JERUSALEM -President Bush will meet separately with newly elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and says people are becoming more trustworthy in striving for peace in the Middle East.
Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp contend they were wrongly imprisoned after repeated abuse by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, their lawyer said yesterday.
I agree with the headline given to Bhaskar Raman's polemic against vivisection, Moral obligation overshadows science (Feb. 2), but his polemic reveals his ignorance of science and his shallowness of moral reasoning.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -Insurgents struck Iraq's security forces yesterday with suicide bombs and mortar fire, killing more than 30 people as violence escalated after last week's election. First returns from the Sunni heartland confirmed many Sunnis stayed away from the polls, leaving the field to Shiite and Kurdish candidates.
OXFORD -Gone are Archie Aldridge, Randy Ayers and John Shoemaker. And now gone, too, are the last remnants of the Miami Redskins' domination of Ohio University and the Mid-American Conference basketball race.
The Ohio men's basketball team hit a brick wall last night at Bowling Green. That wall's name was Scott Vandermeer.
Athens City Council voted last night to finalize the 2005 city budget, which stands at just under $29 million. Council has been discussing the budget since it was first proposed in December. Despite its approval, auditor Kathy Hecht said minor changes could be made throughout the year.
In his seventh State of the State address today, Gov. Bob Taft will focus on the legacy he will leave in Ohio's history books. That legacy, unfortunately, will be one of a growing deficit and an increasingly inflexible state government. With future revenues projected to drop thanks to tax cuts and a reformed tax code, legislators are left with no choice but to cut social services to ensure the state's books end up in the black.
COLUMBUS -The state might be giving more money to Ohio schools, but spending power is dropping, according to a newspaper analysis.
Tax reforms, the state budget and the economy will be the main talking points of Gov. Bob Taft's State of the State address in Columbus Tuesday.
An Athens real estate broker could face penalties, including revocation of his license, if it is determined that he violated sections of the Ohio Revised Code.
ANKARA, Turkey -Russia needs to show a commitment to a free press and other basics of democracy and cooperate with former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine where democracy is taking hold, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
When John F. Kennedy was building his reputation, he famously said, Vietnam represents the cornerstone of the free world. The jury is out -and will always be out -on whether JFK would have gone into the conflict of Vietnam with such force and futility. JFK was, however, a champion of tax cuts, a strong national defense and an ardent anti-communist.
Many college students are quickly signing on to Thefacebook.com trend, including joining some controversial Thefacebook.com groups that suggest illegal drug use that might add strikes to their record if they ever wind up in court.
Resiliency is becoming a defining trait for the Ohio men's basketball team. On Saturday, the Bobcats answered every challenge that Western Michigan presented on their way to an 89-85 victory, their fifth win in a row and sixth win in seven games.
Kent State rolled into Bird Arena this weekend looking to play spoilers to the Ohio hockey team's chance to clinch the regular season title.
The Ohio indoor track and field team left Akron this weekend with a slew of top-10 finishes in the un-scored Akron Open.
Students immersed in the job search have another opportunity to network on campus tomorrow at the Ohio University Winter Career Fair sponsored by Career Services.
With next week's Ohio men's basketball game against Miami approaching, it's time for rivalry hype to begin anew. The Post will run columns, the basketball teams will run sprints and students from each school will run their mouths in preparation.
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