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...When was the last time you suited up and played ball? -Burke Hair, ChicagoThat's a tough one. I quit 15 years ago, after my sons began to take away my advantage of using my behind to push them away from the basket...
...money-laundering ring,” according to law enforcement authorities. Ironically, in 2004 Spitzer announced the arrest of 16 people operating a prostitution ring in Staten Island and condemned their behavior. Late yesterday afternoon, the Republican leader of the New York State Assembly gave Spitzer 48 hours to quit before he would start calling for impeachment proceedings, according to the Washington Post...
...Amidst a swirl of controversy, Power quit over the "monster" slur, but the campaign might have actually been lucky she left, since her departure came just before her Iraq comments got wide play. The personal insult was gratuitous and crude, but the Iraq statement threatened to undermine one of the central promises of Obama's campaign. No one expected Power to spew invective, but when your top foreign policy adviser tells an overseas interviewer that you do not really mean something that you have put at the center of your campaign, well, Chicago, you have a problem...
...stretch to see the venture as two men trying to step out from the shadows of their fathers. On Boxing Day 2005, the brilliant, belligerent Kerry Packer died, giving James control of Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd., the multibillion-dollar family empire. Five months earlier, Lachlan had abruptly quit as News Corp.'s third highest-ranking executive in New York City, convinced he was being overruled by underlings. According to a source, he complained to his father, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch: "What's the point of me being here?" The young Murdoch and his wife, Sarah, returned to Sydney...
Still, for some, Greensburg--green or not--will never heal. Former mayor McCollum, one of the first to raise the idea of building green, quit his post a few weeks after the tornado, citing exhaustion, and eventually moved with his wife to the neighboring town of Pratt. On a recent Friday, McCollum, 62, spoke wistfully of the town in which he had lived his entire life. He can't let Greensburg go, but he can't return either. "For me, it's completely gone," he says. "There's nothing out there for me but heartache...