One day after North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dismissed the charges against the three Duke lacrosse players accused of rape, District Attorney Mike Nifong issued an apology, acknowledging that the three former Duke University lacrosse players had been “wrongfully accused” of sexual assault.
“Those of us who work within that system can only make the best judgments we can,” Nifong stated. “To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three suspects that were wrongly accused.”
Not everyone was pleased by the apology. Joseph Cheshire V, a lawyer for one of the lacrosse players said “This is not an apology. This is another attempt by Mr. Nifong at revisionist history, the same thing he has done with the facts throughout this entire case.“
Don Imus has been ripped in the public square this week for his recent comments that the Rurgers women’s basketball team were a bunch of “nappy headed hos”. Despite his apologies, black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were calling for him to be fired.
It appears they have gotten their wish. CBS announced Thursday that Imus has been fired from their network, effective immediately. The network had already suspended him for two weeks, but he will not return.
It seems likely that he will follow his fellow shock-jock in making the move to satellite radio, where you can say basically whatever you want. Below is a video of the broadcast where Imus made the controversial comments.
We were promised robots. Crazy electronic sidekick or death-dealing automaton of doom, we didn’t care, as long as the future shaped up to be the awesome electronic robo-battle we’d dreamed of as children. Flash forward 20 years and all we have are sorry, non-robotic pieces of supposedly innovative crap, such as “hybrid cars,” “iPods,” and “hope for the AIDs vaccine.” Consider the below list a sort of report card, so modern scientists can see exactly how far they are from fulfilling the promises of our childhood.
Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl.
Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, which rejected their application to name their six-month-old child after the legendary rock band.
“It suits her,” Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. “She’s decisive and she knows what she wants.”
A Chinese woman survived a plunge from a sixth-floor balcony thanks to a convenient pile of excrement which broke her fall, local media said.
The accident happened when the woman was hanging out laundry on Monday in Nanjing, capital of the eastern province of Jiangsu, the Kuaibao tabloid said on its Web site (www.kuaibao.net).
“Workers happened to be emptying the building’s septic tank, which had not been tended for a long time and had regularly blocked sewage pipes,” the newspaper said.