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LEADING OFF When we're little, we play games because they're fun. As we grow older, we long for those days and we take great pleasure in watching men and women who have earned the right to keep being little boys and girls. That's why America loves its sports heroes. It's why we rooted for athletes such as Cal Ripken, Mia Hamm and Michael Jordan. They played their game at the highest level and, at least on the outside, they looked like they had a blast doing it. It's a big reason America roots for Brett Favre today. If Old Man Mississippi were rolling into Dallas this afternoon instead of staying home to face the Giants, there would be 49 states rooting for the Packers and one for the Cowboys. And there would be a lot of Texans secretly wearing cheeseheads.
Resident reports bullets hit house on Levin Street in Alexandria
Alexandria police were slated to collect bullets from an air conditioner at a Levin Street residence today where the bullets reportedly lodged during a shooting incident Monday. The Levin Street resident called police about 7 p.m. Monday to report someone had shot at her house. .
End of an intellectual whirlwind
A spectre is haunting higher education," Keller declared, "the spectre of decline and bankruptcy." After years of rampaging growth, colleges were gripped by declining enrolments, increased competition, inflating costs, diminishing government support and shifting priorities among those increasingly regarded as higher education's consumers. The future of many traditional institutions was in jeopardy. The only enduring solution, Keller argued, was to take a more vigorous and focused approach to management, using tactics and objectives that had to be developed on an institution-by-institution basis. We could not expect all colleges to accomplish the same things and meet the same standards in the same ways. Nor did it make sense any more to treat the large, expensive, complex modern university as if it were a genteel ramshackle operation to be governed casually and inattentively, if at all.
Memoirs of an ex-Jihadi
He speaks of a peculiar void in the lives of Muslim teenagers growing up in mono-cultural ghettoes of Britain, reflecting on his own upbringing as the child of immigrants. What is it to be British? What unites us? Is it a pint at the local pub? Well, I dont fit in. Is it dating and the disposing of partners willy-nilly? Well, I still dont fit in. Husain embraced radical Islamism by first joining the Pakistan-based Jamaat-e-Islami, and then finally moving on to the Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) during his college years. Indoctrination into these groups included reading books such as Sayed Qutbs Milestones and believing in the ultimate goal of a transnational Islamic caliphate, with a policy of jihad. His fellow group members introduced him to the word kaffir (non-believer). These were the same members who drove around illegally without the compulsory car insurance, simply because it was seen as supporting the kaffir economy. Some of his peers have gone on to become terrorists, including Majid Nawaz, the young Briton arrested in Alexandria in 2002 for attempting to reactivate the HT in Egypt (where the group is currently banned).
Wells struggles in the aftermath of quake
Rattled in Wells, Nev. 'Everything was just waves' Card players didn't fold 'em during quake Wells pulls together, shaking continues U. scientists gathering Nevada quake data 6.0 Salt Lake.-area quake would take moderate toll Felt it or not ... Residents of Nevada are picking up the pieces Quake gave Utah a 'wake-up call' for planning They lived it ... .
Internet entrepreneur, son killed in plane crash
Maine Public Safety Department spokesman Stephen McCausland said pending positive determination, the victims were believed to be Jeanette Symons of San Francisco, to whom the plane was registered, and one of her children. A co-founder with Symons of Industrious Kid, a company formed in 2005 to create online products for children with age-appropriate content, said Symons, 45, and her son Balan were returning to her home in Steamboat Springs, Colo., when the crash occurred in West Gardiner. "She's been flying for over 20 years. She's a top notch pilot," said Tim Donovan, the vice president of marketing at Industrious Kid, which is based in Oakland, Calif., and where Symons was chief executive officer. "She was very, very well known in the telecommunications industry," Donovan said, calling Symons a visionary.
Next Weeks Almanac Digest
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Neptune, Jupiter and Venus. The evening stars are Mars, Saturn and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include English poet Edmund Waller in 1606; industrialist George Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car, in 1831; telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell in 1847; U.S. Army Gen. Matthew Ridgway in 1895; movie star Jean Harlow in 1911; "Star Trek" actor James "Scotty" Doohan in 1920; Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in 1933 (age 75); former football star Herschel Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner, and Olympic gold medal heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, both in 1962 (age 46); and actors David Faustino ("Married ... With Children") in 1974 (age 34) and Jessica Biel ("7th Heaven") in 1982 (age 26).
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