The America's Intelligence Wire articles from October 2004

The America's Intelligence Wire archives from October 2004

Mobster Sentenced in Okla. Man's Slaying.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: CLAYTON BELLAMY Boston gangster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the 1981 murder of a Tulsa businessman. The 70-year-old Flemmi, who is already serving two other...

Ariz. Border-Cross Arrests Near Record.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: ANANDA SHOREY The Border Patrol said Thursday that it nabbed nearly 600,000 illegal immigrants coming into Arizona in the last year, a drastic increase that is due in large part to an aggressive enforcement...

Bush and Kerry meet in first of three debates with Kerry needing to make up ground.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: TERENCE HUNT After a deluge of campaign speeches and hostile television ads, President George W. Bush and challenger Sen. John Kerry got their chance to face each other directly before an audience of tens...

WORLD SPORTS at 0000 GMT.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: TERENCE HUNT SOCCER: UEFA ROUNDUP: Hanke scores three for Schalke; favorites advance to group stage of UEFA Cup LONDON _ Mike Hanke scores three second-half goals and leads Schalke 04 into the...

Mexico welcomes Dalai Lama _ but only as a religious figure.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: WILL WEISSERT The Dalai Lama brought his message of peace to presidential offices across Central America this week, urging harmony in a world he believes is in crisis because of war, fear and intolerance....

AP Weekly Sports Calendar.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: WILL WEISSERT EDITORS: These are among the top sports events of the week. Coverage of most of these events will move on this circuit: FRIDAY, Oct. 1 thru 3, Thomastown, Ireland _ golf, WGC,...

Cuba blames U.S. trade embargo for daily problems on the island, urges the lifting of sanctions.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: VANESSA ARRINGTON In communist Cuba, milk rations for children stop at age 7, blackouts stop the fans in sweltering homes, and it's anyone's guess whether there'll be cooking gas this month. Such...

General Assembly session dominated by Iraq, Sudan, terrorism and closing poverty gap winds down.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: JONATHAN EWING World leaders wrapped up their two-week annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly, a session dominated by concerns over the upcoming elections in Iraq and the ongoing killings in Sudan's...

U.S. pressures China to move toward currency flexibility.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Bush administration lobbied Chinese economic officials to overhaul a currency regime that American manufacturers contend gives China a huge competitive advantage. Facing...

Labour wins by-election in key test of public sentiment ahead of national polls.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: MARTIN CRUTSINGER Prime Minister Tony Blair's party on Friday held onto a Parliamentary seat in a special election that was a key test of the government's popularity ahead of national polls expected next...

House defeats constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: DAVID ESPO The U.S. House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run-up to...

Brazil supports international Iraq conference.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: HAROLD OLMOS Brazil's foreign minister said Thursday that his country would not send troops to Iraq but was ready to join an international conference on the nation's future. Celso Amorim told The...

Israeli Cabinet approves open-ended military operation in Gaza Strip.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: IBRAHIM BARZAK Israel's Cabinet gave its approval for a plan by the country's military establishment to carry out an open-ended operation in the northern Gaza Strip, a day after a Palestinian rocket...

Japan's unemployment rate declines to 4.8 percent in August.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: IBRAHIM BARZAK Japan's unemployment rate fell to 4.8 percent in August, the government said Friday, as recent signs of a recovery in the world's second largest economy trickled down to the job market. ...

U.S. forces launch operation in rebel stronghold of Samarra.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: IBRAHIM BARZAK U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major attack against the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, securing government and police buildings in the city early Friday, the U.S. command said. The...

Nearly 90 years after they were smuggled out of Australia, remains of 15 Australian Aborigines begin journey home.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: MATTIAS KAREN Nearly 90 years after they were smuggled out of Australia and put on display in a Swedish museum, the skeletal remains of at least 15 Aborigines began their long journey home under the eye of...

Three share lead after first round at SFB Classic.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: JOEDY McCREARY John Senden of Australia closed his 7-under 65 with his second eagle of the round and shared the lead with Harrison Frazar and Glen Day after the first round of the Southern Farm Bureau...

