| Illini fight trying to overcome absence of Pruitt
We hope he has a positive attitude and we get him back involved with us. That's what we're hoping he'll do the rest of the week. “It's how he reacts to everything. If he comes to practice and works his butt off, he'll be fine," said Weber, who indicated that Pruitt has not missed any practice time. My take: Pruitt probably lipped off either after the Purdue game or in a subsequent team practice or meeting and Weber decided this was no time to have players pulling in different directions. So he dropped the hammer on Pruitt, who came into the game having started every game since the start of his sophomore season (87 straight starts). So freshman Mike Tisdale started against Ohio State and Tisdale had four points, three rebounds and a career-high 20 minutes.
Monty Don's big garden adventure
Cassandra Jardine talks to Monty Don about how visiting 80 of the world's greatest gardens has reignited his passion for British plants In pictures: Gardens to visitGardening picture galleriesMonty Don has just completed a two-year tour of 80 gardens around the world. .
Rock and central banks
In Asia overnight, they drew the gloomiest conclusions and stock markets fell. So what does it all mean for our friend Northern Rock? Well, in theory, if the central banks have succeeded in persuading the commercial banks that they feel their pain and are on the case, that can only be good news for the Rock – in the sense that it may yet be possible for the consortium led by Virgin to raise a jumbo loan from a banking troika (Royal Bank of Scotland, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank) to repay part of the massive taxpayer-backed loan to the Rock. But, apart from that, all news from the Rock right now is pretty scary news for the Treasury and the Rock's board. Here is a quick recap of where we are: 1) As I disclosed last night, Olivant is furious about the decision of the Rock board and the Treasury to delay until January any decision on which of the two competing rescue proposals to recommend or whether to recommend either of them.
Drink-driver, 20, jailed for crippling cyclist
A 20-year-old drink-driver who knocked down a cyclist, leaving him brain-damaged and wheelchair-bound, has been jailed for 18 months after being found guilty of dangerous driving. John Bowman, who fled the scene of the accident and later abandoned the borrowed VW Golf he was driving, said he had drunk eight or nine cans of lager the previous evening. A breath test suggested that he could have been more than twice the legal limit. His victim, Simon Doughty, 46, the former manager of the Great Britain women’s road cycling team, was cycling to the Manchester Velodrome when the accident happened in October 2006. He was wearing a safety helmet and high-visibility clothes at the time. He broke a leg and pelvis and suffered irreversible brain damage, spending eight months in hospital.
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Interesting mixed bag in Waynesboro with Yes votes on the fire station, stormwater improvements and library improvements and pretty resounding No votes on the proposed youth baseball-softball complex and sidewalk improvements. I wonder how this will impact the May 2008 elections. I think both sides were anticipating up and down Yes or No votes - as was I. The split there might indicate an electorate in Waynesboro that is more split than either side recognized before tonight. And this was with turnout comparable to the May 2006 elections that put Nancy Dowdy back in office and put Lorie Smith in over Reo Hatfield. - Rockingham County did elect Chaz Evans-Haywood its new clerk of court, but not by the margin that the pundits (and for that matter, this writer) had anticipated. Evans-Haywood, a Republican, got 25 percent of the vote to just under a shade of 22 percent for Democrat Dianne Fulk - and three independents (Brenda Huffman, Mike Harvey and Barry Koogler) pushed past the 10-percent mark.
Will women or children pick the next president?
Obama is using his ideas and his ideals, not his race (or actually mixed-race), so that he can try putting his ideals into practice.
Who deserves to win? Not the one using tears to win votes, that's for sure. Posted 10/01/08 at 7:43 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Chinese checker: Dalai's new succession plan
Chasing the signs, cracking the dreams and rejecting potential candidates, when a party of Tibetan monks and officials, travelling in the disguise of traders, reached a door in a cluster of houses in eastern Tibet, a toddler welcomed them with a warm smile, identified the prayer beads, walking stick and reading glasses of the 13th, and pleaded with the group to take him to his palace in Lhasa.
The 14th incarnation of Dalai Lama had been found, keeping the wheel of dharma turning as it had been since 1391 when Gendun Drup became the first Dalai Lama — believed to be an incarnation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Since then his successors have been discovered by high lamas by following a complex process of dreams and signs.
Now, the signs are changing as Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is talking of naming his successor even before he departs from the scene.
Sally's Story
The brain is what counts, not the figure. If we accept intersex, why cant we accept transsex? Its a question Ashamallah has often asked. Why would we approve of a man spending his whole life living like a woman, but not becoming one? And since we all agree that sex is what you see and gender is what you feel and both are crucial to someones life why not apply it to our reality? Dr. Abdel Monem El-Gergawy, head of urology at Assiut University Hospital, isnt at all sympathetic to Ashamallahs call. He treats intersex cases, but gives transsex a very wide (and very snarky) berth. One day, a girl visited us with another girl whom she claimed to be her fiancée. She insisted shes a male and begged us to help her change her sex. We examined her and found she was female. A 100 percent female, in fact.
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