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Kiefer Sutherland Assault Charge Likely To Be Dismissed Top
NEW YORK — Kiefer Sutherland and the fashion designer he's accused of head-butting at a Manhattan night club said Friday they resolved their differences, clearing the way for the charges to be dropped. Sutherland and Jack McCollough issued a brief joint statement Friday to The Associated Press through Sutherland's attorney. "I am sorry about what happened that night and sincerely regret that Mr. McCollough was injured," Sutherland said in the statement. The star of Fox television's "24" was charged May 7 with third-degree assault in the alleged incident two weeks ago at a nightclub at the Mercer Hotel in the trendy SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. The minor charge is comparable to a speeding ticket. A spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's office declined to comment on whether the charges would be dismissed. But now that Sutherland and McCollough say they have resolved their differences, a prosecutor may go before a judge and ask that the case be dropped. That could happen at Sutherland's next scheduled court appearance on June 22. "I appreciate Mr. Sutherland's statement and wish him well," McCollough said in the statement. McCollough, of the high-end Proenza Schouler fashion house, said Sutherland head-butted him and broke his nose after an argument. The two were out following the gala at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a fancy affair studded with celebrities. The story spurred a media frenzy as a swarm of reporters gathered outside the 1st Precinct in Manhattan to watch as Sutherland arrived for questioning and was charged. Photographers also shadowed Sutherland and McCollough while rumors swirled about the nature of their altercation and what role, if any, actress Brooke Shields might have played. Sutherland, who has won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his portrayal of dashing federal counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer on "24," pleaded no contest in October 2007 to driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of 0.08 percent. He served 30 days in jail, in addition to 18 days for violating probation in a 2004 drunken-driving arrest.
 
Chris Ingram: Why the G.O.P. will continue to lose elections Top
And the Democrats have nothing to do with it By Chris Ingram I just got back from the Tiger Bay Club meeting in Tampa, Florida. The club invites politicians to come and speak, and then gives an award to the club member who asks the toughest question of the day's guest politicos. The lineup today included three members of the Florida legislature. I won't bore you with who they were as two of them don't deserve the attention and the other probably doesn't want it. But one of them was a four-term member of the Florida House, who facing term limits, now feels compelled to run for the state senate. He's a Republican. I'll call him "Rep. Rambler." During his opening remarks Rep. Rambler commented about how serving in the legislature is all about building relationships, finding consensus, and working with people. He should have just 'fessed up and admitted if you want a plum committee assignment you better do what the party bosses tell you. Rambler went on to say how proud he was that this year the state legislature cut over a billion dollars worth of services that "you won't even feel" because it was wasteful, and duplicative services that were cut. Kudus to you Rep. Rambler. What I want to know is, why does it take a budget shortfall for you and your fellow cronies to look at the budget and start cutting wasteful and duplicative services? And if you don't think Rep. Rambler is "in" with the party bosses, consider this. He spent ten arduous minutes defending the indicted former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Mr. Ray Samson. He even admitted they used to be roommates as though that somehow makes him a good guy. Talk about out of touch... Anyhow, this clown of a Republican legislator (Rambler that is) and the rest of the Republicans in the Florida legislature as a whole are not unique. Most every legislative body in America suffers from the same problem, and the U.S. Congress is the leader of the pack of wasteful spending Republicans who tell you with a straight face they're fiscal conservatives. At least the big-government/wasteful spending Democrats are honest about wanting to tax and spend you to death. As a Republican, I was incensed by Rambler's attitude that the cuts they made showed the Republicans in Tallahassee were doing a good job. OK. I'll give him kudos this year. But what have you been doing the last eight years you've been in office fat boy? The problem in Florida is indicative of the Republican Party's problems around the country. That is: we're no different than the Democrats - we just look better in a suit. But what the Democrats lack in looking the part, they have recently made up for with a message. Now I'm not saying it is the right message, or that it is compelling to me, but it certainly appeals to some among us. Republicans now devoid of a message go looking for a messenger. They tried Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and he fell flat on his face. The "farm team" started and stopped with Jindal, so we're back to the same bunch of good old boys like Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. John Boehner. Neither one of them are exactly touchy feely (you know, they're not exactly the types you'd want to have a beer with or God forbid watch your kids for you on date night with your wife), and outside of their own little cliques of Kool-aid drinking supporters, they have zero appeal among the electorate. So now we have a party with no message (other than anti-all-things Obama), and no messenger. What is a Grand very Old Party to do? Well build the base of course! So the G.O.P. will spend countless contributor dollars in a hopeless effort to bring in new voters. They'll do this by investing in new technology, minority outreach (where they'll send any black guy calling himself a Republican into unfamiliar black communities and expect him to miraculously bring in new black voters to the G.O.P. - you see the party bosses think all black people are the same), as well as "get out the vote" training, and various and sundry other voter contact efforts. Trouble is, all this money will be wasted because the party doesn't have a persuasive reason for people to support Republicans. In looking at why the G.O.P. will continue to fail, all you need to do is understand why the Democrats were so successful last year (and will continue to be successful for years to come). They didn't win elections because Barack Obama was on Facebook or Twitter. Obama merely took advantage of their interest in him and used new technology to