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Though educational levels have risen for blacks and Hispanics, both ethnic groups still trail whites in most categories. High school, college completion rates rise - Jun 29, 2004

Portugal became the first host nation since the Netherlands themselves in 1988 to qualify for the final of the UEFA European Championship...

Mum Nicole: Not easy to find mate - Jun 30, 2004

"Spider-Man 2 is that rare Hollywood phenomenon, a sequel that is actually better than the original." Review: Spider-Man 2

Euro 2004, S.A. has donated €100,000 to the National Federation of Solidarity Co-operatives (FENACERCI), a platform for organisations which aim to improve the lives of people with learning difficulties and their families. Helping others through football

U.S.: Sudan 'in state of denial' - Jun 30, 2004

Florence Ballard - 1943 in Rosetta, MS Al Benson - 1908 in Jackson, MS William Brown - 1946 in Perth Amboy, NJ Stanley Clarke - 1951 in Philadelphia, PA Wallace Davenport - 1925 in New Orleans, LA Andrew Hill - 1937 in Chicago, IL Lena Horne - 1917 in Brooklyn, NY Joyce Jones - 1949 in Philadelphia, PA

Hendrix family battle for fortune

Africa's Masai Find Kinship With Amish, Others in U.S.

US recalls ex-soldiers for duty

Detailed Country Profile: Portugal

Portuguese PM gets EU's top job

...And I really like Serena too. Serena cruises past Capriati in 45 minutes - Wednesday June 30, 2004 9:29AM

Boy Scouts sued for $14M over fire - Jun 29, 2004

Let me tell you how wonderful my girlfriend is. She likes to travel and she is very willing, and fortunately able, to take short trips pretty regularly. Earlier this year we had talked about going to Boston. She loves it there, I've never been, she has friends and I have family there. Well, we hadn't mentioned it in a long time but just a few days ago she started plotting a trip, as a surprise for my Birthday (Sept). She had talked to my office manager to make sure I could take a couple of extra Labor Day Weekend days, she's emailed my cousin to see if it would be ok to stay with her but she couldn't hold the secret. She thought I knew b/c I said something about Labor Day weekend to my cousin (before she and Tara started plotting). So, Tara asks me about it and then spills the beans. What a lucky guy I am.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil to play Haitians for peace

Barca deal thrills Larsson

The Boondocks Courtesy of UComics

FCC's Powell Won't Stay, Some Speculate

It's Called Democracy

'Spider-Man 2': Putting Action After Feelings of a Superhero

Gilberto Gil - 1942 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Evelyn "Champagne" King - 1960 in New York, NY [The Bronx] Frank Kirkland - 1927 in Washington, D.C. Little Eva - 1943 in Bellhaven, NC Johnnie Louise Richardson - 1945 in Montgomery, AL

One sunny day in 2005, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Bush." The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here." The old man said, "Okay," and walked away. The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Bush." The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here." The man thanked him and, again, just walked away. The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U. S. Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Bush." The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked a...

Episcopalians mark 175 years in Midstate - Monday, 06/28/04

The backstory is that Tom DuBois - a devout Democrat - kidnapped Nader... Courtesy of Ucomics

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be careful. Take all the sleep you need/ You may expect to be well. James Freeman Clarke

I hope for the best for Iraq but can this provisional gov't really hold onto things. The atmosphere is so volatile. The gov't has little infrastructure let alone security! There is speculation that pushing up the changeover was not just for security reasons, which seems logical and VERY smart, but there is a huge element of American politics. With this the Bush administration can say: "See, we brought the new Iraqi gov't into power before we had planned to." I tend to be a little naive/optimistic when it comes to stuff like that. I don't want to believe that kind of thinking is at play. We'll see.

