| Pak must weed out its 'strategic asset' extremist groups for survival: Editorial Friday's serial bomb blasts in Lahore was the second terrorist strike in the city within a week which clearly suggests that claims regarding inflicting a body blow to extremists organisations breeding on the country's soil were... | |
| Op-ed Columnist: Driving Drunk In Jerusalem I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad. So it pains me to say that on his recent trip to Israel, when Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s... |
| Op-ed Columnist: Driving Miss Saudi An opening at a hot new art gallery with men and women mingling and enjoying themselves. But in this case, part of the frisson was nerves. Would the marauding religious police see unmarried ... |
| Op-ed Columnist: The New Rove-cheney Assault On Reality a new right-wing noise machine invented by Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz and the inevitable William Kristol. This gang’s rewriting of history knows few bounds. To hear them tell it, 9/11 was... |
| Wvu's Title Awfully Sweet NEW YORK -- A friend of Georgetown coach John Thompson III told him the other day that there's nothing better than Friday night in New York, other than Saturday night in New York. Looks like... |
| Wvu Captures 1st Big East Title With 60-58 Win West Virginia?s Da?Sean Butler drives into a Georgetown crowd and puts up what proved to be the winning shot in the Mountaineers? 60-58 victory at Madison Square... |
| Roberts Objects: The Supreme Court Deserves Presidential Feedback U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts presides over one of the most closeted and insular institutions in the nation. He and his fellow Supreme Court justices send down their legal thunderbolts like Zeus... |
| Road Improvement: Deaths Are Down, But Distractions Are Still An Issue That whooshing sound you hear is traffic whizzing by, from one place to another, with record low fatalities. The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that the death rate of 1.16 per 100 million... |
| Sick Of It: If Congress Cares About The Uninsured, It Must Stop Dithering On Health Care Here's what conservatives are planning in their latest effort to kill health care reform: A group called Americans for Prosperity (prosperity for its chairman and founder, oil billionaire David H.... |
| Summit Medical Group Physician Named To Medical Journal Editorial Board PRWEB ) March 13, 2010 -- Jed A. Kwartler, M.D., otologist/neurotologist with Summit Medical Group, has been named to the editorial board of Otology/Neurotology. The official journal of the American... |
| Wvu Beats Georgetown, 60-58 NEW YORK -- The Butler did it again. Da'Sean Butler, West Virginia's last-second magician, made the game-winning shot with four seconds remaining Saturday night to give the Mountaineers their first... |
| Editorial: National School Standards, At Last The countries that have left the United States behind in math and science education have one thing in common: They offer the same high education standards often the same curriculum from... |
| Op-ed Contributor: Nascar’s New Rules Reflect A Moral Code Found In Many Sports. drove his Ford into Brad Keselowski’s Dodge as the two raced around the Atlanta Motor Speedway at 190 miles per hour. Keselowski’s car flew into the air and crashed into the wall along... |
| Thousands Throng Downtown For Parade Winter's white gave through to St. Patrick's green today as thousands lined the streets of Pittsburgh for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The event, which lays claim to being one of the... |
| Can Working Moms 'have It All'? Ha! When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present . And yet … today when I watch that old commercial about balancing kids, work and husband with gusto, I am... |
| Editorial: Learning From Lehman On top of everything Lehman Brothers did before it collapsed in 2008, nearly toppling the financial system, it now seems that it was aggressively massaging its... |
| Op-ed Contributor: Justices Will Prevail Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , the 5-to-4 ruling that President Obama criticized in his speech. Mr. Gibbs and his colleagues may feel emboldened by a recent poll showing that 80... |
| We Punish Those We Should Protect | Editorial In September 2004, Tony Blair set out a new public sector performance target. By the end of the following year the number of failed asylum seekers being deported each month would exceed the number of... |
| The Catholic Church Should Free Its Priests From Celibacy | Editorial Spare a thought for the typical Catholic priest. His image has been blackened by successive child abuse scandals, first in Ireland and America, now in Germany, Holland and Italy. His vocation is... |
| Editorial: Put Students First In Contract Negotiations: Milwaukee Public Schools Needs To Figure Out A Way To Move Its Employees Into A Lower-priced Insurance Plan That Can Save The District Millions. The Current Model Is No Longer Sustainable. Mar. 13--The financial crunch facing Milwaukee Public Schools comes from many sources -- but the district's expense for health care benefits contends as its most pressing fiscal issue. Change here... |
| Greek Crisis Sends Chills Over Euro Zone’s Expansion Ursula Hyzy I AFP THE woes and failings of euro zone member Greece have sparked irritation among the EU’s ex-communist states, amid jitters that the entry rules for the single currency club... |
| Brown Can Stand ‘all This Touchy-feely Stuff’ John Rentoul I The Independent AH, the paradoxes of politics. In order to be seen as authentic, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has to do what he regards as inauthentic, namely to emote on... |
| Muslim World-west Ties: Need For New Approach Maha Akeel I Arab News AN explosive device here or a suicide bomber there and the victims are innocent bystanders, most of them Muslim, with mayhem and destruction all over the place. This is the... |
| Kashmir And The Boys Of Chidambaram M.J. Akbar I Arab News THE best way to manage a controversy is to initiate it. Omar Abdullah was not giving voice to some sudden inner revelation when he suggested that the “boys” who had... |