exploit that interest. Republicans will continue to fail until they realize to win elections you need to recruit interesting candidates. Right now we operate on a philosophy of "give the nomination to whomever's turn it is/whoever followed the party bosses orders the best" and try to go recruit voters around them. Whereas the Democrats (at least in Obama) found a better candidate, and the voter recruits simply followed. It's a lot easier doing it the Democrats' way. The G.O.P. seems to think if we get on My Space and Twitter people will flock to us. They couldn't be any more dead wrong. People flocked to Obama because he had a message of hope and change. I don't agree with his message, but it was effective and it gave people a sense of optimism. Until the G.O.P. learns that the message comes before the messenger, and that the messenger shouldn't be some career politician whose "turn it is" to be the next candidate for (fill in the blank), the party will continue to lose elections. Here in Florida, that is exactly what the party is doing in the case of the U.S. Senate campaign (anointing Charlie Crist because he's the boss), and the gubernatorial race (its Bill McCollum's turn). Speaking of the Florida governor, Charlie Crist recently wrote an opinion piece in the Tampa Tribune (which is the finest paper in America for wrapping fish or lining cat pans by the way). In it, he spoke of his desire to "Create a bipartisan task force to restructure government for a new generation of challenges. Eliminate duplicative functions across government. Modernize entitlements. Get health markets right." Governor Crist, you've hit the nail on the head! What with all those specifics you want to accomplish and the record of providing substantive change you've shown as governor, why, you should run for president! Of course I am joking folks. Charlie Crist is so completely lacking of leadership skills he couldn't lead a starving Tom cat to a tuna cannery. Charlie's got one thing though, he's a great messenger. Trouble for him and the rest of the G.O.P. establishment is: no message. Chris Ingram is CEO and partner of Strategic Solutions of Florida a political consulting company. He is also the president and founder of 411 Communications a corporate and political communications firm, and publisher of Irreverent View. Ingram is a frequent pundit on Fox News and CNN, and has written opinion columns for the Washington Times, UPI, Front Page Florida, and National Review online. E-mail him at: Chris@411Communications.net . More on GOP
 
Huff Radio: Left, Right & Center: Obama VS. Cheney On Detainees And California In Chaos Top
Obama and Cheney dueling speeches but is being against torture a left-right issue? Is Obama using Bush language? Was Obama pressured to give speech by democrats who voted against closing Gitmo? And what is Cheney up to? Is he defending the people and policies of the Bush years or getting into politics again? And as the economy continues to slide, California suffers a severe budget crisis... what does the defeat of ballot measures to fix the budget mean? What happened to California's once well funded education? Will California beg Washington for more money? How will this crisis affect public healthcare programs and public schools? And what is the state's responsibility to plug it's own budget gaps? More on Barack Obama
 
CHRISTA ANN TAYLOR Claims She's Pregnant With Dirk Nowitzki's Baby Top
DALLAS — A lawyer for Dirk Nowitzki says he doubts a woman's claim that she is pregnant with the Dallas Mavericks star's baby. Christa Ann Taylor, 37, told The Dallas Morning News in an interview from jail this week that Nowitzki was her fiance and that she learned she was pregnant after she was arrested at his house on a probation violation and theft of services warrants. Robert Hart, Nowitzki's Dallas-based lawyer, said in a statement released to ESPN.com on Thursday, "If in the remote instance there is any validity to this woman's claim of pregnancy, Dirk will do whatever can be done to ensure the well being of the child." Don Duesler, Taylor's court-appointed lawyer, declined to comment on the pregnancy issue. Taylor, who authorities say has at least eight aliases, remained in jail in Beaumont on Friday. Taylor said in a telephone interview with the Morning News that she and Nowitzki were to be married in July. She said she learned of her pregnancy after getting tested when admitted to the Dallas jail, but Hart said "we have been told" that she hadn't received a pregnancy test. Privacy laws prevent officials from releasing medical records. Dallas County jail officials say pregnancy tests are not automatically given to prisoners but are sometimes administered if the prisoner's statements or pre-existing conditions warrant them. After Taylor's arrest May 6, a woman identifying herself as Taylor's best friend was telling media outlets that Taylor was pregnant with Nowitzki's baby. That, Hart's statement says, raises questions about the claim Taylor learned she was pregnant at the jail. "In fact, we found it strange that a friend of hers was at Dirk's house right after the arrest telling anyone who would listen that she was pregnant," Hart's statement said. "As with all things coming from this woman's mouth, we are highly skeptical." Taylor told the newspaper that she'd lived with Nowitzki for the last two years. "I've known Dirk for seven years _ and, no, I didn't tell him everything about my past because I was afraid," she said. "But I mean, now I'm pregnant and alone and broke because he is my only source of income." She told the newspaper that Nowitzki changed his phone numbers after her arrest. Nowitzki has declined to answer questions about his relationship with Taylor, but has said he's "going through a tough time in my personal life." The Mavericks said Nowitzki left Dallas for Germany on Thursday afternoon. Hart did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press on Friday. The Morning News said it didn't publish Taylor's interview until after a phone conversation with one of her attorneys, St. Louis-based Amy Gervich. The newspaper said that when Taylor said she was carrying Nowitzki's child, Gervich told the newspaper: "Oh, OK. That's OK." Gervich refused comment to The Associated Press on Friday. Taylor was indicted in 2006 on a theft of services charge for failing to pay a Beaumont dentist for dental work ranging from $1,500 to $20,000 she received in 2004. She has $50,000 bond set on the theft of services charge, but was also arrested for a probation violation out of St. Charles County, Mo. and is being held without bond on that charge. Taylor, who was born in St. Louis, pleaded guilty in 1999 to two counts of forgery and two counts of felony stealing after being accused of passing bad checks through a bank. She had multiple five-year prison sentences suspended, Missouri prosecutors have said.
