Witnesses say Security 5 killed in Syria RAID - voice of America

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Witnesses in southern Syria say security forces have killed five people, as authorities to expand their crackdown on a five-week anti-Government uprising.

Monday said they saw the bodies in a car the witness, had attacked the security forces is ' A, after rolled tanks and soldiers in the city.

Permission groups reported also shot by security forces in the Duma, a suburb of the capital Damascus.

On Sunday, permission groups said security forces killed at least four civilians and city Jableh, protest against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad of last night arrested many activists of the opposition in the coastline after pro-democracy.? Witnesses say that the murders occurred even if no protests underway.

In the meantime, police raids in Syria Sunday, especially around Damascus and the central city of Homs conducted secret.? Arrests more than grieving funerals for protesters killed last during the two days.

Sweeps against the Government, the demonstrators despite last week lifting the country's nearly 50-year-old emergency law have escalated. The New York Times, quoting the Managing Director who said Syrian rights group Insan Wissam fare, 217 people have disappeared since Friday.

Funerals were held for the victims of the violence Friday and Saturday.? Human rights groups say that at least 120 people were killed in the two-day crackdown.

The US Human Rights Watch called Sunday for a UN investigation into the death and international sanctions to the officials for the murder charge.

President Assad signed a decree ending decades of State of emergency last week.? The ruling was part of his efforts against the Government stop unrest, by an important demand protesters.

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DealBook: When Galleon, spotlight on Rajat Gupta

In the entire Raj Rajaratnam randomised trial, the jury, as soon as Monday could go, it has an elephant in the courtroom: Rajat k. Gupta.

Mr Gupta, once one which most respected businessmen, is not here the world attempting to still it has criminally been charged. But hardly a day if it is the jury in Mr. Rajaratnam study - the Government has largest insider trading case in a generation - Mr. Gupta, the former head of McKinsey & consultancy company not heard.

A wiretap on which Mr tells Gupta, a former Director at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Rajaratnam, the Galleon group hedge fund ran, the Bank of secret Board judges heard discussions.

Alessandro Della Bella/Keystone, via associated press Rajat k. Gupta, a co-conspirator is excellent.

You heard a tape of Mr Rajaratnam boasting to a colleague, that Goldman Director him on the Bank's earnings over a public announcement of typed had. In another recorded call Mr. Rajaratnam said its agents, that he had received word, the somewhat good idea was to happen at Goldman.

Public prosecutors was also telephone bills, as well as trading records, that Mr. Rajaratnam soon after his phone calls with Mr Gupta Goldman shares traded.

Mr Gupta still is mentioned in the Government not accusation against Mr Rajaratnam. The United States attorney's Office in Manhattan, the Mr Gupta role in the case for at least three years was investigated, appointed a co-conspirator of Mr. Rajaratnam but has not paid him him criminally.

Instead, federal prosecutors of their formal charges against Mr Rajaratnam have built around five cooperating witnesses guilty involvement in insider trading conspiracies with the defendant pleaded have.

Legal experts say there are too many reasons for prosecutors conducting a criminal investigation accuse some co-conspirators during the loading process others do not.

"What drives the strength of the evidence against each individual co-conspirators and tactical considerations, these decisions", said Anthony M. Sabino, law professor at St. John's University.

There was no indication that Mr Gupta in Mr. Rajaratnam case in the months before the study would play no role. But the beginning of March, one week before selection jury, the Securities and Exchange Commission shockwaves through corporate America sent, if there is a civil administrative proceedings against Mr Gupta filed. The Agency accused him leaking Board meetings to Mr. Rajaratnam of Goldman and Procter & gamble, serving also as Director to resign last month.

"The S.E.C. completely unfounded claims", said Gary p. Naftali's, Mr. Gupta lawyer, at the time. "Mr Gupta 40-year record is ethical behavior, to guard integrity and commitment to its customers trust unconditional."

Mr. Gupta, an Indian of Kolkata and graduated from the Harvard Business School, is the most famous Executive ensnared by far reaching the Government investigation into insider dealing with hedge funds. From grace his sudden case has stunned the business world.

As global managing director of McKinsey, Mr. Gupta, 62, was a trusted advisor to Chief executives including Jeffrey R. Immelt of General Electric and Henry R. Kravis of private-equity firm Kohlberg of Kravis Roberts. A prominent philanthropist, he was a senior advisory on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

While the last decade it rose close to Mr. Rajaratnam, a major financial supporter of the Indian School of business, highly regarded graduate school, Mr. Gupta contributed to starting. At the time of his retirement by McKinsey in 2007, he went into business with Mr. Rajaratnam, a private equity company was founded. Mr investment Gupta also with Mr Rajaratnam.

It was during this time a nine month stretch in 2008, that the Government of Mr. Rajaratnam wiretapped phone. Have these recordings helped to bring the Government charges against 26 persons, 20 of them pleaded guilty.

Federal prosecutors seem weaker evidence against Mr Gupta as against some of Mr. Rajaratnam other co-conspirators have. Outsourcing tips with Mr. Rajaratnam, for example, two cooperating witness - Anil Kumar and Rajiv Goel - several wiretaps can be heard.

Mr. of Gupta's case played federal prosecutors only a wiretap on the Mr Gupta Goldman passed, Board meetings to Mr. Rajaratnam. A call of July 2008, Mr Gupta Mr Rajaratnam said that the Bank Board was a purchase of Wachovia or the American international group.

Prosecutors not evidence, but present, traded the Mr. Rajaratnam on this tip.

Prosecutors also prevent certain rules could be used against Mr Gupta two of the most onerous eavesdropping during the process played, legal experts say.

In a call, Mr. Rajaratnam, a colleague, says "yesterday I heard from someone who on the Board of Goldman Sachs, they are going, losing $2 per share." In the other, Mr. Rajaratnam says its agents, "I have a conversation said that something good happen Goldman."

Because these conversations between Mr. Rajaratnam and his team have been, a judge could they evidence, declare inadmissible hearsay that is, it also indirect or speculative against Mr Gupta used.

But prosecutors could try the talks against Mr Gupta under the co-conspirators exception to the rule referred to use hearsay. The theory is that Mr. Rajaratnam suspected the statements about Goldman to promote conspiracy between Mr. Rajaratnam and Mr Gupta have been made.

Without these two statements by Mr Rajaratnam on tips of Goldman, prosecutors were obliged to evidence such as telephone bills and trading records, Mr guilt produce leave Gupta.

In the S.E.C. civil proceedings, the Agency has to do a lower burden of proof as federal prosecutors in a criminal action. A S.E.C. administrative judges not hearsay is subject to rules.

An unusual twist Mr Gupta S.E.C. sued last month, dissenting, that an administrative proceeding by a jury in wrong Federal Court had excluded him. Mr Gupta had more protection is in one administrative procedures, including the right to check proof of S.E.C.. Judge has still not ruled on the question.

If the S.E.C. There is, a judge could fines Mr Gupta and bar him impose of as an officer or Director of a company.

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THE Guantanamo files: Rebel Libyan layers of prisoner and US of ally of the species

Mr Qumu, 51, is today to oust an important figure in the Libyan rebels battle, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, reportedly one of the leaders of a ragtag band of fighters known as the Darnah Brigade for his birthplace, this shoddy port city of 100,000 people in the northeastern Libya. The former foe and prisoner of the United States is now an ally of the kind, a remarkable turnabout as a result of the shift of American policy, rather than any obvious change of Mr Qumu.

He was a tank driver in the 1980s Soviet troops take years, while the Central Intelligence Agency was religious militant billion expenditure in the Libyan army trying to support of Afghanistan. Mr Qumu moved to Afghanistan in the early 1990's, as well as Osama bin Laden and other former mujahideen were forcibly against their former benefactor, the United States apply.

He was in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the membership of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Colonel Qadhafi accused that taken prisoner and after Guantanamo sent - partly on the basis of the information Government.

"The Libyan Government prisoner a ' dangerous man with no qualms about committing terrorist acts," "says that designated 2005 review, obviously, results obtained by the New York Times quote Libyan intelligence."?"He was known as one of the commanders of the Afghan Arabs, extremist'"the Libyan information on, to Arab fighters who remained in Afghanistan after the anti-Soviet Jihad."

If this evaluation of Guantanamo was written, was the United States service on terrorism works closely with Colonel Qadhafi intelligence. The United States now, is supplier of the international coalition a leading, try - to force Colonel Qadhafi and is with air makes the rebels, including Mr Qumu secure.

