Hulk Hogan, Wife Settle Divorce

Hulk Hogan and his wife have finally reached a settlement in their divorce case.

At a brief hearing Tuesday morning in Clearwater, Fla., Hogan, 55, and his wife Linda announced that they've agreed to the terms of the split.

"We've reached a marital settlement agreement," Ray Rafool, Linda's attorney, told the judge.
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Harvard Professor: Henry Louis Gates Cambridge Arrest July-22-2009

The professor was inside for several minutes when a police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, appeared at his steps and asked him to step outside, the lawyer said.
According to his lawyer, Gates told the officer he lived there and showed him his Massachusetts driver's license and Harvard University identification card. The officer followed him into his house and said he had received a report of a possible break-in, the lawyer said. Gates grew frustrated that the officer was continuing to question him in his home and asked for the officer's name and badge number, Ogletree said.
Gates followed the officer outside and continued to accuse him of racial bias, the report said. After Crowley warned the professor twice that he was becoming disorderly, the officer wrote he arrested Gates for "loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space."


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Judy Chu,First Chinese-American Woman Elected to Congress

Judy Chu, who launched her political career on a local school board, won a special election to succeed longtime ally Hilda Solis, now U.S. Labor secretary.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-judy-chu16-2009jul16,0,2984735.story

Robert McNamara Dead at 93

McNamara was the archetype of a new wave of management specialists on the rise in Washington during the 1960s. He surrounded himself with a bevy of analysts who became known as his "whiz kids," and they played a prominent role in drafting the classified "Pentagon Papers," an exhaustive history of the U.S. entry into Vietnam that McNamara secretly commissioned in 1967.

Brimming with self-confidence, McNamara transformed the Defense Department into the giant military and civilian fiefdom it remains today. Among his creations were the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency, the predecessor of the massive Defense Logistics Agency.

But it was Vietnam that defined him, from his assertive oversight of the first contingents of Green Beret advisors sent by the Kennedy administration to South Vietnam in 1961, to his backstage qualms that led Lyndon Johnson to replace him as Defense Secretary.

When anti-war opponent Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) cracked in 1965 that the Vietnam conflict had become "McNamara's War"--a sardonic take on the 1940s Bing Crosby tune, "McNamara's Band"--the Defense Secretary unblinkingly took the line as a compliment. "I don't mind it being called McNamara's War," he told a reporter. "In fact, I'm proud to be associated with it."

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Mahinur Ozdemir: First Belgium MP to Don the Hijab

I will not take off my Hijab for the elections or for parliament. I wore the Hijab when I was working for Schaerbeek Municipal Council and I will carry on wearing it even in parliament,” commented Mahinur Ozdemir, the first Muslim veiled Belgium MP, on those opposing her headscarf under the parliamentary ceil.
The following is a profile feature on Ozdemir, the 26-year-old Belgian veiled MP, just before taking the oath of the regional Belgium parliament.
Belgian MP With Hijab

Brussels, Asharq Al-Awsat- When I met Mahinur Ozdimer in one of the biggest shopping malls in Brussels just one day before the Belgium elections that took place on June 7, I noticed that she was the only female candidate wearing Hijab as the candidates handed out leaflets and met and spoke with voters.

I asked Mahinur “Aren’t you worried about the reaction you’ll get from Belgian voters because you wear Hijab?” Ozdemir, a Belgium citizen of a Turkish descent, answered, “I will not take off my Hijab for the elections or for parliament. I wore the Hijab when I was working for Schaerbeek Municipal Council and I will carry on wearing it even in parliament.”
Despite the pressure she is subjected to because she continues to wear the Hijab, Mahinur always says that “efficiency alone is what matters, not the Hijab.”
A Matter of Mind or Body
Ozdimer assures: “efficiency alone is what matters, not the Hijab.”
Mahinur is the first parliamentarian to wear Hijab, but there is a problem; Belgian law does not allow MPs to wear headscarves in parliament. The issue has begun to raise controversy among members of Arab and Muslim communities and amongst the Belgians themselves.

MP Suad Razzouk from Belgium’s Socialist Party said, “Ozdemir will face two options: resign if she does not take off the Hijab, or give up her seat in parliament.”

Ahmed Mohsen, a member of the Green Party, said “I will work towards changing the current status as the right-wing, liberals and socialist parties caused the banning of Hijab in 95 per cent of Belgian schools with only five schools allowing it.”

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