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"Nobody wants peace more than the people of Israel, the Israeli government and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu," Nir Hefetz, Netanyahu's media adviser, said on Israel Radio Monday morning.

Published November 06, 2009, issue of November 13, 2009 . NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION IMPROVES WOMEN'S LIVES AND OFFERS HOPE "We can't promote human rights abroad unless we can defend human rights at home," author and journalist Sheryl WuDunn said at the October 14 New York Women's Foundation dinner at Gotham Hall.

Referring to neighbours and Fire Department officials, the newspaper said the fire 'started in the basement of an illegally subdivided house in Queens'. Police identified one of the dead as SD Jahan, 31.

In Section: ON SCREEN >> Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire hits theaters riding an ever-growing wave of hype and praise, including major awards at Sundance and Toronto and a cover story in The New York Times Magazine .

Dede Scozzafava, the moderate Republican candidate for an upstate New York congressional seat, withdrew her bid on Saturday in response to pressure from conservatives like Sarah Palin.

Sunday morning: Former reporter Jayson Blair on 'Fox News Sunday'; Mikhail Gorbachev on CNN's 'State of the Union' Jayson Blair, the former New York Times reporter who made up stories, will be a guest on " Fox News Sunday" this weekend.

SNEAKY IS AS sneaky does. One GOP senator has come up with a plan that sounds benign.

Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig, best known for playing big screen action heroes Wolverine and James Bond, have drawn record ticket sales for their play "A Steady Rain," but it drew mixed reviews on Wednesday after opening night.

It was one of those moments in time for Indians, one about which they would say even years later, 'I clearly remember where I was when I heard the news.' The news: The assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; the year: 1984.

A 40-year-old engineer who was dismissed from his job two years ago returned to his former workplace in downtown Orlando, Fla., on Friday morning and opened fire, killing one person and shooting five others, the authorities said.

Via this post on the ABA Journal 's Criminal Justice page, I came across this New York Times article about several people who are doing hard time because of "scent lineups," in which a dog chose them and their smell out of a group of other, um, smells.

From the ever predictable New York Times : By JEREMY W. PETERS November 4, 2009 SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. - Democrats won a special election in New York State's northernmost Congressional district Tuesday, a setback for national conservatives who heavily promoted a third candidate in what became an intense debate over the direction of the Republican Party ...

The legendary football coach Vince Lombardi said: "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." That philosophy may work on a football field.

"Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner, pleaded guilty to eight felonies in a Federal District Court in White Plains on Thursday morning," the New York Times reports .

Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about ethics? What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk management? Such was the blogosphere's snarky tone last week when Washington & Lee University in Virginia announced Blair would speak Friday at a journalism conference there.

Three men identified as suspects in Texas dog-scent lineups have filed a lawsuit saying the technique sent them to jail for crimes they didn't commit.

The G.O.P. had two big victories yesterday in off-year elections, winning the race for governor in New Jersey and Virginia for the first time since 1997.

NEW York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who engineered a change in the city's term-limits law so he could run again and set a campaign financing record, narrowly won a third term yesterday, local media declared.

The Wall Street Journal 's much anticipated Bay Area edition launches tomorrow, the newspaper said in an announcement.

If you've heard it once, you've heard it 1,000 times: the New York 23rd Congressional District has had a Republican incumbent since the 1870s.