The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Washington - New polls gave a mixed picture on whether Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry got a "bounce" from the party's convention, and a CNN-USA Today Gallup poll on Sunday even showed the Democratic ticket trailing the Republicans' among likely voters. But a Newsweek poll released on Saturday said Kerry gained a four-point boost in the polls from the Democratic National Convention held last week in Boston. Islamabad - Pakistani security services got a lot of information from two al Qaeda men captured recently, a government minister said Monday, but he refused to confirm reports this had led to a security alert in the United States. U.S. media reports said information gleaned from Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and a computer expert named by the New York Times as Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, also known as Abu Talha, prompted a high level alert against a possible attack by al Qaeda on financial institutions in New York and Washington. Baghdad - Bombings at Iraqi churches Sunday did more than kill worshippers, smash tombstones and shatter stained glass ? they destroyed any hope among the Christian community of staying off the hit list for attacks.