Analysis finds no evidence that antioxidant pills prevent digestive cancers.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: EMMA ROSS In another blow to the belief that antioxidant supplements improve health, an authoritative analysis has concluded there is no evidence the vitamins ward off common digestive cancers. Some...

British prime minister to undergo heart procedure.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: JANE WARDELL British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he will undergo a medical procedure Friday to correct an irregular heartbeat, a surprise announcement linked to treatment he had a year ago. Blair...

Who's buried in Columbus' tomb? Spanish team has theory on dispute over graves.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: DANIEL WOOLLS Researchers who gleaned DNA from 500-year-old bones have news on the historic dispute over whether Christopher Columbus is buried in Spain or the Dominican Republic, both boasting ornate...

Russian Cabinet approves Kyoto Protocol.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV The Russian Cabinet has approved the Kyoto Protocol in a crucial step that could bring the long-delayed climate change treaty into worldwide effect within months. But many Russian...

Blair to Have 'Routine' Heart Treatment.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: JANE WARDELL British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he will undergo a medical procedure Friday to correct an irregular heartbeat, calling it a routine treatment that won't prevent him from seeking another term...

Russian Cabinet Approves Kyoto Protocol.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russia's Cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol on Thursday in a crucial step toward putting the long-delayed climate change treaty into effect, although without participation by the United...

Feds Ply Waters Off Ga., Seek Lost H-Bomb.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: RUSS BYNUM Experts dragged sensors from boats and divers scooped soil from the ocean bottom Thursday, looking for radioactive clues to the location of a hydrogen bomb lost off the Georgia coast in 1958. A...

U.N. General Assembly Session Closes.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: JONATHAN EWING World leaders on Thursday wrapped up their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly, a session dominated by concerns over the upcoming elections in Iraq, the ongoing killings in Sudan's Darfur...

Peterson Lawyers Challenge Prosecution.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: BRIAN SKOLOFF Defense attorneys on Thursday challenged the lead detective assigned to investigate Laci Peterson's disappearance on his claim that husband Scott Peterson seemed uninterested in how the case was...

Moussaoui Team Again Seeks Witness Access.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: BRIAN SKOLOFF Lawyers for terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, repeating an argument they have made numerous times, said in a brief made public Thursday that Moussaoui may never have access to favorable...

U.S. forces launch operation in rebel stronghold of Samarra.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: BRIAN SKOLOFF U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major attack against the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, securing government and police buildings in the city early Friday, the U.S. command said. The...

Judge rules Texas inmate competent to be executed.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: JIM VERTUNO Death row inmate Scott Panetti, who wore a purple cowboy costume during his 1995 capital murder trial and tried to subpoena Jesus Christ and John F. Kennedy, is mentally competent to be...

To find valuable stem cells, some scientists focus on fat.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: MALCOLM RITTER Dr. Robert Ersek, a 66-year-old plastic surgeon, invited reporters to his Texas operating room recently and, in front of their cameras, proceeded to liposuction himself. After numbing...

EU ministers debate contentious plans to set up immigrant camps outside Europe.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: CONSTANT BRAND European Union officials reacted cautiously to a proposal to set up immigrant processing camps outside EU borders, possibly in Libya or Ukraine. Justice and interior ministers from the...

Russia's Kyoto Protocol move gets wide welcome, but environmentalists looking to next treaty.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: GEIR MOULSON Europeans warmly welcomed Russia's move toward ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, but environmentalists cautioned that the accord, rejected by the United States, can only be a "first step" toward...

Nigeria militia leader says truce with military holding.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: GILBERT DA COSTA A tentative truce between militia fighters and government troops in Nigeria's oil-rich south appeared to be holding as the two sides held a second round of talks in the capital, officials...

AP News Pronunciation Guide.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: GILBERT DA COSTA K Ahmed Tejan Kabbah -- AH'-mehd TEH'-jahn KAH'-bah Kabbalah -- kah-BAH'-lah Kabul -- kah-BOOL' (though the pronunciation KAH'-bool is also common) Farouk Kaddoumi --...

French fume over California's foie gras ban.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: SAMANTHA BORDES French foie gras makers angrily objected to a California bill aimed at banning the sale of the creamy delicacy, dismissing it as the byproduct of bad taste in the land of hamburgers and...

