BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 16 April, 2005
Saturday
16 April, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Disinfotainment Bonus!
Taxes
"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money."
- Arthur Godfrey -
"What's the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? Well, for one thing, a taxidermist only takes your skin."
- Mark Twain -
"People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women."
- Anon -
"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others."
- Oscar Wilde -
"Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars, and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?"
- Peg Bracken -
"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr."
- Will Rogers -
"The United States is the only country where it takes more brains to figure your tax than to earn the money to pay it."
- Edward J. Gurney -
"This (preparing my tax return) is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher."
- Albert Einstein -
"A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism."
- Karl Marx -
"The Taxpayer... That's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination."
- Ronald Reagan -
"If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation."
- Farmer's Almanac -
"Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation."
- Fletcher Knebel -
"When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of Government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free Government."
- Grover Cleveland -
"Remember, the government doesn't give us rights, our creator does. Government can only deny them to us."
- Curt Rich -
"There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means."
- Albert Jay Nock -
"The trouble with an income-tax reduction is that it will stimulate business just enough to put everybody in a higher tax bracket."
- Harold Coffin -
"Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt."
- William Cobbett -
"A society which turns so many of its best and brightest into tax lawyers may be doing something wrong."
- Hoffman F. Fuller -
"Only little people pay taxes."
- Leona Helmsley -
"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."
- Barry Goldwater -
"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
- Robert Heinlein -
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
- Aesop -
"A fool and your money are soon partners."
- Kathleen James -
"A fool and your money are soon partying."
- Xarvon -
"The Government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw -
"I wouldn't mind paying taxes, if I knew they were going to a friendly country."
- Dick Gregory -
"The Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math."
- Anon -
"The Dime: a dollar with all the taxes taken out."
- Anon -
"A penny saved is a Congressional oversight."
- Lazarus Long -
"Tax Relief? Myghod, now they're taxing everything!!"
- Mike Jittlov -
"Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's Day and ends with cries of 'May Day!'?"
- Rob Knauerhase -
"A government that is large enough to supply everything you need is large enough to take everything you have."
- Thomas Jefferson -
"There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure."
- Dan Bennett -
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
- Herbert Hoover -
"A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well."
- Anon -
"It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them."
- Tiberius Caesar -
"To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is nonetheless a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms."
- Citizens' Savings and Loan Association v. City of Topeka, 87 U.S. 655, 664, 20 Wall. 655 (1874) -
"It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children."
- Russell Baker -
"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible."
- Henry David Thoreau -
"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."
- James Dale Davidson -
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HIDDEN IN THE TREES
HE ONLY COMES OUT AT NIGHT
KILLER WHALE IN WOOD
Zen Man
(stoned on wood sculpture)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Jay C. Odaffer: I Don't DO Math (Irascible Professor)
It happened again. This happens every semester.
Kelly Hearn: Wal-Mart's Wily Ways (AlterNet)
A softer, gentler megacolossal? Wal-Mart would like you to think so.
Jamison Foser: Five Ways to Combat Conservative Media (In These Times)
1. Stop talking about "bias."
Paul Krugman: The Medical Money Pit
(Click on "Columns," then on "The Medical Money Pit.")
A dozen years ago, everyone was talking about a health care crisis. But then the issue faded from view: a few years of good data led many people to conclude that H.M.O.'s and other innovations had ended the historic trend of rising medical costs.
Barbara Ehrenreich Brings You Life Without Safety Nets -- the Growing Reality for Everyday Americans (A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW)
I almost think there's a philosophical point they want to drive home -- which is that they don't like anything that involves some kind of mutual risk-sharing -- you know, pooling our wealth to help each other.
Todd Camp: Sheer Fabulousness (The Advocate)
Outrageous party planner Steve Kemble is just one of the larger-than-life figures featured in TLC's rousing new reality series Sheer Dallas, debuting April 15
Steve Kemble: Lifestyle Guru
A Good Story About Starbucks
Slowpoke Media Cartoon
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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National Library Week
April 10-16, 2005
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Mostly sunny day.
Fresh batch of crickets are chirping up a storm.
If you get a chance tonight (or tomorrow night), listen to Erin Hart on KIRO, 9pm to 1am (pdt). Never know who might turn up as a guest.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'special' - 'The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'LAX', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', then a RERUN 'Law & Order'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Tom Brady hosting, music by Beck.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House On The Prairie', followed by the movie 'The Fast & The Furious'.
The WB here fills the night with 'NBA Basketball', with the Hornets visiting the Clips.
