| Barrett tackles new discipline
INWOOD — Krissy Barrett likes to fight, no doubt about that. The 18-year-old Martinsburg resident as been scrapping since she can remember, right up into middle school and high school as a varsity wrestler at Musselman High School. Facing boys was no big deal for Barrett, who had a winning record in three years of varsity wrestling for the Applemen. Barrett had to sit out her senior year due to the birth of her daughter, Kelly-Beth, but that turned out to be just a temporary break from hand-to-hand combat. Just three months after the birth of her daughter, Barrett made her amateur debut in mixed martial arts as a flyweight. She won, of course. “It's pretty fun to get in the ring and beat people up, honestly," Barrett said. “You're not going to get in trouble for it. Just fun, I guess." Four months into her new-found sport, Barrett is 3-1 and coming off a title-winning bout in Roanoke, Va.
Karabakh Peace Process Close to Breakdown (By Thomas de Waal)
But with no agreement in sight and presidential elections due in both Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2008, time is running out, leaving the bleak prospect that the peace process will die next year. US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matt Bryza, who is one of the three co-chairs of the Minsk Group, told IWPR in answers to written questions that he and his two colleagues planned to travel to the region in mid-January to try to bridge final differences between the parties. �The co-chairs hope the two presidents will reach an oral agreement on this document prior to Armenian presidential elections in February,� said Bryza. �The current set of ideas on the table provides the only logical and practicable way to advance toward a peaceful settlement of the conflict.� The hope is that both sides in the dispute are playing brinkmanship, and will ultimately agree to a deal.
Gift Guide 2007
It�s the beginning of the holiday season once again, and that means one thing: It�s time to summon the spirits of generosity, and bestow gifts upon family and friends. But, as we all know, gift giving can be a hazardous enterprise. That�s where Gift comes in. Scene has dispatched its own team of correspondents to help take the guesswork out of gift-giving.
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Botswana: Museum Introduces Outdoor Gallery
FRANCISTOWN: Supa Ngwao Museum has hailed their newly introduced Outdoor gallery as a major milestone in the promotion of the arts in northern Botswana. The museum holds outdoor exhibitions every last Thursday of the month. The museum's director Stella Rundle said the response from enthusiasts has been encouraging since the first event held on October 25. She said they invite two artists (either painting, sculptures or drawing) and three handcrafts people to participate in the gallery. .
Leaders' debate comes to an end
I'm a Liberal voter and I think some of Kevin Rudd's presentation was clearer.He remains a policy free zone though - if he win's the election the slogans won't do our country much good! Agree (0) Alert moderator Sarah : 22 Oct 2007 7:31:32am Howard came off at times as a dottering old fool. Using his crucial 2 minute summary speech to raise some pipe dream policy about better education of our children on Australian history and values... it was painful to watch. Rudd gave a very strong performance and was incredibly well prepared. A note for Howard and his advisors too.. this constant anti-union sledge does not wash in an environment where you are attacking worker's rights on a daily basis. Suddenly the 'big bad union guy' is not so bad when he's the one sticking up for working families.
Abolish the CIA
It seems flabbergastingly improbable that President George W. Bush learned of the National Intelligence Estimate concerning Iranian nuclear ambitions only a few days before the rest of us did, but the haplessness of his demeanor suggested that he might, in fact, have been telling the truth. After all, had the administration known for any appreciable length of time that the mullahs had hit the pause button on their program in late 2003, it would have been in a position to make a claim that is quite probably true, namely, that our overthrow of Saddam Hussein had impressed the Iranians in much the same way as it impressed the Libyans and made them at least reconsider their willingness to continue flouting the Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Given that the examination of the immense Libyan stockpile also disclosed the fingerprints that led back to the exposure of the A.Q.
Gridiron gridlock at the Coliseum
Little progress has been made in the latest round of talks between the Coliseum Commission and USC about the future of the stadium. The commission still has hopes for an NFL team, and the school has been talking about playing games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. (Michael Owen Baker / Staff Photographer) .
Judge: Palm Beach County citrus tree owners due fair compensation
The state owes fair compensation to nearly 41,000 Palm Beach County residents who had their citrus trees cut down during a failed decade-long effort to eradicate a harmful bacteria, a judge ruled. The class-action lawsuit was filed against the state Agriculture Department on behalf of David and Lillian Mendez, of Boca Raton, who had their citrus trees cut down in 2001 as the state tried to stop the spread of canker. The court found that the destruction of the trees constituted a "taking" under the Florida Constitution, "requiring full and just compensation," Circuit Judge Robin Rosenberg wrote in her ruling late Friday. A jury trial is set for March 31 to determine how much the state owes the plaintiffs. The Palm Beach County case was the first of five pending canker lawsuits against the state to go to trial.
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