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KINGMAN, Ariz. -- It's apparently going to take more than a sluggish economy, a mortgage loan crisis and a housing market that's been put to sleep to keep Southern Nevada homebuilder Jim Rhodes off the radar in northwest Arizona. Some 300 people crowded into a Kingman middle school cafeteria on Thursday for the unveiling of the master-planned community Rhodes wants to develop on 5,000 acres in nearby Golden Valley, about 110 miles south of Las Vegas. Eight hundred people hold reservations for lots in Pravada, which could total as many as 25,000 homes at full build-out, roughly four times as many as Rhodes has built over the years in Las Vegas. Rhodes Homes Arizona Vice President Chris Stephens expressed confidence that about 2,000 homes will be built there within five years.
Court considers plan for sale of troubled nursing home chain
New Haven (AP) _ A federal bankruptcy judge is considering a plan that could result in the sale of the financially troubled Haven Healthcare nursing home chain. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says a $50 million loan is the main component of a plan to stabilize the chain, making it more marketable to investors and companies that have expressed a strong interest in buying some or all of the homes. The plan calls for a bidding process to be approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Albert S. Dabrowski by April 1 and for the auction of the homes by May 23. Haven Healthcare filed for bankruptcy protection in November. .
International-program leader to leave county school system
The recent graduation ceremony for the fourth class in the Howard County schools' International Parent Leadership Program was bittersweet, because it also marked the departure of its coordinator, Young-chan Han.
Han -- who has accepted a job as parent-involvement specialist with the Program Improvement and Family Support Branch of the Maryland State Department of Education -- will work with families in Maryland's Title I schools, which serve large numbers of low-income children.
"I was ready for a challenge and something different," Han, 46, said. "I think that it is a good match."
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DON'T BET AGAINST 'EM
The Giants have done one of the toughest things to do in American team sports and that is to be the wild-card team and make it to the Super Bowl. You have to win three games against very tough opponents on the road. That's a tough, tough thing, and they did it. I'm very happy for Eli Manning. I don't know if people today, especially younger generations, realize that his father, Archie, may be the single most underrated quarterback ever. With the Saints, he was stuck on a bad team his whole career, but he was like another Roger Staubach, a great quarterback. .
Excerpt from `Defying Dixie'
Then it moved from the political to the personal to guarantee white supremacy. The system, which most people simply called Jim Crow, offered a color-coded solution for every human deed and thought, from where one might urinate to how far one's ambition might soar. Because it was so all-encompassing, it required constant policing and terrible, swift punishment of violations, willful or not. Taken piecemeal, Jim Crow might have seemed arbitrary. Why was it wrong for a white man to sit down and eat supper with the black woman who had nursed him as a baby? If a black man must step off a sidewalk to make way for important white men, should he not also pull his car off the road to make way for white drivers who overtook him on the highway? And why did a little white boy grow up to be mister and a little black boy grow up to be, simply, boy? These weren't the kinds of things a white man could learn overnight if suddenly confronted with black people on the streets of New York, London, or Cape Town.
The Curse of Zog?
Black candidate rather than an American candidate, Obama is no longer in the running to be MY candidate. Meanwhile, alert emailer L argues-- Look at the exit polls out of Nevada (the only state so far that has a significant minority pop.) and the problem Obama has is with white women, not whites in general. White women were the largest segment of the voters (38%) and Hillary won them by 24 points, compared to just 6 points among white men. Clinton Obama white men 46% 40% white women 55% 31% non-white men 39% 55% non-white women 43% 51% I don't think that those women are voting for Hillary because he's black or they really like her. Just judging from the conversations I've had with women (who are mostly white) who are torn between Obama and Hillary, the "experience" question begins to take on gender and age aspects...
Surprising Few, Italy’s Government Collapses
After the government fell briefly in February 2007, it collapsed fatally on Monday, after Mr. Prodi's former justice minister, Clemente Mastella, withdrew the three votes he controlled in the Senate. That left Mr. Prodi without a majority there. But rather than resign immediately, Mr. Prodi, 68, a former economics professor and European Commission president, demanded confidence votes in the two houses of Parliament. Although he won a vote in the lower chamber on Wednesday, it seemed unlikely from the start that he could ultimately survive. So the confidence votes turned into something like a two-day wake, with Mr. Prodi whose sober and high-minded demeanor is often compared to that of a parish priest presiding over his own government's funeral. On Thursday he told senators it was not "stubbornness" that caused him to press the confidence votes, but a desire to underline publicly each lawmaker's responsibility to make reforms that he said were "urgently needed." He strongly defended his government's accomplishments, including a modest increase in economic growth starting from zero and said Italy needed "continuity" to make real change.
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