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Archive for November 14, 2007

Marking boundaries
Julie Seabaugh
Julie Seabaugh: Depends. Are we talking about people like Criss Angel, Steve Wyrick and Lance Burton, or ... you know what? Doesn’t matter. My answer will always be an emphatic “no” as to whether any ...
10:52 p.m.
Adwatch: Giuliani Touts Mayoral Record
AP
LENGTH: 60 seconds.
11:19 a.m.
Arizona Wins Debut Without Coach Olson
AP
The Wildcats missed his presence on the bench in their 76-69 season-opening win over Northern Arizona on Tuesday night.
10:52 a.m.
Congress Passes Head Start Bill
AP
READY FOR LAW: Bush, while unhappy with several aspects of the bill, is expected to sign it.
10:39 a.m.
Quotes From Musharraf
AP
- Will the army ever oust him?
9:48 a.m.
Adwatch: Giuliani and New York
AP
LENGTH: 60 seconds.
9:40 a.m.
Quotes from O.J. Simpson's preliminary hearing
AP
-"I was trying to calm him down because I know that he wanted some answers. I could see it in his face. He wanted an explanation why we were there with his property." - memorabilia ...
9:24 a.m.
Review: `Beowulf' Sexes Up Epic Poem
AP
Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf" is more like "300," only with more violence, if that's possible. And nudity - lots and lots of nudity.
9:24 a.m.
Tuesday's College Basketball
AP
Buffalo 76, South Florida 69
8:15 a.m.
Brian Greenspun on visit from Brookings
It may be a bit presumptuous, speaking for an entire city and all, but it seems an appropriate subject for this column because starting today, Las Vegas has made it to the big time of ...
7:27 a.m.
HOW THE DEBATE WILL WORK: SECRET 100 WILL GET A SHOT AT QUIZZING CANDIDATES
David McGrath Schwartz
Call them the Silver State's Secret 100, the unknown faces of Nevada at Thursday's national Democratic presidential debate.
7:26 a.m.
Out of his Vegas garden, he'll speak to a president
By Timothy Pratt
Within an hour of finishing his shift, Las Vegas gardener Alonso Flores had changed out of his green uniform and into a dark blue suit and white shirt and was sitting at a Starbucks table.
7:26 a.m.
BRING ON THE HOPEFULS. WE'VE GOT ISSUES
By J. Patrick Coolican
BRING ON THE HOPEFULS. WE'VE GOT ISSUES
7:26 a.m.
FLASHPOINT for Nov 14, 2007
Everything's fine in the Nevada construction industry - that is, if you don't count residential construction. That's the message from the Associated General Contractors this week after it commissioned a study by Applied Analysis. "Hotel-casino, ...
7:26 a.m.
Jon Ralston tells us the debate is good, but this caucus is everything
By Jon Ralston
Four years ago Nevada was considered a potential swing state and Democratic fantasists still thought their nominee could win in GOP-locked Nevada. But no one was even chattering about the state's presidential caucus, which would ...
7:25 a.m.
Just let those sleeping dogs of cliches lie
After just months and months of driving long, quaint, death-tempting New Hampshire roads and eating in small, quaint, death-tempting Iowa diners, the political media are ready for a break. And so they holler, "Vegas, baby, ...
7:25 a.m.
From the Sun's Political Blog
Nevada Sen. Harry Reid and Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar held a conference call this afternoon to discuss Thursday's Democratic presidential debate and the importance of the West in the race for the White House in ...
7:25 a.m.
Letter: Smut peddlers lucky county isn't tougher
And now the smut peddlers who fill these news racks with their adult-themed garbage/girlie handbills are planning to fight the increase in court because somehow this increase violates their First Amendment rights.
7:25 a.m.
Editorial: Personal data risk
The Las Vegas Sun reported that the loss of 479 disks from a number of state agencies was revealed last week at a personnel hearing in which James Elste, former chief of information security for ...
7:24 a.m.
Editorial: A new day for Iraq funding
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Tuesday that Bush's latest demand to borrow more billions for Iraq will not be met as easily as were past demands.
7:24 a.m.
Editorial: Hypocritical veto
"Congress owes the taxpayers much better than this effort," Bush said. "The majority was elected on a pledge of fiscal responsibility, but so far it's acting like a teenager with a new credit card."
7:24 a.m.
Letter: Immigration comments absurd
His contention that there would be no debate about illegal immigration if illegal immigrants were white and rich is absurd. If they were rich they never would have come here and if they were white ...
7:24 a.m.
Letter: Bush, cohorts should try waterboarding
Jean Colby, Las Vegas
7:23 a.m.
Letter: Some things worse than waterboarding
I really hope that Mr. Coffman is right and our enemies do start waterboarding our citizens when they are abducted. It is better than having their heads cut off, tongues cut out, eyes gouged out ...
7:23 a.m.
Q+A: Theodore Bikel
Who: Theodore Bikel and Alberto Mizrahi
7:23 a.m.
And the newspaper clipping proves it
Victor Ikeda was sharing a newspaper clipping extolling the virtues of the Minidoka War Relocation Center baseball team when an elderly gentleman in a navy blue leisure suit sidled by, his wife on his arm.
7:22 a.m.
Ron Kantowski on baseball games, and their heroes, that were played behind barbed wire
But during World War II, baseball, this American pastime that has been immortalized and glamorized and rhapsodized and trivialized, at least by Chicago Cubs fans during October, served a much greater purpose for Japanese-Americans who ...
7:22 a.m.
Feds get more time to sell club, recover millions ex-owner owes
By Jeff German
With the help of the Las Vegas City Council, federal marshals have been given breathing room in their rush to sell the Crazy Horse Too strip club by a year's end deadline.
7:22 a.m.
Hybrid System Comes to Full-Size Autos
AP
Some of the largest pickups and sport utility vehicles will soon come in hybrid versions, as automakers bet that consumers want to save fuel without compromising capability. Chrysler LLC will show its first two hybrids ...
6:14 a.m.
Building wraps: Art or schlock ?
By Liz Benston
Along one stretch of the Strip, high-rise condos and hotels are rising from the drafting boards of some of the world's leading architects, catapulting Las Vegas toward cosmopolitan chic. Down the street, a gargantuan banner ...
6:00 a.m.
Poll: Clinton, Romney Maintain Leads
AP
THE NUMBERS - DEMOCRATS
3:43 a.m.
Denmark's Political System
AP
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3:15 a.m.
Poll: Dems Deadlocked, Huckabee Gaining
AP
THE NUMBERS - DEMOCRATS
3:11 a.m.
US Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,861
AP
The AP count is three higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a.m. EST.
1:29 a.m.

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