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RAINER WENDT, German police-union head, on four bandits who stormed a poker tournament in Berlin and stole about $330,000 in jackpot money in a chaotic heist caught on videotape...
...March 8, calling it "among the most important unfilled posts in the Obama Administration," Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano announced the President's selection of retired Army general Robert Harding to run the Transportation Security Administration. Obama's first nominee, Los Angeles airport police official Erroll Southers, withdrew his name in January amid intense Republican opposition...
...also gets help from a reluctant Iraqi informant named Freddy (Khalid Abdalla, playing the film's richest character) in pursuing an elusive Saddamist general, al-Rawi (Igal Naor), who may hold the secret to the mystery. The viewer is free to infer that Poundstone is L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, and Dayne is the New York Times' Judith Miller. (Brown, the repository of weary espionage wisdom, is every CIA or MI5 spy out of a Graham Greene novel.) To complete the skein of conspiracy, the movie also has a stand-in for Washington's Iraq front...
McCarthy has taken a personal family challenge and turned it into a crusade. She has tried to turn years of science on its head, and like many seeking answers, she has followed a path of blame. My role as a special educator has taught me that exceptional children do not benefit from this approach. What exceptional children require and deserve is acceptance, inclusion and the expectation of achievement and personal responsibility. If we try doing that, we may be pleasantly surprised...
Crimson freshman Kyle Larrow picked the wrong day to hit his first collegiate home run and pick up his first three RBI. Had he held off his offensive outburst until Sunday, the Crimson might have been able to head home with a victory...