News 2008-06-17 Andanh.com

In twist to decade-old scandal, Lasaga's victim sues Yale Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
A victim of a former Saybrook College master convicted of child molestation has filed a civil suit against the University, charging that a professor witnessed an instance of abuse and failed to report it to the authorities.

The master, former Yale geology professor Antonio Lasaga, is serving a 20-year prison sentence stemming from his 1998 arrest on charges of sexual assault and possession of child pornography. For more than five years prior to his arrest, he was said to have abused a New Haven boy he mentored in a public-school program.

In a statement, University officials responded to the lawsuit: "The responsible party is Antonio Lasaga, not Yale University," it read.

Education Dept. expands investigation into Princeton's admissions procedures Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The Department of Education is broadening its investigation into a complaint filed by an applicant to Princeton University who was denied admission, Princeton officials announced this week.

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Flood victims worry: What's in the water? Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:36:00 -0400
As southeastern Iowa prepared for the Mississippi River's wrath, the rest of Iowa began the slow move from protection to cleanup.

Probe: Officials warned about harsh interrogation Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:15:00 -0400
Military psychologists were enlisted to help develop more aggressive interrogation methods, including snarling dogs, forced nudity and long periods of standing, against terrorism suspects, according to a Senate investigation.

McCain, Obama offer different visions on taxes Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:37:00 -0400
Make more than $250,000 a year? Watch out. Barack Obama wants to raise your income taxes. Social Security taxes, too.

China floods kill 171, more rain expected Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:47:00 -0400
Soldiers scrambled to shore up soggy levies with sandbags Tuesday in southern China as forecasters warned that more heavy rain in the central region could trigger flooding on the country's second-longest river. The death toll rose to 171, state-run media said.

Olympic torch arrives in China's west Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:37:00 -0400
Security agents hoping to prevent displays of defiance jogged alongside Olympic torchbearers Tuesday as the flame began its journey through China's restive West, drawing cheers from carefully controlled crowds.

Japan hangs 3 convicted murderers Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:17:00 -0400
A serial killer who mutilated the bodies of four young girls and reportedly drank the blood of one of his victims was among three convicted murderers executed in Japan on Tuesday for crimes an official called indescribably cruel.

Divorce Called Part Of Plan Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Assets An Issue In Murder Case

Gloria Frink looks at the urn containing the remains of her slain daughter in their Mayberry Village apartment in East Hartford. And she prays.

Suspects In Cheshire Killings Seek Separate Trials Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Potential finger-pointing between the two suspects in last year's triple homicide in Cheshire and questions about the use of evidence in a single jury trial has prompted both suspects to seek separate trials.

Regional Training Helped In Battling Colchester Fire Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
In meeting rooms and in drills, Colchester Hayward Fire Chief Walter Cox had often watched his department practice with firefighters from regional response teams set up after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Hartford Public High Sends Off Class Of 2008 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Chanell Johnson stood outside the auditorium, adjusted her cap and gown, and took a flower from her mother as she thought about how she felt as a soon-to-be graduate.

Vandalizing Of Bristol Monument Decried Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
City residents who served in the military are upset by the weekend vandalizing of a statue in honor of veterans on Memorial Boulevard.

West Hartford: Postman's Action Rescues Resident Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
In today's impersonal world we don't know the cop on the beat, the grocer, butcher or baker. But there's one last remaining link to the world most of us knew in earlier years — the postman.

Pawnshops: A Popular Place During Tough Times Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
In Difficult Economic Times, People Tend To Do What They Must To Make Ends Meet

Consider some of the folks who passed through TC's Pawn Co. in East Hartford around lunchtime one recent day:

Baseball Rescued Likely Dropout Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Charná Maldonado struggled for four years at Hartford Public — with grades, girlfriends, security officers, teachers, himself. Then the fifth-year senior made the Owls baseball team and found his game.

Ferrari Club Fundraiser Benefits Children's Hospital Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Many parades feature a procession of bulky, slow-moving floats.

West Hartford Man Thanks Rescue Teams Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
On the morning of May 27, I had a serious mountain biking accident on Case Mountain in Manchester. It turns out that I broke the neck of the femur, very close to the hip. The operation was on a Wednesday and I was home and able to get around the house on a walker on Friday.