 
Deane Waldman: Contradictions R US(A). Top
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay Self-Reliance . No one can ever accuse our country of consistency - foolish or wise. The only consistent element is our in consistency. The resulting contradictions make it impossible to do things "right." Below are four out of a myriad of possible examples of our systemic legal contradictions , in healthcare. #1. According to the Patriot Act, anyone using a FAX machine is required to read the documents to assure that he or she is not transmitting pornography or threats to national security. According to HIPAA , anyone using a FAX machine (unless it is the doctor) is prohibited from reading the FAX as it might contain protected medical information. #2. Electronic transmission of medical information is considered insecure and therefore your doctor is prohibited from using email to transmit a consultation letter to a colleague. Conversely, NY City regulations mandate the electronic transmission of laboratory results in diabetics to a computer Registry, without the patient's permission. Note the irony. The patient's personal physician is prohibited from receiving the transmission while some nameless administrative person in the Registry is allowed. #3. The Obama administration is pushing the development of electronic medical records (EMR). Washington reasons [is that an oxymoron?] that efficient handling of medical information will save billions. In the exact same Congressional Act - ARRA 2009, the stimulus package , [interesting placement, is it not?] - billions are earmarked both to develop EMRs and to beef up HIPAA protections. Do they want communication of medical information easier - more efficient; money- and life-saving - OR harder - fire-walled; inefficient; and hugely expensive? Which is it? Answer: they want both ! They are quite consistent, in their inconsistency. #4. The latest contradiction comes from Vermont, which passed a law requiring medical drug and device manufacturers to disclose publicly all monies given to health care providers. The Law seeks to ban all financial transactions as well as gifts. From a $5 million grant to do research to a $250,000 consulting fee to a pizza lunch: prohibited or certainly disclosed. Like so many laws, Risk Management will interpret it in the most stringent terms and just like HIPAA, will create a prohibition where the law strictly only has a guideline. Fiduciary Relationships Transparency is appropriate for all fiduciary relationships , defined as having authority on behalf of - for the benefit of - others. Even the appearance much less the reality of conflict of interest is unacceptable. This is certainly true for health care providers. This should be just as true for politicians but is not. Those actions deemed unacceptable for fiduciary physicians are not prohibited for fiduciary politicians. There are no rules like Vermont's for things like political junkets (or trips claimed to be part of their jobs); consultations and paid lectures; perks such as transportation and fancy dinners often to raise political capital (literally and figuratively); etc. Those with fiduciary responsibility hold power "in trust" whether for an individual (as a physician) or for the public welfare (as in politicians). The rules governing surveillance of potential conflicts of interest should be the same, whether you are a doctor, an insurance adjuster, an investment counselor, a Federal regulator, or a Congressperson. They are clearly not. Our laws and regulations require us to do one thing and prohibit us from doing the very same thing. Our laws and regulations apply to some but not to others. Can you have "rule of law" when the laws themselves are contradictory and inconsistent?
 
Roh Moo-hyun, Former South Korean President, Dies After Fall: Report Top
SEOUL, South Korea — Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has died, a police official said Saturday, presumably after a fall while mountain climbing. A news report said a suicide note was found. The official at the National Police Agency said, however, that the exact cause of death was pending the result of an autopsy. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to media. Police were trying to confirm whether the fall was an accident or if he possibly committed suicide, Yonhap news agency reported. The former leader suffered severe head injuries and died after being transported from his hometown of Gimhae to a hospital in the southern city of Busan, Yonhap said. Roh had been under investigation over allegations that he took more than $6 million from a businessman while in office. The bribery scandal involving Roh and his family had tainted his image as a "clean" politician in a country with a long history of corruption. He was questioned by prosecutors in Seoul last month as part of the probe. Roh _ a former human rights lawyer who served as South Korea's president from 2003 to 2008 _ was known for pushing reconciliation efforts with rival North Korea, and traveled to Pyongyang in 2007 for a summit meeting with leader Kim Jong Il.
 
Vatican Launches Facebook Application Top
VATICAN CITY — Web surfers can now send virtual postcards of Pope Benedict XVI to their Facebook friends or follow the pontiff's travel on their iPhones. Under a papacy that has suffered communication woes, the Vatican is taking new, technologically savvy steps to bring its message to social networking sites and smartphones. In its first day of operation Thursday, the Pope2You portal gathered some 45,000 contacts and 500,000 page views, while a Facebook application that sends postcards with photos of Benedict and excerpts from his messages was used around 10,000 times, the head of the project said. Also available on the portal is an application for iPhone and iPod Touch that gives surfers video and audio news on the pope's trips and speeches, as well as on Catholic events worldwide. The new Web site is the latest update in the Vatican's efforts to broaden the pope's audience and reach out to young people. In January, Benedict got his own YouTube channel, which is now linked to the portal. Earlier this year, the Internet figured in one of Benedict's most criticized moves _ lifting the excommunication of a renegade bishop who had denied the Holocaust. Benedict sparked outrage by reaching out to excommunicated, ultraconservative bishop, Richard Williamson, whose denial of the Holocaust during an interview with Swedish TV shot around the world on the Net. In a rare public acknowledgment of Vatican mistakes, the pope released a letter saying that officials should have searched the Web for information on Williamson, and said the Holy See needed to make greater use of the Internet. While warning against the potential use of new media to spread violent messages and pornography, the 82-year-old Benedict also has encouraged young Catholics to use the Internet responsibly. On Wednesday he told pilgrims at his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square that young people should use the Internet to build a better world through bonds of friendship and solidarity, adding that the digital world can help make the Gospel known. For the Rev. Paolo Padrini, an Italian priest and tech whiz who led the Pope2You project, giving Benedict a presence on the world's largest online social network was in keeping with the church's communications strategy, which has evolved over the centuries. "The walls of our churches are painted by the greatest artists of all time," Padrini said. "This means that the church has always invested in the culture of each period, using the best instruments available to communicate with people." Padrini, 36, works in the small village of Stazzano in northern Italy and routinely chats online with his 2,500 parishioners. He also was behind another Vatican foray on the Web: iBreviary, an application that brought the book of daily prayers used by priests onto iPhones. Padrini said the new project aimed to put the focus on the church by creating a Facebook application rather