DeLisha Milton-Jones scored 22 points and Kristi Toliver added 12 of her 17 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Los Angeles Sparks to a 81-77 victory over the Chicago Sky in the WNBA on Wednesday.
Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton had career highs of 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Sparks (9-17), who move within a half-game of fourth-place Minnesota in the race for the final Western …
Bernard Hermon has long been a hip-hop fan.
So when he had the chance to register for Professor Emmett Price's "Hip Hop Culture" course, the Brandeis junior jumped at the opportunity.
"I thought the course would be very elementary," admits Harmon. "I thought we would discuss things that I already knew about the music - but that wasn't the case."
The course melds history, sociology, media deconstruction and politics to explore the evolution and development of hip-hop culture, beginning in the 1950s and '60s. Price developed the course in 2000 as a post-doctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
"It's really important for there to be discourse …
Stocks opened moderately higher Thursday, a day after stocks staged an extraordinary reversal and after weekly figures on workers seeking unemployment figures suggested the job market is holding up.
Investors will try as the trading day unfolds to determine whether the market's late-day comeback Wednesday was in part due to technical reasons or whether it represented any shift in sentiment.
A Labor Department report appeared to offer Wall Street some room for optimism. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell for a fourth straight week. Applications for benefits dropped by 1,000 to 301,000 last week _ pushing claims down to the lowest level in …
David Farr and Simon Reade, the new artistic directors at theBristol Old Vic (BOV), have re-branded the Theatre Royal and the NewVic Studio in their first season.
According to the brochure, plays are performed in either theBristol Old Vic Main House or the Bristol Old Vic Studio, which cutsdown on muddle and stamps BOV's brand over the whole theatre complex.
And why not? BOV have new artistic directors, a new positiveoutlook and something to shout about - and that confidence is nowreflected in their brochure.
A spokesman for BOV said: "There are Theatre Royals everywhere,but there's only one Bristol Old Vic." However, the company has nointention to deny any …
The Vice Admiral James B. Stock- dale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S Naval Academy recently held its annual McCain Conference. The conference's theme was a timely but often neglected topic in our think tanks and service-academy and ser- vice-school curriculums: "Ethics and Military Contractors: Examining the Public-Private Partnership." Three of the featured speakers were MG Eric Olson, U.S. Army retired, former com- manding general of the 25th Infantry Division (Light); Erik Prince, former CEO of Blackwater; and James Jay Carafano, a senior research fellow with the Heritage Foundation. Each of these speakers highlighted the benefits as well as pitfalls of relying on civilian …
SAO PAULO (AP) — Neymar hit the woodwork twice Sunday as Santos was held to a 0-0 draw by Corinthians in the first leg of the Sao Paulo state final.
The return match will be next weekend, when defending champion Santos will have the advantage of playing at home at the Vila Belmiro stadium. Another draw will prompt a penalty shootout.
Neymar, currently the most talked-about player in Brazilian football, created the best scoring chances but came up just short of finding the net at the Pacaembu stadium.
The Brazil striker struck the right post in the 23rd minute after dribbling past a defender and firing an angled shot from close range. The shot beat Corinthians goalkeeper …
Barcelona has signed captain Carles Puyol to a three-year contract extension that keeps the defender with the Spanish champions through 2013.
Barcelona says on its Web site that the 31-year-old Spain international's buy-out clause was set at euro10 million ($14.8 million).
Puyol said he was "very …
