Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from April 2004

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from April 2004

It's elementary, my dear film collectors.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Doug Nye The fog-shrouded streets of London. The eerie shadows on the English moors. The sound of the carriages and their horses clopping over the cobblestone streets. All are part of the world of unflappable detective...

People in the news.
April 30, 2004... As a pop producer and songwriter, Desmond Child clearly has range: He has crafted hits for everyone from Ricky Martin to Hilary Duff, Britney Spears to Clay Aiken. On May 19, he'll get one step closer to seeing whether his musical mojo will...

Marines end siege of Fallujah, leave Iraqi troops to help subdue city.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Carol Rosenberg FALLUJAH, Iraq _ Blowing up earth berms and emptying sandbags, thousands of Marines abandoned 3-week-old positions in the embattled city of Fallujah on Friday, leaving behind hundreds of Iraqi troops who once...

Candidates flip on NAFTA.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Mark Johnson RALEIGH, N.C. _ U.S. Rep. Richard Burr routinely bashes his opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Erskine Bowles, for his past support of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Bowles "was right there with...

Heat had no business winning this game.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Dan Le Batard MIAMI _ How in the name of all that is holy and sane did the Miami Heat win this basketball game? Playing this dumb? Being out-hustled by this much? Getting completely crushed on the boards? With the entire...

Faith in America: A mile wide and an inch deep.
April 30, 2004... Byline: Tom Schaefer We are a nation of religious people. Whether in cities or towns, churches are as common as fast-food restaurants. But our faith is a mile wide and an inch deep. More style than substance. That's how David...

Tough challenges for Guatemala's new leader.
April 30, 2004... This editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Thursday, April 29: ___ The election of Oscar Berger as president of Guatemala late last year marked a potentially significant turning point for this tortured country. After nearly half...

Coming this summer: the search for Noah's Ark.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Bill Ferguson I know it's only April, but the summer vacation season will be here before we know it. A lot of people have already started thinking about where they want to escape to when the weather turns warm and the schools let...

Statins may need CoQ10 for protection.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Richard Harkness Q: In reference to your column on statin drugs, I am an 85-year-old lady taking Lipitor (10 mg) to lower my cholesterol. Something that I did not hear from a doctor or read in the patient drug information was...

Sleeplessness takes a serious toll.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Shari Rudavsky Odds are you didn't get enough sleep last night. Maybe you stayed up late watching that movie. Or your alarm summoned you out of bed too early. Perhaps you tossed and turned, obsessing over a problem. You're in...

What about the rights of dads-to-be?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Issac J. Bailey It was right there in front of me, the grainy, dark screen, the kind only a trained technician could decipher. It held the answer to a question I had for at least four years: Would my first born be a daughter? ...

Toyota's Scion division big on boxy.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Jim Mateja It's not every day you can slip behind the wheel of a car equipped with a Bazooka. Actually it was a Bazooka brand subwoofer, a $429 option for the `04 Scion xB station wagon. Jim Farley, vice president of...

Cost cuts, revved-up profit power Padilla rise at Ford.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Jim Mateja Last week was a good one for Jim Padilla. Ford Motor Co. reported a $2 billion profit for the first quarter, double that of a year earlier, thanks in large part to Padilla's cost-cutting efforts and his insistence...

Subject in OxyContin series is arrested.(The Orlando Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Jim Leusner ORLANDO, Fla. _ A Tampa, Fla., man, portrayed in an Orlando Sentinel series last year as a successful businessman who became an "accidental addict" by taking the painkiller OxyContin, was arrested Thursday and held...

For Baltic nations, EU membership creates economic challenges.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Alex Rodriguez SKIRSNEMUNE, Lithuania _ Her face dusty and sunburned after spending an afternoon harvesting potatoes, Eugenija Meskauskiene scans the 74-acre dairy farm she and her husband took over from a Soviet collective and...

NASA on track for shuttle launch next spring, official says.(The Orlando Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Gwyneth K. Shaw WASHINGTON _ NASA is doing well in its effort to make the space shuttle safer, officials said Friday, but there is still a lot of work to be done. "We have made significant progress across the board in all the...

Dransfeldt's `too perfect' stint too short.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Melissa Isaacson CHICAGO _ He really could get used to this: the 45-minute commute from his home in Morris, the 100 or so fans who greeted him at a recent game, the loosey-goosey clubhouse of Ozzie Guillen, not to mention...

