AS CITY CLEANS UP STREETS, REGION BRACES FOR STORM.(Capital Region)

If you live in Center Square, plan on spending Presidents

Day parking someplace else.

While most of the city managed to get through the weekend's 10-inch snowfall without a snow emergency, officials on Sunday declared Center Square a no-parking area for most of today

to allow plows to clean out the streets.

But officials were also bracing for the possibility of a citywide emergency as another storm heads here from the Southwest.

For today, roads in an area bounded by State Street, Park Avenue, Lark Street and South Swan Street are included in an 8a.m.-to-4p.m. parking ban, according to Deputy Public Works Commissioner Michael …

Trash depot near LaGuardia runway ruffles feathers

About 700 yards (640 meters) from the end of a runway at LaGuardia Airport, where thousands of planes take off and land, New York City officials want to build what could be the equivalent of a bird magnet: a very large garbage transfer station.

This just four months after a run-in with birds sent a jetliner full of people into the Hudson River separating New York and New Jersey.

"That's just insane," said Jeff Skiles, co-pilot of USAirways Flight 1549, which ditched in the water Jan. 15. "We have a lot of difficulty keeping birds away from airports as it is."

The city and the Federal Aviation Administration insist that the …

`Hamlet' Still Speaks to Tragedy of Our Times

W W hen a book screams at me, "I want to be written!," I immediatelyfly from Mexico to London, lock myself up and work nine hours a day.

Nothing distracts me in the British capital. Alas, the peopleare distant, the food is bad and the weather abominable.

But Paris or Rome are cities that seduce me, inviting me towalk, love them with my eyes and sit in cafes doing absolutelynothing with a good conscience.

Nevertheless, as if to compensate, London has the best theater,the best opera, the best art exhibitions and the best research trovesin the world. Her bookshops and libraries resemble the idea JorgeLuis Borges had of Paradise. And during the Christmas season, …

Fight over fight footage: ESPN cuts of WUSA when station refuses request for tape.(Washington, DC, TV station WUSA, fight between Washington Redskins football players at practice)(Brief Article)

ESPN cuts off WUSA when station refuses request for tape

ESPN found itself in a bind last week when WUSA(TV) Washington would not grant it rights to air WUSA'S exclusive footage of Washington Redskins wide receiver Michael Westbrook punching running back Stephen Davis on the sidelines during practice.

WUSA was the only station to tape the fight. After it ran the footage on its 6 p.m. news, the CBS affiliate was swamped with requests for the tape. It gave the material to CBS and CNN, with which it has licensing contracts, but not to any other stations, including channels 4, 5 and 7 in Washington.

"We are not releasing the footage to ESPN simply …

RWANDAN ARMY'S FAILURE TO HALT MASSACRE PROBED.(MAIN)

Byline: --Associated Press

LONDON -- The Rwandan Army failed to halt the massacre of more than 300 Tutsi refugees earlier this month in a case showing ``a resurgence of genocide'' in the country, the Clinton administration said Thursday.

``They appear determined to kill untold numbers of ethnic Tutsis,'' said State Department spokesman James Rubin, accusing Hutu insurgents.

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ordered David Scheffer, the State …

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IPOWER PREPAID CARD LIFTS JACKSON HEWITT'S Q1 REVENUES.(News)(Financial report)

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc.'s iPower, Visa-branded reloadable prepaid card lifted the tax preparer's first-quarter fiscal 2010 revenues for its franchise operations. Jackson Hewitt's franchise operations reported first-quarter revenues of $4.5 million, up 15% compared with $3.9 million for the same three-month period in 2009. "The increased revenues …