Those issues came to the forefront after a breakdown in the final race Wednesday left apprentice rider Michael Straight with serious back injuries at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.
Straight was scheduled for extensive …
THESE ARE NOT ORANGES, MY LOVE by Iman Mersal, translated by Khaled Mattawa, $18.50, 90 pgs, The Sheep Meadow Press PO Box 1345, Riverdale, NY, 10411 USA, sheepmeadowpress.com
These Are N ot Oranges, My Love is the selected poems of poet and intellectual, Iman Mersal as translated by Khaled Mattawa. Spanning about a decade's work beginning in the m�daos (poems are collected from all but her debut book), These Are Not Oranges follows Mersal from the small town in Egypt where she was born and raised, to a journalism career in Cairo and eventually to Edmonton, where she is currently a professor at the University of Alberta.
Marshal's poetry encompasses a rarely acknowledged …
Australian insurer QBE Insurance Group Ltd. on Wednesday withdrew its 8.7 billion Australian dollar (US$8.4 billion; euro5.3 billion) takeover proposal for rival Insurance Australia Group Ltd. after the target's board snubbed a sweetened offer.
IAG shares fell as much as 8.3 percent Wednesday as analysts said the insurer's board will have its work cut out convincing investors it was right to reject the offer.
"QBE will now continue to focus on the pipeline of acquisitions that have been accumulating in recent …
The composer Elmer Bernstein, who died Wednesday at 82, had amagnificent career spanning five decades. Just look at theresume. Bernstein's film scores include "Cat Women of the Moon"(1953), "Never Wave at a WAC" (1953), "The Bar Sinister" (1955), "TheBridge at Remagen" (1968), "Cannon for Cordoba" (1970), "DeadlyHoneymoon" (1974), "Five Days One Summer" (1982), "The BlackCauldron" (1985) and "Frankie Starlight" (1995).
Bernstein also scored TV shows such as "Tramp Ship" (1955),"Manley and the Mob" (1958), "Saints and Sinners" (1962-63), "Once anEagle" (1977) and "This Year's Blonde" (1980).
I know. I've never seen any of those either.
Of course, Bernstein …
A 53-year-old woman presented, complaining of fullness in the mid-thigh that had been present for 4 to 5 years but appeared to be slowly increasing in size. No pain was associated with this deep-seated thickening within the soft tissues, and no history of trauma was present. In an effort to evaluate the soft-tissue mass, magnetic resonance images were obtained (Fig. 1). Based on the findings noted, radiographs were obtained for correlation (Fig. 2). What diagnosis would you consider? …
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan says it is trying to secure the release of 20 Jordanians detained by Syrian security forces.
The announcement comes as authorities in Syria have stepped up a campaign of violence and arrests as a seven-week-old uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime has spread nationwide.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Kayed said Sunday that …
The Supreme Court on Monday:
_ Agreed to hear an appeal by New Orleans prosecutors of a $14 million judgment to a former death row inmate who claims they withheld evidence to help convict him of murder.
_ Said it would review a provision of immigration law that applies only to children born outside the U.S. to one parent who is an American and one who is not. The law makes it easier for children whose mother is a citizen to become citizens themselves.
_ Refused to reconsider its earlier decision not to block deportation proceedings against former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.
_ Declined to intervene on behalf of Guantanamo …
