High, who sang the National Anthem, Queens Councilman Leroy Comrie, Honor-

able Richard Brown, Queens district attorney, and P.O. Thomas Scarangelia, son of the late Officer Scarangelia. Rev. Tracey Johnson offered the invocation and benediction. I was invited by Auxiliary Police Capt. Jean Hairston. A food-a-plenty reception ended the ceremony. The above address is now John Scarangelia Way.

Until next time, show love.

Sex, coffee may boost risk of brain aneurysm rupture By RANDY DOTINGA If you have a brain aneurysm, drinking coffee, having sex or even getting angry may boost the risk of it rupturing, a new study suggests. Although the risk is extremely small, people who have aneurysms should be careful, said Dr. Sahil Parikh, assistant professor of medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. “For those patients who do have aneurysms, it would be advisable to avoid those behaviors,” said Parikh,

who’s familiar with the study findings. Aneurysms occur when the wall of an artery weakens and bulges out. They can occur anywhere in the body, but are particularly dangerous in the brain, where they can cause a hemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke if they burst. In the study, published online May 5 in the journal Stroke, researchers asked 250 patients who had suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm about their exposure to 30 possible triggers before the hemorrhage. The investigators found that being star-

tled raised the risk of burst aneurysm in someone who already has an aneurysm by the highest level — 23-fold. Anger boosted the risk by six times. Other things raised the level, too: Coffee (two times), cola (three times), straining for defecation (seven times), sexual

intercourse (11 times), nose blowing and vigorous physical activity (both two times). The cause seems to be higher blood pressure, said study lead author Dr. Monique H.M. Vlak, since all eight activities cause blood pressure to rise. Vlak said about 2 per-

cent of the population has a brain aneurysm. They are often symptomless and frequently harmless. “You shouldn’t be scared because the likelihood of this happening is extremely rare,” said Parikh. “I would encourage patients not to worry excessively about it and consult with their doctor if they feel at risk of an aneurysm.” Even if you do have an aneurysm, it’s unlikely to bother you. “We think most aneurysms never rupture,” said Vlak, a neurologist at the Utrecht Stroke Center at University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Nether-

lands. “Most aneurysms are discovered incidentally, since they hardly ever cause symptoms before rupturing,” she added. “If they do cause symptoms, most often it is double vision or an incredibly severe headache, which is maximal within less than a minute. The latter is often a small leak and is called a ‘warning leak.’” People with known aneurysms should avoid caffeine, Vlak said, and use laxatives if they’re constipated. As for exercise, Vlak said its positive effects on the body outweigh the extra risk among those patients.

Virtual reality shows promise for stroke patients By NATASHA ALLEN Virtual reality isn’t just fun for kids — it might also be able to help many stroke patients on their way to recovery, hints a Canadian summary of the research on the technology. Virtual reality could turn out to be an inexpensive way for patients to intensify their rehab efforts after stroke, Dr. Gustavo Saposnik, who led the new work, told Reuters Health. But Saposnik, who directs the Stroke Out-

comes Research Unit at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, added that the technology still isn’t ready for primetime. Nearly 800,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year, and more than 137,000 of them die, according to the American Stroke Association. Those who make it are often left with crippling brain damage, which can cause paralysis, speech problems or memory loss. To see if video games or virtual reality systems such as Nintendo Wii, PlayStation EyeToy, Sony Glasstron

and CyberGlove could help these people recover some of their movement, Saposnik and colleagues pooled the best existing evidence on the question. Their findings, based on 12 earlier studies, appear in the journal Stroke. Five of the studies directly tested the technology against standard rehab such as physical therapy, while the rest used weaker research methods. In total, 195 patients who were partly paralyzed and had problems moving their arms took part in the research. Depending on the

study, they trained daily on the virtual reality systems for an hour or so over two to six weeks. Combining the results of the studies, the researchers found the patients had five times the odds of improving their grip and other movements if they had virtual reality training added to standard rehab. Based on the seven weaker studies, stroke patients also became about 20 percent better at simple tasks such as moving their fingers independently after using virtual reality. One reason for the

