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My grandmother is 84 and she doesn't get excited about anything," Bennett explained to Buzz, laughing. "I've graduated college and bought a house, but when I got cast on ['Y&R'] she was over the moon!" Natch, Grandma wanted a full report on her faves Jeanne Cooper and Jess Walton, who play Katherine Chancellor and Jill Foster Abbott, the soap's legendary battling mother-and-daughter duo. "Since I play Sally Rollins, a finalist in their Jabot 'Star Faces' competition, I got to work with both of them," Bennett says. "I had to meet Jeanne Cooper. She's got this wonderfully dry sense of humor and she's very old-school Hollywood. She had everyone laughing right before shooting." Bennett says she was shocked when the soap's casting reps asked her to extend her stay so she could shoot two additional days.
The Bell report on Ski Sunday, part two
Hi everyone, here's what's coming up on Ski Sunday this week (27 January, 1900-2000, BBC Two and BBC Sport website) and all the latest news from the slopes.
So another year goes by and still Bode Miller is without his Hahnenkamm downhill win.
Miller was lying in joint first with Mario Scheiber when Didier Cuche pushed them back into second. On camera, their reactions could not have been more different, Scheiber, who had skied the best run of his life shrugged it off with a smile, Miller stomped off.
For Miller a win on the Hahnenkamm would mean more than Olympic or World Championship golds.
What was worse for Miller is that he would have won comfortably if he had not run into the net at the foot of the Steilhang. In typical Miller style he managed to get both skis up onto the safety nets, yet still not lose too much speed.
Pro football’s political cheerleaders
The wild card in this game of musical chairs is who will inherit Parks' seat on the City Council should Parks move to the Board of Supervisors. We do not know who that person will be or what position on the NFL that person will take.
However, looking for something that would "affect the dynamics of football in the city" is not just about elections. The way we do things in L.A., an NFL team is a private investment. As I said yesterday, government's role is to provide leadership and help make the investment attractive with a good regulatory and tax climate. But government should not spend our tax money on this. Investors with deep pockets who are acceptable to the NFL must step forward and take the financial risk to make this happen. The emergence of such a person or persons is what will have the most effect on the dynamics of bringing the NFL to Los Angeles.
Hit the trail
Managing editor Gary Graham was reluctant to put today's immigration protest on the front page because of the relatively small size of the crowd. Senior editor Carla Savalli, on the other hand, said that given the prominence of the issue nationally, Spokane's response, regardless of crowd size, is an important news event in the community. We've got it slated for the page one centerpiece as of right now, but things could change before tomorrow morning. And speaking of crowd size, the number in our story shifted somewhat this afternoon. Virginia de Leon's original estimate was 200, photographer Jed Conklin thought it was around 100, which we used for a while to err on the side of caution. Veteran reporter and crowd-counter Jim Camden estimates 160 marching and 250 at the courthouse, which is the number we're reporting for now.
Lame Duck'' citizens and the global economy
The fact remains that people are reluctant to utter the word ''depression'', and therefore all we are left with are the words of all those experts who created the mess in the first place. by Pablo Ouziel (UN Observer) In regards to our "global economy", one is better off reading Dostoevsky's "The Gambler" and saying to himself, "at the present moment I must repair to the roulette-table", than listening to George Bush deluding himself about the fact that "while there is some uncertainty, the financial markets are strong and solid." The truth is, our global markets have become a "lame duck" and all we can do is wait for the next disaster to shake the corrupt foundation on which things have been run. As Hugues Rialan, managing director in charge of discretionary asset management at Robeco France puts it, 'if they [financial institutions] had a much more transparent communication, we would not have all the bombshells, or rumors of bombshells, that we're having today, with all the negative implications for the market.' The fact remains that people are reluctant to utter the word "depression", and therefore all we are left with are the words of all those experts who created the mess in the first place.
Bowdoin to replace all loans with grants
College graduation is often associated with freedom. But with tuition costs at an all-time high, Bowdoin graduates often find themselves shackled by student loan debt years after receiving their degrees. No more. The College announced last week that it will replace all its loans with permanent grants beginning in the fall in an attempt to ease the amount of money students owe when they graduate. "The student loan burden that we have imposed on studentsthat has grown over the last 10 yearsis at a level that makes it very difficult for students at the College while they're here," said President Barry Mills in an online video released with the announcement. "It makes it very difficult for them as they think about their career options for the future." Tuition and fees totaled $46,260 this yearalmost $20,000 more than they did a decade ago.
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