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Walking with James Martin, SJ

A Contemporary Spiritual Journey

Author(s): Robert Waldron

ISBN13: 9780809147786

ISBN10: 0809147785

Publisher: Paulist Press (1 Dec 2012)

Extent: 128 pages

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  •  Robert Waldron invites us to take another journey with him through the works of a spiritual writer, this time those of the well-known and popular Jesuit priest, James Martin.

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The Paraguayan Bottle Dance | Photo: ASPORA

From the outside it didn’t look like much – I desperately searched the door for some indication of Latin America. Nothing. Not knowing what to expect, I ventured through the door: Colour! Motion! A delicious sense of raucous enjoyment so seldom sensed in this city swept over me.

The event was held at the OKAZ (Austrian-Arabic Cultural Centre) and the dark wood panelling and large rooms of what seemed like an Altbau apartment gave the impression of a well-organised house party.

An elderly Cuban woman approached me posing several questions – in Spanish. Never having studied this lovely language, I was immediately overwhelmed.

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As my fellow gringos and I, watched the flow of performers, dressed in intricately embroidered attire, the lure of the vibrant music in the background began to take hold.

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The most experienced was able to tower five bottles on her head and still swish her dress back and forth. This seemed the Paraguayan alternative to teaching posture by balancing a book.

Things started to heat up when a fiery Brazilian Samba dancer excited the crowd. As she started pulling people on stage to join her, my heart stood still. Luckily, I was spared what would surely have been a disaster in the making, but to my astonishment, the innocent bystanders selected learned the dance moves with such swiftness, it could have all been choreographed.

Modern Vienna resurfaced when the police arrived and imposed a hefty fine – apparently some neighbours had complained about the noise levels – which was promptly paid and the party continued on as before.

Many of those organising the event via ASPORA (the Paraguayan Austrian Cultural Community), also doubled as performing artists and sous chefs. The kitchen quickly became another place to socialise and any hesitation about the quality or taste disappeared when the first plate arrived.

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A beautifully restored traditional country inn, with parts of the original building being over 400 years old. Located in spectacular countryside, five miles west of Chesterfield.

Enjoy homemade, locally sourced fresh food, it is our passion! Whether it’s a sumptuous meal from our pub classics or a la Carte Menus in our Orangery or Private Dining Room, a Wedding Breakfast, Celebratory Function or one of our Famous Hog Roast,s our Chefs will delight you. All complemented by a well kept selection of locally brewed Derbyshire Guest Ales enhanced by a cracking merchant-only wine list.

Our Function Suite is not only for Private Hire for Civil Weddings, Wedding Receptions and functions, we also host a number of entertainment nights and wine tasting evenings.

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Map reference: SK 313717  Lat: 53.24140 Long: -1.53244

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From junction 29 of M1 take A617 to Chesterfield (approx 4 miles). At traffic light controlled roundabout select middle lane and take 2nd exit. At next roundabout select left lane and take 1st exit (continuous lane, signposted Chatsworth). At traffic lights select right hand lane and go straight on. At traffic light controlled roundabout (Matalan) take 3rd exit (Foljambe Road). At traffic lights at top of hill turn left and follow road for approx 1¼ miles to roundabout. At roundabout, take 2nd exit and continue for 1½ miles and the church of St Peter's and St Paul's is on right. Continue for a further mile and the Fox and Goose is on right hand side.

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Accessible by Public Transport: 3 miles from Chesterfield station

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  • Family Medicine Spring Green, WI

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With no major Republican so far stepping up to run against Virginia Sen. Mark Warner in 2014, a movement to draft former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has started in hopes of wooing the former Georgia lawmaker and current Old Dominion resident into the race.

"U.S. Senator Newt Gingrich would be an immediate game changer, giving conservatives another voice that would take the fight to the Obama administration,” said the head of the effort, Andrew Hemingway, who served as Gingrich’s 2012's presidential campaign state director in New Hampshire.

Gingrich hasn’t expressed interest in the race. He also just started a new gig with CNN as one of the four co-hosts of the newly rebranded debate show “Crossfire.”

The popular Warner is running unopposed so far, though there have been some rumors that former national and Virginia state GOP boss Ed Gillespie was eyeing the race.

Hemingway said that the draft movement will be a national one and is starting with a petition from “thousands of Americans.”

In a statement, Dan Backer, treasurer of the effort, said, "No one can better articulate the values of millions of Virginians seeking an end to government overreach, the repeal of Obamacare and tax relief for hardworking Americans. And, Newt is one of the few potential candidates who can unite tea party conservatives and establishment republicans behind a winning ticket.”

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Radical parents, Red shoes and a poet up close and personal.

By Juliet Wittman
Sunday, November 21, 2004; Page BW13

Child of the Revolution

A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience (Free Press, $26) covers times that are almost incomprehensible to those who didn't live them. Author Thai Jones is the son of Jeff Jones, a one-time member of the Weather Underground, and fellow radical Eleanor Raskin. Both came from a long line of activists, whose personal and professional sacrifices Jones chronicles. He is named for Nguyen Thai, a fighter for the Vietnamese National Liberation Front whom Raskin met in Cuba in 1969.

