DeLay moving to remove name from ballot.(Main)

Byline: Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday he is taking the necessary steps to remove his name from the November ballot, giving his party a chance to field a write-in candidate in hopes of holding the House seat.

Buffeted by scandal, DeLay said his June 9 resignation from Congress was "irrevocable" and maintained that he's no longer a Texan. "As a Virginia resident, I will take the actions necessary to remove my name from the Texas ballot. To do anything else would be hypocrisy," DeLay said.

DeLay was forced to act after Republicans lost several court fights to remove his name from the ballot in the …

Expanding RRG coverage should get high priority.(Editorial)(Risk Retention Act)

Two decades ago, amid soaring prices and shrinking coverage, Congress expanded the Risk Retention Act so that risk retention groups could fund member policyholders' liability coverages.

Prior to that expansion, RRGs could be utilized only to provide product liability coverage. Not surprisingly, just a handful of RRGs had been established until Congress in 1986 expanded the type of risks the groups could fund.

Twenty years after the last expansion, RRGs have proven their value. More than 230 groups currently are operating and are providing a vital and stable source of coverage for members, such as educational institutions, hospitals and physicians.

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French court approves Noriega extradition

PARIS (AP) — A French court ruled Wednesday that former dictator Manuel Noriega can be extradited to Panama to serve time for past crimes, more than 20 years after being ousted and arrested in a U.S. invasion.

The elderly former Panamanian strongman hasn't seen his homeland in more than two decades, years he spent behind bars in Florida, on drug charges, and France, for money laundering. His lawyer said he could be in Panama as soon as Thursday.

Panama wants Noriega returned to serve prison terms handed down after he was convicted in absentia for embezzlement, corruption and murder. There's a chance that because of his age — he's in his 70s — he may get to serve out his time …

Before workout, simplify hair style, limit makeup

If you are one of those savvy and ambitious women who takes time outfrom your daily routine to exercise, you've probably discovered thatyou must plan your hairstyles and makeup to meet your timerequirements.

Quick-style wash-and-wear hair, made possible by a greathaircut, is only half the battle. Your makeup is the other half.There are two reasons why you'll want to remove whatever makeupyou're wearing before you begin your workout.

First, the skin should be able to breathe during exercise. Oilymakeup bases or products on the skin's surface can fill up pores,impairing your skin's ability to throw off toxins and other bodysecretions, a process basic to fitness and …

Adrian Piper.(Past Time: Selected Works 1973-1995)

Adrian Piper's exhibition "Past Time: Selected Works 1973-1995" was a compact survey comprising photo-text panels, installations, and a loop of wall-projected videos collectively given the fiercely immodest title The 20th Century Video Set, 1973-90. Grids and human figures, mostly in photographic grayscale and often flecked with red headlines, typified the look of hard-edged 1980s and early-'90s Conceptualism; documentation was on hand, too, of Piper's wilder though still highly conceptual performances--such as The Mythic Being, 1973, in which she cruised public places sporting "threatening" signifiers, such as a bushy Afro, a handlebar mustache, and saucer-size sunglasses; and bunk …

Jittery market finishes up; Mortgage losses, interest rate concerns make for volatile trading.(Business)

Byline: MADLEN READ - Associated Press

NEW YORK - Wall Street finished an extremely volatile session mostly higher Tuesday after investors, still jittery about mortgage-related problems at the nation's major lenders, decided to interpret comments from the Federal Reserve as suggestive of another interest rate cut.

Though the markets are pricing in a high chance of a rate reduction Dec. 11, when the Fed meets next, investors were on edge until the closing bell Tuesday, and the major indexes changed direction several times while analysts sorted through the Fed statements.

Meanwhile, Freddie Mac posted a $2 billion quarterly loss Tuesday, escalating …

OFFICIALS HOPE DRUGSTORE WILL SPUR DEVELOPMENT.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: Elizabeth Benjamin -

ALBANY -- An 11,000-square-foot drugstore soon will replace the now-vacant former School 10 and an adjacent parking lot at the corner of North Lake and Central avenues, city officials announced Monday.

Mayor Jerry Jennings is negotiating to sell the city-owned building to Lyndi Development Corp. for about $850,000, officials said. Pending approval of the Common Council and the Zoning and Planning Boards, the corporation will begin tearing down the former school within a few months and will construct an Eckerd drugstore in its place.

Until last year, the school building housed the city's Human Resources …