| AFL legend violent in Vegas, too, say US police
US authorities yesterday revealed Carey spent one night in custody accused of battery, after being placed under citizen's arrest in October 2004. The revelation is the latest in a string of controversies to plague the former Kangaroos and Adelaide Crows superstar of Australian rules, whom police had to subdue with capsicum spray in Melbourne last Sunday after a domestic dispute. Also yesterday, it emerged that Carey's girlfriend Kate Neilson excused her boyfriend for allegedly glassing her in Miami last October as a "simple misunderstanding of an earlier event in our relationship". In an statement yesterday, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Carey got into trouble in the US gambling capital more than three years ago. "On October 17, 2004, a misdemeanour battery report was filed against Mr Carey," the statement said.
Tennis successes plentiful in 2007
A bunch of national championships and a few world titles. Charleston tennis has never been more successful than in 2007. The year's success stories once again were led by world champions Diane Fishburne and Brenda Carter, but league tennis and high schools fared well, too. And don't forget about the Family Circle Cup as it prepares to celebrate its 35th anniversary in a few months. Even though a Grand Slam tournament-class field withered and practically dried up from injury withdrawals, the Family Circle Cup barely missed setting Daniel Island attendance records last April. Only tornado-like conditions on championship Sunday held the premier women's tournament back. Fishburne moved up to the women's 50 division, recovered from knee surgery, and still surged to the world's top ranking in singles in her age group.
In search of the perfect Hamlet
It's the most challenging role there is for a young actor. It's huge, it's emotionally and physically draining, and it requires a tremendous wit. I would love to see Johnny Depp do it - he has the wicked mischief that the part needs. I have several favourites, including my first - Classics Illustrated, a comic-book version. It saw him as a revenge hero. The first really vivid production I saw was Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court. The restless internalising was the strongest I've seen. SAMUEL WEST Played Hamlet for the RSC, 2001-02 I loved Mark Rylance's first Hamlet, in 1989. He was unbelievably inventive, brilliantly lonely. I've seen the play about 20 times, but only once since I played it. It is the ultimate part for a young actor and you can never get it entirely right.
Memo To The FBI: Expand The Probe Of Economic Crimes
We need a special prosecutor and some zealous investigators who know something about white-collar crime waves. One suggestion: bring back former veteran FBI agent turned whistleblower Coleen Rowley, a recent TIME Magazine “Person of the Year," to head the taskforce. Rowley told me she used to work cases like this with the former Rudolph Giuliani, who once made a name for himself as the scourge of Wall Street crime families. (Maybe it takes someone with a Mafia patrimony to know how to smell the scammers and then use RICO anti-conspiracy laws to put them behind bars.) That was before Rudy decided to join another mob - the Homeland Security fearmongers to cash in on 911. Today's financial racketeers span the globe, and are not confined to a solo junior trader at a French bank who lost over $7 Billion on trades.
Tiger's golf near flawless; NBC fills three hours
The network did an admirable job bringing Tiger up to the booth and even trotting out the Commissioner himself for some song and dance. We saw more of Jimmy Roberts on Sunday than Tiger. Let's fact it – 8 and 7 means a lot of the remotes were switching over to curling or car racing. The second is just how strong Tiger's game is right now. There are so many mind-boggling stats that can be rolled out to show his domination: fifth straight win, 50 holes without a bogey during one stretch this week, 63rd career victory. He's won 16 of his last 30 starts and added another five silver medals in that run. What's truly scary is that he isn't afraid to say what's possible. Tiger is generally a little bit coy or perhaps media-savvy about saying how good he is, but this year he's talked about the possibility of winning all four majors.
Lawmaker pushes cosmetic-surgery bill
But some do not, and as we have seen, it can cause problems, and that's why we want to make this a requirement across the state." Donda West, 58, died Nov. 10 at a hospital in Los Angeles a day after undergoing several plastic surgery procedures. A Beverly Hills doctor conducted breast reduction surgery, a tummy tuck and liposuction on her. An autopsy revealed she likely died of heart disease, coupled with complications after the surgery, "but the final manner of death could not be determined," the report concluded. Her death sparked widespread media coverage. Yolanda Anderson of Colton, a niece of Donda West, mentioned the death to her husband, John, who coaches the varsity and junior varsity boys basketball teams at Wilmer Amina Carter High .