Kerry spells out plan to internationalize rebuilding of Iraq.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Jill Zuckman FULTON, Mo. _ Sen. John Kerry declared Friday that Iraq and the United States face "a moment of truth" as they seek to rebuild the violence-wracked country, while President Bush insisted from the White House that...

Bush defends `Mission Accomplished' as casualties mount in Iraq.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Rafael Lorente WASHINGTON _ "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," President Bush declared one year ago Saturday from the deck of an aircraft carrier off the coast of California. A banner with the words "Mission...

Cubs' bullpen gets help from lefty Rusch.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Paul Sullivan ST. LOUIS _ The Cubs purchased Glendon Rusch's contract from Triple-A Iowa on Friday and sent the veteran left-hander to the bullpen. But because Rusch has been a starter as well as a reliever, he will be...

Withdrawal of Wimbledon leaves Baffert without Derby mount.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Neil Milbert LOUISVILLE, Ky. _ The Kentucky Derby lost two of its superstars _ trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Jerry Bailey _ when Wimbledon was withdrawn from Saturday's 130th running after an injury to his left front tendon was...

Top-ranked pilot killed in crash during practice for Air & Sea Show.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Ken Kaye, Rafael Olmeda and Jaime Hernandez FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Ian Groom, a top-ranked U.S. aerobatic pilot and one of the premiere performers scheduled to be in this weekend's McDonald's Air & Sea Show, was killed during...

Bears QBs playing it cool.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: David Haugh CHICAGO _ Jonathan Quinn hadn't heard. Presumably, he was keeping his nose in the Bears' playbook at Halas Hall and not his ear to the ground. "I didn't know a lot about any free agents until I was walking off...

Dolphins Fiedler with 1st team.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Michael Cunningham DAVIE, Fla. _ For what was surely will be the first of many times, Dolphins quarterbacks Jay Fiedler and A.J. Feeley asserted on the first day of the first minicamp that they don't view their competition to...

Rotation changes for Cardinals series.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Paul Sullivan ST. LOUIS_The Cardinals series last September turned out to be the key to the Cubs' season, and also led to the downfall of St. Louis. While it might be too early for a Cubs-Cardinals series to have that much...

For starters, McKeon says Wayne better in relief.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Juan C. Rodriguez SAN FRANCISCO _ Asked whether pitching in relief would help Justin Wayne become a better starter, manager Jack McKeon wondered whether Wayne's present wasn't his future as well. "If he keeps doing what he's...

Downey's 11: a brief warning for Kentucky Derby.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Mike Downey LOUISVILLE, Ky. _ Jockeys now have permission to wear product placements, so how fast can we expect to see the Jockey brand in the stretch before Hanes rides up from the rear and Fruit of the Loom wedges through the...

Guillen gets to double his `fun'.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Fred Mitchell CHICAGO _ Aesthetically, the White Sox have not been a vision of beauty lately. But there are no style points in baseball, just victories and defeats. And an occasional rainout. The White Sox grabbed their...

This time, Hornets stung by big shot.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Ira Winderman MIAMI _ Now the New Orleans Hornets know how it feels. Seemingly having spent weeks watching Baron Davis throw in 3-pointers at the shot-clock buzzer, Heat guard Dwyane Wade came up with a dagger of his own...

Youthful mistakes hurt before rookie Wade hits it.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Dave Hyde MIAMI _ And then the kid hit another shot. That stopped all the cussing, all the yakking. That allowed the Heat to overcome New Orleans, as well as itself, on a night that playoff basketball finally broke open this...

Wildness in ninth costly to Cubs.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Paul Sullivan ST. LOUIS _ LaTroy Hawkins paced the Cubs clubhouse Friday night like a caged lion after walking home the winning run in the ninth inning of a 4-3 loss to St. Louis at Busch Stadium. There was no way to console...

Convertible version of PT Cruiser still appealing.(The Orlando Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Steven Cole Smith Chrysler has done a nice job of maintaining our interest in the company's little cash cow, the PT Cruiser, which _ along with the Volkswagen New Beetle and the Mini Cooper _ has made it stylish to drive a small,...

Is there a buyer in the house?
April 30, 2004... Byline: Mike Conklin PADUCAH, Ky. _ Want to own the Arcade, a 600-seat, downtown movie theater here? What about the 1,200-seat Columbia, which is next door? Interested in a package deal? How about both for free? In Paducah, Ky.'s...

