Ten years ago, "Sex and the City" was an anthology of Candace Bushnell's columns from the New York Observer newspaper. When the rights were purchased for a mere $50,000 by the creator of Beverly Hills, 90210 , the concept was developed to run on a pay-cable channel whose biggest previous hit had been The Larry Sanders Show . It would star an actress whose career had fallen to barely released
Over a kibbutz breakfast of boiled eggs, fresh salad, olives, hummus and bread in the glorious spring sunshine, Valerie Chikly voices her frustration with the usual left-wing hostility towards Israel. "We are always compared to South Africa. It upsets me deeply," she says.
UNITED NATIONS (AP)--Sri Lanka, which has been strongly criticized for its human rights record, lost its bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, but four other countries with poor rights records won seats - Pakistan, Bahrain, Gabon and Zambia.
(AP) †Wall Street closed mixed Monday after weakness in the technology sector punctured some of the market's enthusiasm over a report that suggested the economy could still be growing. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 13,028.16, up 41.36 or 0.32%. Local Dow component
Mobs armed with knives, clubs and jugs of petrol torched shacks and beat migrant workers on Monday in escalating anti-foreigner violence in Johannesburg squatter camps.
- Chamber of Commerce Mixer, 5 to 7:30 p.m., office of Dr. J. Kyle Smith, 450 N. McPherson St., Fort Bragg. 964-5927. - West Company hosts Crime Prevention and Enforcement †Supporting Small Business, noon, North Coast Brewery's Tap Room Grill, Fort Bragg. 964-7576 or 964-7571.
"They screamed at me to get out, that I didn’t belong here. Then they burned everything in my house," said Zimila, who suffered a five-inch gash in his head.
Source: Reuters (Recasts, adds analyst comment) By Paul Simao JOHANNESBURG, May 19 (Reuters) - Mobs armed with knives, clubs and jugs of petrol torched shacks and beat migrant workers on Monday in escalating anti
Members
Area
Top
Downloads 
Tutu Jones MP3 albums: 
RSS feed
View comments
Hide comments
Browse
Genres 
