IRAQ - Sep 25 - More Than 25 Die As Sectarian Tensions Rise.
A suicide bomber swerves his sedan across a highway median and detonates it in a police convoy in south-east Baghdad, in the worst of several attacks and gun battles that leaves at least 25 people dead and dozens wounded. The violence comes amid demonstrations and sharpening sectarian tensions across...

Flight.
FIRST IT WAS THE NAMES THAT WENT. Names of neighbors, grandchildren. Sometimes the names of her two daughters, her only son. She knew their faces, of course. The daughter with the sharp eyes, inspecting her gestures, her walk, pressing her onwards--always onwards!--to the bathroom, the kitchen, the...

The heart of a chocolate cake.
Byline: DIANA A. UY Its a Godgiven gift. Its not that special but once they tasted it, people love it and would recommend it, said Merle Balicao of Mernels. When people speak of Los Banos, Laguna, three things always come to mind IRRI, UPLB, and...

Luby Trammell.
On October 8, 2005, Woodland Hills Baptist Church in Jackson was the setting for the afternoon wedding of Rebecca Elizabeth Luby and J.E.B. Stuart Trammell. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Luby of Flora and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Luby...

Laura isn't enough: George's gang policy shows the administration's true colors.
WHEN FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH VISITED HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES in the Los Angeles barrio of Boyle Heights on April 27, eyebrows went up among some people who have worked with hardened gang youth: What was a Republican, former librarian, and President Bush's much better half doing among tattooed, brown-skinned men...

The Tao of dumpster diving: why scavenge? You get a lot of really good food that's really, really free.
"What is this--some kind of school project? You guys aren't homeless, are you?" asked the clean-cut young policeman with well-gelled hair. His confusion was understandable. Actually, the first thing he said was, "You're eating out of the garbage? That's disgusting." Indeed, why would four middle-class guys be...

Tim Hortons combat Taliban.
On February 24, General Rick Hillier addressed the Conference of Defence Associations in the main ballroom of the Ottawa landmark Chateau Laurier hotel. In describing the Canadian contingent on the ground in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Hillier proudly proclaimed that our troops had the best equipment and vehicles money could buy...

Fish Wings.
Fish Wings Driving east on Jackson Street one morning, only a couple of blocks from the bungalow on Abe Street where a few years ago hundreds of people claimed to see the reflection of the Virgin in an upstairs window, I noticed that the diner with the orange awnings...

If only we could hide away the calories.
Byline: Best of . . . The Register-Guard It's hard to put a finger on what makes the Hideaway Bakery so great, but it's currently the favorite place for Team Best of ... to go on a bread bender. We like the Parma braids, which...

Mark Leckey: Portikus im Leinwandhaus.
Around the same time Mark Leckey's show "Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity" opened in Frankfurt, tabloids in the UK were in a frenzy about the new laws permitting around-the-clock liquor sales and the prospect of an ugly rise in binge drinking in Britain. This made Leckey's fifty-five-minute DVD installation Drunken Bakers,...