AP News Pronunciation Guide.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: SAMANTHA BORDES A Abakan -- ah-bah-KAHN' Feroz Abbasi -- feh-ROOZ' ah-BAH'-see Abayas -- ah-BY'-ahz Abul Abbas -- AH'-bool ah-BAHS' Mahmoud Abbas -- mahk-MOOD' ah-BAHS' Mahmoud...

Gynecologists issue new guide to hormone therapy for menopausal women.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: LAURAN NEERGAARD Hormone therapy comes with clear risks but remains the most effective treatment for hot flashes and night sweats, according to a new medical guide. Women who try estrogen should use...

Ichiro: An artist at bat.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: STEVE WILSTEIN Baseball hit No. 255, like 52 others by Ichiro Suzuki this season, didn't reach the outfield grass. No. 256 came on a single to right. In a homeric age agog over brute power, Suzuki's...

Caribbean states hit by hurricanes ask for international help.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: BARBARA BORST Leaders of Caribbean states described the devastation of their countries by recent hurricanes in speeches to the U.N. General Assembly, thanking member states for their help and pleading for...

Iraq won't allow Fallujah to remain under insurgent control, Allawi says.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: BETH GARDINER Iraq will not allow insurgents to remain in control of their stronghold in Fallujah indefinitely, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said. The city, believed to be a base for militant...

Renaissance portraits highlight Florentine festival in New York.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: DAVID MINTHORN As rulers, art connoisseurs and financiers of kings, the Medici of Florence flourished for centuries in the rough and tumble alliances of old Europe. The wealth and might of the Medici...

Scientists wrapping up salvage job on Genesis spacecraft that crashed in desert.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: PAUL FOY Three weeks after the Genesis space capsule slammed into the Utah desert after its parachutes failed to deploy, NASA scientists remain hopeful they can salvage the mission and reveal clues about...

Blair emerges from convention scratched but intact after avoiding defeat over Iraq.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: ED JOHNSON Prime Minister Tony Blair won the backing of his Labour Party to keep British troops in Iraq, avoiding a humiliating defeat that would have undermined his premiership. Although resentment...

Indonesia requiring military to surrender its business enterprises.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: LELY T. DJUHARI Indonesia is requiring its military to surrender it widespread business interests within in five years but is stopping short of placing armed forces wholly under civilian control, under a...

Scientific survey confirms humanitarian disaster in Darfur.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: EMMA ROSS The first scientific survey to assess the deadly nature of the conflict in the Sudan's Darfur region has found that death rates there were three to 10 times higher than normally found in...

Suspected Taliban fighters kill seven Afghan soldiers in checkpoint attack, official says.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: EMMA ROSS Suspected Taliban guerrillas attacked a remote checkpoint in southeastern Afghanistan, killing seven Afghan soldiers after forcing them to lay down their weapons, an Afghan official said. ...

Authorities arrest Libyan al-Qaida suspect in northwestern Pakistan.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: RIAZ KHAN Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested a Libyan on suspicion of links to al-Qaida after raiding a home on the outskirts of this northwestern city, security officials said. The suspect...

A century after his birth, Graham Greene's works _ and sex life _ fondly celebrated.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: JILL LAWLESS "He was as underhand as a lover, taking advantage of a passing mood, like a hero seducing us with his improbabilities and his legends." _ Graham Greene, from "The End of the Affair" ...

With U.N. experts decrying situation in Darfur, Sudan accepts expanding mandate of international force.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: TAREK EL-TABLAWY Facing demands for quick action from the United States and U.N. human rights experts, Sudan's foreign minister pledged to allow more African troops and police help end the conflict in...

Microsoft, EU clash in court over attempt to suspend antitrust order.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: PAUL GEITNER Microsoft Corp. on Friday begins round two of its battle to have the European Union's sweeping antitrust ruling lifted, having told a judge it had been prepared during settlement talks to...

Chaotic Iraq leaves middle class living in fear, but many choose to stay.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: BASSEM MROUE Basim J. Anton is a lucky man, so far. Gangsters have tried to kidnap him twice, and their second attempt left the 63-year-old executive bleeding in a Baghdad street from the blows of pistol...