Faux has the usual 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN fills the night with the movie 'Star Wars'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', another 'City Confidential', and 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie 'Death Hunt', followed by the movie 'Death Wish II', then the movie 'Death Wish 3'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 2;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Tentacles of Doom;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 5;
[4pm] 'Faking It' - Cruise-ship Worker to Yachtswoman;
[5pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Chingford;
[5:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Xemia;
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 7;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Edwards;
[8pm] '2005 BRIT Awards' - 2005 BRIT Awards;
[10:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Sheryl Crow;
[11pm] '2005 BRIT Awards' - 2005 BRIT Awards;
[1:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Sheryl Crow;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Edwards;
[3am] '2005 BRIT Awards' - 2005 BRIT Awards;
[5:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Sheryl Crow;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'Footloose', then the movie 'Big Daddy'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Lewis Black), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Nick Swardson), 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', and 'George Lopez: Why You Crying?'.
History has 'Conspiracy?', followed by the movie 'Windtalkers'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Monsoon Wedding' (2001);
[8AM] 'Blind Swordsman #3: Zatoichi Enters Again' (1963);
[9:45AM] 'At The Angelika #95' (2005);
[10:15AM] 'Dream With The Fishes' (1997);
[12PM] 'The Last Days Of Chez Nous' (1993);
[1:45PM] Short: 'Ghost Of F. Scott Fitzgerald' (2002);
[2PM] 'Blind Swordsman #3: Zatoichi Enters Again' (1963);
[3:30PM] 'Dream With The Fishes' (1997);
[5:15PM] 'The Last Days Of Chez Nous' (1993);
[7PM] 'Film School #4' (2004);
[7:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #43' (2005);
[8PM] 'Muriel's Wedding' (1985);
[10PM] 'Monsoon Wedding' (2001);
[12AM] 'Muriel's Wedding' (1985);
[2AM] 'Monsoon Wedding' (2001);
[4AM] 'Ugetsu' (1953);
[5:45AM] Short: 'Ghost Of F. Scott Fitzgerald' (2002). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi fills the night with the movie 'Aftershock: Earthquake In New York'.
SHOWTIME DEBUTS 'Reefer Madness'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'Nowhere in Africa' (Feature);
[9:20AM] 'A Place Called Chiapas' (Documentary);
[11AM] 'Palookaville' (Feature);
[12:35PM] '156 Rivington' (Feature);
[1:40PM] 'Coffee With Pina' (Short);
[2PM] 'The Way Home' (Feature);
[3:30PM] 'Alchemy' (Feature);
[5:05PM] 'Nowhere in Africa' (Feature);
[7:25PM] 'Palookaville' (Feature);
[9PM] 'Pulp Fiction' (Feature);
[11:35PM] 'Narc' (Feature);
[1:25AM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Narc' (Original Production);
[1:50AM] 'La Salla' (Short);
[2AM] 'Images' (Feature);
[3:45AM] 'Late Marriage' (World Cinema);
[5:25AM] 'Alchemy' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM features 5 films from director
Jean Renoir tonight.
[6am] 'The Roaring Twenties' (1939);
[8am] 'High Wall' (1947);
[10am] 'Destry Rides Again' (1939);
[12pm] 'Vengeance Valley' (1951);
[1:30pm] 'Brute Force' (1947);
[3:30pm] 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948);
[6pm] 'High Sierra' (1941);
[8pm] 'The Grand Illusion' (1937) [AKA: 'La Grande illusion'];
[10pm] 'This Land Is Mine' (1943);
[12am] 'The Woman On The Beach' (1947);
[1:15am] 'The River' (1951);
[3am] 'Rules of the Game' (1939) [AKA: 'La Règle du jeu'];
[5am] 'Bon Voyage' (1944). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sunday - 04/17
TCM:
[6am] 'The Spanish Main' (1945);
[8am] 'Santa Fe Trail' (1940);
[10am] 'Seven Brides For Seven Brothers' (1954);
[12pm] 'The Bells Of St. Mary's' (1945);
[2:15pm] 'The Lady Eve' (1941);
[4pm] 'Wuthering Heights' (1939);
[6pm] 'The Grand Illusion' (1937) [AKA: 'La Grande illusion'];
[8pm] 'The Caine Mutiny' (1954);
[10:15pm] 'The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell' (1955);
[12am] 'Captain Salvation' (1927) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'Scorsese on Scorsese' (2004);
[3am] 'The Age of Innocence' (1993);
[5:30am] 'Cartoon Alley #5' (2005) - three Tex Avery Cartoons: Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), Batty Baseball (1944) and Swingshift Cinderella (1945). (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel (L) and his girlfriend comedian Sarah Silverman arrive for the second annual Las Vegas Casino Night to benefit the Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation in Santa Monica, California April 14, 2005.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
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Caught Coaching Guests
Sean Hannity
If the conservative guests on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes" sound especially on-message, that's because they're being coached by the best:
Sean Hannity himself.
