NPR 2011-10-03

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A big headache in New York City this weekend for the financial district and for anyone trying to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday. Police say roughly 700 protesters were arrested as they shut down a lane of Brooklyn Bridge traffic for several hours. They face charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are railing against corporate² greed, global warming and social inequality among other grievances³. 

 

British Prime Minister David Cameron is warning the eurozone crisis risks harming Britain’s economy and staunching global growth. Speaking on the opening day of his Conservative Party’s annual conference, Cameron said that he would stick to his coalition’s deficit-cutting plans despite signs that the British economy is stalling. 

 

A day after President Obama chastised⁴ the Republican presidential hopefuls for allowing an audience out at a debate to boo a gay soldier, NPR’s Allison Keyes tells us GOP candidate Herman Cain says he should have defended that soldier. 

 

Cain says it wasn’t the intent of anyone on stage of the GOP debate to disrespect the soldier who asked the candidates a question. But he tells ABC’s This Week the heat of a debate with 60 seconds to answer the moderator was not the time to try to figure out why the crowd was booing. 

 

“I happen to think that maybe they were booing the whole ‘don’t ask/don’t tell’ repeal⁵ more so than booing that soldier, but we didn’t know that.” 

 

In a separate interview, former Republican presidential candidate John McCain also said the GOP candidate should have defended the soldier because men and women in the military should be treated with the highest regard. Allison Keyes, NPR News, Washington.

 

In a bid for Conservative support, GOP presidential candidate Mitt⁶ Romney is promising⁷ to appoint Conservatives Supreme⁸ Court justices if he becomes president. The former Massachusetts governor spoke⁹ on Mike Huckabee's Fox News show this weekend. 

 

US Chief Justice John Robert and five other justices attended the traditional Red Mass in Washington held annually¹⁰ the day before the first Monday in October. Washington Cardinal¹¹ Donald Wuerl officiated at St. Matthew's Cathedral.

 

“We come together to solute and to pray for all of those who have such a significant role in the administration of justice in our nation.”

 

Not attending the mass today at St. Matthew's are the three women on the Supreme Court. 

 

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A Syrian state-run newspaper Al Baath is warning American ambassador Robert Ford¹² against meddling¹³ in Syrian affairs if he wants to avoid more “rotten eggs” attacks. The publication is charging that Ford has been supporting armed anti-government groups in Syria. Supporters of President Bashar al-Assad pelted¹⁴ Ford with eggs on Thursday as he visited a prominent Syrian opposition¹⁵ figure. 

 

The man behind the lens who helped to create the Beatles’ public image has died. Larry Miller¹⁶ looks back on photographer Robert Whitaker's work.

 

Robert Whitaker shot many of The Beatles’ most well-known photographs and album covers. 

 

“I've just seen a face. I can't forget the time or place”.

 

Perhaps his best-known cover was the one few saw withdrawn¹⁷ after an uproar¹⁸. In a controversial “butcher” cover of the 1966 American version of “Yesterday and Today”, Whitaker posed The Beatles in white coats surrounded by decapitated dolls and slabs¹⁹ of raw meat. He would later explain the picture was a meditation²⁰ on fame and an attempt to shake up the band’s teeny-bopper image. Whitaker got the job with The Beatles after photographing manager Brian Epstein for the Jewish News. Epstein was so impressed that he hired him. Robert Whitaker died of cancer aged²¹ 71. For NPR News, I’m Larry Miller in London. 

 

Hurricane Ophelia is strongly positioned in the northern Atlantic and moving toward Newfoundland. It’s expected to weaken slightly as it approaches land. 

 

Rescuers are struggling to reach those stranded²² in the northern Philippines after a second Typhoon in less than a week. 

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