Elliott Smith's latest album offers few clues to singer's mysterious death.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: SARAH LINN Elliott Smith's high-pitched, breathy voice soars over the acoustic guitar, whispering of loneliness and pain. "I've been outside, invited in. But I couldn't abide, went missing again," the...

Suzuki goes 1-for-5 in Mariners loss.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: SARAH LINN Ichiro Suzuki got his 256th hit to move within one of George Sisler's major league record but his Seattle Mariners lost 3-2 to the Oakland Athletics on Thursday. Suzuki extended his hitting...

Labour wins by-election in key test of public sentiment ahead of national polls.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: SARAH LINN Prime Minister Tony Blair's party on Friday held onto a Parliamentary seat in a special election that tested the government's popularity ahead of national polls expected next year. Labour...

Japan's unemployment rate declines to 4.8 percent in August.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: YURI KAGEYAMA Japan's unemployment rate fell to 4.8 percent in August, the government said Friday, as recent signs of a recovery in the world's second largest economy trickled down to the job market. ...

'Rose Rage' combines three Shakespeare plays into one visceral, half-day experience.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: JUSTIN GLANVILLE There's a 75-minute dinner break in the middle of "Rose Rage," a 5 1/2-hour distillation of Shakespeare's three plays about Henry VI _ but theatergoers may not be able to stomach anything...

Carnegie International to unveil 54th installation.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: ALLISON SCHLESINGER Their works are made of such things as oil on linen, ink on paper and canvas stretched on welded steel. The artists _ both men and women, young and old _ are from as far away as...

Who says musicians don't write political songs anymore? Not Steve Earle.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: DAVID BAUDER Steve Earle is an unapologetic leftist who'd like nothing more than to see President Bush defeated in November. So what would people who disagree with his politics get from Earle's new...

Star-studded 'Shark Tale' showcases celebrity cartoon actors.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: ANTHONY BREZNICAN Quick! Can you name who did the voice of Snow White? Or Cinderella? How about the Little Mermaid? It's OK if the names Adriana Caselotti, Ilene Woods and Jodi Benson don't...

Preacher Jakes' R-rated film tackles sexual abuse.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: BOBBY ROSS JR. Bishop T.D. Jakes isn't easily intimidated. He is, after all, a best-selling author of 29 books, a Grammy-winning gospel singer, a nationally renowned preacher and the subject of a 2001...

New hit album, new tour, same 'old' Beastie Boys.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: ALEX VEIGA The Beastie Boys are flashing liquor and cash while betting on a street-level parlor game _ with a Jewish twist. Instead of a 40-ounce (1,134-gram) brew, Adrock throttles a bottle of...

Colombian rocker Juanes confronts homeland's conflict with new album.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: ANDREW SELSKY For a musician with nine Latin Grammies and a new single topping the charts, Juanes is a laid-back guy, with none of a rock star's brashness. But underneath that mellow exterior is a...

U.S.-Iraqi forces launch major attack on attack Samarra, attack suspected safehouse in Fallujah.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: DENIS D. GRAY U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major attack against the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, securing government and police buildings in the city early Friday, the U.S. command said. A...

Celebrity Birthdays.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: DENIS D. GRAY Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 3-9: Oct. 3: Singer Chubby Checker is 63. Actor Alan Rachins ("Dharma & Greg") is 62. Magician Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is 60....

AP Weekly News Calendar.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: DENIS D. GRAY Saturday, Oct. 2: Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina _ Local elections across Bosnia. Amsterdam, Netherlands _ Trade unions plan mass rally to protest government cuts in social spending....

Director of 'Three Kings' confronts existentialism with humor, optimism.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: BEN NUCKOLS In person, David O. Russell is a lot like his new movie, "I (Heart) Huckabees": highly intelligent, scatterbrained, a bit goofy, concerned about political and social problems but ultimately...

Still a star after all these years, Lassie celebrates 50th anniversary on TV.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: BOB THOMAS In the early 1950s, when television sent Hollywood into the doldrums and studios were thinning their contract lists, some stars began appearing in their own TV series. Among them: Lucille...

