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...lawsuit against NBA star KOBE BRYANT, 25; by the unnamed woman who claims he raped her in a Vail, Colo., hotel room; in Denver. Her suit seeks compensatory damages of at least $75,000 and unspecified punitive damages. Prosecutors in Bryant's criminal trial for rape later sought a delay in that trial's Aug. 27 start date, claiming courthouse gaffes have made it impossible to obtain a fair jury. The judge denied the request...
...INDICATORS Economy Class United Airlines admitted it would "likely" scrap and replace its employee pension plans to help it exit bankruptcy. Meanwhile US Airways said it would ask authorities for the right to delay its own pension contributions as it seeks to prevent a second bankruptcy...
...delay has been good for Sadr, too, because the perception of the standoff among large sections of Iraqi society has been shaped by the fact that it involves thousands of troops from an unpopular foreign army attacking Muslim fighters around one of Shiite Islam's holiest sites. The Najaf standoff has seen the U.S. and Allawi widely condemned among both Shiite and Sunni Muslim Iraqis, and thousands of Shiites have flocked to Najaf to act as "human shields" to protect Sadr in the event of a new offensive. Elsewhere in Iraq, Sadr's militiamen continue daily to demonstrate their capacity...
...will let the ban on those very weapons expire one month from today. Because, though this president has said that he would sign a renewal should the bill reach his desk, he has enlisted his congressional posse—House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.—to make sure the bill never does. In turn, these men, responsible for bringing the bill to a vote, say they will do so only if the President asks them to. And with the NRA?...
...government increasingly bereft of support and legitimacy among its own citizenry. But Allawi may also believe he has no option but to risk the consequences of an offensive to stamp out the Sadrist challenge if he is to establish the authority of the central government, and that delay would only make the task more difficult...