Youth are not the only ones served by Scion.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Rick Popely CHICAGO _ As soon as Dennis Kolaski saw the newspaper ad for a Scion xB last fall, he knew that was the car for him. He feared that someone else would snap it up before he could get there, so Kolaski phoned the...

Home.
April 30, 2004... Byline: Mike Conklin PADUCAH, Ky. _ Last October, artist Julie Shaw, 57, traveled nearly 750 miles from her Colorado home to this old Ohio River town where she didn't know a soul. In one day, she looked over the place, made up her mind...

I'd salute president's courage if he'd talk straight about draft.(The Orlando Sentinel)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Myriam Marquez Vietnam it's not, but let's not kid ourselves. It was inevitable the draft would come up again as an inescapable next step in the war on terror. Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, floated the trial...

`Glory' honors medal winners.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Michael Kilian ARLINGTON, Va. _ As he describes it, U.S. Navy Lt. John William Finn, now 94, was making love to his wife, Alice, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He rushed to his duty station, took over a .30 caliber...

Soaking up rays not a bright idea.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Julie Deardorff I may be a future poster child for skin cancer, but after hearing about vitamin D's new health benefits, I'm more tempted than ever to work on my tan. Sure, I have fair skin, freckles, light hair, parents who...

Toying with the idea of inner peace.(Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2004... Byline: Patrick Kampert In an age when most publicity for video games is reserved for the violent ("Grand Theft Auto") and the ultraviolent ("Manhunt"), two Colorado entrepreneurs just want everybody to take some deep breaths and grab...

Afrikaners finding themselves adrift in new South Africa.
April 30, 2004... Byline: Laurie Goering PRETORIA, South Africa _ Danie Brand didn't vote in South Africa's recent national elections. It's not that he didn't want to. As a professor of human rights and public law at the University of Pretoria, he is...

Even though Comcast dropped its bid, problems remain for Disney.
April 30, 2004... The following editorial appeared in the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday, April 29: ___ The Walt Disney Co. is officially no longer a takeover target for Comcast Corp., but Mickey Mouse isn't out of the trap yet. Unless Disney...

India's Hindu-centric party tries to muster Muslim votes.
April 30, 2004... Byline: Liz Sly BOMBAY, India _ This week, Rashid Patel did something that until recently would have been unthinkable for almost any Muslim. He voted for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, the Hindu nationalist party that built its rise...

From one basic yeast dough arises a tableful of treats.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Deborah S. Hartz It's kitchen magic. From one simple yeast dough you can make garlic rolls, pizza, Italian bread, bread sticks or focaccia. It's easy. That is, if cooking teacher Richard Cingolani demonstrates the technique....

`Godsend'.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Roger Moore The modestly arresting "Godsend" aims to be an "Omen" for the New Age. Well acted, with several legitimate hair-raising moments, it's a stylish variation on the age old science-as-boogeyman thriller, with cloning as...

Altered corn ignites furor in Mexico.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Hugh Dellios CAPULALPAN, Mexico _ Olga Toro couldn't resist planting a few kernels of the corn she purchased at the government warehouse, even though it was intended only to help feed her family and her chickens. She was...

`Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius'.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Roger Moore As corny as Iowa and as long as a 36-hole playoff, "Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius" reminds one of the famous put-down description of golf, the game Jones changed forever. If golf is "a good walk, spoiled," the new...

Free trees praised as cool idea in Los Angeles.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Michael Martinez LOS ANGELES _ New life arrived at the home of Emma Southers and her daughter Susan Hershey and they raced out to greet it, dropping the groceries in the process. It came in the form of seven young trees,...

Why homes aren't perfect.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: John Handley CHICAGO _ A brand-new house should be perfect. It should be defect-free. After all, it cost plenty. It's the most expensive purchase most people will make. But, as the U.S. housing boom continues unabated,...

Television ad spending questioned on costly drugs.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Bruce Japsen CHICAGO _ A wave of new television advertisements for some of the nation's most expensive drugs has insurers and economists bracing for their effect on health-care costs. In particular, the ads could affect...

Small-scale farmers wary of surviving European Union entry.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Tom Hundley LIBCICE NAD VLTAVOU, Czech Republic _ The Rous family has deep roots in the soil here, roots that go back to 1498 at least. In the last century, the family's farm survived the Nazi occupation, four decades of...

Swimming Pool Q&A: Here's the dirt on cleaning pool screens.(The Orlando Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Paul Roth Q: What is the best and safest cleaner to use on fiberglass pool screens and the aluminum framework to remove the green algae that accumulates during the winter? Is it safe to use the pool chlorine at half-strength? ...