Lawyer Who Wrote Phony Letter Faces Grievance Committee Probe Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
A state-employed attorney faces an inquiry by a judicial authority that could jeopardize her ability to practice law, after her recent admission that she wrote a phony, unsigned letter that led to the 2004 firing of state ethics director Alan Plofsky.

At 16, He's An Old Pro At Magic Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Jonathan Jacques is willing a deck of cards to move.

Vice Presidents Who Barely Left Their Mark On History Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Perhaps John Nance Garner IV, vice president to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, said it best. The person who dwells a heartbeat away from the presidency, said Garner, occupies an office that isn't worth a "bucket of warm piss" — though reporters cleaned up that last part and replaced it with "spit." Whatever the bodily fluid, as the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates mull their choices of running mates, we offer a light skip through the halls of history and some of the more interesting also-rans:

After The Miracle Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Effects Of Cancer 'Cures' Can Follow Kids Into Adulthood

As young survivors of the modern era of cancer treatment enter their third and fourth decades, they find themselves poster children for the hope of medical progress — and also for the toll taken by cancer's toxic treatments.

Indy's Mayhem Is Just Too Muted Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
After the surprise success of "Lego Star Wars," it was only a matter of time before more film franchises and intellectual property, or IPs, received the Lego treatment. (Note: "Lego Batman" is due later this year.)

Random Reports: The First Network Adaptation Of An Israeli Series Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Ever wonder what your news-reading counterparts are talking about in Milan? Zagreb? Here's a weekly, slightly random look at what folks in other parts of the world are discussing.

For the first time, an American network will adapt an Israeli TV series, reports the Jerusalem Post. The comedy/drama "Mythological X" is being reworked for CBS' fall lineup and will be known as "The Ex List." It's about a woman tracking down all of her former boyfriends after a psychic tells her that she has already met the man she will marry. Arik Kneller, an agent for the show's creator, called it a "historic moment" and said he had predicted the show would go to the U.S. when it was created. The decision to adapt the show may have been prompted by HBO's success with "In Treatment," an Americanization of the Israeli series "B'Tipul."

Save The Academy Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The Amistad Academy, founded in New Haven a decade ago, has achieved remarkable results with city children. Among other honors, it was one of seven schools cited by the U.S. Department of Education this spring as the most successful gap-closing schools in the country.

Flavorful Alternative Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The term "locavore" sounds a bit ominous, suggesting a small winged dinosaur or some such, but is actually quite beneficent. It means someone who eats locally grown food.

Fearing For The Shark Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Shark-fishing tournaments don't pose a serious threat to the survival of sharks as a species. The problem is that these annual events, which on Long Island have become highly publicized, outsized celebrations of man's triumph over a fearsome predator, tend to trivialize the plight of sharks.

Welcome, Troopers Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The arrival today of a contingent of state police won't automatically impose law and order on Hartford — but it sure is a welcome development.

Rewards Of History Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
When people around the country think of Connecticut, they often imagine Colonial or Victorian homes, village greens and white Congregational churches. Our image is entwined, in a very positive way, with our history.

A Climate Change Law Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The same week the Senate was headed for a much-anticipated debate on federal legislation addressing global warming — then abruptly dropped the ball — Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed into law a bill that sets rigorous caps on greenhouse-gas emissions in Connecticut.

A Mogul Dreams Big Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Call it sour grapes, but isn't it a bit irritating that Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, gets to take a private trip into space while the rest of us are scrounging for gas money?

Bring Back Civility Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The craven cretins who put Angel Arce Torres on a respirator for the rest of his life and Nick Carbone in intensive care have done more than hurt two elderly, defenseless, good-hearted men. They have brought ignominy on the capital city and the state. They've set back a decade of hard work by thousands of people to make Hartford a welcoming community.

Criminalizing Kids Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Zero-Tolerance Policies In Schools Only Push 'Problem Children' Down A Fast Track To Failure

Schools must keep our children safe. But zero-tolerance policies have overwhelmed common sense and turned playground scuffles into felonies.

