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...History hasn't been kind to losing international coaches. Georgetown's John Thompson won a bronze with college players at the '88 Olympics - and never made another Final Four. George Karl's cachet dropped after the '02 loss, and Larry Brown, the '04 Olympic coach, is currently out of work after his debacle of a season with the Knicks...
...with the current situation? Speaking to one of the Guildford Four recently, his reaction is: "Those poor guys, those Muslims - that's exactly what happened to us. Has nobody learned?" The Guildford Four's story was the subject of a film, In the Name of the Father, with Emma Thompson playing you - yet you recoil from publicity. Did that make you feel uncomfortable? I haven't seen the film, although I thought it was extremely important that the story of the Conlon family be told. I think the lawyer was just used as a dramatic device. I wasn't important...
...Three years later Huckabee and state Surgeon General Joseph Thompson announced that child obesity, while still a big fat problem, no longer appears to be on the rise in Arkansas. Reams of data collected from 371,082 students in some 1,100 schools showed that the number of students in the overweight category was holding steady or dropping slightly from 20.9% in the 2003-04 school year to 20.4% last school year. "This is not the destination, this is a turning point," said Huckabee, who praised Arkansas parents for having "overwhelmingly responded positively" to the feedback from schools...
...Unfortunately Arkansas record cannot yet be compared to trends in the rest of the nation in a definitive way. New national figures on child obesity rates, noted Dr. Thompson, aren't due out until 2007. If they show a continued rise, compared to what appears to be a screeching halt in Arkansas, the rest of the nation might want to take heed...
...oenological revelation occurred at the home of former Thompson Professor of Government Morris P. Fiorina, known to the rest of the world as a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Wendt Professor of Political Science at Stanford...