News For The Week Of February 12th

News For The Week Of February 12^th

National News

Stamp Price to Increase by One Cent

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Mailing a letter will soon cost a penny more.

The cost of a first-class stamp will rise to 42 cents starting May 12, the U.S. Postal Service said Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Postage-Rates.html?ref=us

 

For Clinton, Bid Hinges on Texas and Ohio

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers increasingly believe that, after a series of losses, she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4, and she has begun reassuring anxious donors and superdelegates that the nomination is not slipping away from her, aides said on Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/us/politics/12clinton.html?ref=us

 

International News

 

3 Arrested in Plot to Kill Cartoonist

BRUSSELS — Two Tunisians and a Dane were arrested in Denmark on Tuesday to prevent what the Danish police said would have been “a terror-related assassination” of one of 12 cartoonists behind caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in 2005 that provoked fury across the Muslim world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/world/europe/13denmark.html?ref=world

 

Israel to Build More in East Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel announced plans Tuesday to build more than 1,000 homes in disputed east Jerusalem, infuriating the Palestinians and triggering a new crisis in already troubled peace talks.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Israel-Palestinians.html?ref=world

 

Long Island Stories

 

Snow storm hits Long Island and the city

A small snow storm hit Long Island and New York City today, leading to dangerous road conditions. The storm is expected to last until midnight, at which point it will turn into sleet and then rain, the National Weather Service said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lisnow0213,0,6275190.story

 

87 SUNY Old Westbury students evicted over grades

SUNY Old Westbury removed 87 residential students from their dormitories for having grade point averages below 2.0, enforcing a policy that appears to be the only one of its kind on Long Island.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/education/ny-lidorm095570497feb09,0,6697454.story

 

Other News

 

European Lab Attached to Space Station

WASHINGTON — Astronauts placed the crown jewel of Europe’s contribution to the International Space Station into its permanent setting on Monday with the attachment of the Columbus science module.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/science/space/12shuttle.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

 

Mineola superintendent sued for sexual harassment

A former Mineola schools employee has accused her district's superintendent and his deputy of sexual harassment and other misconduct -- a case that has split the school board, prompted parents' inquiries and delayed efforts to award the deputy job tenure.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-lisupt0212,0,3046902.story

 

Obama rolls on; McCain wins Virginia, Maryland

Sen. Barack Obama swept the Democratic presidential primaries by large margins in Maryland. Virginia and the District of Columbia over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the cable television networks reported.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-usmain0213,0,7593101.story

 

Neck and Neck, Democrats Woo Superdelegates

WASHINGTON — Seeing a good possibility that the Democratic presidential nomination will not be settled in the primaries and caucuses, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are lavishing attention on a group that might hold the balance of power: elected officials and party leaders who could decide the outcome at the convention in August

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/us/politics/10superdelegates.html?ref=politic

 

 

My thoughts on.. .

 

87 SUNY Old Westbury students evicted over grades

 

The lead is good because it really does rally up the story. I was interested to read on after the lead because while I was college shopping after high school I actually applied and got into SUNY Old Westbury as well as visited. I guess for me its easy to put face on what there talking about because I have some knowing of the school. I felt the article was done well. It talks of the policy being instated for a long time but only now has the school doing something about it. It has numbers and research that tells of the 87 students enrolled status. From those who have re-enrolled, are commuting, and are back in the dorms.