On the March 31 installment of the shouting-head show, the guests included two of the late Terri Schiavo's former nurses, Trudy Capone and Carla Sauer Iyer, arguing that their patient wasn't brain-dead.
Between commercials, according to an off-air audiotape obtained by investigative comedian Harry Shearer for last Sunday's episode of his weekly radio program, "Le Show," Hannity coached the women on exactly how to respond when liberal co-host Alan Colmes cross-examined them.
"Just say, 'I'm here to tell what I saw,'" Hannity can be heard instructing his guests. "No matter what the question, 'I'm here to tell you what I saw. I'm here to tell you what I saw.'"
Hannity adds helpfully: "Say, 'I'm not going to be distracted by silliness.' How's that? Does that help you? Look into that camera. Look at me when I'm talking."
For the rest, Sean Hannity
MP3 clip of Hannity thinking he is off air
Sean Hannity Is A Moron.com
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Relents In Malibu Beach Tussle
David Geffen
Hollywood music mogul David Geffen has given up a long-running fight to bar people from walking across his exclusive Malibu estate to reach an exclusive stretch of beach, a state official said on Friday.
Public enjoyment of beaches is an emotional issue in California, where surfing is a way of life for many residents and access to the coastline from Oregon to Mexico is a matter of state policy.
The Geffen dispute gained national attention when it was lampooned by Garry Trudeau in a Doonesbury comic strip featuring former sun-worshiper Zonker Harris returning to Malibu. Another public access-way about three-quarters of a mile west of Geffen's home along Carbon Beach is named after the Doonesbury character.
The action fulfills a legal promise Geffen made in 1983 to provide access from the nearby Pacific Coast Highway to the beach as a condition for receiving permits allowing him to expand his beachfront estate, Saurenman told Reuters.
David Geffen
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Doris Eaton Travis, 101-year-old former Ziegfeld Girl dancer, left foreground, dances with Michael Benjamin Washington, right, during rehearsal for the upcoming 19th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition in New York Friday, April 15, 2005. Travis began dancing on Broadway while the doughboys were still fighting in France. In the 1920s, she was Al Jolson's leading lady in a play called 'Big Boy,' and later was the first to perform 'Singin' in the Rain,' years before Gene Kelly made it a classic.
Photo by Adam Rountree
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Outsourcing To Hong Kong
Voice of America
Voice of America, the global broadcaster funded by the U.S. government, is moving its Washington-based overnight shift to Hong Kong in a move that will beef up coverage and save money, VOA's chief said on Friday.
"This isn't about moving jobs out, this is about expanding coverage," VOA's David Jackson said by telephone. "We're not moving to Hong Kong because it's cheaper labor, we're moving to Hong Kong because it's an increasingly important part of the world where we need a stronger presence."
The move is expected to save about $300,000 annually in salaries and benefits, he said, because labor costs in Hong Kong are lower than in Washington, especially taking into account differential pay for overnight work.
Voice of America
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Settles Suit with Rosa Parks
OutKast
Lawyers for civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks have settled a long-running dispute over the use of her name in song by the Grammy-winning hip-hop duo OutKast.
Under the out-of-court settlement announced on Thursday Parks, 92, will receive an undisclosed amount of money that means her "living and health needs ... will be secure," former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, her guardian, said.
The settlement came with OutKast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Arista Records LLC and LaFace Records. Under it, Archer said, Sony BMG will produce a Parks tribute CD on which OutKast and other contemporary groups will perform, to be released on the 50th anniversary of her arrest.
OutKast
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Transformed Into Musical
'Wedding Singer'
"The Wedding Singer," that celluloid celebration of the 1980s starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, has been transformed into a Broadway musical and booked for a New York opening - for April 2006.
The musical, which has music by Matthew Sklar, a book by Tim Herlihy and Chad Beguelin and lyrics by Beguelin, will have its world premiere at Seattle's The 5th Avenue Theatre, Jan. 31-Feb. 19, it was announced this week. Preview performances begin in New York in March at a theater to be announced.
'Wedding Singer'
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Violinist Adela Pena (L) of the world famous Eroica Trio holds the 'lady Tennant' violin built in 1699 by Antonio Stradivari, while the Trio's Sara Sant'Ambrogio holds a 1701 Matteo Gofriller cello before the trio performed at Christie's auction house in New York, April 15, 2005. Christie's will be auctioning the violin, which is expected to sell for between $800,000 to $1.2 million and the Cello which is expected to sell for between $400,000 and $600,000 during their Fine Musical Instruments auction on April 22, 2005.
