| Wild Card -- Weekend
Only 3 more days until we get after it again in the new year. I hope you're enjoying yourselves as 2005 comes to an end. If you have some thoughts on the old year or resolutions for the new one, you can post it here. Or start your own thread. Or wait until Tuesday ... .
The Buttons to Push
I believe society should be more involved in monitoring how the budget is allocated. After all, this money comes from national wealth and not out of the governments own pockets like it wants people to believe, he says. In his inaugural campaign speech, Mubarak managed to address the peoples deepest concerns, assuring citizens the government is fully aware of the problems they are suffering. Youth are yearning for jobs, incomes are limited and suffering from inflation, poor people need help, sick people are exhausted by cost of health care, he acknowledged. Our program plans to create more than 4 million job opportunities during the next six years, Mubarak declared, pointing out that the basis of the concrete promise is the biggest investment endeavor Egypt has ever seen, targeting the sectors of industry, trade, agriculture and tourism.
Bush's Economic Proposal Fails to Stop Stocks' Slide
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 5.4 percent last week, to 1325.19, the lowest level since September 2006. The benchmark for U.S. equities has declined 9.8 percent this year, its worst-ever start. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 4 percent, to 12,099.30, extending its 2008 decline to 8.8 percent. The Nasdaq composite index fell 4.1 percent to 2340.02. The Russell 2000 index fell 4.5 percent to 673.18. The small-company index's 21 percent decline from its July record marks its first bear-market retreat since 2002. Two-year Treasury yields declined to 2.35 percent, the lowest since May 2004. U.S. stock markets are closed tomorrow for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The Treasury will auction $21 billion of three-month bills and $19 billion of six-month bills on Tuesday.
TV Land Takes Aim When Just Shoot Me! Joins the Network's Line-Up ...
NEW YORK, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- What happens when a scheming assistant, neurotic photographer, high-strung ex-model, carousing fashion editor and the boss's hot-tempered daughter work together in a glamour magazine office? Find out during TV Land's Just Shoot Me! Launch Party on Saturday, January 26 from 9:00pm - 6:00am and Sunday, January 27 from 9:00pm - 6:00am ET/PT. The 16-hour event will showcase hilarious episodes from the hit series including the groundbreaking "Back Issues" episode as writer Maya Gallo (Laura San Giacomo) asks her estranged father Jack (George Segal) for help, "The Burning House" when Finch (David Spade) makes his directorial debut and "The Write Stuff" when Nina recreates her famous supermodel pose. In addition, TVLand.com will stream five full episodes daily, beginning January 26, with weekly updates.
50 ways to please your lover
Far from being a quick grope, this is a timeless image of gentle, intimate love from an artist whose long-term mistress had recently beaten him to the grave. See it in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. 8BOOK Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847) Pronounced Woothering Heights, Emily Bronte's only novel has influenced everyone from Stephen King to Kate Bush. On one level, it is pure, gothic shlock. On another, it is poetic perfection and way ahead of its time. Heathcliff - part Ted Hughes, part Gordon Brown - is its totemic hero, a brooding, mysterious, disruptive presence in the Earnshaw household to which he has been charitably introduced. The target of his passion is Catherine Earnshaw but fate transpires to keep them apart. Heathcliff, described by one pundit as "a gentleman psychopath", beats his own wife and tells Cathy in her husband's presence: "I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward." In short, he is that ultimate of female fantasies, a bit of rough.
Grateful Kuwait warmly greets first lady
KUWAIT CITY—First lady Laura Bush got a warm reception Wednesday in Kuwait, a nation that still holds her father-in-law, former President George H.W. Bush, in high regard for his role in liberating this Persian Gulf emirate from Iraqi occupation in 1991. Bush drew thunderous cheers and applause when she told a crowd of teachers and students that she first visited Kuwait with the former president in 1993, describing that trip as "wonderful and moving." After arriving from Saudi Arabia, the first lady met with female political activists as well as young students who praised a State Department English language initiative, the English Access Microscholarship Program. "By helping students in the Middle East and other regions improve their skills in English, Microscholarship equips young people to compete for better jobs and seek higher degrees and compete for scholarships in universities around the world," said Bush, a former teacher.
Convicted Murderer Still On The Run
The escaped man was in prison for beating to death a disabled man, Lee Jobling, after drunkenly gate-crashing a party at his flat in Gateshead's Leam Lane Estate in April 2006. Nevins, who has previous convictions for violence, and Mark Lang, both from Gateshead, were found guilty of Mr Jobling's murder in 2006 at Newcastle Crown Court. Northumbria Police said they had received over 20 potential sightings of Nevins since his escape, but none had firmly identified him. Mr Jobling, 20, was left with short-term memory loss and a limp after a fall from a bridge when he was a teenager. Nevins and Lang attacked Mr Jobling, ignoring his pleas for mercy, and left him blood-soaked and fatally injured. The court heard that as he struggled for breath, the pair began singing Old MacDonald Had A Farm.
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