'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
September 23, 2003
Attorney General John Ashcroft mocked librarians for their
opposition to provisions of the USA Patriot Act that permit
federal agents to seize citizens' library records; Ashcroft
said that the librarians were indulging in "baseless
hysteria" and wondered why the FBI would care "how far you
have gotten on the latest Tom Clancy novel." He did not make
clear why the government needs access to library records,
however, and later said that no requests for such records
had yet been made.
The Bush
Administration announced a new counterterrorism center that
will assemble a "watch list" of about 100,000 terrorism
suspects.
JetBlue Airways admitted that last year it shared
5 million passenger itineraries with a defense contractor
that was testing a passenger-screening system for the
Transportation Security Administration.
Resident Bush admitted that he has "no
evidence" that Saddam Hussein was involved in the September
11 attacks, though he continued to assert, contrary to all
known evidence, that there were "ties" between Hussein and
Al Qaeda.
Merrill Lynch avoided criminal
charges in the Enron affair by agreeing to let the
government monitor some parts of its affairs for the next 18
months; the firm promised not to engage in any more shady
business deals.
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
--Roger D. Hodge
He's Been Busy!
The Worried Shrimp
The whistle-ass cowboy shoots himself in the foot...
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
A Song From Alvin
'Help!'
"Yet every young democracy needs the help of friends. Now the nation of Iraq needs and deserves our aid, and all nations of good will should step forward and provide that support." - GWBush panhandling at the UN
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Lots of fog this morning & again tonight. Rather like the way it makes the neighborhood look.
The kid made it off to science camp OK. He wanted to take his stuffed walrus along - without anyone else knowing, so we rolled it into the bottom of his sleeping bag. He doesn't normally sleep with it, but it's his first time away from home.
Dave Letterman's 'Bush Joke That Really Isn't A Joke' nightly bit is worth staying up late.
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS begins the evening with the Season Premiere of '60 Minutes II' (supposed to go inside Gitmo -er- Camp Delta), followed by the
Season Finale of 'Big Brother 4', then the Series Premiere of 'The Brotherhood Of Poland, New Hampshire'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave is an all-republican line-up with The Rock and Lynne Cheney.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Marg Helgenberger, Jason Gedrick, and Alexandra McHale.
NBC opens the night with the Season Premiere of 'Ed', followed by the Season Premiere of the newly more 'balanced' 'West Wing', then
the Season Premiere of 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Rob Lowe and Michelle Branch.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Whoopi Goldberg and Rosario Dawson.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly is David Bowie.
ABC starts the night with a 1-hour Season Premiere of 'My Wife & Kids', followed by the Season Premiere of 'The Bachelor'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Jason Biggs, Greta Van Susteren, and Brand New.
The WB has a 'special' - 'Hilary Duff's Island Birthday Bash' (she's turning 16), followed by a FRESH 'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has the Season Finale of 'Performing Ass...'.
UPN has a FRESH 'Enterprise', followed by a FRESH 'Jake 2.0'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Hayley Mills), 'American Justice', and 'Take This Job...'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Eiger Sanction', followed by the movie 'Tora! Tora! Tora!', then the movie 'Wing & A Prayer'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Parkinson' - Kylie Minogue;
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Warwick;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - North Cheam;
[8pm] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Clapham;
[8:30pm] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Hemel Hempstead;
[9pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 5;
[9:40pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 5;
[10:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Andie MacDowell;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Alex Kingston;
[12am] 'My Hero' - Episode 5;
[12:40am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 5;
[1:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[2am] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Clapham;
[2:30am] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Hemel Hempstead;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Andie MacDowell;
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Alex Kingston;
[4am] 'My Hero' - Episode 5;
[4:40am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 5;
[5:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', the movie 'Not Without My Daugher', 'West Wing', and 'West Wing'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Ben Stiller.
History is 'Modern Marvels' all night.
SciFi has 'Tracker', followed by the execrable movie 'Battlefield Earth'.