Jeff Jones was an organizer for Students for a Democratic Society, and his son evokes the schisms within that organization with a certain amount of humor: "If you thought that white youth should defer to the Black Panthers and Third World revolutionaries, then you gave at least some loyalty to Weathermen. If you believed white youth had to defer to white factory workers, then you subscribed to Progressive Labor. If you thought that white middle-class students could contribute in their own right, then you were really far off. If you didn't care about any of that stuff, then you weren't a member of SDS in the summer of 1969."

Jones was also one of the primary organizers of that year's Days of Rage in Chicago -- a futile exercise in which a couple of hundred participants taunted police, raced through the streets and smashed shop windows. Following this, he vanished into the underground along with Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and other members of Weathermen. A bombing campaign against symbols of American power followed.

How had a movement that stressed peace and love, that was epitomized by the famous photograph of a young girl placing a flower in the muzzle of a Guardsman's gun, come to this?

This was not an abstract question for Thai Jones, born while his parents were still on the run. Their flight ended in 1981 when he was 4 years old and the FBI came to the family's apartment. Thai raced to his bedroom, determined to help his parents, and found a pair of blunt-bladed child's scissors. "Bouncing them in my hand and snipping at the air, I considered . . . charging into the hallway with scissors blazing to defeat these men who had come to hurt our family." But he took the opposite decision to the one his father had made in 1969, put the scissors back into the drawer, and then "went out into the hallway where my father was manacled, slid my small fingers around the cold cuffs into his palm, and stood with him in the corridor holding hands."

A Radical Line raises two questions: What impels people to give up comfortable, safe lives for an ideal of justice, and how are these ideas passed through the generations? And -- more pressing -- where does Thai Jones fit into all this? Does he forgive his parents for the fear and disruption that marred his young life? Does he admire or condemn their actions?

Jones is a reporter who has worked for Newsday, and his journalistic training is both an asset and a hindrance. On the one hand, he gives us a clear-eyed description of the activities of the New Left and the way in which his parents' lives intersected with almost all the significant events of that movement. Raskin helped fleeing SDS member Cathlyn Wilkerson disguise herself after the 1970 townhouse explosion in New York that killed three people who were making bombs. Jones had a conversation with Fred Hampton in Chicago one week before the Black Panther leader was shot in his bed by members of the police department's Red Squad, in coordination with the FBI. The book also communicates the Left's blind self-importance, its factions and mistakes, its fatal mixture of idealism and arrogance.

The first half of the book, which details the lives of Thai Jones's grandparents and great-grandparents, is dry and sometimes confusing, and Jones never really speculates on what motivated these interesting people. The story comes to life, however, when the author talks about his parents. There's a particularly moving section in which Eleanor, pregnant and confused, leaves Jeff. The Weather Underground is in pieces, Jeff is facing a lifetime of furtive living and dead-end jobs, but he settles down with deep love and patience to work for her return. The book would have been structured better if Jones had placed his parents' lives front and center, and periodically abandoned journalistic objectivity in favor of expression and interpretation. Nonetheless, A Radical Line offers a fascinating glimpse into troubled and turbulent times.

Iron-Curtain Dancer

At the age of 4, Dominka Dery, who grew up in Czechoslovakia, charmed her way into ballet school. As she describes in The Twelve Little Cakes (Riverhead, $24.95), she and her mother were buying tickets for "Romeo and Juliet" when she informed the woman at the ticket counter that she intended to marry ballet star Jaroslav Stavicky some day and dance with him in "Swan Lake." The woman smiled, wrote a name on a slip of paper, and -- at a time when only children with Communist Party connections could hope for ballet training -- Dery ended up attending dance school. Dery has retained that charm, and her memoir is delightful to read, filled with humor, family warmth, childish misunderstandings and anecdotes about the three kindly neighbor ladies Dery adopted as grandmothers, and the family dog, Barry, star of several Czech movies.

Through the prism of Dery's family and her own slowly evolving understanding, we learn what it was like to live under communism. The book's title is fitting. The Czechs often think of themselves as humorous, resigned and more likely to respond to adversity with an ironic shrug than with high-flown rhetoric or flashy heroism. But in their own way, Dery's parents were heroic; they kept their integrity in a corrupt environment. Her mother's estrangement from her own parents stemmed from their eminence in the Communist Party. Her father lost his job and became a taxi driver because of his resistance to the 1969 Russian occupation that ended the Prague Spring.

Through the years of Dery's childhood, communism was less a vivid threat than a constant gray pall. "By the mid-eighties, communism was like an old dragon that would occasionally crawl out from its cave and eat someone for dinner," Dery writes. "As long as it wasn't you the dragon was eating, you could live with the sound of screams in the distance. Which was precisely what we did until the Velvet Revolution."

Every now and then the screams became uncomfortably loud, however. Dery suffered a life-threatening infection and ended up in a hospital ward with several gypsy children and a couple of babies. Though she retains her light touch in describing this place, it was clearly hellish. The nurses were grim and punitive; the children half-starved and suffering from diarrhea; the babies' bottoms were chapped and raw. Naturally, Dery devised a plan. She organized the gypsy children, and for some days they managed to keep the babies clean and diapered. Their unity dissolved, however, under the strain of sharing a bag of biscuits Dery's parents had smuggled in.

