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Even if Michael is convicted, he did not kill, rob or hurt anyone. He is not selling drugs or shooting people. I don't think that it is right to shoot, beat, shock or hurt an animal just for the amusemen,t but I am tired of the country being run by special interest groups such as PETA. An animal is not a human, and we should stop treating them as if they are more important than people. The punishment should fit the crime.
He should be forced to take classes on how to treat animals, pay at least a $2 million fine to be shared among animal shelters here in Virginia, and finally some type of community service involving speaking to kids about why it is wrong to force dogs or any animals to fight for their amusement. - James, Suffolk
- One, I do not feel the least bit sorry for him (Vick).
UAL debt move secures approval
United Airlines has won support from its lenders to amend its debt agreement, freeing the US carrier to pursue buybacks and other initiatives designed to revive its flagging share price. UAL, United's corporate parent, secured approval from investors in its $1.8bn term loan late Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter said. The agreement, which gives United the flexibility to devote $500m to “shareholder initiatives", came only after United offered to increase the amount it would repay on existing debt to $500m. Lenders had baulked last week at United's original proposal, which would have reduced the loan's outstanding debt by $350m. “We think the proposal we put forward meets the needs of lenders and all our stakeholders," said Jean Medina, a spokeswoman with Chicago-based United.
Symphony falls short of celestial height in performances of Messiaen ...
Technical difficulties arose immediately, during the first movement of the Messiaen. This is an extended, very slow chorale for brass that unfolds in discrete phrases separated by silences. And although the sound of the brass playing itself was resplendent, not one phrase in the entire movement - not one! - began together. The last of the work's four movements is an answering chordal rhapsody, this time from the strings, and although the lapses in coordination were less marked, it was obvious again that the players were simply guessing about the rhythms. And so what should be a radiant tapestry of sound became something more like a slippery throw rug, sliding this way and that as the music wore on. There were greater pleasures to be had in the two central movements, especially the woodwind-driven second movement with its sinuous echoes of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun." But here too a veil of tentativeness hung over the entire proceedings.
Peach Buzz
My grandmother is 84 and she doesn't get excited about anything," Bennett explained to Buzz, laughing. "I've graduated college and bought a house, but when I got cast on ['Y&R'] she was over the moon!" Natch, Grandma wanted a full report on her faves Jeanne Cooper and Jess Walton, who play Katherine Chancellor and Jill Foster Abbott, the soap's legendary battling mother-and-daughter duo. "Since I play Sally Rollins, a finalist in their Jabot 'Star Faces' competition, I got to work with both of them," Bennett says. "I had to meet Jeanne Cooper. She's got this wonderfully dry sense of humor and she's very old-school Hollywood. She had everyone laughing right before shooting." Bennett says she was shocked when the soap's casting reps asked her to extend her stay so she could shoot two additional days.
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