| Turtle Bay buyout surprises developer
In her State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Linda Lingle raised eyebrows by proposing that the state acquire Turtle Bay Resort, an idea that was met with questions about financing and future operations. GREGORY YAMAMOTO | The Honolulu Advertiser .
Lightfoot tour takes him to 4 Ontario cities
Lightfoot has won 15 Juno Awards, been nominated for five Grammys Awards and been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. His live performances continue to sell out across North America. Lightfoot's manager Barry Harvey died suddenly on Dec. 4, 2007, at age 56. .
UH Warriors land three JC recruits
The Hawai'i football team yesterday took three major steps in filling pressing needs, receiving verbal commitments from a wideout and two cornerbacks. The Warriors landed: Mike Tinoco, a wide receiver from Saddleback Community College in Mission Viejo, Calif. Chris Black, a cornerback from College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Calif. Jeramy Bryant, a cornerback from Los Angeles Harbor College. All three have two seasons of eligibility remaining. The Warriors had lost all four starting receivers from the Western Athletic Conference's 2007 Unit of the Year. Wideouts Jason Rivers and C.J. Hawthorne completed their NCAA eligibility, and slotbacks Davone Bess and Ryan Grice-Mullins opted to apply for the 2008 National Football League draft.
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BEE MOVIE (5674) This film gets an A-plus. Jerry Seinfeld's venture into the world of animated comedy successfully breaks new ground for him while reminding us why his sitcom was one of the funniest programs in TV history. ★★★★ (C.C.) 90 mins. PG, suggestive humor. BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (5691) Sidney Lumet's exceptional crime saga is as full of entangled meanings as its name. ★★★★ (C.C.) 117 mins. R, graphic sexuality, nudity, violence, drug use, language. THE BUCKET LIST (5743) In this stillborn comedy, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play terminally ill men chasing their dreams on a round-the-world trip. It's terribly earnest, terribly well-intentioned -- and terrible. ★ 1/2 (C.C.) 97 mins. PG-13, language, sexual reference. CASSANDRA'S DREAM (5750) Woody Allen crafts a taut thriller about two brothers (Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor) drawn into a crime.
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The Police Pension Fund medical board rejected the application, and in May 2006 it recommended that he be allowed to retire with an ordinary disability pension, which pays an officer a taxable pension of half his salary. An accidental disability retirement pays a nontaxable pension of three-fourths his salary. The board said Soto had already been found disabled in August 2004 "because he was morbidly obese and had numerous other ailments which made it impossible for him to be a police officer, including high blood pressure and narcolepsy." He also had been placed on limited duty. Soto joined the New York Police Department in August 1993, when he stood 5 feet 7 and weighed 250 pounds. State Supreme Court Justice Judith Gische, noting that Soto now weighs "in excess of 500 pounds," cited the board's remark that Soto "had not performed his full duties as a police officer since 2003." She said in her ruling last month that he had been on restricted duty for his own protection.
Nation briefs
Hoping to snap out of a financial malaise, Yahoo is preparing to lay off as many as 1,000 workers in the Sunnyvale-based company's biggest purge since it was scrambling to survive the dot-com bust seven years ago. Cost-cutting like that normally makes investors happy, but Wall Street wasn't in a celebratory mood after Yahoo reported a 23 percent drop in its fourth-quarter profit and provided a tepid outlook for 2008. .
The Hot Pass: Misery continues for Jr.
But in 2007, it has happened to Junior more than most. "This car is missing like hell," Earnhardt Jr. said before the race even developed a rhythm. He qualified fifth and dropped to the middle of the pack before radioing in that everything was OK again. "I don't know what it was. It wouldn't even run." By the time the first caution was called on Lap 34 for debris from Juan Pablo Montoya's tire, the No. 8 car had recovered to seventh. However, a commitment-line violation sent Earnhardt Jr. to the end of the longest line at the restart. From the mid-30s, Earnhardt battled his way back to 13th in 20 laps. After another 20 circuits he moved into sixth and by Lap 90 Junior was fourth. .
Kenya is the latest victim of poorly managed urban migration
It has since included the 1979 revolution in Iran, the 1986 "People Power" movement in the Philippines, the 1994 end of apartheid in South Africa, recent gains by Islamic political forces throughout the Middle East, and the "Bolivarian Revolution" of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in 2000. In each instance, new political power has been discovered and organized in the slums and ghettos of urban migrants. In Kenya, the urban population has grown 11-fold since the end of colonial Pass Laws in 1963. These laws had restricted urban migration to transient labourers who lived in controlled barracks. Since then, some four million migrants have found that their only entry point into urban markets and opportunity is in Kenya's sprawling slums. As elsewhere, these slums have effectively become huge, parallel cities, with their own economies, governance and social dynamics.
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