The classified Guantanamo review of Mr Qumu claims that he suffered under "non-specific personality disorder" and tells - again relying on the Libyan Government as a source - a history of drug addiction and drug trafficking, and charges of murder and armed assault.

1993 The document claims, Mr Qumu escape from a Libyan prison, fled to Egypt and went on to Afghanistan, to training in a camp run by Mr bin Laden. Mr Qumu denied in Guantanamo know terrorist activities. He said he feared prosecution for Libya, where he confronted and asked to go where "you (the United States) me, according to a hearing summary can look at" returned to another country.

However, 2007, he is released from Guantanamo after Libya and in the next year in an amnesty for militants.

Colonel Qadhafi has allegations about Mr. Qumu past in statements Al Qaeda blamed for the entire Libyan uprising quoted. Series found in the rebels nervously the presence of at least a few former members American officials.

The walls of buildings along the street in Darnah are with the usual anti-Gaddafi and pro-Western slogans, in English and Arabic, all found eastern Libya decorated. But there are extensions: "No. Qaeda" and "no to extremism."

Darnah has reason to be sensitive. The city has a long history of Islamic militancy, including a revolt against Colonel Qadhafi rule led by Islamists in the mid-1990s, which led a vicious crackdown. Activists from here are credited with beginning the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which later announced, that it was with Al-Qaeda branch company, and fight the militant as Mr. Qumu in Afghanistan.

Darnah has although, notably, a claim to the world's most productive recruiting ground for suicide bombers. An analysis of the 600 suicide bombers in Iraq by combating terrorism Center at West point that that the 440, that their residence in a recruiting roster 52 of Darna, the best of each city, with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia waren40 time send as 1930–32 lists, as the next largest source of 51.

In addition to Mr Qumu, say local residents the Darnah Brigade of Abdul Hakim al-Hasadi, another Libyan thought to be in Afghanistan during the reign of the Taliban, a militant, was when Al Qaeda had training camps, is run.

Mr Qumu last week to enable Mr Hasadi, but has not for a promised interview, in crumpled fatigues with light beard and a lazy left eye, constantly half closed. He denied that Mr Qumu was in his group, recently the martyrs of Abu Salim Brigade, according to a prison in Tripoli, where 1,200 inmates were slaughtered in 1996 renamed. Mr Qumu sons said in his Brigade, he.

Mr Hasadi said "I white not convince such as everyone, that we here are not Al Qaeda,". "Our goal is to overthrow Qadhafi," he added. "I know that you never believe you me, but it's true."

At the moment seem Western observers in Benghazi, the temporary rebel capital 180 miles from here, content, to accept the assurances. "We are more concerned about Al Qaeda infiltration of outside as the indigenous,", said one. "Most of them have a local agenda so that they present not as much as a threat to the West."

Rod reported Nordland from Darnah, and Scott Shane from Washington. Kareem Fahim contributed reporting from Benghazi, Libya.

This article was revised and according to the following correction:

Correction: April 25, 2011

An earlier version of the image caption with this article identified Abdul Hakim al-Hasadi incorrectly as Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda am Qumu.

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The Guantanamo files: Classified files provide new insights in prisoners

WASHINGTON-A treasure trove of more than 700 secret military documents offers new and detailed accounts of men who have made time in the prison of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, as well as new insights into the evidence against 172 men up there still locked.

The US prison in Guantanamo Bay holds still 172 prisoners, most rated "high risk". This article is based on a huge treasure trove of secret government documents leaked last year for the anti-secrecy organization of WikiLeaks, and to the New York Times from a different source on condition of anonymity made available.Editors and journalists, who edited this article will choose you answer questions about the coverage of the material. Prayed a prisoner in the Guantanamo Bay prison outside his cell in 2007, in an area for the most compatible prisoners.

Military intelligence officials, in reviews of prisoners written from February 2002 until January 2009, its history evaluated and provided insights into the tensions between captors and prisoners. What started as a jury-rigged experiment after the terrorist attacks of 2001 now seems a permanent American institution, and the leaked files, show why setting of bare the patchwork and contradictory evidence, which would never have stand in many cases in criminal court or a military tribunal.

The documents record meticulously the prisoners ' Pocket litter "if it is collected: a Kabul bus ticket, fake passports and forged student ID, a receipt restaurant also a poem. You list the prisoners diseases - hepatitis, tuberculosis, gout and depression. You note their serial interrogations, enumerate - even after six or more years of relentless questioning - remaining "areas of potential use." Describe in mates' infractions - die-cutting waking, apart tear slippers, screaming about cell blocks. And the analysts try to strengthen, it years of the prisoners comments to a different data set the case for further detention.

The secret documents, the New York Times and several other news organizations, show that most of the remaining 172 prisoners as a "high risk" of posing a threat to the United States and their allies, if published without appropriate rehabilitation and oversight have rated. But they show that about a third of the 600 already transmitted also a greater number of prisoners who have - left Cuba on other countries - have been called "High risk" before they were released or handed over to the custody of other Governments.

The documents are largely silent - including sleep deprivation, of loops in stress positions and prolonged exposure to cold temperatures - about the use of harsh interrogation tactics at Guantánamo, moved the global condemnation. Several prisoners, but are as shown, make up false stories about subject to abuse.

The Government basic accusations against many detainees have long public and often from prisoners and their lawyers have been challenged. But the dossiers, prepared under the Bush administration a deeper look at the frightening, if flawed, intelligence, which has the Obama administration, also persuaded, that the prison can not easily be closed.

Prisoners who worried especially counterterrorism officials include some defendants, assassins vowed for Al Qaeda, activists for a cancelled suicide mission and prisoners to their interrogators that she would wreak revenge against America.

The military analysts files offer new information about the berüchtigsten their prisoners, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. At some point to March 2002 he ordered a former Baltimore resident, don suicide bomb vest and perform a "martyrdom" attack on Pervez Musharraf, then Pakistan's President, according to the documents. But as the man, Majid only a test Khan, the Pakistani mosque that he had said that Mr Musharraf would visit the assignment proved for his "willingness to die for the cause."

The files show the method of forecast years in the case of a false identity collect intelligence in war zones, or simple accident led to the police buildings innocent men. In May 2003, for example, included Afghan national army of prisoner 1051, an Afghan named Sharbat, close to the scene of a roadside bomb explosion that display documents. He denied involvement, saying that he was a shepherd. Guantanamo de Briefers and analysts agreed, citing its consistent history, his knowledge of animals and his ignorance of "simple military and political concepts," Beware of depending on its assessment. A "enemy combatants" explains still a military tribunal to him anyway, and he was not sent home until 2006.

Obama administration officials condemned the publication of classified documents, obtained last year by the anti-secrecy group of WikiLeaks, however, to the times from a different source. The officials pointed out, that an administration task force set up in January 2009 came the information in the prisoners reviews and in some cases checked at different conclusions. So they said, can the documents of the times published not a current view of the Government of prisoners at Guantanamo is.

See the results in the files:

?Switching 20th hijacker: the best documented case an abusive interrogation methods at Guantanamo survey was the coercive, end of 2002 and early 2003, by Mohammed Qahtani. A Saudi believes man 11 attacks to have been an intended participant in the Sept., Mr Qahtani was sexually humiliated like a dog, and forced to urinate on themselves restricted. His file says, "Although publicly shared entries claim that prisoner was subject to harsh interrogation methods in the early stages of detention," his confessions "appear to be true and are confirmed in the reports from other sources." But claims that it allegedly found made of at least 16 other prisoners have - especially in April and May 2003 - are cited in their files without any reservation.

Charlie Savage reported from Washington, and William Glaberson and Andrew W. lessons from New York. Scott Shane contributed reporting from Washington, and Benjamin Weiser and Andrei Scheinkman from New York.

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Lincoln ordered a blockade of the South and forces leave Union two arsenals. A room for debate Forum on what endangered plant and animal species can save, if the endangered species act not.

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Legislator search Street after confirmation to help Unclog

The proposal to the end of the Senate would be validating approximately 200 executive positions pare the most serious effort in the last few years which makes Constitutional Chamber of the advice and consent. Amounted to a rare voluntary surrender of congressional power, and it has high-profile cross-party support with approval, of the majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada and the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

"We are very good people lose, because the process so overwhelming, so long and has become so double", said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, and a leading proponent of the Bill. "Why should a complete f.b.i. background check will return to that to age of 18 years for a single, in a part time Board?"