Photo by Mike Segar
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Monument To Be Built In Arkansas
B.B. King
The Arkansas Legislature has approved a $5,000 expenditure to build a monument honoring bluesman B.B. King in the tiny Delta town of Twist.
More than 50 years ago, King's famed guitar Lucille earned its name after a dance hall brawl in Twist. King's trademark Gibson guitars have been called Lucille ever since.
"B.B. put Twist, Ark., on the map," Allan Hammons, interim director of the planned B.B. King Museum in Indianola, Miss., said Thursday. "I think it's very important that the state of Arkansas took the opportunity to memorialize that great American story."
B.B. King
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Statue To Be Erected In Indiana
Hoagy Carmichael
A life-size bronze statue of Hoagy Carmichael will be erected near the Indiana University off-campus hangout where the songwriter composed "Stardust" almost 80 years ago.
The statue, depicting Carmichael seated at a piano, was designed by Bloomington sculptor Michael McAuley and is planned to be completed by May 2006. A ceremony announcing plans for the Hoagy Carmichael Landmark Project will be at Peoples Park on April 23.
The project is sponsored by the nonprofit Jazz from Bloomington, which will maintain the statue at Peoples Park. The park is only a few blocks from the IU law school, which Carmichael attended, and from what then was known as the Book Nook, where he wrote "Stardust" in 1927.
Hoagy Carmichael
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EMI Signs Licensing Deal
Cat Stevens Catalog
EMI Group Plc's publishing arm on Friday said it has licensed the complete catalog of songs written by singer/songwriter Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam.
The catalog consists of about 200 songs, including many hits from the 1960s and '70s, such as "Morning Has Broken," "Wild World" and "Moon Shadow."
Cat Stevens Catalog
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Court Tosses Lawsuit
Eminem
The state appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an ex-schoolmate of Eminem's who accused the Detroit-area rapper of falsely depicting him in the song "Brain Damage."
A three-judge panel unanimously upheld a Macomb County judge's 2003 decision and wrote that the song by Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, was not intended to be taken literally.
The court, in an opinion released Friday, cited song lyrics in which Eminem said the school principal stomped on him, leaving him for dead. Those lyrics along with others - Eminem singing that his "whole brain fell out" of his skull - show the song should not be interpreted literally, the judges wrote.
Eminem
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German runner Achim Heukemes, 53, runs along the Eyre Highway, about 650 kilometres (404 miles) east of Perth, April 10, 2005. Heukemes set out from the west Australian city of Perth on April 2 in an attempt to run solo for 4,650 kilometres (2,889 miles) across Australia in 44 days in order to raise money for the aid organisation Oxfam. Picture taken April 10, 2005.
Photo by Norm Bailey
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NYC to Pay
RNC Demonstrators
The city agreed Friday to pay $150 each to 108 demonstrators who were arrested during last summer's Republican National Convention and kept locked up even after a judge ordered their release.
In addition to the $16,200, the city will also pay legal costs and attorneys' fees of about $215,000.
The payouts will settle the demonstrators' claims that the city was in contempt of court for not complying with a judge's order to release hundreds of the protesters.
RNC Demonstrators
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Whale-Dolphin Hybrid Has Baby
Wholphin
The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday.
The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Park officials said they waited to announce the birth until now because of recent changes in ownership and operations at the park.
The young as-yet unnamed wholphin is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Her slick skin is an even blend of a dolphin's light gray and the black coloring of a false killer whale.
She is jumbo-sized compared to purebred dolphins, and is already the size of a one-year-old bottlenose.
Wholphin
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Original Copy Wanted
'Moore's Law'
After decades of gathering dust on library shelves, the April 19, 1965 issue of Electronics magazine has suddenly become a very hot commodity. And it's not because vacuum tubes are making a comeback.
In that issue, future Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore declared the integrated circuit was the future of the electronics and predicted the rate of improvement for the semiconductor industry. The 40th anniversary of what was later coined "Moore's Law" is Tuesday.
Problem is, neither Moore - nor anyone else currently at Intel - saved an original copy of the magazine. They have photocopies, but they want the real thing. Earlier this week, Intel offered a $10,000 bounty for a mint-condition copy.
'Moore's Law'
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Undated handout photo issued by Bristol Zoo Gardens, of 'Kintana', the first captive bred aye-aye, an arboreal nocturnal lemur, Daubentonia madagascariensis, a native to Madagascar, to be born in the United Kingdom. Bristol Zoo Gardens announced Friday April 15, 2005, that it is the first UK zoo to successfully breed and hand-rear an aye-aye, the largest nocturnal primate in the world and one of the strangest mammals on the planet.
