This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: PRNewswire
July 15, 2007
Today on NBC's Meet the Press, columnist Robert Novak revealed one of his most secret sources: Sen. Tom Eagleton (D-MO) gave him the quote that labeled 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern as the candidate of "Amnesty, Abortion and Acid." This is reported for the first time in his new memoir: The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington (Crown Forum).
Following McGovern's stunning victory in the '72 Massachusetts primary, Novak began calling Dem
Source: LAT
July 15, 2007
Thirty-five years ago, with the United States riven by an unpopular armed conflict in a faraway land, the Democratic Party responded by nominating for president its most vocal antiwar candidate: George McGovern.
Friday night, not far from the Capitol where debate over another war is an almost-daily occurrence, veterans of the McGovern campaign and others gathered at a reception to pay homage to him.
The parallels between the fight he led against the U.S. involvement in
Source: AP
July 13, 2007
One was a concentration camp doctor who purportedly injected poison into the hearts of Jews. The other was once an aide to Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann. Austria wants to find Alois Brunner and Aribert Heim, both in their 90s if still alive, and bring them to justice.
A notice posted on the Justice Ministry's Web site this week features photos and descriptions of Brunner and Heim and offers rewards for information leading to their capture. Brunner, the most-wanted Nazi war cri
Source: http://www.thestandard.com.hk
July 14, 2007
Japanese conservatives protested Friday against US congressional demands for a clear apology over wartime military brothels, saying the women were not sex slaves but camp followers.
Lawmakers and academics gave the US embassy in Tokyo a letter saying they were "surprised and shocked" by the pressure for a fresh apology to the "comfort women."
Shoichi Watanabe, history professor emeritus at Tokyo's Sophia University said: "If America keeps saying
Source: http://www.hamhigh.co.uk
July 13, 2007
A HOLOCAUST survivor has hit out at the insensitivity of traders selling a Hitler T-shirt in Camden Town.
George Clare is furious the £5 T-shirt, which displays the dictator making a Nazi salute and a map of Europe with the heading Hitler's European Tour 1939-1945, is being sold at the area's markets.
The 86-year-old, who lives in College Crescent, Swiss Cottage, escaped the Holocaust but lost both his parents in the atrocity.
He said: "The T-shirt
Source: AP
July 14, 2007
Leaders of the city of Weimar, a cradle of German culture and democracy, vowed Saturday to fight racism and far-right extremism as part of ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the opening of the nearby Buchenwald concentration camp.
As part of ceremonies at the camp, where some 56,000 people perished behind its barbed wire fences or in incoming transports, Weimar city council members and survivors signed a statement pledging to honor victims' memories by fighting extremism.
Source: WaPo
July 12, 2007
Two old steamer trunks sit in the rare-book room at the Virginia Historical Society, looking worn and forlorn. The smaller one was once red but the paint has faded to a dull rust. The larger one is brown with a piece of tin patching a hole in the top. On one side, a name is stenciled: "M. LEE."
That's Mary Custis Lee, Gen. Robert E. Lee's adventurous eldest daughter. In 1917, she stored these wooden trunks in the "silver vault" in the basement of Burke &
Source: Telegraph (UK)
July 15, 2007
On screen he portrayed British military heroes such as Henry V, Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington.
In real life Laurence Olivier performed some bravery of his own, risking imprisonment and even assassination as an agent for Britain.
The celebrated actor, mistakenly accused by some of his contemporaries of lacking patriotism for deciding to remain in Hollywood when war broke out rather than return home and sign up, worked secretly to help secure the hearts and minds
Source: Cronaca.com
July 13, 2007
The Brown University Library has acquired the library of the late David E. Pingree, an internationally renowned historian of the exact sciences in antiquity and a member of the Brown faculty from 1971 to 2005. Pingree was chair of Brown’s Department of History of Mathematics and a University Professor.
Source: Boston Globe
July 15, 2007
John Nelson Black was a three-year enlisted man in the Union infantry. History remembers his regiment for its hard luck, with its ranks decimated at Antietam, Maryland, and its men captured in the siege of Plymouth, North Carolina. But Black himself would have remained virtually anonymous, save for a quirky gent named McNutt and a discovery worthy of a Dan Brown novel.
