| Schuett: Friends do not have to prove themselves
GIBSONBURG, Ohio — "It is the bright people who discuss ideas; the stupid ones talk about other people." How many friendships are ruined because someone, somewhere along the line of "I'll tell you if you promise not to tell" can't keep his or her tongue under control? Jeanne and I have been friends since 1946. In all of those years we have never had a cat-fight, stopped speaking to one another, nor have we ever broken a confidence. When either of us confides in the other, it goes without saying: What we discuss here, stays here. And heaven help anyone who wanders into the minefield that protects this friendship. Never would Jeanne consider coming to me with that old line: "I'm your friend so I thought you ought to know..." For thirty years Jeanne did not like my husband but she never said so.
Tomkins named in eight
OARSOME Foursome member and five-time Olympian James Tomkins is set to compete at the Beijing Games after being named in this year's national team. Tomkins, who turns 42 this year, is the oldest person to represent Australia in rowing and will be five years older than British great Stephen Redgrave was when he won his record fifth consecutive gold medal in Sydney in 2000. Men's squad head coach Brian Richardson said Tomkins, who was named in the eight, was 95 per cent ready for Beijing. "At 42 it's a case of trying to work out what you expect from him as a 42-year-old, but he is way ahead of what you expect as a 42-year-old," Richardson said. "We've got goals for him over the next 12 months for him to get fitter again and be at his peak by Beijing.
Games help teach kids money sense
Maddie Vance of Chantilly, Va., can add to her spending budget for basics such as utilities and food, because she earned a lucky chance from the Participating in Finance Park educational program. Her mother teaches bill-paying with play cash. The Washington Post/JAMES A. PARCELL .
Thought dolls were for girls? Think again!
I don't know if you guys recall but years ago upper deck had the bobble head game on smash with Wayne Gretzky to Michael Jordan bopping away on the dash board of your whip. Now the new era has arrived, so naturally they have to come with new flavor. Last year Upper Deck dropped the Lebron family, but that was only a smidgen of their arsenal. Inspired by the urban vinyl trend from companies like Kid Robot and various designers like Michael Lau and Eric So, Upper Deck figured it would be cool to do similar figures with its sports licenses and exclusive athletes. With models of Brett Favre, Sidney Crosby and the ever so popular Lebron family pack already in homes, Upper Deck is launching a new line of NBA all-stars with the same crazy characteristics and extreme features- making them a blend of the realistic and the artistic.
DVD Review: Until Death
Van Damme stars in this bone-chilling, action-packed thriller as Anthony Lowe - a down-and-out detective who is addicted to heroine and whose day always seems to go from bad to worse. Lowe is coming off of a drug deal in which two officers were killed and the primary villain, the drugs, the money and the surveillance tapes are still at large. He is also dealing with his wife, who has just ...more .
CRADLE TO A QUICK GRAVE
APREGNANT addict on a crack binge goes into early labor, suffocates her newborn and leaves the boy's body in the toilet of a West Philadelphia crackhouse. In Fairhill, a man with a bum leg blames his toddler's fatal head injuries on their tumble down the stairs, but the coroner declares the case a homicide when the hospital uncovers evidence of abuse. Four miles northeast, a troubled teenage father from Frankford shakes his crying 1-year-old son to death. At a time when Philadelphia's soaring homicide rate is drawing national scrutiny, a little-known horror hidden in the body count is this: Eight of last year's 406 homicide victims were babies under the age of 2, almost triple that of the previous year. Although reluctant to declare a trend, experts are scrambling to find commonalities so they can develop strategies to save the city's youngest, most vulnerable citizens.
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