Chicago Tribune - I once wrote that Scott Skiles was Larry Brown Lite. I meant it as a compliment. You hire Skiles as a coach and you get better, like with Brown. He’s smart and demanding. Those are good things. He sees the game more quickly and clearly than most

Hitler comments land Will Smith in hot water
Chicago Tribune - In a recent interview with The Daily Record , a Scottish newspaper, Smith said even Hitler “didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’” “I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to

And on earth peace, good will toward men
Tri-City Herald - And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace

Fire sprinklers may be required in new University Park homes
Houston Chronicle - Phillip Fristoe, president of Phillip-Jennings Custom Homes, said lower-cost volume homebuilders could be concerned about the cost. But in University Park, where new homes often are worth more than $1 million, $10,000 to $15,000 in installation costs

The brightness of the day
Boston Globe - By the 17th century, the poet Robert Herrick was putting a familiar custom to rhyme: The Christmas Log to the firing; While my good Dame, she Bids ye all be free; And drink to your heart’s desiring. That was all too frivolous for the Puritans, who took a

Peril in plastic?
Baltimore Sun - There is a roaring battle these days over whether a chemical called Bisphenol A is dangerous to humans. The chemical is ubiquitous - used to harden plastic in consumer products including baby bottles, food containers, cling wrap, toys, CDs

Raiders’ Russell puts Jags in awe
Orlando Sentinel - Jacksonville’s initial impressions of the first pick in the 2007 draft? That JaMarcus Russell is one large man. “I told the left tackle, ‘Man, you need to switch with Russell. You’re smaller than him,’ ” OLB Clint Ingram said. “A lot of them [near

The Sweetest Sound Of The Season
Hartford Courant - NORTH HAVEN - The young members of the chorus enter the gym in a ragged line, most on foot, a few in wheelchairs. Their parents sit before them, holding video cameras or digital point-and-shoots; their schoolmates huddle on mats on the floor. Some of

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