Volume 90, Issue 11 | November 17, 2010
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Palin’s TV Series a Stage for Political Future?
the former Alaska governor and associated press 2008 Republican vice presiden–––––––––––––––––––––––––– tial nominee is positioning herself for a 2012 presidential run. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – There are other messages that “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” portrays seem to conflict with those amthe show’s heroine as an adven- bitions, though. Palin talks about ture-loving wife and mother en- her love of wild Alaska, offering joying a whirlwind of activities in one well-known homily, “A amid spectacular settings in her poor day of fishing beats even a home state. There are no overt clues to her future political ambitions. However, throughout the first episode of the eight-part TLC documentary series beginning Sunday, Palin’s outdoorsy image against the stunning scenery often plays nicely with her familiar political message. One telling scene shows Palin and mem- great day at work.” bers of her family fishing near In a promo for the show with a bear and two frolicking cubs. a montage of outdoor scenes, Cut to the Tea Party darling and she says, “I’d rather be doing her self-sufficiency speech. For this than in some stuffy old pomonths, Palin has referred to litical office” and “I’d rather be strong Republican female candi- out here being free.” dates as “mama grizzlies.” Then come the snippets that “I love watching these mama easily could fill in as campaign bears,” Palin tells the TLC cam- slogans, particularly with Palera. “They’ve got a nature, yeah, in’s very political tweets, Facethat humankind could learn book postings and other media from. She’s trying to show her forums. Her Alaska landscapes cubs, ‘Nobody’s gonna do it for also loom larger than life. ya. You get out there and do it “What all this suggests is that yourself, guys.’” she’s crafting her lifestyle and Translation: Stop relying on her biography as typifying a pergovernment. son who’s independent, rugged, That scene and others are sure resilient, in touch with nature to suggest to some viewers that and has learned life lessons that By RACHEL D’ORO
Haitians Protest UN Base Over Cholera Claim
By JONATHAN M. KATZ associated press
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for a deadly outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in the
country’s second-largest city Monday, Haitian radio and eyewitnesses reported. The protesters also blame the unit for the death of a Haitian youth at the base in August. The demonstrations began in Cap-Haitien about 6 a.m. (6 a.m. EST; 1100 GMT) and have paralyzed much of the northern port city, national television reporter
Johnny Joseph told The Associated Press by phone. Demonstrators are also targeting other U.N. bases and Haitian national police stations in the city, he said. U.N. police spokesman Andre Leclerc said the demonstrators blocked traffic in the area. Radio Kiskeya and Radio Caraibes reported that U.N. sol-
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diers and Haitian police fired tear gas and projectiles to disperse at least 1,000 protesters at the Nepalese base. Joseph said at least three people were injured by Haitian police. A case of cholera had never before been documented in Haiti, and fear and confusion See CHOLERA page 5
she can bring into governance if she moves back into governance,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a University of Pennsylvania communications professor who studies political rhetoric. “It also could be life lessons to get to lead a better life in the rugged frontiers,” Jamieson said. “They have to have that
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duo message or this will read as if it’s a political ad.” In a scene outside the family’s Wasilla home, viewers see the 14-foot-high fence the Palins erected when author Joe McGinniss moved next door to work on a book about Palin. “By the way, I thought that was a good example,” Palin says on TLC. “What we just did, others could look and say, ‘Oh, this is what we need to do to secure our nation’s border.’” The intent of the series is not clear — is she merely showing off a state she truly loves with off-the-cuff remarks, or are these See PALIN page 6
Washington State Bans Alcoholic Energy Drinks
by masking alcohol’s regular depressant effects. She also said –––––––––––––––––––––––––– alcohol-based energy drinks — sometimes fruit-flavored, often OLYMPIA, Wash. – Retailers sold in brightly colored cans have a week to clear millions of — are too appealing to young dollars worth of alcoholic en- drinkers. ergy drinks from their shelves “It’s no different than the kind after state regulators banned of appeal that Joe Camel had to them Wednesday, citing the our kids when it came to cigahospitalization of nine danger- rettes,” she said Wednesday. ously drunk college students last Alcoholic energy drinks drew month. T h e emergency b a n , similar to those in Michigan, U t a h a n d Oklahoma, AN AP PHOTO takes effect Nov. 18. Washington’s rule national attention after an Octargets beer-based drinks that tober party in Roslyn, a picturalso feature caffeine, such as the esque mountain town known as malt-liquor energy drink Four the place where part of the 1990s Loko. television series “Northern ExSome universities also have posure” was filmed. banned boozy energy drinks Nine Central Washington from campus while the federal University students who drank Food and Drug Administration Four Loko were hospitalized reviews their safety, and U.S. with blood-alcohol levels rangSen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ing from 0.12 percent to 0.35 called Wednesday for a ban in percent, and a female student his state. nearly died, university President Democratic Gov. Chris Gre- James L. Gaudino said. A bloodgoire, who requested Washing- alcohol concentration of 0.30 ton’s ban, said a strong caffeine- percent is considered potentially and-alcohol combination could lethal. encourage drinking too much See ENERGY page 4 By CURT WOODWARD ASSOCIATED PRESS
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National Prostitution Sting Seizes 69 Child Prostitutes and 99 Pimps
Twenty-four child prostitutes were found in and near Seattle, –––––––––––––––––––––––––– making it the largest group of child prostitutes in a single city, The agenda was forty cit- according to the FBI. Other aries across thirty states in three eas where prostitutes were disdays. No, this was not a typical covered include Portland, South road trip. On Nov. 4, the FBI set Florida, Washington, D.C, and out on a nationwide prostitution undertaking with the Department of Justice, local police, and child advocates in a combined effort called “Operation Cross Country V” to stop human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children. Authorities staked out casinos, rundown city streets, and truck stops as well as browsed websites and chat boards for suspected prostitution activity that would allow for undercover finally, the Chicago, Naperville, agents to act as possible clients. and San Francisco Bay areas The following Monday, 69 chil- which occupied the next highdren, who range in age from 12 est numbers of child prostitutes. to 17, were removed from pros- According to FBI executive astitution, and 885 others includ- sistant director Shawn Henry, ing 99 suspected pimps were ar- child prostitution recruits are rested. generally interested in runaways By LIZ DE LA TORRE STAFF WRITER
looking for a “responsible adult” or kids who may be implicated in or affiliated with drug activity. “There are groups of people out there preying on naïve kids who don’t have a good sense of the way of the world,” Henry said. “Sometimes there’s a threat of force, threats of violence. A lot [of] these kids operate out of a sense of fear.” The FBI is currently working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to establish the identities of the child prostitutes. For now, depending on physical, mental, and emotional evaluations conducted by NCMEC, the children are either being taken into protecAN AP PHOTO tive custody or released to their families. “These kids are victims. This is 21st century slavery,” Ernie Allen, president and CEO of NCMEC, said. “This is a growing problem, and America needs to wake up to it and do more.”