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RESIGNED. Ted Haggard, 50, as president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals; amid allegations that he paid a male prostitute for sex and bought methamphetamine; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Escort Michael Jones told a Denver radio station that he had had a three-year relationship with Haggard--who last year was named one of America's 25 most influential Evangelicals by TIME--saying he wanted to expose the "hypocrisy" of the pastor, who has led the battle against gay marriage in Colorado. Haggard first claimed he did not know Jones. Then he admitted buying a massage...
...anti-Ruiz forces are now spearheaded by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), a leftist coalition that may include a small-scale guerrilla force. They have taken possession of the Benito Ju?rez University, where they continue to send messages through its radio station, Radio Universitaria, giving orders and calling for a "red alert" against the federal forces. The university is barricaded against the police, and according to witness and intelligence sources in Mexico City, the occupiers are accumulating Molotov cocktails and hand-made PVC rockets...
...into disrepair in recent years, though, with homeless people camping out on trash-strewn streets. Blue's shop was looking shabby too, its window displays outmoded, its linoleum worn. But when the City of Los Angeles moved to condemn his building--not to build a school or a fire station but to make way for a glitzy $500 million private hotel and condo complex--Blue dug in for what would become a three-year legal fight to save his store. "Big developers come along and say, 'Hey, that's a nice corner,'" he fumes. "Where will it stop...
MOTIVATION STATION...
...foreign companies face ownership restrictions - they can own just 49% of an Indian TV distribution business, for instance, 26% of a news-focused television station or newspaper and 20% of a radio station. But the government is likely to relax these rules in the next few years. Until then, foreign firms are licensing Indian companies to publish local editions, as is the case with Cosmo and a host of other well known foreign titles - or forming partnerships with Indian companies...