than a personal profile for Benedict like those made for stars and world leaders, including President Barack Obama. "The pope is not a Hollywood star who signs autographs," Padrini told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday. "We don't follow a concept of leadership. The pope has always made it clear that he is a servant of the church." Some top clergymen do have profiles on Facebook, including Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the archbishop of Naples. The Pope2You portal is run by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications and is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Padrini didn't know if the pope had been informed of the Web site, but said the initiative was consistent with the message the pope had prepared for the Vatican's World Communications Day this Sunday. Addressing the "digital generation," Benedict praises new media for helping people keep in touch and creating new friendships and communities worldwide. But he also warns that social networking can become "obsessive," isolating individuals from real-life interaction. "It would be sad if our desire to sustain and develop online friendships were to be at the cost of our availability to engage with our families, our neighbors and those we meet in the daily reality of our places of work, education and recreation," Benedict says in the message, which can be downloaded from the portal. The Vatican has been constantly upgrading its Internet presence since the time of Benedict's predecessor, Pope John Paul II, who avidly used mass media and information technology to get out his message. John Paul oversaw the 1995 launch of the Vatican's Web site, which today includes virtual tours of the Vatican Museums and audio feeds from Vatican Radio. Under John Paul, the Vatican started sending via text message the pope's prayer of the day. The Vatican's press office alerted the world to John Paul's death in 2005, by sending an e-mail with a text-messaged alert to journalists. __ On the Net: http://pope2you.net http://www.vatican.va More on Facebook
 
SHANA HUPP: Woman Gives Birth Without Knowing She Was Pregnant (VIDEO) Top
Bobby Jean and Shana Hupp were shocked to discover that Shana was feeling sick not because of low-blood sugar, but because she was pregnant. "I almost passed out actually that day. I thought it was because I had waited too long to eat," she told NBC News . She went to the bathroom and 2-3 minutes gave birth to 7 pound 3 ounce baby boy Jaxsen, according to the couple. The pair live together and are engaged, but had no plans to start a family. WATCH:
 
Mona Gable: A Word from Anderson Cooper Top
Of course there had to be a question about the tea-bagging remark. "On April 15th, as many as 700,000 Americans gathered to protest government spending in what were called tea parties," a young man in the audience begins. "Now, you dismissed these voices with a crude sexual joke saying, and I quote...." We don't really need to repeat the joke, now do we? Anderson Cooper, the globetrotting anchor of CNN (or, as my daughter prefers to call the dapper journalist, "The Silver Fox") is fielding questions from some students at UCLA. Cooper uttered the infamous line in a conversation with David Gergen one night. And the journalist, who, in addition to his nightly anchoring duties, also reports from vacation spots like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq, has been getting flak ever since. Is that kind of tasteless remark really the best way to promote discussion? the young man wants to know. Cooper says he wasn't trying to belittle the tea-baggers or discourage them from protesting. And he's sorry if anyone got that impression. Or took offense at his "stupid, silly one-line aside." When you're on TV as much as he is, sometimes you say things you regret. On the other hand. "I do think, in this case, it's odd and mildly humorous that this one phrase happened to be adopted. And if a group is going to adopt a term that has an alternate meaning already established, it's not completely out of the norm that you would comment on the fact that there is an alternate meaning to the phrase." Well! And with that the audience bursts into applause. Cooper is at UCLA giving the 7th annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, in honor of the Wall Street Journal reporter who was brutally slain in Pakistan in 2002. The Daniel Pearl Foundation, the Burkle Center, and Hillel, a student group devoted to Jewish culture, are sponsoring the event. Cooper actually has a photo of the late journalist on his bulletin board at work. As he talks, that same iconic image of Pearl appears behind him on two screens. It's the one where he's wearing a dreamy beige suit, white shirt and gold tie. And smiling. "I've been made a different person because of Daniel Pearl," Cooper tells the crowd, "because of his life and his strength, and his ability to love and laugh and to seek out understanding wherever it may be." About 900 people are packed into the auditorium. Ruth and Judea Pearl, who invited Cooper to speak, are sitting in the front row. LA's media-happy mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is here too, introducing Cooper. (Not to nitpick, but why not a journalist? Especially considering that Villaraigosa thinks the show is called "Anderson Cooper Three Hundred Sixty Degrees"!) Needless to say the 41-year-old Cooper is quite popular with the young people. (Last year's event with the smart but notably un-hip David Brooks didn't draw half as many.) At a reception before the lecture, when the small, slender journalist strolls in wearing a dark pinstriped suit, you'd think he was Jon Stewart. The students swarm him. Snapping their cell phone cameras. Begging to take their pictures with him. When he comes to the podium, they shower him with hoots and hollers. "You're gonna go there already?" Cooper quips. He pokes fun at himself, too. When Cooper recently interviewed President Obama, it was his first time in the Oval Office. Which apparently the president likes to keep as humid as Miami. Within minutes the impeccably groomed anchor was "more drenched in sweat than Albert Brooks in "Broadcast News." Then there's his famous mom, Gloria Vanderbilt. Who is a "remarkable lady, and a very talented lady, but practical she is not," he says. When he asked her what he should do after graduating from college, she told Cooper "follow your bliss." A phrase that was actually coined by Joseph Campbell, and which his mother had heard on a Bill Moyers special. "So basically my mom's big life advice was cribbed from some guy on television," Cooper jokes. "I'm thankful she wasn't watching, you know, Montel Williams." But Cooper isn't all witty repartee. He despairs over how the decline of newspapers and the closing of foreign bureaus means that many stories aren't being told. For instance. Did you know that one of every five children in Niger dies of malnutrition before the age of 4? "It's not the kind of thing that make headlines anymore. But it's the kind of thing we ought not to accept." Or that more than 5 million people have died in Congo in the last decade, making it the deadliest conflict since World War II? Or that in the last few months hundreds of thousands of Congalese have had to flee their homes? Or that tens of thousands of women have been violently raped? Including girls? "Virtually no one in the media or in Washington has paid much attention to this horror," says Cooper, who did a little-watched special on the rape story for CNN. "It's very easy I think in this day and age to look the other way, very tempting to ignore the sadness of others, the reality of their lives. But I think it's very important that we not turn away." Sure, it's not as exciting as watching the finals for "American Idol." Or covering Lindsay Lohan. But, people, can we at least try? Then there's the problem of covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Which has gotten a bit more challenging what with bombs exploding and journalists being targeted and