Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Sister act, too - Calgary Herald

Sister act, too - Calgary Herald
During the run of the 2005 movie version of Ann Brashares' popular book The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Alexis Bledel was enjoying a high profile, thanks to the Gilmore
Source: www.canada.com

Laurence Fishburne ready to sign deal as new CSI star - San Francisco Examiner
Laurence Fishburne is set to replace William Peterson as star of CSI next season, according to TV Guide. But he won't be the new boss. He'll play a DNA expert who comes into the
Source: www.examiner.com

Soviet critic and Nobel Prize-winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn buried in - Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, centre, lays flowers under a portrait of Alexander Solzhenitsyn during his funeral in Moscow, Wednesday. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/RIA Novosti
Source: www.chroniclejournal.com

Blues Fest runs the gamut - Calgary Sun
"The way to go is start small and make it homegrown," says Maurice Ginzer, producer for the Calgary International Blues Festival. And that's just what the Calgary Blues Fest has
Source: calsun.canoe.ca

Jade greens - Globe and Mail
HAINAN ISLAND, CHINA — Far from the hoopla and gathering crowds in Beijing, a sport missing from the Olympic roster is helping to transform China's Hainan Island into one of Asia
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

A witness has passed into history, but tyranny lives on - Globe and Mail
About four decades later, the first sentence with that arresting metaphor still lodges in the brain: the hammer banging on the rail to awaken the inmates. The symbol of the Soviet
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

How I became Canada's first licensed woman pilot - Owen Sound Sun Times
EDITOR'S NOTE: Miss Vollick is Canada's first licensed woman pilot and it is through her initiative that the way has been paved to put Canadian women on a par with other air-minded
Source: www.owensoundsuntimes.com

Ben Johnson cheats his way to gold in Seoul - Edmonton Sun
As he crossed the finish line, he looked to his left at American rival Carl Lewis and points his finger to the sky in triumph. Later, he would say had he not done that cheeky
Source: www.edmontonsun.com