At one point the family took a vacation in Poland, and Dery began to understand the deprivation suffered by the Poles. Her playmates went hungry; she and her family dined at the Hotel Romance, where the head waiter wore white velvet gloves and food was served on a silver tray. But the food was thin and inedible. "It was heartbreaking," Dery observes, "because the waiters behaved with such dignity."

The Twelve Little Cakes has flaws. Sometimes the descriptions become cute; there's a lack of structure and forward momentum. But this ramble through a childhood that remained full of pleasure and affection despite the efforts of the communist regime is well worth taking.

The Poet at Home and in Exile

In her mosaic of memories, Brodsky: A Personal Memoir (Baskerville, $25.95), Ludmila Shtern quotes an old man who lingered in a doorway to listen as the 22-year-old Brodsky read to his friends: "I don't understand poetry," said this man, whom Shtern called Uncle Grisha. "I've only had four years of school. But the issue isn't the poetry, it's the thoughts . . . your Joseph spoke so many thoughts last night, most of them wouldn't have even occurred to another person even if they lived to be a hundred. And the way he read, it was as though he was praying." It is this kind of insight -- along with poetry quotations, bits and pieces from Brodsky's letters and conversations, fragments of unpublished, joking occasional verse, an excerpt from his trial transcript, and descriptions of Brodsky among his friends in the Soviet Union and adjusting to exile in America -- that makes this book worth reading.

As youngsters, Brodsky, Shtern and their friends had no hope of seeing their work published. They put together slim books for each other, dashed off light-hearted tributes to celebrate birthdays, and once created a magazine dedicated to Pasik, Shtern's mother's kitten. (Brodsky contributed an ode.) We learn about Brodsky's relationship with the enigmatic Marina Basmanova, with whom he had a son who was not even given his name. Shtern quotes some of the poems Brodsky wrote about Marina and describes his anxiety when, many years later, he awaited a visit from his son in New York, afterward remarking only, "Our relationship didn't work out."

In 1963, Brodsky was accused of parasitism, tried and sentenced to five years' hard labor; he served 18 months. Deeply ambivalent about leaving the Soviet Union -- "A poet cannot live without the medium of language" -- he was expelled in 1972. Shtern is not the only commentator to note that Brodsky usually seemed irritated when asked about his incarceration. She quotes him as saying on "The Dick Cavett Show" that in the psychiatric prison, "the food was decent. . . . You could read books, listen to the radio. There were interesting people around, especially the psychos." Knowing how fervently the literary community in the West had worked for his release and that Russian writers (with the notable exception of Solzhenitsyn) had risked their reputations to support him, Shtern found Brodsky's comments a betrayal and told him so. In later years he characterized his experiences differently, speaking of "terrible shots" and ice-cold baths.

Brodsky was clearly a prickly friend. In Russia, he dropped in on Shtern's family often and called to read her his poems while he was in the throes of composition. By the time she immigrated to the United States, he had become a major literary figure here, and she felt that his attitude toward her had changed. At one point, she and her husband joined Brodsky while he was talking to Derek Walcott (later, like Brodsky, to become a Nobel laureate). According to Shtern, Brodsky introduced them by saying, "Derek, here are some typical representatives of the third wave [of Russian immigration]." (But this snub was followed by a penitent phone call and a gift of poetry books.

This memoir is sometimes difficult to read. Shtern digresses, moves backward and forward in time, inserts explanations and descriptions that derail the narrative. So many people are introduced in the first several pages that it's hard to keep track. But Shtern never pretends to be a completely dispassionate observer, and this openness, coupled with her willingness to present Brodsky precisely as he was to her, provides valuable insight into his personality, his milieu and his relationship to his art. •

Juliet Wittman is the theater reviewer for Westword in Denver and a regular contributor to Book World.

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Betty Bigombe plowed her own path as a mediator between two men at war. Her bodyguards addressed her as "Sir," but it was her womanly nurturing side, her wiles and selfless sacrifices that took her where no man had been.

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

I hadn't thought of her name in years: Jaycee Lee Dugard.

Her walk to the bus stop in 1991 changed my tiny California home town of South Lake Tahoe forever, after she was snatched by strangers who shoved the 11-year-old into a car and sped off, right before her stepfather's eyes.

Her reappearance last week at the age of 29 generated headlines across the country -- a chilling reminder to me and millions of other parents that it can happen anywhere, to anyone.

It was my brother who broke the news to me that Jaycee and her two children had been discovered living in a tent compound in a weed-choked back yard in central California. She'd been held captive there for almost two decades.

"They found Jaycee!" Michael's voice mail exclaimed. "I can't believe it."

Stunned, I called up the case on my BlackBerry, clicking away until I found the story and the photo of the man who has been charged with the kidnapping: a convicted sex offender named Phillip Garrido. Garrido, 58, didn't appear especially creepy at first glance. He could've been anybody. Same for his wife, Nancy, who is also under arrest.

Jaycee's abduction changed my brother's childhood. I was already away at college when Jaycee disappeared, but Michael, now 31, was in junior high. He was just beginning to assert his independence, which in that town meant long bike rides to neighboring lakes with friends and backpacking or fishing trips without Mom or Dad.

