Wednesday, September 02, 2009 WASHINGTON: Former first daughter and UT alum Jenna Bush Hager will begin contributing a "variety of human interest and feature stories" to NBC's Today. Hager impressed the show's producers in previous appearances, and her résumé includes vaguely journalistic endeavors like Ana's Story, the biography of an HIV-positive teenage mother Hager met during a UNICEF internship, and the pro-literacy children's book, Read All About It, co-authored by her mother. Besides, do you know how hard it is to fill four hours of morning television?Long after the fateful night when Hager was busted for sidling up to the Chuy's bar with a fake I.D., she quietly completed her studies at UT, married fellow politician's kid Henry Hager, and settled in Baltimore, where she currently works as a teacher. "I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about, because I think I'd do the best job on them—education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy," she told media.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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