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Jean Baptiste said he spoke to a doctor who said that Ekperi likely died of an undiagnosed heart problem that was not detected during physical examinations. Nutman said that the medical cause of Ekperi’s death has not been confirmed...
...Soon after Peretz spoke, Palestinian Interior Minister Saeed Siyam issued a call to arms for all members of the various Palestinian security forces, urging them to band together against the Israelis and honor what he called their "religious and moral duty to stand up to this aggression and cowardly Zionist invasion." Other Palestinian officials appealed to the international community to do something to forestall further bloodshed. For those around the world hoping that the very obvious perils of escalation will walk all parties back from the precipice, Thursday's events - and the absence of any sign of significant international intervention...
...Criticized as an "executive lynching," and a "despotic usurpation of power," the decision was widely unpopular among blacks and Northern whites. Even Roosevelt's ally Washington, who as a rule never spoke publicly against the president, opposed him. "Brownsville was an unforgettable shock. It erased any illusions about Roosevelt's benevolence created by the dinner at the White House," noted historian Louis Harlan in his 1983 biography of Washington. Roosevelt chafed at accusations that he dismissed the men because they were black and insisted that his decision was based solely on his "convictions." The Richmond Planet, a black newspaper, observed...
...notoriety this spring with his criticism of the uprising against the government's abortive law to make it easier to fire - and therefore hire - young people. Pitte's new book, Young People, They're Lying to You: Reconstructing the University, is a stinging critique of French education. He spoke with Time's James Graff in Pitte's office. How many of the 26,000 students at the Sorbonne are really students? Between 10 and 15% of them are false students who enroll to get social security and a student ID card. But the 23,000 or 24,000 others...
...local berry drink that tastes like flat, bitter orange soda. All that matters to the President, though, is that Stralsund was once represented in the Bundestag by Angela Merkel, who unseated Gerhard Schröder last fall to become Germany's first female Chancellor. Bush and Schröder barely spoke, but Bush and Merkel hit it off when she visited the White House in January, and the overnight Stralsund detour is indicative of the President's new stab at European diplomacy: find friends, even if the effort takes you to out-of-the-way places...