The transformation of Leona Lewis (Times Online Sunday)
When Leona Lewis won The X Factor, the music business swooped on her. Then she seemed to disappear. One year later, has the girl next door been transformed into the megastar the world has been waiting for?...more...The strange case of the ex-editor with Scottish blood who just can't resist attacking Scotland (The Scotsman)
KELVIN MacKenzie likes to consider himself a latter-day "hammer of the Scots"....more... The Posting Board (Harvard Hillside)
Calendar Friday, Oct. 12 Cribbage: 10 a.m., Hildreth House. Let the Council on Aging know if you plan to join....more... p0823 BC-Myanmar 6thLd-Writethru 10-10 0988 10/10/2007 (Hays Daily News)
Eds: SUBS last graf to UPDATE with China, Russia offering revised UN draft statement....more... p0753 BC-Myanmar 4thLd-Writethru 10-10 0895 10/10/2007 (Hays Daily News)
Eds: AMs....more... p0783 BC-Myanmar 5thLd-Writethru 10-10 0980 10/10/2007 (Hays Daily News)
Eds: ADDS U.N. Security Council meets on Myanmar statement....more... Foot-and-mouth payouts for farmers dropped after U-turn on election (The Scotsman)
THE UK government was last night accused of playing politics with Scottish farmers' livelihoods as it was revealed plans for an £8.1 million compensation payout for foot-and-mouth disease were mysteriously scrapped after Gordon Brown decided not to call......more... Myanmar dissident dies under questioning (Boston Globe)
A member of Myanmar's besieged opposition party has died under interrogation by security forces, an exile group said Wednesday....more... C.J.: Shakespeare legend wanted a meal, but it was not to be (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
King Lear had trouble getting a table at Spoonriver on opening night. Oops! Ian McKellen, the inestimable, world famous Shakespearean actor currently staging "King Lear" at the Guthrie, went into the Spoonriver, the restaurant next door to the theater for a bite Friday. The doors were open when he arrived about 4:30 p.m. But since the restaurant opens at 5:30 p.m., he was turned away, in part, ......more... |