Prince to visit US hurricane city

Photo: Prince Charles visited tsunami hit areas after
the disaster
The Prince of
Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are to visit
hurricane-hit New Orleans during their tour of America.
Prince Charles and Camilla's week-long stay in the
US, which begins on Tuesday, will also include visits to
New York, Washington and San Francisco. The pair are
expected to spend a couple of hours meeting those
affected in the devastated city in Louisiana on Friday.
The trip to the US will be the couple's first joint
official overseas engagement since they got married.
In Washington they will lunch and dine with
President George W Bush and attend a youth event at the
United Nations.
Wardrobe
costs: In New York, they will inaugurate a new
memorial garden for the British victims of the 11
September attacks. The couple will not be staying at the
White House, although details of where they will stay
have not been released for security reasons. As Charles
and Camilla prepare to woo the US public, Clarence House
dismissed claims that the duchess' wardrobe and beauty
regime is being paid for by taxpayers. "All costs for
the wardrobe are being met by the Prince of Wales's
private income - this includes hair and make up. "All
other staff are being paid for by the Prince as well," a
spokeswoman said. The Foreign Office does pay for travel
and accommodation for the staff. But Clarence House
denied the couple were taking a 40-strong entourage with
them, saying they would only be accompanied by 16 people
, including a hairdresser, make-up artist and one
dresser.
Queen Elizabeth I attends bomb
victims' memorial
Photo:
Britain's Queen Elizabeth I, and her husband Prince
Philip, partly hidden, talk with unidentified
relatives of victims, as they leave London's St.
Paul's Cathedral, Tuesday Nov. 1, 2005, following a
Service of Remembrance for the victims of the London
bombings of July 7 2005. The congregation consisted
mainly of those affected by the bombings, including
bereaved families, friends and members of the rescue
services.
LONDON- Victims of the London
bombings were remembered at a church service in the
capital Tuesday where candles were lit to mark each of
the four bombs that exploded on Underground trains and
a double-decker bus on July 7. The service in St.
Paul's Cathedral -- the London landmark that survived
the Second World War bombing raids -- was attended by
Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister Tony Blair and London
Mayor Ken Livingstone. The dignitaries joined a
congregation of more than 2,000 made up mostly of
relatives and friends of the dead, people who were
injured in the blasts and emergency workers who were
first on the scene of the devastating rush-hour
strikes. The explosions killed the four suicide
bombers and 52 commuters. Archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams, delivering a sermon, said terrorist
action always aims to kill indiscriminately. "It does
not matter to the killers if their victims are
Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters
is that they show that they can kill where they
please," Williams told the congregation. "It really
doesn't matter who you are, what you have done or not
done, what you think and believe; you are still a
target just by being where you are at a particular
time."
Candles marked with the names of the targeted
Underground train stations and the location where a
bus exploded -- Edgware Road, Kings Cross, Aldgate and
Tavistock Square -- were carried to the cathedral's
altar by emergency and transport workers who were
flanked by victims' relatives and people who were
injured in the blasts. Among the hundreds who
attended, many came on crutches and others were in
wheelchairs. Paul Dadge -- who was photographed with a
woman who clutched a burns mask to her face as he
helped her from the scene of the Edgware Road train
bomb -- said he wanted to come to the service to pay
tribute to those who lost their lives on July 7. "I
was filled with a certain level of guilt that I was
made out to be a hero. The real heroes were the people
who lost their lives," Dadge said. Alison Macarthy,
30, who was a passenger on the train that was blasted
near King's Cross station, told the Evening Standard
newspaper she was remembering "those who travelled
with me that day and didn't make it." Other Londoners,
gathering in Trafalgar Square, held their arms around
one another and wiped tears from their eyes as they
watched a relayed broadcast of the remembrance
service. After the service the Queen and her husband,
Prince Philip, met relatives of victims on the steps
of the cathedral. Seven-year-old Ruby Gray, whose
father Richard was killed in the attack at Aldgate
tube station, handed the Queen a posy of flowers. The
Evening Standard newspaper reported that Ruby's
brother Adam, 11, refused to attend the ceremony
because he blamed Prime Minister Tony Blair for making
London a terror target by going to war in Iraq. "He is
very angry with the bombers but he also blames the war
and he blames the government. He doesn't want to be
part of anything that has Tony Blair there," his
mother Louise was quoted as saying. -Catherine MacLonn
MONICA CROWLEY IS ALWAYS NO.1
In 2003, World Art Celebrities Journal
http://www.worldartcelebritiesjournal.com conducted
survey on the most popular faces of the American media.
Monica Crowley came first. In 2004, The International
Herald Daily News
http://www.internationalheralddailynews.org in
Paris and London did the same thing. And Crowley scored
again. She topped the list. This year INA conducted an
international poll on the prettiest and brightest women
in the American media. Here are the results: The five
brightest women are Monica Crowley, Diane Sawyer,
Christianne Amampour, Paula Zhan and Catherine Crier and
Nancy Grace, both in five place. The prettiest are
Monica Crowley, Deborah Norville and Paula Zahn in
third place.



Photos from L to R: #1. Monica Crowley. #2. Diane
Sawyer. #3. Deborah Norville. Gorgeous women of the
American media.
SEEDS
OF PEACE
By Paulette Attie
Photo: Janet Wallach, soul, mind and heart of "SEEDS
OF PEACE".
Ms. Wallach is currently executive
vice president of Seeds of Peace, a conflict
resolution program which brings together teenagers
from the Middle East; India, Pakistan and Afghanistan;
the Balkans; and Greece, Turkey and divided Cyprus.
The organization has a year-round program that
includes a summer camp in Maine, a Center for
Coexistence in Jerusalem, annual conferences and an
educational arm that helps Seeds alumni attend college
in the U.S. Over 3,000 participants have participated
in a three-week session at the camp in Maine and then
returned to their regions for further workshops,
meetings and conflict resolution programs.
