| Former Trojans happy to be reunited with Kiffin
They inexplicably lost to 40-point underdog Stanford at home on Oct. 6, and three weeks later, lost again on the road at Oregon. The Oregon game was the third straight that Booty missed after breaking the tip of the middle finger on his right (throwing) hand against Stanford. He managed to finish that game but was out for the next three weeks. The Trojans (11-2) capped the season with a crushing 49-17 rout of Illinois in the Rose Bowl, but they had to watch the BCS National Championship game between LSU and Ohio State on television. "After the Rose Bowl, we knew and a lot of people around the country knew that we should have been in that game," Booty said. "We would have, too, if we hadn't hit that rough patch during the middle of the season. "You make the best of it and move on." For nine of the USC seniors, they get one final shot together Saturday in the Senior Bowl before spreading out around the NFL and leaving a dizzying legacy of winning at Troy.
Premature twins home for Christmas after months in hospital
FOR their parents, it is the best Christmas present ever. Baby twins Kieran and Oliver Cowley will enjoy the big day at home tomorrow after spending most of their lives in hospital following their premature births. Wrapped up in bandages, surrounded by breathing and feeding tubes and confined to a small incubator for weeks, doctors warned Lauren Cowley and Greg Hiscock that they should prepare themselves for the worst when they were born 15 weeks early. Weighing just 2lb each - and both suffering from premature lung disease, the twins spent months in Southampton's Princess Anne Hospital after they were born in July. "It was terrifying," said Greg, 27. "The doctors just didn't know if they would pull through and they couldn't tell us for sure that they would be OK." Mum Lauren, 22, said it was heartbreaking not to be able to hold her babies when they were born.
Romney pins Republican campaign hopes on business experience
She tried and failed to set up a socialist health care system. She wore a headband. She stood by Bill in spite of his infidelities. But she did nothing else that was newsworthy. I'm not likely to vote for a Republican in November, unless Ron Paul or Fred Thompson are nominated, which they're not likely to be (because the media doesn't give them equal air or press time, so the public doesn't know much about them), but I WILL vote Republican if Hillary is nominated. So will hundreds of thousands of other folks. .
Suzanne Pleshette, known as 'Newhart's' wife, dies in Los Angeles
But the beautiful, husky-voiced TV, film and theater star died before she could reach that milestone. Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said attorney and family friend Robert Finkelstein. "She was a pro's pro," said Bob Newhart, who played her husband on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show." "Although we knew she was quite sick, she was one of those people that you thought would go on forever." "The Bob Newhart Show, a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients. Pleshette — as his sardonic wife — provided the voice of reason. .
'Shining City' illuminates despair of existential crisis
Some of us come out the other side of that as deeper people. Some of us get stuck for life in its morass.
That's pretty much what "Shining City," Conor McPherson's extraordinary Irish drama and the first of this astonishing writer's truly great plays, is all about. And it's a measure of McPherson's ear for the delicacy of the human condition that this also is a wry, funny, humanistic and compassionate story. At the Goodman Theatre on Sunday night, this 100-minute yarn pulled in the audience as if they were hearing a tall tale told over a pint and a bag of crisps. And then by shockingly undermining the few certainties upon which we think we still can cling in this brutally relativist world, McPherson then smacks you right in the gut.
I've seen and reviewed "Shining City" three times -- London, New York and now Chicago.
Recent Campus Clicks
Yup, you read that correctly. The Harvard Lampoon will honor Hilton as its Woman of the Year in a ceremony on Feb. 6, two days before the release of her new film, The Hottie & the Nottie. Meanwhile Hilton was spotted getting cozy with freak show singer/actor Jared Leto at Sundance yesterday. .
Death of a family
Another officer was her attendant; he stood on the bank holding her lifeline and directed the search. Caskey would tell the court, "I am the monkey on the end of the rope, if you like; I just go where he tells me." She entered the black water at 10.35pm. Black water is water with zero visibility, and this water was also cold - 10.1 degrees. Caskey dived to the bottom and searched in the darkness by feel alone. She swept in an arc: her attendant would let out her lifeline and she would go from one side to another while keeping it tight. Once she cleared a sweep, he would let her out another arm's length and she would sweep back the other way. This method systematically covered the search area. There was no point in taking a torch with her, she said: "Torches don't work because there's so much sediment in the actual water itself." And because the vehicle would have sunk, there was no point in searching higher up in the water: "Ninety-nine per cent of our searching is grovelling around in the mud on the bottom." She found some metal and plastic debris and felt she was close.
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