| Alastair Campbell: The Cudlipp Lecture
Thank you very much for inviting me to deliver the Cudlipp Lecture and so follow in the footsteps of some first rate media figures. Not to mention Paul Dacre. I believe I am the first Cudlipp Lecturer to have won the Cudlipp Award, 24 years ago. I do not attach too much significance to winning as the main judge was Robert Maxwell and I won it for coverage of his mercy missions to save the starving in Ethiopia. It was quite a trip. As for the highlight – it’s hard to choose between these three; when he demanded a personal butler on arrival and was told by the manager of the Addis Hilton that there was something of a shortage of butlers during the famine; the hour long meeting it took to persuade him not to come to the famine stations with us, on the grounds that pictures of Captain Bob amid the starving might not be terribly good for his image; or the day he left for home early, with a note telling us "my work here is done.
Mayor Mufi Hannemann's State of the City Speech
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Aloha and mahalo for joining me today for the annual state-of-the-City address. I realize this is a departure from the traditional address. I'm talking about the maile and ilima lei, the huge podium, the ceremonial flourishes. Don't get me wrong-I'm all for tradition and decorum. But from our first day in office a little more than three years ago, I've prided myself as a mayor who does things differently, and today we're doing something different, and I'm grateful to you for allowing me to share this with you. That song is called, "My Hawaii." It's a composition by my brother, Nephi, with an arrangement by Matt Catingub, and it captures how I feel about my work, about you, about our home. Let me acknowledge the musicians who performed earlier.
Brazile wraps up NFR in style New dad adds calf roping title to ...
The world champions of all events in the 49th annual National Finals Rodeo wave to the crowd at the Thomas & Mack Center during the awards ceremony Saturday night.
Photo by Sara Tramiel/Review-Journal.
Trevor Brazile misses the calf with his first rope in calf roping on the final night of the NFR on Saturday. Brazile won his first calf roping world championship as well as his fifth all-around championship.
Photo by John Locher.
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Gordon appeals penalty, saying it's "life-threatening" for his team
FONTANA, Calif. (AP) -Robby Gordon wants everyone to know he's no cheater. Gordon said Friday he has appealed the penalties handed down earlier this week by NASCAR, hoping the move will at least reduce the punishment for his Sprint Cup team. Gordon was docked 100 points and Robby Gordon Motorsports crew chief Frank Kerr was suspended for six races and fined $100,000 after NASCAR inspectors found an unapproved front bumper cover on his No. 7 Dodge during opening day inspection for the Daytona 500. The deduction in points dropped the only owner/driver in NASCAR's top series from ninth in the standings to 40th. He finished eighth in last Sunday's season-opening race at Daytona. Asked the biggest effect of the penalty, Gordon said, "Perception.
The Extinction of Political Debate
Congresswoman, professor and mother courage, Jordan was a well of both thought and inspiration. She was the Mahalia Jackson of political rhetoric. She combined the best attributes of both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, that is, an eye for the practical and an unswerving dedication to liberty. Jordan was her own person - the very antithesis of groupthink. Her refusal to be pigeonholed by race or class or ideology was a constant refreshment, as was the love of the Constitution that permeated her every pronouncement. How she is missed. If only her party would produce a worthy successor. … But that, too, is unlikely in these mediocre times for public speech. In one of her less than astute moves, Hillary Clinton tried to dismiss Barack Obama's gift for rhetoric as just words.
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