| Big Day Out DJs talk about their Big Day Out
His wife, meant to accompany him on the tour Down Under, is instead stuck at home in New York looking after their sick dog. ‘‘I need to play the gigs, then just get to my hotel and turn the computer on and put the camera on and try to co-ordinate -- I'm the one on the phone with the dog hospital -- just to take some of the pressure off my wife, 'cos we're a team,'' Murphy says. But the show must go on -- ‘‘It was like a personal thing for me'' Murphy says, explaining that for the past few years the timing was just not right to get the LCD band on the BDO. It was now or never. And Murphy -- who went from sleeping on the floor of his DFA label office to fronting one of the most adored outfits in dance music (‘‘pop'', he'll argue) -- for one is glad that LCD's time is now, when he's 37.
Team Telegraph day 4: Get your clicks on the virtual catwalk
Go online if you want to avoid the sales queues, says Hilary Alexander So, you've broken your resolutions already. The credit squeeze is as pressing a problem as your too-tight jeans, and a month of serious dressing up has completely sapped your energy for grooming. .
2008 has to be a less stressful sports year
Washington Redskins star safety Sean Taylor dies from a gunshot wound to his leg. A rich pro athlete is targeted and killed. It isn't all fun and games and fat bank accounts. 6. Floyd Landis loses his 2006 Tour de France title after a panel rules he committed a doping violation when he tested positive for synthetic testosterone. 5. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell creates a new league conduct policy under which Pacman Jones, Chris Henry, Tank Johnson and Michael Vick are suspended. 4. Marion Jones relinquishes five medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics after admitting she used steroids and pleading guilty to lying to federal investigators. A sad story of glory to disgrace. 3. NBA referee Tim Donaghy pleads guilty to two federal charges related to the FBI investigation that he bet on games in which he officiated and made calls affecting point spreads in those games.
Local golf: Cook, Sluman commit to ACE Group Classic
Cook said in a conference call last week that he would be coming to Naples' Champions Tour event, from Feb. 11-17 at Quail West Golf & Country Club. Sluman had indicated at last month's Merrill Lynch Shootout in Naples that he would be playing. Both are technically rookies on the tour, even though they both played a handful of tournaments last year. “It is exciting to see these seasoned veterans making the transition from the PGA Tour to the Champions Tour,'' tournament director Jason Camp said in a press release. “John has already won in his brief time as a 50-year-old, and Jeff is not far behind with several top-25 finishes. I know they want to make a big splash in 2008, and we are happy to have them in Naples for what we hope is the first of many memorable efforts.'' Cook won in his second start at the AT&T Classic in San Antonio in mid-October.
Piecing together 2008
As 2008 dawns, Ideas ponders the signals that ideas send. Ideas foretell the future. With ideas, we can choose the future. Such a simple, underrated idea. How it works: The Frank Gehry masterpiece rising now on Dundas St. in Toronto is an idea; conceived, selected, being created. Electric cars and wind turbines are ideas, with implications for tomorrow; so are the minutiae of special bins for garbage pick-up and the immensity of the Large Hadron Collider (a.k.a. ``The Answer Machine,'' to be discussed), which promises to reveal secrets about how the universe works at the sub-atomic level. The notion that the future can be determined is reassuring. Aren't scientists saying much can be done about global warming, in fact telling us what? And it is thought-provoking: The big idea renders something we think of as indeterminate something we choose instead.
AllAboardToys.com Announces Best Toys for 2007
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Clinton denies running a scorched-earth campaign
They are appealing to that kind of implicit racial bias," said Shanto Iyengar, a political science professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. "I think they are getting pretty close to the tipping point if they keep showing that style of campaigning where they attack Obama repeatedly." Clinton, with her high negative ratings, must hold on to the Democratic base if she is to be successful. She received an early indication of those risks in the Michigan primary when only she and the leftwing candidate, Dennis Kucinich, were on the ballot. African-American voters, who make up a quarter of the state's Democratic electors, chose to vote for "uncommitted" rather than Clinton. Although Obama performs strongly among independents, pollsters admit that he has a smaller margin of success because of voters who simply may not vote for an African-American candidate - even if they will not say so in public.
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