Court Brings Justice To Guantanamo Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Justice Antonin Scalia has been a controversial voice of fidelity to the text of the Constitution and a forceful advocate for conservatism throughout his 22 years on the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet Thursday, his dissent in a key ruling in the war on terrorism showed him at his worst. His ill-considered language makes it harder for national leaders to clean up one of the darkest blots on America's reputation in President Bush's post-Sept. 11 world — the policy of detaining enemy combatants that is summed up in one word: Guantanamo.

Obama's Foreign Policy Team Needs Mideast Experts Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
In 2000 a Republican presidential candidate with no foreign policy experience answered critics by touting his team of eminent advisers.

Remake U.S. Intelligence Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
If the U.S. intelligence community were a business, it would be obvious that there's something wrong: It's in the middle of a botched reorganization that makes the AOL-Time Warner merger look good; its most famous brand name, "CIA," has been badly tarnished; and it has lost the confidence of its three shareholders — the executive branch, the Congress and the American public. This bear market in intelligence is not helpful for a nation that is fighting two major wars.

Family Vacation Could Go The Way Of $2 Gas Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
In the worst-case scenario, soon no one will be going to the mountains or the shore, and cross-country family odysseys will be fuzzy memories from a distant, Norman Rockwell past. Thanks to America's energy mess, the family vacation of the future could evolve into a stay-at-home enterprise, an interval of togetherness without endless days cooped up in station wagons and vans as Mom and Dad bicker while trying to keep Junior and Sis from pounding each other into smithereens in the back seat.

Can Bystanders Become Lifesavers? Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
What It's SafeTo Do To Help Someone Struck Down

The recent hit-and-run on Hartford's Park Street brought to mind a tragedy I witnessed a couple of years ago. I was looking out my office window at the intersection below, the "T" of Hudson and Jefferson streets on the periphery of the Hartford Hospital campus. To my horror, a tiny girl in a white dress suddenly let go of her mother's hand and ran into the street. She was instantly hit by a car.

Don't Let Baseball Be Replay Of NFL Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
One must say it ain't so. Think of the designated hitter, which illustrates why opposition is a sensible reflex when tinkerers propose changing baseball.

Tiger Woods Wins U.S. Open On 19th Hole Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:25:00 -0400
With a throbbing knee and a pounding heart, Tiger Woods made one last improbable escape Monday and won the U.S. Open in a 19-hole playoff over Rocco Mediate, his 14th career major and maybe the most amazing of them all.

Yankees' Wang Out At Least Six Weeks Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:19:00 -0400
Yankees ace Chien-Ming Wang will be on crutches and wear a boot for at least six weeks after injuring his right foot running the bases, the latest blow to New York's banged-up pitching staff.

Howard (2 HRs) Powers Phillies Past Red Sox Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:46:00 -0400
Bartolo Colon was far better at allowing homers Monday night than he was hitting them. The combination led to Colon's shortest and roughest night yet with the Red Sox.

Former Pats LB Colvin Says He's Joining Texans Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:13:00 -0400
Free agent linebacker Rosevelt Colvin said today he's set to sign with the Houston Texans.

Celtics Can't Close Out Lakers Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Kobe Bryant scored 25 as the Lakers prevented the Celtics from winning a 17th title with a 103-98 win in Game 5.

TPC Takes Course Of Action Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Tournament director Nathan Grube remains optimistic that Rocco Mediate will honor his commitment to play in the Travelers Championship at the TPC River Highlands in Cromwell this week.

Georgia Takes Lead In Bracket Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Matt Cerione's two-out, bases-loaded single drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and three Georgia pitchers combined for six innings of shutout relief to lead the Bulldogs to a 4-3 victory over Stanford in the College World Series on Monday night.

After Choosing College Over Pros, Harvey In World Series Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
I t's not often that Matt Harvey, busy enough with life in North Carolina, finds his mind wandering back to when he had to choose between college and professional baseball.

Delle Donne's Departure Reveals Stresses On Young Athletes Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
It's easy to understand why student athletes preparing for their freshman seasons in college might not agree with the lyrical sentiment that it's summertime and the living is easy.

Hartford Public's Lawrence Picks Boston College Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400
With five schools offering scholarships and more showing interest, Andre Lawrence knew he would have a place in a Division I football program. When it came time to choose, the Hartford Public linebacker looked at some non-football issues to help make a decision.

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