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Dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim returned to Egypt recently from exile. The Post's Lally Weymouth talked with him in Cairo. Excerpts: _Q. How many years have you been out of the country?_ A. Four years. Read full article >> The Medicare trust fund (covering hospital stays) is now projected to run out in 2024, five years earlier than previously estimated. Huntington launches 'Asterisk-Free' checking They haven't turned a 180, but lawmakers don't sound quite as excited about Paul Ryan's plan as they once did John Boehner has been wishy-washy on Paul Ryan's Medicare reforms. The White House is obviously not going to sign a budget including them, and Eric Cantor has admitted as much. Michelle Bachmann is concerned about the cost-shifting and says her vote came with an "asterisk." To my knowledge, none of the serious Republicans who are likely to run for president have really endorsed voucherizing Medicare. You see where this is going? Steve Benen does: There's a term for when the House leadership forces a vote on legislation that puts representatives in danger but gets ignored by the Senate and the White House: it's called "getting BTU'd," after an energy tax (pdf) the Clinton administration passed through the House and then sacrificed in the Senate. Read full article >> The Motley Fool - As a follow-up to Fridays look into some of the worst pharmaceutical pipelines, I felt it would be only prudent to offer a glance into possibly the most rock-solid pipeline in the business. I know some of you will look at this choice with disdain or perhaps place an asterisk next to the company, but Teva Pharmaceutical (Nasdaq: TEVA - News) is truly in a class of its own. The 76ers already have received their travel itineraries for Tuesday's *if necessary trip to Miami. Wednesday's Game 5 at AmericanAirlines Arena appears in the schedule with an asterisk beside it. The Sixers are the only ones who can make that theoretical game a reality. Bud Selig said some interesting stuff yesterday about the potential for a 10-game playoff and the Barry Bonds asterisk situation.  In short, Selig will not asterisk Bonds' numbers with Ford Frick like zeal. Specifically Selig said: "In life there's always … Continue reading -> Project was spearheaded by International Rice Research Institute and delivers message on fertilizer via cell phones Nothing like a book tour to further one's presidential ambitions Top 10 albums on iTunes Music Store for Feb. 16: 1. "Born This Way," Lady GaGa 2. "I Need a Doctor," Dr. Dre (feat. Eminem and Skylar Grey) 3. "F(ASTERISK)(ASTERISK)k You," Cee Lo Green 4.... From the outside it looked ordinary -- an asterisk of deep-green leaves at whose center was a white flower. But inside Paris japonica's cells was a different story Let's say Eddie Mitchell scores 18 points in his next important basketball outing. Is there a chance that the buzzer can sound? And that the action can be momentarily halted? And that someone can present him the game ball, later to be painted with the pertinent details (including an asterisk)? _Staff report_ We've searched the depths of YouTube for some great -- and not so great -- moments in the history of the Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers rivalry. Of course there are many more great moments that haven't been uploaded. Can someone get that Bryan Robinson blocked field goal at Lambeau Field in 1999 up there please? We'll start with Packers defensive back Mark Lee running Walter Payton over the bench in a 1985 game at Lambeau Field. You know it's a heated rivalry when someone takes a cheap shot at Sweetness. The following season it reached a new level with Charles Martin's infamous body-slam of Jim McMahon at Soldier Field on Nov. 3, 1986. McMahon injured his shoulder on the play and was lost for the season. Photo: Bryan Robinson blocks Ryan Longwell's last-second field goal attempt on Nov. 7, 1999, six days after the death of Walter Payton to preserve a 14-13 win. (AP) You know Mike Ditka still rues this play. In 1989, the Packers trailed the Bears 13-7 late in the fourth quarter when on fourth down Packers quarterback Don Majkowski scrambled, rolled right and found Sterling Sharpe in the end zone. Majkowski originally ... The federal Fish and Wildlife Service says the reclusive cat, last seen in the 1930s, may have been erroneously classified as a subspecies different from western cougars. By Adelle M. Banks c. 2010 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) What started as a local zoning debate about an Islamic center near Ground Zero, and then morphed into a fight over religious expression, has now turned into an election-year political brawl. Caught in the middle of the rancorous partisan fight are American Muslims, whose own voices have been drowned out by politicians on both the left and the right. "In a fundamental sense, this is not a conversation about Muslims," said Omid Safi, professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "This is a conversation in which the Muslims are being used as the football with which to play the game of competing visions of America." President Obama waded into the debate on Friday (Aug. 13) when he hailed America's "unshakeable" commitment to religious freedom during a White House dinner to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. "As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," Obama said. "And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances." Perhaps sensing the political storm clouds that were gathering, Obama said Saturday that he would not "comment on the wisdom" of whether to build near Ground Zero, which the night before he had called "hallowed ground." Republicans, however, pounced. Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican responsible for adding GOP Senate seats in the November elections, said Obama "seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America" and called his remarks "unwise." The top Republican in the House, Minority Leader John Boehner, called them "deeply troubling." Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the New York Democrat whose district includes the site of the proposed Cordoba House in lower Manhattan, fired back on CNN's "State of the Union." "It is only insensitive if you regard Islam as the culprit as opposed to al- Qaida as the culprit," Nadler said Sunday. "We were not attacked by all Muslims." GOP luminaries like former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have already promised to make the issue one for the voting booths in November, with Gingrich telling The New York Times that Obama was "pandering to radical Islam." According to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, 54 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans oppose the New York mosque project. The Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody predicted the issue will have legs in 2010 and beyond. "This situation all by itself has the potential to make President Obama a one- term president," he wrote Monday (Aug. 16) on his "Brody File" blog. "This latest mosque move may be the fatal blow." Shahed Amanullah, founder of altmuslim.com, a popular Muslim website, agreed that the fight could influence some voters this fall -- "people are still going to be drunk on this issue," he said -- but probably not beyond that. "We're definitely far enough from 2012 where the dust will have settled," Amanullah predicted. Lost in the debate, Amanullah said, is the interfaith bridge-building that the Cordoba House once hoped to foster, in part because of anti-Muslim vitriol that he said is worse than immediately after 9/11. "The people that are being ostracized, I think, right now are the people that are in the middle, who feel that Muslims belong in America but have misgivings (about the center)," he said. "Those people are ... caught in the crossfire because the opposition is being led by people who, in my personal opinion, really don't believe that Muslims belong in America." Also forgotten, said UNC's Safi, is the fact that the proposed building near Ground Zero is not just a mosque, but a community center that would include a swimming pool and a wedding hall in addition to a place for prayer. "It's as American as megachurches," he said. "It's as American as Jewish community centers." Melissa Rogers, an expert on church-state relations who has praised New York officials for supporting "a linchpin of the American tradition of religious liberty," said the overall debate could send the wrong message to Muslims, both at home and abroad. A planned protest at a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran on the 9/11 anniversary can only make things worse, she said. "I do think that there's a real danger that Muslims receive the message that they are second-class citizens and that their rights have an asterisk beside them, if you will," said Rogers, director of Wake Forest University Divinity School's Center for Religion and Public Affairs. Rogers hopes grass-roots Americans, including religious leaders, can help lead the discussion above the political fray. "Americans have an important role in this debate," she said. "It goes to our core values and we should talk about it and we should definitely try to bring more light than heat to the issue, no matter what the politicians are doing." _Copyright 2010 Religion News Service. All rights reserved. No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission._ Read this post » How many subscriptions to The Daily, News Corp.'s iPad-only multimedia newspaper, have been sold since the expiration of the free trial period last week? I have no idea. That's why there's an asterisk in this headline. Barry Bonds told at least one unmitigated truth in the 2003 grand jury testimony that yielded an obstruction-of-justice conviction against him last week. His experience as the son of a major-leaguer taught him never to... As symbols go, asterisks aren't the biggest deal. After all, dollar signs probably take precedence for most people. But that doesn't detract from the influence the asterisk can wield. A case in point? The myth of Roger Maris' asterisk. AN ASTERISK has the potential to dilute the NRL's gain from the critical next broadcasting rights package, according to the man who is attempting to help rugby league officials negotiate a billion-dollar deal.
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