needing big beefy guys with guns to guard them. It's hard to wander around Kabul or Baghdad and interview people unnoticed when you've got a security team in tow. Or to get out much at all. To wit: "You can't eat in a restaurant. You can't see a movie or hail a taxi or go out at night. You can't stand in a crowd. You can't stand in one spot too long. Or use the same route or get stuck in traffic. " You get the picture. As for Cooper's chatty colleagues and the rise in cable news of liberal and conservative anchors to attract viewers, don't get Cooper started. He thinks it's an awful, awful trend. Not only because it divides people and slants the news and encourages, say, right-wing viewers to believe that Nancy Pelosi is a socialist. But because he believes in the quaint notion we used to call facts. And really. "The last thing this country needs is more overpaid, blow-dried anchors screaming at the top of their lungs." Amen! With new media taking over the world, Cooper says he doesn't know where journalism is headed. He thinks the economics of newspapers don't make sense anymore. Though he's not sure what will replace them. Lest you forget, the anchor's not one for giving advice. "That's Sean Hannity's job," he quips, "and he does it very well." But in this age where we're confronting unfamiliar ideas in other parts of the world, it would be good if we were all more open to various points of view. Even those of our enemies. "That of course is something Daniel Pearl lost his life trying to do," Cooper says. "Trying to understand. Trying to help us all understand." More on CNN
 
Regulators Shut 2 Failed Banks In Illinois Top
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Regulators on Friday shut down two more banks, boosting the number of federally insured bank failures this year to 36. The latest banks seized were Strategic Capital Bank and Citizens National bank, both in Illinois. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will continue to insure regular deposit accounts of up to $250,000 at both banks. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation's banking division took over Strategic Capital Bank, based in Champaign, Ill., while the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency took control of Citizens National Bank, based in Macomb, Ill. The FDIC was appointed receiver of both banks. The closures brought this week's total to three, after federal regulators seized struggling Florida thrift BankUnited FSB on Thursday. That closure was expected to cost the FDIC $4.9 billion, representing the second-largest hit to the FDIC's insurance fund since the financial crisis began felling banks last year. The costliest was last year's seizure of California lender IndyMac Bank, on which the bank insurance fund is estimated to have lost $10.7 billion. The closure of Strategic Capital Bank is expected to cost the FDIC $173 million, while Citizen National Bank's closure will cost about $106 million. The FDIC said all of Strategic's deposits will be assumed by Midland States Bank, based in Effingham, Ill. In addition to acquiring the failed bank's deposits, Midland States Bank agreed to purchase about $536 million in assets. The FDIC will retain the rest for eventual sale. Strategic Capital Bank branches will reopen Tuesday as a branch of Midland States Bank. Citizens National Bank will reopen Saturday as branches of Morton Community Bank. Citizens National Bank had $437 million in assets and about $400 million in deposits as of May 13. The FDIC said a majority of the bank's deposits will be assumed by Morton Community Bank, based in Morton, Ill. Morton Community will not assume about $200 million in brokered deposits held by Citizens National. Instead, the FDIC will pay the brokers directly. In addition to acquiring the remaining of Citizens National's deposits, Morton Community Bank agreed to purchase about $240 million in assets. The FDIC also will keep the bank's remaining assets for future sale. Customers of both Strategic Capital Bank and Citizens National Bank can still write checks and use ATM or debit cards, and loan customers should continue to make their payments as usual. The FIDC will continue to insure deposits. Including the two closings Friday, five banks in Illinois have failed this year, with the last being Heritage Community Bank in Glenwood on Feb. 27. The list of bank failures is growing as falling home prices and rising unemployment cause more individuals and businesses to default on their debt. The 36 bank failures this year in the U.S. compare with 25 in 2008 and just three in 2007. As the economy nationwide has soured, amid rising unemployment, tumbling home prices and soaring loan defaults, bank failures have cascaded and sapped billions out of the deposit insurance fund. According to the most recent data available, the fund now stands at its lowest level in nearly a quarter-century _ $18.9 billion as of Dec. 31, compared with $52.4 billion at the end of 2007. The FDIC expects that bank failures will cost the insurance fund around $65 billion through 2013. The FDIC has planned to impose a new emergency fee on U.S. banks to replenish the fund. Legislation passed by Congress this week boosts the FDIC's authority to borrow from the Treasury Department if needed from $30 billion to $100 billion, allowing the agency to reduce the amount of the insurance fees. The failure of IndyMac, which had $32 billion in assets, was the second-largest last year, trailing only the September collapse of Washington Mutual Inc. Thrifts have been the most troubled regulated institutions during the financial crisis and among the most spectacular failures. By law, they must have at least 65 percent of their lending in mortgages and other consumer loans _ making them particularly vulnerable to the housing downturn. Seattle-based thrift Washington Mutual was the biggest bank to collapse in U.S. history, with around $307 billion in assets. It was later acquired by JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.9 billion. ___ Strategic Capital Bank customers with questions can call the FDIC toll-free at 866-954-9527. Citizens National Bank customers can call 866-954-9529.
 
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2009 Day Ten: One Bad Movie After Another Top
I wanted to see six films today, but the Gasper Noe extravaganza Enter The Void was not the estimated 150 minutes but almost 180 minutes (without credits, no less), so I only saw five. Too bad they were all bad, to one degree or another. On the plus side, one of my picks of the fest -- Xavier Dolan's I Killed My Mother -- won three out of the four available prizes at the Directors Fortnight. I had already requested an interview so hopefully we'll be chatting Saturday or Sunday. And now, sigh, the five movies. THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS * 1/2 (out of four) -- This modest fantasy feels like a mishmash of the usual Terry Gilliam obsessions, but less so. A traveling troupe led by Christopher Plummer as Dr. Parnassus scurries around central London of today hoping to lure people into their magical mirror. On the other side? A fantastical world of the imagination where you are tempted with a choice between your basest desires (a one night stand with Johnny Depp; a drink at the bar for an alcoholic on the wagon) and a more challenging journey towards true and earned happiness. People usually choose the base desires. Tom Waits is lingering around in bohemian mode as Ole Scratch himself waiting for the lovely daughter of Dr. Parnassus to turn 16 so he can claim her. (They made a deal: immortal life in exchange for his first born child.) The appealing Andrew Garfield is a foundling they took in that is hopelessly in love with her. Heath Ledger is a disgraced public figure/con man hiding out from the Russian mob. When he travels into the imaginary world, he transforms into Depp or Jude Law or Colin Farrell -- a seamless way of making up for Ledger's tragic death that doesn't seem awkward or affect the film in the least creatively. The story