| 2007: The year in review
Ultimately, though, the $15million, 120-foot-tall building on two acres of the park was approved. Our take Staff writer Michael Futch has observed the arts and entertainment scene in Fayetteville for two decades: "Already, Festival Park has proven it can be a cornerstone for the gathering of people. But it will never compete for major recording artists with the Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek in Raleigh, the Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park in Cary or the outdoor Joseph. M. Bryan Jr. Theater at the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh. That’s a given. Stage shows can be presented there. High school graduations can be staged there. And, among other things, so can smaller-scale concerts. Think Gillian Welch over Faith Hill. Think Al Green over Alicia Keys." Your take Fouad Fakhouri is the music director and conductor of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra: "With the idea of rejuvenating downtown and changing the image of the downtown area, I think it’s a wonderful thing to happen.
A nation turning into a wasteland
But at his home in Lower Largo, Fife, which he shares with wife Jean and daughters Grace and Catherine, he feels like King Canute trying to halt a never-ending tide, especially in the aftermath of Christmas. "I do what I can to prevent it building up but the amount of waste we still have to deal with is just immense," he says. "The paper bin out the front just now is choc-a-bloc with wrapping paper and we'll be glad when that's taken off our hands." Booth, a 32-year-old photographer and heating engineer, accepts he plays a part in waste creation and has thought about how to reduce his impact. "If I go to the supermarket to buy a piece of meat, I'll try and go to the butcher's section so it doesn't come packaged up. I'd have no problem if food was presented with less packaging." Despite his good intentions he harbours pangs of guilt.
The iPhone: Complete review
Yes, you can e-mail that note, and if your blog tool has an e-mail-to-blog gateway, that'll do in a pinch, but the lack of a better way to transfer text from one place to another can generally hamper interaction between different iPhone programs. iPhone calling It's easy to get lost in the hype about touchscreens and Web browsers and forget that the iPhone is, like its name says, a phone. And it works pretty well as one: When an incoming call arrives, the iPhone gently interrupts what you're doing to display Caller ID information about who's calling. You can set any of 25 built-in ringtones as your ring and assign custom ringtones to individual callers. Unfortunately, you can't use your own music or sounds as ringtones. Once a call is in progress, the iPhone's large screen gives Apple room to make it clear what your options are while on the phone, including placing people on hold and creating conference calls.
Hossam Waziry
Hossam El-Deen Moustafa Waziry was a fat kid. Growing up in a family of two sisters and four brothers in Rod El-Farag, Shobra, he began shedding the pounds as he got older, but didnt realize how little strength he had until an eye-opening experience during his teenage years. I was 16 years old and I got beaten up in a big brawl, an incident that made me want to fight back, remembers Waziry with a big smile on his face. I went on a rigorous diet and started to lift homemade weights in my room. .
Campaign 2008
It's crazy," said one campaign insider. Actor Chuck Norris, who has been campaigning with Mike Huckabee, has publicly worried that McCain is too old to be president and may not live out his term if elected. His comments have long been echoed in private by other campaigns who say that McCain can't win because he looks old and thus appears to represent the past. But insiders say that Norris's comments lit a spark under McCain, who has fought back with even longer hours, more public access, and the teaming with one of his younger children. "He gets the MTV generation and I think they like him back," said another insider. "They can see the youth in his eyes and not just his white hair." more >> .
Derobed and lonely: life on civvy street
That mattered little when his main opponents, Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, remained in Middle Eastern exile. But now both are back and, as Musharraf might say, preparing to "play merry hell" with his dream of another five years in power. As a result Musharraf's fortunes will largely depend on his successor, General Ashfaq Kiyani. A chain-smoking, poker-faced former spy, Kiyani is expected to first focus on rescuing the army's battered reputation. Musharraf's tactics of naked self-preservation have pounded public support for the army and embarrassed its top brass. The poor image has been compounded by high casualty levels at the hands of Islamist rebels in North-West Frontier province, where 200 soldiers were kidnapped last August. As army chief Kiyani is not just a military commander; he also safeguards the institutional reputation and extensive financial interests of the country's top officers, who consider themselves a class apart.
Janison: For Dems, GOP, New York a different game
Here come the underdogs.
Eleven days before the New York presidential primary, power brokers of both major parties here share one thing: worrisome challenges to their home-state favorites. But Democrats allied with Hillary Rodham Clinton find themselves with a stronger hand to play against Barack Obama than insider Republicans, committed to Rudy Giuliani, do against John McCain.
Clinton led in a Quinnipiac poll this week with 51 percent to 25 percent for Obama and 11 percent for John Edwards. Even if Obama comes up as big as expected tomorrow in South Carolina, she remains strong in the Empire State.
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