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...shortly after the attacks, but then-Mayor of New York Rudolph W. Giuliani rejected the donation after Alwaleed issued a statement arguing that the U.S. “must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack.” Alwaleed later wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times stating that he “reject[s] the notion that any person or any cause can justify terrorism.” But his statement came too late. But Alwaleed said he was not discouraged. “It was a misunderstanding...
When he broke into TV in the mid-1960s, on shows like Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan, RICHARD PRYOR--who died last week of a heart attack at age 65--was a cute, rubber-faced young comic with a knack for physical comedy and a childlike sweetness; in one of his earliest bits, he impersonated a band of scared grade-schoolers performing Rumpelstiltskin. Within a few years, he had become America's most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley...
...felt well enough, but his pacer sometimes would go off in his chest and scare the hell out of him. That's a difficult thing to live with right in the middle of Tiny Bubbles." ED BROWN, friend of Hawaiian singer Don Ho, on the crooner's heart problems. Ho is recovering from cardiac stem-cell therapy in Thailand
...Democratic criticism of the President's "victory" offensive came from two West Point graduates who had opposed the war, Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island and General Wesley Clark, and both took Bush to task for the skimpiness of the Iraq effort. Clark wrote a New York Times Op-Ed piece offering a thoughtful list of suggestions for a more successful prosecution of the war that he had opposed, including the deployment of more troops (which he would transfer from other regions). Reed pointed out that the President, despite his talk of limited success in the reconstruction of the cities...
...Christmas message is to herald Jesus' arrival-Evangelicals are known by that name for a reason-then some critics wonder how it helps to close a church's doors. "It does muddy the message if, for convenience and pleasure, people are taking church out of Christmas," says Ed Vitigliano, a spokesman for the American Family Association, which has led the boycott against retailers who use "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." A pastor at a church in Pontotoc, Miss., Vitigliano's church will be open on the 25th. "Part of celebrating Christmas should always be keeping the focus on Christ...