The Washington Wizards said Tuesday that forward Josh Howard will miss the remainder of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Howard was injured Monday night in Washington’s win over the Chicago Bulls, only his fourth game with the Wizards since being acquired from Dallas in a seven-player trade on Feb.

The Badr Brigade has been criticized for close ties with Iran and has been accused of operating death squads targeting Sunni Muslims, but it is also viewed as among the more moderate Shiite forces in Iraq.Ammar Hakim heads the Shahid al-Mihrab Foundation, a charity affiliated with SCIRI. The Anteaters were drilled by 20 in their final regular-season game by Long Beach, and they have lost three of the last five. Civilian and military deaths and injuries have surpassed 3,000 each month since May.Over a longer period, the increase in violence is more dramatic. And to ignore past mistakes, the prime minister declared, was not “fitting behavior for great nations such as Turkey.”Erdogan’s speech won strong praise from the Kurdish community.”It constitutes the foundation for turning a new page in relations” between Kurds and the government, said Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir.The significance of Erdogan’s words cannot be overestimated, said Sezgin Tanrikulu, chairman of Diyarbakir’s influential bar association. At Mozza, she makes a pizza topped with guanciale, radicchio and her bagna cauda (a warm mix of butter, olive oil, garlic, anchovies and lemon), and an egg right in the middle. Coast Guard and local authorities are searching for a Van Nuys man and close personal friend of performer Olivia Newton-John who was reported missing after a deep-sea fishing excursion seven weeks ago, officials said Monday.Patrick Kim McDermott, 48, a lighting gaffer and photographer, has been missing since July 1, when he was scheduled to return home from an overnight fishing trip, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

The video operator controls the footage, running it at the direction of the replay assistant. AS A CHILD, I was sure that Albert Einstein was the most famous violinist in the world.The confusion stemmed from a photo of the great man that adorned the New York Times in the late 1940s — let’s say 1948, to conveniently and coincidentally make me 6 years old, the very age when Einstein, in 1885, started his violin lessons So … None of them are all that compelling anyway, just starch, as in fried polenta, fried whole bananas and gluey mashed potatoes showered with scallion.At your serviceThe setting is handsome enough, though it has some of the same overblown aesthetic as a Las Vegas restaurant. Public Rush tickets cost $12, and Pay What You Can tickets could go as low as $1 (Senior Rush tickets were half-price).Those who can’t afford $20 tickets, Royce says, will still be able to join the standby line at press preview and opening night performances, when tickets held for guests who don’t show up are given away. The bombing, at an entrance to the Shiite-dominated Sadr City, and the mortar rounds were reminders of the challenges U.S.

Cortez, 24, of Barstow, Calif., should be found guilty of premeditated murder and whether he is guilty of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder, defense lawyer William Cassara said Tuesday. Page D4**CALENDAR’Reds’: Faded or still vibrant?Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic, “Reds,” is being re-released today on DVD, and the actor-director tells Tina Daunt what it was like to see the film again recently with an audience. Three Degrees finished 1 1/2 lengths ahead of Dancing Edie.Cassidy, who turns 60 today, watched Singhalese finish no better than third in her first three stakes starts in the U.S., but he knew her day would come. Or, a tiny diagonal trio of windows decorates an apartment building’s second floor, each one framed in wrought iron, lit up from the inside by a hanging metal hall light. “When you have competition from [satellite TV and phone companies], the cable operators have to be careful how they keep their market share.”*Times staff writer Steve Hymon contributed to this report..

And if Italy loses in its quarterfinal match here, don’t look for the coach they call “the Silver Fox” to stick around afterward.Almost two months ago, Marcello Lippi, 58, told his fishing pals in his hometown of Viareggio on the Tuscany coast to expect him back and to have his boat ready. WASHINGTON Matt Raiche knew he was in trouble when the Marines handed him an orange jumpsuit, a bottle to urinate in, a Koran and a Muslim prayer rug.Marine guards put the former Marine into a 6-foot-by-6-foot concrete cell, locked the steel door and told him to keep his mouth shut. In “The Visitor,” it’s the brightly colored neckties from a Danish aid package. I am imagining his parents and that they don’t know where he is.Two women in black abayas and black head scarves approached Abu Imad and proffered a piece of paper with a name carefully written on it. The unemployed vegetarian had remained in jail because he could not make the $500,000 bail Espalin’s attorney, Joseph L.