Ms. Wallach is a Woodrow Wilson
Institute Visiting Fellow and has taught at Earlham
College; Longwood College; Ohio Wesleyan University;
Stetson College; St. Olaph’s College; Bradford
College; Susquehana College; and West Virginia
Wesleyan College. As a frequent contributor to The
Washington Post Magazine from 1982-1987, and as a
contributor to Smithsonian Magazine and other
periodicals, Janet Wallach has written cover story
profiles of Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon; Her
Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan; Reza Pahlavi, heir to
the throne of Iran; PLO envoy Hassan Abdul Rahman;
Saudi entrepreneur Adnan Khashoggi; First Lady of
Egypt Jihan Sadat; and the British official Gertrude
Bell. Janet Wallach was born in New York City and
received a B.A. degree from New York University. She
was married to the late John Wallach, founder and
president of Seeds of Peace, and has two sons, David
Allyn, and Michael Wallach.
SEEDS OF PEACE
"Seeds
of Peace epitomizes the kind of efforts so
desperately needed in the Middle East to bring Arabs
and Israelis in contact with one another at a
personal level."
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell
"The success of Seeds of Peace will
mean a brighter future for the region and the
world." Former
United States President
William Jefferson Clinton
"There
can be no more important initiative that bringing
together young people who have seen the ravages of
war to learn the art of peace. Seeds of Peace is
certainly an example of the world the United Nations
is working for"
United Nations Secretary General
Kofi Annan
"Seeds
of Peace brings tomorrow's leaders together,
changing minds and hearts one person at a time."
United States
President George W. Bush
"Seeds
of Peace is greatly contributing to the cause of
peace and is vitally important. If these young
people represent the next generation, then I can
only be more optimistic regarding the future. You
are the true builders of peace."
Former Israeli Prime Minister
Shimon Peres
"The
youngsters at Seeds of Peace are my symbol of
coexistence and peace in the region."
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President
Photo:
John Wallach.
SEEDS OF PEACE
began
with a toast made over a glass of champagne. John and
Janet Wallach were attending a small reception in
Washington D.C. honoring Israel’s then Foreign
Minister, Shimon Peres. The Wallachs had co-authored
3 books about the Middle East, and were highly
respected in Washington circles. It was at that
dinner that John Wallach spontaneously proposed that
he would start a camp in the United States where
teenagers from conflicting areas could work and play
together. Most importantly, they could get to know
each other as human beings and not “the enemy.” Also
present at the party were the
Egyptian Ambassador and the PLO Envoy. Wallach asked them, along with Peres, to go
back to their governments and ask for teenagers from
their communities to attend the camp. His reasoning
was that the only way to effect a change is by working
with young people who were not yet entrenched in
hatred: “If you can change their thinking, you can
change their behavior.” A camp setting would give
them the opportunity to
form friendships and develop trust and respect for one
another. The
brilliant thought behind that was when these teenagers
became adults, they would become leaders and effect a
positive change in the world. It’s one thing to
propose a toast under the heady influence of sparkling
champagne. It’s quite another to fulfill the
promise. Wallach first had to overcome a number of
obstacles. There was
getting the governments to approve of sending
representatives. He then had to raise the money to
run the program and find a qualified staff.
Importantly, he needed a summer camp that would
donate their facilities to try this experiment. He
found it at Camp Powhatan in Otisfield, Maine, where
his son had been a camper.
Photo:
Her royal Majesty, Queen Noor of Jordan.
Six
months later, in August, 1993, 46 Israeli, Egyptian,
and Palestinian teenage boys arrived at the newly
created International Camp in Maine, ready to
participate in this grand experiment. They spent
three weeks in workshops, addressing their feelings,
getting to know one another, and coming away with a
greater understanding of their similarities rather
than their differences. Along the way, they also
picked up leadership skills.
Seeds of Peace members were present at the signing of
the Oslo Accords. Can you imagine how exciting it
must have been for these teens to attend such an
historic event? (photo of U.S. President Bill Clinton
with Seeds teenagers behind him)
Photo:
Seeds members at Center for Coexistence.
Each successive year, the camp has expanded,
including teenagers from more countries. Girls now
attend.
400 boys and girls attended the 2005 summer camp. The
End of Polarity (seeing unity, rather than
separateness), is one
of the Keys in my book, The Seven Keys to Live a
Masterful Life.
In that chapter, I quote a Jordanian girl who attended Seeds of Peace:
“In order to understand your enemy, you have to go to
war with yourself.” Seeing how we are all one
sometimes requires that kind of radical thinking.
There’s
a Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem
which operates year round, offering programs for
continuing discussion between graduates and
opportunities for community service. The educational
outreach projects allow graduates to teach what they
learned at Seed of Peace to others. (Seeds members at
Center for Coexistence).
Photo: President Bill Clinton with Seeds
of Peace members standing behind him.
The Seed of Peace comprehensive training program
has become an international model. They’re now
working with teenagers from other areas of conflict.
2001 saw the beginning of its South Asia program with
Indian and Pakistani youth. Since 1993, over 3,000
teens from 25 nations have graduated from Seeds of
Peace.
A reunion of 130 Seed graduates gathered at last
summer’s camp and set up a formal Alumni Association.
When John Wallach passed away in 2002, he was
replaced by Aaron Miller as President of the
organization. Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell had this to say about Miller:
“Although my colleagues and I at the Department of
State will miss him greatly, the work he will be
involved in is vital to Arab-Israeli peacemaking."
As
Executive Vice President of Seeds of Peace, Janet
Wallach (photo of Janet Wallach) continues to lead the
way in fulfilling her husband’s mission and dream.
She oversees the activities of the New York office and
is involved in fund raising. But what she’s most
passionate about are the young people themselves.