Since the Senate President George Bush's selection of John G. Tower as Secretary of Defense 1989 refused, have Senate confirmations bruising become public relations to delve that deeply into a nominee background. President Obama first picks for several cabinet posts moved their nominations to the process embarrassing details.

Several Presidents, frustrated by delays, tried to work around that by so-called recess appointments while Congress is not in the meeting. Mr Obama the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid install services used this tactic last summer.

Backers of the confirmation measure say she want a difficult task for medium-sized nominated trying the Senate a charged partisan era navigate call to facilitate it. While it not senior positions, the legislation and related proposal to speed up filling about 250 part-time jobs would affect an explosion in ├╝berpr├╝fbare posts from about 280 to repent, when President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to 1,400 in the beginning.

It's never easy to tinker with the rules in an institution known for its resistance to change.

With a view to the list of Secretaries, Department Directors, chief finance officers and advisory board members are from the Senate docket would be removed, some conservative for wizard type see the effort that white expand House carte blanche for bureaucratic urban sprawl. The change would limit the leverage, the legislators have management by reducing the number of dates, which could block them to win concessions or other relevant information.

Writing for the conservative Heritage Foundation, urged David S. Addington, Chief of staff, Vice President Dick Cheney was the defeat of the Bill, the editors say the Constitution "the President appoint the Royal power, give the officers of the Government itself."

Conservative senators have raised similar objections.

"The President appoint Tsar and bureaucrats without Congressional oversight allows the problem adds a constantly growing, unaccountable Government", Moira Bagley, said a spokeswoman for Senator Paul, Republican of Kentucky, the objections to the measure has led to the expression.

Others make, officials of confirmation be exempted to downgraded stature among colleagues, who lose the contributions taken into account.

And some say the Senate, where the slow pace and partisan maneuvering on acknowledgment has held free offices for long distances at high level, is too timid and should more far-reaching changes for all Presidents appointed.

"This is a start, but it not the real problems with the rules or with the confirmation process, address", said Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, which has to discuss proposed shortening of the time that legislators to cut a nomination a filibuster up to 4 hours of 30. "These are small steps."

Mr. Udall helped push the Senate in considering an overhaul of the confirmation of order earlier this year process he limit threatened a ground battle for a proposal to the filibusters force. Procedural changes agreed to avert a showdown, to look at the lead, and the proposal, the number was confirmation of the Senate a result.

Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the No. 3 Republican in the Chamber and a former Cabinet Secretary, said the plunge of the jobs, the confirmation has cut the time for more pressing issues in the Senate and put on an unnecessary burden nominated require.

"We pull some unsuspecting citizen through this gauntlet investigations and questioning," said Mr Alexander syndrome has called the process of "innocent until nominated". "they are very happy if they made by all without a criminal will be displayed."

The legislation, which the Senate homeland security and Affairs earmarked this month charged, would some 200 bodies remove - many of them public affairs or Congress relations jobs for various agencies - the Senate control. Among the notable positions on the list are the United States Treasurer, which officials say has become a largely ceremonial position, and the Director of the Mint.

Authors of the Bill said that they have selected positions, which they consider not central setting policy or money. For example, contains the list of the Assistant Secretary of agriculture for the Congressional Relations; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for networks and information integration; and the Assistant Attorney General for legislative affairs, among others. The Bill also proposes to stop confirmation of the chief finance officers in many agencies.

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, the State Committee of leads, said that the decline in jobs requiring confirmation President vacancies more quickly fill enabled should be.

Mr Lieberman said "Eighteen months in the Obama administration, 25 percent of its candidates were still unconfirmed,". "This is not a blind alley."

In addition to the exemption of 200 jobs, the measure would create a working group in Central Administration to report within 90 days of proposals for the creation of one single "smart forms" candidates "all those one way questions enable sollzu a single point in time."

The legislation - you would have to be approved by both houses of Congress, when the House in the Senate on these issues delayed - is to be complemented by a new rule Senate which automatically place would the names of dozens of appointed boards and commissions in the Senate once they have submitted calendar for approval a required questionnaire. Senators would have 10 days to intervene.

Mr Alexander said "Instead our time confirmed an appointment, to spend the literary society or the Morris k. Lee Udall Scholarship Fund, we should work on the reduction of the debt". "We end up with more than 1,000 nominated, which is still more than President Clinton had and four times more than President Kennedy appointed."

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A test run for standards school, to promote the deeper idea

In the last month for a paper on the influence of the media on young people, they had it column on the role of social media in the Tunisian uprising and a magazine read with a study on the effects of mobile phones and computers in the young people, a newspaper article titled 4200-word "is Google making us stupid?"

A math teacher, Jose Rios, used by one or two days on probabilities, drawing curves glockenf?rmiger on the Blackboard, which illustrate pattern known as a normal distribution. This year he stretched out the lesson in the day, and had students work in groups to try, with the heights of 15 young in the class are the same type of graphic.

"Finally, they found she could not because the sample was too small", said Mr of Rios. "they learned that the size of the sample questions, and I have not, to tell them."

In three years could much teaching in most of the country looks like what at Hillcrest, experiment with new curriculum known as common core standards one of the 100 schools in New York City.

42 States, district of Columbia and the Virgin Islands the new standards, an ambitious have on signed set of goals to try the lists and math formulas, increase the bar not only on what students in each class are expected to learn to read go, but also on how teachers teach to be expected.

The standards, to the year 2014, will enter into force a collection replace guidelines for State aid, which have become the Achilles heel of the law No. child left behind. Many States, New York, including lowered standards in push-to the law request meet that all students reach grade level, measured by each State, in English and mathematics. President Obama expressed the desire to rewrite the law, and many experts predict that the common core will be a key part of the efforts.

The new standards provide specific objectives, which should prepare by the end of the twelfth class students for college work. Book reports will ask students to analyze, summarize. Presentations are classified students express their ideas are sometimes as convincing. Papers need history reading from multiple sources; The goal is to see students, how beliefs and inclinations of the kind and way different can affect people describe the same events.

There are a number of challenges.

There are guidelines for what students are expected to do in each grade, but it is still up to districts to fill schools and teachers in the finer points of the curriculum, as reading the books.

There are no national body responsible for that the standards to be carried, due to the fears of to much control of the formation of the Federal Government. So far only a few other major cities, including Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia, have begun to apply the standards in the classroom. And depending on how no. child is left behind consumer groups, it can still leave everyone will notice to measure an own success.

"The standards a historic opportunity, we now have a target in the value of seeking, but only time will tell if they are created historical change", Chester E. Finn Jr., an Assistant Secretary of education in the Reagan administration and the President said the the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, supports a group, the national standards.

With 3,200 students, Hillcrest, the second largest school in the city is a pilot. Its size and diversity - white are a minority (4%), Muslims are religious plurality (30 percent) and one-tenth of students are English learn - an ideal laboratory test such as the standards in the city, could work, said officials made.

On the last Wednesday Jill Lee, an English teacher, a unit of the importance of the American dream by assigning a first person essay, as it once, but by he each student one interview immigrants and a profile of the person write closed.

Eleni Giannousis a change made in English: 10-grade class that Blanch some purists might make. She had students see filmed stage performance of the "death of a salesman," with Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, before they read the game. The idea was, ask the students to absorb information over a medium that was it for entertainment, a way they experiment with their lesson plans to try to achieve the new goals.

"It not to make things easier for the students, but to experience a classic in a different way to them," said Ms Giannousis.

While still healthy amounts of fiction will include English lessons, the standards that students should say texts read more nonfiction as they get older to them for the kinds of material she read in college and careers. In the fourth grade students about the same amount of "Literature" and "Information" should read texts, in accordance with the standards; 45 Percent 30 / 70 should the eighth class literary, 55 percent of information, and of 12 degrees, which should be split.

Neocber77 Polaków Suransky city said academic head of the Office, the city plans to create a teaching package with exercises that have used the teacher at Hillcrest and other schools. student work that have associated with them; and guidelines for the evaluation of the work.

At a training session last month teams, which asked several schools in the pilot to list lessons, had learned they were. Teachers from the forward School of creative writing, a middle school in the Williamsburg Bridge section of the Bronx, on a piece of cardboard wrote: "Visuals help make sense of students" and "many students are far below grade level read."

Timothy Shanahan, Professor of urban education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, that the common core standards helped, for as you read in science statement integrate write said that as a whole, the standards make no adjustments for students who learn English or for children, the kindergarten books without that can enter suspended.

"When I'm fifth grade teaching and I have a boy in my class that threw for a first grader read, it is a grade-level text not goes to him to do any good, doesn't matter what say the standards", ", he said."

