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Print edition for November 13, 2007

Striking Hollywood Writers Vent Online
AP
While Writers Guild of America members continue to picket outside film and television studios in Los Angeles and New York, writers are under guidelines from the Guild to withhold their storytelling and joke-writing talents.
Adwatch: Edwards Threatens Congress
AP
LENGTH: 30 seconds.
Sundhage to Replace Ryan As US Coach
AP
American officials turned to a foreign coach for the first time after failing to win this year's World Cup. Sundhage, an assistant for China during the World Cup, is familiar with many of the U.S. players, having coached in the WUSA during the league's three-year existence.
Cable Nielsens for Nov. 5-11
AP
1. NFL Football: Ravens vs. Steelers (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN, 7.32 million homes, 9.89 million viewers.
Gordon Strong in Debut for No. 8 Indiana
AP
"I thought I played pretty good," Gordon said after scoring 33 points in the eighth-ranked Hoosiers' 99-79 victory over Chattanooga on Monday night. "I just tried to step up in different situations and so did a lot of other players on our team."
Language Courses See Gains on Campus
AP
The latest figures from the Modern Language Association of America, released Tuesday, reflect a major push toward internationalization on college campuses, more government support for language study and simply more interest from students. Over four years, total enrollment in language courses has grown 12.9 percent.
Monday's College Basketball
AP
Army 64, Sacred Heart 49
Sundhage Hired to Coach US Women
AP
Sundhage, an assistant for China during this year's World Cup, is familiar with many of the U.S. players after coaching in WUSA during the league's three years of existence.
Review: `Redacted' a Harsh Look at War
AP
Certainly this is a story that people need to know about, if they didn't know it already. His technique, however, tends to be gimmicky and cliched.
Report Puts Hidden War Costs at $1.6T
AP
THE COST OF WAR: The economic costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are estimated to total $1.6 trillion - roughly double the amount the White House has requested thus far, according to a report by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee.
Domestic Spying Inquiry Restarted at DOJ
AP
HALTED: The investigation was shut down after investigators were denied security clearances. The previous attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, said Bush, not he, refused to grant the clearances.
Recalls: Folding Chairs, Coffee Biscotti
AP
- About 75,000 plastic folding chairs, manufactured in the United States by Iceberg Enterprises LLC, because the chairs can collapse. The company has received about 15 reports of chairs collapsing, including three reports of minor injuries. The chairs were sold by office supply retailers around the country between August 2005 and July 2007. Details: by phone at 800-580-1310; by Web at http://www.cpsc.gov.
AP Kills Paris Hilton Story
AP
The AP
Recalls
AP
- About 75,000 plastic folding chairs, manufactured in the United States by Iceberg Enterprises LLC, because the chairs can collapse. The company has received about 15 reports of chairs collapsing, including three reports of minor injuries. The chairs were sold by office supply retailers around the country between August 2005 and July 2007. Details: by phone at 800-580-1310; by Web at http://www.cpsc.gov.
Letter: Mukasey wrong on waterboarding
And although his obvious "tow the line" ambiguity on this issue (in the face of others before him in our government and military who declare with certainty that waterboarding is torture) may increase the future use of waterboarding against Americans by our enemies, I nonetheless would like to congratulate Mr. Mukasey on a job well secured.
BLACK AND SILVER STATE
I am standing behind the Oakland Raiders' bench at McAfee Coliseum before their recent game against the Houston Texans when 105 behemoths and Tim Dwight rumble past me with their chin straps fastened really tight.
LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION
By Charlotte Hsu
Since Gov. Jim Gibbons asked university system Chancellor Jim Rogers last month to plan for 5 percent in cuts to higher education's budget, Rogers has done a lot of talking.
Editorial: Tainted gift giving?
At least eight toys, including stuffed Curious George dolls, a music box with ducks on top, a wagon and the popular Aqua Dots bead craft set, were recalled Wednesday and Thursday. All were made in China and imported by American companies - four of them by the same Massachusetts-based importer.