Suddenly, all of these trips and each walk to the bus stop -- excursions that were routine during my own adolescence -- were reevaluated by my parents.

"We were put on lockdown. It was ridiculous," Michael remembered. "For me growing up, that was the biggest event in Tahoe. Parents, everybody was freaking out for a good year. I couldn't even go and look at the meadow near our house without the stupid buddy system."

Across the country, Jaycee's disappearance helped kill stickball games in empty lots, races on banana-seat bikes until dinnertime and expeditions to score five-cent watermelon candies at the convenience store.

"Stuff like that. Wow, you hear about it," said Laura Sleat, whose eyes darted as she talked, tracking the movements of her 4-year-old son as dusk began to close in on summer's last day at an Annapolis pool this past weekend.

The specter of Phil Garrido hung in the chlorine-scented air 3,000 miles away and 18 years after he allegedly took Jaycee from the streets where I used to ride my bike.

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By Carol Morello
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

The first of 198 million Census forms are rolling off the printing presses. Hundreds of thousands of Census workers have eyeballed virtually every domicile in the land to make sure the agency's address list is correct. Training centers are being opened, as are call centers to clear up any confusion over the questionnaire.

Six months from the start of the national head count, the new director of the Census Bureau said Wednesday that the agency is hoping to boost the percentage of people who return the forms mailed to them as part of the decennial tally.

Robert M. Groves, a University of Michigan statistician who was confirmed as director in July, said in a news conference that the 10 questions about each household member make up one of the shortest questionnaires in Census history. The hope is that it will be less of a burden to harried households, resulting in more responses.

Every 1 percent of forms not returned costs taxpayers "scores of millions" to send out Census workers to find people and count them, Groves said. "If the American people are worried about the deficit, here's something they can do."

Historically, a lot of Americans haven't bothered. In the District, for instance, just 60 percent returned their questionnaires for the 2000 Census on time. Compared with states, only Alaska, South Carolina and Puerto Rico had lower rates. The response rate was 69 percent in Maryland and 72 percent in Virginia, a figure surpassed only by the states of the Great Plains.

In testimony before Congress on Tuesday, Groves said he fears that the count will be impaired by the recession and controversy over immigration. He said it might be harder to find some residents because there have been so many foreclosures and subsequent homelessness.

Noorvik, Alaska, an Inuit village of about 600 people, will be the first place in the nation to get the Census forms. Residents of the Gulf Coast, many of whom were displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, will have their forms hand-delivered.

The Census Bureau plans to collaborate with as many as 100,000 community groups, some as small as a neighborhood block committee, to help get out the word that filling out the Census forms is vital.

One voice will not be ACORN, the controversial community organizing group. The Census Bureau severed its ties to the group earlier this month, after regional offices complained that other groups hesitated to work with it. ACORN has been accused of voter fraud, and two conservative activists recently released videos in which they posed as a prostitute and her pimp getting housing advice at local ACORN offices.

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By Ernesto Londoño and Qais Mizher
Monday, November 9, 2009

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers passed an election law Sunday night, overcoming a weeks-long impasse and averting a constitutional crisis that threatened to delay the U.S. troop drawdown.

The vote was held during a rare evening session preceded by intense lobbying efforts by U.S. and U.N. diplomats, who had grown increasingly frustrated by the sluggish pace of negotiations and the acrimony that characterized them.

"This was amazing for me," Kurdish lawmaker Ala Talabani said after leaving the session. "There was a lot of discussion, a lot of arguing, but we finally were forced to listen to each other. It's a nice feeling -- that we're on the path of real democracy."

To address the most contentious issue, Kurdish and Arab lawmakers agreed that votes cast in the disputed province of Kirkuk would be examined closely for months after the election.

The yearlong review period was established to determine how dramatically the influx of Kurds to Kirkuk since the U.S.-led 2003 invasion has altered the province's demographics.

The assessment could ultimately change the outcome of the election in that province, and the process could exacerbate a bitter, decades-long fight over ancestry, oil and control of the city.

Sunni Arabs in the city accuse Kurds of artificially boosting their population in an effort to eventually control the oil-rich city and annex it to their autonomous region in northern Iraq.

Saddam Hussein expelled Kurds from Kirkuk and neighboring cities and villages in northern Iraq during his tenure.

Despite opposition from the Kurdish bloc, lawmakers agreed to use an open-list system, which will give political parties and factions less flexibility to distribute seats. Advocates of an open-list election hope it will make Iraqi politicians more transparent and more responsive to constituents.

The law passed by a comfortable margin, with 141 of the 195 present lawmakers voting in favor. There are 275 Iraqi lawmakers. The Iraqi presidency council is expected to ratify it within days.

President Obama, during remarks Sunday afternoon in the Rose Garden, congratulated Iraqi leaders for passing the law. "Their flexibility and commitment to their country sends an important signal to the world about Iraq's democracy and national unity," he said.

U.S. Ambassador Christopher R. Hill said the election will probably be held Jan. 23, a few days later than originally scheduled but within the timeframe mandated by the constitution.

Hill said U.S. officials are heavily engaged in the process, and sought to assure lawmakers that the language of the election law would not be binding to future negotiations over control of Kirkuk.

