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NUMBERS SPEAK: For most of South, football is top sport...
The first college-football game was played 139 years ago in New Jersey, between Rutgers and Princeton, and the sport was dominated by Northeastern schools such as Yale and Harvard in its infancy.
By the middle of the last century, the South had risen in college football, and these days there's no question: If you want to win a national championship, it's best to play in places where sun...
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If you mention the big "O" and Madonna in the same sentence — it can often be unclear as to what you're talking about.
We're talking the big 5-0, as the unquestionable Queen of all Media (sorry, Perez) celebrates a half century mark today.
"It's not a bad word, you can say it ... I see it as another excuse to have a birthday party," the singer/songwriter/actress/filmmaker said du...
Contempt for butchers offering a cruel show of animal torture...
Ernest Hemingway's novel, 'The Sun Also Rises', brought Spanish bullfighting to a global audience. Don Mullan found nothing courageous or edifying on a recent visit to the bullring
AN ENSEMBLE of nine musicians played lively fiesta music for the unfolding drama. The magnificent animal raced into the evening sunlight, relieved to be free from the pen that had imprisoned it and at least ...
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China stepped into the world’s spotlight with a spectacular ceremony to open the 29th Olympiad last week Friday.
And what a ‘coming out’ it was. China did not disappoint. Awesome, spectacular, breathtaking, stunning were some of the words used to describe the event. It wa...
The Oregon State Fair's wacky factor...
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Spears gets MTV Awards nod...
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If only George ( runaway slave – MS) was a young Hungarian…
Harriet Beecher Stowe ‘ Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
Our President is upset. Every time this moron gets upset he better should not pose on TV. He looks like a monkey that somehow lost its banana on the other side of the fence. But I can understand his frustration this time: the country named for him was...
A tale of two literary giants...
Russia and Palestine may not have much in common, but both their people suffered tragically this month: the one buried Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of the oral history of the gulag, The Gulag Archipelago (1973), along with several acclaimed novels, and the other buried Mahmoud Darwish, its poet laureate.
Both wrote epically. Though an epic is the creation of an entire people, Solzhenits...
A small town struggles after immigration raid...
POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) -- A vague unease whispered through this tiny town in northeastern Iowa, where the rolling hills are a study in vivid colors - red barns, white clapboard houses, and vibrant green cornfields plowed with almost architectural precision.
It drifted through Postville's downtown, where restaurants serving tamales share three short blocks with El Vaquero clothing store, a ...
Tsvangirai says he'd accept Zimbabwe premiership to settle ......
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Zimbabwe's opposition chief would accept the prime minister's post and concede the presidency - and command of the military - to Robert Mugabe to settle a political crisis in his country, the Associated Press learned Saturday.
Morgan Tsvangirai outlined his proposal for resolving the contentious issue of who would lead any unity government in Zimbabwe...
USA Today sings our praises...
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Tsvangirai says he'd accept Zimbabwe premiership...
Zimbabwe's opposition chief would accept the primeminister's post and concede the presidency _ and command of themilitary _ to Robert Mugabe to settle a political crisis in hiscountry, the Associated Press learned Saturday.
Morgan Tsvangirai outlined his proposal for resolving thecontentious issue of who would lead any unity government inZimbabwe in a speech Friday to regional Cabinet m...
Awakening that hidden potential in a skills crunch...
Besides qualifications, we are interested in the softer skills — what key values people live by — Nazreen Naby
Margaret Harris spoke to Nazreen Naby, human resources manager of Regenesys
Regenesys is a private higher education institute and we primarily appoint people with post-graduate qualifications and experience in the education sector. We find that this skill pool...
Still no Zimbabwe deal at summit...
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