Moral Decay and Morality Decadence in America. Really? The FCC Ethical Police Role...Censorship? Do you really care, if nobody "really" cares about you? Would or could the rich and powerful people really care about you? Would Bill O'Reilly, Jay Leno, David Letterman, the big shots of the media, the vain talk shows hosts and the entertainment stars put bread on your table and feed your family? Don't cash on it!! So, why are you taking them seriously?

WORLD NEWS

World News1: Rebels hunt Aristide supporters after capturing Haiti's 2nd-largest city. With heady rebels threatening to move on the capital, government loyalists set flaming barricades Monday to block the road to Port-au-Prince and 50 U.S. marines streamed in, rifles at the ready, to protect the U.S. Embassy and its staff. Frightened Haitian cabinet ministers were asking friends for places to hide, senior government sources said, a day after the rebels attacked two police stations outside the capital and seized Haiti's second-largest city, Cap-Haitien, with little resistance. Prime Minister Paul Martin................................................................................................................................................6-7

World News2: Bin Laden deputy criticizes French law banning Islamic headscarves in schools...................................................................8

World News: Russia. Vladimir Putin yesterday fired his prime minister, Mikhail Kasyanov clearing the decks of his government in an unscheduled speech that admitted its work during the president's first term had been merely "satisfactory". Mr. Putin interrupted afternoon programmes on the state TV channels to make the brief announcement that he had sacked Mr. Kasyanov, and consequently, under the Russian constitution, his entire cabinet. He has yet to announce a successor...............................................................................................................................................................9

US POLITICS

George W and Laura Bush President George Bush US Politics: Bush goes on anti-Democrat attack. In a speech to Republican governors, he said his rivals would leave the US "uncertain in the face of danger". Voters will decide "between two visions of government - one that encourages enterprise and one that raises taxes". Mr. Bush's approval rating has slumped in recent weeks amid fierce attacks from Democratic contenders over the war in Iraq and the economy. The Democrats have not yet chosen their presidential candidate - but front-runner John Kerry has capitalised on strong anti-Bush feelings ..........................10

US Politics2: President George W Bush may not have mentioned any Democrats by name in Monday's address to Republican state governors, but this was an out and out campaign speech. .......................................................................................................11

Senator John Kerry John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry US Presidential Campaigns1: John Kerry's Profile. A graduate of Yale University, he served with the US Navy in the Vietnam war, winning several awards for bravery in combat. But he came back a vociferous opponent of the war and gained attention nationwide in 1971 when he gave testimony on Vietnam to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He embarked on a career in law, training in Boston and then working as a prosecutor in Massachusetts before going into politics.........................................................................12

US Presidential Campaigns2: Kerry: " He [Bush] misled every one of us... That's one reason I'm running to be president ....How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake [1971 Senate hearings on Vietnam war].................................................................................................................................................................................................................13

John Edwards campaigns

John Edwards's family

US Presidential Campaigns. John Edwards' Profile. To some, he is the next Bill Clinton. John Edwards, a senator from North Carolina, has clean-cut good looks mixed with popular southern charm and a family history touched by tragedy. And his relentlessly upbeat message has played well with voters weary of negative attacks by Democrats against each other and downbeat messages about the state of the economy. His victory in only one primary - South Carolina, his native state - means he has still got a long way to go............14

US Elections 2004: It's going to be dirty: As Bush kick-starts the race for the White House, America looks set for another nasty knife-edge contest. President George Bush addressed 180,000 screaming car-racing fans in Florida last week and uttered the words they love to hear: 'Gentlemen, start your engines.' Dozens of brightly coloured rally cars thundered down the track, but it wasn't just the Daytona 500 rally Bush was starting: it was the presidential election...........................................................................................................................................................15-16

BREAKING NEWS-TOP STORIES

Marwan al-Shehhi al-Zawahiri Breaking News1: CIA 'had 9/11 hijacker details'. US officials were given the first name and telephone number of an 11 September hijacker more than two years before the attacks, the New York Times has said. Quoting German officials, the newspaper says the CIA was given the name and number of Marwan al-Shehhi by German intelligence, who wanted him tracked..................17

