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• Weekly Review: March 23, 2010 Mar 22, 2010

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 23, 2010 A kinkajou, 1886. After President Barack Obama promised to issue an executive order guaranteeing that federal funds will not be used for abortions, the U.

• Weekly Review: November 24, 2009 Nov 23, 2009

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 24, 2009 A kinkajou, 1886. The U.

• Weekly Review: October 27, 2009 Oct 26, 2009

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 27, 2009 A kinkajou, 1886. Twin car bomb attacks just outside the Green Zone in Baghdad destroyed three government buildings, killed 155 people, and injured 520.

• Weekly Review: September 1, 2009 Aug 31, 2009

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 1, 2009 Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D.

• Weekly Review: August 4, 2009 Aug 3, 2009

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 4, 2009 Congress defied President Barack Obama and adjourned for the summer without passing a health-care-reform bill. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved its own version of the bill 31-28 (with five Democrats and all 23 Republicans voting against it); its bill is one of five already produced or soon to be produced by the House and Senate.

• Weekly Review: July 14, 2009 Jul 13, 2009

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 14, 2009 CIA director Leon Panetta admitted that the agency, initially under orders from then-Vice President Dick Cheney, kept secret from Congress the existence of a special counterterrorism program for eight years. Panetta also said that the program–intended to deploy small teams to assassinate Al Qaeda leaders–was canceled last month.

• Weekly Review: June 2, 2009 Jun 1, 2009

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 2, 2009 President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor, a Bronx-born, divorced, childless, diabetic, Hispanic federal judge on the U. S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court .

• Weekly Review: May 5, 2009 May 4, 2009

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 5, 2009 Swine flu , renamed under pork -lobby pressure to “influenza A (H1N1) virus, human,” and referred to as “ killer Mexican flu ” by anti-immigration activists, had infected 985 people, or 0. 0000145 percent of the world’s population.

• Weekly Review: March 3, 2009 Mar 2, 2009

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 3, 2009 President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress, offering a broad outline of a massive spending plan paired with $2 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade. “Now is the time,” he said, “to jump-start job creation, restart lending, and invest in areas like energy, health care, and education.

• Weekly Review: December 9, 2008 Dec 8, 2008

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 9, 2008 The Labor Department reported that 533,000 people lost their jobs in November, a further 621,000 people were forced into part-time employment, and 422,000 more simply dropped out of the labor force. The report, describing a situation far worse than economists expected, also recorded 24,000 layoffs by auto dealers.

• Weekly Review: October 14, 2008 Oct 13, 2008

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 14, 2008 The world economy continued its collapse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 22 percent over eight days, Wall Street lost $2.

• Weekly Review: August 26, 2008 Aug 25, 2008

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 26, 2008 Barack Obama announced Joe Biden , the senior senator from Delaware , as his running mate, even though Biden voted for the war in Iraq and for NAFTA and once said that Obama was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. ” Information Week The Washington Post The Obama campaign denied that there was anything wrong with Biden’s signing a 2005 bill that eliminated many bankruptcy protections for consumers after Biden’s lobbyist son Hunter was retained for $100,000 a year by the financial-services giant MBNA, employees of which have donated $214,000 to Biden over the years.

• Weekly Review: July 1, 2008 Jun 30, 2008

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 1, 2008 The Supreme Court overturned the 32-year ban on handguns in Washington, D. C.

• Weekly Review: May 27, 2008 May 26, 2008

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 27, 2008 President George W. Bush gave a radio address for Memorial Day weekend, invoking the sacrifice of 4,071 U.

• Weekly Review: April 15, 2008 Apr 14, 2008

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 15, 2008 Twenty U. S.

• Weekly Review: March 4, 2008 Mar 3, 2008

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 4, 2008 Responding to rocket attacks on Ashkelon, once the largest seaport of Canaan, Israel sent tanks, troops, and fighter jets to northern Gaza. Fifty-four Palestinians â??

• Weekly Review: January 22, 2008 Jan 21, 2008

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 22, 2008 President George W. Bush called for $145 billion in tax cuts, describing the measures as a “shot in the arm” for the U.

• Weekly Review: November 20, 2007 Nov 19, 2007

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 20, 2007 At the third OPEC summit in 47 years, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the price of crude oil could reach $200 a barrel. “The basis of all aggression,” said Chavez, “is oil.

• Weekly Review: September 25, 2007 Sep 24, 2007

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 25, 2007 Israel, a few days before Yom Kippur , declared that the Gaza Strip is now a “hostile entity,” and the office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (who is under investigation for corruption) announced a collective-punishment plan that includes “limiting the transfer of goods to the Gaza Strip, cutting back fuel and electricity, and restricting the movement of people to and from the Strip. ” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum condemned Israel’s “criminal, terrorist Zionist actions.

