In a letter to a congressional panel investigating sexual assaults at the Air Force Academy, a former cadet paints a vivid portrait of the retaliation that can occur for reporting a crime there. The academy graduate said she was ostracized by cadets and raped at the Air Force Preparatory School by two male cadets because she reported a rape of another cadet

Sister Virgine Lawinger, a 74-year-old Milwaukee nun, was travelling to an anti-war rally. But she was on a list of people considered too dangerous to fly and was stopped from boarding her plane.

"Fort Lauderdale police used to have the X-ray squad," said Finkelstein. "Because everyone they arrested had to go to the hospital to get X-rays."


the administration has suggested it is willing to subject the reconstruction of Iraq to a threat more lethal than Baathism and bin Ladenism combined: a French veto.

Both men likened the war on terrorism to World War II - a battle that must be won - and told fellow GOP lawmakers it was no time to be worried about the cost.

And an article in Entertainment Weekly in July quoted the actor discussing his new movie, "Terminator 3," which he said he enjoyed because "How many times do you get away with taking a woman and burying her face in a toilet bowl?"
/ "We tried to get attention and headlines and I would say things that many times were exaggerated and untrue, just to get the headlines. But the fact of the matter is, you've got to forget about the 70's. I was a different person then."

weekly std: "The urge may seem irresistible to play off Arnold Schwarzenegger's acting career," Moody explained in a memo to Fox staffers. "Resist it. Otherwise the effect is often to belittle the candidacy of the front-runner for one of the most important offices in the U.S., and that's not fair and balanced. No more references to 'Conan,' 'Terminator', and 'Kindergarten Cop' as shorthand for the candidate." He added: "Certainly don't suggest [Arnold] is part of a 'circus' or lump him in with novelty candidates."

DC 9/11 (movie) (from the weekly std): "Unsurprisingly, the movie is kind to Condoleezza Rice, played by the lovely Penny Johnson Jerald (the Hillary you love to hate from "24"), who comes across as the wisest, most even-tempered, and most trusted of the president's advisers. Surprisingly, it's also kind to John Ashcroft, who is depicted as being serious and thoughtful and who has the smart idea to change the Justice Department's focus from prosecution to prevention.
"DC 9/11" is less friendly to Karl Rove and Paul Wolfowitz. Rove is shown thinking political strategy even while Ground Zero still smolders and from the very first moments of the crisis, Wolfowitz relentlessly argues for regime change in Iraq, talking ominously about the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.