Breaking News2: Al-Qaeda 'deputy' blasts US claim. An audiotape allegedly recorded by a top al-Qaeda leader has accused US President George W Bush of exaggerating his successes in the "war on terror". The tape aired by Arabic television al-Jazeera was reportedly made by Ayman al-Zawahiri, a fugitive Egyptian cleric thought to be Osama Bin Laden's deputy...............................................................................................................................................................................................................19

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami watches a missile parade in Tehran World Trade Center attacked Breaking News3: Nuclear substance found in Iran. International inspectors have found that Iran has produced and experimented with polonium, a radioactive element that can help trigger a nuclear blast. Western diplomatic sources told the BBC that while Iran still insists it had no clandestine weapons programme, the discovery does raise new questions. Iran was previously forced to concede it had not disclosed full details of its centrifuge technology. Centrifuges have a vital role in the uranium enrichment process.......20

Breaking News4: Nuclear substance found in Iran. What is Israel's attitude? What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? ..............................................................................................................................21

Arms fair in London Breaking News5: The government is allowing British arms manufacturers to sell to some of the most dangerous and repressive regimes in the world, two charities claim. A dramatic rise in the sale of arms components to these regimes undermines the government's own ethical policies, say Oxfam and Amnesty International. The Foreign Office says the conclusions of the charities' report are unfounded. Foreign office minister Baroness Symons said the parts are always assessed against stringent criteria..................................................22

Claims Against US: Nigerian Muslims Claim Vaccination Programme is an American Plot to Make Muslims Infertile: A campaign to wipe out polio in Africa is being jeopardised by suspicions among Muslim leaders in Nigeria that the vaccination programme is an American plot to make Muslims infertile. A boycott of the oral polio vaccine spread to two more Muslim-dominated states in northern Nigeria yesterday, after three states banned the vaccine campaign last year. Some Muslim families have turned away vaccination teams even in states where the campaign has been allowed. The rumours are believed to have originated from American websites promoting alternative medicine, and include claims that the vaccine contains anti-fertility drugs, can cause Aids, and is linked to mad cow disease...............................................................................................................................................................................................22

David Blunkett Getting Tougher on Terrorists: The home secretary is preparing to unveil new anti-terror measures, thought to include the use of secretly-taped phone calls as evidence. Other changes are predicted to include the hearing of parts of some trials in secret, without a jury. David Blunkett told BBC's Newsnight he had been told it was inevitable the UK would face a terrorist attack. On Wednesday he will detail the expansion of MI5, with 1,000 new staff, many of them Arabic and Urdu speakers. Mr. Blunkett told the BBC the security services needed more powers to apprehend terrorists before they strike. But MPs will debate criticisms of current laws allowing foreign terror suspects to be detained without trial............................................................................................................23-24

Haiti Turmoil: Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appealed Tuesday for the world to come to his country's aid, warning that thousands of deaths and a wave of boat people could result from political chaos. “Should those killers come to Port-au-Prince, you may have thousands of people who may be killed,” Mr. Aristide said at a news conference. “We need the presence of the international community as soon as possible. ”He made the appeal as rebels threatened the capital and hours before opposition politicians were to give a formal response to a U.S.-backed peace plan at 5 p.m. ............................................................................................................................25-26

INTERNATIONAL

Climate and Nuclear Threats: Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us................................................................27-28

· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world. The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability

ENTERTAINMENT

Entertainment1: Oscar-winners will have their say................................................................................................29

Entertainment2: SAGS. Depp, Theron take SAG award. Johnny Depp was a surprise lead actor winner Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, while Charlize Theron took the best-actress honour for the serial-killer drama Monster. Depp, who did not attend the awards, won for his role as a jittery buccaneer in the summer blockbuster, beating out Sean Penn, who had been considered the favourite for Mystic River. Theron won for her portrayal of executed murderer Aileen Wuornos, a role for which she gained 30 pounds and obscured her cover-girl beauty behind false teeth, dark contact lenses and a splotchy complexion.........................................................30

Entertainment3: Mel Gibson might be in denial when he says The Passion of the Christ doesn't unintentionally promote anti-Semitism, but there's no denying he knows how to market his movie.The controversial film, depicting the last 12 hours of Christ's life on Earth, opens in 2,000 theatres on Ash Wednesday in Canada and the United States. But Gibson has kept the movie in the news across North America and Europe for more than a year, the debate intensifying this week over the brutal violence and the allegations of anti-Semitism. Maia Morgenstern, the Jewish Romanian actress who plays Mary in the English-subtitled production, said yesterday during a visit to Toronto that she's surprised by the raging debate. "I did not anticipate any of this." ................................................................................................................32

