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(AP) BEIRUT – Armed Shiite clansmen in Lebanon said Wednesday they had captured more than 20 Syrians and will hold them until one of their relatives seized by rebels inside Syria is freed. The tensions were a stark reminder of how easily Syria’s civil war could spill over to neighboring states. In Geneva, a U.N. investigation said Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen were responsible for war crimes during a May bloodbath in the village of Houla that killed more than 100 civilians, nearly half of them children. It also said rebels were blamed for war crimes in at least three other killings. The report by the U.N. Human Rights Council said the scale of the Houla carnage indicated “involvement at the highest levels” of Syria’s military and government. It is first time the U.N. has described events in Syria’s civil war as war crimes and could be used in possible future prosecution against Assad or others. The council also said the conflict is moving in increasingly “brutal” directions on both sides. Hotel used by U.N. observers rocked by explosion in Damascus, Syria’s capital cityPentagon: 서산출장마사지 Iran training militiamen for AssadU.S. lifts sanctions on ex-Syria PM More in After the Arab Spring As the fighting deepens, so do the fears of it triggering unrest in fragile Lebanon, which is deeply divided between supporters and opponents of President...

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK – When you heard that Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine was appointed America’s new poet laureate, you probably wondered just what a poet laureate does. Well, for starters, he – or she – receives $35,000 and is known officially from October through May as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for the U.S. The laureate has few official duties and poets before Levine have used the job to pursue a range of personal projects. For example, Billy Collins (2001-2003) started the Poetry 180 program which encourages the reading of verse in high school. The 180 refers to the 180 poems Collins selected for the program. Collins also wrote a poem to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and read it aloud at a special joint session of Congress on Sept 6, 2002. Another previous poet laureate, Robert Hass (1995-1997) went around the country lecturing on poetry and ecological awareness and organized a nationwide “Watershed” conference on nature writing. He also wrote a column about poetry for the Washington Post. What is Levine planning? “I don’t want to overextend myself, but at the same time I would like to use the ‘bully pulpit,’ as they call it, to bring attention to some of my concerns,” the 83-year-old poet told the Associated Press. “There’s a great deal of American poetry that’s hardly known and that should be known....

“One of the odder aspects of this is that Imus makes a racist comment, and the damage is done to a civil rights lawyer,” Kuby reflected one day after he was canned at WABC-AM, abruptly ending a successful eight-year morning drive-time run. It’s true: The radio resurrection of Don Imus flipped the off switch on Kuby’s New York gig, where he and co-host Curtis Sliwa garnered a bigger Big Apple audience than the one Imus left behind after his April firing at WFAN-AM. But Imus has the reputation, the buzz, the potential for national syndication. As for Kuby, he heads into radio silence looking forward to … sleeping late. “I’m a man who strives to achieve his expectations,” Kuby said of his modest goal. The left-leaning Kuby was an unlikely match for 솔레어카지노 conservative talk-show bastion WABC, home to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. He and Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, started their morning show in May 2000, breaking into the top 10 for morning drive ratings in the nation’s most competitive market. “We were like mixing ammonia and bleach – very volatile, like the husband and wife in ‘Goodfellas,'” Sliwa said. “It was great radio. But this is new management, and they want a national show.” Before bringing his distinctive voice to the airwaves, Kuby did most of his public speaking in courtrooms. He was best known...

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK – When you heard that Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine was appointed America’s new poet laureate, you probably wondered just what a poet laureate does. Well, for starters, he – or she – receives $35,000 and is known officially from October through May as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for the U.S. The laureate has few official duties and poets before Levine have used the job to pursue a range of personal projects. For example, Billy Collins (2001-2003) started the Poetry 180 program which encourages the reading of verse in high school. The 180 refers to the 180 poems Collins selected for the program. Collins also wrote a poem to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and read it aloud at a special joint session of Congress on Sept 6, 2002. Another previous poet laureate, Robert Hass (1995-1997) went around the country lecturing on poetry and ecological awareness and organized a nationwide “Watershed” conference on nature writing. He also wrote a column about poetry for the Washington Post. What is Levine planning? “I don’t want to overextend myself, but at the same time I would like to use the ‘bully pulpit,’ as they call it, to bring attention to some of my concerns,” the 83-year-old poet told the Associated Press. “There’s a great deal of American poetry that’s hardly known and that should be known....

(CBS/AP) – America’s favorite redhead Lucille Ball would be celebrating her 100th birthday tomorrow if she were alive. This year also marks the 60th anniversary of “I Love Lucy,” the much loved CBS sitcom that the comedienne, who died on April 26, 1989, began her TV career on. Pictures: 50 greatest TV characters To celebrate this banner year, 카지노사이트 the Hollywood Museum has launched an extensive exhibit, which will run through Nov. 20, 2011, highlighting her career and achievements. TV costumes, photographs, letters, scripts, trophies and other memorabilia fill the “Lucille Ball at 100 and I Love Lucy at 60” exhibit, which was unveiled Thursday night with a gala reception with daughter Lucie Arnaz in attendance. “I think of her as mom most of the time. Then I switch … and try to see her as the rest of the world does. It’s almost too big,” Arnaz told the Associated...