| In S.C. primary, Clinton strategy foiled
IRMO, S.C. -- Susan Kilburn, a 53-year-old real estate office manager, voted Republican in the last six presidential elections. She voted here at a park Saturday for Barack Obama, helping him run away with the South Carolina primary and fueling his hopes against Hillary Clinton in the 22-state Super Tuesday Feb. 5. "I surprised myself," Kilburn said. "I wasn't pleased with the Republican candidates and I wasn't really pleased with the Democrats, either. "But his ads made him seem the most real. He came across as the person who has the best chance to bring people together. I didn't feel like Hillary could do that." Betsy Petersen, a 40-year-old preschool teacher, voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, but for Republicans ever since. She, too voted for Obama.
Educator Robert Marvin Chatman, 85
ROBERT Marvin Chatman, Philadelphia public-school teacher for 23 years, active church leader and Army veteran of World War II, died Thursday of brain cancer. He was 85 and lived in Wynnefield. He taught at a number of local schools and was a tailoring teacher at Germantown High School before his retirement in 1987. Robert was a man of many skills. At one time or another, he took a course for surgical technicians, studied oil-burner service, real estate and pattern-making. He had a dry-cleaning establishment, was a mortician and had numerous jobs as a handyman - all with the aim of better supporting his family. He was born in Honea Path, S.C., to Howard L. and Marie Lewis Chatman. He got his early education in Honea Path and attended the Colored Normal, Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College, now South Carolina State University at Orangeburg.
Ballad for Whoever Lived in My Car
For a couple of weeks, I tried leaving notes on the street and on the cars, to no avail. One day, I gave up and decided to leave the Ford Focus there forever. Months passed. I avoided the street on which it was parked, afraid to look. It was like a toothache I couldn't make myself do anything about. Finally, figuring it would be covered with tickets and I would owe the city $700, I paid a visit. The car was filthy, windows broken, filled with trash. The tow driver didn't ask for an explanation and I didn't volunteer one. Using an elaborate procedure involving casters and a lot of work, he managed to get it out of the space. When the mechanic returned it a week or two later, it was beautiful, black, shiny, unrecognizably new-looking. The plush was dry and clean.
Coming attraction on Rt. 315
PLAINS TWP. – The sign reads "Coming Soon," but the time has come for Charlie Adonizio to build a retail/office center on land he’s owned for 20 years along state Route 315. His Atlas Center LLC should be completed and ready to move in to later this year. "Everything is going to be upscale," Adonizio said of the 12,000-square-foot, one-story building. "I’ll put the money in upfront," on a stone fa�ade and metal roof, he said. Inside the building will be "super insulated" in the walls and floors. No flat roofs here; this one will be gabled. The center will be connected to public water and sewer systems. At one end the center will have a large 2,800-square-foot area that can be further divided. The rest of the building will be divided into 26-by-60-foot sections.
Bidding farewell to Ferguson
He finally got the axe Tuesday, with venerable hockey executive Cliff Fletcher replacing him on an interim basis. (Fletcher is another former assistant GM of the Blues, although his stint was about 900 years ago.) Reacting to great expectations in Toronto, Ferguson abandoned his roots in player development and acquired one washed-up veteran after another. "The vision Ferguson aspired to the vision he talked about when he took on the challenge of running the Leafs on Aug. 29, 2003 never materialized," Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons wrote. "If his plan was to build through the draft, to re-stock the Leafs farm system, to build an organization from bottom up, he waffled on that almost from the beginning." Joe Nieuwendyk, Brian Leetch and Ron Francis came through the turnstile.
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, On Foot
The 60-year-old professor from Brattleboro, Vt. argues that, with a year left in Mr. Bush's term, there is still time to investigate his conduct of the Iraq war, as well as other issues which have brought criticism against his administration - the outing of a CIA agent, the surveillance of Americans without warrants, and the abuse of detainees. He said he shudders with anger and fear in response to actions and statements, such as a willingness to redefine what is torture and when it can be used, made by Mr. Bush and Cheney: "Anger because we have stooped so low, fear because all of what we have cherished as a nation - indeed, all of the great things about the United States that we have shown the world - are being destroyed by the current administration." With the White House refusing to turn over documents or testimony in response to Congressional subpoenas, the only weapon in the arsenal of lawmakers seeking accountability, critics say, is impeachment.
Atomic Energy head resigns over isotope fallout
Ottawa The head of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. quit Friday following the fiasco that shut down the Chalk River nuclear reactor and prompted a worldwide medical crisis. Prime Minister Stephen Harper accepted the resignation of AECL chairman Michael Burns, effective Dec. 31. .
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