Mr. Polakow-Suransky, cautioned against overly optimistic expectations.

"This is not one of those things where you flip and there was morning, is the switch all be different," he said.

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Protesters mistrust to terminate deal for Yemen leader

Mr Saleh offer, its Arab neighbors was put down, his opposition has accentuated the subunits. The opposition coalition, known as the J.M.P., said Sunday it welcomed the initiative, but only, if a Government of national unity after was founded in Mr Saleh, not immediately required as of the current proposal together with the Gulf Cooperation Council joined. The coalition parties want to be part of a Government with Mr Saleh.

The protesters are a harder line take and say that the J.M.P. is are affiliated with the requirements of the so-called "independent" youth non-permanent political parties. Leaders of some who said tens of thousands of street demonstrators - originally young people but now Yemenis from all segments of society, who have set up permanent protests camps in cities across the country - they suspected that Mr Saleh could wiggle of the business at a later date, and try to expand his 33-year rule.

Many said that by the youth protests in Tunisia and Egypt, the autocrat in these countries out relatively quickly and without conditions forced were inspired. They said they wanted a similar result here.

Some demonstrators of the outright rejected the offer. Others, as Atiaf Alwazir, a youth organizer in Sana'a, said that her, were at best mixed feelings. "It's just another game," she said. "Let do the J.M.P., to be politically what they do to negotiate, and the youth will do, what to do and remain on the road."

Mrs Alwazir, said the idea of immunity for Mr Saleh and his sons had shared many.

Protesters have repeatedly their rejection of the offer of immunity of the President, expressed, although on Sunday, there was some chatter about social-networking sites for a more pragmatic approach argue, when ushering Mr Saleh meant it to stop.

Typical for his political cunning and a movement set the feeling that Mr Saleh was adoption of the Gulf Cooperation Council proposal other demonstrators that seem to make opposition in a negative light, as if it were a work to stop the country from falling into chaos.

"This initiative is because of the regime," said Tawfiq al-Shaoubi, a protest leader in the city of Taiz, home of Yemen's largest demonstration. "We protest keep is," he said. "This regime must go, so we can a build a new modern society in the Yemen."

In Sana, protesters who camped out for weeks have seemed to not have the intention of moving and continue with their demonstrations on Sunday, singing, "No negotiation, no dialogue - withdraw or flee," according to Reuters.

In an interview with BBC Arabic, Mr Saleh said television on Sunday, that he would not hand over power, what he called "Insurgents."

"Who should I pass it?" he told the BBC. "Those who try to make a coup d ' état?" No We do it by polls and referendums. We are invite to monitor international observers. "All coup is rejected, because we are committed to the constitutional legitimacy and accept no chaos."

Mr Saleh also said that Al-Qaeda, which is known to have a presence in the country, had infiltrated protest camps. "Al Qaeda move in the camps, and this is very dangerous," he said. "Why is not on in the West this destructive work and their dangerous consequences for the future of search?"

Added its call, the ballot box to use the suspicion among his opponents. "The G.C.C. announced that he required himself, says after 30 days to leave, and he, that he is leaving only through the ballot box", said Ms. Alwazir, the youth leader. "There is no trust," she said. "First of all, as he is himself now contradict."

An independent Yemeni diplomat, who wanted to not be identified, said, that Mr Saleh seemed confused and reluctant to step aside, but he had his own learned from the experience of the Egypt and knew that he should take advantage of this offer of immunity.

He said that some in the opposition increase Yemen's delicate condition, with violence in remote provinces, and the economy ground to a halt, they were understood, ready why something compromising.

"Some leaders J.M.P. understand, the current status of the Yemeni scene", said the diplomat. "they recognize that Yemen faced on the edge of total collapse and possibly civil war." But others, saying, especially Islamists from the Islah party, to keep pressure, until she gives take signaling a split not only between demonstrators and the formal political parties, but also within the Coalition itself.

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Syrian army storms city where rebellion began

The entry in Dara' seemed a signal a new chapter in a RAID to the more than 350 people, with the single highest toll killed on Friday. As far as hewing, a mixture of the promised concessions and blunt force, indicated Monday that it searches for the latter to crush a wave of dissent in virtually every Syrian province, the once undisputed rule of law has shaken President Bashar al-Assad had chosen Government.

Residents said at least eight tanks entered Dara' (a) in the dawn from four directions, and there were reports used by artillery and mortars. Telephone lines have been to the area, so that first-hand difficult, and in the vicinity crossings with Jordan were border sealed from the Syrian side Jordanian officials said. But a cloud of black smoke rises shown smuggled video out of the city on the horizon with salvos of heavy gunfire echo in the distance.

Protesters said the toll was almost certain to rise. Facilities were in the streets, but snipers on the roofs prevented residents and medical staff to retrieve.

"The armed forces have occupied the city of Dara'a," said a resident breathless as he footage shot Monday morning. "they are heading toward the center of the city."

Other smuggled footage showed heavily armed soldiers parked positions behind walls, a few meters away from a tank in what seem to be a green, main street. Witnesses said some tanks move in the direction of the Omari mosque, it was cited by organizers a landmark, which has served as the headquarters of the art for demonstrators.

"God is great, Bashar," a protestor called on video on the Internet, addressing President Bashar al-Assad with his first name. "Why are you attack?"

The city slung building and about 75,000 inhabitants has become almost synonymous with the revolt, reign of the Assad family has provided the greatest challenge to four decades. Protests it broke in March after security forces arrested a group of high school students Doodle accused anti-Government graffiti on the wall, galvanizing demonstrations that have spread to virtually every province in Syria.

Other activists said Syrian security forces entered two towns on the outskirts of the capital - Duma and Maadamiah - carrying out dozens of arrests. Conflicts have primarily in the poor, troubled cities, which encircle Damascus very and activists said there were reports of shooting during the raids which began Monday morning.

Residents reported that security forces the cities was surrounded on Sunday. Everyone leave or enter, they said, was looking for, in an apparent attempt to stop demonstrators from the March on the capital, a stronghold of the Assad family rule.

Based, a city inhabited by Syria's Sunni Muslim majority and members of the minority Alawite - a heterodox Muslim sect, which the Government support is much - security forces killed at least 12 people in a RAID, which began Sunday and permanent in the night. A resident said demonstrators burned a car army and took a soldier hostage.

"The army is all about the area provided", another resident said who gave his name as Abu Ahmed. "I can not describe how bad the situation was all night." "It is a street war."

He said had strengthened the shooting tension between Sunni and Alawite in the city, a potentially dangerous manifestation in a country with a mosaic of religious and ethnic minorities, of which fear they threaten many collapse of the Government can.

He said "The plate have been dashed," with an Arab expression. "There is dispute between us now, it is planted was and the problem will forever be based are available."

The widening crackdown comes amid reports that many of them of Hims and the surrounding cities of Damascus, have scores of residents in Syria since disappeared Friday, out of the troubled city activists say. In Saqba, one who said the city suburbs, an organizer, 100 people Friday, with no record of their arrest had disappeared.

"It is about much more bloodshed, are," Wissam said fare, head of Insan, a Syrian human rights group, "all signals from my point of view, showing."

Mr price said that his organization all in all had compiled the names of 217 people, which had disappeared since early Friday. At least 70 of them came from the towns near the capital outskirts and 68 others from the third-largest city of Hims, Syria and the particularly protests of last week. Taken together, said he had documented group names of the missing from 17 towns and villages.

He said "It just don't stop". "Names keep pouring."

The crackdown is yet another indication that the decision of the Government draconian emergency lift since 1963, turn out to be more rhetoric than reform. Although the Government Thursday as a radical step has traded his removal, some have the last few days is the bloodiest and most repressive since the uprising began. On Friday alone killed more than 100 people in 14 cities.

"We this regime not more trust,", another protester said in based.

Human rights Watch calls for the United Nations to set up an international inquiry into her death and calls for the United States and Europe, impose sanctions on officials responsible for the shooting and arrests of hundreds of demonstrators.

"After the Friday carnage, it does not have enough condemn the violence", said Joe Stork, the Middle East, Deputy Director of the Organization, based in New York.

Employees of the New York Times contributed to this report from Beirut and Damascus, Syria. Ranya Kadri contributed reporting from Aqaba, Jordan.

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News Analysis: Syrian crisis his tests the courage autocratic ruler

Joseph Eid/Agence France-Presse - Getty ImagesPresident Bashar al-Assad Syria has indicated willingness to implement major reforms, but time seems to out run.

