| Michelle Obama Retools "I'm Proud" Remark
Obama himself gave a similar explanation during an interview Tuesday with WOAI radio in San Antonio, Texas. Expressing frustration that his wife's remarks had been taken out of context and turned into political fodder, the Illinois senator said, "What she meant was, this is the first time that she's been proud of the politics of America, because she's pretty cynical about the political process, and with good reason, and she's not alone. But she has seen large numbers of people get involved in the process, and she's encouraged."
Michelle Obama was campaigning in Rhode Island two weeks before the state's March 4 primary. She planned a rally later with her brother, Craig Robinson, the coach of the Brown University men's basketball team.
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Your Comments : Suspects asked for soldiers help
THE 11 men charged in relation to a plot to assassinate key figures of the military and interim government allegedly approached soldiers, including a major, to help carry out their plans. [See full story] » Comment now. 114 days & 6 hrs agoSuggest removalPermalink Big Poppa of United States says… today the allegations have been brought to the front. we now know the charge and the reprecussions of the allegations are extremely serious. If within the next seven days if the evidence to support the allegations, then once again the current govt. they will have missed thier oppertunity to use the legal process to redress thier issues. What were they thinking(allegedly) when they approached army personal did do thier home work and wind up approaching some one who turned in the alleged consiprators.
eLife goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a ...
THE BAY AREA is filled with techno geeks. Just check out your neighborhood coffee house, airport or BART car and you'll see people nose deep into their laptops, submerged in their iPods or glued to their Kindle eBook. This place is a hotbed for early adapters, eager to snag the latest technology. I am not one of them. In fact, until recently I'd describe myself as techno-challenged, someone whose personal bubble hovers in techno-no-no territory. Start chatting about your iPhone and I enter a semi-comatose state as I pray to be elsewhere. Start talking megabytes, beta versions, download, upload, and I'm ready to explode. But take away the techno-babble, and suddenly I realize that I like many am fully engaged in eLife. And I love it. For example, a few months ago, I made a creative U-turn in front of a Danville police officer.
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Are Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson definitely, maybe broken up?
Sean Kingston's mom, Janice, celebrated her Valentine's Day birthday Thursday night at South Beach's Mansion nightclub with a saccharine sweet tribute by her son. He sang a cute version of “Happy Birthday" followed by his hit “Beautiful Girl" directed at her, down on one knee as he crooned. It was perfect until brash L.A. hipster Mickey Avalon crashed the party, leaped onstage and screamed, “Here's a song for Valentine's Day," belting out the always mom-appropriate-ballad, “My D--k." Avalon probably won't be invited to the Kingston Mother's Day celebration this year. Watch for fashion's latest K-fad When you're a celeb wanting to look your best, you call in some sartorial heavy hitters ... or OK! magazine? Kevin Federline's wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am tour of Fashion Week, which lasted all of a day, inspired his publicist Marilyn Lopez to ring up OK! to see if they'd pop over to his hotel to play Barbie.
BYU's Lee Cummard Works his Magic on the Basketball Court
When Lee Casey Cummard first strolled onto the Marriott Center hardwood in 2005, he didn't exactly fit the bill of a hoops dynamo that would soon be ripping the rug out from under the Mountain West Conference. The mild-mannered, lanky Arizonan was known to be a sharp shot, but few imagined just how deep his bag of tricks might be. Like a Swiss Army knife revealing a seemingly endless supply of handy gizmos, Cummard soon had everybody wondering: How do you cram all that basketball into one guy? "A couple years ago, you would say he [Cummard] does a little bit of everything," TCU basketball coach Neil Dougherty said. "Now I'm telling you he does a lot of everything. If we all had one, we'd all be a much better team." Cummard started 14 games in his freshman season, and all 34 the next.
Angelina Jolie Honey Brad Pitt Accused of 'Hissy Fit' Over Bike
Brad Pitt loves to get on his bike and ride. But apparently a little of the privilege of being the current boyfriend of Angelina Jolie may be rubbing off on Mr. Pitt if a report from AOL's Celebrity website TMZ.Com is to be believed. Apparently dating Jolie has its privileges and one of them is that you can get the latest and greatest Ducati Desmosedici RR motorcycle before anyone else. .