`Prophecy' fulfilled: Fans of New Age book get the movie version.(The Orlando Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Roger Moore OCALA, Fla. _ "Synchronicity." Psychologist Carl Jung's term for coincidences in which unrelated events occur with a purpose has become author James Redfield's favorite word. It was synchronicity that led...

Air leaks inflate bills, deflate comfort zone.(The Orlando Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Ken Sheinkopf One of the most annoying problems _ and one of the costliest drains on monthly power bills _ is unwanted air leakage into and out of homes. You spent a lot of money this past winter to heat your home, and you'll...

Few English speakers emerging from Puerto Rico's public schools.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Matthew Hay Brown NARANJITO, Puerto Rico _ Twenty-seven years in the classroom, and Jesus Rivera can still build excitement around the difficult business of learning a second language. "This is English, la, la, la," he sings...

Life is a bunch of Brady memorabilia and dreams of Jeannie in condo.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Lisa Skolnik Blame it on "The Brady Bunch." And "Let's Make a Deal," "Bewitched" and "I Dream of Jeannie." Gregg Shipp, who owns Hi-Fi Personal Fitness in Chicago, and restaurateur Amanda Larsen Puck, certainly do. As kids, they...

ABC `reality show' follows woman choosing parents to adopt her baby.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Maureen Ryan CHICAGO _ Friday's television program has been billed as "the ultimate reality show," featuring "a nerve-wracking elimination round." It's not the next season of "The Bachelor." It's this week's edition of the...

U.N. plan may oust Iraqi Governing Council for `technocrats'.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Deborah Horan BAGHDAD _ Just weeks before the planned U.S. hand-over of sovereignty in Iraq, the country's U.S.-appointed leaders are balking at a United Nations plan to create a caretaker government that they fear may exclude...

Edwards running quiet campaign for vice presidency.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Jeff Zeleny BAL HARBOUR, Fla. _ It would be both unseemly and unwise for John Edwards to come right out and admit that he wants to be John Kerry's running mate. But ambition is a hard thing to hide. The North Carolina senator...

Iraqi academic, democracy advocate, dies in Baghdad explosion.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Evan Osnos BAGHDAD _ When war arrived, 70-year-old professor Gailan Ramiz set out to protect the small, refined world he cherished. Tall, reedy and avuncular, with a fondness for tweed jackets, he built a brick wall around...

Smarty Jones the Derby's feel-good story.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Neil Milbert LOUISVILLE, Ky. _ In an imperfect world, Smarty Jones has a chance to complete a perfect story. The Pennsylvania-bred horse has recovered from a horrifying head injury to emerge from obscurity as the only...

A better way for crime victims.
April 29, 2004... The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday, April 28: ___ The U.S. Senate had the chance to approve an amendment to the Constitution to protect the rights of crime victims _ and wisely decided not to. Sen....

A prairie journey through the homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Alan Solomon MANSFIELD, Mo. _ There aren't many left who knew her. "This movie that they have _ `Little House on the Prairie,' that's the name of it _ it's nothing like her at all." We are in Nava Austin's tiny, immaculate...

In the old New York, the streets run crazy and legends intersect.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Robert Cross NEW YORK _ With so many picturesque buildings on eccentric byways, Greenwich Village still seems a likely place to commit literature. The district has boiled over with artistic energy almost from its beginning as a...

Coasting through California with four writers who knew their place.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Toni Stroud Much of what we believe about California was constructed by the authors who wrote about it. Many writers found rest or aggravation or inspiration there, of course. But four in particular _ Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack...

Designers conjure up some magic at High Point Furnishings Market.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub HIGH POINT, N.C. _ Imagine furniture that makes it easier to cuddle and watch TV, gather in the kitchen for casual dining and remain calm if a guest spills red wine on the upholstery. The theme of the...

Big names still doing big business in furniture sales.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub HIGH POINT, N.C. _ They can be living. They can be dead. As long as they have a recognizable name, manufacturers continue to pay them, or their heirs, to use the name to give their collections sales power....

Line crafted for wealthy `Rings' fans.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub HIGH POINT, N.C. _ If you know Ents resemble trees and Bilbo gave Frodo the ring, Middle Earth Furniture has the collection of your dreams. Hands down, "The Lord of the Rings" collection wins the bid...

