President Bush has rightly refused to recognize the results, while Russian President Vladimir V. Charles Swift after he successfully challenged the legitimacy of the Pentagon's war-crimes commissions. Sonic Solutions, a maker of CD and DVD copying programs, and encryption software maker Macrovision Corp. "They are representative of the fact that stuff matters more than people, that competition matters more than cooperation and individualism matters more than reciprocity," Levine said. It's fine."*With a limited pool of impact starting pitchers available before the July 31 non-waiver trading deadline, the Angels could turn their attention toward bullpen help, particularly a left-hander.

utility owner, agreed Monday to sell most of the plants operated by its money-losing wholesale power business to an investment fund for about $1.54 billion.Duke will sell power plants in the West and Northeast and stakes in two others to LS Power Equity Partners, which raised $1.2 billion last year for electricity generation acquisitions. He said the plotting of X Games venues for various competitions is up to ESPN.General Manager Stiepock said he was unsure what events, if any, would be moved to the Home Depot Center, the X Games' other primary venue. Ernest Hemingway used to come from Paris for the fishing, and now shoppers crowd the wooden benches on its banks for alfresco lunches.But here, as in the nation as a whole, unemployment is high, almost 9%, while the average income remains low, at $18,250 a year. Place the chilled dough cut-outs on top of the pear filling, making a hole in the center for steam to escape. We've won at eight of the next nine tracks on the schedule after Vegas."*The Busch brothers, Kurt and Kyle, had some fun plans for their homecoming this week -- and they had nothing to do with today's UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400.The two NASCAR stars, who grew up in Las Vegas, flew to Nevada early in the week for some extracurricular activities.Young brother Kyle, who drove in the Busch race last Sunday in Mexico City, was anxious to get back."Yes, I got off the plane from Mexico and three hours later I was on a flight to Vegas," Kyle said. I immediately thought that lymphoma was the most likely possibility, but at the same time I noticed that her hair was very thick and dark for her age. Gee, that question scares me."But Peng, who uses two hands on both sides, was hardly the same player about 14 hours later.

"Hud's" director was trying to film a flock of buzzards waiting for their moment to swoop down on a heifer's carcass. The 58-year-old widowed grandmother from Virginia was reporting for her second deployment in Iraq.Pierce, the new secretary to the commander of the U.S. It's hard to come up with a more photogenic cast than Jagger, Richards, Brian Jones, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts, not to mention such friends as John Lennon, Elton John and the Who.Those and more, captured in offhand moments both on stage and off, will fill the walls of the Morrison Hotel Gallery in Hollywood for an exhibit titled "Wyman Shoots," running from an opening reception Saturday through April 15. Experts point out that similar drops in apprehensions in years past were later followed by surges.But U.S. He was 50.Courson was using a chain saw to cut down a dead 44-foot-tall tree with a circumference of 5 feet when it fell on him, according to state police The accident happened about 1 p.m.