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SANTIAGO, Chile Chile's former army chief is acknowledging he handed over
to nuns the child of two left-wing activists killed after the 1973
military coup.Juan Emilio Cheyre now heads Chile's electoral service. He
told the newspaper El Mercurio on Tuesday that he gave 2-year-old Ernesto
Lejderman to a convent. In his first time speaking publicly about the
case, he said he was just following orders.Lejderman was raised by his
grandparents in Argentina. He says Cheyre shouldn't face charges. But human
rights group are calling for Cheyre to quit his electoral post.Lejderman's
parents sought to escape with their son after Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup
but were killed by a military patrol on the outskirts of a
northern city.Chile's government estimates 3,095 people were killed during
Pinochet's 1973-90 dictatorship.
http://www.facebook.com/denver.booneIs a cartoon-like college mascot reminiscent
of Daniel Boone -- right down to the legendary coonskin cap --
racist, sexist or otherwise offensive?Officials at the University of Denver
seem to think so. Theyve announced they wont reinstate Denver Boone, who
was retired in 1998 as mascot for the UD Pioneers, despite calls
to bring him back.Boone originally had been replaced by a red-tailed hawk
named Ruckus but the bird never soared high with the student body
and was scrapped in 2007, leaving the school without a mascot. Fast
forward and the school decided to put together a committee last spring
to determine the new mascot, but Boone was not even considered.Boone was
a polarizing figure that did not reflect the growing diversity of the
UD community, but rather was an image that many women, persons of
color, international students and faculty members found difficult to relate
to as defining the pioneering spirit, Chancellor Robert Coombe said in a
March letter to the school community.University officials also claim that
Boone was not up for consideration because of a consensus by the
student body that it wanted an entirely new mascot despite numerous
Facebook postings to the contrary.It was really about moving forward, Theresa
Mueller, a spokeswoman for the University of Denver, told FoxNews.com. The
students wanted a new mascot and didnt want to look towards the
past.Mueller added that they intend togi
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