Maria Shriver says President Barack Obama's joke comparing his poor bowling score to that of a Special Olympics athlete was hurtful, although she is sure he didn't mean it that way.
California's first lady issued a statement Friday, a day after the president made the gaffe on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Obama later called Maria's brother, Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver, to …
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1909: Anthony Chadwick, alleged dynamiter, failing to secure $2,500 bail, was taken to the county jail. Some felt Chadwick was mentally unbalanced. On his way to Lake George, he said he was delighted with the prospect of remaining in the jail during the winter.
1959: In his first message to the Legislature, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller said the state's fiscal affairs were in a serious condition of …
SCHENECTADY Northeast Parent & Child Society is seeking volunteers to help raise funds for the children's shelter building campaign by participating in the June 3 Freihofer's Community Walk.
Proceeds raised by Northeast walkers at the event from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the Empire State Plaza will be used toward the construction of a new emergency shelter.
The 91-year-old shelter is a three-story wooden structure which is out of compliance for modern safety codes. Northeast officials said the building is cramped and …
Jose Molina hit a two-out RBI double to cap a four-run eighth inning, and the New York Yankees came back to beat Seattle Mariners 6-5 on Sunday.
The Yankees extended their season-best win streak to five games, while the Mariners have lost a season-worst six in a row.
New York was down 5-2 coming into the eighth and had been 0-23 when trailing after seven innings. Derek Jeter led off with a walk against reliever Sean Green. Arthur Rhodes came in for the lefty-on-lefty matchup against Bobby Abreu, who doubled to drive in Jeter.
In came closer J.J. Putz (1-2) to try to get the six-out save. Instead, he got the loss. Putz walked Alex Rodriguez and struck …
"Originally I thought I would model the series after Plato's Dialogues but then I thought that would be a bit much," Roni Horn said about her books. She chose Diderot's Encyclopaedia instead. Never mind; modesty is not a virtue in art, and the six publications that now constitute Horn's ongoing series, To Place, have defied it with progressive vigor.
The most recent, Haraldsdottir, is a wordless volume of similarly composed, full-bleed, tightly cropped head shots of an athletic-looking young blond named Margret. The photos are both black and white and, later in the hook, full color. Sometimes there are two to a spread, and when they appear one at a time, they jump from left to right in unpredictable rhythms. Margret is always wet, and sometimes visibly up to her chin in water. Her expression varies, subtly at first, from impassive to angry to quizzical to just barely off guard. When her tightly clamped mouth finally opens to show a bit of tooth - it's hardly a smile - the effect is almost comically erotic.
Haraldsdottir is the first book in To Place that constructs anything like a personal narrative (it is also the first to be preceded by an exhibition of its images). But in most important ways it is consistent with Horn's …
Airport operator BAA Ltd. won its appeal Monday against a U.K. government ruling that it must sell three of its airports, successfully arguing that a conflict of interest had biased the investigation into its business.
Britain's Competition Commission ruled in March that BAA, which had a monopoly on London's main airports, should sell off three of the seven facilities it owns across Britain, including London's Gatwick and Stansted. But BAA argued that one of the members of the commission had been biased against by virtue of his work for the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, which is linked to the Manchester Airport Group _ a potential buyer for the airports BAA would …
