Provides the latest RSS feeds for General Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Zimbabwe Star.com http://www.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:28:55 -0400 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:28:55 -0400 30 When I and other Palestinian-Americans first knew Barack Obama in Chicago in the 1990s, he grasped the oppression faced by Palestinians under Israeli occupation. http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/385690/cs/1/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:30:04 -0400 Zimbabwe Star.com http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/385690/cs/1/ In 2005, I asked Angelenos to join me in re-imagining their city as a dynamic world capital defined by its flexibility and mobility, not by traffic and smog. I challenged them to imagine communities c... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401835/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:42:26 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401835/ The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. Everyone has the potential to improve and correct themselves. I am optimistic that it remains possible ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401854/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:26:47 -0400 Deseret News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401854/ SB 1420, and lamented its "forced" nature and simple approach to nutrition. She even went so far as to accuse the bill of taking the "pleasure" out of dining. Such strong -- if not misleading -- cl... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401833/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:42:23 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401833/ A recent letter in the Deseret News lauded a South Dakota law forcing doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure will end a human life and will increase the likelihood of suicide and s... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401853/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:26:45 -0400 Deseret News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401853/ In response to Gavin Wilde ("Some patriotic exceptions," Readers' Forum, July 21), who seems to dislike so much about Utah and the United States, on behalf of the five members of my extended family wh... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401855/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:26:48 -0400 Deseret News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401855/ Every two years, a handful of California's Superior Court seats open up without the governor appointing new judges to fill them. Lawyers who are impatient with the appointment process, or don't believ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401836/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:42:29 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401836/ » Discuss Article He looks like a cross between Santa Claus and a New Age guru, and he calls himself an alternative healer. But Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested in Serbia on Monday, stands ac... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401834/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:42:27 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16401834/ CHENNAI: In a sudden move, Yahoo India has moved its editorial operations out of Chennai. Besides that, it is also learnt that it has terminated a technical support agreement with a software servic... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16399714/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:23:34 -0400 Times of India http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16399714/ Four years ago, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake had a "wardrobe malfunction" during halftime at Super Bowl XXXVIII. There was a lot of fake shock and consternation in the land. Pundits across the... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396665/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:22:56 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396665/ Cleveland wide receiver Braylon Edwards signs autographs on the team's first day of camp yesterday in Berea, Ohio. Much is expected of this year's Browns team by those fans, the team and the media. http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396663/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:22:57 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396663/ letters@usatoday.com . Letters for print consideration are edited for accuracy, clarity and length, and comments of 250 words or fewer have the best chance of being published. Letters that include ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396616/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:24:13 -0400 USA Today http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396616/ N.Y. exhibit does justice to Golden Age of ads The global advertising/media business owes one to USATODAY.com for featuring the exhibit on great ads at the New York Public Library, " http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396617/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:24:11 -0400 USA Today http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396617/ It is not news that long-term cell-phone use may have adverse health effects, including cancer. While the link hasn't been definitively proved, this concern has been voiced before. But Dr. Ronald Herb... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396666/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:22:56 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396666/ Reconciling evil with faith " (Monday). Atheism doesn't claim that belief in no God would rid the world of natural disasters. The problem of evil comes from the concept of a God who is omnipot... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396346/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:02:29 -0400 USA Today http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396346/ The United States was right to begin public face-to-face nuclear talks with Iran. President Bush also was correct to start talking about "a general time horizon" for the withdrawal of American forces ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396664/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:22:56 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396664/ I applaud Barack Obama for having the courage to speak frankly to the NAACP about the increasing need for parental responsibility in the black community. The message is appropriate for all Americans (... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396345/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:02:28 -0400 USA Today http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16396345/ agreed to a wide-ranging joint venture with Libya's national oil and gas company. Gazprom also revealed it was talking to Italy's Eni about investing in a new Libya-Italy undersea pipeline and to Nige... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16395832/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:10:48 -0400 Financial Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16395832/ The city school board voted 6-3 tonight to merge middle-grade and high school arts schools beginning in fall 2009. Pittsburgh Rogers 6-8 will move out of its building in Garfield and move into the Do... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16391635/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:22:55 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16391635/ Agencies SDEROT, Israel: US presidential hopeful Barack Obama, bidding to prove his statesmanship, waded into the thicket of Mideast politics yesterday, sitting down with Palestinian and Israeli leade... