Houston — shares QUANELL X states stared confidently into the television camera and told a heart-tugging tale about the frail man sitting by his side:Dennis Garnier was roughed up and disrespected, all because police didn't have their facts straight A SWAT team burst into his house and hogtied him. He was trapped in the attic of a burning house; colleagues pulled him from the rubble. For most of the next 9 1/2 years, he was minimally conscious, unaware of his surroundings and unable to communicate. Until one day. That single day -- April 30, 2005 -- means everything to Linda Herbert and her family, and it's the subject of a new book. That was the day her husband suddenly awoke. "Where's Linda?" he asked. It appeared that an experimental combination of brain-stimulating drugs begun two years earlier had sparked something. For 16 wondrous hours, Donald Herbert spoke nearly nonstop, catching up with the four sons who had become men while he slept, and with the wife and fire department friends who had prayed so long for this very chance. In the next weeks and months, there were hopeful and happy moments -- Herbert, though virtually blind, threw footballs with his sons from his wheelchair -- but none came close to that initial burst of lucidity. All too soon, he was back to the "minimally conscious state" that had defined him before. The game didn't mean anything, but that didn't stop Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Art Thiel from pushing the Raiders' faces a little deeper into the turf. "The Raiders have fallen so far they're not worth booing," Thiel wrote. When the expert was not granted access to the original tapes by the FBI, the lawsuit says, the Skrzypeks took their lawyer's advice and sought out a second forensics expert: Pellicano. About November 2001, according to the lawsuit, the couple contacted Pellicano at his Sunset Strip offices and retained him to test the government tapes. He will fill in some of the biographical details that people may not know. "The more public her husband's role, the more the campaign may remind voters of a controversial theme from the 1992 presidential race -- the Clintons as a "two-for-the-price-of-one" package. Campaigns aim to look forward, yet Bill Clinton is unavoidably a figure from history, evoking memories good and bad. "It's tricky," said Donna Brazile, a longtime Democratic strategist.

Palace CouncilA NovelStephen L CarterAlfred A . Residents boast about its low crime rate and -- given its proximity to Chicago -- lack of factories. While Obama is considered the Democrat of choice by much of the state, Clinton's fans here have helped raise voter support and reportedly surpassed Obama's backers in fundraising. And some of them don't appreciate their neighbors supporting her rival from Hyde Park, a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. "She's intelligent, she's experienced, I like what she's saying about the economy and I think she deserves more credit from us than just the fact that she's from here," said Kate Boychuck, 27, who grew up in Park Ridge and planned to vote for Clinton. "I like Obama, but I simply don't think it's his time yet It's Hillary's time. "p. j. huffstutter . For China, the visit provides an opportunity ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games in August to project itself as a superpower committed to world peace. Wu Poh-hsiung, who is chairman of Taiwan's Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, said upon his arrival Monday in the eastern city of Nanjing that the visit could "create a win-win situation. "The televised arrival ceremony marked the first break in two weeks of nearly 24-hour coverage of China's May 12 earthquake . The U2 Tower, to be completed in 2011, would be the city's tallest building. "Taken together, these are two egomaniacal projects," said Ian Lumley, a spokesman for An Taisce. Some back Bono and Foster's vision for the hotel. Conor Martin, who controls the Purty Loft bar opposite the hotel, withdrew his opposition after he was persuaded the project would benefit the city. "It is a poor reflection on Dublin and the rest of the country if we turn it down," he said in a letter to city officials. . O'Brien took the silver medal. In 1964, he was the flag bearer for the U. S.

Kobe Bryant led the Lakers with 39 points, including 17 in the fourth quarter. "I saw him take over the game," Kotchman said . But after hearing nothing from more than 30 applications, Hu has all but given up hopes of joining a Fortune 500 company. "For sure, I'm a little frustrated and worried now," she said. don. lee . Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga. ), a staunch defender of the subsidy system, warned his colleagues against altering it . It also would be peeled off under either scenario. Some SEIU 521 members spoke out against a merger at a 2006 hearing, wearing purple T-shirts with the slogan "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. "Kristy Sermershiem, president of SEIU 521, said that, given the current choices, aides in her union -- who make $11. 50 and $12. 25 an hour -- prefer the smaller merger. "You win some, you lose some . The large shower enclosure was situated prominently in the bedroom; it's not opaque, so it's not for the shy, and there's no tub. U. S.

