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...literary magazine. Her grades (second highest average in the class) earned her salutatorian status on graduation day. She married Billy Neal, a good-looking football player from another school; she attended and graduated from George Peabody Teachers College, then headed for Hollywood, where in 1945 she landed a screen test at 20th Century...
...pricey PlayStation 3 - there are nearly 17 million of them worldwide - can download the software for free via Sony's PlayStation Network, which connects the game consoles on the Net so users can play one another. Sony is calling the rollout a "beta," meaning Home is still being crash-tested, so buyer beware. That said, this is a pretty stable environment, and I think referring to it as a beta test is a little disingenuous, or a heavy-handed way of saying that Home is a work in progress. Trust me - Home will always be a work in progress...
...Reid's first major test is this month's ASEAN Football Championship, also known as the Suzuki Cup, which Thailand is co-hosting with Indonesia. Before taking the job, he had only visited Thailand twice. He first went in 1984 with Everton, which had just won the F.A. Cup. He was 28. "It was a bit of a piss-up," he recalls, "but we played a couple of matches." Two decades of breakneck growth has transformed Bangkok, although for Reid some things have stayed the same. "Don't talk to me about the f___ing traffic," he growls...
...distance them from a front-page scandal. And indeed, there are enough connections between the worlds of Blagojevich and Obama that the whole thing has the potential to grow beyond a colorful Chicago tale of corruption to entangle members of the presidential transition team, test Obama's carefully cultivated reformist image and distract the President-elect just as he is preparing to take office...
...athlete, they would test him for amphetamines. He would come up clean - but they would test him." - One-time congressional opponent Michael P. Flanagan, on Blagojevich's endurance, Chicago Sun-Times...