| Interview with FARC Commander Raul Reyes
But they persist and join the guerrillas, they flee from their houses and appear at our guard posts. It so happens that they join the FARC voluntarily. But many times when they leave they lie to their fathers and mothers and say that they were forced to join and the fathers and mothers believe them. And later, if the authorities conduct an investigation, the parents say that their son or daughter was forced to join and then that information is collected by Amnesty International or others. But I reiterate, it is not the policy of the FARC to recruit children or to enlist anybody by force.
Q: Why does the FARC use anti-personnel landmines when they cause civilian casualties? Reyes: The FARC uses mines against the public forces. The mine fields are used against the public forces, never against the civilian population, never.
It's still a Big Easy feast
A tiny woman sitting next to us at the bar was well on her way to polishing off both halves along with a bottle of Beck's that was preceded by a cocktail or two. Let's face it, New Orleans is not for teetotalers or strict adherents of a carb-free diet. 'Bar-muda Triangle' After our Bywater hosts had polished off their share of the Domeliese's and Parasol's dividends, they suggested a crawl through some Bywater watering holes that are part of what's known as the "Bar-muda Triangle." I'd never been to either but was immediately struck by their down-home nature, which is a perfect antidote to too much enforced conviviality in the French Quarter. First up was Vaughn's Lounge. The name of the place is spelled out in nickels pressed into the worn stone stoop.
Lakeland team gets help for high school Nordic State Championships
Marshfield Clinic Minocqua Center recently contributed $1,000 to the Lakeland Nordic ski team to assist them in hosting the high school Nordic State Championships. The event will be held in Minocqua at Winter Park on Feb. 8 - 10."This event comes to us once every 10 years and brings more than 400 skiers, coaches and their families from Milwaukee, Madison, central Wisconsin, Hayward and other parts of the state. This weekend will help showcase our area as a great destination for winter sports to the many visitors who will be attending," said Sandy Bolger, event co-chairperson. "We are so thankful for the support of the Marshfield Clinic and other area businesses that are helping us host this event." .
Bozeman boys basketball: Hawks deal Sentinel first loss in sloppy ...
Perhaps Bozeman just needed to see how it was done. ERIK PETERSEN/CHRONICLE Bozeman's Gabe Rucker made the game-winning layup with three seconds remaining to hand Missoula Sentinel its first loss of the season. How an underdog might ground a high-flying favorite with nothing but defense and rebounding. How a team, undersized and stumbling, would find a way to stick around for that last shot.Tough-luck C.M. Russell had done it to Bozeman a week earlier. On Saturday in Bozeman's South Gym, it was the Hawks' turn as they dealt top-ranked Missoula Sentinel its first loss of the season, 36-35.Probably to Bozeman's advantage, it was anything but pretty, a defensive slog that negated Sentinel's up-tempo tendencies.The Spartans entered the game averaging a Class AA-high 77.5 points per game and were outscoring their opponents by 25 a game.
Two die in fatal Casper crash
The accident occurred about 3:45 p.m. when a Saturn coupe traveling west on H Street ran through a four-way stop sign at Durbin Street, said Casper police Det. Tim Weinhandl. The Saturn struck cab heading north on Durbin.A passenger in the Saturn, Samantha Ponce-Lara, 18, died at the scene and the Saturn's driver, Antonio Moore, 27, died at Wyoming Medical Center, police said.The driver and passenger of the cab were treated and later released.Read Tuesday's Star-Tribune for more on this story. .
Mothers Day charity gifts
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has opened a 13th century church in Wales which was dismantled and rebuilt stone-by-stone over 20 years 50 miles away at the National History Museum, St Fagansa, in Cardiff. St Teilo's Church from Pontarddulais near Swansea has been restored to recreate its appearance in 1520. Copies of a rare series of 16th century paintings, which were uncovered as it was being dismantled, adorn the walls. Dr Williams is from Wales, and he served as Bishop of Monmouth and as Archbishop of the Church in Wales, a disestablished art of the worldwide Anglican Communion, before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. He was accompanied at the ceremony by First Minister for Wales Mr Rhodri Morgan and other officials Morgan believes that his great-grandparents married at the church, which was used regularly until 1850 and then occasionally during the summer until 1985, reports the BBC.
