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  • Quotes on the anchored stroke ruling

    Selected quotes on the Royal & Ancient and U.S. Golf Association approving Rule 14-1b, which bans in 2016 the anchored stroke commonly used with long putters:"We are doing what we think is right for the long-term benefit of the game for all golfers, and we just can't write them for one group of elite players." _ USGA executive director Mike Davis.___"I think it's ...

  • Rules officials Time better spent on course

    The number of people calling PGA Tour events after seeing possible rules violations has gone up since Tiger Woods took what turned out to be an illegal drop at the Masters. That doesn't mean the number of violations is increasing."The rate of irrelevant call-ins has gone up dramatically, too," said Tyler Dennis, the tour's vice president of competition.What might seem like a ...

  • Smith makes headlines heading into Hall vote

    Bruton Smith just can't help himself sometimes.The eccentric track owner this week suggested he might move a race away from Charlotte Motor Speedway at the exact same time a committee is considering electing him into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.When the 54 voters cast their ballots Wednesday, it will be impossible to overlook Smith's most recent headline-grabbing stunt. He told Charlotte ...

  • Bird Bytes The problem with Fernando Salas

    isn't a bad major-league reliever, and there are a lot of hideous relievers out there. But he isn't a good reliever, either. If you compare his statistics to the MLB average for relievers, there isn't much difference between Salas and the general industry standard.Salas is your basic replacement-level reliever now.In his best season 2011, Salas was good for about 1 win above the ...

  • McKee to push on despite Jeff City defeat

    , developer Paul McKee last week was unable to persuade lawmakers to extend a tax credit program that's key to funding his huge plan to redevelop two square miles of north St. Louis.But, McKee said Tuesday, he's pushing ahead with his NorthSide Regeneration.In a brief statement, the developer said he was "disappointed" that Missouri lawmakers didn't extend the Distressed ...


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Desperate Living [DVD]

Desperate Living [DVD]

By the time writer/director John Waters made Desperate Living in 1977, he was already a notorious midnight-movie cult celebrity, a genuine fringe iconoclastic auteur whose low-budget cinematic barbs skewered self-aggrandizing hippies as readily as it did fascist oppressors. His early movies, Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), had taken the midnight ... ...

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  • Hotel workers protest Pritzker Commerce nomination

    Hundreds of protesters landed outside the Hyatt McCormick Place just as the National Restaurant Association Show, one of the nation's largest hospitality industry trade shows, was letting out for its third day at McCormick Place.The timing was a coincidence, organizers said.Riding a scooter with an orange windsock and white inflatable No. 1 hand symbol, Buddy Broniar, a vice president of ...

  • Vote-by-videoconference bill passed too late for Paul Wynn

    A newly-passed state bill allowing local elected officials to vote in meetings via videoconferencing came too late for former St. Charles County Councilman Paul Wynn.Wynn, R-O'Fallon, lost his re-election bid in the GOP primary last August after getting criticism for working in Afghanistan and Iraq as a military contract employee during big chunks of his four-year term.While he was outside ...

  • Lindenwood University-Belleville gets first president

    Jerry Bladdick was named the first president of Lindenwood University's Belleville campus last week.Since 2009, he has been vice president and chief administrative officer for the young campus. During his tenure, the campus has moved from an extension to a full-service campus, which just had its first commencement ceremony.Bladdick joined the main Lindenwood campus in 1987 as director of ...

  • Oakville man claims $1 million prize from Powerball drawing

    o Remember the Powerball drawing last Wednesday? The letdown drawing, when no one won the big $360 million prize and everyone had to go into work like normal?Well, Christopher Henson, 30, of Oakville, came close. He matched all the numbers except the Powerball for the drawing on May 15, good for a $1 million prize he claimed this week, according to the Missouri Lottery.Henson told the Missouri ...

  • Missouri Baptist University student charged with setting car fires at campuses in Creve Coeur

    o A Missouri Baptist University student and former missionary has been charged with setting four parked cars on fire on and near campus earlier this month.Andrew Wos, 21, of the 5200 block of Sunflower Drive in Eureka was charged today with four counts of knowingly burning or exploding after Creve Coeur police say he set four cars ablaze on two parking lots at the university on May 1.Two cars ...

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