• Weekly Review: July 24, 2007 Jul 23, 2007

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 24, 2007 Executive power was transferred to Vice President Dick Cheney for two hours and five minutes while President George W. Bush underwent a routine colonoscopy .

• Weekly Review: May 22, 2007 May 21, 2007

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 22, 2007 Paul Wolfowitz announced that he would resign as president of the World Bank on June 30; the Bank in turn said that it accepted Wolfowitz’s assurances that he had acted “in good faith” when he oversaw a promotion for his girlfriend Shaha Riza. Fin24 MSNBC The Guardian James B.

• Weekly Review: November 21, 2006 Nov 20, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 21, 2006 George W. Bush in Vietnam (White House photo).

• Weekly Review: November 14, 2006 Nov 13, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 14, 2006 Midterm elections were held in the United States; the Republican Party lost its majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Six incumbent Republican senators, including Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, were defeated, and Santorum’s daughter cried.

• Weekly Review: October 10, 2006 Oct 9, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 10, 2006 Further allegations emerged regarding the behavior of recently-resigned Congressman Mark Foley (R. , Fla.

• Weekly Review: September 19, 2006 Sep 18, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 19, 2006 Caricature of Louis IV, by Thackeray. 1875.

• Weekly Review: August 15, 2006 Aug 14, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 15, 2006 Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman lost the Democratic Senate primary election to anti- Iraq-war candidate Ned Lamont. Lieberman then announced that he would run as an independent candidate, and that “Team Connecticut” would “surge forward to victory.

• Weekly Review: July 18, 2006 Jul 17, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 18, 2006 War erupted between Hezbollah and Israel after the Lebanese militia launched Operation Truthful Promise against Israel by crossing the border and capturing two Israeli soldiers. The operation was staged in response to Operation Summer Rains, in which Israel occupied Gaza and destroyed a large portion of the civilian infrastructure.

• Weekly Review: June 20, 2006 Jun 19, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 20, 2006 In Iraq an Islamic militant group claimed that it had kidnapped two U. S.

• Weekly Review: May 30, 2006 May 29, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 30, 2006 In Iraq over 66 people were killed in attacks, including two CBS News employees when their convoy was struck by a car bomb; a CBS correspondent was seriously injured in the same attack. In Baghdad two tennis players and their coach were killed for wearing shorts , and a Marine helicopter was shot down over the Anbar province.

• Weekly Review: May 23, 2006 May 22, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 23, 2006 Caught in the Web, 1860. The Iraqi Defense Ministry announced that on average one person per hour was being killed in Basra.

• Weekly Review: May 16, 2006 May 15, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 16, 2006 It was revealed that the National Security Agency , with the assistance of AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth , has secretly stored the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans . “It’s the largest database ever assembled in the world” said an anonymous whistleblower.

• Weekly Review: May 9, 2006 May 8, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 9, 2006 In Iraq car bombs killed 24 people, BBC News and a British helicopter was shot down over Basra , killing all five crew members. The Guardian In Anbar , at a ceremony for new Iraqi soldiers, the graduates were told that they would be sent outside of their home province to serve, leading several soldiers to tear off their clothes in protest.

• Weekly Review: May 2, 2006 May 1, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 2, 2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq , released a video in which he showed his face and claimed that the Bush Administration had lied about its military victories. “America,” said Zarqawi, “will go out of Iraq, humiliated, defeated.

• Weekly Review: April 25, 2006 Apr 24, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 25, 2006 Under the presumed influence of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, who collects photographs of President George W. Bush’s hands, Karl Rove was relieved of his position as presidential policy adviser in order that he might focus his energies on the November midterm elections, and White House press secretary Scott McClellan resigned.

• Weekly Review: April 18, 2006 Apr 17, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 18, 2006 Caught in the Web, 1860. Iran announced that it had successfully produced low-grade enriched uranium ; to celebrate, men in traditional dress danced with uranium samples.

• Weekly Review: April 11, 2006 Apr 10, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 11, 2006 A Christian martyr. A car bomb killed 10 people at a Shiite shrine in Najaf, Iraq , and a suicide bombing killed 85 people at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.

• Weekly Review: April 4, 2006 Apr 3, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 4, 2006 Runaway Raft on the Tigris. In Iraq a suicide bomber killed 50 people and a car bomb killed 10 people.

• Weekly Review: March 28, 2006 Mar 27, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 28, 2006 Thirty beheaded corpses were found in Baquba, Iraq , and 10 more bodies were found in Baghdad, where the homicide rate had reached 33 per day. Shiites were abducting Sunnis in bright daylight on crowded streets.

