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Print edition for April 4, 2006

Letter: Too much speeding, reckless driving here
My wife and I moved here from Pennsylvania a couple of years ago and we wondered whether we were in a foreign country when it came time to take to the roads. Lack of adherence to motor vehicle laws and driver courtesy stood out immediately. Rolling through stop signs and lights, running red lights, excessive speed and reckless driving are representative of disregard for our laws, pure and simple.
Editorial: Doug Ritchie: 1920-2006
Ritchie, who was Sun Publisher Barbara Greenspun's older brother, was the newspaper's founding classified ad manager, and in the 1970s he became head of Sun promotions and in the 1980s he became head of public relations.
Law school drops from rankings
The law school fell from No. 90 to the unranked third tier, placing UNLV anywhere between 101 and 150. Richard Morgan, Boyd's dean, blames the fall primarily on problems in the school's job placement office that have since been resolved.
If it's playoff time, Tiger doesn't crouch
Brian Hilderbrand
Woods said he was in his element last year when he and Chris DiMarco went into a playoff at Augusta. Woods calmly sank a 15-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole for his fourth Masters championship.
TAKE FIVE: NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION
WHEN: Friday through Sunday (Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock sessions)
Editorial: Quick fixes won't help jail
On a daily basis the Clark County Detention Center holds at least 350 more inmates than beds. With so many cots spread around, it looks more like an evacuation center than a jail.
Letter: Speed up or get out of the freeway's fast lane
Doesn't he understand he is part of the problem? Get out of the fast lane so we don't have to pass you on the right. It's the fast lane!
Attorneys decry loss of work with tort reform
The medical malpractice tort reform measure approved by Nevada voters in 2004 was supposed to reduce malpractice insurance rates and provide protection for both doctors and patients.
Letter: McCain's credibility lost with flip-flopping
Sen. John McCain was on Sunday's "Meet the Press." In his appearance with host Tim Russert, he did so many back flips that I finally lost count. Here is a man who I had admired as a war hero, a middle-of-the-road politician who I once considered supporting. But no more. After enduring vicious attacks on both he and his wife by the Bush camp in the 2000 primary for the Republican nomination, he ignores that and now embraces Bush as if he is a kindred spirit and personal friend.
John Katsilometes with big news from Britain: Its heaviest man is heading to LV
In girth-shaking news distributed by the London Daily Star, Austin, reported to be Britain's heaviest man, has been awarded a trip to the World Series of Poker at the Rio by winning an online tournament sponsored by the poker-themed Web site jonnytexaspoker.com. The prize package is $12,500 - a $10,000 buy in for the tournament (scheduled for July 28 to Aug. 10) and $2,500 in expenses.
FLASHPOINT for Apr 04, 2006
FLASHPOINT for Apr 04, 2006
Education reform turns icy
By Emily Richmond
The relationship between Clark County Schools Superintendent Walt Rulffes and the executive director of the Council for a Better Nevada is verging on Cold War-icy.
Ooms' help critical in building the golden arches
In 1954 a restaurant supply company owner asked attorney Owen Ooms to write up a franchise agreement for the purchase of a tiny, seemingly insignificant hamburger joint in San Bernardino, Calif.
Trial elicits fear of widespread corruption
By J. Patrick Coolican
As the two men talked, an FBI wiretap of the conversation also captured a song in the background, faint but familiar to those listening to a recording in federal court last week.
Editorial: Oil going up, up and away
Analysts are confidently predicting that the shock of $3 gasoline has worn off and that motorists will simply shrug their shoulders when it happens again. That might indeed be their first reaction, based on what they saw happen after Katrina. Pump prices over the next three or four months fell by about 50 cents a gallon, back to a level where drivers have become accustomed.
A housewife for those desperate in the desert
For travelers squeezed into a window seat on flights from Los Angeles - the view to the ground this week offers more than miles of dusty desert.
Beers' joke creates a buzz in Reno
By J. Patrick Coolican
The Beers campaign created an e-mail account, borrowed the Gibbons' campaign logo and sent out a phony press release that appeared to have come from Gibbons' campaign manager Robert Uithoven.

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