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Friday, August 22nd, 2008This just in from our friends Edward Epstein and Josh Rogin at Congressional Quarterly:
LENEXA, Kan. — After weeks of speculation and days of intense rumors, the answer to who Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would name as his running mate may have come down to a bumper sticker printed in Lenexa.
KMBC’s Micheal Mahoney reported that [...]
Alexis miller
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Alexis Miller, a hip-hop singer that performs under the name MaryJane, filed a restraining order against Shaquille O’Neal on Friday, claiming that O’Neal is stalking her.
Miller, 23, claims that O’Neal stalked her, threatened her with bodily harm and made harassing phone calls in which he breathed heavily into the phone before hanging up.
Miller also claims that O’Neal [...]
Chet Edwards buzz
Friday, August 22nd, 2008CNN has mentioned his name four times in the past minute. Just how many people were vetted, as he was, they wonder? But they are not staking out his house, from what I can tell. Still, AP is formally saying that he is/was a finalist.
Of course, naming him a finalist is just smart. Picked or [...]
Chet edwards
Friday, August 22nd, 2008A knock on U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards as a vice presidential running mate is that nobody much knows him. An overstatement, perhaps, but we’ll venture to guess that his national name recognition is about 99 percentage points lower than, say, Hillary Clinton’s.
Apparently, he isn’t that notable on his own block, either.
Ricky Summersett, who lives a [...]
Race walking is style over substance
Thursday, August 21st, 2008After watching the men’s nail biting, down-to-the-wire 20 km race walk, I’m still not convinced this sport belongs in the Olympics.
Athletics is about running fast, throwing far and jumping high. Walking is about twisting your body and trying to go fast while trying to go slow. It’s like swimming in a straitjacket.
Walking is the only discipline where style [...]
Avant guard
Thursday, August 21st, 2008CLEVELAND HEIGHTS — Donald Erb, a bold, avant-garde composer who inspired generations of composition students at the Cleveland Institute of Music, died Tuesday, Aug. 12, at his home in Cleveland Heights at age 81.
He conducted and lectured at more than 150 colleges and universities and took pride in the scores of former students who teach [...]
