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2006-06-19
High and un-mighty
Toronto Star, Canada -
Sometimes I stand where she is standing (she is very close to the man now, in fact she has a hand on his shoulder). I have stood with my own bag of groceries. A row of quiet Victorian houses, a parkette, a dog barking from deep in someone's property. Then this parking lot, this eddy before a noisy street. Two sets of streetcars made by Bombardier converge on Dundas and Bloor, meld into one another and then come streaming out again. Some 50 overweight streetcars pass by every hour. Their heft at night sometimes lifts me out of bed, out of your arms, pries me out of a dream where I'm still living in Newfoundland. Who is this guy?
2006-06-18
Tim Cuprisin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI -
It's not quite noon, but let's get going... Well, Dave, you win the honor of kicking off the June edition of Inside TV & Radio's monthly cyberchats. You're right, I didn't like the first season of "Deadwood," because I thought it was simply grim, foul-mouthed and horribly violent. Season two turned me around as it became clear that what Milch was doing was showing how "civilization" rises out of barbarism, and how the barbarian chiefs become the politicians. The character of Swearingen is among the most brilliant on TV, a brutal man who is only brutal because of the environment that spawned him, a man who is maturing into the builder of a community, almost in spite of himself, because of his innate attributes. The flowery, almost Shakespearean, dialogue, punctuated by the foulest language you can imagine, is sometimes hard to penetrate, so it's a show worth a couple viewings to catch the nuance. While It's still not as amazing as "The Sopranos" in my book, it's evolving rapidly into one of TV's best continuing dramas ever, a television version of fine literature. Now, onto the fan mail......
2006-06-16
EXCLUSIVE - Special Circumstances
North Country Gazette, NY -
"Special Circumstances" was the code used by Sgt. MacKenzie and other officers to designate the highly intoxicated owner of the gun, Corrections Officer Dan Nordmark, as a fellow member of law enforcement. The alleged cover up began that night when the Nordmarks first lied about their whereabouts and knowingly concealed the drunken and violent events that led up to Shawn's horrifying death. When the police realized they were dealing with a member of law enforcement, "Special Circumstances" apparently took precedence over the investigation and dictated the actions taken by the Tarpon Springs police as they ignored routine police procedures, failed to conduct gun residue tests on anyone's hands, failed to administer alcohol or drug tests on the drunken officer Nordmark who was so intoxicated he could barely stand up, (initially failed to even document Officer Nordmark's extreme intoxication in their police reports until several days after Shawn's death when I demanded to know why this information was excluded); failed to question any credible witnesses, failed to pursue a single lead, failed to impound the car, obtained peroxide from the hospital ER and instructed Rita Nordmark to begin cleaning out the blood (evidence) within two hours of the shooting and they allowed the drunken offer to simply walk away as Shawn lay dying in the hospital; they failed to initially locate the gun although three police officers and the emergency room nurse searched for the missing weapon which was later "found" in plain sight; and they failed to lift fingerprints from the gun. (Months later, an FDLE Special Agent Supervisor stated that the "Tarpon Springs police had completely obliterated all of the fingerprints from the gun," and it was covered and smudged with grey powder and there was not one print on the gun by the time the FDLE received it in late September).
2006-06-15
Small caps may be a pricey way to diversify
National Post, Canada -
What investment strategies should investors adopt, given the correction underway in the North American equity market? Which stocks will hold their own in this turbulence? Buy and Sell columnist Sonita Horvitch polled five leading western-Canadian-based money managers for their views. They are: Greg Bay, president of Vancouver-based Cypress Capital Management Ltd; Carl Hoyt, portfolio manager and small-cap specialist at Cypress Capital; William Dye, chief investment officer at Vancouver-based Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel Ltd, the sole value manager at this roundtable; Fred Pynn, president and chief investment officer at Calgary-based Bissett Investment Management; and Darrell Anderson, director and portfolio manager of U.S. equities at Calgary-based Mawer Investment Management.
2006-06-14
ANALYSIS - Nightmare of '98 returns to haunt Ronaldo
Reuters India, India -
Slow, lumbering, unable to control the easiest of passes and playing as if he vaguely remembered the game although was not absolutely certain what it was all about, Ronaldo was the worst player in Brazil's team that opened their World Cup campaign with a 1-0 win over Croatia at the Olympiastadion.
2006-06-13
Pozen shares rebound after Friday plunge
BusinessWeek -
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration said it would not approve migraine treatment Trexima until Pozen provides additional safety information, which may require new studies. Pozen and development partner GlaxoSmithKline PLC said in a statement that the agency issued an approvable letter on the drug, but also requested the added data.
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