Charlene Gonzalez wanted to get out of town before Hurricane Katrina hit, but because she was a nurse at the only hospital in this low-lying waterside community, she would lose her job if she did not stay at her post.Then, after Gonzalez, her husband and more than 100 other employees and their families [...]
Wikle, who worked in the embassy’s political section, lost half of her right biceps and triceps, a third of her deltoid and two inches of arm bone.Today, Wikle considers herself living proof of the value of training. troops landed on Omaha Beach on D-day, they were pinned down by heavy fire and couldn’t move. “KFC [...]
“This film is from a particular time, and today I am already someone else,” he told reporters. But he did not sound optimistic.However, he brightened when noting a surprise in the vote tally. SACRAMENTO Contaminants from the Central Coast beach town of Los Osos, which still uses septic tanks to treat sewage from [...]
He has three more years on his five-year deal, and a high-level Dodger source said Tuesday that McCourt remains supportive of him and that he is in no danger of being fired this off-season.Another Dodger with an uncertain future made a strong statement in support of Tracy. Not surprisingly, it involves making sure Allen Iverson [...]
“I’d always end up doing better in Vegas when I began the first day by losing. studied Virgil and classic literature at a private, all-boys boarding high school, he preferred to read the books written in their original Latin.As captain of the football team, he has described himself as a “small but slow” running back [...]
“We learned a bit from the mega-church experience, but we’re not trying to turn synagogues into a big multipurpose, all-inclusive place, because the Jewish community isn’t structured that way.” Rather, he says, Synaplex gives Jews a sense of what a successful synagogue experience looks like.”Our approach is, let’s not just talk about a renewed vision [...]
“We came up with the second season cliffhanger over a Johnny Walker Blue.”The season finale airs March 25.. Rushing to beat an impending state cap on permits that allow the drivers of hybrid cars to drive solo in carpool lanes, William Ha sent in his paperwork soon after purchasing his Toyota Prius last month.But he [...]
He wants to spend more time with his family.”No money ever changed hands, said McFaul attorney Philip Feigin, who calls the release “just one lie piled on top of another.” The reality, Feigin said, is that McFaul left Mile High in September.Dryer also tried to move on. “It’s a very serious problem that’s having a [...]
E-mails and other documents released by the Justice Department show that Goodling, as the department’s liaison to the White House, played a pivotal role in helping to arrange the terminations.Her lawyer, John Dowd, wrote to the Senate and House judiciary committees last month, calling their investigations “politically charged” and saying his client would invoke her [...]
ends up dying sacrificially to prove his goodness,” said James Krasner, an associate professor whose specialty at the University of New Hampshire is Victorian literature, and who, more important, has $25 riding on his belief that Snape “obviously” killed Dumbledore on Dumbledore’s orders. I’m touched by his heart.”This, though, is not about Mike Babcock, something [...]