• Weekly Review: March 21, 2006 Mar 20, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 21, 2006 Eighty-six corpses–most shot, some strangled–were found around Baghdad over a 30-hour period. CNN “We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more,” said Iyad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq .

• Weekly Review: March 14, 2006 Mar 13, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 14, 2006 The U. S.

• Weekly Review: March 7, 2006 Mar 6, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 7, 2006 More than 100 people were killed in fighting in Iraq . “I think,” said the U.

• Weekly Review: February 28, 2006 Feb 27, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 28, 2006 Caricature of Louis IV, by Thackeray. 1875.

• Weekly Review: February 21, 2006 Feb 20, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 21, 2006 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called for the United States to increase its propaganda efforts in the Middle East, BBC News as riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed.

• Weekly Review: February 14, 2006 Feb 13, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 14, 2006 A Christian martyr. Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India , Indonesia , Kashmir , Palestine , Thailand , the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan â??

• Weekly Review: February 7, 2006 Feb 6, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 7, 2006 In Iraq a car bomb killed 16 people and wounded 90, 14 bodies were found stacked in a hole, 5 U. S.

• Weekly Review: January 31, 2006 Jan 30, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 31, 2006 The Conservative Party won a plurality of seats in Canada’s federal election , making Stephen Harper Canada’s next prime minister. CBC.

• Weekly Review: January 24, 2006 Jan 23, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 24, 2006 In Iraq 30 people were killed at makeshift checkpoints, 22 people died in suicide bombings, 9 people were killed in an ambush, 5 bodies were found in the Qaid River, 4 children were killed by rocket-propelled grenades, and 2 American civilians were killed in a roadside bombing. Suicide bombings killed at least 22 people in Afghanistan and injured 30 people in Tel Aviv .

• Weekly Review: January 17, 2006 Jan 16, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 17, 2006 Runaway Raft on the Tigris. In Baghdad at least 28 people were killed when two suicide bombers attacked the Interior Ministry.

• Weekly Review: January 10, 2006 Jan 9, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 10, 2006 More than 170 people died in attacks in Iraq . They were: blown up at a Shiite shrine in Karbala; killed at a police recruiting center in Ramadi; and attacked with mortar, automatic weapons, and finally by a suicide bomber at a funeral near Baquba.

• Weekly Review: January 3, 2006 Jan 2, 2006

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 3, 2006 Seven people died in a suicide car bombing in Iraq , The Guardian and a Norfolk, Virginia , man changed his name to Kentucky Fried Cruelty. com .

• Weekly Review: December 27, 2005 Dec 26, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 27, 2005 The Senate , with Dick Cheney casting the deciding vote, cut $40 billion in funding for foster care, child support, and student loans. Democracy Now!

• Weekly Review: December 20, 2005 Dec 19, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 20, 2005 President George W. Bush defended his executive order authorizing the National Security Agency to spy on Americans without a warrant; Bush said that he “absolutely” had the right to authorize the program, and that whoever leaked news of the program’s existence had committed a “shameful act.

• Weekly Review: December 13, 2005 Dec 12, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 13, 2005 Saddam Hussein refused to appear in court to defend himself against war crimes , complaining of a lack of clean underwear . “Go to hell, all you agents of America,” he said.

• Weekly Review: December 6, 2005 Dec 5, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 6, 2005 At the U. S.

• Weekly Review: November 29, 2005 Nov 28, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 29, 2005 White House photo. General George Casey , the top U.

• Weekly Review: November 22, 2005 Nov 21, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 22, 2005 White House photo. At least 162 people were killed in violence in Iraq , The New York Times where 173 malnourished Sunni Arab prisoners, many of whom had been severely tortured , were found in the basement of an Iraqi Interior Ministry compound.

• Weekly Review: November 15, 2005 Nov 14, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 15, 2005 In Amman, Jordan , 57 people were killed in explosions at three different hotels. “We thought it was fireworks for the wedding,” said Ahmed at the Radisson.

• Weekly Review: November 8, 2005 Nov 7, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 8, 2005 I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, pleaded not guilty to charges of obstruction of justice , perjury, and making false statements.

• Weekly Review: November 1, 2005 Oct 31, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 1, 2005 The United States military published its first public estimate of the number of Iraqi civilians and soldiers killed by Iraqi militants. The estimate appears as a single bar graph on page 23 of a report to Congress and does not provide actual numbers, but by extrapolating from the graph it appears that insurgents are wounding and killing 63 Iraqis a day, and have wounded or killed 25,902 Iraqis since the war began.

