Month December 2004

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his top advisors, meeting privately to plan an agenda for his second year in office, may call a special election that could upend the state’s political order, redrawing legislative and congressional district boundaries, curbing spending and…

Miss Monica just received a fundraiser email from a Republican group asking people to buy coffee for the troops   You can show your support for our troops by buying a pound of coffee or more and sending them a message…

Red Cross investigators had found a system devised to break the will of prisoners through “humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions.” “The construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot…

Yeah, right… Otpor, the group that overthrew Milosevic, received some funds from the U.S. government via the National Endowment for Democracy and the Agency for International Development. Veterans of Otpor helped train the Kmara movement in Georgia, the Zubr movement…

Proving that diamonds indeed are forever, a widower got a gem of a keepsake made from his late wife’s ashes this month: a 0.35-carat, round yellow diamond.