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Edward Albert, the actor-son of the late screen veteran Eddie Albert who first gained fame co-starring with Goldie Hawn in the 1970s film "Butterflies Are Free" and later became an outspoken environmental activist, has died. He had to sew in new tubes and put Nick's new heart on a different bypass machine -- smaller and portable, so it could leave the operating room with him.Plunkett's hands moved across and into Nick's chest, cutting new holes, putting in the new tubes. Paul, Minn., told jurors that the violent confrontation happened after he inadvertently trespassed on private property in Rice Lake, Wis., and one of the hunters swore at him and used racial slurs.During his two-and-a-half hour testimony at the Sawyer County Courthouse, Vang said he feared for his life after one of the hunters shot at him, and believed the others were running away to get more guns."Can you tell me, on that day, did they deserve to die?" asked Wisconsin Atty Gen. One head was up and one was down."*Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, won't make his first start as a 5-year-old in today's $75,000 Kings Point Handicap at Aqueduct.Scheduled to start as the 127-pound highweight for Sackatoga Stable, the Distorted Humor gelding was declared out of the 1 1/8 -mile race on Saturday by trainer Barclay Tagg."I won't run him," he said. Bernard Parish, southeast of the French Quarter, trying to evacuate more than 300 patients, medical staff and refugees who clambered to the roof for safety. So far, this balancing act has worked, though there will be times when it proves impossible.

Annual NATO exercises make it impossible for them to harvest the waters, and for many years the government compensated them for that with cash. The label decided on another that stuck: Donnie Brooks."A donnybrook is a riotous occasion, and Donnie was a riot," said his friend Howard Thomason. Investment firms Blackstone Group and Providence Equity Partners Inc. I'm going to be there to support her," Coleman said when asked whether his wife's arrest influenced his decision.He also just welcomed home his son, J.D., from Iraq.Democrats see 2006 as an opportunity to take back the state's top office, held by Republicans since 1990.Taft's conviction on ethics charges and an investment scandal clouding his administration drew the attention of Strickland, who announced his candidacy in May after saying three months earlier that he wasn't interested..

The congressman, sitting closer to an oil portrait of Ronald Reagan, gave Villaraigosa a coffee-table book about the Capitol."Isn't this great?" the mayor cracked. Such practices are illegal in California.Title insurance is required by lenders in home purchases and refinancings to ensure that property ownership is undisputed. Why? Because fiction can deal with the essence of our human condition, unlike history, which is tied to what actually happened.What truth, then, does the Anna Nicole Smith story tell us? Take your pick:"What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?""The American dream is just that; a dream.""Love of money is the root of all evil.""Diamonds are a girl's best friend."And, finally, that truth of truths, given classic expression in Anita Loos' title for her perennially readable story -- "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."You'll strike oil everywhere in Victorian fiction Trollope used the plot many times. Emerson finished with a 70.*Gil Morgan and Dana Quigley, the leaders in the clubhouse when rain suspended play, will have to wait until today to find out whether they'll meet in a sudden-death playoff for the Champions Tour's Bayer Advantage Classic title at Overland Park, Kan.When the storm system that has plagued the tournament all week forced the suspension of play Sunday, three players were still on the course within three strokes of the leaders.. That tactic has been discussed periodically over the years, but most reporters are unlikely to skip a briefing their rivals will cover.

For several years, Vioxx was the most aggressively promoted drug on the market, with direct-to-consumer advertising spending reaching almost $300 million between 2000 and 2001.Celebrex, which came under scrutiny by the FDA and is being marketed now with stronger warning labels, was a close second in its promotional budget. It also would give tacit approval to the destructive notion that noncombatants are fair game in war as long as the bottom line stays intact. He said the center would relay information between families and the morgue.Several families said their frantic calls to FEMA and state officials were taken by people who were either indifferent or unable to provide any information. That the premise -- and the bantering exchanges resulting from it -- seems better suited to a sitcom pilot than the stage is hardly surprising, given author Wil Calhoun's pedigree as a writer and co-executive producer of "Friends.""Wacker" was penned by a younger Calhoun, during a temp stint in a company mailroom. It can make for some interesting lists as former players are honored around conference tournament time.The Atlantic Coast Conference will honor 12 players -- one from each school -- as Basketball Legends next month in Greensboro, N.C., but five of them never played in the ACC.The seven players honored for what they did in the ACC are: Billy Cunningham of North Carolina (1963-65), Buck Williams of Maryland (1979-81), Chris Whitney of Clemson (1992-93), Mark Alarie of Duke (1983-86), Drew Barry of Georgia Tech (1993-96), Curtis Staples of Virginia (1995-98) and Rusty LaRue of Wake Forest (1993-96).The five who made their mark in a different conference are: Dana Barros of Boston College (1986-89, Big East), George McCloud of Florida State (1986-89, Metro), Dick Hickox of Miami (1959-61, Independent), Bobby Speight of North Carolina State (1951-53, Southern) and Dell Curry of Virginia Tech (1983-86, Metro).The Legends will be introduced at halftime of the first semifinal game on Saturday, March 11.*Elon has clinched first place in the North Division of the Southern Conference, the school's first league title of any kind since winning the NAIA's Carolinas Conference in 1971.