| New blow for Wendy Alexander as key aide quits
While we cannot comment on any individual case which may or may not be under investigation, we have no reason to believe that any member has been provided with erroneous advice from officials." Dr Dyer issued a statement yesterday insisting he had no option but to refer Ms Alexander's case to the procurator- fiscal once he believed the rules had been broken. He said: "I am not a final arbiter of what should be counted as a registrable interest - that is, in the end, a matter for the parliament and in some cases the courts." A former deputy leader of the SNP also waded into the row by claiming Dr Dyer owed Ms Alexander an apology. Jim Sillars said: "If I had been in Wendy Alexander's shoes this weekend, I would have sought judicial review of the administrative process and actions taken by the office, and person, of the Standards Commissioner in relation to this decision to make a referral to the procurator-fiscal." .
Gasol's L.A. debut with Lakers a dandy
Three weeks ago, the Lakers left town with a gaping hole in their lineup and gnawing doubts about their short-term future.
Nine games and one astonishing trade later, they returned to Staples Center on Tuesday with a 7-foot souvenir named Pau Gasol and an air of invincibility.
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1010 WINS Talking Politics with Justin Schrager
In fact, the Huck won more delegates than Romney today. It's also been a big night for Hillary. Obama actually won more states, but with the exception of Illinois, none of his wins came in big states. Clinton took California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Here's a number that doesn't actually mean anything, but it certainly demonstrates how close this election is. ABC News has tallied up all the votes cast in all the democratic races today, and the difference is just about 17 thousand votes. Out of more than ten million. Incredible. (They look close in that picture. They're even closer in the voting booth) 2/5/2008 Have you seen Bill Richardson tonight? Take a look: Remember Horatio Sanz from Saturday Night Live? (the Richardson picture comes from the Albuquerque Journal.
If They Build It ...
Angelos said that the current stadium's location, 15 miles away from Florida Atlantic's campus in Fort Lauderdale, deters students from attending games. Angelos added that while the university met the National Collegiate Athletic Association's requirement last year that Division I-A teams sell at least 15,000 tickets per game, that task will be much easier with a bigger, better stadium because it can sell corporate and bulk tickets to drive sales even further. “You have to have a first rate stadium," he said. More broadly, experts on college sports finances question the university's underlying premise that spending on big-time programs will drive either profits or more or better students in Florida Atlantic's direction. Building expensive stadiums – especially at institutions that are new to the big time and still unproven – is “loony from top to bottom," said Andrew Zimbalist, a professor of economics at Smith College and author of Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-time College Sports.
So Much for Compassion: Leftist Trashes NIU After NIU Shooting
Here's one media bias everyone accepts (and expects): showing compassion and sympathy for a community after a horrifying mass murder, such as the killings at Northern Illinois University. The leftist website Alternet proved the exception to the rule, printing a bizarre article by an author named Mark Ames that trashed NIU as a mediocre school for mediocre students, and suggested that the "flat" plains of Middle America could make anyone shoot up a school or a post office. The headline was: Northern Ill. University: Was the Killer Crazy, or the Campus Hopeless? Bracket this massacre as the work of a lunatic on drugs, and you miss the chance to consider the horrors of life in middle America. Ames granted that the killer, Stephen Kazmierczak, was a loser -- if we grade on a curve for the depressing Midwest: "Let's assume he's at least partly right: Kazmierczak probably was a loser, by the standards of Midwestern American winners." Ames trolled the message boards of college students looking for people trashing NIU, which he summarized: "What you find is an enormous amount of anger and regret -- the sort of regret you'd expect from a middle-aged Willy Loman looking back on a wasted life." After Ames circulated several hate-NIU notes, he concluded that perhaps the college in some way earned the massacre with its mediocrity: If you're wondering why Kazmierczak transferred out of NIU to the University of Illinois-Champaign last spring, this might help explain it; if you're wondering, as many bloggers have, why he'd come back and shoot up NIU rather than his current university, these sentiments are at least worth considering.
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