| Obama campaign reports $32-million infusion
On the Republican side, the leading candidates were recovering from a contentious debate Wednesday night. Former Massachustetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigned in a wide swath from Long Beach to an evening rally scheduled in San Diego.
Arizona Sen. John McCain campaigned in Los Angeles and picked up the endorsement of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger had signaled on Wednesday that he would back McCain, so there was little suspense in today's formal announcement at a solar energy business in Los Angeles.
Also attending today's news conference was former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who formally dropped out of the presidential race on Wednesday after he was trounced in the Florida primary.
In a year-end filing with the Federal Election Commission, Giuliani disclosed that he had raised $58.5 million and had spent $48.8 million in 2007.
BOYS TENNIS: DV duo makes sacrifice for betterment of team
They could have been champions. After finishing as the runners-up in the state 5A Division I tennis doubles championship last year, Desert Vista’s Barnaby and Ahmad Saleem could have had the inside track to the title this season. Instead, they decided to take one for the team. "They came to me and said they would like to split up this year because they thought it would put us in a better position to win two doubles matches every day and take the pressure off everyone else in the single," Desert Vista coach Wayne Brimley explained. Brimley may be in his first season as a boys varsity tennis coach, but he’s worn a whistle around his neck long enough to be open to a legitimate proposal. "Barnaby and Saleem would have had a good shot at state," Brimley said. "I was going to leave them together.
Middlesbrough is the most depressed place in England
A News of the World study has found that more than 32 million anti-depressant prescriptions are issued nationally each year— that's one every SECOND. And Middlesbrough people pop more than anywhere else, taking £7.58 worth each. Misery It won't do them any good to move up the road to anther part of the north-east. Near neighbours Gateshead, Redcar and Cleveland, and Newcastle come next on the national misery list. Boro's home-grown celebs aren't much of a giggle either. They include Road To Hell rock star Chris Rea, Wendy Richard (miserable Pauline Fowler in EastEnders), magician Paul Daniels (you'll like it...not a lot) and wacky comic Bob Mortimer. Amazingly, the place which spends the least on happy pills is down-at-heel Newham in east London, at only £1.83 a head.
Blake breezes past fellow American Warburg at San Jose ATP
A wild card, Levine posted a 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 victory over Steve Darcis of Belgium on Monday.
Blake is trying to erase memories of Sunday's shocking loss to Japanese teen Kei Nishikori in the final of the Delray Beach tournament.
Nishikori, who became the first Japanese player since 1992 to win an ATP singles title, also is in the field here on a sponsor's exemption. He won't see Blake unless the players reach the final.
But he could get a chance to pull off his second giant-killing episode in as many weeks if he gets past Diego Hartfield in the first round.
His second round opponent would likely be top seeded American Andy Roddick, who begins opening round play on Wednesday.
Picked off by Nishikori in the Delray Beach semi-finals, American Sam Querrey lost again Tuesday to German qualifier Denis Gremelmayr 5-7, 7-6 (7/1), 6-3.
Cell Therapeutics to grow sales staff amid overall cuts
Seattle biotechnology company Cell Therapeutics said Wednesday it will shrink its staff as it gears up to market a recently acquired product. The company will add 13 jobs in sales and marketing for its new Zevalin cancer therapy, while the total U.S. work force is reduced to 133 from 151, spokesman Dan Eramian said. That means 31 other positions will be eliminated. "We believe the best way to maximize shareholder value now is to focus our resources on our marketed and late-stage products," said James Bianco, president and CEO. "It is with great disappointment that we must reduce head count elsewhere in order to meet these goals." The company expects to reduce its net operating expenses by 35 percent and projects net cash operating expenses of $77 million in 2008.
Now playing: The week of Feb. 29
These cut-and-paste comedies are so worn out that they long ago ran out of genre movies to goof on. The latest is a straight "300" parody that is anything but "straight." A C-list cast dons Greek wear and fake six-packs and flops around in front of blue-screen effects. To little effect. "" R. Moore. (PG-13: crude, sexual content throughout; language; some comic violence.) 1 hour, 13 minutes. F "MICHAEL CLAYTON": As a fixer for a big New York law firm, George Clooney doses the title character's every word and deed with the weighted-down feeling of a man who's drowning. There's a hum of anger to the performance, like the sound of a fluorescent light. Always on. This paranoid thriller is the directing debut of Tony Gilroy, one of Hollywood's top writers, and the surprise is that it's his script "" which sometimes lacks the clammy sense of fear that it's going for "" that lets the movie down.
December 2006 Archives
Oh, and I love how they released this on a Friday night before a long holiday weekend. (Flashback to Nick and Jessica – Thanksgiving 2005.) Again, that's the typical celeb move so that the shock of it will be over on Tuesday when all the entertainment writers are back at work. But this is the Internet age, fools. We're on the case 24/7. Also I should add that Michael has a reputation of playing around on the wifey for years. Now he can play all he wants. .
The Gangsters of Drew Street, Glassell Park
And the son that some law enforcement officials described as the worst of Leon's boys, Danny "Klever" Leon, lay dead in the street. The mayhem erupted at about 11:30 a.m. on February 21, when three Avenues gangsters allegedly pulled up in two cars and opened fire on 36-year-old Marcos Salas and his 2-year-old granddaughter near Aragon Avenue Elementary School in Cypress Park. Riddled with 15 bullets, Salas, who had former gang ties, was killed instantly, but the tiny toddler survived. The gangsters then exchanged gunfire with occupants of a black van — police speculate that the vehicle was probably full of Cypress Park gangsters — before heading back to Drew Street, where a series of gang-controlled homes and apartments are situated, almost mockingly, a couple of hundred yards across the train tracks from the LAPD's Northeast Station.
One-on-one with UFC's Tito Ortiz
High school wrestling success led to a college scholarship and was the vehicle that eventually took him to mixed martial arts and the UFC.
Ortiz doesn't shy away from the camera or hesitate to speak his mind on a number of topics. His showmanship and outspokenness have opened up opportunities outside the UFC that make Ortiz arguably the most recognizable fighter -- and possibly the most controversial -- in all of mixed martial arts.
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Pope calls for religious freedom in Arab countries
The Vatican has long called for greater rights for Christians in Muslim countries, particularly in Saudi Arabia, where members of the tiny Christian minority are not allowed to practise their faith in public. The Pope and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia discussed the situation of minority Christians when the king visited the Vatican last November. The Pope did not name any countries in his reference to religious freedom. He also repeated his concern about Christians leaving the Middle East because of wars, violence and insecurity. 'It is understandable that the circumstances sometimes push Christians to leave their country to find a more welcome land where they are allowed to live more freely,' he said. 'But we must encourage and firmly support those who choose to remain faithful to their land, so that it does not become an archaeological site devoid of any church life,' he said.
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