is slight and uninspiring; you know you're in trouble right from the start because virtually every actor other than the leads is broadly cartoonish. But for me the biggest letdown of this mild movie is the special effects. Gilliam has been a standard bearer of sorts for old-fashioned special effects. You can feel the handmade complexity and detailed modeling that make Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Time Bandits and others so delightful. But almost all the effects in the Imaginarium are poorly detailed digital affect. You could call them dream-like but they're really just lazy and uninteresting. Ledger is fine in an unmemorable role with little resonance. We'll remember nis final triumph as The Dark Knight and celebrate the comradeship of the industry illustrated by the actors who stepped in to make this film happen. THE SILENT ARMY * -- The road to cinematic hell is often paved with good intentions. This noble, purposeful film highlights the horrific trend of child soldiers throughout Africa: kids kidnapped by rebels/terrorists and forced to commit atrocities while being shamed/frightened into denying your past life. Numerous other films have been made and more are in the works but none yet have been artistically satisfying in the least. This one is typical: little black boy is best friends with little white boy. Black boy's family is slaughtered and he's taken to be a child soldier. White boy shames dad into idiotic journey into jungle to get the boy back. (I've reduced the characters to their racial identity because the film is so simple-minded. That's how it plays; no one comes alive as an actual living and breathing character.) Virtually all the actors are weak. An NGO worker spends all her time making a bemused/frustrated/admiring expression on her face when it comes to the dad. In perhaps the most bizarre plot twist, the dad reaches the rebels, gets the boy, and is allowed to leave with two armed guards accompanying them. Cut to them walking through the jungle and the dad jumps the guards and tries to knock them out, figuring he won't be let out alive. But then they pull back the camera and instead of waiting till he was a mile or two away from the armed camp filled with trigger happy rebels, the dad has made his big move literally feet away from the cruel and vicious leader and all his minions. Because why wait till you're out of sight of the enemy before jumping your armed guards? Laughable doesn't begin to cover it. ENTER THE VOID * 1/2 -- Gasper Noe's follow-up to his terrific Irreversible is a nearly three hour glimpse at a young man who is shot by the police, arguably has his life flash before his eyes and then gets reincarnated as his sister's baby. It's technically proficient, but once you've seen a fly-over shot of Tokyo or rather once you've seen it eight or ten times the point of seeing it yet again begins to pale. Two orphaned siblings are at the heart of the story: a sister who strips at a Tokyo bar and a brother who is dealing drugs. At the very beginning of the film, overly aggressive police trying to bust him shoot the brother in the chest. We soon get loads of flashbacks showing how he became a dealer, seeing their parents die in a car crash, watching the brother sleep with a friend's mom to get money, getting drugs from a dealer and on and on, all while our hero refers endlessly to The Tibetan Book Of The Dead in order to prepare us for the reincarnation. The show-stopper here is certainly the shot of a penis entering a vagina...from the perspective of inside the vagina. That brought roars of laughter from the assembled press, which at the end broke into divisive camps of loud hooting and strong applause. To me, the movie is so simple-minded that no camerawork can save it. Certainly the acting is affectless and flat, except for the brother and sister played as little children -- those young actors are very nuanced and good. It literally begins with death and ends with birth and I wanted to break out into "The Circle Of Life." A blank screen is thrown in towards the end for no apparent purpose other than to trick people into thinking the world is over. It began with a giant ENTER filling the sreen and ended with a giant THE and then VOID. Surprising, it ain't. It's conceivable that the film could be more effective at half the length and it would certainly be easy to do since there is endless repetition here that doesn't give it any cumulative power. On the other hand, I stayed awake throughout the entire three hours and never felt antsy except on an intellectual level. It's certainly well-crafted; it's just not well-thought out. MAPS OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO No stars -- Enter The Void immediately looked better when I had to tackle this inert drama. The entire story is set up in the first 20 minutes and after that virtually nothing happens. A Spanish man in Tokyo has been dating the daughter of a business executive; she commits suicide and writes in blood on her bathroom mirror the plea "Why couldn't you love me the way I love you?" Her father has a breakdown and tells an associate he can't bear the thought of a world in which his daughter is dead and the Spanish man is alive. The businessman also blames his young associate, insisting that man should also have told the daughter he loved her. Meanwhile, the Spanish man is having great sex with a female fish monger/highly trained assassin (you read that right) but insists on telling her repeatedly that when he sleeps with her he is thinking of the dead girl. Which kind of spoils the mood. Extremely reserved, the fish monger/trained assassin is friends with an old man who specializes in making sound recordings of daily life for the use of TV, radio and other media. That's it. The Spanish man ultimately leaves his wine shop in Tokyo to open a saki store in Spain. The old man gives us ponderous narration undercut somewhat by the sight of a Night Ranger LP in his apartment looming over the old man's head. Not good. TO DIE LIKE A MAN * -- The latest in a long line of tragic transvestites movies, this somber flick has a plot worthy of Almodovar. In the first 20 minutes, we have a drag queen feeling the heat from newer and sexier talent. Her drug addict boyfriend cleans her out whenever he needs a fix and is in the gutter somewhere. Meanwhile, her alienated son pops in. He's in the military and we see him on a nighttime training mission where the son has sex with another male soldier and then immediately kills the guy out of self-loathing. He's gone AWOL and demands to be hidden while the drug addict boyfriend trying to get past withdrawal is in the next room hanging himself. Did I mention her breasts are leaking blood and she's probably dying? None of this is played at the level of farce. It's just somber, slow and uninvolving, with a side trip to another home where transvestites hold sway in the countryside. One strange touch had several scenes tinted blue or red a la a silent film, with the actors coming to a standstill while a song is performed off camera. Strange. But, again, not good. More on CANNES
 
Mexico City Hit By Strong Earthquake Top
