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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 2003
Page
4
Ruben Studdard edged Clay Aiken to win the American Idol crown in the Fox finale. The 24 year old Birmingham Alabama singer thanked fans after performing Flying Without Wings as the cheering crowd chanted his name.
The Pentagon says Marine Pfc. Ronald D. Lilledahl of Minneapolis became the first American service member buried as an unknown from the Korean War to be identified and returned to his family. His remains, along with another unknown, were exhumed in 1999 from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.
In Las Vegas Alan Jackson takes album of the year for Drive and a video award as Brooks & Dunn earn top vocal duo. Kenny Chesney wins male vocalist and single record of the year for The Good Stuff. Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks receive boos amid Bush Iraq war remarks.
President Bush accused Europe of worsening hunger in Africa through restrictive trade rules on bioengineered foods. He spoke at the Coast Guard Academy and outlined a plan to double the Peace Corps and expand the Freedom Corps for skilled volunteers in Iraq and beyond. John Bridgeland described creating development postings for doctors nurses teachers engineers economists and computer specialists.
Sen. Robert Byrd denounces the Bush administration for using false premises to justify an unprovoked attack on Saddam Hussein's government. He calls postwar Iraq turmoil a setback to freedom as the White House defends the war citing weapons of mass destruction.
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