• Weekly Review: October 25, 2005 Oct 24, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 25, 2005 A warrant was issued for the arrest of Congressman Tom DeLay , who turned himself in and was released on $10,000 bail. Houston Chronicle It was reported that in 2003 Senator Bill Frist was told (in writing) that a significant amount of HCA, Inc.

• Weekly Review: October 18, 2005 Oct 17, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 18, 2005 A bovine idyll. The New York Times finally published an account of reporter Judith Miller’s involvement in the Valerie Plame Wilson case.

• Weekly Review: October 11, 2005 Oct 10, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 11, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. At least 42,000 people died in an earthquake in Pakistan , ABC News and hundreds of people in Mexico , Guatemala , and El Salvador were buried alive in mudslides caused by Hurricane Stan .

• Weekly Review: October 4, 2005 Oct 3, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 4, 2005 John G. Roberts, Jr.

• Weekly Review: September 27, 2005 Sep 26, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 27, 2005 Hurricane Rita , the third-most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, struck Florida , Texas , Arkansas , Mississippi , and Louisiana , killing 36 people and causing flooding, tornadoes, and storm surges, and re-flooding parts of New Orleans. Hurricane evacuations caused miles of traffic jams in Texas, and a bus filled with elderly people exploded when an oxygen tank caught fire, incinerating at least 24 passengers.

• Weekly Review: September 20, 2005 Sep 19, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 20, 2005 At least 167 Baghdad residents were killed in 14 separate bombings, with 570 wounded. The next day 40 people were killed with car bombs and guns.

• Weekly Review: September 13, 2005 Sep 12, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 13, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. Emergency officials in Louisiana requested 25,000 body bags for victims of Hurricane Katrina , and a total evacuation of New Orleans was ordered.

• Weekly Review: September 6, 2005 Sep 5, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 6, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama , Florida , Louisiana , and Mississippi .

• Weekly Review: August 30, 2005 Aug 29, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 30, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. Pat Robertson called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez; Robertson then lied about calling for the assassination (“‘take him out’,” he said, “can be a number of things”), and finally apologized.

• Weekly Review: August 23, 2005 Aug 22, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 23, 2005 Runaway Raft on the Tigris. Peter Schoomaker, the Army’s top general, revealed that the United States was developing a plan to keep at least 100,000 soldiers in Iraq through 2009.

• Weekly Review: August 16, 2005 Aug 15, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 16, 2005 The United Nations warned that 2. 5 million people will die of hunger in Niger if the country does not receive foreign food aid immediately.

• Weekly Review: August 9, 2005 Aug 8, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 9, 2005 A Christian martyr. The world marked the sixtieth anniversary of America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan .

• Weekly Review: August 2, 2005 Aug 1, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 2, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. As the culmination of its $1.

• Weekly Review: July 26, 2005 Jul 25, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 26, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. It was hot in most of the United States .

• Weekly Review: July 19, 2005 Jul 18, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 19, 2005 It was hurricane season. PR Newswire It became clear that Karl Rove had leaked information about Valerie Plame to the press.

• Weekly Review: July 12, 2005 Jul 11, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 12, 2005 Visiting Scotland for the G8 summit, President George W. Bush fell off his bicycle after running into a policeman .

• Weekly Review: July 5, 2005 Jul 4, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 5, 2005 A bovine idyll. It was the 229th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence .

• Weekly Review: June 28, 2005 Jun 27, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 28, 2005 Runaway Raft on the Tigris. Bombs went off in Baghdad and Kirkuk , gunmen killed three people in a Baghdad barbershop, then blew it up, Reuters and suicide bombers killed thirty-three people in Mosul.

• Weekly Review: June 21, 2005 Jun 20, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 21, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. In New Delhi, India , children and adults carrying both lit candles and hydrogen-filled balloons marched to mark the World Day Against Child Labor.

• Weekly Review: June 14, 2005 Jun 13, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 14, 2005 General Motors announced that it will eliminate the jobs of 25,000 blue-collar workers in the United States by the end of 2008; the cuts amount to 22 percent of the company’s hourly work force. Washington Post Twenty-eight bodies were found dumped on the street or in shallow graves in Baghdad .

• Weekly Review: June 7, 2005 Jun 6, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 7, 2005 President George W. Bush said that allegations made by Amnesty International , claiming that the prison at Guantánamo Bay is a “gulag,” were absurd.

• Weekly Review: May 31, 2005 May 30, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 31, 2005 Amnesty International released a report calling the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay “the gulag of our time. ” General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the prison camp was “a model facility” and pointed out that 1,300 Korans had been handed out at the prison in the last four years.

