| Team Telegraph day 4: Get your clicks on the virtual catwalk
Go online if you want to avoid the sales queues, says Hilary Alexander So, you've broken your resolutions already. The credit squeeze is as pressing a problem as your too-tight jeans, and a month of serious dressing up has completely sapped your energy for grooming. .
Kevin Everett on SI cover, plans to speak to Titans
If they can add a couple more pieces in the off-season, the Texans could be pretty salty in 2008 . . . Cowboys coach Wade Phillips doesn't have much time to watch movies during football season, but you can bet he'll find a way to take wife Laurie to see Charlie Wilson's War. The film about the Lufkin congressman, which stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, casts the Phillips' daughter, Tracy, in the role of a Fort Worth belly dancer who was one of Wilson's companions during his clandestine support of anti-Soviet rebels in 1980s Afghanistan. Tracy, who is in her late 20s, was hand-picked for what is her most significant role to date by noted producer Mike Nichols. "This is her best part yet," says Wade. "We're hoping it opens some doors." The movie premieres Friday . . . PN-G ex Lew Ford will be breaking new ground for a Southeast Texas baseball player in 2008.
Reporter: Susan Ramsett
This is a holiday treat you won't want to miss. If you didn't get to see our stories about the production on NewsChannel 7 you can watch them here on our website. Videographer Erik Cieslewicz really captured all the hard work and determination behind the scenes. As you will see, these young dancers are well-trained and passionate. Even when their feet hurt and they feel out of breath, they clearly love dancing! That joy shines through in their performance. I also had the pleasure of interviewing Carlos Lopez, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, who will be playing the Nutcracker Prince. Carlos raves about the production and Wausau's historic Grand Theatre – which is a high compliment coming from someone who has performed all over the world. Thank you to the cast and crew of “The Nutcracker" for this beautiful start to the holiday season.
Anti-Bush Campaign Planned
A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to make sure President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end. Americans United for Change plans to undertake a yearlong campaign, spending the bulk of the money on advertising, to keep public attention on what the group says are the failures of the Bush administration, including the war in Iraq, the response to Hurricane Katrina, and the current mortgage crisis. In selling the plan to fundraisers, the group has argued that support for President Reagan was at a low of 42 percent in 1987 but climbed to 63 percent before he left office. "All of a sudden he became a rallying cry for conservatives and their ideology," said Brad Woodhouse, president of the group.
Full text: Bill Keller's Hugo Young lecture
I don't intend to blame the plight of the newspaper business on George Bush. He did not invent our great disrupter, the internet. (That, you recall, was Al Gore.) The Bush administration has merely fed a current of public antipathy that has been running against us for a long time, a consequence of our own failings and, perhaps, a tendency to blame the messenger when news is bad. But Mr Bush has contributed to that unwelcoming environment in at least two significant ways. First, he has rejected out of hand the quaint idea of our founders that the press has a constructive role to play in American society, and that this role consists in supplying citizens with the information to judge whether they are being well served by their government. The Bush administration believes that information is power, and that like most other forms of power it is not to be shared with those the regime does not trust.
Justin Pizzi's Reporter's Notebook
As the leaves start to change, so are the lives of the children playing on the field below, a field full of trash and divots. While Saturday morning cartoons are on tv, more than 100 kids stretch, run drills and play flag football at 33rd and Diamond in Strawberry Mansion. Rick Ford started a baseball league on the dusty diamond in the same park this summer. The start-up program drew 167 kids, mostly by word of mouth. Not one of the kids got in any trouble during the season. The ten teams played for free, thanks to equipment donated by the Phillies and Citizen's Bank. Rick says it all started with and idea and grew into something incredible and he wanted to keep the momentum going. .
Sony, Skype calling gamers
The consumer electronics industry has for many years now tried to shoe-horn a game (some would say game-like) experience on the mobile phone device, but this year, Sony swims upstream in the same waters. It has taken the PSP handheld game platform and turned it into a mobile phone -- albeit with limitations. But the value proposition for consumers is win-win. .
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