In October 2004, C. Nelson McNutt passed away at the age of 105 on the very acreage where he was born in June 1899.
Source: BBC
July 12, 2007
Allied soldiers killed in one of the bloodiest battles of World War I have been remembered by the Queen during an official visit to Belgium.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh attended a commemoration service marking the 90th anniversary of the battle of Passchendaele.
The service at Tyne Cot cemetery, near Ypres, was also attended by Belgium's Queen Paola and around 4,000 locals.
Almost 11,000 servicemen are buried in the Commonwealth war cemetery.
Source: Star-Ledger
July 15, 2007
This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the riots that ripped through Plainfield's working-class West End, when black civil unrest erupted in violence from July 14 to 20, leaving one white police officer dead and businesses burned. More than 100 National Guardsmen were sent in to quiet the streets.
The riot's effect left a deep gash in Plainfield that some say has not completely healed....
More than an explosion of anger, the riots were a rebellion by a disenfranchis
Source: NYT
July 15, 2007
Only twice before over the last century has 5 percent of the national income gone to families in the upper one-one-hundredth of a percent of the income distribution — currently, the almost 15,000 families with incomes of $9.5 million or more a year, according to an analysis of tax returns by the economists Emmanuel Saez at the University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Piketty at the Paris School of Economics.
Such concentration at the very top occurred in 1915 and 1916, as the G
Source: BBC
July 14, 2007
Prince Charles has paid a visit to one of Scotland's most important stately homes.
The prince, known as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland, helped to save Dumfries House in Ayrshire.
He headed a consortium of charities and government bodies which raised £45m to buy the 250-year-old property.
Source: BBC
July 14, 2007
A Devon farming family has unveiled a maze in a 10-acre field of maize to mark the 100th anniversary of the scouting movement.
Nick Lees and his family have created an image of the movement's founder Robert Baden-Powell in the corn.
The maze, which is open to the public, has been created in a field at Bickleigh, near Tiverton.
Source: Seattle Times
July 14, 2007
Starbucks closed its store in Beijing's Forbidden City on Friday after months of controversy over the U.S. coffee-shop chain doing business there.
The decision followed the Forbidden City's announcement that it wants to operate all stores inside the former imperial palace, which is now a museum.
"[W]e have respectfully decided to end our lease agreement," the Seattle coffee chain said.
Source: NYT
July 14, 2007
OSSINING, N.Y. It started with an ever-expanding sinkhole at the entrance of the Mystic Pointe condominiums here and led to an excavation this spring that revealed an underground complex of brick chambers with vaulted ceilings.
Now the subterranean structure, believed to date to the mid-19th century, is a mystery just begging to be solved. Is it as pedestrian as a root cellar? Or as storied as a stop on the Underground Railroad? Does it stretch beyond the cluster of at least nine kn
Source: AP
July 14, 2007
It was the summer of Reggie, the summer of Sam, the summer when the lights went dark and the Bronx burned bright.
Thirty years ago, as the temperatures soared and its morale plunged, New York City endured a scathing summer custom-made for tabloid headlines: A crippling July blackout, complete with arson and looting (''24 HOURS OF TERROR''); a media-savvy serial killer dubbed the Son of Sam (''NO ONE IS SAFE''); and a dysfunctional, sensational New York Yankees team (''THE BRONX ZOO'
Source: NYT
July 14, 2007
The year was 1973, and Karl Rove was looking for help — from the Nixon White House.
Tucked away inside 78,000 pages of documents from the Nixon administration, released by the National Archives earlier this week, is a little gem: a strategy memorandum from the man who would go on to become the architect of President Bush’s rise to political power.
Source: NYT
July 14, 2007
AUSTIN, Tex., July 14 — Past the images of escalating chaos in Vietnam, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the triumph of mankind’s entry into space, at the top of a marble staircase at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum here, thousands of mourners filed past the coffin of Lady Bird Johnson.
Mrs. Johnson died Wednesday at 94, and at her funeral Saturday afternoon at the Riverbend Centre church, representatives of first families stretching back half a century t