improvements may be that playing the games speeds up the brain’s ability to change and rewire itself, researchers said. Previous findings suggest virtual reality technology may also help people with dementia and Parkinson’s disease. But much of the research is limited — and that includes the new results. For instance, all of the studies analyzed were small and they only examined people with mild to moderate stroke, so more research is needed before doctors start rec-

ommending the technology, Saposnik said. What’s more, virtual reality doesn’t provide the same assistance as a therapist, said Dr. Joel Stein, a rehab expert at Columbia University in New York. As a consequence it might only be for people who can move pretty well on their own, Stein told Reuters Health. The advantage, on the other hand is that it might keep people committed to their rehab. “If we can make it fun and engaging then eventually it is helpful and important,” Stein said.

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Jobless claims hit 8-month high By LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHINGTON — The number of Americans filing for jobless aid rose to an eight-month high last week and productivity growth slowed in the first quarter, clouding the outlook for an economy that is struggling to gain speed. While the surprise jump in initial claims for unemployment benefits was attributed to factors ranging from spring break layoffs to the introduction of an emergency benefits program, economists said it corroborated reports this week indicating a loss of momentum in job creation. New claims for state jobless benefits rose 43,000 to a seasonally adjusted 474,000, the

highest since midAugust, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists had expected claims to fall to 410,000. A second report from the department showed nonfarm productivity increased at a 1.6 percent annual rate, braking from a 2.9 percent pace in the fourth quarter. The growth pace was above economists’ expectations for 1 percent. “We do not think that the entire rise in claims over the last month can be explained by special factors alone,” said Harm Bandholz, chief U.S. economist at UniCredit Research in New York. “It seems instead as if the improvement in the labor market slowed a bit.” Reports this week showed weaker employment growth in the manufacturing and ser-

Apple updates software to fix tracking glitch SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. released a software update to fix a problem that enabled its mobile devices to collect and store customers’ location data, making good on a promise it made last week. Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, who is on medical leave, had promised to adjust the company’s mobile software to store less location data after a firestorm broke out over whether Apple was monitoring the whereabouts of its customers. The update, which is available through its iTunes stores and automatically pops up when an iPhone or iPad is synced, said it “contains changes to the iOS crowd-sourced location database cache.” The company said in the update that the software fix reduces the size of the location storage, ensures that the device no longer backs the location information in iTunes,

and enables the iPhone or iPad to stop collecting data when Location Services is turned off. Apple’s software update comes ahead of a U.S. senate subcommittee hearing on mobile privacy on May 10. Representatives from both Apple and Google Inc have agreed to testify at the hearing. Concerns about tracking came to a head earlier this month when two computer programmers presented research showing the iPhone was logging locations. Apple has denied that it was tracking the movements of its iPhone customers but has acknowledged that it does keep a database of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers. This has raised concerns from privacy advocates, who say the process would make it possible, for instance, for someone with access to a person’s computer to retrieve information about their movements.

vices sectors in April. Data from payrolls processing firm ADP Employer Services also showed a step back in private hiring last month. The claims data falls outside the survey period for the government’s closely watched employment report for April, which will be released on Friday. Nonfarm payrolls increased 186,000 last month, according to a Reuters survey, after rising by 216,000 in March — which was the most in 10 months. But the odds are high for an even lower number. The anticipated slowdown in hiring is mostly blamed on high food and gasoline prices, which clipped economic growth in the first quarter. Still, the unemployment rate is expected to have held at a two-year low of 8.8 percent. U.S. stocks opened lower on the claims report, while government debt prices rose for a sixth straight session. The dollar gained against the euro after the European Central Bank offered few clues on the timing of the future interest rate increases. Other reports on Thursday showed a late Easter boosted sales of clothing and other holiday-related items in April, but retailers warned rising costs and a weak labor market would dampen purchases over the next several months. While special factors were blamed for the rise in claims last week, even the four-week moving average of unemploy-

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Stern hopes to keep labor dispute out of courts By ANDREW SELIGMAN CHICAGO Commissioner David Stern hopes the NBA does not follow the NFL’s lead and keeps its labor dispute with the union out of the courts. Stern said litigation is “not appropriate to making a deal.” “We understand what a chaotic situation looks like, so we won’t need to give away the negotiating process to a process that is nowhere near as controlling,” he added. All he has to do is look at the NFL, where locked-out players and owners are embroiled in a bitter dispute that’s playing out in court. The NBA’s current collective bargaining agreement expires June 30, and Stern has made it clear the owners will lock out the players if a deal that gives them the financial relief they’re seeking can’t be reached. The league sent a revised proposal for a new deal to the players last week, and ESPN.com reported Wednesday that they are balking, saying it’s too close to the original one they rejected in February 2010.

