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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 29, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba C m y k Page a12 a 12 Winnipeg free press monday december 29, 2008 world Winnipeg repress. Com experiencing repetitive old Centre 942 3331 washing skin picking hair pulling checking hoarding cleaning intrusive thoughts 2006 01 0228 december 29, 2008 if this matches your press card number Call 697 7580 to claim your $ 50 gift certificate to Dubrovnik prize must be claimed within 5 Days of publication. W Ashington Laura Bush disagrees with critics who Call the presidency of George w. Bush a failure. I know its not and so i dont really feel like i need to respond to people that View it that Way she said in an interview that aired sunday. I think history will judge and Well see later. Secretary of state condole Ezza Rice took a similar View in a separate interview. I think generations pretty soon Are going to Start to thank this president for what hers done. This generation will she said. Because i think the fact that we have really made foreign assistance not just an Issue of giving humanitarian Aid or giving Money to poor people but really insisting on Good governance and fighting corruption. She said. I think the fact that this president has Laid the groundwork for a palestinian state being the first president As a matter of policy to say that there should be one and now i think laying the foundation thatus going to Lead to that palestinian state i can go on and on. In her interview Laura Bush called the shoe throwing incident in Baghdad an assault. She rebuffed Bush administration critics who contend the United states turned its military might and resources to the War in Iraq before finishing the Job in Afghanistan. Bush noted that under her husbands watch the u. S. Toppled Saddam Hussein and liberated millions of people in Afghanistan and Iraq from oppressive governments. She also highlighted the presidents work to provide treatment for disease like aids and malaria to millions of people in sub saharan Africa. She said her husband responded to the sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a Way that has kept the country Safe. I think thatus very very important she said. Bush said that while the president laughed it off when an iraqi reporter threw his shoes at him during a news conference earlier this month in Iraq she was not amused. The president deftly dodged the shoes and a snot hit. He continued the news conference with iraqi prime minister Nouri al Maliki after Security officials dragged the journalist from the room. The president laughed it off she said. He a snot Hurt. Hers very Quick. As you know hers a natural athlete and ducked it. But on the other hand it is an assault. And i think it should be treated that Way. And i think people should think of it that Way. On the other hand she said the incident reflects change in Iraq. As bad As the incident is in my View it is a sign that iraqis feel a lot Freer to express themselves she said. She challenged critics who contend that Iraq was a distraction to the u. S. Mission in Afghanistan where heightened violence is causing renewed instability. Well i dont know that i would agree with that at All Bush said. I dont think thatus True at All. Weave stayed very very invested in Afghanistan. Not As invested militarily maybe and maybe thatus what the critics say that it should have been More military. But i think we stayed very invested. Were invested both financially with tons of support to Afghanistan As Well As every other Way. Ive met thousands literally thousands of different people who Are americans who Are invested in Afghanistan in some Way. Women who Are helping women there the educated. Women who Are helping with Micro finance so that women can build Small businesses and support themselves. On other issues Bush said she was sad that the Federal governments response to Hurricane katrina a snot faster but that debate Over the Federal response overshadowed heroic efforts during the tragedy of the u. S. Coast guard and other responders. She said she does not think the Media in general is fair. Laura Bush spoke on Fox news sunday while Rice was on a bsds sunday morning. The associated press afghan blast targets children Kabul Afghanistan a single file line of schoolchildren walked past a military checkpoint sunday As a bomb loaded truck veered toward them and exploded ending the lives of 14 Young afghans in a heartbreaking Flash captured by a u. S. Military Security camera. The u. S. Military said the attack in the Eastern province of Khost killed 16 people including 14 children an afghan Soldier and another person Likely a private Security guard that afghan officials reported killed. The u. S. Said 58 people were wounded. Aid sought in Mountain search Colorado Springs Colo. A search and Rescue group is hoping to enlist the help of the Colorado army National guard to look for the wreckage of a plane carrying a prominent Alberta Oil Engineer and his wife. The aircraft piloted by Gerrit Maureau 67, of Calgary and carrying his wife or. Sheila Malm 65, crashed last saturday in a mountainous area about 320 Kilometres South of Denver. A recent snowfall has Likely buried the fuselage and searchers say it May be april or May before they can safely get up the Mountain to retrieve the bodies. Abstinence pledges questioned teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage