Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Ixnay, Alpay Today on NPR's Morning Edition, host Bob Edwards read a letter from an Iraqi Chaldean living in Fresno, California who claims that Aramaic is far from a dead language, since members of his ethnic group speak a modern variant of it. No Latin speaker has come forward yet, although there are many living speakers of Pig Latin. 4:07:35 PM

Miami Vice If this doesn't prove he's a hardened criminal, I don't know what does. Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Company sues Simpson for $20,000 MIAMI -- DirecTV is accusing O.J. Simpson of pirating its satellite television signal. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Miami, the company demanded the former football star pay DirecTV $20,000. Federal agents removed satellite TV equipment from Simpson's house in the Miami neighborhood of Kendall during a search in 2001. DirecTV alleges the devices were "bootloaders," for unscrambling the company's signals. The raid occurred as authorities were investigating Simpson and others in an alleged Ecstasy and satellite-theft ring. Simpson was never charged. Simpson attorney Yale Galanter denied the lawsuit's allegations. "O.J. Simpson has never owned any pirating equipment, pirating cards, illegal cards," he said. "`He's been a loyal, paying customer of DirecTV for years." Copyright ©2004 ESPN Internet Ventures 1:59:25 PM