TCM -
[6am] 'Penny Serenade' (1941);
[8am] 'An American Romance' (1944);
[10:15am] 'The Stork Club' (1945);
[12pm] 'The Time, The Place And The Girl' (1946);
[2pm] 'The Red Danube' (1949);
[4pm] 'Two Tickets To Broadway' (1951);
[6pm] 'All The Brothers Were Valiant' (1953);
[8pm] 'A Star Is Born' (1954);
[11pm] 'Julius Caesar' (1953);
[1:15 am] 'Forever Darling' (1956);
[3am] 'The Decks Ran Red' (1958); and
[4:30am] 'Slander' (1957). (ALL TIMES EDT)
An overview shows Munich's Oktoberfest as seen from the ferris wheel September 23, 2003. Thousands of beer drinkers from around the world flock to Munich for the largest and most famous beer festival on earth, the Oktoberfest. The 170th Oktoberfest started on September 20 and ends on October 5. Some six million visitors are expected to pass through 14 enormous tents, each capable of holding up to 10,000 people at a time, and to drink over 5.5 million litres (1.453 million U.S. gallons) of beer.
Photo by Alexandra Winkler
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Dead Last in TV Ratings
Bush Interview
On Monday night, the American public was apparently far more interested in new comedies and a blowout football game than their resident's take on the state of the international effort to rebuild Iraq.
Data from Nielsen Media Research released on Tuesday showed that a one-hour interview with resident Bush on Fox came dead last in the hour among the six major broadcast television networks in both total viewers and audiences aged 18 to 49.
The Bush interview trailed an episode of UPN's comedy "The Parkers" and the series premiere of the comedy "Eve," starring the singer of the same name. Those two shows together averaged about 4.49 million total viewers and around a 2.0/6 in the 18-49 group.
Bush Interview
Good Charlotte, Green Day, Sum 41
'Rock Against Bush'
Good Charlotte, Green Day, Sum 41, and several other punk rock bands will contribute songs to an album titled Rock Against Bush, which will be released through indie label Fat Wreck Chords next April or May. Green Day will donate a new song, but the other bands have not announced yet whether they'll submit new or previously released material.
Fat Wreck Chords president Fat Mike--who also sings for the punk band NOFX--says he wanted to use his influence in the punk rock world to campaign directly against George Bush, telling MTV.com, "I think it's our responsibility as citizens and musicians to do so. He's wrecking the country and the world...I'm planning on losing a lot of money, but I don't care. This is something I really believe in."
Money from sales of the album will go into print and television ads encouraging young people to vote Bush out of the White House. Fat Mike told MTV.com he hopes to have "one or two famous punk rockers" appear in the ads.
'Rock Against Bush'
Godard's Version Set for DVD
'Sympathy for the Devil'
French director Jean-Luc Godard's 1968 film "Sympathy for the Devil," an avant-garde work best known for its in-studio footage of the Rolling Stones working on their song of the same name, is coming out on DVD on Oct. 21, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The "Sympathy for the Devil" DVD, which incorporates high-definition transfers from the original negatives, will include the original trailer and a contemporary "Sympathy" video clip cut to the remix from producing duo the Neptunes, the spokesman said.
The film, an examination of western counter-culture, features frequent cuts to London's Olympic Studios, where singer Mick Jagger was leading his bandmates through a recording of "Sympathy," a rock epic steeped in historical and philosophical references. As Godard's cameras roll, the song starts off as a country ditty and ends up as a samba rhythm.
'Sympathy for the Devil'
Woman With An Opinion
Dixie Chicks
The Dixie Chicks want out of the country music scene, according to comments group member Martie Maguire made to German magazine, Spiegel. She said, "We don't feel part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home any more."
Maguire adds, "A few weeks ago, Merle Haggard said a couple of nice words about us, but that was it. The support we got came from others, like Bruce Springsteen."
Maguire points to the fact that country radio is still not playing the trio's music, and that country award shows have seemingly shut the door on the Chicks. She says, "Instead, we won three Grammys against much stronger competition. So we now consider ourselves part of the big rock 'n' roll family."