As a team, we have guys that can score so quickly and so easily, and we have no problems with letting guys stay hot. "The Suns, sitting atop the Western Conference in their familiar perch, are collectively hot-riding an NBA-best eight-game winning streak. Chris Kaman piled together his eighth double-double with 17 points and 14 rebounds, although he did so on six-for-18 shooting . 11, 2001, but who he was and what he did in the terrifying hours and days that followed . JAKARTA, INDONESIA — The president of Indonesia on Tuesday formally accepted a commission report that blames his country's security forces for supporting militias in a frenzy of murder, rape and other crimes against humanity in East Timor nine years ago. "We convey very deep remorse at what happened in the past that has caused the loss of lives and property," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said as he and East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta jointly received the commission's findings. It was the first time Indonesia's government has accepted charges that members of its military and police, along with civilian authorities, helped pro-Indonesian militias carry out a brutal campaign against East Timor's bid for independence. At least 1,000 people died and thousands more were driven from their homes in the 1999 violence that erupted after East Timor's people voted for independence from Indonesia, which had sent in troops to occupy the former Portuguese colony in 1975. An Australian-led peacekeeping force intervened, but East Timor is still struggling to overcome political violence and poverty . The Achilles' tendon is located in the back of the foot and connects the calf muscles to the heel. Players who suffer a ruptured Achilles typically miss six months to a year's playing time. In 1992, Atlanta Hawks star Dominique Wilkins ruptured his Achilles' tendon and missed nine months . Only strong causes will rally the troops to write checks, walk precincts and stuff envelopes. This seems to say something about the range of programs in which British artists are likely to work, but in fact the two pieces are more alike than not. "Casanova" seems a likely offering for "Masterpiece Theater," with its mix of literature, history and the Old World, but it isn't quite that deadpan version we are used to from such imports -- the sumptuously mounted, slightly dry productions that my American eye, at least, takes for an authentic rendition of the near or far past. Though the miniseries has been shot in appropriate antique locations and lavishly costumed and fitted with ships and carriages and such things, reality is not of primary concern here: History is mixed and muddled as convenient; there are special effects more appropriate to a superhero movie, a synth-Baroque soundtrack, flash-forwards to modern concerns and all manner of Ken Russell-y stylistic exaggerations; and apart from Peter O'Toole's entertaining appearances throughout as Old Casanova, there's no attempt to age the characters (Davies just has them tell one another how well they look).

And if you go to whoissick. org, one glance at the map reveals that numerous people in the Los Angeles area are reporting runny noses. David Berlind, executive editor of the tech news magazine ZDNet, said the mashup zeitgeist owed a lot to the availability of free online design tools that were increasingly powerful and easy to use. Until recently, if a layperson had an idea for a useful computer program, there wasn't much he could do about it "You needed a rocket scientist to help you," Berlind said . Some in Bloch's office complained that he would not tolerate staff members who disagreed with him. Bloch denies the charges, saying he was bringing a different management style to an agency that suffered from bureaucratic malaise and a long backlog of cases . A bounty hunter who had helped secure her release decided he would not withdraw her bond, a move he had been considering the day before. . Donner's "Rules of Beeping" suggests a social protocol for the practice. "The richer guy pays," he writes. Some of his rules: It is acceptable to beep someone if you are short of cash and they are flush with credit Never beep someone poorer than you . Since then he has worked primarily in television in England and the Netherlands, once having Beckham and his wife, Victoria, on his talk show as guests. Accustomed to playing alongside or coaching players of a much higher pedigree, the challenge for Gullit, who has shown a short fuse as coach, will be to accept that and also to accept the constraints imposed by MLS.

Tierra Henderson led the team with seven points. USC Coach Mark Trakh called UCLA's interior "physical, huge and strong," but 6-foot-3 junior center Nadia Parker was up to the challenge, totaling a game-high 18 points and 10 rebounds. "Our post players were stepping up and stopping," Trakh said. Trakh also said the Trojans specifically targeted UCLA senior forward Lindsey Pluimer on defense, holding her to a season-low six points on three-for-seven shooting from the field and three rebounds. "We weren't going to leave her," Trakh said . In the absence of computers, however, there was little anyone could do to test that thesis. In 1961, a young assistant professor of meteorology at MIT was using a primitive Royal McBee LPG-30 computer to study simple models of the atmosphere based on a series of 12 differential equations. After one run, he decided he wanted to study the end of the calculation in greater depth. Rather than running the entire calculation again, he chose a point in the middle of the calculation and entered the previously calculated values for that point. He then went off for a coffee break to avoid the incessant noise from the machine. When he returned, to his surprise he found that the calculated weather patterns were grossly different from those produced in the first computation . The calligraphic drawings in black ink on paper seem to dance with movement . "We haven't been healthy, but it's an opportunity for other guys to come in and show something and we just haven't been consistent enough there. "--jonathan. abrams . Jose Gonzalez (14-3, six KOs). * Television: HBO pay-per-view, $54. 95. Oscar De La Hoya was once so happy with fight promoter Bob Arum that the young boxer presented him with his prized Olympic gold medal during Arum's 65th birthday celebration at a Reno hotel ballroom.

It wasn't a conscious thing, it just started to happen. "A year later, Murray State's Popeye Jones scored 37 points against Michigan State, showing that one spectacular player could almost take down a team . But they should ease back into training, not push it. Marathoners shouldn't be surprised if they feel a bit of a letdown after the race . A dancer, Lidet Viravong, Oliver in silhouette behind a screen, was a delight. "Tov," the title of Gamson's new work for her Rosanna Gamson/World Wide company, is Hebrew for "good" and also one of the language's many synonyms for beauty, implying an inner beauty . 3 in the BCS?Hey, it happened in 2003 to USC. Stay tuned. 2: USC . have been tossed into the air, spun to the ground, dragged, kicked, stomped and slammed into the arena fence. Three Mississippi. None seemed willing to trust the evidence of their own senses. "But there it was, moving at a steady 4 miles an hour northward, and Fulton proudly noted, "I overtook many sloops and schooners.

