| Houston's Penders can get 600th victory against No. 1 Memphis
The season crumbled amid players' complaints about Penders' methods and accusations that he released a player's grades to a local radio station. A lawsuit over the matter was settled. Frustrated and sick, Penders resigned. "I never thought I'd coach again after that spring," said Penders, who was later sued for defamation by an assistant he accused of releasing the player's grades. A jury sided with Penders. Jack Kvancz, the athletic director at George Washington, flew to Austin and persuaded Penders to keep coaching. The Colonials won 20 games in Penders' first season, but things quickly soured. George Washington had losing records the next two seasons, a player was arrested on a rape charge and others were caught billing long-distance calls to the university account of Penders' son, an assistant.
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Garco sinks Rapids subdivision plan
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. The 104-home Rapids on the Colorado subdivision proposal capsized Monday when Garfield County commissioners rejected it by a 2-1 vote.
The denial came after several neighbors said it was too dense a development for a rural area.
"We cherish our open space and wildlife and we need you to save it," Ken Collins told commissioners.
The subdivision was proposed for a 121-acre parcel that the county had approved for 33 homes in 1997. Four homes now exist on the site.
Karl Hanlon, an attorney for the property owner, Gene Hilton, said the proposal would have increased open space on the property and provided trails and Colorado River access for the public. He said it also conformed with the county comprehensive plan as well as nearby New Castle's plan.
Doug Moe: 'Mayor of Black Milwaukee' graces mag cover
THE JUST-PUBLISHED Winter 2007-2008 issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History has a terrific cover story on J. Anthony Josey, "The First Mayor of Black Milwaukee," written by Milwaukee university professors (and wife and husband) Genevieve G. McBride and Stephen Byers. Josey was a big presence in Milwaukee in the first half of the last century -- as a newspaper publisher and civic leader -- but his career started in Madison. Josey's great-nephew, former Madison alderman Ed Hill, provided many of the photos for the article, including the delightful cover shot of a smiling Josey holding a cigar. "He was a character," Hill was saying Wednesday. Hill lived with "Uncle Joe" for a time in Milwaukee in the 1950s, and was greatly influenced by him. Hill became one of Madison's first black alders when he was elected in 1970 (Gene Parks had been elected a year earlier).
Broadband refocus boosts D Telekom
Deutsche Telekom last year gained almost as many new customers for high-speed internet lines in Germany as it lost clients abandoning old-style phone contracts, a sign the restructuring of its domestic operations is bearing fruit. At the same time, Europe's largest telecoms group said cost cuts would have to continue to help it recover from a crisis in Germany that is expected to see 2007 profits, due at the end of next month, sag below those seen the year before. It also said that it had made “major progress" in its search for a partner for the computer-systems integration unit of T-Systems, the corporate services division, a step that is meant to focus Telekom's portfolio more sharply. The Bonn-based group said that new pricing and improved service had seen it gain 1.9m new customers for so-called broadband lines, giving it a 44 per cent share of new clients in its home market.
Bayview revitalization comes with huge price to black residents
Change is coming to Herman Autry's street in San Francisco's Bayview district. Just down Oakdale Avenue from the block where Autry has spent much of his 66 years, trains now glide into an elevated stop for the new Third Street light-rail line. The power company is putting underground the tangle of lines that block the neighborhood's panoramic views. And bulldozers have knocked down the old burger shack that served as a hangout for local gang members, making way for new condominiums. But Autry, a veteran Muni driver, worries the improvements are not going to benefit people like him - the African Americans who for decades have been the majority population in a neighborhood known as the city's most blighted. "They're fixing things up, but it isn't for us," said Autry, who has seen black families move out one by one.
GOP candidates eye Florida
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani contrasted himself with the two in both style and substance.''Senator McCain and Governor Romney are doing such a good job of attacking each other, how about voting for somebody whose not attacking? Vote for me, Rudy Giuliani,'' he said while visiting the Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach. ''Presidential election is not about name-calling. Presidential election is not about gotcha and almost, like, high school politics.''In Vero Beach, he said: ''I've traveled up and down the state of Florida, talked to a lot of people and listened to you. That's why I support a national catastrophe fund. I'm the only Republican candidate in this race supporting it — and I need your vote in order to accomplish it.''Polls show McCain and Romney atop the field, with Giuliani and former Arkansas Gov.
Australian stock market up 0.6pc at noon
THE share market was 0.6 per cent stronger just after noon, tracking gains on Wall Street after US investors bought financials in anticipation of yet another rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Higher commodity prices supported local mining and energy stocks. At 12.12pm AEDT, the S&P/ASX200 index was up 34.3 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 5788.8 and the All Ordinaries had risen 33.8 points to 5750.3 On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was up nine points to 5730 on 13,733 contracts. ABM Amro Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said local stocks were tracking US markets more closely ahead of the US Federal Reserves decision on interest rates. The decision will be known by local investors at 6.15am AEDT tomorrow morning. "And we were probably over-sold a bit yesterday,'' Mr Russell said.
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