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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INITIATED. Into the death of PAT TILLMAN, Arizona Cardinals defensive back who quit football to join the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004, after fellow Rangers mistook him for a Taliban fighter; by the Defense Department's inspector general; in Washington. The Army originally blamed enemy fire for Tillman's death. Tillman's family has criticized three previous Army investigations as incomplete...
While Avenue Q was the first and only show to eschew a national tour and put all its money on Vegas, musicals like Spamalot and Hairspray are excluding or limiting play in competing markets, such as Nevada, California and Arizona. The Vegas focus "has been an awakening for the industry," says Pat Halloran, president of the Independent Presenters Network, a group of 55 theater owners, operators and presenters...
...found that al-Qahtani had been subjected to treatment that was not, in itself, a violation of Defense Department policy, but that was cumulatively "abusive and degrading." Many of the techniques now could conceivably be prohibited under a law passed in December and sponsored by Sen. John McCain of Arizona that bans U.S. personnel from engaging in "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" of prisoners...
...said Begala. “Watch this, he is moving so far to the right.” He noted McCain’s recent support of President George W. Bush’s calls to teach intelligent design alongside evolution. McCain said in a interview with the Arizona Daily Star last August that “all points of view” on the origins of mankind should be taught in school. Begala said of the Arizona senator: “Maybe he’s had a mid-life conversion, or maybe he’s going...
...DIED. ARCHBISHOP PAUL MARCINKUS, 84, scrappy Chicago priest who rose to head of the Vatican Bank and retired after being connected to one of the biggest financial scandals in Italian history; in Sun City, Arizona. Following the looting of $1.3 billion from another Italian bank, in which the Vatican held a major share, Marcinkus faced charges as an accessory to the crime. Though the Holy See would not permit his arrest?and he and the Vatican maintained his innocence?it paid $250 million as a "goodwill settlement" of the case...