The unexpected early handover in Iraq has provided the new interim Iraqi government and the departing Coalition with a rare propaganda coup

Saudis:Al Qaeda member surrenders - Jun 28, 2004

Cathy Carr - 1936 in New York, NY [The Bronx] David "Honeyboy" Edwards - 1915 in Shaw, MS I-Roy - 1949 in Spanish Town, Jamaica Bonnie Jefferson - 1919 in ShoalCreek, AR Joe "Fox" Smith - 1902 in Ripley, OH

Iraq handover of sovereignty completed - Jun 28, 2004

Today I put my first batch of stuff in my compost bin. The countdown begins. I'll probably add stuff once a week or so. I'm really looking forward to seeing this process. Anybody got composting stories?

Footpath became heart of city's black middle class - Thursday, 06/24/04

The 15-month long conflict in Sudan's western province of Darfur has produced what the United Nations is calling "the worst humanitarian crisis in the world".

A book written by a top CIA counterterrorism official alleges that the Bush administration has bungled the war on terror

$21.8 million in its first three days, becoming the first documentary ever to debut as Hollywood's top weekend film.

Baroš brings down Danes

My girlfriend's school! The 560-student school is one of 13 in Metro and 108 statewide recently awarded incentive grant for making academic progress, increasing student achievement or lowering the dropout rate during the 2002-03 school year.

HURRY! Get your pro football team on ebay. Action ends Jun-28-04 16:05:31 PDT

Women's Football Championships

Pioneer lived out his hoop dreams - Sunday, 06/27/04

Driver hits homeless man's cart deliberately - Sunday, 06/27/04

Graybeard capitalists keep hippie dreams alive as communes learn to adapt.

Anti-Bush sentiment runs high at showings of the documentary, which has had a strong opening weekend on 868 screens.

Four players who live in the U.S. are helping the national team give female athletes a leg up.

Migration of young professional families may be creating a 'smart belt' in the Sun Belt.

Cobb/LaMarche in 04?

Green Party delegates nominate party activist David Cobb as their Presidential nominee.

the times they are a changin'

No more butchie flannel & jeans?

On this day last year my stepmother - Louise M. Sanders - died. She is missed.

1988 - MCA Records buys Motown Records for $61 million.

George Braith - 1939 in New York, NY [The Bronx] Shad Collins - 1910 in Elizabeth, NJ Eddie El - 1914 in Mound Bayou, MS Rev. Lonnie Farris - 1924 in Charlotte, NC Elmo Hope - 1923 in New York, NY Bruce Johnson - 1944 Maceo Pinkard - 1897 in Bluefield, WV Louis Risbrook - 1953 in Brooklyn, NY Johnny "Moose John" Walker - Stoneville, MS John Mayon Walker - 1929 in Greenville, MS Leon Washington - 1909 in Jackson, MS Frank Williams - 1947 in Smithdale, MS

Dutch delight in shoot-out

Blair plea to Bush on Guantanamo

Today I bought a composter. I know, I know you can make them but I figure the easier it is to do the more likely it is that I will do it so I bought one of those spinner kind from a new ecologically friendly garden store in town, Worm's Way . Thanks to Tara, my beautiful and talented girlfriend, for motivating me enough to actually do this. I've always wanted to but didn't really know where to start. She would come over to my place with a small plastic container which we would fill in a matter of one meal. Now I have a place to put all the scraps I can generate! I'm looking forward to this!

Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace. His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, 1968

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Blasts hit Iraq political offices

Iraq terrorists threaten to behead Turkish hostages - Jun 26, 2004

Big Bill Broonzy - 1893 in Scott, MS Billy Davis, Jr. - 1940 in St. Louis, MO Arthur Doyle - 1944 in Birmingham, AL Jean Knight - 1943 in New Orleans, LA St. Louis Jimmy Oden - 1903 in Nashville, TN Brenton Wood - 1941 in Shreveport, LA Reggie Workman - 1937 in Philadelphia, PA

Moore defends 'Fahrenheit' - Jun 25, 2004

Kobe Bryant trial to start August 27

Today I signed up at the YMCA . I learned to swim and play football at the Y but that was 20+ years ago. Now I need to maintain and relax. Throw me your positive vibes that I can use this facility regularly and make my life and the life of those around me better. Thanks

Iacocca Dumps Bush to Back Kerry

U.S. Reviewing Reported Genocide in Sudan

GOP Hurrying Gay Marriage Ban to Senate Floor The Constitution is not the place for this issue!