Asked about that report, Stern handed the microphone to deputy commissioner Adam Silver, who said talks are ongoing and that more meetings with union leadership are set up. “It’s going to be a long process,” he said. “But we’re working toward a deal.” Not since 1998 has the league had a work stoppage, and although Stern has said he doesn’t think it has to come to that, he has also warned the players that the deal offered to them before the current CBA expires may be more favorable than one they could be presented after games have already been lost. Stern has also defended the right of his owners to profit off their investments. Though the league is projecting $300 million in losses this season, the league’s initial proposal for a new CBA sought to reduce player salary costs by about $750 million annually. The players quickly rejected that proposal, which also called for a hard salary cap to replace the current system that allows for certain exceptions. The players sent a counterproposal that summer, but the league wasn’t interested in it and there has been no progress. In other matters, Stern said he

could see three teams in the Los Angeles area. Even so, he was “very, very happy” that the Kings are staying put for at least another year, rather than move from Sacramento to Anaheim. “The results thus far in sponsorship, season tickets and enthusiasm are extraordinary,” he said. He also said the league is “working very hard” to keep the Hornets in New Orleans. “I think we’re going to put back the franchise soon in a way that there will be more than one owner interested in buying the Hornets and keeping the team in New Orleans if the business community follows through on its pledges of support,” he said. Stern spoke before Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals between the Bulls and Atlanta Hawks at the United Center, where he presented Derrick Rose the MVP trophy before the opening tip. “I do know that he’s the youngest MVP, that he deserves the award he’s getting tonight,” the commissioner told reporters. “He had a heck of a season. ... You can check it all. He’s a heck of a player, and if we can keep him healthy, he’s going to have some career.”

Hines Ward briefly Hornets still see held in mix-up Paul in their future LOS ANGELES — Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and “Dancing With the Stars” contestant Hines Ward was briefly detained at gunpoint Thursday in a mix-up over a reported stolen car, but he was released without being arrested, police said. Ward told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen in a text message that it was all a misunderstanding. “There’s not a story. It was a misunderstanding and the police apologized to me. I didn’t get arrested. I don’t have a reaction to a non story,” he wrote. Ward and a female friend were stopped in her car at about 1:30 a.m. in North Hollywood because she had reported the car stolen on April 19, Sgt. Maria Morrison said. The two had left a restaurant in North Hollywood, officer Sara Faden said.

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans Hornets general manager Dell Demps says he intends to talk to Chris Paul about a contract extension when rules allow for it this summer and that he believes the franchise has regained the All-Star point guard’s confidence. Demps says Paul has told him and head coach Monty Williams that he sees the Hornets moving in the right direction. Demps and Williams say the plan this offseason is to look for ways to build a title contender around Paul, who averaged 22 points, 11.5 assists and 6.7 rebounds in a first-round playoff loss to the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. Demps says that plan includes bringing back power forwards David West, who can opt out of his contract, and Carl Landry, who is a free agent.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Big 3 battle? Not yet, with Wade and James rolling

MIAMI - After seeing LeBron James and Dwyane Wade fill the scoring column again in Game 2, the Boston Celtics tipped their collective caps. Celtics forward Glen Davis says Wade and James “are willing their way to a win.” This Eastern Conference semifinal series was touted as a battle of the so-called Big 3’s, the Heat group of Wade, James and Chris Bosh against Boston’s core of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. So far, it’s been one-sided. Wade and James are outscoring Pierce, Garnett, Allen and Rajon Rondo by themselves in this series. It’s helped Miami take a 2-0 series lead and a heap of confidence into Boston for Game 3 on Saturday night.

