Battle hots up for 300,000 don't knows (The Scotsman) VICIOUS personal attacks by party leaders; unauthorised internet campaigning; endorsements from multi-million-pound footballers, actors and even a tandoori restaurateur....more...Sunday baseball notes (Home News Tribune) NO DEAL AT DINNER: The new Esquire has an interesting piece on Barry Zito that raises some questions about how the Mets negotiated with the lefty last winter....more... How fortunate, how fragile, and how insignificant we are (The Scotsman) IT IS called the "Blue Marble". The image of Earth, reduced to a child's toy suspended in the blackness of space....more... Buehrle besieged by media requests (MLB.com) Buehrle besieged by media requests...more... I agreed with Bill Shankly's quote about the greatest day of the English season being FA Cup Semi-Final day. At 20 ... (Shankly Gates) Same ground, same opponents and we were to wear red again. I took my lucky scarf. No need for superstition though; it was gonna be the same outcome as last season... a win and the Reds to Wembley again!...more... So much for world progress. We have failed. We?re stuck (Times Online) Some months ago a fellow guest at a college dinner dictated to me, as I scribbled on a slip of paper, a quote I didn?t want to forget. It is beside me now as I write....more... Pope takes orthodox line on evolution and avoids ID controversy (The Scotsman) POPE Benedict, elaborating his views on evolution for the first time as Pontiff, says science has narrowed the way life's origins are understood and Christians should take a broader approach to the question....more... Born again ... and born to win with God on his side (The Scotsman) BEFORE the start of the competition he was ranked 56th in the world, had never won a Major and was given odds of 200-1....more... What is a Christian? (The Times and Democrat) The headline scrolled across the television channel as I was exercising one day last week. I wondered how the news media would answer that question. Then I wondered how I would answer that question, because I claim the Christian faith to be the basis of my being....more... |