AP News in Brief
Salon
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the region in Iran's southeast has been the focus of violent attacks by a militant group from Iran's Sunni Muslim minority called Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, which has waged a low-level...
Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Endorses Issue 3; Cites New ...
Biloxi Sun Herald
"We also recognize that minorities and minority businesses will have new opportunities as they will have the ability to participate in the construction and operation of the casinos and the workforce they will need once the casinos open thei...
Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
It has two branches that differ only on the "moral" issues of abortion and minority rights. These branches serve to keep the working masses divided and distracted while they are further subjugated into virtual slavery to the elites. In ever...
Night of the census taker
Boston Globe
Obama’s pick, New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg, raised alarm among some minority advocates, who noted that Gregg had opposed increases to census funding and could not be trusted to do everything necessary to reduce undercounts. T...
Marchers in Spain Protest Effort to Ease Abortion Law
New York Times
The bill runs the risk of galvanizing opposition to Spain’s minority government and its prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who has been criticized for his handling of Spain’s persistent economic crisis. Although the conservative ...
Seeking the Joy in Beethoven's Ninth
Miami Herald
(Presumably Schiller's line about all men being brothers wouldn't work in a country where a tiny white minority was clinging to power.) Ode to Joy was performed at the opening of NATO headquarters in 1967, where Buch tells us an American ge...
Suicide Bomb Kills Revolutionary Guard Commanders
Wall Street Journal
Jundallah, comprising Sunnis from the Baluchi ethnic minority, have waged a low-level insurgency in recent years, accusing the mostly Shiite government of persecution. Jundallah has carried out bombings, kidnappings and other attacks agains...
Suicide bomber kills Iran Guards
Financial Times
Jundollah, which claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a Shi’ite mosque in May that killed 25 people, says it is fighting for the rights of the Islamic Republic’s minority Sunnis. Some analysts believe that Jundollah has evolved throu...
College takes slow, steady path to success
Roanoke Times
This year's student body includes a record 193 minority students and 39 international students from 25 countries. Yet the overall goal is not to expand the college so much that it changes, administrators said. "It's because we've grown slow...
A bad traffic jam
Las Vegas Sun
Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, who has served in the Legislature for nearly 40 years, put his finger on the underlying problem: “Our highway budget has been going down while demands on the system have been steadily increasing.”...
Nets' defense needs lots of work
New York Post
The only snags would be if the entire Brooklyn move fell through or if the minority owners collectively balked at the sale. "I have not yet met with him," Thorn said. "But I certainly hope and expect to in the near future." * Jarvis Hayes s...