CAIRO - President Bashar al-Assad Syria years has nourished a reputation as a teenager and he inherited from his father, future-oriented leader in a region full of aging autocrat, a man who could reform even the repressive police state given time and opportunity.

His country is worsening the crisis - a bloody battle between police and demonstrators, closely observed all over the world – his father seems a chance, stave off violence with restraint or even reforms, a path never took fat. But as the number of fatalities volumes, and the ominous disappearance of dissidents numbers increase, seems his time run. International pressure is growing, and so is the outrage which has inspired his violent suppression.

Mr Assad could still succeed in quelling the unrest, diplomats and analysts say. But, this to do he would recognize the hopes in him once inserted, as soon as he makes his father before 11 years inherited and confronted with his own family, which controls Syria thuggish security apparatus and seems too hard for a urge continued crackdown are must. At least 120 people were killed since Friday, the bloodiest day of the uprising five weeks old.

Mixed signals were created in the last day or two, of which, he will be the way. On the one hand, Mr Assad has indicated willingness, announced major reforms as the last week, when he officially Syria draconian emergency powers law repealed to enact. But there are dark warnings harder repression as well as. Notoriously opaque in Syria's political environment, it is impossible to say how the President is leaning.

"This is the moment of truth for Bashar al-Assad,", said Jean-Pierre Filiu, a visiting professor at Columbia University, has written in detail about Syria. "He may have the ability, reforms on his own Baath party, but he has the will to do?"

More than seen in one of the other revolts in the Middle East could significantly, maybe the consequences of his decision. In contrast to Egypt and Tunisia, Syria is home to a checkerboard floor of defensive religious and ethnic minorities, and many fear that at the end of the Assad family 40-year-dynasty brutal revenge killings and struggles for power could unleash. Chaos could easily spill over Syria's borders, in the neighbouring Lebanon and beyond.

The Obama administration has already Iran help to support, Mr Assad accused. When Syria fell, it would be a striking blow to the theocratic regime in Tehran and elsewhere has Syria that mark depended for its influence in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. But Iran's nemeses - including Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia - are also deeply scared by the prospect of a change of regime in Syria that civil conflict could set from a chaotic Iraq style.

Even though Mr Assad survived, the turbulence have a profound impact on that, Middle East policy should some analysts say. "Our entire Syria policy for the last two and a half years is based on always Syria and Israel back on the table for peace,", said Andrew Tabler, analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East policy. "Now that the fuels Bashar Israel and the United States it has accused of this challenge is even more difficult to do it for him."

In a sense, Mr. Assad is now facing, the crisis is the same, which makes his years at the defined has: he has repeatedly hopes, both in the domestic and abroad, only inspired to let them. Western leaders courted him, in the hope he would his country democratizing, support peace with Israel, and more to the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Syrian liberal enjoyed a short "Damascus Spring" the greater openness after his accession, but it soon disappeared. The illusions to promote helped his personal style. Other than his stern father Hafez al-Assad, who in a coup d ' état in the years 1970 took over Bashar al-Assad power quietly and almost meek seemed. He had studied ophthalmology in London, and an elegant British-born wife. He is fluent in English and French and widely read.

Even up to the last few weeks, "it was to see him separately by the regime, he could of his role, step a trend," said a Syria-based analyst, spoke under the condition of anonymity. But the patience seems finished. Calls for reform have transformed some of unheard until now in demands for an end to the Assad Government.

Like other autocrats, Mr Assad can be compensated by the reality of the uprising. Syrian State-run media have described as the work of agents provocateurs from Israel, Saudi Arabia and even Lebanon. Some diplomats, who know him personally say they believe Mr Assad understands what is happening - and what he needs to stop him to do - but is too slow or too shy to perform it.

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Jimmy Carter and other ex-leaders to travel to N. Korea

SEOUL - former President Jimmy Carter was in North Korea on Tuesday for talks to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula to get warring.

Remain the so-called six talks on the Denuclearization of North Korea in the balance, and Mr.. Carter said official dialogue with the North "appears at a standstill."

Mr. Carter and three former leaders from Europe arrived in Beijing on Sunday. Travel with Mr. Carter, the former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari were; Gro Harlem Brundtland, a past Secretary of State; and the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. The four are members of the elders, an independent group of world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela.

"It is clearly a great deal of distrust between North and South Korea," said Mr Ahtisaari. "But the use is too high to the standoff continue to permit."

The oldest group had hoped meetings with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, although Mr. Carter said Monday that such a meeting still had not established.

It was also unclear whether Mr.. Carter, an American man release by North Korea on unspecified charges since November in prison, would press North Korean officials.

On Thursday, following meetings in Pyongyang, is the oldest group in the South Korean capital Seoul travel.

Earlier this month, an American man said the North Korean Government already "his crime had allowed." Sources in the United States, which name it, said the man was a Korean American businessman in his sixties from Orange County, California young-Su Jun, the South Korean News Agency, Yonhap, citing.

Yonhap said Mr Jun had been taken into custody in connection with illegal religious activities in the North.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mark toner, confirmed that an American was kept from the North, but he and other officials United States declined to name the prisoner and offers no personal details, citing privacy rules. The United States urges North Korea to the Americans "for humanitarian reasons."

The State Department has said, Mr. Carter's trip was a private trip and he was not as a delegate for American Act.

But Mr.. Carter on liberation of jailed Americans in the past been successful. He made a private trip to Pyongyang in August last year after the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 31, of Boston, win, who was convicted of illegally in North Korea.

In April 2010 to eight years, Mr Gomes had been sentenced to forced labour and was fined $700,000. Mr Gomes said the Carter Center amnesty were been granted by the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

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Taliban help hundreds tunnel of prison of the political wing

He said that security authorities in the early had discovered, that the prisoners from the political wing of the building were gone, and that the authorities had only found the tunnel.

National security officials said the tunnel was dug from the outside and went under the Kabul-Kandahar highway and then in the prison. There are conflicting reports on his length of 360 meters, the Taliban said police told journalists that it was more than 1,000 meters. Officials said, would it more definitive information later in the day.

The Governor of Kandahar, WESA Toorylai, had sharp criticism of the security forces. "This is absolutely the fault of the ignorance of the security forces," said Mr Toorylai. "It was not the work of a day, a week or a month activities, which was actually months of work they spent digging and their men free."

Mr Toorylai appealed to the public to inform authorities if they saw Taliban in their area.

It was the second time a large prison break in Sarposa prison, that it has the largest and the most dramatic prison in southern Afghanistan. The prison Taliban, captured numbers and many lower level Taliban in Zabul, Uruzgan and Kandahar including some senior Taliban after security guards work with the prison are accommodated. 13, June 2008 the Taliban orchestrated the release of 1200 prisoners, of whom 350 Taliban were members, in an attack, the 15 guards killed.

The escape comes at a critical moment in the Taliban fight in southern Afghanistan. Driven from their strongholds in the rural areas outside the city, and under pressure from a variety of NATO forces that have broken in the villages, they were able to maintain a presence, but nothing close she had the dominant role a year ago.

Again many able already will bring a large cadre of experienced fighters, of which, to refine their skills in the jail, the Taliban leadership could give the flexibility and resources send fighters into new districts are less NATO forces and strengthen their numbers closer to Kandahar.

"This negative impact on Kandahar the security situation", said Abdul Wahab Salihi, the Deputy intelligence chief in Kandahar. "I don't know how many among them were leaders or celebrities, but we are working and check their background, but if it a fire and you then more wood that it be wil more flames, so these are equipped with escape people in the fire add fuel."

A Taliban spokesman for the South and West of the country, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, said that a total of 541 prisoners had escaped and that among them were 106 Taliban commanders. "Now they are all in ports of refuge," he said.

In a skillful propaganda ploy, the Taliban has a haunting description of prison break in a statement that it sent to the media before the comments by the security authorities, who were only in the process of discovery of the tunnel.

"Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman said in the statement:"we have planned and worked on these five months and the tunnel is 360 metres long,"he said."This was very important for us; "We tried not someone behind, not even one sick or old political prisoner can be."

"Our Mujahedeen worked in a very careful manner" so as not to be discovered, said Mr Mujahid. The tunnel under security check sores outside of prison and under a main road.

At 11 am Sunday three Taliban prisoners went, he said, were the only ones who knew, "from cell to cell, people wake up and lead each of them to the tunnel." More Taliban were the prisoners of the dirt and dust of the tunnel, to lead the behaved prisoners to the waiting vehicles. Also were on the side of Taliban fighters and suicide bombers in the case of the security forces woke up and there was one fight.