Jamal Coombs-McDaniel leaving UConn VERNON, Conn. — Connecticut swingman Jamal Coombs-McDaniel, who was recently arrested on drug charges, plans to transfer from the national champions, the school said Thursday. UConn coach Jim Calhoun made the announcement in a news release, hours after the sophomore from Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood had a court appearance on marijuana charges postponed. “Jamal and I met recently and, although he loves the program, he would like more playing time,” Calhoun said. “He and I both agree that he may have more opportunity for that playing time in another program.” Calhoun did not mention Coombs-McDaniel’s legal problems. The 6-foot-7 forward was arrested April 21 on campus and charged with two misdemeanors, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police said he and two other people were found with 5.6 grams of marijuana, a marijuana grinder and a package of cigars used to smoke marijuana. Coombs-McDaniel met briefly with prosecutors Thursday and his case was continued until May 19. He told reporters at the courthouse he would speak to them after his appearance, but left while they were in the courtroom waiting for the case to be called. Coombs-McDaniel played in all 41 of UConn’s games during its national championship season, and started twice. He averaged 5.6 points and 2.7 rebounds. “He was a very important part of our national championship this season and I know is capable of great success in the future,” Calhoun said. “We wish Jamal the best of luck athletically and academically whereever he decides to continue his college career.” His departure opens up a scholarship for Calhoun, who has already lost one due to NCAA recruiting violations and is expected to lose at least one more later this month when the program’s Academic Performance Ratings are released. To avoid a penalty, the team must score at least a 925 on the APR, which measures four years of academic performance and graduation rates. Last year, the team scored 930, including an 844 for the 2008-09 season. Calhoun, who also faces a three-game suspension next season for the NCAA violations, says he still hasn’t decided whether he will return to UConn or retire. He said he will make that decision sometime this summer, but has no real timetable.

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Underdog Mosley says Pacquiao win would be career best By KIERAN MULVANEY LAS VEGAS Shane Mosley feels a victory over WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao on Saturday would be his biggest ever despite a glittering career that includes world titles in three weight classes. “That would be the best victory at this time,” Mosley told reporters on Tuesday at the MGM Grand, the site of Saturday’s fight. “If I fight Pacquiao and beat him, there will probably have to be another one, because people won’t believe it.” Mosley has yet to be knocked out during his professional career, but

his comment was a clear admission that despite a record of 46-61 with 39 knockouts, including two victories over compatriot Oscar de la Hoya, he will be a heavy underdog against the Filipino Pacquiao. That reflects the fact that the 39-year-old Mosley’s record is a pedestrian 8-6-1 since the end of 2001 and his last fight in Las Vegas was a comprehensive points defeat over fellow American Floyd Mayweather one year ago. In that fight, Mosley rocked Mayweather badly in the second round but could not capitalize and lost every round after. But he insisted the difference in styles between the two makes the Mayweather fight

meaningless when evaluating Saturday’s fight. “Mayweather doesn’t throw a lot of punches, but he throws them at the right time,” he said. “Manny throws more punches and he throws them at any time. That style I believe is going to be more suitable to me.” 52-3-2 Pacquiao, with 38 knockouts, who has won world titles in eight weight divisions, agreed that dismissing Mosley’s chances was a mistake. “It’s unfair to him,” Pacquiao said on Tuesday, adding that Mosley has “good hand speed, good foot speed, and of course he’s strong. You cannot underestimate Mosley.” Mosley pointed to his upset victories over de la Hoya in 2000 and 2003, and his dominant

Boxer Manny Pacquiao (L) of the Philippines Mosley of the U.S. during a news conference at and Casino in Las Vegas. knockout of Mexico’s on his best performancAntonio Margarito in es in the face of doubt. 2009, as evidence that “A lot of the times he has frequently put people count me out, I

faces off with Shane the MGM Grand Hotel tend to become victorious. So, maybe it’s not a good idea to count me out.”

Boston to build Celtics Steelers RB Mendenhall writes clarification statue pushed by Obama

Barack Obama BOSTON - Boston is building a statue of Celtics legend Bill Russell months after President Barack Obama suggested the city needed one. The basketball franchise announced Wednesday the statue would be designed by a local artist and would commemorate Russell as a sports champion, human rights leader and youth mentoring advocate. Russell says in a press release he’s “uncomfortable” with such honors. But he adds his years as captain of the Celtics were

Bill Russell “the proudest moments” of his career. Russell led the Celtics to 11 league championships in 13 seasons. Obama suggested Boston build a statue of Russell when he awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom in February. Obama said he hoped one day children would look up to a statute “built not only to Bill Russell the player but Bill Russell the man.”