MPA settles with China Net service
With fast Internet connections to home computers still something of a rarity, China has a massive Internet cafe culture, where consumers spend many hours, often in groups, watching movies. Cafes pay a monthly subscription fee to Jeboo or other similar platforms for a LAN system, with Jeboo providing daily updates of content, which includes movies, TV shows, sports, music, general entertainment and cartoon programming. Although most of the content offered by Jeboo is authorized, the MPA member company titles were not. Terms of the settlement, reached Feb. 28 but only recently unveiled, will be endorsed by the Shanghai No. 2 People's Intermediary Court. "This court-supervised settlement affirms the sovereignty of the Chinese judiciary for the prompt and equitable resolution of intellectual property rights disputes, which should be gratifying to copyright owners around the world," Frank Rittman, VP and Asia-Pacific regional counsel for the MPA said.
FindLinuxHost.com Helps Visitors Navigate the Wealth of Information on ...
LINUX Web hosting is one of the most successful and popular Web hosting platforms ever. Its success has made it a standard. Depending on which report you read, only the Windows platform offers any threat to its supremacy.
Given its success, LINUX has been adopted by the bulk of the worlds Web hosts who offer it either as an exclusive solution, or an option to choose from alongside Windows. With such a plethora of Web hosts offering LINUX, finding a good LINUX host becomes increasingly difficult. Fortunately, FindLinuxHost.com (http://www.findlinuxhost.com), a new Web site launched earlier this month, helps make the job a bit easier.
Like the other sites in the series, FindLinuxHost.com provides a number of search options for users. The site offers a Quick Search tool which allows users to indicate whether they are looking for shared, dedicated or reseller hosting, and establish a number of price options ranging from less than $500 per month to less than $10 per month.
Extra! UIdaho Student Found Shot to Death
A 21-year-old University of Idaho senior was found shot to death early today in his Moscow apartment.
David Robert Boss, a history major and Boise native, was found dead by a roommate about 2 a.m., Moscow police officials said. Boss roommate apparently arrived at the apartment at 1218 S. Main St. about 2 a.m. and found the victim on the floor in the kitchen area of the apartment, according to a press release. The roommate called police. The death is being investigated as suspicious, said Moscow Police Department Assistant Chief David Duke. The apparent cause of death is a single gunshot wound to the head. No gun was found in the apartment, Duke said. .
Gloriously Cranky Cathy Seipp
Never needs changing. Like a fluorescent bulb! ... 5:48 P.M. Dissing the Disgruntled! Grazer-Gate Update: A summary of the L.A.Times' second-time-farce scandal is here. The most recent at-bats ... Resigned editorial page editor Andres Martinez says the paper's newly-arrived editor and publisher caved to a disgruntled newsroom that is annoyed at [the paper's owners in] Chicago, annoyed at them and annoyed at the autonomy of the opinion pages. The newsroom unrest, Martinez says, is partly "ideological" (the news pages presumably being more conventionally liberal than his editorial page), partly "a matter of bureaucratic culture," and some of it a personnel matter (there are some embittered former editorial board members that Kinsley and Carroll sent off to the newsroom).
Love on the Rocks
What's happened now?“It's all because I live alone," she was beginning to sound dangerously close to sobbing now. “I expect this guy (boyfriend) to be with me every evening. So whenever he goes off on his boys' nights out, I get damn pissed off. He called me just now to say that he won't be able to spend the evening with me. Guess why?" “Because he's going out with the boys?" “Yes. I've asked him to take a walk. Let him figure out (while he's walking) how much he needs me." “It's not really over then?" “No, no, this time I'm determined to call it off... I want to be strong and independent, it's Women's Day on 8 March." Good luck, I said. She called back 15 minutes later. “I'm feeling lonely, can you come over and give me company? I've made dal-chawal for dinner." Oh, all right, I said, pulling out my running shoes.
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