Summit aims to avert DR Congo war

"Greece sensationally knocked out defending champions France with an incredible win in their Euro 2004 quarter-final."

Last Words of Brother Ray At the end of his life, Charles set the record straight By DAVID RITZ Death," Ray Charles told me when he first learned that cancer was devouring his body, "is the one motherfucker that ain't ever going away." I met Ray Charles in 1975, when he agreed to let me ghostwrite his autobiography. He was vulgar, refined, funny, sexy, spontaneous, outlandish, brave, brutal, tender, blue, ecstatic. He would wrap his arms around his torso, hugging himself in a grand gesture of self-affirmation. In normal conversation, he preached and howled and fell to the floor laughing. He was, in his own words, "raw-ass country." Because my job was to take the material of our dialogues and weave them into a first-person narrative, I had to make sure the dialogues were deep. I began tentatively by saying, "Now if this question is too tough ." "How the fuck can a question be too tough? The truth is the truth." The trut...

Taking a hint from George (who I don't know) I went to Find Your Spot to see what the fuss was. The top 5 spots according to my survey results are: Portland, Oregon - City of Roses This Oregon city has the nation's largest forested municipal park, the aptly-named Forest Park. Population: 1,573,000 | Average Home Price: $196,000 | Precipitation: 36" | Snow: 5" Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana - Cities of Three Flags This spot on Louisiana's Red River was named for a steam boat captain who cleared a logjam known as the "Great Raft" in the 1830s… Population: 392,000 | Average Home Price: $123,000 | Precipitation: 45" | Snow: 0" Sacramento, California - The River City This state capital is the oldest incorporated city in California… Population: 1,628,000 | Average Home Price: $224,000 | Precipitation: 17" | Snow: 0" Charleston, West Virginia - The Home of Hospitality For a taste of yes...

Sources: Ryan dropping out of Senate race in Illinois - Jun 25, 2004

Is it me or does the 9th District Congressman from TN and the Democratic Candidate for Senator of IL have a similar look? What does this mean? Is this the new look for the Democratic Party?

The Jr Sen from IL or soon-to-be

Eriksson cools controversy

What went wrong with Beckham?

Beckham takes the blame

Beckham to stay as skipper

Ronald Reagan arrived at the Pearly Gates, and was met by St. Peter. Reagan was stunned for a moment. "You mean, I---I'm in?" he asked. "That's right" said St. Peter. "Come on, man. I'll show you around." He tossed the keys to a brand new Lincoln Town Car at Reagan, and said, "You drive. This is your car, for the rest of eternity." Reagan was buoyant as they drove along the streets of Heaven, through sunny neighborhoods. Finally they came to a fancy part of town, with big lawns and swimming pools. St. Peter told Reagan that this is where he would be living. "That's Franklin Roosevelt's house over there," St. Peter pointed out as they drove, "And that's where Albert Einstein lives, next to Madame Curie. Pope John Paul XXIII lives here....and here's your house." They pulled into the driveway, and got out. As Reagan was looking around, he noticed up in the hills a palace ...

Calabresi, a former dean of Yale Law School, was quoted saying the U.S. Supreme Court "put somebody in power" when a ruling it made in December 2000 settled the dispute over whether Bush had defeated Al Gore. "In a way that occurred before but is rare in the United States ... somebody came to power as a result of the illegitimate acts of a legitimate institution that had the right to put somebody in power," Calabresi said. "The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy. "The King of Italy had the right to put Mussolini in, though he had not won an election, and make him prime minister," the judge continued. "That is what happened when Hindenburg put Hitler in." Calabresi told the lawyers: "I am not suggesting for a moment that Bush is Hitler. I want to be clear on that, but it is a situation which is extremely unusual." Calabresi went on to say the pu...

