| The Root: Marches Alone Cannot Fix Education bleak report on the state of black male education. Only eight states graduate more than 70 percent of black non-Hispanic males from their high schools. Four states have a graduation rate between 60... | |
| Gary Flockhart: Phoenix, Doves and The Libertines make for a cracking month FOR ones whose live shows have been described as hideously shambolic, and whose career was marked by an impressive ability to implode in a drug-fuelled haze every time mainstream success beckoned,... |
| Demolition of South Side historic building under way A South Side building on the site of a planned discount supermarket is being demolished this morning. The city's Historic Review Commission initially denied permission to demolish the building at... |
| Hearing ordered in inmate's request for execution HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. -- The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says a federal judge in Pittsburgh must hold a mental competency hearing for a man who has sought execution after failing to overturn a... |
| Historic Blue Streak coaster reopens at Conneaut Lake CONNEAUT LAKE, Pa. -- The sixth-oldest roller coaster in America has reopened for the holiday weekend at Conneaut Lake Park in Crawford County and has won $50,000 from Pepsi that will be used to... |
| Letters to the International Herald Tribune: Pakistan and China The opinion article “China’s discreet hold on Pakistan’s northern borderlands” by Selig Harrison (Views, Aug. 27) discusses the development activities of the Peoples... |
| Foreign Policy: Second Explosion Exposes Oil Industry exploded Thursday morning. Fortunately, all thirteen members of the rig crew survived and were rescued successfully. But uncertainty remains over whether we're facing a second catastrophic oil spill... |
| The New Republic: Health Care Won't Decide Election A protester urges congress not to pass the March health care overhaul. Conservatives have touted health care as the issue that will hurt Democrats most in the midterm... |
| The Nation: The Right Angle On Reid LA Weekly. Sharron Angle has no business being in the Senate, at least according to many of her fellow Nevada Republicans. The GOP mayor of Reno called Angle "wild" when he publicly endorsed her... |
| Andrew Whitaker: SNP's failure to push through its alcohol pricing plans reveals how toothless party has become However, what is now one of the party's last flagship policies in the final year of its four year term in government stands a good chance of being blocked by opposition MSPs.Health Secretary Nicola... |
| Michael Carslaw: International course opens doors However I was disappointed to see no mention of pupils studying the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma. This respected qualification is now on offer at four institutions in Scotland, three... |
| Iraq war: mission semi-accomplished The war that began on a false pretense ended in ambiguity. President Obama declared this week that it was time for the United States to "turn the page" in Iraq. The combat mission is officially... |
| Muni: operators versus riders Muni operators seem to have lost their sense of direction. Consider their union's latest move: asking the California Public Employment Relations Board to stop Muni from restoring 61 percent of the... |
| Repowered wind farm could save Altamont birds If we told you that a poorly regulated energy facility killed thousands of birds this year, you could assume we were talking about BP's Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico. But we also... |
| Politics, not evidence, drive education reform President Obama's ambitious effort to lift the nation's schools draws heavily from the playbook employed in Chicago and New York City: Test kids more often, open more charter schools and tie teacher... |
| Teen accused in mother's death has hearing in India A South Fayette teen accused of killing his mother at a resort in western India faced a juvenile justice board today in Jodhpur, where police asked the court for additional time to investigate before... |
| I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor: An Old Scourge Needs a Modern Solution Every 12 hours last year young men boarded motorized skiffs and hijacked vessels on the waterway used by 24,000 ships around the Horn of Africa. Pirate gangs have accrued $150 million in ransom to... |
| I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor: The Black Sea Need Not Be a Black Spot The Black Sea is a cradle of civilization, trade and cultures, but today it is also a region of unresolved conflicts, porous borders and rivalries. Terrorism and insurgency are spreading across the... |
| From the International Herald Tribune: 100, 75, 50 Years Ago The most famous dog in the world has passed away. Dick Stone, the grandson of Rodney Stone, is dead, a heart attack having proved fatal. Considered an even finer type than Champion Rodney Stone, this... |
| Longtime Partners Find Treasure Among Trash September 3, 2010 Angelo Bruno, 60, spent more than 30 years as a sanitation worker in New York City. He and his partner, Eddie Nieves, cleared more than 14 tons of garbage from the city streets... |
| Talk of the Town: 'I'm on the train . . might be a bit late' But the news that greeted commuters heading home from Waverley Station on Wednesday evening suggested their journey would be considerably longer than they could ever have anticipated.According to the... |
| Brian Monteith: Blair's journey is still Labour's It is page-turning, once in a political generation stuff.On Wednesday when it was launched, I saw Tony Blair's tome in an airport bookshop and walked right past it. I had no intention of picking it... |
| Susan Morrison: It's great to have the city back to ourselves for a bit It's now possible to get on a bus without 40 Italian students scrambling to put their change together, 12 Swedish tourists walking up the aisle concussing passengers with their backpacks the size of... |
| Analysis: RBS must stay competitive - or risk even bigger cuts in future BE careful what you wish for . . . A year ago the overwhelming advice offered from politicians to Britain's stricken banks was to clean up their balance sheets, downsize and hive off to encourage... |