Mr Mujahid said "Fortunately we did not have, to use it". "The security forces knew not until dawn."

Tai Moor Shah reported from Kandahar and Alissa j. Rubin Kabul, Afghanistan.

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THE Guantanamo files: Assessment of prisoners at risk, often with faulty evidence

Relations between waking and prisoners in Guantanamo Bay range from cooperative too dangerous.

WASHINGTON said Mohammed Alam Shah, a 24-year-Afghan, as teenagers, a leg lost, said interrogators in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he was conscripted by the Taliban as a driver had before, were imprisoned in 2001. He had caught were he said as he tried, "his to save younger brother of the Taliban.",.

This article is based on a huge treasure trove of secret government documents leaked last year for the anti-secrecy organization of WikiLeaks, and to the New York Times from a different source on condition of anonymity made available.Editors and journalists, who edited this article will choose you answer questions about the coverage of the material.

Military analysts believed him. Mr Shah, which doctors was fitted with a prosthesis of prison, was "cooperative" and "made has 2003 assessment known not thoughts of violence or made threats to the United States or their allies, a sympathetic". Their conclusion: "prisoner represents not a future threat to the United States or U.S. interests."

So in 2004 Mr Shah was - sent back to Afghanistan where he promptly revealed Abdullah Mehsud, a militant Pakistan born, and began plotting mayhem. He admitted jihadist videos, organized a Taliban force against American forces, planned an attack on Pakistan's Minister of the Interior, the 31 people killed, the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers and finally exploded a bomb supervised suicide in 2007, such as the Pakistani army closed. His martyrdom was celebrated in an audio message by none other than Osama bin Laden.

The Guantanamo's analysts complete misinterpretation of Abdullah Mehsud was included hundreds of classified reviews submitted by prisoners in the prison in Cuba, obtained by the New York Times. The unredacted reviews give the fullest public image date from the prisoners in Guantanamo in the past nine years. They show that the United States has hundreds of men for years without trial arrested based on a difficult and remarkably subjective evaluation of who they were, what they had done in the past and what could they do in the future. 704 Evaluation documents use the word "may" 387 times, "unknown" 188 time and "misleading" 85 times.

With judge, the documents of judgments on the legal challenges of prisoners show that the analysts ignored sometimes serious flaws in the evidence - for example, that the information from other pinned their mental illness was made them unreliable. Witnesses who say they saw a prisoner at a camp run by Al Qaeda but omit the witnesses record of falsehood or misidentification quote some reviews. Other government documents showing that the later often abusive treatment or torture statements attributed to have been withdrawn include admissions of prisoners without confirmation.

A growing suspicion

Written between 2002 and 2009, the reviews reflect a growing suspicion of Guantanamo analysts. From the outset, the reports are only one or two pages and often sanguine in tone. Of 2008, are prisoners reviews after searing advertising of released Al-Qaeda prisoners and the reduction of the prison population to hard core, was decidedly more cautiously.

In each case an Abdullah Mehsud - someone incorrectly assessed a minimal threat - there are several cases in which prisoners were rated "high risk" have published and not involved in misconduct. Murat Kurnaz, a German resident of Turkish origin, would be in a review 2006 Member of the Al-Qaeda, in the most dangerous category were addressed: "high risk" and "likely that endanger the United States, their interests and their allies."

Yet American authorities, under pressure from Germany and Turkey, overruled the analysts and Mr Kurnaz home Germany three months later. He joined not the global Jihad, but instead was a prominent critic of the Guantanamo, to write a book and the countless media appearances, which condemned American prison.

Under the most revealing who is leaking documents a 17-page guide for analysts, obviously from military intelligence instructors, how to measure the risk of a prisoner prepared. It lists large clusters of prisoners give, including the so-called dirty 30, the bodyguards were Mr bin Laden, as well as the large group of accused Al Qaeda activists captured with Abu Zubaydah, a key terrorist facilitator, with two guest houses in FaisalabadPakistan, 2002. It nine mosques with Al-Qaeda are associated in Quebec, Milan, London, Yemen and Pakistan.

The guide shows the smallest details such as a potential litmus test for risk taken up as analysts. If a prisoner had a watch Casio F91W, it could be an indication he attended make bombs had given a Qaeda course, where such watches have been - even though this model is sold to this day all over the world. (As well as the review of the Yemeni prisoners suggests a dire use for his calculator: "calculators can be used calculations of indirect fire such as audible warning for artillery fire.")

Caught a prisoner, without travel documents? Mean it could be that he had trained, identification make it more difficult to discard, explains how the Guide. A prisoner who claimed to be a simple farmer or cook in the honey business, or looking for a woman? Stories cover the common Al Qaeda and Taliban were, the analysts said.

And a classic catch 22: "Refusal to cooperate," says in the manual, is a technique, Al Qaeda resistance.

The Guide obviously still the product of years of experience most trying bits proof of different reliability in a conclusion to make. In particular, it is called as a cautionary tale of the early misconception about Abdullah Mehsud, the Pakistani suicide bombers, had claimed he was forced to join the Taliban. He was "an example," in the manual says, "Of a prisoner, the successful military cover story as a means to his release from US custody advertised."

Scott Shane reported from Washington and Benjamin Weiser from New York. Reporting was contributed by Charlie Savage from Washington, and William Glaberson, Andrew W. teachings and Andrei Scheinkman from New York.

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Basketball: Good enough please Dolan, if not win

Died at Madison Square Garden one day after the Rangers in Washington closure, the Knicks allowed the fans, in the location of the exploding cost of a ticket in next stomach fall to return at least hope, that it was injuries as much as unfamiliarity and inferiority, the the Knicks pressed streak without a playoff victory to a decade.

The garden President, James L. Dolan, sat courtside, his insistence that Carmelo Anthony at all costs be - purchased regardless of where, what alternative arrangements of the team had - developed President, Donnie Walsh, was no doubt justified.

"I think, that with him and Carmelo, the Knicks in good shape, going forward," said coach Mike D'Antoni forward cornerstones after the Celtics of the Knicks, its deficit by 23 points to 4 cutting edges, before let to a 101-89 victory.

Curiously, D'Antoni avoided the use of a personal pronoun. Maybe he knows something about Walsh's cloudy status and by extension his own. He was more likely, ECHO, that Stoudemire, explained at last summer signing, that "the back are Knicks", then on the gritty work of restoring it as a credible franchise.

But the case presented, prove that the Knicks - despite injuries Chauncey Billups and Stoudemire - not much else against the Celtics, the cold, hard facts, that may not survive the second round.

This former championship team of confident veteran stars, that of their wild wonderful whole point guard, Rajon Rondo, outexecuted and outcoached the Knicks down the stretch at the TD Garden in Boston, and blew up at the enemy Garden in Midtown Manhattan. The Celtics were more on the fast break and significantly superior in the Halfcourt, and if they a defensive stop she knew needed certainly, as, one to get.

"I wouldn't say they are a role model for us but in any case a blueprint for how it get done together", said the Knicks forward Bill Walker, reserve, which was acquired by the Celtics last season. To prepare said he, "only for each other, man, don't worry about the statistics, only one, play matters most."

At this time Anthony was made slightly bent stall, a blue towel over his shoulders, on his dressing forward with his hands draped. On the carpet to him was a box score, the statistical case made, that he had done all he could: 32 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists in nearly 43 minutes.

Yet here he was a stray thought again in the first round for the seventh time in eight N.B.A seasons, and perhaps entertaining or two about the consequences of getting what he, if he used by Denver team missing its way only one for wool fourth quarter closer. Or one like it.

On the lighter side, there would be, it that Kevin Garnett is a once was that Anthony way of his with the Celtics could close encounter similar playoff record. Garnett on the first round went once in 12 years in Minnesota.

But when Anthony grow as a player and as a team-mate, he demonstrates the number of possibilities, because such as Garnett the a star of true Championship characters you can beat. In game 2 Garnett scored the game-winning basket with a jump hook and went on to dive on a loose ball that he had beaten by Jared Jeffries.

Anthony finally its way into the interview room Sunday, he talked about that a "crazy year" it had been referring to the trade, which he essentially forced the Knicks from Denver, in a three-man teams.

The consequences of the roster were never purge Anthony's problem struck by injuries Billups and Stoudemire, and he plays with a transformation from the West Fourth Street Playground liquidation.

