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...Banksy is a 34-year-old native of Bristol, England, named Robin Gunningham, Britain's the Mail on Sunday reported on July 13. The thread that may have unraveled the mystery was a 2004 photograph taken in Jamaica, which many - including photographer Peter Dean Rickards - say is the only known picture of Banksy. (The artist's agent, Steve Lazarides, denied that the photo - which depicts a man in jeans and sneakers crouching above a can of spray paint - is of Banksy. A spokeswoman for the artist declined to confirm or deny the Mail's report.) (See pictures of Banksy...
Jobs Program a Dud According to a Labor Department report, retraining workers who lose manufacturing jobs is not so easy as originally thought. An evaluation of the government job-training program for workers hurt by foreign trade found that only 1 in 5 retrained workers landed jobs paying at least 80% as much as their former jobs...
Some readers were angered by the report in Michael Kramer's column ''Pulling the Plug'' ((THE POLITICAL INTEREST, Oct. 4)) of a medical bill for Hugh Rodham. Kramer writes that Hillary Rodham Clinton's 82-year-old father spent the last three weeks of his life in St. Vincent's Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, and quotes a physician familiar with Rodham's case as saying, ''He would normally have been discharged after a week because that's all the treatment Medicare would cover for someone in his condition, but he stayed on because of who he was. The hospital...
...Your report on accused world Trade Center plotter Mahmud Abouhalima and Muslim radicals ((Cover Story, Oct. 4)) demonstrates that you unfortunately believe Islam has a dark side. But Islam is a very peaceful religion. It is too bad that when someone does an evil deed and claims to be a Muslim, all Muslims and Islam itself are considered to be evil. Murder is not tolerated in Islam, and the murder of civilians is especially un-Islamic. The very word Islam comes from the Arabic word al-salaam, meaning peace. People fear Islam without understanding its true nature. Omar Reda Maple...
...country's southeast two mortar rounds fired by NATO-led troops at militants fell a kilometer short and killed four civilians, according to a report released by the International Security Assistance Force. Over the past few weeks President Karzai has vigorously protested such events of civilian casualties - on July 6 NATO forces bombed a wedding party in southeastern Afghanistan by mistake, killing 47. But today's lunch was neither the time nor the place to focus on civilian casualties, says Hamidzada, pointing out that the Senator's visit was more of an introduction to the country, and that such specific...