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Print edition for September 4, 2006

Gibbons warned against Iraq war, now defends it
By J. Patrick Coolican
During the 1990s, Rep. Jim Gibbons offered some extraordinarily prescient warnings about any U.S. attempt to invade and occupy Iraq.
Small storms bring new fire starts to Elko County
AP
The largest was the 7,000-acre Webb Fire in Pine Valley in Eureka County south of Carlin. It was 10 percent contained on Monday.
Letter: Parking officer's job is nothing to laugh at
Having spent five years as a parking enforcement officer in Carmel, Calif., my experience gives me the right to unequivocally say that Mike Smith needs to rethink his slant on that job.
Candidates split over Iraq policy
Michael J. Mishak
Mirroring the national political debate over Iraq, Nevada's congressional candidates largely break along party lines on the war, with Republicans supporting Bush administration policies that Democrats castigate as seriously flawed.
Editorial: Celebrating Americans' labor
The holiday was advocated by the labor movement to mark the accomplishments of the American worker. Unemployment, a key barometer of an economy's health, is relatively low this year. And a recently released U.S. Census Bureau report says that the annual household income rose slightly - by 1.1 percent - in 2005.
Buying into the dream
By Timothy Pratt
Alan Chen noted with slight amusement that it costs a customer about four times more to ship fist-sized bottles of sugar water to China than it did to buy them down the street on Spring Mountain Road.
Jeff Haney follows the money as college football opened its season
Another one for those pesky "recreational gamblers," as they're also called, for their propensity to ignore the latest handicapping trends and base their football bets on a simple yet sometimes effective rationale: "They're gonna kill 'em!"
Letter: President confused about his 'primary job'
I must have missed something in Article II, Section I of the Constitution:
Editorial: Looks bad for PBS critic
A conservative and former editor of Reader's Digest, Tomlinson held a position carrying great weight - the CPB distributes federal funding to public radio and TV stations.
Letter: People need to care for themselves
Yes, why didn't the mayor of New Orleans or the governor of Louisiana make sure the buses got people out?
Editorial: Sizing up a reckless Iran
But just what those consequences will be - or even can be - remains in question. The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution in July that said Iran must stop its uranium enrichment activities by Aug. 31 or face possible sanctions. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims the enrichment process is only for generation of energy and has refused to stop.
Ron Kantowski watches as Andre Agassi gives the U.S. Open a match worthy of a champion
The idea was to watch a game with Rebels fans, to get a feel for what they thought of new coach Mike Sanford and whether he was the right man to guide UNLV well, I was going to say back to the Promised Land but that would infer the Rebels had once been there.

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