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Los Angeles Times, February 28, 2006 Newseum Image

February 28, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Los Angeles Times:

OTIS CHANDLER -- 1927-2006
A Man of Many Passions Transformed The Times

By DAVID SHAW and MITCHELL LANDSBERG

Had Otis Chandler never worked a single day, his would have been a memorable life. An Olympic-caliber athlete, a champion weightlifter, an accomplished race car driver, big game hunter, surfer, cyclist, antique car and motorcycle collector, Chandler, who died Monday at 78, was a man whose avocations alone were the stuff of legend.

But Chandler did work, and in a remarkable 20-year span as publisher of the Los Angeles Times -- from 1960 to 1980 -- he reshaped this newspaper to an extent that has few, if any, parallels in the history of American journalism.

"No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did," David Halberstam wrote in "The Powers That Be," his 1979 book about the news media.
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La Repubblica, February 27, 2006 Newseum Image

February 27, 2006: Here is a headline for a series of stories about the Winter Olympics from the Rome, Italy newspaper, La Repubblica. (You may need to use a language translation site.)

Arrivederci Olimpiadi con DiCenta d'oro

Si chiudono i Giochi di Torino: L'azzurro trionfa nella 50 chilometri di fondo. Grande festa finale: fischi contro il premier Berlusconi

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The Virginian-Pilot, February 24, 2006 Newseum Image

February 24, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Virginian-Pilot:

Proposed ban on smoking in public places fails

By MIKE GRUSS

RICHMOND -- A proposal to ban smoking in Virginia's restaurants and other public places has been snuffed out.

Despite concessions to the hotel and tourism industry a day earlier, delegates on the General Laws subcommittee Thursday unanimously killed SB648. The vote ended a two-week flare-up for one of the General Assembly's most talked-about bills.

The Senate passed a broader version of the Indoor Clean Air Act on Feb. 13 and created a furor, given Virginia's long history with tobacco. The cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris makes its home in the Richmond area.
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The Hamilton Spectator, February 23, 2006 Newseum Image

February 23, 2006: An excerpt from a story in Canada's Hamilton Spectator:

Canada loses 2-0 Russia

TURIN, Italy -- Alexander Ovechkin broke a scoreless tie 1:30 into the third period and Russia eliminated defending champion Canada from the Olympics with a 2-0 victory in the men's hockey quarter-finals today.

It's the first time Canada has failed to reach the semifinals in three tries since full participation of NHL players began with the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, when it lost the bronze medal game. Canada won gold at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
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The Boston Globe, February 22, 2006 Newseum Image

February 22, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Boston Globe:

Summers to step down, ending tumult at Harvard
President faced revolt; Bok to be interim head

By MARCELLA BOMBARDIERI and MARIA SACCHETTI  

CAMBRIDGE -- Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers, facing a faculty revolt and eroding support from the university's governing board, announced yesterday he will resign, ending the briefest tenure at the Ivy League school's helm in 144 years.

Summers will serve until June 30, take a year's sabbatical, and then return as a university professor, the highest rank for Harvard faculty members. The resignation allows Summers to avoid what was expected to be an embarrassing vote of no confidence from the school's largest faculty next Tuesday.
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El Siglo de Torreon, February 21, 2006 Newseum Image

February 21, 2006: Here is a headline from the Torreon, Mexico newspaper, El Siglo de Torreon, about the 65 trapped Mexican coal miners. (You may need to use a language translation site.)

PASTA DE CONCHOS -- DISMINUYE LA ESPERANZA DE ENCONTRAR CON VIDA A 65 TRABAJADORES ATRAPADOS EN MINA.

Crece angustia por mineros

Exigen las familias rescatistas mas especializados para las labores de auxilio en Coahuila.

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Anandabazar Patrika, February 20, 2006 Newseum Image

February 20, 2006: The Calcutta, India newspaper, Anandabazar Patrika, reports on the spread of bird flu. 

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Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 18, 2006 Newseum Image

February 18, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Philippine Daily Inquirer:

Swallowed by the earth

By CONNIE E. FERNANDEZ and JANI ARNAIZ

ST. BERNARD, Southern Leyte -- To some, it sounded like a mountain had exploded. To others, it seemed like the roar of a helicopter.

Whatever it was, 28-year-old farmer Christopher Lipato ran as far as his feet could take him. He survived but he lost his wife, son and father.

Lipato said he was grazing his carabao at about 10 a.m. when he felt the earth shake and he heard a rumbling sound.

Then he saw the side of the mountain give in and the mud came rushing toward him.

Lipato ran, avoiding the avalanche of mud and rocks hurtling toward him.

After 10 minutes, it was over.
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Dziennik Baltycki, February 17, 2006 Newseum Image

February 17, 2006: Here is a headline from the Gdansk, Poland newspaper, Dziennik Baltycki, about the spread of bird flu in Europe:

Pomorze. Znaleziono kilkanascie martwych ptakow. Stuzby uspokajaja

Ptasia psychoza
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The Mississippi Press, February 16, 2006 Newseum Image

February 16, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Mississippi Press:

Chertoff concedes 'many lapses'

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON –- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff marked his first year on the job Wednesday with a dismal evaluation: His department’s failure to respond more quickly to Hurricane Katrina may have cost lives.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins called Homeland Security's performance during the Aug. 29 storm "lame, uncertain and ineffective." Democratic Sen. Mark Dayton described FEMA –- an arm of Homeland Security -– as "just so dysfunctional, or nonfunctional, it's frightening."