Dixie Chicks
Variety U.K. Personality Award
Ian McKellen
Actor Ian McKellen is to be honored at this year's British Independent Film Awards on Nov. 4, officials said Tuesday.
McKellen, who appeared as the magician Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" movies, will receive the Variety U.K. Personality award for his contribution to the British movie industry.
Ian McKellen
Nice Raises
'West Wing'
Variety claims salary hikes for Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford and John Spencer will place them among the highest-paid actors working in TV drama.
The peaceful renegotiations are a far cry from the sick days and walkouts experienced on the set of fellow Emmy favorite Everybody Loves Raymond and not even close to what the Oval Office quartet pulled two years ago when they strong-armed the studio into doubling their respective paychecks by not showing up for work.
This time around, the foursome did show up for taping on the show's fifth season, they simply refused to do any publicity promoting the upcoming season.
But with the forced defections of the show's creator Aaron Sorkin and director Thomas Schlamme, and the departure of fellow star Rob Lowe following a salary dispute, executive producer John Wells was apparently a major force in ensuring a satisfactory resolution between the two sides.
'West Wing'
This 1968 pen and ink drawing of Elvis Presley by Al Hirschfeld is estimated to sell between $10,000 and $15,000, when it goes up for auction at Swann Galleries in New York Thursday, Sept 25, 2003.
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Man With An Opinion
Sean Penn
Pronouncing himself "more patriotic than the president," US actor Sean Penn hit town at the 51st San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Penn, who has been awarded a Donostia prize here -- Donostia being the Basque name for San Sebastian -- alongside Isabelle Huppert and Robert Duvall for their career contributions to the cinema, made perfectly clear he was not in sympathy with resident George W. Bush's politics, particularly on Iraq.
Penn added that the cinema was a constant fight to make one's voice heard and said he had come to recognise there was a price to be paid for not sticking to one's ideals as an actor who was first of all a human being.
"I don't think you can have credibility as an actor unless you say what you really think. The people of the United States have an obligation to speak."
Sean Penn
Ratings Hit New Low
Miss America
Like a lacquered perm on a sweltering summer day, Miss America's ratings continue to droop.
Despite a slew of gimmicks aimed at reversing the slide, 10.3 million viewers — an all-time low — tuned in to watch Saturday's three-hour telecast, Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday.
That's less than half the viewers Miss America had as recently as 1995, and 1.7 million fewer than last year's telecast.
Miss America
Sandman Comic Series Returns
Neil Gaiman
Seven years after he stopped writing his groundbreaking, history-making comic book series, author Neil Gaiman has returned, again telling stories about Morpheus, the King of Dreams, and his six siblings, collectively known as the Endless.
"The Sandman: Endless Nights" was released last week as a graphic novel to mark the 10th anniversary of Vertigo comics, the publisher of the series during its run in the 1990s. The new book is a collection of seven short stories, one for each member of the Endless, illustrated by artists from around the world.
Gaiman started writing the Sandman comics in 1989, and finished in 1996 after 75 issues. Along the way, he revolutionized the whole genre, introducing work that stood out for its quality writing and adult themes, rather than superheroes in costumes.
Neil Gaiman
Vertigo Comics
Neil Gaiman
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Joining Paula Zahn
Victoria Clarke
CNN's newly formatted "Paula Zahn Now" show has added Victoria Clarke, the former head of public affairs at the Pentagon, as an exclusive contributor, the news cable network said.
CNN also is expected to name veteran political writer and novelist Joe Klein as a contributor within a few days, sources close to the situation said. A contributor to Time, Klein is best known as "Anonymous," who authored the novel "Primary Colors," a thinly veiled account of Bill Clinton's stormy 1992 presidential campaign.
Clarke is well-known inside the cable television industry for heading its public relations efforts as a vp of the National Cable Telecommunications Assn. in the 1990s. She also served as press secretary for resident Bush's 1992 re-election campaign, but she insisted, "I wouldn't make too many conclusions on my perspectives."
Victoria Clarke
New Music
The Who
Years of discussion about a new studio album from the surviving members of the Who appears to be finally giving way to action.