PITTSBURGH Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall wrote a “clarification” of his comments made Monday on Twitter regarding the death of Osama bin Laden. In a tweet posted around 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, he linked to an in-depth blog post. In that entry, he wrote that he does not support bin Laden, and that he aimed clear things up, for not only himself, but also the Steelers. On Monday, Pittsburgh’s leading rusher caused enough of a stir with his tweets, that the Steelers felt compelled to release a statement. Among Mendenhall’s posts, the day after the bin Laden news broke, was: “What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’ve only heard one side...” He also tweeted on the Sept. 11 attacks: “We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper

down demolition style.” Wednesday’s offering, though, was a different story. “I appreciate those of you who have decided to read this letter and attain a greater understanding of my recent Twitter posts. I see how they have gotten misconstrued, and wanted to use this outlet as a way to clear up all things that do not truthfully represent myself, what I stand for personally, and any organization that I am a part of. “First, I want people to understand that I am not in support of Bin Laden, or against the USA. I understand how devastating 9/11 was to this country and to the people whose families were affected. Not just in the U.S., but families all over the world who had relatives in the World Trade Centers. My heart goes out to the troops who fight for our freedoms everyday, not being certain if they will have the opportunity to return home, and the families who watch their loved ones bravely

go off to war. Last year, I was grateful enough to have the opportunity to travel overseas and participate in a football camp put on for the children of U.S. troops stationed in Germany. It was a special experience. These events have had a significant impact in my life.” Mendenhall also specifically pointed out the “celebrates death” tweet. “This controversial statement was something I said in response to the amount of joy I saw in the event of a murder. I don’t believe that this is an issue of politics or American pride; but one of religion, morality, and human ethics.” He also tried to bring closure to the situation. “Nothing I said was meant to stir up controversy. It was my way to generate conversation. In looking at my timeline in its entirety, everything that I’ve said is with the intent of expressing a wide array of ideas and generating open and honest discussions, something I

believe we as American citizens should be able to do. Most opinions will not be fully agreed upon and are not meant to be. However, I believe every opinion should be respected or at least given some thought. I apologize for the timing as such a sensitive matter, but it was not meant to do harm. I apologize to anyone I unintentionally harmed with anything that I said, or any hurtful interpretation that was made and put in my name.” On Tuesday, as Mendenhall’s offerings became a national story, team president Art Rooney II made sure the Steelers were heard from. “I have not spoken with Rashard, so it is hard to explain or even comprehend what he meant with his recent Twitter comments,” he wrote in a statement. “The entire Steelers organization is very proud of the job our military personnel have done and we can only hope this leads to our troops coming home soon.”

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Criticism and stardom for Thunder’s Westbrook By JEFF LATZKE OKLAHOMA CITY - Russell Westbrook has made a quick rise from turnover-prone rookie to NBA All-Star. He’s also learned that no matter what he does, he can’t make everyone happy. “This time of the year, it’s a tough job. You kind of take the good with the bad,” Westbrook said. “Sometimes, people like when you score. Sometimes they don’t like when you score. Sometimes they like when you pass. So, you’ve got to just play.” In the playoffs, Westbrook has drawn criticism for taking more shots than NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant in each of Oklahoma City’s two playoff losses. He also had seven turnovers in the Thunder’s Game 1 loss against the Grizzlies. The series is now knotted 1-1 headed into Saturday’s Game 3 at Memphis. Just don’t count coach Scott Brooks among those who are hopping off and on Westbrook’s bandwagon this postseason. “It’s amazing. With Russell, we analyze every possession. I do that myself when we break down the film,” Brooks said