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Writer Fabricated Boston Globe Story
Seal Hunt
A Boston Globe freelance writer fabricated large chunks of a story published this week, the newspaper said on Friday in the latest incident to embarrass the U.S. media.
The Globe, which is owned by The New York Times Co., said it stopped using writer Barbara Stewart because of a story that ran on Wednesday about a seal hunt off Newfoundland -- a hunt, it turns out, that had not taken place.
The Halifax, Nova Scotia-datelined article described in graphic detail how the seal hunt began on Tuesday, with water turning red as hunters on some 300 boats shot harp seal cubs "by the hundreds."
The problem, however, was that the hunt did not begin on Tuesday; it was delayed by bad weather and was scheduled to start on Friday, weather permitting, the Globe said in an editor's note.
Seal Hunt
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The Pride Of Penn Hills
Rick Santorum
We hear that Pa. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Wal-Mart) hasn't been spending much time of late in his adopted hometown of Penn Hills near Pittsburgh, the town that spent nearly $34,000 to educate the senator's five kids while they were living in a luxury home in Virginia.
So Santorum probably doesn't even know that his neighbors are upset that a new Wal-Mart is coming to Penn Hills, so upset they held a meeting last night to complain about everything from traffic to the mom-and-pop stores that will likely be driven out of business.
But even if the folks back in Penn Hills could get close enough to Santorum to complain, he might not hear them. Especially over the din of Wal-Mart corporate jet -- the jet that recently chauffered the Republican around the Sunshine State while Santorum alternately mugged for the cameras on Terri Schiavo's death watch and raised some $250,000 in campaign cash from deep-pocketed Florida donors. Under federal election rules, Santorum only need reimburse the retail giant at the rate of first-class air fares to Florida and not for the real cost of the lavish chartered travel.
For a lot more, Rick Santorum
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Curbs Probe of Commentator's Hiring
White House
Education Department investigators looking into the administration's controversial hiring of commentator Armstrong Williams were denied the opportunity to interview some White House personnel because of a White House claim that such interviews could breach long-standing legal traditions.
"By statute, an inspector general's jurisdiction is limited," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Thursday. "An IG can request information from other federal agencies but not from the White House office."
She said the White House did allow the investigators to interview one White House employee who had been on loan to the Education Department when Williams was hired. But it has not granted permission for other interviews.
White House
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Sumo wrestler Jiguruma (L) jumps over Futamusashi in a sumo ring at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo April 15, 2005. The reigning grand champion and other sumo wrestlers performed in the shrine for sumo fans.
Photo by Toru Hanai
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States The Obvious
Jimmy Carter
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Thursday harshly criticized his own country and other wealthy states for being stingy with foreign aid and said in rich countries "We really don't give a damn."
In a speech to a human rights conference in Atlanta, Carter said increasing financial assistance was critical to battling malaria, AIDS and other common diseases that disproportionately affect the poorest parts of the world.
He especially criticized the United States for failing to follow other Western nations which are increasing spending.
Jimmy Carter
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Grandma Stops Intruder
Garden Gnome
A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him, police said Friday. Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England.
"I grabbed the first thing that came to hand - one of my garden gnomes - and hurled it at him, and hit him," she recalled.
"He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."
Garden Gnome
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In Memory
John Fred Gourrier
John Fred Gourrier, best known for his 1960s hit - "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)" - died Friday at Tulane Hospital after being ill for months, his former manager said. He was 63.
Gourrier went by the stage name John Fred.
John Fred & His Playboy Band had a regional following in the South when they recorded their parody of the popular Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," in 1967. Written by Gourrier and fellow band member Andrew Bernard, "Judy In Disguise" was recorded in New Orleans with the Fats Domino band Dec. 17. By the following Jan. 20, it had replaced another Beatles song, "Hello Goodbye," as the No. 1 song in the nation. The song, well orchestrated with a snappy beat, remained at the top of the charts for two weeks.
Although "Judy in Disguise" was the only Top 40 song the group ever had, Gourrier made the charts before. He formed his first group while he was still in high school and recorded a song titled "Shirley."
John Fred Gourrier
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In this photo provided by the Alaska SeaLife Center, a baby octopus swims in a tank at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska, Wednesday April 13, 2005. Several eggs from Aurora, the Alaska SeaLife Center's Giant Pacific Octopus have hatched over the last 48 hours exactly 10 months after her encounter with the center's male octopus, J-1.
Photo by Jason Wettstein
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