DANCE

Isadora Duncan

Dance1: Dance of a goddess. Isadora Duncan. Isadora Duncan's half-naked, nymph-like movements changed the nature of ballet - and anticipated modern choreography. Judith Mackrell celebrates her influence.....................................................................34

Dance2: But it was Duncan who proved that dance could be taken seriously outside the ballet academy and that a solo woman could take charge of her career.........................35

Dance3: Quotes by Isadora Duncan. Biography of Isadora Duncan ....................36

Dance4: Mikhail Baryshnikov. When the producers of Sex and the City cast Baryshnikov as Carrie's new love interest they were looking for an actor who could convey old European culture with a hint of radical genius. On screen, Baryshnikov the glamorous, fictional painter, has been accessorised with a designer apartment and fashionable friends. But Baryshnikov the real life dancer needs no such aids. A giant talent and hard earned intelligence are all the authority he requires.................................................................................................................37

Balanchine 100, Royal Ballet

Dance5: Balanchine 100. At the Royal Opera House.............................................................................................39

Dance6: A comprehensive 7 part essay on Balanchine): George Balanchine was not only one of the world's most inventive choreographers he was one of the most prolific, with a catalogue running to hundreds of works. Given that choice, it's disappointing that the Royal hasn't been more adventurous in its current centenary tribute. Yet even if Prodigal Son, Agon and Symphony in C are familiar staples of the repertory, they do at least stake out the range of Mr. B's remarkable imagination..................................40

Dance7: Balanchine life and art....................................................................................................................................................................41

Dance8: Balanchine: The pioneer and visionary...........................................................................................................................................42

Dance9: Maestro Balanchine. At the Paris Opera Ballet................................................................................................................................43

Dance10: Poetry in motion. George Balanchine, born Georgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg, Russia, is regarded as the foremost contemporary choreographer in the world of ballet. At the age of nine, he was accepted into the ballet section of St. Petersburg's rigorous Imperial Theater School, and, with other young students, was soon appearing on the stage of the famed Maryinsky Theater in such spectacles as The Sleeping Beauty (his favorite). He graduated with honors in 1921 and joined the corps de ballet of the Maryinsky, by then renamed the State Theater of Opera and Ballet. The son of a composer, Balanchine gained a knowledge of music early in life that far exceeded that of most of his fellow choreographers..........................................................44

Dance11: The movement itself . Gallery of magnificent photos........................................................45

ART

The Enlightenment exhibition at the British Museum Art3: Return to the contempo world: The Enlightenment was a time of fearless radicalism and mind-boggling disruption. No wonder the British Museum's new display of oddities from the period is so provocative...he mosque at Kew Gardens stood on a little hill, close to the Chinese pagoda and the Alhambra. Of these three imitations of global architecture created between 1758 and 1763 in Princess Augusta's landscaped gardens, only the pagoda, built in brick and wood at full size, survives. But what about the vanished mosque? To judge from an 18th-century engraving, it was closely based on the Süleymaniye in Istanbul. It is hard to imagine how such a pastiche would be received today...............................................58-61

Art4:The French humanistic touch: Manet love with Spain, Edouard Manet took the new direct train from Paris to Madrid. The uncomfortable journey took 36 hours. We know where he stayed in Madrid, that he went to a bullfight and visited Toledo. On arriving, he met a fellow Parisian, Théodore Duret, who later became a friend and subject of a portrait. More significantly, we know that Manet passed through the rooms in which his paintings now hang in an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado. Almost 60 paintings and dozens of prints and drawings have made their way to Madrid, after showing at the exhibition Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting in New York and Paris. Manet at the Prado, however, is a very different exhibition. This is Manet's posthumous return to...........................................62-64

