| McLaren sets very high bar as hubby
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Before this week, here's all I knew about John McLaren -- he was Lou Piniella's longtime bench coach who became Mike Hargrove's bench coach and the Mariners manager when Hargrove quit last July. Scanning the Internet, there's a little more information on his baseball past, but as far as his personal life, all you'll find is place and date of birth (Galveston, Texas, Sept. 29, 1951) and a few details about his education -- McLaren graduated from Westbury High School in Houston and attended three colleges, including Houston Baptist, before signing with his hometown Astros as a seventh-round pick in 1970. .
Hillary, Buckeye Girl
If Hillary Clinton were a state, she'd be Ohio. This is a no-frills kind of place, suspicious of glamour. Barack Obama's promise to make politics cool again doesn't necessarily resonate here. Eight presidents came from Ohio, and the coolest was William McKinley. When I grew up in Cincinnati, we always rooted for the players who worked really, really hard, not the ones who were so talented they made everything look easy. If Hillary were a baseball player, she'd be Pete Rose. Minus, of course, the unfortunate gambling issues and the tendency to scratch inappropriate places while standing in the infield. So there she was Wednesday here in Zanesville, holding an economic summit in a gymnasium with a huge table stuffed full of participants, including the founder of Weight Watchers; former Senator John Glenn, the heroic astronaut who once put the entire Democratic presidential convention to sleep with his keynote speech; and the governor of Ohio, a vice presidential hopeful who looks like an unidentified passer-by.
When IHSA restricts news media, it restricts public
As expected, the Pantagragh continues to print only one side of the story. Additional information can be found at ihsa.org. Click on “Information You Won't Find in Most Newspapers About the Photo Dispute" in the announcement section. Also, no where will you read that it was the Illinois Press Association that walked out on discussions to resolve this issue. We presented them with a proposal on November 14, 2007, and as of today, we still do not have a response. However, we remain willing to meet at any time. Also for the record, the $1,000 figure quoted in the paper today does not match the figure reported to the Court in Springfield. The figure reported to the Court was in response to a subpoena. " .
School students shoot classmate for ‘bullying’
In an American-style campus shooting, two students of a private school in Gurgaon shot dead a classmate as he was about to take the schoolbus home, police said on Tuesday. Abhishek Tyagi, a class VIII student of Euro International School in Sector 45, was shot five times from close range on his forehead, chest and shoulder inside the campus. The 14-year-old was declared dead at a private hospital. Police identified the two boys as Akash Yadav, 14, and Vikas Yadav, 13. They said Akash had brought his father's licensed foreign-made pistol and both boys took turns to shoot Abhishek.
Gun violence among schoolchildren in India is rare. The case, possibly the first reported in and around Delhi, recalls the situation in the US, where rights activists are campaigning for tougher gun laws to control the problem.The two boys told the police that Abhishek allegedly used to bully them at school because he was of better build.
Camera catches suspect in Cross Keys, Abbottstown robberies
Surveillance cameras at the Adams County Courthouse have done more than monitor the immediate area. Footage recorded by the cameras might be used to build a case against a Gettysburg man charged with robbing convenience stores in Cross Keys and Abbottstown. A preliminary hearing for Melvin Lamont Williams, 35, was held Wednesday before Magisterial District Judge John Zepp III. Williams is accused of robbing the Choice convenience store in Abbottstown on Jan. 6 and the Cross Keys Getty Mart near New Oxford on Jan. 10, making off with more than $700. State police at Gettysburg and Eastern Adams Regional Police both reported the convenience stores have video footage of a black male holding a white T-shirt over his lower face. State police Trooper Nicholas Bloschichak said cameras also caught a similarly dressed Williams prior to the robberies leaving his residence at the 29 W.
The Totally Coolest Candidate Ever
Berkeley, I made a couple of comments about the use of Chelsea as a prop for controversy-free photo ops when her parents dropped her off for her first semester of college at Stanford. Scraping for something to say about the upcoming football game between Cal and Stanford, I criticized my school's rival for pouring resources into the circus surrounding Chelsea's arrival, suggesting that they were more concerned with maintaining a pristine, photogenic student body than educating as large and diverse a population as possible. I then encouraged Berkeley students to share our less refined ways by trashing the campus, including Ms. Clinton. Sure, my line "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass" was over the top and poorly chosen. And then the AP wire snipped my column's line, "Chelsea Clinton represents the Stanford ethos of establishment worship which must be subverted and destroyed," into "Chelsea Clinton … must be destroyed." (The column is no longer available online.) The comments made their way to Mrs.
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