MEXICO CITY — A strong earthquake swayed skyscrapers in Mexico City and rattled colonial buildings in neighboring Puebla state Friday, sending frightened people into the streets. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 5.7 and was centered 90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of the capital. The Mexican seismological service measured it at 5.9. Puebla state civil protection chief German Garcia said there were no reports of injuries or collapsed buildings near the epicenter: "There is absolute calm, zero damage." Puebla city is a popular tourist destination known for its gilded churches and ornate "Talavera" pottery. One of the country's main Talavera producers, Uriarte, said the quake shook shelves but the merchandise emerged unscathed. In Mexico City, 20-year-old office worker Mariana Rodriguez was in a 19th-floor bathroom when she felt her building sway. "I saw in the mirror that everything was moving," she said. "The soap even fell down. We were really nervous, but they didn't let us leave the building." One 15-story apartment building in the trendy Condesa neighborhood rocked so much that doors opened and slammed shut _ something the residents said sounded like "ghosts." Many ran outside across the metropolis of 20 million. Evacuation officials steered crowds away from power lines and other potential hazards, and anxious people waited for several minutes before returning indoors. Others immediately got on Facebook and Twitter to tell friends and family they were OK. Some said their cell phone service was knocked out. Friday's earthquake was stronger and closer to the capital than one that hit last month. But Bruce Tresgrave of the U.S. Geological Survey said it was 35 miles (56 kilometers) below ground _ deeper than normal _ and thus unlikely to cause major damage. Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard also said no damage was reported, and the capital's water system, hospitals and subway were not affected. Officials were conducting a more detailed survey. The capital has lived through powerful earthquakes, including one in 1985 that killed as many as 10,000 people. Parts of Mexico City rest on the shaky soil of a former lake bed, which tends to magnify the effect of earthquakes. ___ Associated Press writers Isaac Garrido, David Koop and Carlos Rodriguez contributed to this report. More on Mexico
 
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [78] -- A Mixed Week Top
President Obama and the congressional Democrats just had their first spat. While others have more-than-adequately delved into the fracas of Obama's national security speech and Harry Reid stripping out funding to close Guantanamo, what I was struck by this week was how Obama is better defining his character as president. This is going to be important later this year, when energy plans and health care reform legislation become protracted fights in Congress. And I was beginning to get a little nervous, I have to say. But now, after Obama pushed back on his national security policies, I feel a little bit better for the prospects of both health care reform and a new energy policy. Because while Obama always starts the debate by projecting an image of "can't we all work together" on any difficult subject, it is becoming more and more clear that, when pushed, there is simply a point where Obama draws a line in the sand and decides to push back. And so far, he's done a fairly good job of holding his ground on a few crucial issues. Now, don't get me wrong, I didn't agree with everything Obama said in his national security speech -- in fact I strongly disagreed with large chunks of it. And the gap between his words and his rhetoric was on full display, in front of the actual Constitution itself in the National Archives. Republicans are already crowing about this, in effect calling Obama "Bush lite," and saying that Obama's policies vindicate the Bush/Cheney policies. But setting that nonsense aside, I thought it was interesting that in this, his first big intra-party fight with Democrats on Capitol Hill, he stood up for his principles (even if I don't agree with all of them). Harry Reid had gotten cowed into supporting a measure by the fear-mongering of the rightwingers, who (with a straight face, last week) were stating that Obama was going to move all the Guantanamo prisoners into American neighborhoods (possibly NEXT DOOR TO YOU!), give them American citizenship on a platter, and then sign them up for welfare checks and turn them loose on the public. Sadly, this is not an exaggeration or parody of their position. The ludicrousness of this was apparently lost on the Senate Majority Leader, who immediately joined in the Republican idiocy. Obama rightfully tried to lay such nonsense to rest in his speech. Now, Reid does have one valid point, and that is that the Obama administration hasn't given them a plan for what exactly we are going to do with the people in Guantanamo once we shut the place down. Even in his speech, Obama merely laid out broad outlines. But Obama made a good point too -- we already hold a bunch of terrorists in supermax prisons within America, and none of them has ever escaped . Seeing Obama push back in this fashion was a good sign. Because, up until now, Obama has shown that he much prefers to back away from the details, and only give broad outlines of what he would like from Congress. The one notable exception to this so far has been on budgetary matters. Obama let House Democrats take the heat for crafting both the stimulus plan and last year's budget, and only drew his line in the sand in the later innings of those games. Politically, it's a smart tactic -- Obama stays above the fray of competing ideas by using sweeping rhetoric to outline his general goals, and then looks good at the end when he succeeds in getting something passed. But that is simply not going to work on health care. Because the battlelines are already drawn on the issue. Republicans already have their talking points ready to go. They don't have an alternate plan, but they sure know how they're going to attack the Democrats' plan. And Obama is going to need to draw the line -- with a veto threat, if need be -- on at least one major contentious issue in this fight: the "public option." I wrote about this a few weeks ago , when the Republican talking point playbook was made public. Since then, the Democrats have actually been given an enormous gift. For once, the media has picked up on their framing of the issue. Everyone now talks about the "public option," and not "government-run health care" (which Republicans obviously favor). This doesn't normally happen, but it is a rare and fragile flower. It could easily be crushed once the Republicans crank up their message steamroller (which is waiting in the wings, even as I write this). All the GOP has left is fear -- scaring citizens with the imagined horror of the Democrats' secret health care plan. But Republicans know the game of fear-mongering quite well, so it's a formidable opposition Obama and the Democrats face. The problem is, nobody seems to be championing the "public option" from the Democrats' side -- at least no one with a big enough megaphone to get through the mainstream media's filter. This problem can be traced directly to President Obama. Obama is in his early-innings "can't we all just agree" mode right now, which recently produced a spectacular photo-op with health care industry leaders pledging to voluntarily cut their profits. Which didn't last long, and you can expect they'll wind up contributing to the fight against the public plan over the next few months. How Obama handles this situation could define his presidency, to a large extent. The fur is really going to start flying in June and July, when Congress actually starts hashing out the details. But if Obama is not the lead voice for the public option, it likely will not survive. Now, I have gotten worried about Obama's aloofness before (most notably, during the campaign), and later been forced to admit that Obama's sense of political timing was better than mine. So perhaps he's still warming up. But when it comes time for lines in the sand on health care (complete with veto threats), I am a bit more hopeful this week than I have been recently that Obama will indeed stand up not just to Republicans but also to opposition from members of his own party. Which could be the difference between health care reform that might actually mean something (with a public option), and health care reform which gets lots of bipartisan votes, but which, in the end, will only tinker around the edges of the problem. The goal is not 80-plus votes in the Senate, it is to change the system and fix it so it works . And Obama has now shown that once he decides on a course of action, he will stand up for it and defend it, and not back down -- even against fellow Democrats. That makes the chances for real health care reform (as opposed to some window-dressing measure that everyone feels good about, but which doesn't solve the problem) a lot better, in my opinion.   