Nelly Furtado is not the most predictable lady. The Canadian-born songwriter has crammed every genre and style that she could into her music catalog, from pop to folk to dance, all with a worldly vibe and experimental, unpredictable spirit. So it was hard to see her third album, "Loose," coming because it's a shift to things much more familiar.
I say give Daniel Jakeway a captain obvious award for his letter, "Gore's movie for political gain, not to save Earth," (SN 6/28), regarding Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth." The movie was made for political gain he says?
The large lettering on the side of the five-story brick building makes Independent Bank's new regional location easy to find. Location was one of several reasons the bank chose to move its south Michigan regional headquarters from Okemos, said Kelly Wolgamott, spokeswoman for the regional headquarters.
After 20 years of sporadic training in various martial arts, I have mastered only one move — walking away. It's a move that serves me well whenever I am on the receiving end of a racial slur along East Grand River Avenue.
NBA Commissioner David Stern couldn't help but comment on what a "rowdy" crowd had attended the 2006 NBA Draft at Madison Square Garden in New York City, but the big excitement for Spartans fans came when MSU guard Shannon Brown was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round and 25th overall.
I've come to a sad realization as I've grown up: Superman just isn't that cool. Sure, the character is responsible for jump-starting the superhero genre, but he's kid's stuff — the ultimate goody-goody.
A program through MSU is helping professionals from other countries connect with those in the workforce in the United States. The Visiting International Professional Program, has been teaching foreign professionals for more than 15 years about business, culture and other global issues that help make them more diversified. "We are helping people who are employed in various degrees, from journalism to business, and teaming them up with one of our own professionals to help understand more about their working area from another point of view," said Sung Soo Chung, head of operations and planning for the program.
Open up any weekly advertisement and you'll see that the American flag has become fashionable — at least for the next week.
It appears that some people disagree with my comments in the article "Planetary Meltdown," (SN 6/23), that global warming is not as big of a deal as the 2008 presidential hopeful portrays it to be — and yes I did regrettably pay the $7.50 to watch Al Gore's garbage, "An Inconvenient Truth." After seeing the movie, I began doing some research and found several highly qualified scientists in the fields of geology, climatology and paleoclimatology.
Al Gore's timing couldn't have been better. "An Inconvenient Truth" opens during the summer at the dawn of hurricane season following the devastation of the previous, in an election year in which Republican control is staggering, and at a time when popular consensus overwhelms the National Academy of Sciences to point circumstantial fingers at industrial causes for global climate change.
People will get a chance to question candidates running for the 68th and 69th District seats in the state House of Representatives at a forum in July. The forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Lansing Area and other organizations, will start at 7 p.m.
A new deal between Big Ten universities and ABC and its affiliates could not only bring more financial help to schools like MSU, but exposure as well. The deal, announced June 21, would extend coverage of men's football and basketball, women's basketball and volleyball to ESPN and ABC sports for another 10 years.
Sometimes public safety outweighs a person's privacy. When someone puts the lives of others in danger, we should know what happened in order to better protect ourselves.
Ager. Brown. Davis. The leaders, the headliners, the playmakers. The Spartans' Big Three have awed MSU fans with spectacular play, set benchmarks in college statistics and student athleticism, competed in wrenching battles of tournament competition and painted the covers of magazines in shades of Spartan green and white.
Khmer, Indonesian and Uzbek could be additions to the course catalog as new language programs this fall if funding from the federal government is approved, said Marilyn McCullough, assistant director of the Asian Studies Center. Uzbek is the official language of Uzbekistan, and Khmer is spoken in Cambodia.
A terrible thing happened to two soldiers of the 101st Airborne 12 miles south of Baghdad last week. Pfc.
"Boyz N the Hood," "Menace II Society" and "Baby Boy" are all films that give a realistic and accurate portrayal of their environment, and can be considered some of the more powerful urban tales. Director Vondie Curtis-Hall's new movie, "Waist Deep," will not go down as one of those.
On Monday, Congress began debating a bill that may possibly ban the desecration of the American flag.
The Hindu Students Council at MSU will be holding a lecture on the science of yoga, along with an exhibition on Hindu culture on July 6.