| If the Pats win, are they the best team ever? Maybe ...
Because the Giants don't have cheerleaders, only the Patriots will send scantily attired dancers to the sideline in Arizona. This will be the third consecutive year the Super Bowl has offered only one set of cheerleaders -- previously, Indianapolis met Chicago, which does not have cheerleaders, and Seattle met Pittsburgh, which does not have cheerleaders. One must go back three years to the Patriots-Eagles Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., for the most recent culminating contest offering flouncing megababes along both sidelines. Finally, just V days 'til Super Bowl XLII kicks off at VI:XX Eastern on the IIIrd of the IInd month, MMVIII. Will the Giants win their XIth straight on the road? Or will the Patriots finish an unprecedented XIX and -- wait, there is no Roman numeral for zero.
Man held for Home Affairs 'office'
Mdunge said the man was one of KwaZulu-Natal's biggest fraudsters. "He was making these documents and then charged people between R40000 to R60000 for it," said Mdunge. Durban's organised crime unit, the Asset Forfeiture Unit, home affairs authorities and the crime intelligence unit were following the case for the last eight months and finally swooped on the man's home at 7pm on Thursday. "We recovered computers with information on all his clients, some printers and other devices, as well as a huge quantity of ready-made ID documents, passports, birth and death certificates." The woman arrested at the house was believed to have had "close ties in facilitating the scams". Mdunge could not say whether the woman was the suspect's wife.
Housing downturn helps few workers, report says
The housing downturn hasn't made homes much more affordable for many workers in the Baltimore metro area, a new report suggests.
The nonprofit Center for Housing Policy said today that the price of a typical local home last summer was just under $270,000, too expensive for a nurse, an elementary school teacher, a police officer or a retail sales employee. The 2 percent decline in the median price of new and existing homes from a year earlier was far too small to close the gap.
A buyer with a 10 percent down payment would need to earn nearly $90,000 to avoid spending more of his or her salary on housing-related costs than experts recommend, the Washington-based group said.
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Research: Globalization, Imperialism, Militarism, Social Imperialism ...
By Dr. Mehdi S. Shariati
This paper examines US national debt and proposes that its causes are to be found in the political and military imperatives structured into the accumulation dynamics of global capitalism. To that end four historically overlapping and essential components of the accumulation process; globalization, imperialism, militarism, and social imperialism will be analyzed. Accumulation strategiesare at the same time imperialistic projects involving the internationalization of capital and production which in turn involves imperialism and militarism on a global scale. Imperialism here is defined not as "the highest stage of capitalism" (ala Lenin), but as an ongoing project of facilitating accumulation on a global scale and particularly with the ability to use its "creative destruction" (ala Schumpeter) in reinventing itself at a more expansive level.
Day Care Roulette
A 2-year-old girl was taped to a chair because she was moving too much. A 10-month-old boy died from heat stroke after being left in a van on a hot day. These are among hundreds of incidents during the past five years that resulted in safety violations at child day care centers around the Lowcountry and the state. An analysis by The Post and Courier of state inspection reports for day care facilities reveals that parents often roll the dice with their children's health and safety when they leave them in the custody of many day care centers. That's because: -- The state agency that regulates and inspects child day cares has just one inspector for every 116 day care facilities. That's less than half the number of inspectors needed per facility to meet national recommendations.
October 2007 Archive
DELPHOS — A goal with under 10 minutes left Monday gave Bluffton a 2-1 girls soccer victory over St. John's on the soggy sod of Continue » Lady 'Cats win 2nd of seasonSports (602 words) LIMA — Due to Monday's wet weather, Jefferson's girls soccer team got a chance to play under the lights and on the turf at Lima Continue » For the Record (30 words) ST. RITA'S MEDICAL CENTER A girl was born Sept. 30 to Dan and Marcie Metzger of Delphos. LIMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL A girl was born Oct. 1 to Matt Continue » K of C hall to host blood driveLocal News (42 words) The Knights of Columbus Hall will host an American Red Cross blood drive from 2-7 p.m. Wednesday. Donors must be 17 years of age or older; Continue » Albert F. WallenFor the Record (162 words) Jan. 12, 1935 - Oct.
LEADER ARTICLE: Death Of The Mahatma
Shankaran Nair, an early Congress leader, said that Gandhi was against everything that the great sons of 19th century India stood for. Gopal Krishna Gokhale was even more forthright. He declared Gandhi's Hind Swaraj to be "the work of a fool" and prophesied that "Gandhi would destroy it after he spent a year in India". Such honest estimates are now rare, because the liberals in the meanwhile have produced their own house-broken Gandhi - modern, nationalistic, progressive, statist and secular. There is nothing left of the politically incorrect, intellectual maverick who took on the imperious Enlightenment vision and refused to accept that its dominance was proof of its finality.
It is possible that Gandhi sensed his growing isolation in public life. The 200 years of western domination had done its job and the definition of normal politics had changed in India.
Senate offers witness protection to Lozada
Sources said some opposition politicians are pressuring Lozada into appearing in the hearing or by threatening him with a lifestyle check. Lozada reportedly owns several luxury vehicles. Leave Speaker alone
For his part, De Venecia III asked administration officials including those in the legislature to keep his father out of the issue. The younger De Venecia made the appeal amid fresh ouster moves against the Speaker. "Why don't they just charge me in court if they want to? My father has nothing to do with this. My father keeps telling me not to go to the Senate but what I can do, this is part of my civic duty for good governance. I am not my father (who is in the political front)," De Venecia said in a phone interview. "My father is loyal to GMA," according to De Venecia who arrived from New York around noon Tuesday after a brief vacation in the United States.
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