A post on guitarist Pete Townshend's official Web site reveals that he and frontman Roger Daltrey will begin demoing new material "before the end of the year" and plan to hit the studio in March.
Songs intended for the group's first studio album in 21 years "will be based on story, now complete, 'The Boy Who Heard Music."' The set is being targeted for a summer 2004 release date on an as-yet-undetermined label and will be supported with a U.S. and U.K. tour. "Other regions" will be visited in 2005, according to the site.
The Who
A baby held by an amateur sumo wrestler bursts into tears during a baby crying contest at Koyasu shrine in Hachioji on the outskirts of Tokyo September 23, 2003. More than 400 babies participated in the event held to wish for the baby's good health and growth. The baby that cries the loudest will be awarded as the winner of the event which is held in many towns all over Japan.
Photo by Kimimasa Mayama
MTV Pulls Plug On Talk Show
Tom Green
Tom Green has his nights free again. MTV has pulled the plug on the former gross-out king's late-night talk show.
The show was supposed to return with original episodes on Monday, but production was stopped.
Tom Green
25th Anniversary Of Death
Jacques Brel
Five songs recorded by legendary Belgian singer Jacques Brel in 1977 but cut from his final album finally hit record stores, nearly 25 years after his death.
Entitled "Mai 40" (May 1940), "La cathedrale" (The Cathedral), "Sans exigences" (Without demands), "Avec elegance" (With elegance) and "L'amour est mort" (Love is dead), the songs were only available before Tuesday to fans visiting the Jacques Brel Foundation in his native Brussels.
But they are now included in a 16-disc collection of Brel's complete works -- 15 compact discs with reproductions of the original jacket covers, and a two-disc compilation of the chanteur's greatest hits.
Jacques Brel
Hate Radio Host Only Regurgitating Rush
Bob Lonsberry
A radio talk-show host was suspended for two days Monday for alluding to Rochester's black mayor as a monkey.
Bob Lonsberry apologized to Mayor William Johnson Jr. in taped remarks at the beginning and end of his three-hour show on WHAM radio, which was handled by a stand-in host Monday.
Lonsberry, a Republican, has been highly critical in recent months of Johnson, a Democrat who is running for Monroe County executive - the region's top political post - in the November election.
Last Thursday, as monkey sounds played in the background, Lonsberry joked about "monkeys loose up at the zoo again," the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported.
Steve Minarik, the county Republican Party chairman, said Lonsberry's commentary was "beneath the standards of public discourse" and questioned whether the suspension was severe enough.
Bob Lonsberry
Another Republican Comedian
Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer says he might be interested in running for the U.S. Senate from California when he's finished with acting.
``If you have the good fortune to become wealthy doing what you love to do, what happens is you now have an obligation to give back in some way,'' Grammer said Monday on Fox News Channel's ``Hannity & Colmes.''
``I would like to try to rid the country of the idea that it's the rich against the poor,'' he said.
Kelsey Grammer
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Iraq Meets Texas
Jessica Lynch TV Movie
Jessica Lynch is Canadian, snipers loyal to Saddam Hussein crouch on a roof flanked by the skyscraper that was home to television's J.R. Ewing and the streets of the Iraqi city of Nassiriya are near downtown Dallas.
Welcome to the world of NBC's made-for-television movie "Saving Jessica Lynch" where Iraq meets Texas in the telling of the 20-year-old Army private's ordeal in Iraq.
When production officials looked at what they quickly needed to do to get the movie on TV in time for its November airing, Texas emerged as the best locale.
For a lot more, Jessica Lynch TV Movie
Wants Remarks Removed From Lawsuit
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor has asked a judge to strike "inflammatory, irrelevant and false" allegations about the actress from a lawsuit that her former gardener filed.
Willem Van Muyden claimed he suffered improper sexual advances from her butler in his Superior Court lawsuit filed in July, which seeks unspecified damages from Taylor. Van Muyden claims in the lawsuit that he was fired without being paid $294,000 Taylor owes him for 10 years of gardening work.