Wednesday during a break in the series. “But it seems like everybody’s breaking down the film - like in my meetings or in my head.” Brooks, a former NBA point guard, sees Westbrook’s rise as more of a long-term endeavor. Westbrook didn’t even play the point during his two seasons at UCLA, but made the switch after he was drafted fourth overall in 2008. He took over as the starting point guard on a team that was on pace for the worst record in NBA history and ended up leading the league in turnovers,

only to develop within two years into an All-Star and the Thunder’s go-to guy behind Durant. “It’s not fair to him,” Brooks said. “It’s really not fair to him. ... He gets criticized for every bad game. He’s not the only player that has a bad game. He’s not going to be the only player in the future that has bad games. “The only thing that I can say about that: Russell knows what he needs to do, and we talk to him and he’s coachable and he wants to get better. He controls his improvement.” Westbrook has come to understand the new place he occupies in the basketball world. Beyond his first All-Star selection this season, he was also a contributor on the U.S. team that won the world championship last summer. So, there is a certain expectation that he’ll perform each time he steps on the floor. “That comes along with becoming a good player in this league. Everybody wants you to do everything,” Westbrook said. “I’m trying my hardest to be able to get my teammates the ball and at the same time be aggressive.”

Justice to NCAA: Why no college football playoff By FREDERIC J. FROMMER WASHINGTON The Justice Department wants to know why the NCAA doesn’t have a college football playoff system and says there are “serious questions” about whether the current format to determine a national champion complies with antitrust laws. Critics who have urged the department to investigate the Bowl Championship Series contend it unfairly

gives some schools preferential access to the title championship game and top-tier endof-the-season bowl contents. In a letter this week, the department’s antitrust chief, Christine Varney, asked NCAA President Mark Emmert why a playoff system isn’t used in football, unlike in other sports; what steps the NCAA has taken to create one; and whether Emmert thinks there are aspects of the BCS system that don’t serve the interest of fans, schools and players. “Your views would be relevant in helping us to determine the best

course of action with regard to the BCS,” she wrote. “Serious questions continue to arise suggesting the current Bowl Championship Series system may not be conducted consistent with the competition principles expressed in the federal antitrust laws,” Varney said. Varney noted that the attorney general of Utah, Mark Shurtleff, has said he plans an antitrust lawsuit against the BCS, and that 21 professors recently wrote the department requesting an investigation. Shurtleff, who met with department officials last fall to discuss

a possible federal probe, said at the time that such an investigation was critical to the effort to get a playoff system. The NCAA said Wednesday it would respond to the government’s questions when it receives the letter. Spokesman Bob Williams said Emmert consistently has said the NCAA is willing to move to a playoff format if schools with the nation’s major football programs want to go that route. Bill Hancock, the BCS executive director, was confident the current system complies with the law. “Goodness gracious, with all that’s going on

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Venus Williams enters Wimbledon warmup

The 30-year-old American has agreed to play at the Eastbourne International from June 11-18 for the first time since 1998. Williams and her sister Serena usually head home to Florida after the French Open to complete their prepara-

tions for Wimbledon, which Venus has won five times. However, both sisters are short on match play. Serena hasn’t played since winning Wimbledon last year, while Venus hasn’t been in competitive action since retiring from her third-round match at January’s Australian Open with a hip injury. Venus is next due to play at the Brussels Open, the last tournament before the French Open begins May 22.

in the world right now and with national and state budgets being what they are, it seems like a waste of taxpayers’ money to have the government looking into how college football games are played,” he said. Under the BCS, the champions of six conferences have automatic bids to play in top-tier bowl games; other conferences don’t. Those six conferences also receive more money than the other conferences. Attorney General Eric Holder referenced Varney’s letter at a Senate hearing

Wednesday, in response to a statement from Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican and BCS critic. Hatch called the BCS a “mess” and said that “privileged conferences” have tremendous advantages over the unprivileged. “And I just hope that you’ll continue to follow up on that particular issue,” he said. “It’s an important one, I think.” “I don’t disagree with you,” Holder responded. “You and I have talked about this issue, and I think I’m free to say that we have sent a letter to the NCAA about this issue and will be following up.”

EASTBOURNE, England - Venus Williams has broken with tradition and entered a warmup tournament before Wimbledon.

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CRITICISM AND STARDOM FOR THUNDER’S WESTBROOK

BIG 3 BATTLE? NOT YET, WITH WADE AND JAMES ROLLING

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