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Level -> And now... the news. (7/9/2007 4:12:07 PM)
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TULSA, Okla. - “Our sovereignty is under direct attack,” warns a commanding voice emanating from a pool of light in the corner of an otherwise dark airplane hangar. Dan Howard, an airplane salesman by day, is in the middle of his weekly two-hour radio show titled Outraged Patriots, a nighttime broadcast devoted entirely to the topic of illegal immigration.
Howard, who charges that the U.S. government is failing in its duty to protect the country from a “silent invasion” by illegal immigrants, taps into a deep vein of anger and unease in this conservative south central city, where many longtime residents feel besieged by a recent wave of mostly Hispanic newcomers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19466978
NEW YORK (AP) - Dan Patrick is leaving ESPN after 18 years, insisting there is no acrimony but saying he was beginning to take his job for granted.
The former SportsCenter anchor announced his decision on his radio show Monday and said his final show will be Aug. 17. Patrick said he hoped to continue working in radio but wasn't sure if he would do any more television.
"It's been home, but I think I was starting to take it for granted, and I did not want to do that," Patrick said on the air. "I did not think that was fair to these great people."
DETROIT - There was no mourning at this funeral.
Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday afternoon as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its annual convention.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19680493
JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Unable to scrounge together the $165 he needed to repay a loan to buy sheep, Nazir Ahmad made good on his debt by selling his 16-year-old daughter to marry the lender’s son.
“He gave me nine sheep,” Ahmad said, describing his family’s woes since taking the loan. “Because of nine sheep, I gave away my daughter.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19680546
AMMAN, Jordan - A Jordanian court sentenced a man to six months in prison Monday for killing his pregnant sister — an “honor killing” the man said was necessary to uphold his family’s reputation.
The court justified the lenient sentence, saying it was warranted due to the “state of fury” that led to the woman’s slaying.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19683635
NEW YORK - Katie Couric admits she sometimes wishes she hadn’t made the move from NBC’s “Today” to the “CBS Evening News.”
“Of course,” she said in an interview with New York magazine. “I’m human. I’m not going around ‘dee-da dee-da dee.’ I have days when I’m like, ‘Oh my God, what did I do?’ But for some weird reason, they don’t happen that often.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19666286
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