Are just As Likely to have premarital sex As those who do not Promise abstinence and Are significantly less Likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do according to a study released monday. The new analysis of data from a Large Federal Survey found that More than half of youths became sexually Active before marriage regardless of whether they had taken a virginity pledge but that the percentage who took precautions against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was 10 Points lower for pledges than for non pledges. Tax Cut part of stimulus package Washington a top adviser to president elect Barack Obama said sunday that the country is slowing Economy wont keep the new administration from fulfilling its plans for a Middle class tax Cut. We feel its important that Middle class people get some Relief now Obama adviser David Axelrod told no cos meet the press. The incoming administration is considering tax cuts of $ 1,000 for couples and $ 500 for individuals that will be delivered by reducing the tax withheld from pay cheques. That plan which would Cost about $ 140 billion Over 2009 2010. Stalin no. 3 on russian charts Moscow a russian state television network says soviet dictator Josef Stalin who sent millions to their deaths in the great purge of the 1930s, has been voted the country is third greatest historical figure. Rights activists have blasted Stalinos inclusion in the 90 Day project run by the Rossiya Channel. 13th Century Leader Alexander Nevsky was voted the greatest russian with More than a half million internet and Sims votes. In second place was Pyotr Stolpin a prime minister under turn of the Century Czar Nicholas ii. Suicide bomb kills 34 in Pakistan Islamabad Pakistan a suicide bomber pretending to need help with his car killed 34 people in Northwest Pakistan on sunday while the target of another recent attack the Marriott in Islamabad partially reopened three months after a Brazen truck bombing at the luxury hotel left 54 dead. The suicide attack on sunday at a polling station close to the swat Valley comes amid concern that extremist violence is set to Spike now that Pakistan is shifting troops away from the Region toward India. India blames pakistani militants for the Slaughter of 164 people in Mumbai last month and it has not ruled out Force. But leaders of both countries insist they want to avoid War. From the news services first lady stands by her mans legacy Laura Bush Rice reject failure tag being placed on outgoing president As bad As the incident is in my View it is a sign that iraqis feel a lot Freer to express themselves Laura Bush on the shoe throwing incident Gerald Herbert / the associated press archives Laura Bush and condole Ezza Rice defended George w. Bushes policies and decisions during separate interviews sunday. Chicago want to own a notorious piece of Chicago history the modest red Brick Home once owned by al Capone is expected to hit the Market this Spring for an estimated $ 450,000, marking a new chapter for the infamous South Side landmark that has had just two owners since the death of Capones Mother in 1952. I think theress some value in the Homes history said Barbara Hogsette 71, who has lived in the House since 1963 but plans to relocate to California to be closer to her son. But i dont think that history Means the same thing to everyone who might be interested in buying it. For More than a Century the two Flat Home with Large Bay windows has stood near the Corner of 72nd Street and South Prairie Avenue in the working class Park Manor neighbourhood. Cook county records show the Capones bought the Home for $ 5,500 in August 1923, part of a wave of first and second generation european immigrants who moved to that part of the City. Historians say Capone was careful to make the Prairie Avenue Home a Safe Haven. It was his Mother Teresa and wife Mae who signed their names to the original deed. Its because its off the beaten path and a lot of people dont know about it that its been Able to survive said Troy Taylor a historian and author who cohorts weird Chicago Tours. He wanted something Low key and out of the Way which is exactly what he got. Hogsette has her interpretation i think he did that out of respect for his Mother. He wanted to protect her from what he was involved in. When Hogsette bought the Home for $ 29,500 in 1963, she knew Little and cared even less about its history. But its Walls were sturdy and there were enough bedrooms for the single Mother to raise her son and still have rooms to rent out. The exterior of the six bedroom split level remains virtually identical to the place Capone called Home. Much of the Interior is original too with Green and White tile in the Entrance dark Hardwood floors and narrow hallways. Ive read some things about Capon and Ive seen the untouchable but i never really thought about this being his Home said Hogsette a retired special education teacher. This is my Home. I never thought it was that sensational that he had lived Here. But she knows others care a great Deal. In 1989, historians pushed to make the Home a landmark on the National Register. The Effort failed however amid protests from Chi Cagos italian american Community who objected to glorifying a criminal. Chicago Tribune the world Capone Home not untouchable by Joel Hood the Canadian press archives al Capone old House for Sale a 12_ dec 29 08. Ind a12 1 2/ 28/ 08 9 48 09 pm ;