NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Chabon, the novelist, screenwriter and father of four, has a new responsibility.
He has been elected chairman of the board of the directors of the MacDowell Colony, the century-old artist residency program based in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Chabon, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing …
PHOENIX (AP) — Diana Taurasi and Candice Dupree scored 20 points each, helping the Phoenix Mercury rally past a scary injury to guard Ketia Swanier to beat the Los Angeles Sparks 101-82 Tuesday night.
Phoenix opened the third quarter with a big run and kept it going after Swanier was helped off the court following an elbow to the head by Sparks guard Kristi Toliver. The Mercury turned a 10-point deficit into a 14-point lead in the quarter and never let up on the way to their sixth win in seven games.
Penny Taylor had 16 points and Kara Braxton added 14 for Phoenix.
Ebony Hoffman had 21 points and LaToya Pringle 12 for Los Angeles in its second game without former league …
"Don't look at us as gay Americans who have issues. Look at us as Americans who have been denied basic civil rights. This is how our second class citizenship should be viewed and it fits perfectly with Barack Obama's vision for a United States."
- Joan Garry, co-chair of the National LGBT Finance Committee for Obama for America, in a column titled "Constructive Impatience," offering the Obama transition team some advice about sending a message to LGBT Americans, Huffington Post, Dec. 30.
"Many people involved in political activism, such as the fight for gay equality, tend to think their personal welfare is not as important as the welfare of the overall community. But when a …
Three days, three records.
Alain Bernard set a world record in the 50-meter freestyle Sunday, after twice lowering the 100 freestyle mark in the previous two days at the European swimming championships.
The muscular Frenchman finished in 21.50 seconds to beat the time of 21.56 set last month by Eamon Sullivan of Australia. Sullivan lowered Alexander Popov's previous record of 21.64, set in Moscow on June 16, 2000.
"I had to stay calm for this semifinal," Bernard said. "I had an excellent start, which is not that usual for me. Then I thought I had to exploit my fantastic shape here in Eindhoven. I put all my power on at 35 …
Vestas A/S, the world's biggest maker of wind turbines, posted a 70 percent rise in first-quarter earnings but said it would lay off 1,900 workers, primarily in Denmark and Britian, because of sluggish demand in northern Europe.
Net profit in the first three months of the year was euro56 million (US$73 million), up from euro33 million in the same period last year. Sales increased to euro1.1 billion, from euro701 million a year ago.
Vestas said it shipped a total of 490 wind turbines, up 21 percent from the first …
Hey guys, your hypocrisy is showing.
First came Dan Quayle's unguarded admission that he wouldsupport an adult daughter's choice to have an abortion.
Then pro-choice Republicans, armed with polls showing them to bea 70 percent majority of the GOP, vowed to force a convention floorfight in Houston over their party platform's unrepresentativeanti-abortion plank.
That plank's critics extend to Barry Goldwater, the "foundingfather" of modern Republican conservatism, who warned that PresidentBush's intransigence could cost him the election. If he thinks hisanti-abortion plank will find "smooth going," Goldwater said in aJuly 29 letter to the head of the …
Active weather will continue in the eastern half of the nation Monday as low pressure in the Great Lakes moves eastward into the Northeast. Showers and thunderstorms will develop along an associated stationary front that will extend across the northern Mid-Atlantic.
Additional precipitation and clusters of thunderstorms are anticipated along and ahead of an associated cold front that will trail behind this system, extending through the Ohio Valley into the Central Plains. In addition to storms, strong humidity and daytime heating will lead to another day of hot temperatures and high heat indices from the Plains through the Eastern Valleys and the Mid-Atlantic.
Daytime highs in …