Chicago-style hot dogs coming to Moreno Valley
A restaurant opening in March in Moreno Valley promises to bring customers a taste of Chicago, with some Prohibition-era nostalgia on the side. Illinois-based Portillo Restaurant Group, among the largest privately held restaurant companies in the Midwest, plans to open its second California location of Portillo's Hot Dogs on March 11. It is under construction at 12840 Day St., in the TownGate Square commercial center. Company spokeswoman Patty Sullivan said the Moreno Valley restaurant will be similar to the company's first California location, which opened in 2005 in Buena Park. It is designed in a Prohibition-era theme, and the walls are lined with Chicago photos, artifacts and other memorabilia dating from that period into the 1940s. "There are a lot of Chicago transplants there who know us," Sullivan said about the Inland area.
Derbyshire: Walk of the month
The fierce but genial giant who once tumbled Robin Hood into a stream stood depicted in tunic of untraditional blue, his nickname abbreviated to a curt, if trendy "LJ". Up in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels I found his grave, long enough for two ordinary mortals. Those who opened the grave in 1784 reported finding an immense thighbone nearly three feet long. Little John's mighty bow and cap of Lincoln green hung in St Michael's Church for hundreds of years; his cottage near the churchyard stood until it was demolished in the 19th century. Whatever the facts about Robin Hood's right-hand man, Hathersage continues to bask in the reflected glory of the Big Man of Sherwood Forest. I pondered his provenance as I climbed the frost-whitened field paths north of the valley.
We want you, Anna Bligh tells Mitsubishi staff
Ms Bligh says she'd like them to consider helping fill a skills shortage in Queensland and build the state's booming economy. "Today I want to offer them a lifeline," Ms Bligh said. "Here in Queensland we've got an economy that's growing, we've got lots of employers that are desperately looking for workers, particularly skilled workers. "And if we've got unemployed people with families in South Australia who are willing to consider a life change, then there is a job here in Queensland for you." Mitsubishi yesterday announced it is to close its Tonsley Park plant with the loss of almost 1000 jobs. It cited accumulated losses of $1.5 billion over 10 years and the decline in large car sales as the major reasons. Ms Bligh said Queensland Industry Minister Desley Boyle would meet with major employers across the state and devise an advertising package to lure the South Australian auto workers north.
Online Romeo admits to fraud
An Albuquerque, N.M., man accused of concocting an elaborate identity as a decorated veteran and gifted trauma surgeon to con a Fort Wayne woman has admitted to being a fraud. In December, a federal grand jury indicted Douglas Martin, 58, on one count of making false statements and a second count of wire fraud. Martin pleaded guilty to the charges this week and will be sentenced in April. He faces up to 25 years in prison and more than $250,000 in fines. The identity Martin created for himself, to steal money from a Fort Wayne woman he met through an online dating service, was impressive, at least on paper: multidisciplinary surgeon, military veteran decorated with such honors as the Navy Cross and the Legion of Merit, and graduate of the University of London. Two weeks after Martin met the woman, he asked her to marry him and move to South Carolina.
Good, Bad & Ugly
Hanks is mad, Powers is chagrined and Schumacher is just weird.THE GOOD: The late Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble is the first member of any of the Sioux tribes to ever earn the Medal of Honor, the highest tribute our nation can bestow on a member of the military. It will be awarded to his family members on March 3 at the White House. After serving in World War II, where he was wounded in some of the most intense combat of the war at Guadalcanal, Keeble returned to service in the Korean War at age 34.On Oct. 20, 1951, he was near Kumsong battling the Chinese. With his fellow soldiers pinned down by heavy enemy gunfire Keeble — already wounded — made his way up a hill and single-handedly took out four machine- gun bunkers, killing nine enemy soldiers. During the assault, Keeble was hit multiple times, but he continued to fight, taking out two trenches of enemy troops, killing seven more riflemen and finally forcing the enemy to retreat.THE BAD: The award was given posthumously, more than 20 years after Keeble’s death in 1982 at the age of 65.
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