Sunday's session and the preceding weeks of tense discussions about the election law underscored the deep divisions and suspicion that characterize Iraqi politics. Several closed-door meetings and sessions ended abruptly amid shouting matches and walkouts -- a potentially ominous sign of how difficult building a new government will be.

A months-long dispute over who would get top positions after the 2005 election contributed to a state of virtual anarchy amid rising violence -- a scenario American officials hope will be avoided next year. In a sign of the waning leverage of the U.S. government, some lawmakers said they pushed back aggressively on what they saw as American meddling, and U.S. officials were often scrambling to learn what had transpired at closed sessions and private meetings in recent days.

Some Sunnis were visibly angry after the session. They decried the resolution over Kirkuk, and said the bill does not do enough to give Iraqi refugees a stake in the political process.

Iraqis overseas can vote for seven slots, but Sunni lawmakers said they deserve more robust representation.

"This law is an injustice," prominent Sunni lawmaker Salih al-Mutlak said after the vote.

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers faced an end to their jobless benefits Monday, and the federal government furloughed about 2,000 employees without pay, a result of one senator's efforts to block legislation that would fund $10 billion in federal programs.

Lawmakers failed to reach an agreement last week on tax credits, unemployment benefits and a short-term extension of the Highway Trust Fund. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) derailed the bill on Thursday when it came to the floor for unanimous approval. Bunning withheld his consent.

"The bottom line is that Senator Bunning wants to renew these important programs," spokesman Mike Reynard said. However, the senator "feels very strongly that we can't keep adding to the debt."

Now, the Senate is likely to pass a larger package, but not until later this week.

"It's going to create hardship across America," said Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the Senate majority whip. He said Bunning's action would result in 400,000 people nationwide going without an unemployment check, with that number rising each day.

The bill Bunning voted against would have extended provisions that were included in last year's stimulus package, including one in which the federal government assumed 65 percent of the cost of COBRA health benefits. It would have perpetuated other key programs, including one that would keep Medicare reimbursement rates at current levels.

On Monday, the government began paying doctors who see Medicare patients more than 20 percent less. In addition, the delay meant that some rural satellite-TV subscribers likely lost access to local channels, and a Small Business Administration lending program was interrupted.

The Department of Transportation furloughed 2,000 employees without pay Monday, and state officials warned that unless Congress this week restores the transportation funding, which provides states with $42 billion a year, construction contracts will be delayed, construction loans may be jeopardized and projects suspended.

Two constructions that require on-site federal inspectors -- replacement of the Ninth Street Bridge in the District and a new road at the Hoover Dam in Nevada -- were immediately suspended.

Federal transportation budgets have stumbled along since September, when the last big funding plan expired. Congress authorizes the funds in massive bills that cover six years of spending.

Unable to agree on a new bill this time, Congress kept funding alive with a series of 30-day extensions.

If resources become gridlocked in the Senate, it may fall to the House to revive the transportation pipeline. That chamber is considering a Senate-approved jobs bill that also would extend transportation funding until September. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is said to be having trouble marshalling support for it among Democrats who are bothered by other provisions in the legislation.

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By Liz Clarke
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Sunday, March 7, 2010; D07

Even before Georgetown's regular season finale tipped off Saturday, there was no question whom the Verizon Center crowd considered the Hoyas' most valuable player.

The stands were dotted with hand-lettered signs in support of junior guard Austin Freeman, who learned he had diabetes just five days earlier.

"Thank You Austin!" read one.

"He Who Is Brave Is FREE," read another.

Plus, eight Georgetown students standing shoulder to shoulder in the front row hoisted signs that spelled out "AFREE_15" (Freeman's Twitter sign-on), with each sign covered with handwritten notes of encouragement, forming an eight-part get-well card they intended to give their classmate later.

It wasn't even clear if Freeman would play against Cincinnati. But to cheers from the crowd of 17,054, Freeman didn't only reclaim his spot in the starting lineup; he scored a game-high 24 points in Georgetown's 74-47 rout.

It was a victory Georgetown (20-9, 10-8) badly needed, as it clinched the No. 8 seed and a first-round bye in the Big East tournament. As a result, the Hoyas get an extra day's rest. Georgetown will open play Wednesday at noon against either ninth-seeded South Florida or 16th-seeded DePaul.

With the win, Georgetown halted a late-season slide after losing four of its previous five games. And the commanding margin sent the Hoyas into the postseason with new confidence and no doubt about Freeman's ability to contribute.

"As long as we can limit the sways in his [blood-sugar] levels, we don't anticipate" a problem, Georgetown Coach John Thompson III said. "We're going to see a lot more games this year like that."

Freeman played all but 10 minutes Saturday, cycling on and off the court so team trainer Lorry Michel could measure his blood sugar with a hand-held monitor, and along with Stephen Clement, director of Georgetown University's Diabetes Center, monitor the extent to which the exertion was affecting him.

"I'm fine," said Freeman, who was 8 of 15 from the floor, including four timely three-pointers, and flawless in four trips to the free throw line. "It was just good to be out there and playing with my teammates and just doing what I do."

