| After two-month odyssey, dog still looking for a home
BETHLEHEM — Cold, scrawny and scared, a white German shepherd wandered across at least three towns for at least six weeks before an intercommunity effort finally corralled him last week."What a story," said Morris Animal Control Officer Cynthia F. Brissett. "I couldn't understand what this dog was doing. Seemed to me he was trying to find someone, trying to find home. But no one had called me to report this dog missing."A Morris resident first called Brissett about the dog on the morning of Dec. 24. The dog was sniffing around the man's yard with tags dangling from a collar. But as many others would note over the next month-and-a-half, the moment anyone tried to approach the dog, it would run away.Brissett spotted the dog later that morning at White Flower Farm on Route 63, and another officer spotted a dog fitting its description at Black Rock State Park in Watertown on Dec.
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This special-edition, limited-production Corvette may be the Everest of American high-performance. It is certainly (and by far) the most powerful, quickest and all-out fastest Corvette ever produced by General Motors, packing a 620-horsepower supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 capable of pushing the car to more than 200 mph and to 60 mph (in first gear) in about 3.4 seconds. In addition to eye-popping performance, expect wallet-draining price-gouging at dealerships. The ZR1's six-figure MSRP likely will balloon by 50 percent to 75 percent or more, at least during the first few months the car is available. 2009 VW Microbus Base price: $22,000 Availability estimate: Fall A legend returns! VW has decided the times are once again ripe for a reasonably sized, good-on-gas, family-friendly and road-trip-ready icon.
HUGHES: IT`S CRUNCH TIME
They will obviously, as always, look at a game against Blackburn as a winnable game but we will make sure it will be a difficult day for them I am sure." Despite their consistent qualification for Europe Blackburn are still viewed in some quarters as a 'small' club and their talents are often under-estimated. But the perception of his side is not something that concerns Hughes, especially as he feels it may actually benefit Rovers. "We just get quietly on with the work we do and don't create a great deal of attention," added the former Wales boss. "There are advantages of just getting on with your work and being slightly under the radar - you can surprise people." Winger Morten Gamst Pedersen believes Blackburn are more than a match for Keegan's side, despite Newcastle being perceived as more significant than their Ewood Park rivals.
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Pushing the Limits," which explores physical and mental feats of the body under the most challenging circumstances. In the first two hours, airing at 9 tonight on Discovery Channel, human muscles, ligaments, joints and bones are seen at work as a man survives the fury of a tornado, or is pinned beneath a half-ton boulder. Then the power of sight gets a close look, with a lifeguard capable of spotting someone in trouble among thousands, and a firefighter battling thick black smoke to see his way to safety. The concluding two parts air March 9. Courteney Cox is back spilling "Dirt" as Lucy Spiller, the unrelenting editor-in-chief of an L.A. celebrity tabloid named Dirt Now, as this FX drama starts its second season of guilty pleasures. Picking up where it left off, "Dirt" finds Lucy bleeding and unconscious after an attack by actress Julia Mallory (Laura Allen), whose career was destroyed by the magazine.
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While at Oxford, he wrote and performed his own songs, which brought him to the attention of manager Larry Parnes (who handled Tommy Steele and other British pop stars). Signing with Parnes, he made recordings for Top Rank Records produced by Tony Hatch (apparently never released) and performed under the name Kris Carson, but he was not successful. After earning a master's degree in English literature from Oxford in 1960, Kristofferson intended to continue his studies there. But during a Christmas break back home in California, he resumed his relationship with an old girlfriend, Fran Beir, and they married. Instead of returning to Oxford, he joined the Army. Like his father, he became a pilot, learning to fly helicopters. He was assigned to West Germany and went there with his wife and their daughter.
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During a talk on stage, he talked about how the movie landscape for African Americans has changed in 20 years. "There was only one black director when I got out of film school. Every time a black film came out, it was an event. Today, Tyler Perry has a film out every week." He also said Morehouse graduates too many business majors, too many people taking jobs simply for the money, not for the love of the job. "This is a liberal arts college," he said. "We need to be more well rounded… I hope we start more entrepreneurial programs." As for his sports journalism program, he hopes to generate more minority sports writers. "The press box is still a mostly segregated area while on the field, the brothers are running up and down the field." Lee spent moments of downtime at the event scanning his Blackberry for basketball game start times.
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Although it is not totally necessary to point out that Larsen is African-Norwegian, the fact that he plies his craft as a country singer makes such knowledge intrinsically more fascinating. It's not as if, even in these modern times, many folks playing roots music differ in ethnicity from icons such as Cash, Haggard, Jennings and Nelson. And before anyone starts talking about Charley Pride, let me assure you that this Larsen fellow is a whole different matter. Not only does he write and sing like Gram Parsons, Larsen also shares Parsons' affinity for the bizarre, creating decidedly unfashionable gems such as "Atomic Bombs and Wine" and "Sweet Savior's Arms." With a rough-hewed, gloriously underproduced backing, Larsen digs into the American musical experience with a determined glee reminiscent of acts as disparate as Giant Sand and The Band.
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