Still, he claims that the Knicks "too many people, short-handed or not, proved that we night, Nacht-Out want to compete on the basis of." Really? If it proved nothing, have by going after the trade, playoffs included 14-18, it was, that there is much work to do. When Dolan has a shred of sense, he is about to do it please to keep Walsh.

While Stoudemire every question about his commitment to the process of the building has a serious playoff team, including playing hurt, Anthony not answered. For all the flattery, is he a talented Enigma exceptional, fight with the expectations of being the leading man on a stage as big as Broadway, much as Alex Rodriguez in his early days with the Yankees.

At the end of game 1 Anthony a 3-point shot forced during double-teamed with his team down by 2 and Toney Douglas wide open. Two nights later seemed that in fact he facilitates a news media roasting, the coach script passing the offensively inept Jeffries in a similar end game situation to follow.

The losses in Boston were painful, but apparently a cohesive team, let alone a contender were enough, how far you obscure Knicks away. For Dolan's business purposes, they were to make enough on the season a success. In the immortal words of a former President meets task.

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The Thai forces and Cambodian shock to 3rd day

Fighting erupted again Sunday along the border of Cambodia and the Thailand after two days of clashes that killed at least 10 soldiers and forced the evacuation of thousands of civilians.

A Cambodian soldier stands guard in July last to a gateway to the temple of Preah Vihear on the Thai border Cambodia. (Heng Sinith/Associated Press)

The dispute between the neighbours stems from their competing claims over small strips of land along the border, with nationalist political fuelling tensions. Clashes have erupted several times since 2008, when temple of Preah Vihear 11th century Cambodia was granted the status of A World Heritage Thai objections.

The current round of clashes, which began Friday, are the first border skirmishes reported since February, when eight soldiers and civilians have been killed near the temple of Preah Vihear. The latest fighting took place about 160 kilometres west of here.

Colonel Suos Sothea, a commander Cambodian, confirmed evidence that a battle of artillery began at the border shortly before 10: 00 a.m. local time on Sunday. In Bangkok, the Thai army spokesman colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd reports the same information.

There was no immediate reports of victims.

Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, has called for Cambodia and the Thailand to implement an effective and verifiable ceasefire.

A declaration of an end Saturday said ban believes that the dispute cannot be resolved by military means, so the two countries must engage in a serious dialogue to resolve the underlying problems.

Outbreak of Sunday came after it appeared that calm could have been restored. Witnesses on the Cambodian side said an important border post which had been closed for two days was reopened and Thai media said some some 20 000 civilians who had been evacuated from the combat zone began to move to the House.

Each side accused of the departure of the latest fighting, which involved mainly artillery duels long distance to the other.

Thai villagers seek shelter Saturday in a makeshift refugee camp set up in a school about 30 kilometres from the Thai-Cambodia border. Thousands of villagers were evacuated from the region in cross-border hostilities. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)

The Thailand dismissed charges Saturday that he had used chemical weapons against the Cambodian troops.

A statement by the Cambodian Defence Ministry charged that the Thailand had shot 75 and 105-mm shells at "loading of the toxic gas" in Cambodian territory, but has no details. A Cambodian field commander said separately that the Thailand had used two shells of cluster - anti-personnel weapons banned by many countries - and the artillery shells that gave a debilitating gas.

Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said Thais allegations were not true, and colonel Tawatchai Samutsakorn, Commander of 2nd army region the Thailand, denied that submunitions or toxic gas bombs had been employed by its forces.

Tawatchai said a Thai soldier died Saturday, bringing the victim toll to four dead and 17 injured. Suos Sothea said three Cambodian soldiers were killed Saturday, with victims of Cambodia's two days to six. Suos Sothea said he could not give a precise count of the injured.

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Layton welcomed the wind of change in Quebec

NDP leader, Jack Layton has welcomed "by the wind of change" sweeping through Quebec, as the support of his party is climbing in the province at the polls.

"My friends that something happens in Quebec." There is a wind of change you can feel along the St. Lawrence, "Layton said to an enthusiastic crowd of about 1,200 people at a rally in Laurier — Sainte-Marie, currently held by the Bloc québécois leader Gilles Duceppe."

Speaking of backdrop of a giant orange Fleur-de-lis, Layton is committed to provide a "puff of fresh air" in Canadian policy and that change is necessary "because things are broken in Ottawa."

Jack Layton said that he was ready to lead the country.

"I am ready to be your Prime Minister and I fully understand what it means," he said.

Jack Layton has also promised to give Quebec a "genuine voice" in cabinet.

"We can prove to those who are cynical that they are wrong." That it is possible for Québec to be strongly represented in Ottawa. Not within an opposition party. but a part of the Government. ?

The leader of the NDP said some accused of being "too nice of a guy for life policy" add "as if it was a weakness" to be close to people.

"My friends, I cannot promise you that I will be less nice," he said, promising to continue to fight and to work tirelessly for Canadian priorities.

An online survey carried out by the cultures which cannot be assigned a margin of error because the method does not for random sampling, suggested that the NDP has the support of 36 percent of respondents in Quebec, compared to 31% for the Bloc Québécois.

A survey of Nanos, meanwhile, showed that the NDP gaining support at the national level, but the size of the sample for Quebec was too small to produce results with an acceptable margin of error.

Polls have led both Conservatives and Liberals to launch announcements of the new attack against the leader of the NDP.

"This is not the first people to put a target on my back and I can bob and weave and someone else", he said.

Earlier in Toronto, Jack Layton said that his party has "worked hard to connect with the main concerns of Quebecers."

"I believe that Quebecers have seen the same old, same old politics spent each year in Quebec and are started that, perhaps, we want to be at the forefront of change," said Layton.

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Japan: Radiation still high, evacuation zone extended - Xinhua

(Beijing, April 23 Xinhuanet)-more people live in the vicinity of damaged nuclear plant, Fukushima's must next month to evacuate their homes. The decision comes after experts warned that over a large area of the levels of emissions would remain dangerous high.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano confirmed that five cities outside of the existing 20 km exclusion zone in the zone evacuation due to the radiation risks involved.

Yukio Edano, Japanese Cabinet Chief Secretary, said "There is a chance that the accumulation of radiation exposure in the area over a year is exceeded 20 millisieverts." "Therefore we have called zone the area fixed evacuation"

The announcement is a day after the Government explained the exclusion zone 20 kilometres a no go area.

Before the order went into effect, residents drove to again deserted hometown in their what I have and well access they could.

People, that the zone type now face fines of up to 12 - hundred dollars, or possible imprisonment for up to 30 days.

Tokyo electric power company President, Masataka Shimizu, visited now an evacuation Center for the first time since the disaster struck.

Few evacuated in the middle of her voice, which him most raised, but did not shy away, him a piece of their mind.

Masataka Shimizu, President, tOKYO electric power company, said, "I am very aware, today, that the relationship and the trust we build with native has completely collapsed." "It is therefore very important, even if it takes a long time now rebuild find ways to get this confidence."

TEPCO is ignoring warnings about the risk one Quake and tsunami striking the plant, and respond poorly to last month's disaster been accused.

The company delivered to stabilize a six to nine - month time frame for the four worst-affected reactors.

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Stimulus by Fed is disappointing, say economists

But most Americans are partially the difference not feeling, because these services amazing low been. The latest estimates of economists in fact suggest that the pace of recovery from the global financial crisis started since November, when the Fed has marked purchase $ 600 billion in government bonds, private dollars in investment transfer, create the jobs.

As the Fed Policy Board prepares for Tuesday and Wednesday the Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke meet - after which, to tell a press conference for the first time, their decisions will hold for the public - a wide range of economists say that the disappointing results show the borders of the Central Bank ability, lift the nation out of its economic malaise.

"It is good to really turn things for the setting of the case, and the recovery drive, I just don't think that monetary policy, that energy has", said Mark Thoma, Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon, refers specifically to the bond buying program.

Mr Bernanke and his supporters say that the purchases have improved economic conditions, but delete fears of deflation, a pattern of falling prices, to delay purchases and stable growth can. Inflation, which is in masses of advantage, has closer to a healthy level purchase of bonds rose since the Fed.

"These actions had the expected impact on the markets and are therefore considerable support to the creation of jobs and the economy", Mr. Bernanke said speech in February, has an argument, he often repeated.

But remains slow growth, jobs remain in short supply, and with the debt purchases should end in June, the Fed must now decide what comes next.

The Fed generally encourages growth by he interest rates. In normal times, it reduces to disseminate short-term interest rates and the impact on other types of borrowing such as corporate bonds and mortgage loans. But hovers with short-term interest rates close to zero since December 2008, the Fed has tried, long-term interest rates to attack directly from the entry into the market and offers accept lower returns.

