Viviana De La O, who will be 2 in May, banged a plastic box on the table in a Camino Real Hotel conference room signaling her lack of interest in adult conversation.
The following is a translation released today by Human Rights Watch of the full text of Chinese dissident Hu Jia's letter, written in September 2007 while Jia was under house arrest with civil rights lawyer Teng Biao
(Staff Photo/TONY CHRISTIAN) The Delbarton Senior Citizens Center’s Allene Ooten demonstrates the use of the audio ballot on the new electronic voting machines.
Oklahoma School for the Blind librarian Sandi Hilbern recalls buying Henry the Library Bear for $2 at a garage sale. “The kids come up and hug it,” she said. “That’s why I go to garage sales. I don’t buy things for myself. I buy for the kids.”
After trying for nearly five hours to get the two-mile oval at Auto Club Speedway dry, NASCAR called it a day, postponing the completion of the Sprint Cup series Auto Club 500 until Monday at 1 p.m. ET. The drivers had completed 87 of the scheduled 250 laps when a heavy downpour caused the third delay of the day.
Today went so awry that I, normally not a superstitious person, was looking for something or someone to blame by the end of it. While I slept, had someone in a faraway mystical land swirled oolong leaves in a tiny porcelain cup and chanted my name?