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Marshall to miss first two games?

Brandon Marshall will miss the Broncos' first two games - AFC West division games against San Diego and Oakland - according to a report aired during Sunday's Hall of Fame game. The Broncos and their fans have seemed resigned to playing at least part of the season without their biggest game-breaking threat, whose personal behavior has made him a target of the NFL's personal conduct policy. The report said Marshall's official suspension would be three games, pared to a pair of contests if he agre...

A new generation of imperialist cheerleaders in the US ( Haughty and dismissive)

McCain's Mad Dog Advisor Max Boot By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF While most all of Bush’s neo-conservatives have been discredited, a new generation of imperialist cheerleaders stands to grasp the reins of foreign policy in the event that John McCain wins the November election. One up and coming hopeful is Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an informal adviser to the Arizona Senator’s campaign. I first became aware of Boot as a college undergraduate at UC Berkeley in the late...

Finding Your Land Rover in the Wild Kingdom of Banking

I grew up in the1960s glued to the television, like most other suburban kids. One of the shows that I enjoyed watching was Wild Kingdom, sponsored by Mutual of Omaha. The wise old narrator, Marlin Perkins, went way out in the hinterboonies of South America and Africa to film his documentaries. But I noticed that he was almost always a detached observer. It was usually his young, muscular assistants that were put in harm's way, but not Perkins himself, who was safe and sound. He often made comme...

UA hangs onto top 20 party school ranking

Princeton Review study puts Florida, Ole Miss at Nos. 1, 2 The University of Alabama has maintained its No. 19 spot among the top 20 party schools in the country. The annual unscientific study conduct ...

Slater successful in having grading reduced

Melbourne Storm fullback Billy Slater tonight successfully had his Grade 2 Contrary Conduct charge reduced to a Grade 1 offence, therefore only missing one week instead of two.Slater will miss this we...

Surging Troops

Of the many things I never learned nearly enough about are English grammar. For example, I couldn't tell you a thing about the difference betwixt an intransitive verb and a transitive one, nor do I have a preference between the two. Mostly I go on what sounds right. For example, here's a passage from President Bush's news conference last week that just doesn't sound quite correct to my ear: QUESTION: Should Americans expect a troop surge in Afghanistan? BUSH: We are surging troops in Afghanista...

Miss Conduct in New England Psychologist

An interview is online here....

Well, That Sucked...

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Last month on Friday, 20 June 2008, I walked into the Punta Pacifica hospital for what I through was going to be a quick "in and out" procedure. My cardiologist Dr. Jorge Motta had ordered a series of tests in response to some minor chest tightness I was feeling. He passed me to an associate of his Dr. Calzada to conduct an EKG, a "stress test" on the treadmill, as well as a nuclear medicine CAT scan of the heart, all of which was done earlier that week. The...

Conductor James Levine to have kidney removed

James Levine will have a kidney removed in surgery this week, causing the conductor to miss the remainder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood season. In this July 7, 2006 file photo, Boston Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine acknowledges applause as he arrives at the podium to conduct the symphony on its opening night at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass.

I'm a patriot and didn't even know it

I know it's a holiday weekend and so the Internet is closed, but if you'd like to amuse yourself nonetheless, you might like to visit Miss Conduct's column over at boston.com and enter her clerihew contest. What's a clerihew, you...