| Analysis: A Cool Optimism For Mideast Peace (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - Israel's prime minister and the Palestinian president have set off on a yearlong peace journey, taking to a well-trod road that has led only to failure for nearly two decades.... |
| 'Going the Distance' benefits from leads' real relationship In a romcom, the "rom" depends on that elusive element of chemistry. Actors can try to fake it, but they either have it or they don't. Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, an on-again/off-again couple in... |
| Hard to read about short attention spans A few months ago, I stumbled across author Nicholas Carr being interviewed on NPR about his new book, "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains." I've long suspected our brains were... |
| Taiwan in a rice wine stew By Jens Kastner TAIPEI - Taiwan found recently that World Trade Organization (WTO) membership can be a pain in the proverbial when it announced a drastic tax cut on locally brewed rice wine. ... |
| Inspectors miss the flight to Kyrgyzstan By M K Bhadrakumar The reset of the relationship of the United States with Russia is being put to the test for the first time. Kyrgyzstan poses a tough challenge: can the reset really work in... |
| Married to the mob future in Afghanistan. Arguably, not much has changed. Or has it? If schizophrenia defined the Taliban in power, US schizophrenia still rules. Will the US and the North Atlantic Treaty... |
| Old Korea hand points new finger of blame Old hand points new finger of blame By Donald Kirk QUANTICO, Virginia - North Korea has found an advocate in a most unlikely place for its claim of innocence in the sinking of the South Korean... |
| New case for US reparations in Laos By Melody Kemp VIENTIANE - Laos carries the tragic distinction of being the most heavily bombed country in the history of modern warfare. Thirty-five years after the United States wound up its... |
| IMF stumps up Pakistan aid By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced US$450 million of immediate emergency financing for flood-hit Pakistan, while the World Bank has raised to... |
| Confused - but forward Confused - but forward By R M Cutler MONTREAL - This week was positive for Asian equity markets, but correlations between volatility and percentage move were low, and there were no sub-regional... |
| Tributes to Allen Quicke Allen George Quicke 03.07.1953 - 17.08.2010 My beloved older brother Allen has been my loyal friend, teacher of good and bad habits, and confidant through all our childhood years, adolescent wars... |
| A glimmer of hope Published: September 3, 2010 It has been a long time since it has been possible to be hopeful about the Middle East. But the one-year peace process undertaken this week by President Obama may... |
| Evening News Caption Competition - Friday September 3, 2010 This competition is open to readers aged 18 years and over. The weekly winner will be chosen by our judging panel. The editor's decision is final.Usual Evening News rules apply. Weekly winners must... |
| Pressing Netanyahu is the key to success in Mideast peace talks It is unfortunate that the direct Palestinian-Israeli peace talks that got underway this week are saddled with an Israeli prime minister who has made clear his unwillingness to reach an equitable... |
| Israelis don't have high hopes "The peace process is back," my friend said with bitter sarcasm, after four Israelis were killed in a terror attack just before Palestinian-Israeli negotiations got underway this week. The irony may... |
| Editorial: Colorado ski resorts should require helmets for kids If the chill in the morning air isn't hint enough, then perhaps the spate of impending ski and snowboard equipment sales are a tip-off. Ski season will soon be upon us, and with it concerns about... |
| Asian editorial excerpts -2+ HONG KONG, Sept. 3 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Selected editorial excerpts from the Asia-Pacific press: CHEMICAL WEAPONS (China Daily, Hong Kong) On Wednesday, the Japanese government said it had... |
| BYU and the student-athlete Media attention this week has focused on the Brigham Young University football team's declaration of independence, and for good reason. With a sweetheart ESPN contract and regular matchups with Notre... |
| Mosque controversy will define us On the eve of the 9/11 terrorist attacks' ninth anniversary, the controversy over locating a mosque near ground zero in New York City shows that we must stand for fundamental freedoms even as we... |
| U.S. troop withdrawal would leave Afghan women in peril In mid-August in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz, a horrific, Taliban-ordered sentence was carried out against two young, unmarried Afghan lovers who had eloped against their families'... |
| The war in Iraq was necessary, and world is safer because of it President Barack Obama went on TV the other night to talk about the end of the combat mission in Iraq, and what he did not say is what very few are saying, least of all the ideologically disturbed,... |
| Rare opportunity exists now for peace in the Middle East President Barack Obama is embarking on something I've never seen before — taking on two Missions Impossible at the same time. That is, a simultaneous effort to heal the two most bitter divides... |
| Cover news, not 'olds' In this time of change at the Deseret News, and in fact always, there are way too many shrill voices. I seek to be positive and to recognize the good the Deseret News has done and its being a key... |
| Pullout to cut jobs? President Barack Obama stated that we "spent vast resources abroad at a time of tight budgets at home." I would have thought that most of the resources spent on the war have actually been expended in... |
| Steelers Notebook: Suspension not expected to dip below 4 games this morning in New York, but they will not be politicking to have his suspension reduced beyond two games, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has learned. Reports have suggested that Rooney is... |
