In a sunlit office overlooking Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., union leader Andrew Stern, 55, is sipping coffee and holding a midmorning meeting with a few top aides. The subject is a study on the future of government - a topic of deep interest since roughly half the 1.8 million members of his Service Employees International Union (SEIU) work in the public sector. It's solid
There are 119 Division I-A football teams out there. No one man can follow them all this season. Lee Corso may be the lone exception. But since none of us are him, Blogcritics has appointed a crew to clean up the mess left each week on the co-ed stadiums across the country and summarize (for you, the infallible reader!) the top games, conference by conference. ACC After Week 6 of the
To the handful of skaters who noticed him, Scott Olson was the bronzed and shirtless guy who sailed over the finish line of the North Shore Inline Marathon, his powerful physique posed in a playful arabesque. Few of the thousands who attended last month's race in Duluth, the nation's largest gathering of inline skaters, realized that Olson was directly responsible for them being there. In 1979,
Only once in 30 years has someone asked me if his rotten acting kept a movie from getting released. It was the man now being touted as an Oscar contender for his riveting performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."
The Detroit Tigers didn't waste this homecoming, and Kenny Rogers made every pitch count. In a ballpark normally locked up by October, the Tigers got 7 2-3 shutout innings from Rogers and outplayed New York in a 6-0 victory, pushing Detroit within one win of shocking the Yankees into an early winter.
Kenny Rogers stood alone near the mound and soaked in the cheers. He had stared down his past and all that pinstriped power, and now it was time to enjoy a night like no other.