“There has been a large investment in each Seeds
participant. They are our hope for the future,” Janet
explains. “We want to make sure they stay connected
to the values they learned at Seeds of Peace.”
Their 32 member Board of Directors
and 5 Advisory Board members includes George H.W.
Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, Her Majesty Queen
Noor, Shimon Peres and Sa'eb Erekat. (photo of Queen
Noor) (photo of Israel Shimon Peres, book ended by two
Seeds of Peace girls).
The extensive media coverage for Seeds of Peace
includes
being featured on 60 Minutes, Dateline NBC, Nightline,
The Today Show, and in numerous newspapers and
magazines.
A new documentary film called
Seeds
has already garnered several prizes.

A.L.S.
8th Annual Fundraising Event
Photo:
Katie Couric and
Joely Fisher Katie Couric at ALS event
in New York.
The highlight of
New York last week social events was the ALS 8th annual
New York City fundraiser Tomorrow is Tonight, hosted by
the dynamic Katie Couric. The event took place at
Cipriani on 42nd street. The Who's Who personalities and
Manhattan socialites glittered amid charity and
fundraising affairs, and bien sure, juicy
gossips. However, it was a social success.
ALS project is a noble
cause. It was founded in 1998, by
Jenifer Estess and her sisters to raise
awareness and contributions toward the treatment
and a cure for this hideous disease, known as the
Lou Gehrig’s disease. Among the distinguished guests
were Cari and Matthew Modine, Valerie Estesse, Meredith
Estess, Robert Kaplan, Elizabeth Guest, Prince Dimitri
of Yugoslavia et al...



Photos from L to R: #1. Valerie
Estesse and Meredith Edstess. #2. Elizabeth Huest and
Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia. # 3. Hilary Block, Peggy
Race, Robin Bell and Carol Belladora.
TOP 10 TV
SHOWS
Week of Oct. 17-23 (Season rank in brackets)
1. CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 28.5 million (1)
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2.
Desperate Housewives, ABC, 25.2 million (2)
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3.
Lost, ABC, 21.4 million (3)
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4.
Without a Trace, CBS, 19.8 million (4)
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5.
Grey's Anatomy, ABC, 18.0 million (5)
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6. CSI:
Miami, CBS, 17.9 million (5)
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7.
Survivor: Guatemala, CBS, 17.8 million (7)
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8. NCIS,
CBS, 17.7 million (9)
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9.
World Series Game 2, Fox, 17.2 million (-)
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| 10.
Commander in Chief, ABC, 16.3 million (8)
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SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2005
TOP 10 TV
SHOWS
2004-2005 Season
1.
American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 27.4 million
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2. CSI,
CBS, 26.3 million
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3.
American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 26.0 million
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4.
Desperate Housewives, ABC, 23.4 million
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5.
Survivor: Palau, CBS, 20.9 million
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6.
Survivor: Vanuatu, CBS, 19.6 million
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7. CSI:
Miami, CBS, 18.9 million
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8.
Without a Trace, CBS, 18.8 million
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9.
Grey's Anatomy, ABC, 18.0 million
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| 10.
Everybody Loves Raymond, CBS, 16.9 million |
SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH.
Final update: June 9, 2005
Bush asks
Congress for billions to protect Americans against a
flu pandemic
Photo:
President George W. Bush outlines a $7.1-billion
strategy to prepare for the danger of a pandemic
influenza outbreak.
WASHINGTON, DC- President George W.
Bush outlined a $7.1-billion US strategy Tuesday to
prepare for the danger of a pandemic influenza
outbreak, saying he wanted to stockpile enough vaccine
to protect 20 million Americans against the current
strain of bird flu. The president also said the United
States must approve liability protection for the
makers of lifesaving vaccines. He said the number of
American vaccine manufacturers has plummeted because
the industry has been hit with a flood of lawsuits.
Bush said no one knows when or where a deadly strain
of flu will strike but "at some point we are likely to
face another pandemic." The president, in a speech at
the National Institutes of Health, said the United
States must be prepared to detect outbreaks anywhere
in the world, stockpile vaccines and antiviral drugs
and be ready to respond at the federal, state and
local levels in the event a pandemic reaches the
United States. Bush mentioned the outbreak of SARS, or
severe acute respiratory syndrome, in 2003 as a small
scale preview of what a flu pandemic could be like.
"When an infected doctor carried the (SARS) virus out
of China, it spread to Vietnam, Singapore and Canada
within a month," Bush said. "Before long, the SARS
virus had spread to nearly 30 countries on six
continents. It infected more than 8,000 people and
killed nearly 800." "One elderly woman brought the
virus from Hong Kong to Toronto, where it quickly
spread to her son and then daughters." Several other
carriers arrived, he said, and eventually "hundreds of
Canadians fell ill with SARS and dozens died." "By one
estimate the SARS outbreak cost the Asia-Pacific
region about $40 billion. The airline industry was hit
particularly hard with air travel to Asia dropping 45
per cent in the year after the outbreak." "All this
was caused by a limited outbreak of a virus that
infected thousands and lasted about six months." A
pandemic, if it occurs, would be far worse, affecting
millions and lasting a few years, Bush said. He
outlined a strategy that would cost $7.1 billion
including: -$1.2 billion for the U.S. government to
buy enough doses of the vaccine against the current
strain of bird flu to protect 20 million Americans.
The administration wants to have sufficient vaccine
for frontline emergency personnel and at-risk
populations, including military personnel; -$1 billion
to stockpile more antiviral drugs that lessen the
severity of the flu symptoms; -$2.8 billion to speed
the development of vaccines as new strains emerge, a
process that now takes months. The goal is to have the
manufacturing capability by 2010 to brew enough
vaccine for every American within six months' of a
pandemic's start; -$583 million for states and local
governments to prepare emergency plans to respond to
an outbreak. Bush said a pandemic flu would be far
more serious than the seasonal flu that makes hundreds
of thousands of people sick every year and sends
people to their doctors for a flu shot. Unlike
seasonal flu, pandemic flu can kill people who are
young and healthy as well as those who are frail and
sick, he said.
