ROANOKE RAPIDS - Scott Bass used to be in favor of the death penalty until he saw its effects on families - the families of the victims and the families of those on death row.
Steve Ballmer was sobbing. He repeatedly tried to speak and couldn't get the words out. Minutes passed as he tried to regain his composure. But the audience of 130 of Microsoft's senior leaders waited patiently, many of them crying too. They knew that the CEO was choked up because this executive retreat, held in late March at a resort north of Seattle, was the last ever for company co-founder
At this time last year, with the heart and soul about to be ripped from the Buffalo Sabres, a few newsroom honchos asked me to figure out a way to keep Chris Drury and Daniel Briere while maintaining a competitive team within the constraints of a $44 million payroll.
ROB Garza is about to say a few very important words. "We're finishing up the album right now," he chuckles, a mixture of both excitement and exhaustion in his voice. Neither is surprising.
In the parlance of batmakers, it's not the species, it's what you do with the species. It's not because big-league baseball bats are made out of maple that they're seemingly shattering and flying all over the place, into little (and sometimes not-so-little) wooden projectiles that can cut and maim and, maybe someday if somebody doesn't do something about it soon, actually kill.
A day after the Liberals unveiled their carbon tax plan, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is warning Canadians that it would "screw everybody across the country."
Two novels about journalists in Afghanistan just after the 2001 invasion by coalition forces: "We Are Now Beginning Our Descent" by James Meek and "The End of Manners" by Francesca Marciano.
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