Kentucky Education Commissioner Jon Draud knew and approved the extra cost of his new state vehicle, even after a finance official offered him a chance to reconsider because of the state’s bleak budget, government e-mails show.
In a March 20 e-mail to Robin Kinney, the education department’s associate commissioner for operations, Mitchell wrote that “all other [...]

I havejust spent five weeks working and experiencing life in China, with fellow dairy farmer Peter Ferguson. While it was good to return on Easter Monday to good, green Southland grass, there was a lot about China and the Chinese that impressed us.
Our first stop was on the outskirts of Tianjin, Chinas fourth largest city [...]

“I’m very concerned with the international situation and what’s happening in Tibet,” Rogge said Monday at a meeting of the IOC and national Olympic committees in Beijing.”The torch relay has been targeted. The International Olympic Committee has expressed its serious concern and calls for a rapid peaceful resolution in Tibet,” Rogge said in a brief [...]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Comedy Central is moving
into the fantasy arena with a live-action series dubbed “Krod
Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire.”
In addition, the cable network is partnering on projects
with Snoop Dogg, Andy Richter and David Alan Grier.
“Krod Mandoon,” set to premiere in the first quarter of
2009, centers on a [...]

By Larry Worth
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - All talk and no action is
fine, at least if the talk is interesting. Sadly, that’s not
the case with “Conversations in Tusculum.”
The potential was there, however, starting with a plot
that’s basically a prequel to Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”
Also promising is the fact that it’s helmed and written [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States told China on Friday to act with restraint when dealing with protesters in Tibet and again asked Beijing to talk to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
U.S. ambassador to China, Clark Randt, used a meeting with senior Chinese officials in Beijing to formally voice U.S. concern over violence in [...]

Before now, I had my favourites.
I had a sneaking liking for Cristina, and of course, Dr Bailey.
I liked George, and Izzy, but the rest I could take or leave. I fell neither into the McDreamy nor the McSteamy camp, just enjoying the incidental byplay, medical goings-on and the speedy dialogue.
Now, however, what is there? Theres [...]