The Fed limited the program to $600 billion under considerable pressure. While this sounds like a lot of money, the purchases have kept not even step with the Government issuing new debt, so in a way that amounted to efforts treading water. And a growing body of research suggests that the Fed may have had a greater impact, with more money on a wider range of debts, such as covered bonds, as it originally did.

A number of critics, meanwhile, argued that the Fed has already way too much done accumulation a portfolio of more than $2 trillion, that ability to increase interest rates to curb inflation could prevent the Central Bank. Some of these critics see as heralding the wider price increases the rising price of oil and other raw materials.

"I was a big fan of it in the first place," said Charles I. Plosser, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and one of the ten members of the Fed policy making Board. "I think it would have much influence, and it complicates the exit strategy." "And what we have seen, has not changed my mind."

The Fed decision for the purchase of bonds, known as quantitative easing, emulates the Japanese Central Bank, which began to break through the purchase of bonds in 2001 to a deflationary cycle.

The American version worked well at first. From November 2008 to March 2010 the Fed bought more than $1.7 trillion in mortgages and Government bonds, keep mortgage rates and reducing the cost of borrowing for respected companies to half a percentage point, according to several studies. This is an annual savings of $ 5 million for each $1 billion borrowed from.

As the economy sputtered last summer, Mr. Bernanke specified in an August speech, that the Fed would soon begin a second round of quantitative easing, as QE 2. The first answer was the same: asset prices rose, interest rates fell and the dollar fell in value.

But in addition to the his smaller and only focused on treasuries, there was also a problem of the diminishing returns. The first round of purchases reduced the cost of borrowing it to enticing, Scheu investors accept to lower credit spreads. With the markets closer to normality Mr Bernanke warned in his speech August, that it was not clear to convince comparable success had investors to accept even lower yields that the Fed.

"Such purchases with their biggest impact expected in times of economic and financial stress seem," he said.

The Fed says that his expectations were tempered by these realities, but that the program has nevertheless reduced percentage point relative to the prices investors in the Fed would have required absence yields on long-term government bonds by over 0.2. This is about the same effect, the Central Bank by lowering its benchmark rate 0.75 percentage point, which would be an aggressive movement in normal times could have achieved.

But some economists say the new program had more limited effect on the wider economy as a traditional cutting of short-term interest rates would. The Fed predicted that investors were forced, other types of debt, buy the reduction for other borrowers. But the supply of treasuries for investors has since November increase, issuance of new government debt of the Fed overhauled purchases.

A study published in February found that the interest rates cut, but only for companies with top credit ratings. "Prices, highly relevant for households and many companies are - mortgage rates and prices on lower grade corporate bonds were largely unaffected by the policy," wrote Arvind Krishnamurthy and Annette Vissing-J?rgensen, both finance professors at Northwestern University.

Another clue to its limited success: bonds not significant growth, suggesting that companies - sitting see record pile of cash - not yet opportunities for new investments. Until they do, some economists argue that urges the fed to a string.

"What has done it?" It has eased credit conditions, it has pumped up the stock market, he has suppressed the dollar, "Said Mickey levy, Bank of America's Chief Economist." "But the Fed thinks that treasuries purchase and flatulence really going positions of its balance sheet to stable job increases create?"

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Obama will call again Armenian deaths "Genocide" - the associated press

Obama will call again Armenian deaths ' genocide'(AP) - 13 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama on Saturday the anniversary of the massacre of Armenians in Turkey nearly a century ago by marked called it a "horrific" massacre, but briefly stopped by branding genocide.

In a written statement, Obama said that the 1915 killings of some represent "one of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century" 1.5 million Armenians. But he could use the third year in a row the word genocide to describe it.

As candidate for the Presidency vowed always to recognize the genocide to Obama, once in Office, take "principled obliged as a memorial to and ending genocide."

But declined since 2009 Obama use the word in the face of furious opposition from Turkey, a key NATO ally.

Most historians see the killings as the first genocide of the twentieth century, and accept the figure of Armenian 1.5 million deaths. However Government rejected Turkish State and long the concept, contending, that the numbers are inflated and say, there were many deaths on both sides as the Ottoman Empire in the first world war collapsed.

In his statement, Obama said "contested history the present destabilised and stains the memory of those whose living were taken." He said that America knows this by the dark chapter in its own history.

He praised efforts in Armenia and the Turkey ", promote a dialogue which confirms their shared history."

But Obama limited use of Armenian called for the killing, meds Yeghern, and homage "to the memories of those who perished."

He said that his point of view what happened the amended has, since the campaign, adding "a full, frank, and is the only acknowledgment of the facts in our interest."

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Iranian leader makes claims about President

Tehran - Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Saturday that he remained in political affairs of the country to intervene if interests "were neglected the nation' still a rare public diffraction of his power days after a disagreement with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the free flared, ready.

In a speech to supporters in the province of Fars, which was live on State television, he praised Mr Ahmadinejad's administration. But he said that country's religious leadership would remain the highest authority. While the leadership is alive, it will never allow deviation, in the movement of the Iranian nation on its objectives, "he said."

The statement came about after a week of public tension between the President and Mr Chamenei which was considered by Mr. Ahmadinejad as an effort to extend control over the politically sensitive intelligence Ministry.

On Wednesday, Mr. Khamenei, the resignation is refused by the Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi, a hard-line cleric, to announce his support for Mr Moslehi by semi-official news agency accept. The Minister had reported IRNA, Iran's State News Agency, resignation last Sunday.

Domestic news reportedly approved the Parliament of Iran on Wednesday Mr Moslehi as Minister, the Supreme Leader's authority effectively support.

There was speculation that Mr Moslehi after efforts were made to his dismissal, a senior intelligence officials supported block withdrawal of Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, Mr. Ahmadinejad's former Chief of staff. Mr. Rahim-Mashaei is known that the President have a significant influence but is unpopular among the old law.

Mr. Khamenei public statement claimed his authority was rare for a leader who has - long projected the image of an impartial referee a picture he seemed during the presidential election 2009 to victims, when he came out for the re-election of Mr Ahmadinejad.

However, has charged since the election of the relationship between the two men by several attempts to test the limits of the power of the President.

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Welcome to migrants fleeing conflict, says Pope at Easter - Reuters Africa

* Pope complained about riots in Libya, North Africa

* Escape strife demands generous welcome for immigrants * delivers Easter greetings in 65 different languages

* Easter week test run for the beatification by John Paul II.

By Philip Pullella

Vatican City, April 24 Reuters) - Pope Benedict, complained in his Easter message of the world on Sunday, that the day of joy was marred by the war in Libya and Europe urged welcome desperate migrants flee unrest in North Africa.

The Pope 84-year-old donated marking his sixth Easter as a Roman Catholic leader, to the ground for more than 100,000 people in a St Peter's square decorated with 42,000 bright flowers and plants in the Chair to symbolize hope and love from Holland.

But the contrast between the joy of Easter season and the wars, poverty and suffering around Benedict, which delivered, wove Easter greetings in 65 different languages his sermon the around the world, especially in North Africa.

"Here, in this world of us, Alleluia still contrasted the Easter with the cries and weeping, the by so many painful situations arise: poverty, hunger, disease, war, violence," he said in its twice annual "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) message. ? More...

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90 killed, injured 80 in Syria disputes - Xinhua

(Beijing, April 23 Xinhuanet)-in Syria, where a human rights organization says that at least 90 civilians had been killed, security of the President Bashar al-Assad forces, during the largest demonstrations so far against the rule.

Another 80 people were injured in the clashes. Demonstrators seek the release of political prisoners and the dismantling of the security services.

It was the bloodiest day in a month the escalation of the demonstrations.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in cities Syria call on Friday, current President Bashar al-Assad step-down. Although he almost only emergency had lifted half-century old law, demonstrators were not reassured. It calls for more reforms and greater freedom in the West Asian country.

Syrian State television showed protests in several cities with news anchor stating the "peaceful" the protests. But an unnamed fireman in the capital city of Damascus said had attacked the fire stations by demonstrators. Seems hard to his fire truck was damaged.

Unidentified fireman, said: "Shooting is evidence calling for people not freedom." You call for damage to destroy the country. ":

Amateur video to a social website published was however another side of the story. In, demonstrators are seen from the sound of gunfire in the cities of Homs and Damascus run.

Neither account could be independently confirmed.

Friday's violence brings the death toll to about 300 since the unrest broke out in March in southern Syria.

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