Friday, 05 September 2008
In Russia this week they had the Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, boasting about shooting a tiger. In the US they found themselves a prospective vice-president who has most of a grizzly bear strewn across her sofa, including the head. In Britain we were wringing our hands because some members of our Armed Forces, the most iconic in the world, will occasionally get bits of an already dead Canadian bear and balance it on their heads. "Britain!" as Tom Baker used to say. "Britain! Britain! Britain!" Could this happen anywhere else? Would another nation even begin to care? War in Iraq, 3,000 troops...
photo: AP /Alexander Zemlianichenko
Mike Summerbee
The Guardian
The Guardian
The Manchester City legend on nose-blowing japes with fans, carousing with Geoge Best and Sly Stallone's goalkeeping...
National debate on lowering drinking age comes to N.J.
Asbury Park Press
Asbury Park Press
TRENTON — The debate over lowering the drinking age has come to New Jersey, with several state agencies coming together to support keeping it at 21, while some college...
PLAYING WITH PURPOSE
Asbury Park Press
Asbury Park Press
In March 1994, a Pinellas County, Fla., court found underground comic book artist Mike Diana guilty on counts of publishing, distributing and advertising obscene material, branding...
Paradise ex-cheerleader coach sentenced
MSNBC
MSNBC
Enterprise-Record OROVILLE -- A former cheerleader coach was sentenced to 90 days in jail and four years probation, and was also sternly warned any violation of her probation will...
Motata defence's 'sober' theory
Independent online (SA)
Independent online (SA)
By Botho Molosankwe Judge Nkola Motata was sober the morning he crashed his Jaguar into the wall of a Hurlingham house. In fact, his blood alcohol was between 0,02g and 0,03g,...
DJs criticised for drink comments
BBC News
BBC News
Radio presenters have been criticised for promoting heavy drinking so as to be seen as "cool" by their listeners. Researchers from the Bristol-based University of the West of...
Mum spared death for microwaving baby
The Star
The Star
DAYTON (Ohio): A woman convicted of murdering her infant daughter by microwaving her was spared the death penalty on Wednesday by a jury that could not reach a unanimous decision....
Man handed 3 1/2 years for deadly DUI crash
The Roanoke Times
The Roanoke Times
On his 28th birthday, Daniel Lee Ammons drove drunk and caused the death of one of his best friends. Wednesday in Roanoke County Circuit Court, Judge Jim Swanson weighed a sentence...
Intoxicated drivers ignore, repeat history
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jim Stingl Someone out there read an article in Thursday’s newspaper — “Woman charged with drunken driving in death of biker” — and said it can’t happen to me. Kathleen...
