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...first clue that the National Hockey League is not a well-run organization came when they offered to give me the Stanley Cup for a day. The 108-year-old trophy, when not in the Hall of Fame in Toronto, is given to each player of the championship team for 24 hours. The only other journalist ever given the Cup was Rick Reilly of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, who took it to a kids' hockey game, an old-age home and a hospital filled with sick children. The only way I was going to a hospital was if Pam Anderson was there...
Their technology is so appealing that the MBTA has already adopted it for bus schedules. Delvecchio and Karamchandani said Philadelphia, Takoma, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Calgary and St. Louis have shown interest in the ShuttleGirl Project...
...first clue that the National Hockey League is not a well-run organization came when they offered to give me the Stanley Cup for a day. The 108-year-old trophy, when not in the Hall of Fame in Toronto, is given to each player of the championship team for 24 hours. The only other journalist ever given the Cup was Rick Reilly of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, who took it to a kids' hockey game, an old-age home and a hospital filled with sick children. The only way I was going to a hospital was if Pam Anderson was there...
...might have been talking about his own White House. The much-vaunted discipline and collegiality that have defined the Bush operation since Inauguration Day have been breaking down in recent weeks over the marketing of the energy plan. The trouble started in Toronto at the end of April, when Vice President Dick Cheney, whose task force drew up the plan, delivered a speech in which he seemed to mock conservation as a means of dealing with energy shortages. The attempt was to lay out the dire reality; the effect was to just sound dour. One sentence in particular - "conservation...
...best behavior for the next seven years - some in Washington argue that the Chinese leadership would be restrained from risking a Tiananmen Square-type crackdown if their prized Olympiad was at stake. So, with most observers holding Beijing as the slight favorite over Paris and Toronto, the China-bashers, human rights advocates, Tibetan independence campaigners and others who hope to stop the IOC awarding it the games are probably not going to prevail. But in the (likely) event their efforts to stop China getting the Games are defeated, the opportunities to promote their causes afforded by a Beijing Olympiad...