Van Muyden also makes allegations in the lawsuit about Taylor having a relationship with the butler, Jean-Luc Lacquement, who filed a notice of demurrer that argues the gardener's complaint has no merit.
Elizabeth Taylor
This anonymous 1919 black and white photo of French artist Jean Cocteau on which he drew and wrote 'Write legibly', is part of a major restrospective exhibition 'Jean Cocteau, sur le Fil du Siecle' (Jean Cocteau, Along the Century) to mark the 40th anniversary of his death. The exhibition runs from Sept. 25 to Jan. 5, 2004 at the Pompidou center museum in Paris.
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Lawsuits Withdrawn
'Liza & David'
The lawsuits over VH1's aborted Liza Minnelli/David Gest reality series "Liza & David" have been dropped.
Last December, Minnelli and Gest filed a $23 million lawsuit against VH1 for breach of contract and defamation. In February, VH1 countersued for breach of contract, seeking damages of least $1.5 million.
In a joint statement, both sides say they have "amicably resolved their differences and withdrawn their respective lawsuits."
'Liza & David'
Grandpa Was A Fascist
Emanuele Filiberto
The grandson of the last king of Italy was to marry French actress Clotilde Courau in an ceremony to which 1,200 guests ranging from French rock star Johnny Hallyday to fashion designer Pierre Cardin have been invited.
Emanuele Filiberto, who swore loyalty to the Italian Republic as the price of being allowed back into the country earlier this year, will tie the knot in the basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels, the church that Michelangelo created from the ruins of the Diocletian baths.
Filiberto, 31, a Geneva banking consultant, and his six-months pregnant bride, 34, faced disapproval from his parents apparently over her Leftist views. But "after two weeks of cold war, love and good sense prevailed," he said recently.
Emanuele Filiberto
Cancels Shows
David Lee Roth
Singer David Lee Roth has canceled the rest of his tour because of a martial arts accident during a recent performance.
"It was an incident onstage where he was doing a kung fu maneuver and he got hit with a staff that he uses," spokesman Todd Brodginski said. "He was doing a very fast, complicated 15th-century samurai move."
The former Van Halen frontman needed 21 stitches on his face because of the Sept. 17 accident in Philadelphia. He called off seven dates in the tour of clubs and theaters because of the injury. Two dates had been canceled because of Hurricane Isabel.
David Lee Roth
Judge OKs TV Show Premiere
'The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire'
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that CBS can air the premiere of "The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire" Wednesday night, despite the objections of two New Hampshire filmmakers who are pursuing a court case against the TV production.
Michael MacLeod, his MJM Productions and scriptwriter Jefferson Dutton had sought to block CBS from airing the pilot in New Hampshire, saying its title, theme and settings were lifted from their independent film "Brotherhood."
U.S. District Judge Joseph DiClerico denied the request in a brief ruling, saying he would give his reasons later.
'The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire'
Stay Until Bush Administration Ends
Michael Powell
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said on Tuesday he would stay at the agency until the end of the Bush administration, halting speculation that he would leave any time soon.
"I don't know how many times I have to say this, once and for all, for the record, I am staying until the end of the resident's administration," Powell told Reuters in a telephone interview. "We have a large and important agenda ahead."
Powell, 40 and the son of Secretary of State Colin Powell, has been at the agency since being appointed by then-President Bill Clinton in late 1997 and designated FCC chairman in the early days of resident Bush's presidency in 2001.
Michael Powell
Bored by Her Own Songs
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand says she finds listening to her own songs is so boring that it was one of the reasons she gave up public performing three years ago.
Streisand, 61, told Reader's Digest in an interview for its October edition that once she has recorded an album, she is so sick of the music that "I never listen to my records for maybe 10 years."
Barbra Streisand
Return to L.A. Next Year
Grammy Awards
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that its 46th annual ceremony honoring the best of music will take place at the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 8.
The Grammys, which once frequently bounced back and forth between the two cities, settled in Los Angeles for four consecutive years, from 1998-2002. That was due in part to Michael Greene, the former head of the Grammy organization. He had a much-publicized feud with former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who had accused Greene of unleashing a stream of obscenities at a mayoral staffer in 1998.
