MR. McCLELLAN: Okay.
Q Why -- if you're suggesting that people will debate the numbers, that's kind of a backhanded way to say, oh, who cares about the numbers. Well, apparently, the President's top economic advisors do, because that's why they wrote a very large report and sent it to Congress. So why was the prediction made in the first place, if the President and you and his Treasury Secretary were going to just back away from it?

L'Express also reports that, after a five-year battle among the "experts," Polish president Lech Walesa has decided that the new, revised number of dead to be inscribed on the Birkenau monument will be 1,500,000. (For years the monument proclaimed 4,000,000 Auschwitz deaths.)

No charges have been filed against Limbaugh. But the long-simmering investigation has turned into quite a saga, and the pressures on Krischer to do something -- or nothing -- continue to mount.

RICHARD PERLE, is under investigation for allegedly failing to disclose bonuses worth about $3 million (?1.6 million) which he received for running an investment scheme, The Times has learnt.

Mr Schwarzenegger wrote to Attorney-General Bill Lockyer telling him to take legal action to stop the city from granting marriage licences to gay couples, saying the practice presented a "risk to civil order".

A highly well-informed political columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, Steve Neal, was found dead today under very odd circumstances.
In their report, 2/19/4, the Chicago Tribune apparently tried to cover up the strange event. They said that no foul play was suspected by the police. Other Chicago mass media reports, however, stated that the police were investigating possible foul play. Among other things, it is strange how the invisible poison, carbon monoxide, flooded his house.
All the mass media reports, nevertheless, conveniently censored reported details. Such as, that Neal was quietly investigating that his boss, Sun-Times owner, Lord Conrad Black, had ostensibly misappropriated, huge funds, including pension funds of his media empire. Some reportedly informed Neal that the amount of defalcation was at least two hundred million dollars. AND, that Black was apparently hiding business losses of his company, Hollinger, that same way done by the late infamous Robert Maxwell who plundered hundreds of millions, sucked out, from among other places, his media workers pension funds.

Everyone knows the saying that the camera never lies. What is less well-known is that the man who coined the phrase, almost a century ago, added a rider. "While photographs may not lie," the great American documentary photographer Lewis Hine said, "liars may photograph".

WASHINGTON Feb. 20 ? Bypassing angry Senate Democrats, President Bush installed Alabama Attorney General William Pryor as a U.S. appeals court judge on Friday in his second "recess appointment" of a controversial nominee in five weeks.
Pryor also came under fire for filing a Supreme Court brief in a Texas sodomy case comparing homosexual acts to "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia."

The French philosopher Ernest Renan once said that a nation is "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors."

"Before President Bush landed at the airfield here Tuesday, Command Sgt. Maj. Iuniasolua T. Savusa gave the troops permission to break protocol. "'Forget it for this one day,' he said.
"Instead of coming to attention at the sounding of 'Hail to the Chief,' they were encouraged to cheer.
"They even practiced yelling, but the practice wasn't nearly as noisy as the real thing once Bush was introduced by Fort Polk commander Brig. Gen. Jason Kamiya."