In asking Congress for money to buy
vaccine, Bush said the vaccine "would not be a perfect
match to the pandemic flu because the pandemic strain
would probably differ somewhat from the avian flu
virus it grew from. But a vaccine against the current
avian flu virus would likely offer some protection
against a pandemic strain and possibly save many lives
in the first critical months of an outbreak." He also
said the United States was increasing stockpiles of
antiviral drugs, such as Tamiflu and Relenza. Such
drugs cannot prevent people from catching the flu, but
they can reduce the severity of the illness when taken
within 48 hours of getting sick, he said. "At this
moment there is no pandemic influenza in the United
States or the world, but if history is our guide
there's reason to be concerned," Bush said. "In the
last century, our country and the world have been hit
by three influenza pandemics, and viruses from birds
contributed to all of them." He pointed out that the
1918 pandemic killed over a half million Americans and
more than 20 million people across the globe.
"One-third of the U.S. population was infected, and
life expectancy in our country was reduced by 13
years." "The 1918 pandemic was followed by pandemics
in 1957 and 1968, which killed tens of thousands of
Americans and millions across the world," Bush said.
Bird flu has been documented in Asia and has spread to
Europe but has not reached the United States, the
president said. "Our country has been given fair
warning of this danger to our homeland and time to
prepare," he said. Bush said the cornerstone of his
strategy was to develop new technologies to produce
new vaccines quickly. "If a pandemic strikes, our
country must have a surge capacity in place that will
allow us to bring a new vaccine online quickly and
manufacture enough to immunize every American against
the pandemic strain," Bush said. The principal goal of
Bush's plan, Health and Human Services Secretary
Michael Leavitt said, "is the capacity for every
American to have a vaccine in the case of a pandemic,
no matter what the virus is." Pandemics strike when
the easy-to-mutate influenza virus shifts to a strain
that people have never experienced before, something
that has happened three times in the last century.
While it is impossible to say when the next super-flu
will strike, concern is growing that the bird flu
strain known as H5N1 could trigger one if it mutates
to start spreading easily among people. Since 2003, at
least 62 people in Southeast Asia have died from H5N1;
most of them regularly handled poultry. - Laurain
Neegard
Charles, Camilla begin weeklong
U.S. tour; British media predict indifference
Photo:
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall arrive at
the British Memorial Garden in New York's Hanover
Square.
NEW YORK- Prince Charles and his
wife, Camilla, paid tribute to victims of the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks Tuesday as they began a weeklong
tour of the United States - a trip the British press
predicted would cause little excitement among
Americans. After arriving in New York City on a
private chartered jet, the couple travelled by
limousine to Ground Zero for a tour of the site. The
couple then went to nearby Hanover Square to unveil a
memorial park to the 67 Britons who died when the
hijacked jets slammed into the World Trade Center.
They walked around to greet some of the several
hundred well-wishers and onlookers who gathered behind
barricades at the square. Camilla seemed relaxed,
smiling broadly as she accepted a bouquet of flowers
from a small girl. The Duchess of Cornwall, who has
been trying to project a more glamorous image, wore a
dark rose Italian wool crepe jacket and dress with
velvet chiffon trim. Speaking at reception for
relatives of the British Sept. 11 victims and
supporters of the memorial garden project, Prince
Charles said he and his wife had been "profoundly
moved" by their trip to Ground Zero, "not just the
scale of the outrage but the deeply distressing
individual stories of heroism and of loss."
Photo:
In this Nov. 9, 1985, file photo released by the
Ronald Reagan Library, actor John Travolta dances with
Diana, Princess of Wales, at a White House dinner in
Washington. Aides hope Prince Charles' first official
tour of the U.S. since 1994 won't be eclipsed by
memories of the 1985 visit.
"Our hearts go out to you today as
they did on that dreadful today," said Charles, who
met privately with families before the unveiling
ceremony. Referring to the July 7 bombings of London's
transit system that killed 52 people along with the
four suicide attackers, he said "both our nations have
been united by grief and strengthened by the support
we have given each other." The tour, which is designed
to celebrate ties between Britain and America and
promote Charles's environmentalist causes, is the
first official overseas trip for the 56-year-old heir
to the throne and his wife since they married in
April. British media, however, predicted the couple
would fail to capture the attention of Americans in
the same way as Charles's 1985 official visit when a
radiant Diana, the late Princess of Wales, danced with
actor John Travolta at a White House dinner. Papers in
London took note of a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll, which
found 59 per cent of Americans surveyed saying they
were "not at all interested" in the visit, 22 per cent
were "not too interested," 13 per cent were "somewhat
interested" and six per cent were "very interested."
Gallup said the survey had a sampling error of plus or
minus three percentage points. At Hanover Square -
named for King George I of Hanover - a cadre of law
enforcement officers stood near a line of police
barricades and hundreds of people gathered, many
holding banners and cameras, eager to take snapshots
or perhaps shake hands with the royal couple. "I've
been following this man since I was in grade school in
Minnesota. I wrote papers about him," Thomas Rex
Campbell, a writer who grew up in White Bear Lake,
Minn., said of Prince Charles. "I very much admire him
for his breadth of vision on the world. He's
interested in everything from farming to classical
architecture. He's the best-educated Prince of Wales
ever."
