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Show Celebs&People Today'slssue NEW YORK (AP) - Less than a week after being sworn in as a U.S. citizen, Craig Ferguson learned he'll be telling jokes to President Bush. The CBS "Late Late Show" host revealed Tuesday that he's been booked as the entertainer at the Today is Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Chris Hartwell, a masters student in human resources from Deck), Idaho. annual White House correspon- FERGUSON dents' dinner in Washington, scheduled April 26. The policy of The Utah Statesman is to Ferguson, a Scotsman, recently correct any error made as soon as possipassed an American citizenship test ble. If you find something you would like and was formally sworn in Friday. For clarified or find unfair, please contact his late-night viewers, he described the editor at 797-1762 or TSC 105. the correspondents' dinner as "like the Oscars for politicians." It's also potential trouble for comics: Don Imus and Stephen Colbert both provoked some criticism for their pointed political jokes. "There are 2,800 journalists in attendance, there (are) congressman, senators there, military brass, WASHINGTON (AP) - President the Cabinet and I sit at the top table Bush threatened a veto Tuesday in the SADR C I T Y ' S C O U N C I L OFFICIALS prepare to hoist the new Iraqi flag, left, in Baghdad, Iraq.Tuesday, Feb. 5. with the president and the first lady," debate to update terrorist surveillance Earlier this month, Iraq's parliament voted to remove Saddam-era emblems from the banner, including the stars thought Ferguson said. "And I am thinking, laws, assailing Democratic plans to to represent the three objectives of Saddam's now-dissolved party: unity, freedom and socialism.The new Arabic script 'Does he know I can't be kicked out deny protection from lawsuits for across the middle of the flag reads 'God is Great". AP Photo now?'" telecommunications providers that let "I thought it would be the big the government spy on U.S. residents thing, have the dinner and 'as my after the Sept. 11,2001, attacks. last act as president, you go home, The threat came in a 12-page Ferguson,'" the 45-year-old talk-show letter to Senate leaders from host said. "And I'll say, lI am home!'" Attorney General Michael Mukasey PERTH. Australia (AP) - Heath and National Intelligence Director Ledger's family evaded scores of phoMike McConnell. It was issued said he is helping organize a protest tographers Tuesday as they returned were added as part of Saddam's BAGHDAD (AP) - A new Iraqi as lawmakers prepare to vote on on Wednesday. 1990-91 occupation of Kuwait. flag stripped of the three green to Perth following the Oscar-nomilegislation seeking to update a 1978 Fallujah's mayor, Saad Awad, said The original calligraphy believed stars of Saddam Hussein's toppled nated actors death in a Manhattan surveillance law without violating city authorities wiil raise the new inspired by Saddam's handwriting Baath party - was hoisted over the apartment last month. privacy rights. flag when they receive orders from was replaced with the sparse Kufic Iraqi Cabinet building Tuesday in a Several security guards and police "If the president is sent a bill that provincial council. script after his fall in 2003. But symbolic break with the past nearly officers watched as Ledger's father, does not provide the U.S. intelligence But the new flag is just a stopgap Kim, and several other relatives agencies the tools they need to protect five years after the U.S.-led invasion. many houses continued toflythe design. It is valid for just one year, old flag. It marked the latest of several emerged from their plane after other the nation, the president will veto the when parliament take up the flag "It is a good step toward the passengers had disembarked. bill," wrote Mukasey and McConnell. tweaks and revisions - and one flap again. new Iraq," said Nassih Gahfour, a failed American-supervised redesign There was no immediate indication The letter was sent to Senate lawmaker in northern Iraq's semiauPrime Minister Nouri al-Maliki - of Iraq's national symbol over the that Heath Ledger's body or remains leaders and the top Democrats and tonomous Kurdish area, where offisaid Tuesday that he believed it decades from monarchy to military had arrived. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary cials had demanded the changes and "could have been changed in a betrule to the rise and fall of Saddam's and Intelligence committees. Mara Buxbaum, Ledger's U.S.ter form." regime. And more fine-tuning could threatened not toflytheflagwhile based publicist, has said the family Senate Majority Leader Harry hosting a meeting of Arab parliacome after the one-year lifespan for "But this flag design was voted wants to keep funeral arrangements Reid, D-Nev., said the letter was ment members later this month. the new flag. for by the parliament, and we have private. premature since there still isn't any to commit ourselves to it," al-Maliki Many Kurds identify the Its main modification removes legislation yet. Saddam-era flag with his campaigns told reporters inside the U.S.-guardthe stars, which were first added ed Green Zone. "This is the only of persecution in the 1980s that left in the early 1960s in homage to flag that should be raised." more than 100,000 Kurds dead. the pan-Arab bonds promoted by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. Later, The new Iraqi flag also waved But some Sunnis - who were the green stars were associated over building of the municipal coun- Top Ten Neiv England Patriots favored under Saddam - grimaced WORCESTER, Mass. (AP)-Two with the slogans of Saddam's party: cil in Baghdad's main Shiite district, Excuses at the changes. men are accused of burning down unity, freedom and socialism. Sadr City. the birthplace of the woman made "The government should change 10- What? It's best-of-seven? famous by the nursery rhyme "Mary our life for the better instead of The Iraqi flag's black, red and The new design also officially Had a Little Lamb." changing the flag," said Khidier white stripes are inspired by lines enshrines the new script for the 9- Too much pre-game chowder. Jassim in Fallujah, which was once from al-Mutanabi, a 10th century Arabic words "Allahu Akbar," or John Rousseau and Michael the heart of the insurgency. Jassim poet who lived in Baghdad. "God is Great" in green - which Dreslinski, who also face charges in a 8- Since when is that dude allowed to series of fires in central and western catch a ball with his head?! Massachusetts, have been held without bail since August. 7- Terrified by that Fox football robot. They are scheduled to be arraigned exported tainted pills. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) according to U.S. regulators. Tuesday in connection with the Aug. "People would be shocked 6- Everything was fine til' Dr. Phil - The first warning sign came when Thirteen of the 20 best-selling 12 fire that destroyed a vacant house to find this whole variety of a sharp-eyed worker sorting pills drugs in the United States come decided to straighten us out. in Sterling where town officials say contamination," said Dr. Sidney noticed that the odd blue flecks from plants on this island. But an Mary Elizabeth Sawyer was born in Wolfe of the Washington watchdog dotting thefinisheddrug capsules investigation by The Associated 5- Should have campaigned harder in 1806. group Public Citizen. "The common matched the paint on the factory Press has found dozens of examples Florida. Sarah Josepha Hale reportedly denominator of all these is there's doors. over four years of lapses in quality published a poem in 1830 about really poor quality control." control in the Puerto Rican 4- Entire team stayed up late that After the flecks were spotted Sawyer, as a child, bringing her lamb pharmaceutical industry, which again on the capsules, a bloodFDA officials say the problems in night before watching Hannah to school with her. Other accounts, churns out $35 billion of drugs each Puerto Rico are proportionate with Montana concert movie. however, claim the original writer was pressure medication called year, most of it for sale as part of the the large number of pharmaceutical a young man who was inspired by the diltiazem, the plant began placing $300 billion market in the U.S. covers over drugs in carts in its plants here and generally no worse 3 - Exhausted after spending hours incident. manufacturing areas. than those on the U.S. mainland. An AP review of 100 pages of consoling a weepy Terrell Owens. Rousseau and Dreslinski were Food and Drug Administration But the factory owner, Canadian Consumer advocates say they arrested in August on arson charges in demonstrate the regulatory agency 2- Thought game was supposed to be a vacant warehouse fire that destroyed drug maker Biovail Corp., never tried reports shows even modern drug plants here under the watch of to find out whether past shipments does not sufficiently monitor the played on Super Tuesday. part of a paper mill. They are also U.S. regulators have failed to industry across Puerto Rico and in charged in afirethat damaged a barn of the drug were contaminated keep laboratories sterile and have the mainland. - or prevent future contamination, 1- Airline lost our 'roids. and a railroad bungalow. 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