| Dick Jerardi: BCS doesn't compare to NCAA Tournament
I DECIDED TO let the bowl games simmer for a few weeks just to see if my feelings had changed. They have not. The football/basketball argument has been out there for years. You know the one. Football has a great regular season, basketball a great postseason. There was a time I thought that was a reasonable trade-off. Not anymore. Here is the problem with the whole argument. What do you really remember about sports? It is not often the regular season. It is almost always the postseason. Name one player from Appalachian State. Christian Laettner, you know. Football has a terrific regular season and the worst postseason in sports. Why? Money. The BCS conference cartel controls the football money and doesn't want to share. The money is simply more important to these people than a true champion, decided by a playoff.
Marygrove College Appoints New Dean of Education
DETROIT, Jan. 29, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Dr. David Fike, president of Marygrove College, announced the appointment of Dr. Chris Koenig Seguin as the dean of Education, effective January 2008. Dr. Seguin most recently served as founding chairperson of the Art Education Department at the College for Creative Studies. Dr. Seguin earned her doctorate degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Multicultural Education, and Political Science and a Master's in Art Education from Wayne State University. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Detroit where she earned the Bachelor of Arts degree and a Michigan Provisional Teaching Certificate. Dr. Seguin received additional education in Art History Studies at Oxford University, England, and in Art, Art History and American Indian Studies at Arizona State University.
Daniel Rubin: A frostiness replaces hugs
Jennifer Horvay knew something had changed as soon as she arrived for the second shift at the Wawa. No hugs. Usually, she can't take a few steps inside the convenience store at Castor and Solly in Northeast Philadelphia without coworkers throwing their arms around her in the sort of embrace that makes starting her eight-hour turn in the deli a delight. These aren't your fake hugs and air kisses, she says. They're the real, back-patting "Hey, how are you?" hugs, the hearty "glad-to-see-you" squeezes. They've been a tradition among friends who work at this Wawa going on seven years. "Almost all of the employees at this particular store are admitted huggers," Horvay said the other day. But not everyone. Last week, she says, she sensed an unfamiliar cool in the place that considers itself the Cheers of convenience chains.
From Bolinas comes MC Bo-Rat, trying to make dimes on his rhymes
Marshall Payne, 22, who grew up on a dirt road in Bolinas, now lives in Oakland and is starting to break through as a hip-hop artist. He goes by the name Bo-Rat and has regular gigs at hip-hop shows. His debut CD will be released Thursday. (Special to the IJ/Jean-Paul Horré) .
Australia to offer official apology to Aborigines
There are millions of Australians who will never entertain an apology because they don't believe that there is anything to apologize for," Howard told a local radio station last year. "They are sorry for past mistreatment, but that is different from assuming responsibility for it," he said. Many of Howard's critics believed that he was unwilling to apologize because it would open the floodgates to potentially massive claims for compensation. Langton estimated that there were still some 13,000 survivors of the stolen generations. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up some 2.5 percent of the overall population, but many eke out an existence on the margins of society. Life expectancy for Aboriginal people is 17 years lower than the rest of the country; they are 13 times more likely to be incarcerated; three times more likely to be unemployed; and twice as likely to be victims of violence or threatened violence.
Wife killers get less jail despite family violence campaign
The jury rejected his claim of self-defence and the judge ruled the hardworking family man with no prior convictions could be rehabilitated. The judge said: "The knowledge and full realisation of what you have done will themselves impose a significant punishment upon you." He was sentenced to 16 years' jail. JULIE RAMAGE was strangled and buried in a shallow grave after she told her husband James Ramage their marriage was finished in 2003. He was sentenced to a maximum of 11 years' jail after persuading a jury he had been provoked by her taunts about their sex life. It meant he was found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter. The case sparked the abolition of the provocation defence in Victoria. NOEL LAWRENCE GEMMILL, 55, received a maximum of 18 years' jail for stabbing his wife repeatedly in the neck after inviting her back to the family home to collect her jewellery in 2001.
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