LITTLE ROCK — Ronda Holder
of Tampa, Fla., said she and her husband have tried everything to get their 15-year-old to shape up academically with no results, so last week she made James Mond III wear for nearly four hours a sign that said, among other things, “GPA 1.22 ... honk if I need education.”
George Papandreou, prime minister of Greece, said in a speech in Berlin that his government won’t sell islands to help reduce the country’s debt load and instead plans “to make our islands green prototypes for tourism.”
Former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and former President George H.W. Bush, a Republican, have been selected as the honorary co-chairmen of the University of Arizona’s National Institute for Civil Discourse, which aims to promote civility in political discourse.
Julian Acree, 27, a Virginia man who got lost while snowboarding on Mount Hood in Oregon, has been rescued after spending a night in temperatures that dipped into the low teens.
Lt. Col. Mutuare Daniel Kibibi, 46, a Congo army officer, has been convicted of crimes against humanity for ordering his troops to attack the village of Fizi, after a trial in which 49 women testified they were raped during the violence.
Philip Murrah
said he and other cowboys, in Memphis for the United States Team Roping Championships, helped out a horse on Beale Street after the animal slipped on manure and its back legs went into a drainage hole in the street, adding that patrons of the Rum Boogie Cafe, where the cowboys had been dining, gave“us the biggest applause and stuff when we got the horse out of there.”
John Diller, general manager of the Sugarloaf ski resort in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, said the chair lift that caused eight injuries when it failed in December is back in operation.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former head of the Soviet Union, blasted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev for saying that they will decide between them who should run for president in Russia’s March 2012 election, saying such statements are a show of “incredible conceit” and disrespect for voters.
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