Archive for April, 2009
Soccer-English Premier League top scorers
April 26 (Reuters) – English Premier League top scorers on
Sunday.
17 Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
15 Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea)
13 Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
Robinho (Manchester City)
12 Frank Lampard (Chelsea)
Gabriel [...]
Wayne Rooney: Premier League Is Ours To Lose
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has stated that the Red Devils are in the driving seat to claim yet another Premier League title.
The former Everton striker also thinks that the title is now United’s to lose, and feels the victory against Tottenham Hotspur was vital in their quest for another domestic championship.
The Red Devils appeared [...]
Small businesses in line for tax cut
Lawmakers want to cut levy but no consenses yet on how.
Small Texas businesses are pretty much the only taxpayers in line to get some tax relief from the Legislature this session.
A broad-based coalition of lawmakers, including Gov. Rick Perry, is pushing for changes to the state’s new business tax to reduce the impact on small [...]
The Sales Profession: Attention Must Still Be Paid
ASIDE from some gardening and baby-sitting in my neighborhood when I was a child, my first summer job was in the summer of 1962, just before my first year of college. It was at Shoe Giant, a large discount shoe store in Langley Park, in Prince George’s County of Maryland, and I got the job [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )X-Men Origins: Wolverine Press Conference
Interview with Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Will.I.Am, Tayalor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and director Gavin Hood.
This first chapter in the X-Men saga unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Reprising the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Summer attraction: Hollywood’s $1 billion movie marketing blitz
HOLLYWOOD — You know times are getting tough in the movie business when an entourage of studio executives, instead of flying by private jet to Sacramento to attend a screening, is forced to ride-share to Chatsworth.
Universal Pictures, clamping down on costs, moved a test screening of its recent sequel “Fast & Furious” to the Los [...]
Red Faction: Guerrilla
I like destruction. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of creating a great big mess, be it with tools or your own bare hands. Dust, dirt, debris, carnage – I love it. Red Faction: Guerrilla offers exploration at the other end of the scale usually found in videogames – hunting down keys to doors that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mexico flu sparks worldwide fear
Mexican authorities have taken drastic measures to contain a new strain of the swine flu virus that has killed 81 and prompted fears of a global pandemic.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )U.S., Iraqi troops wage new offensive against al-Qaida north of Baghdad
Special Report: Tension escalates in Iraq
TIKRIT, Iraq, April 26 (Xinhua) — U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by aircraft launched a pre-dawn offensive on Sunday to flush out al-Qaida militants from their strongholds in Salahudin province, said a provincial security source.
The operation begun around midnight with heavy bombardment by U.S. [...]
Sri Lanka Rejects Tamil Tiger Ceasefire
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers rebels announced a unilateral cease-fire Sunday, saying they will halt fighting to allow humanitarian workers into the war zone to help civilian.
The Sri Lanka government immediately rejected the offer. Sri Lanka’s Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa told Reuters news agency the rebel group’s announcement is “a joke” because the rebels are [...]
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