| Larry Craig sets out to prove you don't have to be Al Gore to win an ...
Denny Crane is a classic Hollywood conservative, who joins Stephen Colbert, Thurston Howell III, Alex Keaton, and Krusty the Clown on Wikipedia's list of "Fictional United States Republicans." TV conservatives always play the part for laughs; Craig plays it straight, with the same result. In this case, fiction cannot be stranger than truth, but perhaps it will be more revealing. Spoilerfix says Alan Shore (James Spader) will defend Crane, so we'll finally get a glimpse of how a spirited defense might have sounded if Craig hadn't pled guilty. Of course, unlike Craig, Crane has five ex-wives and several co-workers who can vouch for his womanizing. He also has better writers, who won't humiliate him with Craig lines like "Jiminy!" and "Oh, crimey!" Spoilerfix doesn't say whether Crane's restroom encounter is a one-off deal or will come back to haunt him.
British Methodist keeps Parliament in order
When Beech is not making sure British lawmakers can do their jobs in a safe and efficient environment, she can be found doing her other job: serving as vice president of the British Methodist Church. Appointed in 2005, Beech is only the second woman to hold a sergeant at arms job in the Commons' 700-year history. Her workdays can stretch from morning to past midnight and encompass responsibilities as diverse as corralling rowdy elected MPs (Members of Parliament) to issuing photography permits. Last July, she was elected to a one-year term of office by the national church's annual conference. British Methodist vice presidents (always a lay person) and presidents (always a clergy person) represent the church at a range of events and undertake many leadership responsibilities within the denomination.
Canada failing its obligations to children: UNICEF
Listening to that child suffer in terror was more than I could bear. My roommate and I reported the situation to police, and to child protection services, only to be told that there was nothing they could do. On one occasion, the police did arrive and spoke to the lady. This seemed to quiet things down for a while, except that now this lady began calling our super and the police every time we had company. She needed some revenge, but quickly became the "boy who cried wolf". One sunny day, while I sat by my open window studying, I heard her having a conversation with a friend or relative of hers. Apparently, social services was forcing her to attend some form of course or class. She was livid! How dare they make her take a class!!! Those *@^#$ ers better be paying for @&$*ing babysitting for the brat!!! God *@^#ed sons of, so on , and so on.
Malone, Umberger prove local kids can make it in the NHL
Thirty years ago, it was a snap decision. Kids growing up in Western Pennsylvania put on their football pads, buckled their chinstraps, emulated Terry Bradshaw in their back yards and dreamed of being the starting quarterback for the Steelers. Very few considered lacing up their hockey skates, becoming the next Jean Pronovost or quarterbacking the Penguins' power play. But once Mario Lemieux arrived in town in 1984 and led the franchise to two Stanley Cup championships, that attitude suddenly started to change. Mr. Lemieux, the Penguins' Hall of Fame center and owner, gets a big assist for helping Pittsburgh-area kids realize that they, too, can excel at something other than football. "I started watching the Penguins in the late '80s, and it was because of Mario Lemieux that I started skating," Philadelphia Flyers center R.J.
Eagles' Pankewicz living the dream
LOVELAND — Greg Pankewicz has ridden more dilapidated buses than he cares to remember. He's skated on ice rutted with potholes thanks to incompetent Zamboni drivers, played on teams rumored to be relocating, earned meager pay and taken so many punches and high sticks to the face that he's running out of places for scars. Yet Pankewicz wouldn't change a shift in his 17 years of playing minor league hockey. "The life of a minor leaguer isn't all that glamorous," said Pankewicz, now with the Colorado Eagles of the Central Hockey League. "But I've had a good ride." He's the hockey version of Crash Davis in "Bull Durham," carving out a distinguished career for himself in minor league arenas with poor lighting, bad ice, unruly fans, between-period novelty acts and cheap beer specials.
A Century With Kids
Taking this long view is typical of the YMCA officials who govern Camp Orkila. The camp, 100 years old this summer, has stamped the childhood of hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians. Now it is ambitiously planning for the next century. Orkila is a place where many Seattle kids first truly met nature. Where they outlasted homesickness. Grew up. Belonged. Helped out. Had a crush. Tasted adventure. And where some, like Patsy Collins, left a piece of their hearts. .
Illinois gunman's deadly rampage baffles many who knew him; police had ...
If there is such a thing as a profile of a mass murderer, Steven Kazmierczak didn't fit it: outstanding student, engaging, polite and industrious, with what looked like a bright future in the criminal justice field. And yet on Thursday, the 27-year-old Kazmierczak, who had ties to Florida, armed himself with three handguns and a brand-new pump-action shotgun he had carried onto campus in a guitar case. He stepped from behind a screen on the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a geology class, killing five students before committing suicide. University Police Chief Donald Grady said, without giving details, that Kazmierczak had become erratic in the past two weeks after he had stopped taking his medication. But that seemed to come as news to many of those who knew him, and the attack itself was positively baffling.
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