Rapper DMX arrested in New York - Jun 25, 2004

'Fahrenheit 9/11': Unruly Scorn Leaves Room for Restraint, but Not a Lot

Black rhinos 'on recovery path'

Powell confronts Iraq escalation

Candyman - 1968 Joe Chambers - 1942 in Stoneacre, VA Clifton Chenier - 1925 in Opelousas, LA Harold Melvin - 1939 in Philadelphia, PA

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is a cinematic editorial

"F9/11" As much as some might try to marginalize this film as a screed against President George Bush, "F9/11" — as we saw last night — is a tribute to patriotism, to the American sense of duty — and at the same time a indictment of stupidity and avarice.

A First Look at "Fahrenheit 9/11"

Review: Fahrenheit 9/11

'Fahrenheit 9/11' a powerful, fiery film

Portugal eventually overcame England on penalties to advance to the last four of UEFA EURO 2004™ Matches Luís Figo (Portugal) & David Beckham (England) ©Getty Images

Marriage Amendment: Oppose Writing Intolerance into the Constitution

WOW! What's up with this? Venus makes shock exit

A photographic survey of some big "oops". I Lost My Job Today I Lost My Job Today2 I Lost My Job Today3 I Lost My Job Today4 I Lost My Job Today5 I Lost My Job Today6

A short story about another genius for Black Music Month. Amazing Black Facts: Who Combined Social Protest with Rhythm 'n' Blues? Curtis Mayfield 1988 Live Station Dortmund photo by Oskar C. Neubauer

B.B. King and Jeff Beck at John Jay College, NYC, 6/20/03. Photo by Glyn Emmerson © 2003 NYRock.com

Michael Coleman Born Jun 24, 1956 in Chicago, IL Ransom Knowling - 1912 in New Orleans, LA John "Captain John" Handy - 1900 in Pass Christian, MO Frank Lowe - 1943 in Memphis, TN Lance "Un" Rivera - 19?? Marvin "Smitty" Smith - 1961 in Waukegan, IL Cootie Williams - 1910 in Mobile, AL Lester Williams - 1920 in Groveton, TX

The only undefeated team in group play! Czechs overflow with talent Pavel Nedved fends off Edgar Davids

Germany Out!

Dylan receives honorary degree American folk-rock singer Bob Dylan has been awarded an honorary degree by Scotland's oldest university.

Michael Moore's version of "The Passion"? Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' turns on box office heat - Jun. 24, 2004

Look! A conservative with vision. High Court Justice Supports Bar Plan to Ease Sentencing

Recently I've had some very vivid dreams. Not regular dreams but epics. Dreams where one scenario flows right into another and into another although none are necessarily connected. The other night I had a dream that included images from video games I play and images of my Dad (died 1996) and my Step-Mom (died this time last year). It also included images of a house guest and my girlfriend. All of these images were translated into "scenes" or items in scenes and then all these scenes were strung together like a movie. This kind of thing happened 2 nights in a row and I don't ever remember dreaming like this. Does anybody know anything about dream interpretation ? How true is the info that's interpreted? Can the foretell your future? Or are they a fresh perspective on what has past? There are so many mysteries. I wonder if I will ever be satisfied? *Sigh*

A top-down push for harsh interrogation techniques comes to light, as investigations into Iraqi prisoner abuse continue.

Rooney gets Pele backing Pele, who won the World Cup three times with Brazil, added: "He's a very exciting talent who shows maturity and composure beyond his young years." "I just hope that Rooney is allowed to remain focussed on his performance and that the only pressure he has to carry is that which he puts upon himself. "There is certainly a lot more pressure on a young player like Rooney than there was when I first played for Brazil. "It is something Wayne will have to learn to cope with."

England's rising ethnic fanbase

Experts slam low-carb trend as rip-off - Jun 23, 2004

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 SONGS

I guess nobody knows who Perry Ferrell is anymore. .: Welcome to LOLLAPALOOZA 2004 :.