Texas A&M bonfire fate to be decided by mid June
Texas A&M University president Ray Bowen will decide the fate of the 90-year-old bonfire tradition by mid June after a special commission blamed the collapse that killed 12 students on flawed construction and poor supervision. The panel urged accountability and emphasized organizational failures alongside structural issues. Bowen will consult students faculty alumni and families before deciding.
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Texas A&m University
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University of Texas
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Houston
Tiger Woods joins actors strike refusing Nike ad
Tiger Woods honors a strike by TV and radio actors and will not film a Nike commercial. His agent said no ad would be shot for several weeks as Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA back the action with about 135000 actors represented, vows to picket nonunion shoots.
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Tiger Woods
Nike
Mark Steinberg
International Management Group
Woods
Islesworth Country Club
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Fla
Steinberg
Screen Actors Guild
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Guild
ABCs hack standoff ends with brief ABC outage relief
FCC chair William Kennard urged Time Warner and Disney to avoid hostage like blackouts after ABC service for 3.5 million customers was cut for 27 hours. A temporary truce extended Disney’s terms while Disney agreed to pause the dispute to July 15 and signals were restored to major markets including New York Los Angeles and Houston.
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Federal Communications Commission
Time Warner
Walt Disney Co
ABC
William Kennard
Kennard
Disney
Houston
Los Angeles
Time Warner Cable
Joseph Collins
Collins
Defendants plead innocent at Lockerbie bombing trial in Zeist
Two Libyan intelligence agents appeared for opening of a year long trial at Camp Zeist Netherlands for the 1988 Pan Am 103 blast over Lockerbie Scotland. Defense claimed Palestinian groups were responsible and named other conspirators while prosecutors called the first witness, Richard Dawson of Heathrow control.
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Scotland
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Abdel Basset Ali al- Megrahi
Lamen Khalifa Fhimah
Libya
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Fhimah
Mohammed Abu Taib
Sweden
Denmark
Talb
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine — General Command
Ahmed Jibril
PPSF
Colin Boyd
Richard Ellis James Dawson
British Civil Aviation Authority
Heathrow
Dawson
Bruce Smith
Ingrid
Europe
Mediterranean
London
U.S
Amsterdam
Kay Patented Flying Shuttle Amid Wealth Gap
Preston England AP reports inventor John Kay born 1704 patented the flying shuttle in 1733, a major step in mechanical weaving that doubled speeds. Kay earned little from the invention and left England in 1747, dying in poverty in France.
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England
John Kay
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France
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