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NANCEE E. LEWIS / Union-Tribune
Elite runners led the 17,828 runners, walkers and wheelchair athletes who started the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon at Sixth Avenue and Palm Street in Balboa Park yesterday.
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Iraqis unhappy with pact proposal
U.S. needs to balance security and sovereignty
By Andrew E. Kramer
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
BAGHDAD – Even amid news of declining deaths, efforts to negotiate a long-term security pact that would set out how long U.S. forces stay in Iraq suffered a setback yesterday when the Iraqi government criticized proposals from U.S. negotiators and vowed to reject any deal that violated Iraqi sovereignty.
2008 VOTE: PRESIDENTMcCain embraces, steps back from Bush
By George E. Condon Jr.
U-T WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON – President Bush was the headliner last week at three fundraisers for Sen. John McCain. But as happy as he was to accept the help to raise badly needed money, McCain did everything he could to push the unpopular president out of the headlines.
Malaria activism captures youths
$10 net wards off mosquitoes in Africa
By Donald G. McNeil Jr.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
Donating $10 to buy a mosquito net to save an African child from malaria has become a hip way to show you care, especially for teenagers. The movement is like a modern version of the March of Dimes, created in 1938 to defeat polio, or like collecting pennies for UNICEF on Halloween.
Amid Tijuana's violence, cultural pulse is vibrant
By Sandra Dibble
STAFF WRITER
On the night rival gangs engaged in a deadly gunfight five weeks ago, a Tijuana reggae group was making music across town, at a small bar in the city's Zona Norte.
YVES SAINT LAURENT | 1936-2008
Designer created fashions hailed as enduringly stylish
By Elaine Ganley
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS – Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died last night, a longtime friend and associate said. He was 71.