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394307/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:19:24 -0400 Arab News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394307/ Normally, failing to please all of the people all of the time is political reality, but failing to please any of the people any of the time is political stupidity. Normally, a win-win is preferable to... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16392038/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:59:05 -0400 The Guardian http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16392038/ Uri Avnery | Arab News I spent the whole day flipping between the Israeli channels and Al Jazeera.It was an eerie experience. In a fraction of a second I could switch between two worlds, but all the c... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394305/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:19:20 -0400 Arab News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394305/ When Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was welcomed into Tate Modern recently by Nicholas Serota, it was a meeting of arguably the two most influential museum directors in... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16392040/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:59:11 -0400 The Guardian http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16392040/ JEDDAH: Sen. Gringo Honasan, the pride of Bicol region, arrived here yesterday for a two-day personal visit.Honasan arrived with his wife Jane and two companions last night on board a Singapore Airlin... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394306/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:19:22 -0400 Arab News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394306/ 24 July 2008 Boris Tadic, the Serb president, deserves praise for the arrest of Dr. Karadzic, said The Times of London in an editorial yesterday. Excerpts:Richard Holbrooke, the former American Ambass... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394303/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:19:19 -0400 Arab News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394303/ Linda Grant | The Guardian In the early 1990s, a story broke in the British tabloids of the brutal rape of thousands of Croatian and Bosnian women by Serbian irregulars. On the front pages was a pictu... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394304/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:19:17 -0400 Arab News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16394304/ IT WAS a plan typically British in its grand scale, eccentric detail and crushing failure. As John and Anne Darwin awake this morning to the reality that their next six years will be spent in prison, ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16391663/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:02:13 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16391663/ WATER is so abundant in our everyday lives that it is all too easy to take it for granted. I vividly remember moving from London to Stirling as an undergraduate and being amazed at the crisp, cold tap... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16391662/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:01:59 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16391662/ While the world seems focused on the International Criminal Court's request to arrest Sudan's president Omar al Bashir for genocide, a single dusty town in central Sudan may hold the key to the coun... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16387514/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:39:01 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16387514/ Is the UPA government’s victory worth celebration? It bargained with JMM leader Shibu Soren, thus adding three votes to its kitty. Mamata Banerjee abstained from voting. Two MDMK rebels voted fo... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16388422/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:37:03 -0400 The Hindu http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16388422/ A severe storm that prompted a tornado warning last night produced at least one suspected funnel cloud, high winds and hail, brought down wire and trees and sent residents for cover. The National Wea... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16385311/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:36:12 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16385311/ Route 8 was closed in both directions between Renfrew Road and Larchwood Drive in Penn Township, Butler County, late this afternoon. A crash involving multiple vehicles was reported near the Dairy Qu... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16385312/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:36:12 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16385312/ Q: This year's presidential election will create at least one Senate vacancy; other Senate seats could become vacant depending on who becomes vice president. That said, who are John McCain and Barack ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16387677/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:31:47 -0400 NPR http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16387677/ Offer US tourists bargain trips to Canada Regarding the July 7 article, "American visits to Canada hit 36-year low": After reading this story on decreased American travel to Canada, I thought this... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16387512/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:39:05 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16387512/ , and she informed the audience that even Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said if a two-state solution failed, the resulting single state of Israel would be accused of apartheid. Prof. Pappe, in p... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16388423/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:37:04 -0400 The Hindu http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16388423/ A rupture in a natural gas line that forced people to leave nearly 20 McKeesport residences has been repaired. Equitable Gas Co. said repairs were completed around 4 p.m. and authorities were informi... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16385313/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:36:13 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16385313/ Television viewing has become the Indian drug of choice. As the drug suppliers, offering more and more channels and inane programmes to fill them, celebrate the mass addiction, cautionary voices wa... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16384948/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:38:20 -0400 Times of India http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16384948/ 1. Most people who are upside down got to that point by refinancing. Only a small percentage paid to much to purchase a home. Most of these "victims" took out money to buy boats, vactions, cars, jewel... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16386831/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:58:14 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16386831/ This week trade ministers of many countries, including our own, are meeting in Geneva to try to salvage something from failure of the Doha round of global negotiations. The best that many observers da... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16383402/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:07:13 -0400 The New Zealand Herald http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16383402/ Looking back, it was not the whistle from the Italian referee that announced victory for perennial under-achievers Spain in the Euro 2008 final in Vienna. I drew the black whistle from my pocket an... