| Port Authority faces $13M fee on WTC
The Port Authority is on the hook for $13.5 million in penalties for missing a deadline to turn part of Ground Zero over to developer Larry Silverstein. The estimated 45-day delay will cost the bistate agency the equivalent of 2.25 million George Washington Bridge tolls or 9 million PATH fares. Port Authority contractors missed a Dec. 31 deadline to finish excavating a 3-acre section of the East Bathtub where Towers 3 and 4 will rise, triggering $300,000-a-day fines. Officials said Friday they had wrapped up the excavation of one parcel, the 1.4-acre Tower 4 site at Liberty and Church Sts., where a 977-foot skyscraper is supposed to open by 2011. But the second parcel, the 1.6-acre Tower 3 site, has been excavated only 68 feet below street level and won't be construction-ready until it hits 80 feet.
ORU founder returns to defend school
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Read an open letter from the chairman of the ORU Board of Regents printed in the Tulsa World.
The latest on this story: Oral Roberts back at ORU
Oral Roberts came to his namesake university for the first time in three years on Monday and told students and employees in a chapel service "the devil is not going to steal ORU." He said all allegations made in a lawsuit and an attached report are false. And he said Richard Roberts, who took a leave of absence as the school's president last week, eventually will return to his position. Oral Roberts also said he has moved back to Tulsa. The crowd gave him multiple standing ovations during .
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Australia in the dock
An opinion poll in the Sydney Daily Telegraph showed 82% of Australians believed Ricky Ponting was not a great ambassador for the country, and 79% felt the national team did not play within the spirit of cricket. Abusive phone calls were made to Ponting’s parents. The country has its jingoists – three years ago, spectators at Perth, the venue for this week’s third Test, racially abused the South African team – but in the main it is a conservative nation embarrassed by the sharp practice of its representatives. Geoff Lawson, the Australian fast bowler turned Pakistan coach, accused Australia of arrogance and disrespecting the baggy green cap, while John Bertrand, the America’s Cup-winning yachtsman, called on Cricket Australia to tell its players to show the game more respect.
Clinton Courts Hispanics For Crucial Super Tuesday
On Feb. 5, voters will choose among Democratic candidates in 23 states, including California, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. In California, whose 441 delegates to the Democratic convention account for 10% of the total, Latinos make up roughly a quarter of likely Democratic voters. "Feb. 5 is the firewall, and the Latino vote in California is the most important part of the firewall," says Sergio Bendixen, a political consultant from Miami who heads Mrs. Clinton's Latino strategy. "If she can win California, no matter what happens the race is on." In recent days, Mrs. Clinton's campaign has deployed Latino leaders to speak on her behalf in California and the Southwest. It is sending out mailers and starting phone banks to get out the Latino vote. California is shaping up as a player in a presidential contest for the first time in decades.
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