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Volume XXXVIII. Number 16
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Wednesday • April 16, 2008
Rose Festival Court
Roseminda Nabehet, Benson
Tonita Cabrera, Wilson
photos by P rints C harming
P hotography
Taylor Allen, Grant
Diamond Symone Zerework, Franklin
Monica Jean Rischiotto, Central Catholic
Brenda Olmos, David Douglas
Jill Tremblay, Madison
Taylor Smith, St. Mary’s
Kim Pham, Marshall
Molly Ronan, Lincoln
Princesses represent area schools
The 2008 Rose Festival Court is com­
prised o f 14 outstanding women who are
seniors from 14 Portland-area high schools.
Each court member represents her school
throughout the months o f May and June at
many community events, including meetings
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Injury Called Career-ending
with business leaders and civic groups, and
visits to hospitals and senior living centers.
The court provides scholarships for higher
education, promotes community outreach and
volunteerism and offers networking and
mentoring opportunities.
dent last week, just ahead of the platform
convention for the state's Democratic
Party.
Strip Club Manager Shot
The Portland Trail Blazers have
requested waivers on injured
forward Darius Miles, a move
that would save m illions o f
dollars under the NBA salary
cap. It comes after an indepen­
dent medical examiner deter­
mined the damage to Miles'
right knee is severe enough to
qualify as a career-ending injury.
A man shot the bartender-
manager o f a strip club in
southeast Portland Sunday
during a robbery. Police say
he got away with more than
$5,000. The victim was in
stable condition and
expected to survive
the
attack
at
Soobie's Adult En­
tertainment Club.
Former Govs for Obama
Papal Visit
Barbara Roberts and John Kitzhaber,
governors of Oregon from 1991 to 2003.
endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for presi­
Pope Benedict X V I said Tues­
day he was "deeply ashamed"
o f the clergy sexual abuse scan­
Next year, the court w ill be expanded to
include an at-large position comprised from
schools in Multnomah. Clackamas ami
Washington counties, as well as the op­
portunity for high school juniors to par­
ticipate.
dal in the Roman Catholic Church and w ill
work to keep pedophiles out o f the priest­
hood, addressing the toughest issue fac­
ing the American church as he began his
first papal trip to the U S.
life in the 21st century, but without the
profanity, misogyny, violence and brag­
gadocio." designed as a companion to Ins
provocative book "Come on People: On
the Path From Victims to Victors."
Spreading Iraqi Violence
Costly Oil's
Shifting Blame
Car bombs ripped through crowded ar­
eas in Baghdad and former insurgent
strongholds to the north and west o f the
capital onTuesday, killing nearly 60people
and breaking a recent lull in
violence in the predomi­
nantly Sunni areas.
Cosby’s ‘Unflinching’
on Hip-hop
Bill Cosby announced this
week the completion o f a
hip-hop album, described
as an “ unflinching look at
Struggling to boost their slumping popu­
larity, leaders in the U S. and Britain
blame OPEC for record high oil prices
that have exacerbated a global economic
slowdown, but analysts
believe the cause for
o il's run-up may lie
closer to home by a
battered dollar, weak­
ened by a U S housing
market collapse and
credit crunch
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