The memorial garden, which is to be
completed next summer, is designed as a green corner
of Britain in Manhattan, with topiary trees, boxwood
hedges and a sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor. Later
Tuesday, Charles and Camilla were to attend a
reception at the Museum of Modern Art that Charles's
office said was a chance for the couple "to meet a
good cross-section of interesting and influential New
Yorkers." Guests invited to enjoy champagne and
organic canapes with the couple included Robert De
Niro, Steven Spielberg, Sting, former mayor Rudolph
Giuliani and actress Kim Cattral. During their visit,
Charles and Camilla also were to meet with hurricane
victims in New Orleans, homeless people in San
Francisco and President George W. Bush at the White
House. The Guardian newspaper said Tuesday that the
royal couple was determined to win over an American
public that appeared to have "absolutely no interest
in the eight-day royal visit." The Daily Mirror's New
York correspondent also wrote that most Americans had
no idea who Camilla was. The paper said its reporter
showed a picture of the duchess to passers-by in Times
Square, but many guessed that it was Nancy Reagan,
Madonna, Queen Elizabeth or the late romantic novelist
Barbara Cartland. The prince's office says the trip is
intended to recognize "the importance of the
relationship between the two countries and their
common bonds and shared traditions." It is also part
of a careful palace plan to win acceptance for the
duchess, long reviled in the British press as the
woman who broke up a royal romance. "There were three
of us in that marriage," Diana told a television
reporter in 1995. Charles and Diana divorced in 1996;
Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris the following
year. -Jim Lonless
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NYU
TO HOST “CONDITIONS OF DEMOCRACY: FROM ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA TO
MODERN IRAQ”
NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies
will host “Conditions of Democracy: From Ancient Mesopotamia to
Modern Iraq” on Thurs., Nov. 3 and Fri., Nov. 4 in NYU’s
Hemmerdinger Hall (Room 102 of the Silver Center for Arts and
Science), located at 100 Washington Square East (at Washington Place).
The conference’s keynote address will be delivered by NYU Law
Professor Noah Feldman, who was a senior adviser for the
constitutional law to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, on
Thurs., Nov. 3 at 4:30 p.m. The conference will explore, from the
perspective of several ancient societies, the preconditions that have
made various forms of popular governance possible and relate this
historical inquiry to current concerns. The event is free and open to
the public, which may call 212.998.8100 for more information. NYU Law
Professor Noah Feldman, author of "After Jihad"
and "What We Owe Iraq" NYU Professor Dan Fleming, author of
Democracy’s Ancient Ancestors; Brown University Classics Professor
Kurt Raaflaub; University of Texas (Austin) Philosophy Professor
Paul Woodruff; Robert Morstein-Marx, chair of the
Classics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara;
and NYU Hebrew and Judaic Studies Professor Larry Schiffman.
The event shall take time and place on Thurs., Nov. 3 (4:30 p.m.-6
p.m.) and Fri., Nov. 4 (9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.), NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall
(Room 102 of the Silver Center for Arts and Science), 100 Washington
Square East [Subway Lines: 6 (Lafayette/Broadway); A, B, C, D,
E, F, V (West 4th Street); N, R, W (8th Street)]. Friday’s
roster will feature four sets of talkson Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel,
Greece, and Romeafter which a concluding panel discussion will focus
on the ways in which the experience of these ancient societies has a
bearing on how we conduct and analyze our own political affairs.
Speakers will include Dan Fleming (NYU), author of the recent book,
Democracy’s Ancient Ancestors; Kurt Raaflaub (Brown); Paul Woodruff
(University of Texas, Austin); Robert Morstein-Marx (University of
California, Santa Barbara); and Lawrence Schiffman (NYU). The closing
panel will be moderated by Lewis Lapham, the editor of Harper’s
magazine.
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Professor Noah Feldman. A brilliant legal mind, captivating lecturer
and international expert on world democracy. He wrote extensively on
the Middle East, Near East, Iraq and the Arab world. You will enjoy
his lecture. His book "AFTER JIHAD" is one of the most important,
intelligent and comprehensive work on the Islamic and Arab culture,
heritage and socio-political philosophy.
Of course, the highlight of the
event is Dr. Noah Feldman.,
an assistant professor of law at
New York University who has recently been named chief U.S.
advisor to Iraq for the writing of the country’s new constitution. Dr.
Feldman joined the NYU faculty in 2001 from the Society of Fellows at
Harvard.
He
is also an adjunct fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington,
D.C. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, Dr. Feldman has become a
leading scholar on questions related to religion and law. Fluent in
English, Hebrew, Arabic and French, he represents the rare breed of
scholar — and now U.S. government official — who understands and
relates to both sides of the Middle East debate. Before joining NYU,
Dr. Feldman served a clerkship at the U.S. Court of Appeals at the
D.C. Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He lives in both New York and
Washington, D.C . with his wife Jeannie Suk.
YU’s Center for Ancient Studies was created in 1996 to promote
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study of the past. Directed by
College of Arts and Science Dean Matthew S. Santirocco, and supported
largely through endowment, the Center funds travel grants for
undergraduate and graduate students, annual research conferences and
lectures, and summer outreach seminars for faculty from throughout the
United States. Scholarly organizations that are based at the Center
include the professional journal Classical World; the American section
of the Institute for Etruscan and Italic Studies and its journal,
Etruscan News; and the Aquila Theatre Company.-
ALISON MEYER:
BEST EMPLOYMENT MANAGER OF THE YEAR
You know how tough
and disappointing it is when it comes to dealing
with recruiters and headhunters. But with Alison Meyer,
the office supervisor of Adecco Creative, searching for
a job becomes a delightful experience. Meyer is
absolutely effective, warm, polite and resourceful. She
will get you the job you want. No hassles, no tassels.
She is always right on. Ready to serve with a beautiful
smile, a glowing, stunning and friendly face and of
course with sincere commitment. Yes, folks, she is a 9
to 5 employee, but she has her own " creative" talents.
She is a super photographer and a lover of the "Camera
Dramatique". She exhibited in New Jersey and New York
areas. To find a super duper artist working in an
employment agency like Alison Meyer becomes a blessing.