And a scathing House report found that federal delays in providing fast relief to the devastated Gulf Coast contributed to the death and suffering in one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.
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Turkish Daily News, February 15, 2006 Newseum Image

February 15, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Turkish Daily News:

Turkey shows restraint on Danish cartoons

By MICHAEL KUSER

Turks have reacted with much less anger and violence than protesters in other Muslim countries to caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper and since reproduced in many other publications.

Turkish protesters marched in several cities but generally protested peacefully.

....While the general Turkish response to the publication of the cartoons has been calm, police in Ankara last week used armored personnel carriers to stop some 500 ultra-nationalist protesters from reaching the Danish Embassy.
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Corpus Christi Caller Times, February 14, 2006 Newseum Image

February 14, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times:

State Warns VP, Friend

By JAIME POWELL and ADRIANA GAZA

Vice President Dick Cheney and the 78-year-old man he shot on a weekend hunting trip will receive warnings from state wildlife authorities for lacking a $7 upland hunting stamp,  the only official action in the investigation into what has been ruled a hunting accident.

Austin lawyer Harry Whittington was recovering Monday at Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial after being struck by a spray of shotgun pellets in the face, neck and chest as Cheney took aim at a quail.
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The Northern Virginia Daily, February 13, 2006 Newseum Image

February 13, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Northern Virginia Daily:

Largest storm of the season blankets valley

By WILLIAM C. FLOOK 

Persistent snowfall blanketed the Northern Shenandoah Valley on Saturday in what could amount to the season's largest snowstorm.

The precipitation arrived on schedule and was a rare sight for the area's warm and uneventful winter. Road crews were out in force trying to keep up with the storm, though many roads remained precarious Saturday.
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La Stampa, February 10, 2006 Newseum Image

February 10, 2006: Here is a headline for a series of stories about the Winter Olympics from the Torino, Italy newspaper, La Stampa. (You may need to use a language translation site. However, part of their Web site is in English.) 

E Olimpiade
Fiaccola a Torino fra migliaia di persone. Stasera la cerimonia che aprira i Giochi invernali
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Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2006 Newseum Image

February 9, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Los Angeles Times:

It's a High-5 Night for U2
The Irish band wins in all of its nominated categories to dominate the 48th Grammys.

By GEOFF BOUCHER

The 48th Annual Grammy Awards were a rock revival for U2, a fizzled comeback party for Mariah Carey and a bizarre return to the real world for Sly Stone, the funk icon who emerged from the hermit's life with a shiny suit and a towering bleached white mohawk.

Irish rock band U2 won five Grammys on Wednesday night, including album of the year for "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" and song of the year for "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own." "Dismantle" was competing with collections from Kanye West, Paul McCartney, Gwen Stefani and Carey.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 6, 2006 Newseum Image

February 6, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Super Bowl XL: One for the ages

By ROBERT DVORCHAK   

DETROIT -- Some will call it one for the thumb, but it was truly one for the ages.

No team had ever won three playoff games on the road and then won a Super Bowl, but the Steelers last night completed a magical ride with a 21-10 victory over the Seahawks, igniting celebrations throughout the far-flung Steeler Nation.

Their Super Bowl triumph was the team's first in 26 years and the fifth in franchise history, putting the Steelers in company with Dallas and San Francisco with five Super Bowl wins.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer, February 3, 2006 Newseum Image

February 3, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Cincinnati Enquirer:

Boehner pulls upset

By MALIA RULON

WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Boehner won an upset victory Thursday to replace indicted Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas as the new House majority leader, a move that marks a comeback for the West Chester Republican and brings increased clout to the region.

As the No. 2 leader in the House, second only to Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Boehner now becomes the face of the Republican Party, whose job it will be to oversee every piece of legislation that comes before the House.

For residents of the 8th District, which stretches from Butler County north to Mercer County, Boehner's new job means that they have a direct line to one of the most powerful men in Congress.
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Reading Eagle, February 2, 2006 Newseum Image

February 2, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Reading (Pennsylvania) Eagle:

It's Groundhog Day...and we had it first
Punxsutawney Phil can glare all he wants -- a diary entry a Berks man made in 1841 shows he's a Johnny-Come-Lately

By JASON BRUDERECK

Everybody knows that Punxsutawney Phil is the King of the Groundhogs, Father of all Marmots, Seer of Seers and Prognosticator of Prognosticators.

But everybody is wrong.

Somewhere in Berks County there is a rodent who should detrone Phil to become the Monarch of Marmots, Progenitor of Whistle Pigs, Sage of Sages and Prophet of Prophets.

He is the Grand Grundsow (Pennsylvania German for groundhog).

That's because Groundhog Day doesn't belong to Punxsutawney at all.

That Jefferson County town stole its century-old tradition from Berks County's Pennsylvania Germans, the true American originators of the holiday.
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The Atlanta Constitution, February 1, 2006 Newseum Image

February 1, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Portrait of Coretta King: 'She's at peace now'

By ERNIE SUGGS

With her husband dead from an assassin's bullet in Memphis and not yet buried, Coretta Scott King served notice that her husband's place at the front of the movement would not go unfilled.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been in Memphis supporting a strike of mostly black sanitation workers when he died April 4, 1968. A day before his funeral, a calm and dignified Coretta Scott King marched at the head of a column of 50,000 silent workers and supporters.

"How many men must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society," she asked that day. "How long will it take?"

It was clear that although the civil rights movement's towering figure was gone, in his shadow had toiled a figure every bit as strong, every bit as committed, every bit as courageous -- and every bit as ready to pursue our awakening on race and social justice.

(See Also: Poynter Online's "Remembering Coretta")