Freeman's return seemed to revitalize his teammates. Sophomore center Greg Monroe played with a ferocity he hasn't displayed in weeks, muscling his way to the basket for 19 points and 15 rebounds.

Chris Wright added 16 points while shrewdly directing the Hoyas against an erratic performance by Cincinnati (16-14, 7-11), which was playing its third game in seven days against a top 20 opponent.

After closing the first half with a 29-26 lead, Georgetown went on a scoring romp, outscoring Cincinnati, 45-21, in the second half.

Freshman guard Lance Stephenson (23 points) was the only player who stood out for the Bearcats. Senior Deonta Vaughn, pivotal in Cincinnati's sweep of the Hoyas last season, only attempted three shots and missed all of them. Next to Stephenson, the high scorer for Cincinnati was sophomore Yancy Gates, who managed just seven points.

With Monroe leading the charge, Georgetown outrebounded Cincinnati, 40-28, and scored 22 points off Bearcats turnovers.

Freeman was showered with at least four standing ovations for his clutch long-range shooting and dogged effort.

"Man, I was happy to have their support out there," Freeman said of the crowd. "It kept me going. I want to thank them a lot, too."

He made the first two shots he attempted, spurring the Hoyas to a 9-5 lead. Cincinnati answered with a 10-3 run.

Freeman made a second three-pointer to put the Hoyas up 17-15, and followed with a layup that circled the rim before falling.

The crowd burst into chants of "Austin Freeman, Austin Freeman," who at that point had scored 10 of Georgetown's 19 points.

Freeman received another standing ovation after a three-pointer that made it 40-32. From there, it was all Georgetown, with Cincinnati making just eight field goals in the second half.

Said Cincinnati Coach Mick Cronin: "There's a difference between playing hard and playing well. Playing hard is only going to get you so far."

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By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 8, 2011; 4:52 PM

BOSTON - President Obama continued his new push for education reform in a speech here Tuesday, the second in a series of education events the White House is planning over the next month.

Standing in front of the blue "Winning the Future" banner that now appears at almost all of his events, Obama called for increased funding for education, arguing the United States needs a better-educated workforce to ensure it remains economically competitive.

In his appearance at a gym at TechBoston Academy, an innovative school for students in grades 6 to 12, he specifically proposed a competitive grant program that would reward money to companies that have the best ideas for using computer software and other technologies in education.

Defending his goal to increase education spending as many in Washington focus on the budget deficit, Obama said, "There's nothing responsible about cutting back on investments in these young people."

The Obama administration is pushing for a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law by the end of the year, as well as increased funding for education in the 2012 federal budget. It's unclear if either goal will be accomplished; Republicans in Congress are trying to cut funding in education and other programs for the rest of the 2011 budget and have given little indication they would support increased money in the near future.

And No Child Left Behind, the federal education law that passed with support from both Democrats and Republicans in 2002, has not been embraced by some of the new conservative members of Congress, who argue it has given the federal government too large of a role in education policy.

"This year, we're going to have to work with Congress to fix No Child Left Behind," Obama said here. "We're going to replace it with a law that does a better job focusing on responsibility, reform and most of all, results."

Although he has sharply distanced himself from his predecessor on most issues, Obama is promoting an agenda on education very similar to that of former President George W. Bush.

The centerpiece of No Child Left Behind, annual testing of students in reading and math, is backed by the Obama administration, even though many teachers and parents have complained about the testing component since the law's creation in 2002.

Other Bush policies now in Obama's education blueprint are strict accountability for schools, including replacing principals and staff if their students consistently perform poorly on standardized tests; strong support for charter schools; and greater efforts to closely evaluate teachers.

But Obama wants to change the law in ways that would reduce the number of schools defined as "failing" and target funding for persistently low-performing schools.

In Boston, Obama avoided getting these kinds of details. Instead, before his formal speech, he toured the school with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Melinda Gates, the wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The couple's non-profit foundation has donated money to TechBoston, which gives each student a laptop and requires them to take four years of math, science and technology classes.

TechBoston, like the Miami high school visited by Obama last week, is a school with a high percentage of low-income and minority students that is improving test scores and outperforming other schools in its city.

"I wanted to come to TechBoston so the rest of American could see how its done," Obama said."

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- Associated Press - Sunday, August 21, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) - Warner Music Group Corp.’s current chief executive and its chairman will switch jobs.

Edgar Bronfman Jr., who had been serving as chief executive, was named chairman and will focus on the company’s strategy and growth opportunities. Stephen Cooper, the current chairman, was elected as chief executive and will be responsible for Warner Music’s day-to-day operations, the company said.

Warner Music, home to artists such as Eric Clapton, Jason Mraz and Cee Lo Green, announced the changes Friday.

Cooper will continue to serve on the company’s board, Warner Music said.

Cooper also serves as a member of the supervisory board for chemical maker LyondellBasell Industries N.V. He’s also an adviser at Zolfo Cooper, a financial advisory and interim management firm that he co-founded, and managing partner of the private-equity firm Cooper Investment Partners.

In addition, Thomas Lee, who served on Warner Music’s board from March 2004 through July 2011, was elected as a new director of the company. Lee is the chairman and chief executive of Thomas H. Lee Capital LLC. His appointment increases the size of Warner Music’s board to 10 members.