The International News Agency selected Alison Meyer as
the Best Employment Manager of the Year. Good for her.
eBay's Whitman tops most powerful
list
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For the second year in a row, Meg Whitman, the
49-year-old chairman and CEO of eBay, has come in first
place on Fortune magazine's 50 most powerful women in
the U.S.
For the second
year in a row, Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, was named the
most powerful woman in the United States, according to
the latest issue of Fortune magazine.
Meanwhile, Barbara Stymiest, chief operating officer of
RBC Financial, came in at No. 34 on Fortune's
international list. Carly Fiorina, who long held the No.
1 spot, and who was No. 2 last year, dropped off the
U.S. list after leaving Hewlett-Packard. Martha
Stewart, who wasn't even on the list last year, returned
at No. 21. Rounding out the top ten on the U.S.
list were Anne Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO, Xerox (No. 2);
Brenda Barnes, President and CEO, Sara Lee (No. 3);
Oprah Winfrey, Chairman, Harpo (No. 4); Andrea Jung,
Chairman and CEO, Avon (No. 5). So how did Meg
Whitman retain the No. 1 spot? "The empress of eBay
still rules Silicon Valley," according to the magazine.
"Though the stock has had a tough year, down about 30
per cent, revenues and profits are strong." According to
a Fortune article, Whitman has gone shopping,
buying seven new businesses for more than $1.3 billion.
Up next: the controversial $2.6 billion acquisition of
Skype."
Martha thought she would bump
Trump
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Donald Trump and Martha Stewart do promo campaign for
both "Apprentice" shows.
NEW YORK- Before
her version of The Apprentice began, Martha Stewart
thought she was saying "you're fired" to Donald Trump.
While The Apprentice: Martha Stewart hasn't done well in
the ratings, Stewart initially had much higher hopes --
even that her NBC reality show would eclipse Trump's
original. "I thought I was replacing The Donald,"
Stewart says in the Nov. 14 issue of Fortune magazine,
on U.S. newsstands Nov. 7. "It was even discussed that I
would be firing The Donald on the first show." When did
Trump learn that she intended to bump him off his own
show? "I don't think he ever knew," Stewart tells the
magazine. Instead, Trump remained for a fourth season,
and he has recently suggested that his show has been
diminished by Stewart's. Trump's Apprentice has been
averaging around 10 million viewers a week, down four
million from last season. Stewart's Apprentice is
drawing closer to seven million viewers. "I think there
was confusion between Martha's Apprentice and mine, and
mine continues to do well and... the other has struggled
very severely," Trump said recently on a radio program.
"I think it probably hurt mine and I sort of predicted
that it would." Stewart also reveals in Fortune another
unrealized business plan: to buy Kmart. In 2002, while
the retail giant was going bankrupt, Stewart floated the
idea -- dubbed Kmartha -- of buying the company, which
sells her Martha Stewart Everyday brand. Stewart, 64,
also says she plans to sell Turkey Hill, her famous
Westport, Connecticut, home. "I hardly ever go there
anymore. I don't miss it." After serving five months in
jail for lying about a 2001 stock sale, which was
followed by nearly six months of house arrest, the
lifestyle guru says she feels resilient.
"I have
learned that I really cannot be destroyed."
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Castro lauds
Maradona's plans to join anti-Bush protests at Americas summit
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina- Cuban leader Fidel Castro told
Argentines in a taped interview with soccer legend Diego Maradona that
he welcomed the athlete's plans to take part in anti-U.S. protests at
the coming Summit of the Americas. Maradona, who travelled last week
to Cuba to conduct the interview for his popular weekly talk show, is
to ride in a celebrity protest train Thursday taking opponents of U.S.
President George W. Bush from Buenos Aires to the Argentine resort of
Mar del Plata for the summit. Bush arrives in Mar del Plata the same
day for the summit with 33 Latin American and Caribbean leaders.
Thousands of protesters started massing in the town Monday to hold a
"people's summit" to air their gripes against the Bush administration.
Castro told Maradona in the interview broadcast Monday night that the
United States has a "very pestilent name" and he welcomed efforts by
protesters to orchestrate dissent against Bush. As for Maradona, the
Cuban president added: "I'm happy that you are going to be there."
Speaking to reporters in Argentina on Sunday, Maradona cited the U.S.
invasion of Iraq as one reason he opposes the Bush visit.

"No to Bush!" Maradona declared. "We're going to say it
in the streets: Fellow Argentines, we will be waiting for you at the
march." Bush opponents have vowed to gather thousands of anti-Bush
demonstrators in Mar del Plata for a peaceful citywide march Friday,
the day the summit begins. Security is being tightened in the popular
resort 370 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, with some 10,000 police
and security forces already deployed ahead of the summit. Leaders are
expected to hold talks on free trade, job creation and other issues,
including bolstering democracy throughout the hemisphere. In the
interview with Maradona, Castro predicted that U.S. efforts to lower
trade barriers across the Americas - an ambitious proposal called the
Free Trade Area of the Americas - would ultimately fail. Free trade
efforts have lost steam since the first Americas summit in 1994.
Castro has frequently chided U.S. efforts to organize
the proposed trade group, saying it constituted an effort by the
United States to "annex" Latin American nations. Castro is the only
Latin American leader who will not attend the summit. He is not
permitted to participate because Cuba is not a member of the
Organization of American States, which organizes the summit. Maradona,
45, who retired from soccer in 1997 amid battles with cocaine
addiction and other health problems, led Argentina to the 1986 World
Cup title and 1990 final. In 2000, FIFA, the world governing body for
soccer, chose him and Pele as the greatest players in soccer history.


Britain's Tony Blair
pushes for consensus on tackling global climate change

British Prime Minister Tony Blair
addresses the G8 Climate Change Dialogue Meeting.
