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Favre is certainly not the first athlete to flip-flop (twice) on saying farewell to his game. Pitcher Roger Clemens remains the reigning king of comebacks: he retired a total of three times, in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Lance Armstrong left cycling in 1996 to battle cancer but returned two years later, going on to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles...
Moore's starmaking apparatus was already in place in his first film, 1989's Roger & Me. It starts with home movies of the child Mike and his blue-collar family in their hometown of Flint, Mich., and follows the adult Mike as he stalks General Motors chairman Roger Smith in the hopes of confronting Smith for closing the auto plant in Flint and turning the city into a Hooverville. Along with critical praise, Moore earned charges of twisting the facts and distorting the sequence of events. Either way, the movie made him famous...
Amid growing controversy surrounding the decision to place brass bars in front of the books in the Dunster House library, House Masters Roger and Ann Porter have taken steps to defend their decision, citing security concerns and new information about the collection’s value...
...interview yesterday in the library, Ann Porter defended the decision and down-played the student reaction to the new security measure, striking the same chords she and co-Master Roger B. Porter had emphasized in a Wednesday e-mail to the House community. She added in the interview that students could still request books from the library and will now be able to access them 24 hours following a request, after library personnel have unscrewed the bars to remove the requested books...
...many critics say its performance isn't very encouraging. "When you are spending large amounts of money at arm's length, operating in hostile environments, it is very easy for money to get spent corruptly and/or badly, and that is what I have seen in our health programs," says Roger Bates of the American Enterprise Institute, a trenchant USAID critic...