Warner Music went private in July, after billionaire Len Blavatnik paid about $1.24 billion for the New York-based company.

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- Associated Press - Thursday, January 13, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA announced Thursday a backup commander, if necessary, to take the place of the astronaut husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded in a mass slaying and is recovering in a Tucson, Ariz., hospital.

Officially, Capt. Mark Kelly, who is Mrs. Giffords‘ husband of more than three years, is still the commander for the final scheduled flight of the space shuttle program, NASA said. The shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to launch on April 19 on a trip to the International Space Station.

Capt. Kelly was named commander of the final shuttle flight in 2009 and has been in training for 17 months. Being chosen to lead the final shuttle flight is a big honor, NASA spokesman Michael Curie said.

Just in case Capt. Kelly can’t fly as he helps his wife recover from a gunshot to the head, his spot will be taken by veteran shuttle commander Rick Sturckow (STUR’-koh), who is the agency’s deputy chief astronaut.

Capt. Kelly said in a statement released by NASA that he recommended to the space agency that they “take steps now to prepare to complete the mission in my absence if necessary.”

“I am very hopeful that I will be in a position to rejoin my crew members to finish our training,” Capt. Kelly said in the statement.

As far as NASA is concerned, “Mark is still the commander,” chief astronaut Peggy Whitson said. “He is facing many uncertainties now as he supports Gabrielle, and our goal is to allow him to keep his undistracted attention on his family while allowing preparations for the mission to progress.”

Mr. Curie said NASA hasn’t yet determined when exactly it needs to make a decision on whether Capt. Kelly, a three-time shuttle flier, will be able to command the mission, but he said that naming a backup commander buys some time.

Space shuttle crews usually spend well more than a year training for the intricate duties of a particular mission. Endeavour’s 14-day mission would resupply the space station and install a $1.5 billion physics experiment.

The shooting of Mrs. Giffords put NASA in an uncomfortable position about what to do with the April flight, said American University Professor Howard McCurdy, who has written several books about the space program. Removing Capt. Kelly from a prestigious job would look like punishing him because of the assassination attempt, but he will be busy helping his wife recover and could be distracted by the family situation if he flies.

He called Thursday’s move “a realistic, carefully thought-out compromise.”

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CAIRO — Americans facing trial in Egypt because of the activities of their pro-democracy groups are caught in a dispute over aid between the U.S. government and Egypt, a lawyer representing the Americans said Tuesday.

In a measure of the depth of the tensions, an Egyptian government delegation abruptly canceled meetings in Washington with U.S. lawmakers set for Monday and Tuesday, after angry American officials warned that the clash could jeopardize more than $1 billion in annual aid to Egypt.

A senior Egyptian official confirmed that the government has objected for years to the United States directing part of its aid to pro-democracy and human-rights groups, calling the practice illegal and acknowledging that a cut in U.S. aid could follow.

The dispute has led to 19 Americans facing trial and six banned from leaving Egypt. Among the six is Sam LaHood, son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. A number of the Americans have taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

Sam LaHood is the director of the Egyptian program at the Washington-based International Republican Institute. Other Americans facing trial work for the National Democratic Institute, also based in Washington.

The dispute began with raids by Egyptian security forces on 17 offices of 10 advocacy groups last month, evoking denunciations from the United States and other countries. It also reinforced charges by Egyptian protesters that the military rulers who took over a year ago from ousted President Hosni Mubarak are perpetuating his regime’s oppressive tactics.

The investigation into the work of the nonprofit groups is closely linked to the political turmoil that has engulfed the nation since the ouster of Mr. Mubarak, a U.S. ally who ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years.

The military rulers charge that the groups fund and support anti-government protests. The military claims that “foreign hands” are behind the opposition to its rule. They frequently depict the protesters as receiving funds from abroad in a plot to destabilize the country.

Lawyer Tharwat Abdel-Shahed said Tuesday that Egypt’s rulers objected to the funds for the groups being deducted from U.S. aid to the government.

“This has sparked the government’s anger,” he said Tuesday, putting the total funding directed to the groups at $45 million.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid, after Israel. The United States is due to give Egypt $1.3 billion in military assistance and $250 million in economic aid in 2012.

Over the weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the clash over the advocacy groups has thrown U.S. aid to Egypt into doubt.

Fayza Aboul-Naga, the Egyptian minister for international cooperation, said earlier that Egypt has been protesting a “unilateral” U.S. measure to direct part of its economic aid to human-rights and pro-democracy groups since 2004, according to her office. She described it as political funding that is not allowed by Egyptian law.

A statement from her office quoted Ms. Aboul-Naga as saying it was the duty of the groups not to operate until they get permission.

“They know they are working illegally and without license,” said Marawan Badr, a top aide to Ms. Aboul-Naga.

Mr. Abdel-Shahed said Egypt is wrong in its interpretation.

“The Egyptian government thinks that a prior permission is needed before the U.S. directs its money to its recipients,” he said, “However, the U.S. government says there are no conditions, and it is free to use its money.”

Talk of cutting aid comes during a critical, yearlong downturn in Egypt’s economy. On Tuesday, Egypt’s central bank said the country’s net international reserves dropped by more than $1.7 billion in January, continuing a steep slide that began because of continuing turmoil after the ouster Mr. Mubarak.