Within days of current Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2001 election, Greene began talks to return the show to New York, and the ceremony took place in Madison Square Garden last February.
Greene himself has since stepped down amid investigations of alleged sexual harassment, even though the Grammy organization said he was cleared of wrongdoing.
Grammy Awards
No Room For Altar Girls
Vatican
No dancing in the aisles or applause in church, please, we're Catholic. And we'd prefer altar boys to altar girls.
Those are some of the warnings contained in the draft of a document the Vatican is preparing to crack down on what it considers "liturgical abuses" of the mass, the focus of Roman Catholic worship.
According to the authoritative Italian Roman Catholic monthly magazine "Jesus," a draft document urges the faithful to notify their bishop or the Vatican to report suspected abuses.
According to the magazine, the draft says the use of girl altar servers should be avoided "unless there is a just pastoral cause" and that "priests should never feel obliged to seek girls for this function."
The Vatican in 1994 gave individual bishops the power to decide whether to allow altar girls in their dioceses. But some conservative Catholics are against altar girls, saying their presence has eroded a traditional recruiting ground for priests.
Vatican
Killed Since Iraq War Began
Journalists
News organization employees killed since the war on Iraq began on March 20.
- Mazen Dana, a Reuters cameraman, shot Aug. 17 while working near the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.
- Jeremy Little, Australian sound engineer for NBC News, died July 6 at military hospital in Germany from wounds suffered June 29 in a grenade attack on a military vehicle in Fallujah.
- Richard Wild, British freelance cameraman, July 5, outside Iraq's Natural History Museum in Baghdad.
- Tareq Ayyoub, Jordanian journalist for Al-Jazeera, Qatar, April 8, at the Al-Jazeera office in Baghdad.
- Jose Couso, cameraman for Spanish television network Telecinco, April 8, at the Palestine hotel in Baghdad.
- Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian television cameraman for Reuters, April 8, at the Palestine hotel in Baghdad.
- Christian Liebig, journalist for Focus weekly, Germany, April 7, south of Baghdad.
- Julio Anguita Parrado, reporter for El Mundo, Spain, April 7, south of Baghdad.
- Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a Kurdish translator working with the British Broadcasting Corp., April 6, northern Iraq.
- Michael Kelly, editor-at-large, The Atlantic Monthly, April 3, near Baghdad.
- Kaveh Golestan, Iranian freelance cameraman for the BBC, northern Iraq, April 2.
- Terry Lloyd, correspondent for Independent Television News, Britain, March 22, southern Iraq.
- Paul Moran, freelance cameraman for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 22, northern Iraq.
Other deaths, disappearances:
- Mark Fineman, an award-winning correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, died Sept. 23 in Baghdad of an apparent heart attack.
- Elizabeth Neuffer, a reporter for The Boston Globe, died May 8 after the car in which she was a passenger apparently struck a guardrail near the town of Samarra, about halfway between Baghdad and Tikrit. Neuffer's translator, Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulami, also died in the accident.
- Veronica Cabrera, an Argentine freelance camerawoman, died April 15 of injuries from a car crash outside the Iraqi capital, which instantly killed Mario Podesta, an Argentine television reporter, on April 14.
- Reporter David Bloom of NBC News died April 6 from an apparent blood clot while covering the war south of Baghdad.
- Gaby Rado, a correspondent for Channel 4 News, Britain, died March 30 after apparently falling from a hotel roof in northern Iraq.
- Two other Independent Television News journalists, cameraman Fred Nerac of France and translator Hussein Osman of Lebanon, have been missing since the shooting incident March 22 in southern Iraq in which Terry Lloyd was killed.
Journalists
Queeny, a six-month-old female cat with different colored eyes, looks into the camera in the Indian city of Bangalore September 23, 2003. The cat is a mixture of Persian and Siamese and has one brown eye and one blue. Vets who have checked Queeny, say she has perfect vision in both eyes.
Photo by Jagadeesh Nv
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