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"The time has come for a Holy Land where a democratic Israel and a democratic Palestine live side-by-side in peace," he said. Bush visited Israel and the Palestinian territories earlier this month in a bid to promote the peace process that he revived at the international conference in Annapolis, Maryland, in November. Bush also vowed to stay on the offensive on the war against terrorism, just as he had repeatedly stressed in his every previous State of the Union address. However, more than six years after the launching of the war on terrorism, Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11,2001, terror attacks, is still at large. The "axis of evil" are still a source of headaches for the Bush administration: Iraq has failed to achieve political reconciliation, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea failed to meet the year-end deadline to declare its nuclear activities, and Iran continues its uranium enrichment despite U.S.
BBDO Worldwide Tops The Gunn Report as the Most Awarded Agency Network ...
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- BBDO Worldwide was named the "Most Awarded Agency Network in the World" according to The Gunn Report (www.gunnreport.com), which combines the winners' lists from the most important award shows in the world. This marks the second year in a row that BBDO has been ranked #1 and the fifth time in the nine-year history of this report ... more than twice as much as any other agency network. For the 2007 Gunn Report, results from the top 37 shows for TV and Cinema, the top 19 for Print, and the top 18 for Interactive were included. BBDO agencies from 24 different markets and across every geographic region contributed to this year's success -- more agencies than ever before and more than any other network. Seven of these agencies were ranked among the "Top 50" most awarded agencies in the world.
Dec 2007
Musharraf had ended "martial law" two weeks ago. That was better than the candidate's next effort, when he said an appropriate U.S. response would include "very clear monitoring of our borders . . . to make sure if there's any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into our country." The cynicism of this attempt to connect Pakistan's crisis with anti-immigrant sentiment was compounded by its astonishing senselessness. The problem here is not cynicism, it's ignorance. It again seems likely that the former Arkansas governor does not have the most pedestrian acquaintance with events in the rest of the world, or a Joe's Diner level ability to talk about them. This was excusable, perhaps, before his campaign heated up and began to attract money. Now he should have a small staff to rapidly bring him up to speed on such things. The only explanation for this kind of performance is that he just isn't interested in foreign policy. His eyes glaze over when his advisers talks to him about it. That is very bad.
Uncommon Wealth of Success in Boston for Big Three Teams
Sports columnists for The Boston Globe, who for decades could charitably be described as dyspeptic, now must scrounge for material. And even Champagne loses its allure in six-packs. "When the Red Sox finally won in 2004, the city just went bananas; it was the greatest bachelor party ever," said Mark Sternman, a researcher for a state government agency, adding that, "2007 was the best party you could have as a married man." The Celtics, of course, spent the 1960s as one of sport's great dynasties, and became dreadful only recently. (Last spring, the team was accused of losing games on purpose so it could finish with the N.B.A.'s worst record and increase its chances of landing the No. 1 or 2 pick in the draft. The Celtics botched that, too.) The Red Sox have been traditionally competitive, just not good enough to outlast the hated Yankees.
Mexico issues warrant for missing Marine
Mexican officials have issued an arrest warrant for a U.S. Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape, a U.S. Embassy official said Tuesday. A cousin told reporters last week that Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean visited family in the area of Guadalajara, Mexico, this month, but left without saying where he was headed. The burned remains of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach were found with those of her fetus earlier this month in a fire pit in the back yard of Laurean's house in Jacksonville, N.C., and Laurean, is being sought on an indictment charging first-degree murder. Both were stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Laurean was born in Mexico and fled after leaving a note for his wife in North Carolina saying that Lauterbach cut her own throat and that he had buried her body.
News Update
Foxboro police continue following leads in the Oct. 15 murder of Carlos Gomez, Detective Thomas Kirrane said Wednesday. Luis Lopez, 24, of Central Falls, has been held without bail in Rhode Island since last Thursday, when police arrested him at his Cross Street home without incident. He was arrested as a fugitive from justice based on a murder warrant issued to Massachusetts authorities on Nov. 7. "There is the potential for more arrests," Kirrane said.The body of Gomez, 29, of Central Falls was found on Route 106 in Foxboro, near Hampshire Street, by a passing motorist shortly after 1 a.m. Oct. 15. Police found the body in the eastbound lane on Route 106, near the Route 95 underpass, a remote part of town. The victim had been shot a number of times.The arrest of Lopez was the result of an extensive investigation by Foxboro police, and state police detectives assigned to the Norfolk County District Attorney's office.District Attorney William Keating thanked Kirrane and Foxboro Police Chief Edward O'Leary "for all of their work and cooperation in this investigation.""This was a good example of how interagency cooperation can produce positive results," Keating said in a statement.Lopez is being held in Rhode Island until a Nov.
Walt Disney World's Contemporary Resort gets a fresh look and feel
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Here's good news for all of us who are still collecting birthdays. You can be 36 years old and as cool as you were at 18 or 20. Walt Disney World's Contemporary Resort proves it. One of the two Disney hotels that opened with the park in 1971 (the Polynesian Resort was the other), the A-frame Contemporary is aiming to be fabulous at 40 and further. An ongoing facelift has erased its garish '60s room decor and is adding 21st-century atmosphere and attractions. "Every space will be touched," Kevin Myers, vice president of resort operations for Disney World, says of the work expected to continue into 2009. (Room updates are complete.) Two drawing cards from the beginning – the monorail trains that hiss through the hotel's soaring atrium and the Contemporary's primo location just two minutes by train or five minutes by footpath from the Magic Kingdom – will be unchanged.
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