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• Bush supporters should study history of U.S. actions in Iraq

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:01

  Mark WestThe recent documentary ?®Why We Fight?∆ contained a number of scenes that were, to my mind, riveting.There was a good bit of documentary footage of Dwight D. Eisenhower. I had always thought of him as the last gas...

• The Advice Goddess: Romance is not a paperback novel

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:57

  The Advice GoddessAmy AlkonFor about six weeks, I??ve been seeing a guy who??s here on a temporary work contract. We get along well, and I like him ?? despite his right-wing political views, his messy place and his college kid diet. However, last night ...

• Gallon of gas fetches new record price at Sotheby??s auction house

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:52

  Andy BorowitzIn a frenzy of bidding that many in the auction industry called unprecedented, a gallon of gas fetched a record price today at the legendary auction house Sotheby??s. Alistair Crutchfield, director of Sotheby??s ra...

• Using dreams to guide our lives? They can provide answers

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:50

  Janese JohnsonEven as a child, I was fascinated with understanding people from a deeper perspective.My grandmother ?®read?∆ a regular deck of cards and would get together with all the neighborhood women and give them readi...

• Prostitution? Respectability comes with a steep price

  Created: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:47

  Marc Mullinax?®We??re all prostitutes; some of us have higher prices, and some of us walk the streets.?∆?ÿTo the Editor:SEOUL, South Korea ?? When you, the editor of this newspaper, were at my home recently, one of the things we talked ?± joked, ac...

• Sports News June 14, 2006

  Created: Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:36

  Grasshoppers hand Tourists 2nd straight one-run lossThe Greensboro Grasshoppers jumped the Asheville Tourists 6-5 in baseball in front of 2,299 fans at McCormick Field last Monday night.In its second one-run defeat, Asheville (31-32) had a chance to pul...

• Wal-Mart needs to show respect

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  The issue that never goes away, Wal-Mart, has once again reared its head to cause controversy in Buncombe County ?? with similar cause for concern.Just over a month ago, the retail giant withdrew its application to build a supercenter in West Asheville,...

• Tired of punks? Crank up Manilow music

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  John NorthEditor & Publisher?®Although he has never earned the respect of critics or much of the public, Barry Manilow was one of the most successful recording artists of the ?¥70s and remains the undisputed No. 1 adult contemporary artist of all ...

• Religion without afterlife raises a toast to this life

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Marc Mullinax?®Imagine there??s no heaven, it??s easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us only sky.?∆  ?± John Lennon?ÿMARS HILL ?? When I really want to bend my students?? minds, I ask, ?®If you knew for certain that there would not be a ...

• Wiccans who serve in military deserve to be properly honored

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Mark West Sometimes, in this great country of ours, you just don??t know whether to laugh or to cry.The latest flap in the war in Iraq concerns whether a soldier whose religion was Wicca can have the religion??s symbol ?? a five-pointed star ?? eng...

• One-man show gives audiences at Stoneleaf Festival ?¥The Fever??

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Meg HaleMost people know of the actor Wallace Shawn from his roles on ?®The Cosby Show?∆ and as Vizzini in the film ?®The Princess Bride.?∆ When he is not poisoning masked men and exclaiming ?®Inconceivable!,?∆ he is an acclaimed and award-winn...

• Police Blotter for June 14, 2006

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Jerry Buck Inman?¥Bikini Strangler?? confesses; got his start in BuncombeCLEMSON, S.C. ?? A man known as the ?®Bikini Strangler?? who has confessed to the strangling death of a Clemson University student has a record of sexual assaults in the Buncombe...

• No phone call? Quit waiting for one; move on

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  I??m 32, independent, accomplished, in shape and considered pretty. I??d love to find a boyfriend, but I don??t NEED a boyfriend. A friend set me up with this guy ?? brilliant, sexy, successful, and athletic (a former Big Ten college quarterback). We ha...

• Citizen??s dividend? It??s a versatile solution

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Carl S. Milsted, Jr. Illegal immigration, job outsourcing, trade deficits, budget deficits, workers in poverty, the welfare trap, an insanely complicated tax code ... What do all these problems have in common?The answer: They could all be substanti...

• Media continues to trivialize stories from the motherland

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Roland Martin CHICAGO ?? A few days after ABC named Charlie Gibson as the sole anchor of its ?®World News Tonight?∆ franchise, the veteran newsman found himself in the middle of a brouhaha after New York magazine published an inflammatory commen...

• Three ministers recognized for commitment to gay rights

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  From left are Howard Hanger, Joe Hoffman, Mark Ward, ACLU WNC Treasurer Alan Scott Robinson and Steve Runholt. Robinson presented the certificates.By JIM GENAROThe actions taken by three local ministers to promote equal rights for gays and lesbians refl...

• Black Mountain board approves tax increase, moves ahead on pool

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  BLACK MOUNTAIN ?? The Black Mountain Board of Aldermen approved the town??s 2007 budget last Monday night, settling on a tax rate of 32 cents per $100 of property value.According to Assistant Town Manager Bo Ferguson, this rate is two cents higher than a ...

• County budget plan draws fire from citizens, sheriff

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  By DAVID FORBESThe newly proposed Buncombe County budget drew criticism from county residents, who assert that it imposes too high a tax burden ?? and from Sheriff Bobby Medford, who attacked a memo attached to the budget that raises the possibility of ...

• Bush doctrine poses threat to U.N., scholar says

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  Dr. Jerry PubantzBy JIM GENAROThe Bush administration??s doctrine of pre-emptive war has created a dangerous divergence from the practice of collective security on which the United Nations is based, Dr. Jerry Pubantz told a meeting of the Western North ...

• Reduced to mere rubble

  Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:00

  A back hoe is used to demolish a building on Haywood Street  across from the St. Lawrence Basilica last Thursday. The property is owned by the Basilica and is being cleared to make way for additional parking. ...