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...eight-to-one person because I have very different ideas about what I want out of the council,” Kelley says. “The other councillors have just been married to the status quo much longer than I have...
...contends that the city manager, who has been in office longer than any current councillor, cannot be relied on to guarantee that services are delivered efficiently to all neighborhoods. Other councillors, he says, are too timid to take on Healey because they need his approval to push through their projects...
...autopsy on former safety Andre Watters, dead at 44, found that he had the deteriorated brain of an 85-year-old man. Upshaw is also quick to assert that the union represents only active players and the hotshots cannot be expected to forfeit a piece to old-timers no longer bringing in revenue. This statement is false on two accounts. First, the NFLPA fund money is provided almost entirely by the ownership. There is little reason that current players should vote to withhold pension payments absent of Upshaw’s pressure. Second, the league continues to make bucks...
...know the NFL has its share of problems, starting with a rap sheet longer than a Brett Favre bomb. Michael Vick and his dogfighting, Tank Johnson and his guns, Pacman Jones and his Vegas strippers, the Cincinnati Bengals and their voluminous arrests. But like it or not, in America the icons rule. With the Patriots and Colts so superior in the NFL right now, and Brady and Manning so much the face of those franchises, fans take a little pass on that other stuff. And just look at the other non-criminals at the top of their games...
...children were seriously ill or frail orphans from war-torn Darfur who were being rushed to France for urgent care. Instead, the U.N. investigation found at least 91 of the children had at least one parent still alive. Confirming the status of the remaining 12 is taking longer, due to their young age and difficulties communicating...