Italy’s Valentino Rossi gave his bid to seal a seventh Moto GP world title at the Malaysian Grand Prix a boost after qualifying for the race in pole position.

A portfolio blowup led to the county’s bankruptcy filing in 1994.”I see him more like an Eliot Spitzer, but with more decorum,” Moorlach said, referring to the New York attorney general who has prosecuted an array of financial misdeeds. Since 1980, the nation’s population grew 28%, while registered vehicles grew by 48.5%, and the best gauge of road use — vehicle miles traveled — soared 89.3%. It is now 18 months past time to get our response right.”Administration officials said the criticism was misdirected.”I think there’s been lots of progress over the last 18 months,” said Don Powell, the administration’s Gulf Coast recovery coordinator “Children are in school ‘Help wanted’ signs are up The port is 100% back. That has surprised the White House and other Republican strategists who believed that Bush’s large margins of victory in GOP-leaning “red” states last year would increase his leverage over the 14 Democratic senators from those states.Instead, every Senate Democrat except Nebraska’s Ben Nelson has unequivocally opposed Bush’s signature proposal to fund individual investment accounts from Social Security payroll taxes. The 504 program, which is primarily real estate lending, is dropping the [borrower's] upfront fee from 50 basis points down to zero. to claim victory in Iraq.”American defense and intelligence officials’ claims to have found Iranian-manufactured weapons in Iraq, including armor-piercing projectiles believed to have killed about 170 troops from the U.S.-led coalition, have placed a heightened focus on the Bush administration’s long-standing allegations of Iranian involvement in the war.In Washington, a U.S official acknowledged Monday that the U.S. The automaker revised first-quarter results to say it had net income of 78 cents a share rather than a loss of 57 cents.

She was educated at the Crofton House School in Vancouver.Buckley met her future husband when she was a student at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The men brave the Atlantic in rickety wooden boats with dicey motors, often navigating by the sun and stars to try to find the tiny chips of land that are Europe’s back door: the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory 950 miles away, off the west coast of Morocco.Thousands of the would-be immigrants die each year when their “pirogues,” open fishing boats that resemble giant canoes, go down. But when Shakur was murdered in Las Vegas in 1996, Bay Area hip-hop went underground.”Since Tupac passed away, everybody pretty much left us alone on the national scene,” said DJ Shadow, a pioneering Bay Area turntablist/trip-hop producer who recently started recording hyphy music. KABUL, Afghanistan Gunmen ambushed a carload of Afghan laborers heading home from a remote U.S. Abductors of a Jordanian Embassy driver said they would kill him unless Jordan pulled its diplomats from Iraq and freed a failed female suicide bomber, Al Arabiya television reported.Sajida Rishawi said on Jordanian television last month that she had tried to blow herself up alongside her husband in hotel attacks in Amman, the capital.A video issued by the little-known group Falcons Brigade showed a man identifying himself as Mahmoud Saedat, a driver kidnapped Tuesday in Baghdad, and three masked, armed militants.A government spokesman said Jordan would not give in to the kidnappers.. He took a break from filming “Seraphim Falls” in New Mexico to appear at the premiere in Westwood.He’s already picked up a Golden Globe best actor nomination (comedy or musical) for his “anti-Bond” role — a degenerate hired killer named Julian Noble.”I didn’t do the film to be the anti-anything,” said a bearded Brosnan, sitting on a couch with his wife, Keeley Shaye Smith.

But with rookie Willy Aybar’s first home run his only offensive support, Weaver searched for reasons other than a divisional race for the Dodgers to remain motivated.”We have a lot of young guys trying to prove themselves,” he said. Both said they thought there must be a limit to the reach of federal authority.Scalia said it was “absurd” and “extravagant” to claim that ditches and storm drains were part of the navigable waters of the United States.There must be a point where the law “says, ‘Stop,’ ” Roberts said. population — has fallen by 40% in the face of strong community opposition to the Iraq war. We were just going to pound it inside.”It’s disappointing we’re going to miss Maggette for so long. troops killed in the Iraq war, according to icasualties.org, a website that tracks casualties in the conflict.U.S. “They have the choice to either set greed aside for once and agree to a fair and equitable contract, or they will face CHAOS.”CHAOS, or “create havoc around our system,” is the union’s term for a strategy of periodic work stoppages.

THERE he was, in Winston-Salem, N.C., far from Hollywood and his life as Ryan Atwood on the hit TV show “The O.C.”It was the summer of 2004 and Ben McKenzie was shooting his first movie, “Junebug.” Despite the popularity of the debut season of “The O.C.,” McKenzie was floating around the North Carolina town hiding behind a mustache (for the character, not as a fashion statement), with hardly anyone taking a second glance.”I kind of got away from everything for a little while, which was really nice,” McKenzie, 26, recalled while sitting outside a coffee shop recently in Santa Monica.It’s nothing against “The O.C.” — McKenzie loves the show and credits it for allowing him to be “probably too picky” with movie scripts and only choose ones he’s passionate about, like “Junebug.”The low-budget indie drama, which opens today in Los Angeles and New York, was written by Angus MacLachlan and directed by Phil Morrison (both Winston-Salem natives) and filmed in just three weeks. (The guy who yelled “Tsunami” during a fun run here yesterday helped speed up a lot of runners as they scrambled for high ground.)”*sam.verhovekThe quake hit at 7:07 a.m. The Sleipner injection facility, which cost about $80 million to build, saves Statoil $53 million every year in Norwegian taxes on carbon dioxide emissions.In areas such as California — where lawmakers passed a bill last week to curb industrial carbon dioxide emissions 25% by 2020 — the Sleipner platform is a harbinger of the future of fossil fuels, in which energy companies and power utilities retool for new greenhouse gas standards.Though business executives generally oppose such controls, energy company planners here believe there may be opportunities in the financial balance sheet of global warming.Even before all the scientific, safety and legal questions are settled, energy companies from Scotland to Southern California are gambling billions of dollars on the hope that they can meet growing demands for electricity with oil, gas and coal, and avoid the increasing financial penalties by burying the greenhouse gases they generate.The work can be as dangerous and grueling as extracting oil.Standing on a blue walkway inside the Sleipner platform, Tor Fjaeran, Statoil’s senior vice president for the environment, braced himself against the trunk of Control Valve A-16, where a ring of 12 bolts — each the size of a fist — secured it to a vertical pipe channeling pressurized carbon dioxide almost half a mile underground.Far below, 70-seat lifeboats hang nose-down in harnesses 60 feet above the water like bullets in a bandolier In an emergency, they free-fall into the sea. It’s housed in a giant converted 1918 munitions factory, and its 10 large atriums contain three art museums and several art institutes.During a freebie day early this year as part of the ZKM’s 10-year anniversary celebration, about 5,000 visitors browsed through the block-long facility. Then I hear another Marine say, “How does it feel to make that contractor money now?’ “The contractors who were detained have denied the accusations against them They were released and are in the process of returning home. Officials in Belarus’ Foreign and Interior ministries declined to comment.A youth group leader said authorities also detained two democracy activists from Georgia, one of three former Soviet republics where former opposition figures have come to power in the last two years.The U.S. They would display the same time one moment and then fall out of sync with each other, forever engaged in a game of tag that left the townspeople befuddled and choosing sides.The Yale clock kept “apparent time” — according to the sun’s arc, like a sundial — whereas the town hall clock offered “mean time,” an averaging out of the sun’s daily variation.