Editorial: A paltry amount
Joshua Corcran was driving his patrol car without flashing lights or sirens because he was heading home for dinner rather than speeding to an emergency call. He struck a car traveling about 50 mph near Sloan, killing four of its five occupants.
Jokers in the cards
What: The Comedy Festival
FLASHPOINT for Nov 13, 2007
This will not be a good week to be a Republican in Nevada. The GOP faithful should prepare to be anywhere from annoyed to disgusted as a sea of national media floods the valley to cover the Democratic presidential debate Thursday. It will be all Democrats all the time and the GOP will have a difficult time getting any message through. Sure, Republican National Committee boss Mike Duncan will be here to remind the media that another party exists. And all the usual bloggers and letter writers will find something offensive or worthy of ridicule in the saturation coverage and ...
'Las Vegas Dream' Laundry workers reach a deal
The laundry, which provides most of the linens used by tourists, met with the Culinary for about an hour Monday before the union announced that both sides had reached a tentative agreement. Details won't be known until the deal is ratified by members today, but initial comments from the Culinary suggest Mission signed on to the union's health plan, the key point of contention. "We are thrilled that the negotiating committee was able to achieve its goal of making the 'Las Vegas Dream' real for laundry workers in Las Vegas," said Kevin Kline, the union's lead negotiator in the Mission ...
Letter: Selling public land cheap hurts the valley
Selling federal land is selling taxpayer assets. A high price has one advantage - it might restrict growth in Southern Nevada and thus constrain our use of vanishing water.
Editorial: Caring for children
It is simply a question of supply and demand. There are not enough foster homes big enough to take large groups of siblings.
But is it art? Panel will decide for Arts District
By Kristen Peterson
For a city that pops up neighborhoods and planned communities overnight, the downtown Arts District has remained a creaky, rusty tank, inching forward with ambition, frustration, hope, excitement and disappointment.
Too big for seat belts, disabled man loses chance to get out and play
By Mike Trask
Daniel Davis loves to go bowling on Wednesdays at Terrible's casino. He has his own ball and shoes and will happily demonstrate his rolling technique to anyone who mentions the sport in his presence.
Letter: Coal plants will use precious water
When the coal companies are confronted with this data, their response has been: The new plants have better technology in place to reduce the amounts of pollutants released into the atmosphere. They are cleaner-burning plants.
LOOKING IN ON: SUBURBS
By Mike Trask
Nobody spoke about the pink elephant in the room at Wednesday night's North Las Vegas City Council meeting.
AARP: Nevada voters need push to get off their duffs
Michael J. Mishak and J. Patrick Coolican
ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS MORRIS
Blah Clothes Put Women on Fashion Strike
AP
The 37-year-old publicist has never been a big style risk taker, but even mainstream names like Jones New York and AnnTaylor- brands that she had been once loyal to - are becoming too staid for her.
Business Watercooler Stories
AP
Americans surveyed overwhelmingly want to buy energy-efficient and eco-friendly products and support fair labor and trade, so long as price remains low and quality high.
CULTURE SHOCKED
By Timothy Pratt
It was 4 in the morning and Rogelio Mejia Izquierdo couldn't figure out how to call from a pay phone in the Luxor to a cell phone in his village, tucked into the world's steepest coastal mountain range - the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta in Colombia.
Thousands watch as historic casino imploded
By Liz Benston, Andy Samuelson
The New Frontier, which will be replaced by the multi-billion-dollar Plaza-branded resort, does not elicit the same nostalgia that the demolition of the historic Stardust, Desert Inn or Sands casinos did before it. Visitors associate these more-famous hotels with the vintage glamour of Las Vegas before the Strip was bought up by corporations and promoted globally with the help of hundreds of millions' worth of marketing campaigns and Vegas-related media and entertainment. Despite being the destination where Elvis Presley made his Las Vegas debut, or hosting other popular acts like Siegfried and Roy and Wayne Newton, the New Frontier, for ...
Senator has traditional fix for U.S.: Tax cuts
By Lisa Mascaro
WASHINGTON - Congress is debating how to rescue upper-middle-class Americans from the reach of the alternative minimum tax and Republican Sen. John Ensign thinks he has come up with a solution.

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