LONDON- Prime Minister Tony Blair
launched a new round of international talks on climate change Tuesday,
encouraging G-8 countries and other major polluters such as China and
India to use cleaner energy supplies. He said that when the landmark
Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, the international community would need
a more sensitive framework for tackling global warming. Setting
targets, he added, made countries worry about their economies. "People
fear some external force is going to impose some internal target on
you, which is going to restrict your economic growth," Blair told
environment and energy ministers from 19 countries. "I think in the
world after 2012 we need to find a better, more sensitive set of
mechanisms to deal with this problem." Blair has made tackling global
warming a priority for Britain's presidency of the Group of Eight
industrialized countries, which include Canada. But he has met strong
resistance from the United States. U.S. President George W. Bush's
administration has refused to sign the 1997 Kyoto accord, saying the
caps on greenhouse gas emissions it demands would damage the U.S.
economy.

Bush also objects to large
developing countries, such as China and India, being exempt from the
treaty. Blair has acknowledged he will not overcome such opposition.
Seeking to draw the United States back into the debate, he has instead
focused on the need for green technology. Britain is also trying to
involve emerging economies that are set to become the world's biggest
polluters in the future. Britain has not abandoned targets. Britain's
Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett stressed Tuesday that "targets,
or goals or objectives, set by country or sector or internationally,
have a vital role to play" in driving forward the shift to a low
carbon economy. Environmentalists fear the focus may undermine
the Kyoto process. Catherine Pearce of the pressure group Friends of
the Earth said the London talks must be a "stepping stone" to UN
negotiations next month in Montreal on cutting pollution beyond 2012
and "work toward real targets with proper funding." "Warm words and
woolly commitments are not enough," she said. "Climate change is
threatening the lives of millions." Britain believes getting
developing countries on board is crucial. China, for instance, is
investing massively in coal-fired power stations. By 2025, more than
half of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases will be coming
from developing countries.
The European Union already has
agreed to work with China on cleaner technology, including how to
capture and store carbon emitted from its power plants. Beckett, who
hosted Tuesday's talks, said further international co-operation was
necessary. "It will be essential, for China and for everybody else, to
see if we can do something to allow them to use the resources that are
available to them, but in a clean carbon way," she said. Tuesday's
talks were attended by environment and energy ministers from the G-8
countries - the United States, Britain, Japan, Germany, France, Italy,
Canada and Russia - plus China, India, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa,
Indonesia, Australia, Spain, Poland, Nigeria and South Korea. Mexico
will host a similar session next year.
Baldwin-Basinger custody fight heats
up

Alec Baldwin accuses his ex-wife,
Kim Basinger, of turning his daughter against him in court papers.
LOS ANGELES, California-Actors Alec
Baldwin and ex-wife Kim Basinger traded personal jabs through their
attorneys Monday, with each claiming amid a custody dispute that the
other has serious emotional problems. In court papers, Baldwin claimed
Basinger "has a pathological need" to turn their daughter against him,
and he is asking for a psychological evaluation of the actress.
Baldwin lawyer Vicki Greene argued in a court hearing Monday that
Basinger had tainted 10-year-old Ireland's view of her father.
Basinger's attorney, Neal Hersh, dismissed the claim
and said Baldwin was the problem. "We believe that Mr. Baldwin has
severe emotional problems," Hersh said. "Mr. Baldwin's lawyers
attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing
on the main issue, which is his daughter." Baldwin was not at the
hearing, which discussed his telephone time with his daughter and
whether Baldwin should get an extra weekend with her when a holiday is
interrupted by a court-ordered custody hearing. Los Angeles Superior
Court Commissioner Maren Nelson said she found no reason to alter the
custody agreement. She did not rule on the psychological evaluation
request. The acting duo married Aug. 19, 1993. They separated in 2000
and divorced in 2002. Basinger declined to
comment outside the courtroom. She and Baldwin are scheduled to return
to court Dec. 13.
India renowned
writer Amrita Pritam dead at 86
NEW DELHI, India-Renowned Indian
writer Amrita Pritam, whose prose and poetry reflected the pain of the
subcontinent's division and the turbulence of her own life, has died
in her sleep at age 86. Pritam died Monday at
her home in New Delhi, where she had been bedridden since a 2002 fall
broke her pelvis bone, Press Trust of India reported. Pritam was first
published at 17. In a career that spanned more than six decades, she
wrote 24 novels, 15 collections of short stories and 23 volumes of
poems in both Punjabi and Hindi. Her work has also been translated
into several other languages. She was the first Indian woman to be
awarded the country's prestigious Sahitya Academy award for literary
merit and the Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian honours.
Pritam was cremated late Monday, PTI reported.
She was born in August 1919 to a Sikh family in Gujranwala town, which
became part of Pakistan when India was partitioned in 1947 after two
centuries of British rule. The partition led to countrywide
Hindu-Muslim riots that killed one million people and displaced some
10 million others. Pritam's family crossed over
from the new Islamic nation of Pakistan into India, and much of her
writing deals with the violence she witnessed, the pathos of the
biggest exodus of the 20th century and the sharp rift it created
between Hindus and Muslims. Pritam, who lost her
mother at 11, was married at 16, in keeping with the contemporary
trend of young Indians at the time. But she had an unhappy marriage
and divorced in 1960, about the time when her writing acquired a
feminist tone. She spent the rest of her life with her companion Imroz,
an artist who uses a single name. "Her poems gave voice to the pain of
women who hitherto wove their sufferings into folk songs sung softly
behind voluminous veils," Punjabi poet Surjit Patar told The Indian
Express newspaper. "She was also the (reflection of the) pathos of the
partition. No poet could parallel her when it came to pouring its
agony in words."