Five picks from market.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub Get ready to be teased. Here are our "Fave Five" picks from the spring International Home Furnishings Market. Think of these as future stuff. They should arrive in stores within the next two to six...

`Mean Girls'.(The Orlando Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Jay Boyar Mean boys don't mess around. They punch you in the nose. Shove your head in the toilet. Kick you in the ribs. Mean girls, however, are often more subtle: As 16-year-old Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) discovers in...

NFL hopes GM veteran can put furor in reverse.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Jim Kirk CHICAGO _ The National Football League can't distance itself from its Super Bowl halftime debacle fast enough. So the NFL, still stinging from Janet Jackson's breast exposure that turned the prime-time show into a...

Vote against withdrawal plan would unravel Likud, Sharon says.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Joel Greenberg JERUSALEM _ With opinion polls indicating for the first time that his Gaza withdrawal plan would be rejected by his Likud Party, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon scrambled Thursday to shore up support for the proposal,...

United loses $459 million in 1st quarter.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Melissa Allison CHICAGO _ United Airlines followed other major U.S. carriers on Thursday in posting a first-quarter loss that was much improved from a year ago, when SARS and the war with Iraq kept passengers from flying. ...

NCAA board votes to penalize schools whose athletes struggle in class.(The Orlando Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Alan Schmadtke Calling it "a sea change in college sports," NCAA President Myles Brand heralded a new set of academic reforms voted in Thursday by the Division I Board of Directors _ reforms that would penalize schools that don't...

Experts unsure if 1st-quarter GDP is good enough.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: William Neikirk WASHINGTON _ The U.S. economy grew at a 4.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter, slightly less than many analysts had expected but still enough to reflect an ongoing recovery from the post-boom blues. ...

Walters defends `20/20' show on adoption, decries promotional ads.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Megan O'Matz FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Barbara Walters, in a letter to viewers posted on ABC's Web site, blames the furor over an upcoming "20/20" episode on adoption on "overly zealous promotion." "Frankly, some of our...

11 years after its approval, World War memorial opens to public.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Michael Kilian WASHINGTON _ Former Marine Master Sgt. William Abernathy, who spent 22 years in the military and fought the Japanese in the Pacific, savored the sight of the majestic new World War II memorial that opened to the...

11 years after its approval, World War II memorial opens to public.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Michael Kilian WASHINGTON _ Former Marine Master Sgt. William Abernathy, who spent 22 years in the military and fought the Japanese in the Pacific, savored the sight of the majestic new World War II memorial that opened to the...

Soldier tells elementary students of poor equipment, training.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Lois K. Solomon DELRAY BEACH, Fla. _ Army Sgt. Seth Cole was no ordinary show-and-tell guest at Banyan Elementary School in Florida. At 6-foot-3, in a pressed, beribboned uniform and just back from Iraq, the infantryman was the...

Cubs and Cardinals to meet for first time since September.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Paul Sullivan CHICAGO _ The Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals meet Friday night at Busch Stadium for the first time since September, resuming a 112-year-old grudge match that went into overdrive during a four-day, five-game,...

Cubs trade Sanchez opening spot for Rusch.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Paul Sullivan CHICAGO _ The Cubs traded left-hander Felix Sanchez to Detroit on Thursday, opening a roster spot for veteran lefty Glendon Rusch. The 29-year-old Rusch was 2-0 in four starts at Triple-A Iowa, with 16...

A year after `Mission Accomplished,' Bush dogged by post-war Iraq.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Jill Zuckman PHILADELPHIA _ When he triumphantly flew onto the deck of the aircraft carrier Lincoln a year ago in a moment made for TV, President Bush surely could not have anticipated the downward spiral still to come in Iraq....

Bears exploring backup options.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: David Haugh CHICAGO _ While Bears coach Lovie Smith went public Thursday to support Rex Grossman as the Bears' starting quarterback, general manager Jerry Angelo worked privately to secure Tim Couch as Grossman's backup. ...

Cheerleading is not a sport, despite IHSA declaration.(The Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Rick Morrissey Jeer if you like; cheerleading is not a sport. Before the "Rick's a Neanderthal" e-mail campaign begins, I would like to point out that cheerleading is a fine activity. Mesmerizing flexibility, eternal smiles,...

Bush Cheney appear before Sept. 11 commission.(Chicago Tribune)
April 29, 2004... Byline: Cam Simpson and Jeff Zeleny WASHINGTON _ Behind the closed doors of the Oval Office Thursday, members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks questioned President Bush and Vice President Dick...