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Alderman Steve

As if the original Sarah Palin wasn't cringeworthy enough, now we have to deal with ersatz Sarah Palin wannabees...Oy vey iz mir...

As Fred Friendly once advised Daniel Schorr when he started doing television at CBS: "Sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

Ty O'Mara

" I like what John Wayne said at the Alamo...."

Makes me wonder.....50 years from now, will John Wayne actually replace Davy Crockett as the historical figure?

We need regulation for political advertising to protect us from ourselves. Freedom of speech needs some tweaking. Not one issue raised in that political advertisement; just easy to understand stereotypes to explain things to us. Sure it failed to live up to Fred Friendly's advice on sincerity(for you and me), but what about the voters who see it as sincere? Their votes negate ours. Who wins??? Whoever can fake it the best, whoever can brand themselves the best, whoever gets the best political stategist. The United States of Madison Avenue.

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I can't wait to see who the other guy is connected too. Or do we just assume it the devil?

Paul, its clear your heart is in politics, as a lifelong democrat from Milwaukee, lets just say we have some similar acqaintenances.. I beleive you should give serious consideration to running for LT. Govenor. Its a great way to raise your issues and raise the position power of that particular elected office....

Note to Terri:
We don't live in a republic anymore; not with 800 plus military bases worldwide. Are you suggesting that, should you be elected you'll propose shutting down most of those bases? I can't wait for that.

And you complain about the political class in Washington, but the power of that class is rooted in corporate America and, increasingly the finance and real estate sector, which happens to warm the bossom of the current president. Are you now going to start critizing that powerful class, when they most likely have similar policy views as yourself?

It would be interesting to have two former mayors as governor and Lt. governor.

My how progressives hate women they can't control....

Wisconsin’s Palin? No, McCormick’s better than that
Story Discussion Font Size: Default font size Larger font size By JOHN NICHOLS | The Capital Times | | Posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:00 am | (4) Comments

Democrats across Wisconsin are sad indeed that former Assembly Speaker John Gard does not plan to mount a third run for the District 8 congressional seat.

Why are Democrats sad that Gard, a stalwart Republican, is not trying once more to challenge Congressman Steve Kagen, D-Appleton?

Because Gard was so beatable.

A career politician with a charisma deficit and a mean streak — he once got in a political fight with the mother of a diabetic kid — Gard was a dream foe.

The only political players who ever thought Gard was a viable candidate were party strategists who looked only at his ability to leverage his speakership and his political contacts to raise money.

Because of that, GOP insiders never quite noticed that they had a candidate in 2006 who might well have been able to hold a generally Republican seat. Former state Rep. Terri McCormick entered the primary, but was dismissed by party bosses. Gard won and McCormick went off to lecture, write books and engage in freelance activism.

Now McCormick is back in the running, having just entered the crowded GOP primary to challenge Kagen.

McCormick’s a conservative to be sure; she’s even shown some sympathy with the tea party crowd. But the former legislator has always been a maverick. Some have even referred to her as Wisconsin’s Sarah Palin.

In the best of senses, that may be true.

Like Palin in her early days, McCormick has been something of a reformer. But McCormick goes a good deal further than the Palin of today.

The Wisconsinite’s been willing to criticize GOP compromises; she’s been outspoken in her discomfort with the whole of the political process; and she’s willing to hold herself to account — promising to live by self-imposed term limits if elected.

McCormick is not a candidate who can be “managed” or “controlled.” In that sense, she’s like Kagen, an appealingly independent congressman who has held the 8th for the Democrats at least in part because of his determination to put district concerns first — even if that sometimes requires him to break with party leaders.

Kagen’s challenges to sending more troops to Afghanistan, his opposition to bad trade deals, his noisy criticisms of bank bailouts and the Chrysler bailout — which paid the auto company to shut plants and lay off U.S. workers — all mark him as a Democrat who is willing to say “no” to the White House and congressional leaders when they are wrong.

So the 8th might experience something rare in American politics: a contest between two genuine mavericks who disagree on a bunch of fundamental issues.

A Kagen/McCormick race would be exciting, maybe a bit edgy.

And that’s what Wisconsin needs.

Contests between careerists depress turnout because voters recognize that the choice is of little consequence. A contest between two engaging mavericks would be great theater, and great politics.

John Nichols is associate editor of The Capital Times, Wisconsin’s progressive daily online news source, where his column appears regularly.

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Daniel O’Brien, a student at Waynesville High School, just returned from taking part in a unique career development program in our nation’s capital.

The six-day program – the National Youth Leadership Forum on National Security:  Exploring American Diplomacy, Intelligence and Defense – introduced students to the challenging careers in national security, intelligence, the diplomatic corps and more.

“Imagine being 16 or 17 years old and the responsibility of securing the United States at home and abroad rests on your shoulders. Through specialized simulations, the National Youth Leadership Forum on National Security strives to put students in the driver’s seat of building a strategy that will uphold our national security,” said Dr. Marguerite Regan, dean of academic affairs for NYLF. “The combination of interacting with professionals and with other students in this setting ensures that leaders are being developed so the future of our country will remain very bright.”

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