PHOTOGRAPHY

Eaton Place nude Photography: The shadow of intimacy: This March, the Victoria & Albert Museum celebrates the centenary of the birth of photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) with a stunning retrospective. With over 150 mainly vintage, gelatin-silver prints from the Bill Brandt Archive, the exhibition displays the finest selection of his rare and famous prints to be seen in Britain for over 30 years. Perhaps the secret of Brandt's success in Britain was his special perspective: London as seen from Paris and Vienna. The V&A exhibition runs between March 24 and July 25.Bill Brandt came to London for good at the beginning of April 1934. He wanted to be English, and really belong to the fairy-tale island. This meant inventing a new identity for himself, as he turned 30, but also inventing an England that would satisfy his childhood fantasies. He rented a small flat at 43 Belsize Avenue, while his wife Eva was nearby at 24 Lyndhurst Road. Belsize Park was becoming the favoured destination for Austrian Jews and other refugees from Nazism, but this exiles' London was only part of English life for Brandt; his English uncles Augustus and Henry took Bill under their wing..........................................................................................65-76

Children, south London Francis Bacon, 1963

FILM

The Return of the King Film1: Depp surprise . The Return of the King has topped the US box office for the third weekend in a row. The final part in Peter Jackson's fantasy triptych made an estimated $30.8m (£17.1m) this weekend and has so far grossed more than $292m (£162.4m) in the US, where it is on course to beat the final total of $340m (£189.1m) garnered by its predecessor..........................................................................................................78

Film2: Lord of the Ring. It is finished. It is all over. The mighty conflict is at an end. And we, the dazed and shellshocked audience for Peter Jackson's colossal fantasy über-epic are permitted to disperse, as across the battlefield at sunset, picking our way through the horse-cadavers, twitching orcs and fallen warriors. No flabber has been left ungasted by Mr. Jackson's mighty battle sequences, nor no gob unsmacked. After three hours and 21 minutes of devastatingly sustained assault, underpinned by an almost continuous....................................................................................79-80

The Passion of the Christ

Mel Gibson at the Oscars Film3: Gibson Film Controversy: Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ has its nationwide US opening on Wednesday. The film about the last 12 hours of Jesus' life received an enthusiastic response among filmgoers at preview screenings in the US on Monday. But it has been attacked by some Jewish groups as being anti-Semitic, while critics have denounced what they say is "brutal and graphic" violence.................................................................81

Film4:The Whole Story of Gibson, Gibson remains one of Hollywood's biggest movie heartthrobs, being named best actor at the US People's Choice awards for the third time in four years. But at 48, he was too old to play Jesus in The Passion - so satisfied himself with co-writing, directing, producing and....................................................................................................................................................................................................................82

The Passion of Christ Film5: Scholars have said Mel Gibson's film about the last 12 hours of Jesus' life is riddled with historical errors. Their complaints about The Passion of the Christ range from inaccuracies about hairstyles and clothes to a lack of gospel context. Gibson has said he consulted scholars, theologians, priests and spiritual writers before scripting the film. The film opened for preview screenings in the US on Monday to an enthusiastic response from audiences. It has been accused of being anti-Semitic, although Gibson has denied this, saying he has faithfully portrayed the Bible's account, and has been supported by Christian groups..........................................................83

Film6: Journalists appeared "mildly shell-shocked" after a screening of Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion, said the BBC's David Willis. The film about the crucifixion of Jesus has already drawn comments over its highly violent nature. Mr. Willis told BBC Radio Five Live the film was a "harrowing portrayal" and it was definitely not for the squeamish. But he said the violent scenes appeared to be justified because of the religious tone of the film. Gibson has directed The Passion of the Christ as a personal project, investing $15m of his own money in to it. Before showing it to journalists he screened it to many church leaders and Christian group................................................................................................................................................84

Film7: What Makes Gibson's Film so Special? As a cinematic matter, the boldest innovation in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ," is its use of language and subtitles to create, in a religious film, the illusion of documentary. Dialogue in a number of recent English-language feature films has fostered this kind of illusion by shifting into a second language plus subtitles for a few minutes at a time. “Dances With Wolves,” for example, shifted at several points into the Amerindian language Lakota. But no film that I know of unfolds in its entirety in subtitles beneath a language audience......................................................85

Film7: BIBLICAL VERACITY? OR HOLLYWOOD BONANZA?.........................................................................................................................86

Film8: The theological Jesus.......................................................................................................................................................................87

Film9: I regret the worsening of Jewish-Christian relations that is likely to result from the scenes............................................................88

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