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...Miss West Virginia (1977) and is active in social and charitable circles. The little girl's strangled body was discovered the day after Christmas by her father in a basement area of the family's 15-room house in Boulder, a university town of 96,000 nestled against the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Days before, the room where JonBenet was found had stored holiday presents...
...wonder what Ahmadinejad truly believes. Steve Brown Johannesburg Thugs by Any Other Name Your notebook item "The New Bin Laden?" [Sept. 5] said that according to recent European intelligence reports, al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, "now rivals Osama bin Laden in influence among Middle Eastern and European jihadists." Such stories exaggerate the importance of al-Qaeda and al-Zarqawi. He is nothing but a low-level hit man. And now the media have enhanced his grandeur, providing more motivation to the harebrained Islamist yokels terrorizing the world! These people thrive on sensational news stories. Will...
...Another 15 swans died Monday in the hamlet of Popina in the northeast of the Delta, close to the border with Ukraine. This makes three outbreaks of bird flu to be confirmed in Romania. Further south, the eastern Greek island of Inousses is under watch while tests are conducted on an infected turkey. Results won't be in for days and authorities have yet to order a mass slaughter of fowl there, but state vets are also looking into scores of other bird flu scares reported in mainland Greece within in the last 24 hours...
...play is a reflection of Mike leading. The big wins can be attributed to him.” As a native of the east coast—he graduated from St. Mary’s in Annapolis, Md.—Garcia stands out as one of the few easterners among a team of Californians. As one of the shorter members of the team, Garcia isn’t your typical water polo player, but his strength and speed enable him to rise out the water and overpower his opponents. And his game is louder than his mouth...
...skated to music from the popular movie. The routine was replete with one skater’s emulation of the movie’s main character, complete with a curly wig. Winthrop sophomore Meghan C. McCullough ’08 and her partner Joel Dear—the 2005 Eastern Sectional Junior Dance champions—also performed. Two-time U.S. National Champion and 2001 World Junior Champion Johnny Weir was slated to perform but was unable to appear due to health reasons...