| Zionism A Terrifying Nightmare Alan Hart MOST Jews of the world (and probably many Gentiles) believe that Zionism is the return of Jews to the land promised to them by God. I must confess, and do so cheerfully, that I don’t... |
| Red Road To Perdition IT'S a bright sunny day and just through the doors of the Red Road flats there are two YMCA Glasgow ladies manning the concierge desk. Both are pictures of efficient bonhomie, croaking with laughter... |
| I Just Snapped That Day. What Else Could I Do? ut something like one in four male adults by the time they are 22 have a conviction. So I have joined the bottom 25 per cent."He makes the comment with a rueful grin but, for the first time in this,... |
| Catch Up On The Week The once squeaky clean Take That star's marriage hit the rocks last week when he admitted having up to ten affairs in the five years he has been with his wife Emma. Owen – who wed at Cawdor Church... |
| Peter Ross: Horsing Around At The Track oots and breeches, saddles and silks. Everything is placed on benches and pegs in strict order, starting with the most experienced jockey nearest the door and descending through the ranks to the... |
| Dani Garavelli: Virtual Witchhunt le desperate.I haven't used it since. But far from feeling like a lofty upholder of traditional values, I sense I am someone cast adrift in the wrong century; like those early opponents of the motor... |
| Alyn Smith: Look Again At Independence P has never been a more credible political party. At a time when the people of Scotland are looking for hope, for leadership, for ideas and inspiration about the better Scotland, the better economy,... |
| Duncan Hamilton: Don't Blame Expense Scandal Mps For Grabbing Legal Lifeline HAVING left politics for law, I find myself divided over the criticism of the three Labour MPs and one Tory Peer who now seek to challenge whether the courts have jurisdiction to hear their cases.... |
| Kayt Turner: 'everyone Commented On The Hat, But It Was Never To See The Light Of Day Again' I WAS reading a report about a new service called "Cinderella Me". No, it's not some joker who sends mice to your house (think he's already been round to Turner Towers). No, this is a company that... |
| Alice Wyllie: 'i've Found There Is Nowhere More Difficult To Turn Down A Drink Than Scotland' Yes, I'm Alice and – like Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler and Marie Antoinette before me – I'm a teetotaller. There's no dramatic reason behind my decision to abstain from the giggle juice, but... |
| Fordyce Maxwell: 'shepherds Will Testify There Is No Limit To How Suicidal Sheep Can Be' IF IT were true that we learn more from failure than success I could qualify for Mastermind on the subject of sheep, particularly methods tried to revive a moribund lamb. So often in the final throes... |
| Murphy's Law Right Again IT IS commonly known as Murphy's Law or, more prosaically, Sod's Law, and its premise is that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. So, to use the most commonly cited example, a slice of toast... |
| Wha's Like Us... Msps But MSP credibility has taken a severe dip after Tuesday's no-show, with Labour and SNP members refusing to cross a union picket line. The MSPs decided to take a day off from parliament rather than... |
| Editorial: Health Reform's Hidden Game-changers Even tough critics of the health care reform bills acknowledge that the legislation would accomplish a worthy goal: extending coverage to 30 million Americans without insurance. At the same time,... |
| Hey, Buddy, Do You Come Here Often? 1 Why is a Sierra critter named Buddy so special? A: He's a repeat offender bear who breaks into vacation homes B: Wolverine, a species thought to be gone from Sierra, reappears after 90 years C:... |
| Readers' Views / This Just In: Health Care Run By Government All of you who oppose the health-insurance-reform bill because you don't want the government to run our health care, and you get your coverage through Medicare, the Veterans Administration, MediCal,... |
| Op-ed Contributor: Today’s Russia: Perestroika Lost PERESTROIKA, the series of political and economic reforms I undertook in the Soviet Union in 1985, has been the subject of heated debate ever since. Today the controversy has taken on a new urgency... |
| Analysis: Ny Politics Goes From Drama To Tragedy Share (AP) ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York politics, which has consumed more than a dozen elected officials or top staffers in the past two years, has become a kind of bizarre "Survivor" show. And... |
| Maholm Fares Well, Young Homers, But Pirates Lose, 3-2 FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Paul Maholm turned in the Pirates' best start of the spring and Delwyn Young homered in a 3-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox Saturday at City of Palms Park. Maholm pitched three... |
| Capital Joy For D.c.'s Same-sex Couples March 13, 2010 This week, the District of Columbia started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. About 150 couples applied for the licenses and soon, there was a flurry of weddings —... |
| House Fire Beltzhoover Starts During Home Repairs Firefighters were summoned to a four-alarm house fire in Beltzhoover this morning. The fire, which broke out around 10 a.m., was in the 800 block of Gearing Avenue. There were no injuries although... |
| Region Gears For Flooding People thorughout Western Pennsylvania are looking to the skies and their basements as rain continued to fall this morning, with the potential for flooding in some areas. The National Weather... |
| Pa. Death Row Inmate Now Wants To Appeal LANCASTER, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania man convicted of the rape and murder of a young mother more than two decades ago says he has changed his mind -- again -- and now wants to continue his appeals rather... |
| * Editorial : Housing Scheme Falls Short Sunday, Mar 14, 2010, Page 8 The Cabinet on Thursday approved a plan to build an affordable housing project, aiming to offer 4,000 residential units near the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT... |
| Afghan Prosecutors Key To Beating Taliban Afghan Corruption Continues In Afghanistan, the Government of President Karzai is riddled with corruption. As Mandy Clark reports, many wonder how can Karzai fight corruption when his advisors are... |
