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McNamee told investigators he injected Clemens' wife with HGH
Clemens did not comment on the latest accusation, which came out as he wrapped up a second day of face-to-face meetings with members of Congress. Clemens' lawyers, Rusty Hardin and Lanny Breuer, did not directly address the issue when asked about it. "Did Roger get the Cy Young 'cause his wife took the HGH?" Breuer asked. .
Wild Card -- Tuesday PM
Spectators at the annual Dayton Days parade in tiny Dayton, Wash., got more than they bargained for last weekend when a team of horses bolted, according to the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, here. 5. Dave Wiegand, a 30-year-old Portland mortgage underwriter was "King of the Hill" after beating 17 or 20 players in the "Scrabble in Seattle" tournament here. 6. IMHO-NW: Jamie Tobias Neely/SR (Passing judgment on Mayor Jim West), Robert L. Jamieson Jr./PI (Remembering dead Iraqis, too), Jim Moore/PI (Scrabble extravaganza), D.F. Oliveria/SR (Monday Huckleberries column), and Coeur d'Alene Press (North Idaho wrestles with loss). *Olympian reader poll: "Have the Republicans proven their case in the gubernatorial election trial: Yes -- 52.1%, No -- 47.9%. *Spokane Mayor Jim West predicts on national TV he'll survive scandal here.
January 2004 - December 2004
Every year at Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska a student is picked to win the Distinguished African American Student Award. David M. Huntwork wonders why it's wrong to award a white student who happens to be a native of Africa
Homage to the Count: P. David Hornik has been listening to the great William "Count" Basie for decades but it was only recently that it struck him why the jazzman was one of the greatest ever in his field
Privatize the space program: Rather than spend hundreds of billions of dollars putting humans on Mars, writes Robert Garmong, George W. Bush should instead consider getting out of the space business altogether
A man's (and woman's) home is a castle: Protecting children from abuse is one of society's highest priorities, says Wendy McElroy, but the power of child welfare agencies is leading to many abuses
Reforming to preserve: An interview with Peter Brimelow: Never one to shy away from controversy, veteran conservative commentator Peter Brimelow discusses education, immigration and the death of the conservative movement with Bernard Chapin
Sauce for the goose: political convention wisdom: No matter what happens in the Iowa caucuses, writes Jackson Murphy, the media will argue that 'conventional wisdom' explains the results
Iowa is key battleground for Dean: Carol Devine-Molin is of the opinion that a Howard Dean victory in Iowa is a must if his campaign isn't to falter, especially with the other candidates breathing down his neck and a party establishment eager for him to fail
Republicans shouldn't rejoice if the Democrats go mad: W.
Obscurity and confinement for migrants in Europe
They are in railroad depots. They are in old grain stores and recycled factories. Some are brand new, others are in adjuncts of prisons. One is on a ship anchored in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. From Ireland to Bulgaria, from Finland to Spain, detention camps for foreigners have mushroomed across the European Union. They have emerged mostly over the past decade, as the region has grown less and less welcoming to migrants. There are now 224 detention camps scattered across the European Union; altogether they can house more than 30,000 people - asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants awaiting deportation - who are often held in administrative detention for as long as 18 months. In a number of EU countries, there is no upper limit on detention length. "Detention is a very serious measure in a democratic society - governments deprive people of their liberty when they are convicted of a serious crime," said Katrine Camilleri, a refugee lawyer in Malta with the Jesuit Refugee Service, which on Dec.
Bush signs stimulus package
My guess is that that of the $110 billion to $120 billion of tax rebates, about half will go to U.S. products and services," said David Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poor's. There are also questions about whether the stimulus will actually be the key to ending or preventing a recession. Even many of those who believe the U.S. is already in a recession are forecasting that the economy is poised to pull out of the recession in the second half of this year -- regardless of the stimulus package -- thanks to several big interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve since last September. "I don't think this is too little, but it might be too late," said Jeoff Hall, the chief U.S. economist for Thomson Financial. "By the time you get the intended effect, you may not need anything." Other economists believe the economy is falling into a much more severe recession than can be turned around by this type of tax cut.
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