Willie Nelson helps
Texas politico friend
AUSTIN, Texas-Willie Nelson opened
up his central Texas ranch and private golf course Sunday, raising an
estimated $170,000 US for his friend Kinky Friedman, an independent
candidate for Texas governor. Friedman, an author and entertainer,
will need up to $5 million just to get his name on next year's ballot,
managers say. Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who was elected as
a member of the Reform Party, joined supporters for lunch and golf.
Friedman cited Ventura's success as proof that he could become the
first Texas independent governor since Sam Houston in the 1850s.
"Jesse is a virtual gold mine of information," Friedman said. "He's
been through the fire. He knows what works and doesn't work." Friedman
dished out his signature one-liners along with a $1,000-per-person,
buffet-style lunch of brisket, sausage, barbecue chicken, beans and
rice. Another table offered vegan and kosher selections. Nine
contributors -- including Dick DeGuerin, an attorney for Rep. Tom
DeLay -- paid $5,000 for a round of golf with Nelson, Friedman and
Ventura. DeLay recently stepped down as House majority leader after
being charged with money laundering and conspiracy. "I'm a yellow dog
Democrat, I represent Tom DeLay and I'm for Kinky -- I see no
contradiction there," said DeGuerin, an unpaid adviser to Friedman.
Gov. Rick Perry is seeking re-election and Comptroller Carole Keeton
Strayhorn is challenging him in the Republican primary. Former U.S.
Rep. Chris Bell, of Houston, is the Democratic candidate.
Rumours sent me to
therapist: Jessica
NEW YORK- Jessica Simpson says the
relentless gossip about her marriage to Nick Lachey drove her to visit
a therapist. "Yes I have," the singer-actress tells Teen People in its
December-January issue, on newsstands Friday. "I respect knowledge of
the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer."

Jessica, 25, posed for the cover of the magazine with her sister,
Ashlee. Both talk about the difficult challenges of the past year.
Jessica, who had a starring role in The Dukes of Hazzard movie this
summer, has been the queen of the tabloids this year -- much of the
coverage dissecting the marriage of the Newlyweds couple. The pair
have denied persistent rumours of a split. "Hopefully mine and Nick's
story will continue for the rest of our lives, like what we vowed,
through sickness and in health." Ashlee, 21,
recently released her second album, I Am Me, and it debuted at the top
of the charts. But she has still had to live down her embarrassing
lip-synch disaster on Saturday Night Live last year. "Yeah I messed up
in front of everybody," she says. (Last month, Ashlee revisited the
scene of her musical flub, performing on SNL -- really live, this
time.) However, she adds: "I love to sing. It's a joy to me. I don't
do it for anyone else -- I do it for me. "I've had to learn that my
voice is the most important one. Otherwise, I'll drown in what
everyone wants me to be."


A Time For Love
Stevie.Wonder
(Universal/Motown)

Each May, hundreds of people pack a
trendy New York club for a Stevie Wonder birthday bash. Wonder doesn't
attend -- but that doesn't stop the party. That's because the
evening's draw is not the man, but a night of his Wonder-ful music:
hours of classics, from Isn't She Lovely to Golden Lady to Living for
the City, all a testament to his undeniable musical genius. Sadly, if
any material from his newest album, A Time for Love, makes the cut
next year, it might clear the dance floor. Comprised mainly of so-so
ballads and rote uptempo numbers, this album reinforces the familiar
knock on Wonder -- that he hasn't made any compelling material since
groundbreaking albums like Original Musiquarium and Innervisons
decades ago. Which actually isn't true. His 1991 soundtrack to Spike
Lee's Jungle Fever was a dazzling disc that should be ranked among his
classics, and 1995's Conversation Peace had plenty of strong material
that proved his relevance after more than three decades in the
business. It's hard to hear that relevance in A Time To Love. Much of
it sounds dated, particularly the funk grooves, which sound like
they're stuck in some early '90s time warp, weighed down by heavy drum
machines and synthesizers. The first track, If Your Love Cannot Be
Moved, sounds mechanical and soulless, despite the presence of gospel
star Kim Burrell. From the Bottom of My Heart ranks with Wonder's
saccharine hit For Your Love. And So What
The Fuss, featuring Prince on
guitar, sounds too much like a George Clinton song -- disappointing
from an artist of paramount originality and creativity. Wonder's best
music has always stirred the heart and soul with sparkling musical
arrangements and spellbinding lyrics. There are few examples of that
here. How Will I Know, a duet with his daughter Aisha Morris, is
lovely and touching -- Wonder's voice complements his daughter's sweet
soprano perfectly, and his crisp piano melody is truly enchanting. The
jazzy arrangement of Moon Blue gives it life, and Shelter In The Rain
is an inspiring, uplifting anthem. But those are the exceptions.
While the album is certainly not
bad, it's not compelling enough to merit multiple listens -- a painful
statement to make (especially for this die-hard Stevie fan). It's hard
to believe this album took ten years to complete. Anyone needing their
Stevie Wonder fix would do better reaching into their archives.
Ronald Isley
convicted for tax evasion
LOS ANGELES, California-R&B singer
Ronald Isley was convicted of multiple counts of tax evasion Monday
and could face up to 26 years in prison when he is sentenced. A
federal jury convicted Isley, 64, of five counts of tax evasion and
one count of wilful failure to file a tax return, Assistant U.S.
Attorney Thomas Coker said in a statement.
Isley's sentencing was set for Jan. 9. Prosecutors said Isley evaded
the IRS by demanding case payments for millions of dollars in
performance fees he earned between 1997 and 2002. He also put homes
and a yacht in the names of his then-wife or corporations and cashed
royalty checks belonging to his late brother, O'Kelly Isley, according
to the government. Isley's latest albums,
released last year, were a collaboration with Burt Bacharach, titled
Here I Am, and the Grammy-nominated Isley Brothers CD, Body Kiss.
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