Then, the bosses called us to a meeting and said everyone was quitting, whether they wanted to or not. "It had been a good job . Ryan became the first and only congressman ever slain in the line of duty, killed in Guyana, where he went to investigate whether Americans were being held against their will by cult leader Jim Jones . We have to stay focused and that's my job, to keep us focused and continue to move forward. "They weren't focused during training camp, as Coach Phil Jackson acknowledged before the game in saying that the trade rumors adversely affected the younger players. It was, he said, "the insecurity not of a trade so much as of the lack of affection or lack of interest Kobe had for a period of time at the end of camp, a period of time five days or so They went through a little lull 'Is he with us or is he not?' "Bryant is with them now For how much longer, it's impossible to say . companies in the United States for alleged wrongdoing in other countries. "The question is where do we litigate these issues," said Alejandro Garro, a Columbia University law professor and expert in international law "The answer is that we don't have a global law . "They are property of the state and ought to be better managed," he said.

Leading the two-hour excursion into the darkness is Lollie Ragana, a teacher of mythology and English at UCLA Extension, Cal State L. A . There are a dozen crumbling movie palaces on our Broadway, designed nearly a century ago as fantasy versions of European palaces or Eastern skyscrapers . That sale is expected to be completed soon. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones might pursue former Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan for the 2010 season, ESPN reported . since 1998 Republicans have won less than 20% of all statewide races. "No, that's not hard to believe at all And the one big winner, Gov . More recently, the richest man in Asia, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, invested $60 million, and Facebook is trying to raise an additional $200 million in the next few months. Beacon sends messages telling Facebook users when their friends buy jewelry on Overstock. com or a movie ticket on Fandango. com. "Not only was I unsure about how I would be received, I didn't know if this would be a good photographic opportunity," he says.

The government said Friday that personal consumption rose 0. 6% in August, the biggest increase in four months. Third-quarter corporate earnings reports, which will begin to roll out in mid-October, may provide some of the best intelligence on the economy's trend . "Our dream is to generate the conditions so that people don't give in to the temptation to migrate. "--hector. tobarSpecial correspondent Alex Renderos contributed to this report. . 1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart, with 235,000 sold for the most recent week. "Kidz Bop," the series that presents "regular" kids singing radio hits, is back on the chart this week . Sometimes driving can be cheaper than flying, especially now that gas prices are coming down from the stratosphere and flying short distances can be costly . The West looks the way it does because O'Keeffe painted those organic watercolors, not because Moran represented a fever dream of Manifest Destiny concocted by East Coast oligarchs, or because Benton got caught up in regional claims of authenticity as the core of Heartland experience. But "The Modern West" falls for Benton's provincial notion. "It's an embarrassment," he says. A Stanford University graduate in economics who did post-graduate work at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1988, Crowell has a low-key demeanor that fits the firm's historically staid image. Yet while growing up in San Marino and then at Stanford, Crowell didn't aspire to follow his father He considered teaching or the ministry, he says.

Venezuela said it would not allow U. S . 2, the airline will end its long-standing policy of allowing people with young children to board ahead of most other passengers, Southwest spokeswoman Beth Harbin said Tuesday. Although the Dallas-based airline has been looking for ways to boost revenue, the push behind Southwest's policy change appears to have more in common with that age-old play-group complaint: No fair. "We certainly have had customers express their concerns when they see 20 or so people pre-boarding," Harbin said . Robert McKay, who was also convicted of racketeering conspiracy, had served as secretary-treasurer of the Dania Beach-based labor union. Although both McKays occupied positions of trust, Cohn said, evidence showed Robert McKay was not as deeply involved as his brother in the fraudulent use of union funds. Michael McKay spoke briefly at the hearing, not to apologize but to defend his tenure as president. "I have served this union for a lot of years," he said . The symptoms worsened since his return last month to the Fremont home he shared with his parents and siblings, after an arranged marriage ceremony in Afghanistan. San Mateo attorney Majeed Samara, who is acquainted with friends of the Popals, stepped in at the family's request to represent the auto shop worker . Clark's government is the world's first to propose that farmers be included in a plan that encourages greenhouse gas reductions by setting emission limits and forcing producers to buy credits on the open market if they exceed them. Farmers could go bankrupt buying carbon credits so their livestock can keep doing what comes naturally, Pedersen warned. In the fight against global warming, farmers are unarmed, and it's up to scientists to give them the weapons they need, Aspin said. "There's a very strong ethos in New Zealand farmers," he added "They do feel like they are stewards of the land. Here's an idea of the range: On the mild end, Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales, of Dexter, Mich. , presented a Flemish red ale, La Roja, which had a mild taste of apples, followed by a little spicy snap and a long gentle finish of caramel and sour fruit. Even lizards start looking for cover around noon. Even though I had a well-marked map with color photos to guide me, I didn't want to take a chance on getting lost.