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16384951/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:38:16 -0400 Times of India http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16384951/ UNTIL we pitched up at Edinburgh Airport the other day, I had only ever witnessed airport rage on the telly. You know, the sort of stuff those fly-on-the-wall documentaries depict – boozed-up lager ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379550/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:03:13 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379550/ CAUGHT up with Sir Bernard Crick at an art exhibition in Dundas Street deli Glass & Thompson and found him still steeped in politics at 78. Well, what else, considering he's been a Labour Party member... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379549/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:03:16 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379549/ An effort to restore mileage reimbursements for Pittsburgh elected officials failed today. City Councilwoman Tonya Payne proposed legislation that would allow elected officials to be reimbursed for a... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379477/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:23:53 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379477/ It took 13 years, but we welcome the news that the Serbian secret police have arrested Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader who incited vicious racial hatred and orchestrated some of the worst ho... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380677/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:44:03 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380677/ rained workforce, with the majority of school-leavers going on to study at university or a college of higher education – Scotland was already ahead of the game. Today, half of young Scots go to univ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379551/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:03:14 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379551/ For U.S. troops in Iraq, service is dangerous enough even without having to worry about dying from shoddy wiring in their base facilities. But that has been the fate of at least 13 U.S. service member... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380676/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:44:00 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380676/ LAST week, the Scottish Government's consultation on its proposals for a local income tax (LIT) to replace council tax closed. Council tax isn't exactly popular (what tax is) but the more detail emerg... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379554/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:02:55 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16379554/ As America faces $4.50 a gallon gas, we also know that alternative energy sources - coal, oil shale, ethanol, wind and ground-based solar - are either of limited potential, very expensive, require hug... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380678/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:43:54 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380678/ The latest controversy over voting in Russia has nothing to do with rigged presidential elections. In fact, the only political figures in this dispute are long dead - and yet they continue to haunt Ru... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380680/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:43:52 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380680/ BERLIN : A French diplomat, Alain Le Roy, has been appointed by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, as the world's chief peacekeeper. With UN peace operations facing the most serio... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380679/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:43:50 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380679/ Ford gets its act together Regarding the article "Ford sets radical shift to fuel-efficient cars" (July 22): So Ford has decided at long last to focus on producing small, fuel-efficient cars - like t... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380681/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:43:48 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16380681/ pulled back on an agreement to offer space in district schools to seven charters, saying it would disrupt operations at the schools by, for example, limiting their open-enrollment periods. Cortines' m... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16375238/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:11:15 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16375238/ » Discuss Article Acouple of front-page stories in Tuesday's papers -- one from the East Coast, the other from the West -- frame a pretty effective portrait of these United States in this elect... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16375239/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:11:13 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16375239/ To be a moderate in the Arab world today sometimes feels like an act of courage, and other times like a leap of faith. Sometimes, it's just plain suicidal. And yet, there has never been a time when mo... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16375236/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:11:12 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16375236/ By Andrew Symon HANOI - Evidence of the Catholic Church's vigor in Vietnam can be witnessed in the well-attended masses at Hanoi's St Joseph's Cathedral and Ho Chi Minh City's Notre Cathedral, ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376066/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:07 -0400 Asia Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376066/ The bad news is that Janet Jackson's breast is back as a topic of conversation. The good news is that it's back because a federal court tossed the ridiculous $550,000 indecency fine the Federal Commu... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373066/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:04 -0400 Denver Post http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373066/ Posted on: Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By El Paso Times, Texas Jul. 23--This decade-plus dawdling over stagnating Ascarate Park must stop now. Do something, County Commissioners Court! Either ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373065/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:12:22 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373065/ By George Pugh The subprime crisis is ending in massive losses, bare balance sheets and wilted capitalizations: a true rite of spring. Early theories blamed the crash on corporate greed, bad pr... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376073/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:03 -0400 Asia Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376073/ We tip our mortarboard to the Denver Scholarship Foundation and the University of Colorado. CU announced this week that it will help fill in the financial gaps for those Denver Public Schools student... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373064/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:02 -0400 Denver Post http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373064/ By Neeta Lal NEW DELHI - India's state-owned and private airlines, battling surging oil prices and dwindling load factors, are devising ingenious ways to whittle operational costs. Retrenc... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376071/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:01 -0400 Asia Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376071/ Russia exert its soft and hard power on North Korea in promoting the goals set in the six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program? The second phase of North Korea's denuclearization process i... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376064/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:12 -0400 Asia Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376064/ Wary of China, Russians look West By Dmitry Shlapentokh Like his predecessor Vladimir Putin, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev followed his taking over the Kremlin, in May, with a visit to China... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376068/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:11 -0400 Asia Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376068/ Clad in a wetsuit, technician Daniel LaBreche watches his handiwork on a giant fountain at the corner of Swinford and Cruise Center at the entrance to the cruise terminals in San Pedro, July 22, 2008. http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16375237/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:11:18 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16375237/ red-card offense - whether committed in Russia, England, Switzerland, West Africa or Central Asia. Hong Kong's market regulators are obliged to follow carefully, because Rusal has publicly said... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376072/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:01 -0400 Asia Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376072/ By R M Cutler MONTREAL - Differences in the medium-term declines in the Asian stock markets make it possible to identify two groups, or bifurcation, by magnitude, while if one looks instead at ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376070/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:34:59 -0400 Asia Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376070/ business is down 25%, "the economy does have one upside for the business - it's bringing out more women willing to give pole dancing a try." Hahaha! If you are a man, I know what you are thinkin... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376069/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:34:58 -0400 Asia Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16376069/ Times are so tight in Winsted - and in communities across the country - that a town official has proposed using inmates to clean up parts of downtown to save money. http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373067/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:33:51 -0400 Register Citizen http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373067/ arrest of Radovan Karadzic , the wartime Bosnian Serb leader, is a triumph for the rule of law, the pursuit of justice and the development of real peace in the war-torn states of the former Yugoslavia... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373063/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:43:19 -0400 Financial Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16373063/ TOKYO, July 23 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press: MORE LAWYERS NEEDED (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese- language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Jul... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368018/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:59:37 -0400 Breitbart http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368018/ (137 Comments) 'Sen. Obama didn't support the surge, wanted to pull out, said that it would fail. I supported it when it was the toughest thing to do. I believe that my record on national security ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370147/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:36:16 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370147/ See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil has been the mantra for the pro-abortion crowd. Except now in South Dakota, a new law states that doctors must tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370159/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:19:11 -0400 Deseret News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370159/ Those flimsy plastic shopping bags seem to end up in our waterways, storm drains, wilderness areas and even the desert in far greater numbers than in the supermarket recycling bins where they belong. ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370142/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:36:21 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370142/ Encourage children to stay active, healthy The recent finding that there is a sharp drop in physical activity levels as children become teenagers underscores the urgency of our country's health crisis... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368980/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:18:05 -0400 USA Today http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368980/ Former Vice President Al Gore made a speech in Washington last week that laid it on the line for what is left of American spirit and enterprise. He called for America to change itself away from the c... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16369042/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:16:46 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16369042/ The apprehension of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic opens the door not only to bringing an important accused war criminal to justice but also to a brighter future for Serbia. Radovan Kara... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16369041/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:16:46 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16369041/ Hope springs eternal. That adage might explain why Pennsylvanians have continued to buy lottery tickets in record numbers even as their pennies get pinched by rising prices and economic anxiety. Tha... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16369043/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:16:45 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16369043/ Our civilization is fast approaching a tipping point. Humans will need to make the transition from nonrenewable fossil fuels as the primary source of our energy to renewable energy sources that will a... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370144/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:36:19 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370144/ The situation has been similar on the streets of Baghdad, where Obama's visit has been duly noted but is not the No. 1 thing on people's minds. Iraqis tend to be jaundiced about American politics a... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370146/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:36:15 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370146/ A few weeks back my granddaughter and I were in the small town of Fairview. We stopped at a fast-food place to buy lunch. My granddaughter saw a bubble gum machine, and she begged for a quarter. So do... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370157/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:19:14 -0400 Deseret News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370157/ South Los Angeles is struggling to attract business, especially family restaurants, yet the City Council is taking up a ban on new fast-food outlets. When does it make sense to put up yet another City... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370143/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:36:20 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370143/ All airplanes, trains and large trucks burn horrendous amounts of fuel; their use should therefore be immediately suspended by federal mandate. All personal travel should, of course, be by roller-skat... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370156/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:19:16 -0400 Deseret News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370156/ Two gentlemen have responded negatively to my letter in support of gay marriage. For the record, I have moral standards and don't believe that I am contributing to the downfall of society (how silly).... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370158/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:19:13 -0400 Deseret News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370158/ political dealings something that should be done lightly. As distasteful as it might be, the single most important thing the government can do now is to assure that the financial system can continue ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368578/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:57:25 -0400 USA Today http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368578/ Calls for a better presidential transition next fall are a cottage industry in Washington, and for good reason: The next president must hit the ground running. Unless their transition planning is so s... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370145/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:36:17 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370145/ With the end of the Cold War, adopting the happy view that America's foes were now few, Congress opted to make public diplomacy a lower priority. USIA programs were cut back, and the remnants and ling... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370154/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:19:17 -0400 Deseret News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370154/ One Florida bus driver told federal investigators that he "occasionally blacks out and forgets things." The driver, who has lung disease, uses three daily inhalers to control his breathing. The man, w... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370155/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:19:19 -0400 Deseret News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16370155/ Beijing , when he steps up to the starting blocks and looks to his right and to his left, what should he see? Phelps should be standing with fellow swimmers who are fit and ready to compete — eager... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368982/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:18:06 -0400 USA Today http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368982/ People in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America look forward to a return of sane and substantive foreign policy over that of the Bush administration, which many perceive as ideologic... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368581/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:57:14 -0400 USA Today http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16368581/ Whether or not Labour scrapes home in tomorrow's Glasgow East byelection, there are some more fundamental forces affecting its future north of the border. For rather than stopping nationalism dead in ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364405/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:15:47 -0400 The Guardian http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364405/ The capture of Radovan Karadzic is unqualified good news. Despite yesterday's queue of Balkan pundits eager to destroy any hope of his getting an unadulterated trial, he was half the duumvirate that o... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364403/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:15:37 -0400 The Guardian http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364403/ 23 July 2008 The capture of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader responsible for horrendous war crimes during the Bosnian war, is welcome news. It is a victory for justice, for the UN trib... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16366444/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:34:40 -0400 Arab News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16366444/ A CAUSE OF FAITH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah tours the mosque he inaugurated in the Moroccan city of Bouskoura on Monday night. (SPA) http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16366441/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:34:47 -0400 Arab News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16366441/ IN JANUARY 1981, my wife and I went to Zimbabwe to live. We stayed with the late Joe Culverwell, then leader of the Zimbabwe senate. It was then I experienced something of Robert Mugabe's personal cha... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364038/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:19:10 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364038/ After a lengthy and emotional debate peppered with political accusations against Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica, the County Board voted 10-7 on Tuesday to reject his proposal to repeal the coun... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16362818/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:12:52 -0400 Chicago Tribune http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16362818/ IT MAY be a long time since Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, but to some people it still seems like only yesterday. In the past week, the legacy, meaning and contemporary relevance of Mrs Thatche... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364036/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:19:08 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364036/ Why do our prisons remain immune from scandal? I don't mean that scandals don't happen, but that they don't seem to attract attention - and through that public shame and political action. This include... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364401/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:15:39 -0400 The Guardian http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364401/ Shafquat Ali | shafquat.ali@arabnews.com The mudslinging was so fast and furious that it was impossible for anyone to emerge unscathed from the spectacle that yesterday played out in the Indian Parlia... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16366442/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:34:43 -0400 Arab News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16366442/ It's lucky Barack Obama has people to carry his bags these days, because when he arrived in Israel last night he brought with him a whole lot of baggage. Most of it was packed with negative associatio... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364402/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:15:45 -0400 The Guardian http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364402/ AS EDINBURGH continues to grow, more vehicles are using the city's streets. We do not wish to prevent the movement of vehicles and people's right to travel by private car, but have to look at the envi... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364037/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:18:54 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364037/ A new policy document for the police has advised officers to warn criminals first if they have a dog with them. A great fear of the creatures could trigger an adverse reaction, for which the police co... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364404/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:15:41 -0400 The Guardian http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/16364404/