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...Unemployment Olympics are the hastily planned brainchild of Nick Goddard, a gangly, angular man in small glasses and a navy blazer who runs from one event to the other, herding the 30-some-odd contestants around like an inexperienced babysitter at a children's birthday party. The former computer programmer has been without a job for less than two months and says the idea for the four-event competition - Telephone toss, Payday piñata, Pin-the-Blame-on-the-Boss and the "You're Fired!" race - just popped into his head one night. "Normally you think of things like...
...Vestavia High School but could not muster a victory after falling behind early. Suter (1-1) struggled to open the game, allowing all seven of his earned runs in the first three innings. The rookie worked out of a jam in the second, but failed to silence the Blazer offense.Harvard tried to respond behind RBI singles and two-hit days from senior Jon Roberts and sophomore Dillon O’Neill, but the Crimson was unable to spark a comeback against UAB ace Kyle Roberson (2-2). A Douglas homerun brought Harvard within 9-3 in the eighth...
...Here, they also sold bridles, saddles and shoes for religious men," says Afram Hussein al-Fufuli, 69, concluding my history lesson. My translator-colleague and I had been directed to Fufuli by a younger bookseller up the street, who called him "the dictionary." In his brown blazer and sweater, Fufuli did indeed have a professorial air. Framed by dusty stacks of books tall as himself (between Arabic volumes: John Le Carré, Macroeconomic Theory, Richard Nixon's Leaders), he conducted slow business out of a small brick storefront, which, he said, his father opened...
...half a day behind Thailand's time zone. Technically, that means he was actually born on Tuesday Bangkok time, which could mean he should be honored by pink. In late 2007, when the King left the hospital after a three-week stay, he was pictured wearing a carnation-pink blazer and shirt, apparently because astrologers predicted that the tint would hasten his good health. The monarch's fashion statement provoked a run on all things rose-colored, with tens of thousands of pink shirts selling in a matter of weeks. Now that red and yellow are out, Thailand may again...
...Burris possesses a healthy ego. He has a mausoleum for himself already constructed on the South Side of Chicago into which the words "TRAIL BLAZER" are carved, along with a long list of his accomplishments...