• Weekly Review: May 24, 2005 May 23, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 24, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. North Korea needed food .

• Weekly Review: May 17, 2005 May 16, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 17, 2005 The United States was investigating claims that someone flushed a copy of the Koran down a Guantánamo Bay toilet. In Afghanistan , news of the flushing led to riots, where hundreds chanted “death to America” and at least fifteen people died.

• Weekly Review: May 10, 2005 May 9, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 10, 2005 A papyrologist at Oxford University announced that new techniques in spectral imaging, which make it possible to decipher previously illegible ink on papyrus fragments, have yielded parts of a lost tragedy by Sophocles , a novel by Lucian, and an epic poem by Archilochos; researchers also applied the technique to third- and fourth-century manuscripts of the Revelation of Saint John and discovered that the number of the beast , contrary to popular belief, is 616, the area code of Grand Rapids, Michigan . National Post A Washington woman found a snake with legs, Tri-City Herald locusts plagued Bangladesh , NZHerald and Zimbabwe was at risk of famine.

• Weekly Review: May 3, 2005 May 2, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 3, 2005 In Iraq at least one hundred Iraqis and eleven U. S.

• Weekly Review: April 26, 2005 Apr 25, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 26, 2005 In Iraq , the bodies of fifty Shiite hostages, some mutilated or headless, were pulled from the Tigris river, and the bodies of nineteen Iraqi soldiers were found in a soccer stadium in the city of Haditha. A suicide bomber tried to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Los Angeles Times and Iraqi militants shot down a commercial helicopter, killing ten passengers; they then shot the sole survivor, the helicopter’s Bulgarian pilot, and distributed a video of the shooting on the Internet.

• Weekly Review: April 19, 2005 Apr 18, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 19, 2005 Two suicide car bombs blew up in central Baghdad , killing fifteen and injuring thirty. BBC News A bomb in Kirkuk killed twelve Iraqi guards, Al Jazeera an American contractor was kidnapped north of Baghdad , BBC News and Marla Ruzicka, an activist from California who made it her mission to count the number of civilian casualties in Iraq , was killed in Baghdad by a suicide bomber .

• Weekly Review: April 12, 2005 Apr 11, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 12, 2005 Eighteen people died when a U. S.

• Weekly Review: April 5, 2005 Apr 4, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 5, 2005 Militants in Iraq attacked the Abu Ghraib prison , wounding forty-four American soldiers and twelve prisoners. BBC News Britain announced that it will pull 5,500 troops from Iraq and increase its presence in Afghanistan, to help with the hunt for Osama bin Laden .

• Weekly Review: March 29, 2005 Mar 28, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 29, 2005 A Christian martyr. In Minnesota , an overweight loner Chippewa neo-Nazi goth teenager shot and killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend, then went to his high school and shot and killed a security guard , five students, a teacher, and himself.

• Weekly Review: March 22, 2005 Mar 21, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 22, 2005 A Christian martyr. The U.

• Weekly Review: March 15, 2005 Mar 14, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 15, 2005 A Christian martyr. In Iraq , the director of the al-Furat hospital in Baghdad was shot dead.

• Weekly Review: March 8, 2005 Mar 7, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 8, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. President George W.

• Weekly Review: March 1, 2005 Feb 28, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 1, 2005 White House photo. A suicide bomber in Iraq killed over one hundred people as they stood waiting to join the Iraqi National Guard, New York Timesimes and four American soldiers and thirteen Iraqis were killed in other incidents.

• Weekly Review: February 22, 2005 Feb 21, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 22, 2005 CIA Director Porter J. Goss claimed that the war in Iraq is making it easier for terrorist organizations to find new recruits, Washington Post and Sunni Arab tribal chiefs insisted that they be given a role in the new Iraqi government.

• Weekly Review: February 15, 2005 Feb 14, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 15, 2005 It was Lent . The Arizona Republic Deep Throat was dying, Miami Herald and the creator of Dolly the sheep was granted a license to clone humans.

• Weekly Review: January 18, 2005 Jan 17, 2005

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 18, 2005 Cookie Monster in the Green Room (White House photo). Army Spc.

• Weekly Review: December 28, 2004 Dec 27, 2004

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 28, 2004 Weighing the soul, 1875. A suicide bomber set off a bomb at a mess tent on a U.

• Weekly Review: November 23, 2004 Nov 22, 2004

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 23, 2004 White House photo. George W.

• Weekly Review: November 16, 2004 Nov 15, 2004

  [Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 16, 2004 A kinkajou, 1886. Nobel Prize winner Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa, better known as Yasir Arafat , died of unknown causes at a French military hospital.