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Join the Perkins Center in the last of their Beyond Charity series forum exploring Christian community development and reconciliation on the SPU campus, in the local community and around the world. The forum will be tomorrow at 1 p.m. in Otto Miller Hall 109. For more information, contact Caenisha Warren at warrec@spu.edu. SPEED DATING SPEED DATING is a night dedicated to making new friends, learning about first impressions and a little about the way people communicate. Come enjoy snacks and hear Todd Rendleman, associate professor of communication, speak tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the SUB Gazebo room. For more information, contact Sarah Schooley at schooley@spu.edu. Women's and Men's Choir Concert Enjoy the Concert Choir, including Women's Choir, directed by Neil Leiurance, and Men's Choir, directed by Ken Pendergrass, at 7:30 p.m.
Clinton and McCain win in California
If McCain failed to sweep the contests that followed his big win last week in Florida, his victories in the delegate-heavy Northeast and in Oklahoma were a sweet reward for his resurgent candidacy. Eight years ago, he had his presidential hopes dashed when he lost a coast-to-coast swath of nominating contests that were held that March that effectively ended his campaign. The night buoyed Huckabee, who had been all but written off after his cash-starved candidacy struggled in the wake of his surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses. He defied expectations Tuesday by winning the West Virginia convention and primaries across a broad swath of the South, including Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and his home state of Arkansas. "You know, over the past few days a lot of people have been trying to say that this is a two-man race," he told his supporters in a suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Memo to Obama Fans
This is the second part in a two-part article. For Part 1, click here. Presidential primaries were conceived in the Progressive Era as a tool for democratic reform. But, as I noted yesterday, they have ironically wound up sandblasting the road to the nomination into a bump-free ride for most front-runners after the Iowa and New Hampshire contests. Victories in those early states—or even close seconds that become "perceived" victories—have typically bestowed big bounces, while losses there have dashed once-formidable aspirants. That nearly 20 states have moved their primaries or caucuses to late January or early February in 2008—most of them scheduled for Feb. 5—represents just the latest stab at challenging the supremacy of these two states and giving others a greater voice in the nomination process.
Plans for LSU-VA hospital complex stir resentment
Paul, Minn., paints a view of South Tonti Street stretching toward the old Dixie Brew´ery this month. Hundreds of homes such as these stand to be torn down to make way for the new LSU-VA medical campus, although the brewery building could be saved and reused. .
After 120 years in business, Cavanaugh's faces the end of the line
Its almost a tragedy, said Tom Marino, 51, as he looked around the Cavanaugh Ace Hardware store Thursday morning as shoppers searched the aisles for bargains. The Cavanaughs have been part of this community for so long.
Marino, an Auburn Regional Valley Authority fire captain who grew up in Auburn, said he used to come into the store as a teenager. Im in mourning, he said.Owners Pat and Jan Cavanaugh who live on Lake Tapps will remain a part of the greater Auburn community but the store that has been a fixture in downtown Auburn since 1896 is going out of business, the victim of a failed downtown redevelopment project.They closed the store Saturday to hang the Going out of Business Sale signs in the windows. The final sale which will continue until everything is sold.Pat Cavanaugh, 63, is the fourth generation to run the store that his great grandfather Sam Cavanaugh first opened in 1887 in Kent which was then called Titusville before moving to Auburn.
Committee asks Justice Department to investigate Clemens
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Edmond bachelor on Cosmo list
Life as Josh Walters knows it is about to change. The 23-year-old Edmond middle-school teacher has been named one of the hottest 50 bachelors by Cosmopolitan magazine. Tuesday, his photo went worldwide on the magazine's Web site, complete with a personal "vote for me" video and a link for one-on-one e-mails. .
240 sign on to lawsuit against IBM over TCE
A second wave of legal claims seeking damages from IBM Corp. related to pollution in Endicott has been filed in state Supreme Court in Binghamton, bringing the total to more than 240 plaintiffs, with more on the way. The 82-page document representing 151 property owners and residents was filed electronically late Friday afternoon by Philip Johnson, an attorney with the Vestal law firm of Levene Gouldin & Thompson. Johnson is part of a team of seven law firms representing more than 1,000 clients in the massive toxic tort case against IBM seeking more than $100 million in damages for a range of hardships related to the pollution. They include cancer and other illnesses, property devaluation, loss of business, medical expenses and related monitoring, and hassles of dealing with the pollution.
Syria Killed Imad Mughniyah!
Imad Mughniyah, a senior but shadowy Hezbollah commander accused by the United States and Israel of masterminding suicide bombings, hijackings and hostage-takings that spanned 25 years, was killed by a car bomb in the Syrian capital of Damascus, the Shiite Muslim group and other officials said Wednesday. Hezbollah accused Israel of carrying out the attack on Mughniyah, a charge that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office denied. A USA State Department spokesman welcomed the news of Mughniyah's death, but said he did not know who was responsible for it.
Who is Imad Mughniyah and what kind of murders did he commit. Below are some of these notorious crimes:
*April 1983: suicide bomber rams van packed with explosives into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans.
Japan soon to see less costly Xbox
Improved results from the Fox broadcast network and Fox News Channel lifted second-quarter earnings at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., outweighing lighter returns from movies and TV production, the media conglomerate reported Monday. News Corp., which bought Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. in December, earned $832 million in the final three months of 2007, up 1 percent from the $822 million it earned in the same period a year earlier. The results for News Corp.'s second fiscal quarter were equivalent to 27 cents per Class A share, in line with estimates of analysts polled by Thomson Financial. Compiled from The Associated Press, Dow Jones Newswires and Seattle Times business staff .
Heat bake Surf Dawgs in AWL action
Caleb Glafenhein, a right-handed pitcher from Corryton, Tenn., pitched a complete game for the Blythe Heat Tuesday afternoon at Desert Sun Stadium, beating the San Diego Surf Dawgs 5-3. Glafenhein allowed just seven hits to the Surf Dawgs, who scored a run in the fourth and two in the fifth. Blythe had taken an immediate lead, with Ryan Crespi scoring on a Steve Alexander RBI single in the top of the first, then two in the second on a Chris Akins home run. They added a run in the fourth when D. J. Dixon tripled to lead off, then scored on a single by Akins. In the ninth, Shaughn Neal single and scored on a double by Ross McCoy. Crespi had a total of three singles on the day. .
Is Luis Miguel Dominican?
Why should anyone care? What good or bad will it do for anyone where LM is from?
Where is LM from? that's a question people should ask him. I bet he feels Mexican. If he ever had to choose he will probably choose Mexican even if his roots are in Pluto. .
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