During last year’s presidential campaign, as part of larger questions surrounding Barack Obama’s lack of foreign policy and military experience, a handful of scholars and pundits asked exactly what the Democrat meant in asserting that his administration would “restore America’s reputation and moral authority abroad.”
Everyone likes to talk about how busy they are, but few can compare with Helen Holly.
A couple of years back, a guy named Pierre Werner went to prison. It made the papers. It was his own fault. … The prison sentence followed Werner getting caught growing many dozens of marijuana plants in his house, which he swears he was doing for medical purposes.
Las Vegas police have a number of weapons in their crime-fighting arsenal.
From the fact that two prominent members of his own political party have already announced they’ll run against him in 2010, you might conclude, as many already have, that Gov. Jim Gibbons no longer has the full confidence of his fellow Republicans. But that’s not the message Gibbons takes from the situation.
It did not require a rare clairvoyance to foresee North Carolina, a dominant team led by junior point guard Ty Lawson and senior forward Tyler Hansbrough, would reach the Final Four.
It’s spring. Nightclubs are out. Day clubs at hotel pools are in. To mark the switch, MGM’s Wet Republic pool paid Kim Kardashian — the new Paris Hilton — to walk not a red carpet but a blue carpet on Saturday afternoon to answer the same questions from the media, over and over.
The Hard Rock Hotel and entertainment powerhouse Anschutz Entertainment Group are planning an announcement any day now on the rock ‘n’ roll talent they’ve signed to a residency deal for the new Joint.
Gov. Jim Gibbons has asked state workers to take a 6 percent pay cut and pay more for health insurance, but some members of his own staff have gotten big pay increases over the past two years, prompting a public outcry.
Noting the back-to-back NASCAR races won by Kurt and Kyle Busch, the satirical Web site The Onion.com took a look at other brother tandems in sports. A sampling:
Anthony Grant sat down with his oldest son and talked about the chance to “be significant,” to take an Alabama program that never has been to the Final Four and build it into a basketball power.
BAYTOWN, Texas — Ashley Force Hood raced to her second career victory on a record-setting day at the O’Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals, beating her former drag racing instructor in the finals Sunday at Houston Raceway Park.
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Jimmie Johnson didn’t have the car to beat until late in the Goody’s 500 on Sunday, but that he emerged at the right time should have been no surprise.