Blair emerges from convention scratched but intact after avoiding defeat over Iraq.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: ED JOHNSON Prime Minister Tony Blair won the backing of his Labour Party to keep British troops in Iraq, avoiding a humiliating defeat that would have undermined his premiership. Although resentment...

At the Movies: `Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry'.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: CHRISTY LEMIRE Not that you'd expect a documentary to be fair and balanced _ the whole point of the genre is to shape opinion _ but "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" plays like a 92-minute...

British Whaling Shipwrecks Believed Found.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: JAYMES SONG In what is being called a "mind-blowing" discovery, divers have found anchors, cauldrons and cannonballs near a remote Hawaiian atoll where two British whaling ships were lost nearly two centuries...

Web Sites Spoof Bush, Kerry With Parodies.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: ANICK JESDANUN If you're not ready to feverishly debate Iraq or the deficit in this bitterly divisive election year, you can always surf the Web, where politics is frequently nothing but a big joke. ...

RFK Children Object to Hotel Preservation.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: MICHAEL R. BLOOD Five of Robert F. Kennedy's nine surviving children urged school officials Thursday to scrap plans to preserve parts of the landmark hotel where he was assassinated in 1968. The offspring...

Web Founder Promotes Future Cooperation.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: MARK JEWELL The inventor of the World Wide Web told a technology conference on Wednesday that making the Web more useful hinges on a familiar challenge: Getting the players behind the technology to agree on...

Series of Fla. Hurricanes Delay Funerals.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: JILL BARTON The four-in-a-row hurricanes that have disrupted lives across Florida have also delayed life's final journey for many. Funerals have been put off for weeks in some places because the ground is too...

Report on Chicago Fire Blames Sprinklers.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: MAURA KELLY LANNAN A state-funded investigation into a fire at a high-rise county building that killed six people concluded that the deaths could have been prevented if there were sprinklers and unlocked...

Attorneys in Right-To-Die Case Cite Pope.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: VICKIE CHACHERE Attorneys for the parents of a woman at the center of a right-to-die case argued Thursday she would have been profoundly affected by new Catholic teachings on end-of-life issues. "Our case...

Houston Official Seeks Halt on Executions.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: JUAN A. LOZANO Inmates whose convictions rested on evidence analyzed at the troubled Houston crime lab should not be executed until the work can be reviewed, the city's police chief said Thursday. Also...

Atlantic City Casino Workers Set to Strike.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: JOHN CURRAN Casino hotel workers geared up Thursday for a strike that could deal a blow to New Jersey's $4.4 billion casino industry. About 15,000 workers _ from bell captains to bartenders, pastry chefs...

First Los Alamos Nuclear Materials in Nev.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Online) Byline: LESLIE HOFFMAN Federal officials said Thursday that the first shipment of weapons-grade nuclear material has been sent out of a steep canyon at Los Alamos National Laboratory that some warned was vulnerable to...

Suicide bombers strike twice in Baghdad, Arab network says 10 more hostages seized.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: ALEXANDRA ZAVIS A string of bombs killed 35 children and wounded scores of others as U.S. troops handed out candy Thursday at a government-sponsored celebration to inaugurate a new sewage plant. It was the...

At the Movies: `Shark Tale'.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: CHRISTY LEMIRE You'll have a sinking feeling that you've seen the all-star animated extravaganza "Shark Tale" before. That's because you have _ and you've seen it done better _ in the form of "Finding...

Cruz Azul scores second tournament victory with win over Atlante in Mexico first division soccer.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: CHRISTY LEMIRE With goals from Argentine Luciano Figueroa and Colombian John Restrepo, Cruz Azul scored its second consecutive victory Thursday with a 2-0 win over Atlante in Mexico first division soccer....

At the Movies: `I (Heart) Huckabees'.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: CHRISTY LEMIRE I wanted to (heart) "I (Heart) Huckabees." Really, I did. Great cast, fun trailer, wildly inventive idea. But the repetitive philosophical mumbo-jumbo in David O. Russell's talky...

At the Movies: `Ladder 49'.
October 1, 2004... (From AP Worldstream) Byline: DAVID GERMAIN "Ladder 49" poses the question: What makes firefighters run into burning buildings when everyone else is running out? Unfortunately, "Ladder 49" could have a similar effect: Firefighters...