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- The Buffalo News, NY, Happy Handicapper column: Home-grown horses top…
- Collingwood spells out his plan of attack
- Today’s Letters: Make recycling empty bottles easier
- MotoGP preview
- Act II for Tony Blair
- 2008 Saturn Vue may speak with slight German accent, but it assimilate…
- Rogers pans ‘frustrating’ union
The Buffalo News, NY, Happy Handicapper column: Home-grown horses top…
Free with registration - Buffalo News - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jun 23, 2007
, Happy Handicapper column: Home-grown horses top Plate field. 23–TORONTO — In his annual quest for the inside scoop on the Queen’s Plate, the Happy Handicapper went to Woodbine last week to pick the brains of some insiders.
Collingwood spells out his plan of attack
Telegraph.co.uk - Jun 23, 2007
With a penchant for large earrings, Mascarenhas looks as if he should be larging it in Pirates of the Caribbean rather than on a cricket field. An all-rounder, his bowling is strictly old school in that it seeks to succeed through dot balls rather than doodlebugs. Still only 29, he has been at Hampshire 11 years, which suggests that if he does possess one home-grown trait, it is as a late developer. Not so the 26-year old Trott, an aggressive top-order batsman who scored 245 on his second-team debut for Warwickshire in 2002 after playing club cricket in Holland. Trott followed with a century on his Championship debut, since when his progress has been upward until this season, where patchy form saw him dropped to accommodate Ian Bell for a Friends Provident match earlier in June. Yet when crunch time arrived in Wednesday’s semi-final against Hampshire, it was Bell who was left out. “It just shows you what a funny game cricket is,” Trott said.
Today’s Letters: Make recycling empty bottles easier
St. Petersburg Times - Jun 23, 2007
With just a few days of brainstorming they have solved two of the biggest issues for Floridians: property taxes and immigration. 1-billion from the schools' budget they have ensured that, over the next few years, Florida will be able to generate a home-grown, undereducated labor pool that will gladly take all those jobs that currently only immigrants (legal and illegal) will do. Once we fill all those low-paid jobs with our own children there will be no reason for immigrants to come to Florida. As if that alone wasn't a job well done, they threw in $200 relief on our property taxes as well. That'll take the pressure off when you're writing that check for $5, 000, $6, 000 or more. Makes you proud to be a Floridian when you have politicians like this taking care of our future.
MotoGP preview
Telegraph.co.uk - Jun 23, 2007
But we the fans are desperate for a successful MotoGP Brit. The sport can’t grow much more here until we get one, which is frustrating as the televised MotoGP has been a phenomenon without a home-grown hero - it’s the fastest-growing sport on the BBC and regularly posts some of the highest Audience Appreciation Index figures of any programme on any TV channel. There is, however, one young rider who looks to be heading the right way: 16-year-old Bradley Smith, who progressed through the Spanish championship - not a British one, note - to score his current 125cc Honda ride in grands prix. He’s now a regular front-row qualifier and at the French MotoGP meeting last month he became the first British rider for nearly two decades to stand on the podium - he might well do it again at Donington. But 16 years old is not that young in this sport, and that’s another aspect of our thinking that needs to change. In his world, Smith is just another racer among others of a similar age - he just happens to be one of the quickest.
Act II for Tony Blair
Asia Times Online - Jun 23, 2007
After the events in London of July 7,
2005, he also leaves a British nation with
experience of mass murder in the name of political
Islam for the first time. More attacks in the UK
by Muslim terrorists are “inevitable”, say senior
police officers. The security service MI5
claims that some 2,000 home-grown extremists in
more than 30 networks pose critical security
risks. It’s a time of terror plots real and
suspected in Britain, straight out of the pages of
Joseph Conrad. Trials and convictions of British
Muslims in British courts abound even as the 43
human-rights laws Blair’s government brought in
since 1997 hamper successive home secretaries in
their fight against terrorism. Civil libertarians
charge Blair with excessive response, particularly
with proposed measures on indefinite detention
without trial; the tabloids not enough. Surveys of
British Muslim opinion point to the deleterious
effects of his foreign-policy record.
2008 Saturn Vue may speak with slight German accent, but it assimilate…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Jun 23, 2007
No other compact SUV can touch Vue for choice. And it’s worth noting, Vue no longer uses a Honda-supplied V-6. All greasy stuff is home grown by GM. We drove an XR all-wheel drive, powered by Vue’s techy new 3. 6-liter, 257-hp, multi-valve, overhead-cam V-6, backed by a standard six-speed automatic, so we’ll concentrate on that. We’ve already noted Vue’s European exterior styling, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t add that this crossover’s famous plastic body panels have been relegated to the dustbin of history. Vue wears steel, like just about every other vehicle.
Rogers pans ‘frustrating’ union
Telegraph.co.uk - Jun 23, 2007
Several sides regularly field up to 12 overseas players, taking advantage of the Kolpak ruling, grandparents’ origins and European passports, but now the Rugby Football League are to act to close the loopholes. From next year, at least five members of a first-team squad of 25 must have either graduated from a club’s academy system or be under 21. The number will increase by one player each year until 2011, when a squad will have to have at least eight home-grown players. During the same period, the number of overseas players must be reduced from 10 to five. Nigel Wood, the RFL’s chief operating officer, said: “This new rule fulfils a long-standing objective to encourage clubs to develop young talented players. “By giving them greater opportunity at the top level, it is likely to improve standards not only on a national level but also internationally. “Over time, the number of home-born players in a squad will increase whilst the number of players who are not academy, Super League or National League club-trained will be reduced.