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...CONVICTED. BISHOP THOMAS O'BRIEN, 68, Roman Catholic bishop and former head of Arizona's largest diocese; of fleeing the scene of a fatal car accident after running into a drunken jaywalker; in Phoenix. O'Brien, whose windshield was cracked in the crash, said he thought he had hit a dog or a rock. The accident occurred two weeks after he signed an immunity agreement admitting he had allowed clergy accused of sexual abuse to continue working with minors...
...next forum for members will be held this May in Tucson, Arizona...
...April the National Park Service, with $5 million in congressional funds, will open an interactive center for visitors to Manzanar designed to "provoke ... dialogue on civil rights, democracy and freedom." Exhibits will include a film that documents the camp's history and side-by-side photos of the U.S.S. Arizona and the World Trade Center, making an implicit link to the anti-Arab sentiment that has followed 9/11. "The exhibits are designed to change, because who knows what issues the country will be facing in the future," says Frank Hays, superintendent of the Manzanar historic site. "Sixty years of looking...
...mail or vote online by using a secret access code to log onto a secured website. Since Jan. 1, 85,000 people have applied for ballots, and 7,500 have already cast votes. Michigan Democrats expect that online voting will produce a record turnout, as it did in Arizona when it used online voting in a 2000 primary...
...Coalition of 9-11 Families, an umbrella group, declared it "uninspiring" and called for a new competition. Some family groups have actually been pressing for a more anguished memorial that would incorporate twisted remnants of the towers that are currently in storage. They look to places like the U.S.S. Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor, built atop the scarred hulk of the sunken warship. When he first conceived his master plan for the Trade Center site, the architect Daniel Libeskind intended to preserve the concrete containing walls, 70 ft. deep, that once held the underground foundations of the Twin Towers. Battered...