President Obama does deserve at least passing mention here, even though his actions this week don't even rise to an Honorable Mention. He did sign a credit card reform bill, and also a military procurement bill, both of which he had set a deadline of Memorial Day for passage. It's tough to get Congress to actually do things on these "deadlines," so Obama at least gets a hat tip for managing to do so. And he did stick to his pledge to close Guantanamo, when many were predicting a week ago that he would back down from his promise. But the first Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award this week goes to Senator Chris Dodd, who wrote the Senate version of the credit card bill, and was the main force behind shepherding it through the Senate. Of course, it's not as good a bill as it could have been, most notably in the fact that it refused to cap credit card interest rates. And it won't take effect for nine months, which gives the banks plenty of time to hike rates before the new law takes effect. But it is a very big step in the right direction, and should be seen as such. And we have Senator Dodd to thank for getting it passed (again, by an arbitrary Obama deadline) before Memorial Day. And although his voice was mostly lost in the Pelosi/CIA debate, the other MIDOTW award goes out to former senator Bob Graham. In the midst of the fray over Pelosi and the CIA briefings, Graham wrote a thoughtful opinion piece for the Washington Post where he goes to the root of the problem: reforming the rules for secret briefings to allow some sort of dissent to take place. While his proposals don't go far enough (in my opinion) he was certainly a voice of reason in the shrill debate on the subject. And for that alone, he also gets a Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award. Congratulations to both Senators Dodd and Graham this week on their MIDOTW awards. [ Congratulate Senator Chris Dodd on his Senate contact page to let him know you appreciate his efforts. Senator Bob Graham is retired and has no official public contact page that I am aware of. ]   While President Obama's speech on national security was disappointing in several respects, it didn't rise to more than the level of a (Dis-)Honorable Mention this week. Because after last week (where he won the Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week for reversing course on torture photos and military commissions), this was actually a step (or half-step) in a better direction. Obama defended his actions (which he largely failed to do last week), and stood firm on closing Guantanamo, so this week for Obama was actually a bit better than last. Obama was not alone in the (Dis-)Honorable Mention category this week, though. Because Republicans are once again trampling all over their supposed devotion to their "get the federal government off the backs of local government" stance, by dictating from the House of Representatives what the District of Columbia may and may not do. The local D.C. government passed a half-measure on gay marriage (which would not have legalized it in the District, but would have recognized gay marriages performed in states where it is fully legal). Republicans, predictably, went berserk. They introduced a bill in the House which would unequivocally ban gay marriage in D.C. The bill likely doesn't have much chance of passing (or even making it out of committee), but the (Dis-)Honorable Mention goes to the two Democrats who co-sponsored the bill: Dan Boren from Oklahoma, and Jim Jordan from Ohio. But the real Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week award goes to the all-time champion for the category, winning his tenth MDDOTW (nobody else has won more than six), none other than Senate Majority "Leader" Harry Reid. Because this tenth award is a special occasion, I vow forevermore to use quote marks in his title. He will no longer be referred to herein as Senate Majority Leader, but as Senate Majority "Leader" instead. Sigh. Maybe the recent polls are right, and he'll get voted out by the good citizens of Nevada. The fact that I am even remotely hoping that a Democratic senator be defeated in the polls shows the depths of my disappointment with Reid. Because at this point, I think Democrats might actually get more done with 59 seats in the Senate (and someone else leading them) then they are going to with 60 seats and Harry Reid at the helm. That's an awfully harsh assessment, but then I've been calling for Reid's ouster from the leadership for a long time now, so you'll have to excuse me. Reid, this week, let the Republicans walk all over him on the Guantanamo issue. And, even more telling of his "leadership," he allowed Senate Republicans to attach to the credit card bill an amendment from the Republicans to allow people to carry loaded and concealed firearms in national parks. No hunting is allowed in national parks, I should point out, so this isn't a deer rifle we're talking about. This was unnecessary, and showed how incredibly weak Reid is. The Senate leader is supposed to have more control about this sort of parliamentary maneuvering, and a strong Majority Leader can be almost as powerful (if not more so, on legislative issues) than the president himself. That this does not describe Reid should be patently obvious to all by now. For this continued display of spinelessness, Senate Majority "Leader" Harry Reid wins his tenth Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week award. [ Contact Senator Harry Reid on his Senate contact page to let him know what you think of his actions. ]   Volume 78 (5/22/09) Seems like we've got a lot of Republican foolishness to address this week (more than usual, I mean). So let's get right into it here, in the Friday Talking Points part of the program, where we outline the way Democrats could be framing these issues (some would say "should" but this column is, of course, way too modest to make such a claim). Ahem. Without further ado, here are this week's talking points.      What do you do with him after you torture him? It is rumored that the reason President Obama is accepting the concept of "preventative detention" for some of the prisoners in Guantanamo is that they were tortured so fast that all of the information against them would not be allowed into any court which is not referred to in the same breath as a large bipedal marsupial native to Australia. So to speak. Confessions obtained under torture simply aren't "evidence" in court, in other words. And if you don't have any other evidence to charge them with, then what are you going to do with them? That may be where Obama finds himself (although there are nothing but rumors to back that up with, I fully admit). This talking point isn't really a defense of Obama's "preventative detention," but rather a way to put it in perspective. "Obama finds himself in a difficult situation, which he inherited from his predecessor. If there are prisoners in Guantanamo whose only reason for being there is statements they made under torture or other duress, then trying them in any sort of court or tribunal is impossible. This is one of the major problems with torture -- what are you supposed to do with a prisoner after he's been tortured? That is the problem Obama inherited from George Bush and Dick Cheney."      The gift that keeps on giving Dick Cheney, meanwhile, has gotten so much media attention recently that the media is actually getting embarrassed about it, and timidly suggesting he might be a wee bit "overexposed." But when Cheney himself seems to be the driving force behind it, well, sometimes you've just got to play the hand you're dealt. "I guess since Rush Limbaugh resigned the position, the real leader of the Republican Party right now is Dick Cheney. I think I've seen more of Cheney in the past week than we saw of him throughout his entire 'secret bunker' term in
 

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