My Turn: Why I don't 'shop Taos'
We would love to purchase locally-produced jewelry, but we find that local artisans are usually such poor businesspeople, we need a "middle man" to weed out those who can comply with the realities of the wholesale market from those who can't. Often, we have local artisans just show up at our store unannounced, looking to sell their one-of-a-kind jewelry on the spot for cash. They tend to show up only when they need money. If some of the artisans would show a basic level of business professionalism, we'd love to purchase locally. Until then, we will deal with a wholesaler who does understand the businessworld. " .
McCain Blasts Clinton's and Obama's Attacks On NAFTA
During a town hall meeting at the headquarters of Dell Computers in this suburb of Austin, McCain said criticism of NAFTA by New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama could have "an adverse effect" on Canada's commitment to fighting alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
"We need our Canadian friends and we need their continued support in Afghanistan," McCain said during the meeting with Dell employees. "So what do we do? The two Democratic candidates for president say that they're going to unilaterally ... abrogate the North America Free Trade Agreement. ... Now how do you think the Canadian people are going to react to that?"
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None, New Year’s resolutions are pointless
One was on the lead, but the other, off the lead, was hanging in the air from a tree branch by its jaws, bouncing up and down, while its owners, wearing hooded tops, stood by encouraging it. They then had one hell of a job getting it off the tree branch, and went on their way. I did not dare go out and confront them. It sounds as though these were the two dogs involved in the attack on Sunday. I obviously dare not now walk my dogs in the lane, especially in the dark, until the other loose dog is caught, or the owner identified. Hopefully the local dog wardens will patrol the area. Please keep us informed. Thanks. .
Currituck's court clerk and bailiff find love amidst litigation
Sheila Tyler tells everyone that she met her husband in jail. She doesn't remember seeing the former Marine when she went to the Currituck County Detention Center to bail out her yard man a few years ago. But Sheila, who has been Currituck's Clerk of Superior Court since the 1980s, would later be impressed by Dean Tyler's military bearing. .
JANE ANN MORRISON: If only people knew what the Nevada Cancer ...
The institute's tax returns show that 84 percent of the money goes to the cancer cause, well above the 60 percent level considered standard for a charity to be fiscally responsible. What can you find at the institute? • Information center open to the public. • Wig room. • Room for prosthetic fittings. • Yoga classes. • Meditation room. • High-tech machines I hope never to need. So far, 4,300 patients have been treated in this setting. But it's the labs where the work is going on that could help more than individual patients. That's where Dr. Yupo Ma is working on better diagnosis of cancers of the blood, where Dr. Nam Hoang Dang has a clinical trial to test a drug with potential for curing certain cancers, where Dr.
Of Whales and War
World War II interrupted these studies and the business of whaling. German whale chasers were employed instead to hunt Allied submarines, and Japanese whaling ships transported miniature submarines across the Pacific to attack Pearl Harbor. The suspension of the hunt likely saved many whales in the Southern Hemisphere, at least for a while. Yet the extensive use of depth charges and bombs in the north probably killed thousands of cetaceans. It wasn't until after the war that biologists probed the ocean and began to listen to the whales themselves. The acoustician William Schevill made the first recordings of cetaceans in the wild in the 1950s, going on to describe the calls of more than 30 marine mammal species, including sperm whales, blue whales, dolphins and seals. Schevill's knowledge of these underwater sounds was so extensive that he helped defuse a tense moment between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Mat Anderson: Teens need boundaries, communication
When I was 14, I thought I was a dating and relationship expert. Equipped with inside information about girls (from my sister's Seventeen magazine) and a number of relationship lessons learned from various romantic comedies, I was convinced that I completely understood dating and romance. .
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