| OU Notebook: Do the hustle
As much as anything, Oklahoma hustled its way to a 28-14 halftime lead Saturday night.
Safety Lendy Holmes made a poor attempt to tackle Baylor running back Brandon Whitaker early in Whitaker's 57-yard first-quarter run. But he turned, tore downfield and caught Whitaker from behind at the Sooner 3-yard line.
It became a touchdown-saving tackle the next play, when Reggie Smith intercepted Blake Szymanski's fade pass in the back corner of the end zone.
Right before halftime, then, Juaquin Iglesias ran interference as DeMarco Murray began an OU kickoff return inside his 10-yard line. As Murray got outside and wheeled upfield, Iglesias ran ahead of him. The Sooner wide receiver made a final clearing block near the Baylor 25, and Murray had himself a 91-yard touchdown.
Becks shun luxury to be with teammates
David Beckham will be shunning the Posh lifestyle while in Sydney, forgoing the offer of luxury accommodation to slum it in a $270-per-night room like the rest of his LA Galaxy teammates. Beckham will become the biggest sporting name to visit Australia when he jets in this morning but despite his multimillion dollar playing and endorsement deals, he didn't want to be treated like a star while staying at Star City. Hotel management offered Beckham the use of its most exclusive rooms, including the penthouse, which can cost up to $6000 per night when butler service and extras are factored into the bill. Yet although he earns more than $1 million per week from his Galaxy contract alone, the world's most famous footballer insisted on receiving the same treatment as his teammates - right down to a deluxe harbour view room with a rack rate of about $300.
Spoof 'Om Shanti Om' takes a Diwali bow
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A spoof of Bollywood in the 1970s, inspired by a tacky reincarnation saga, has swept aside a tragic romance based on a Fyodor Dostoevsky story since they opened last week as two of the biggest Indian movies of the year. "Om Shanti Om" and "Saawariya" have been the most eagerly awaited recent releases for the world's largest film industry by ticket sales, which has struggled to match the highs it hit in 2005 and 2006. Massive pre-release publicity campaigns, coupled with the fact both scheduled their openings for the weekend of Diwali -- the Hindu festival of lights and the year's most-important movie season -- pitted them directly against each other even though their themes had little in common. "Om Shanti Om" is the story of a struggling junior actor who is killed.
Hot toys make the list
Every year there are toys that kids just have to have for Christmas.From the Cabbage Patch Kids in the 1980s to the Beanie Babies of the 1990s, there is always something on their minds as they make out their Christmas lists. One of this year's hottest toys, according to Toy Wishes Magazine, is Tickle Me Elmo Extreme TMX, which is exactly what Lisa Blevins of Greenup, Ky. picked up for her nine-month-old son, Carson, on Friday."Actually, we might want this more than he does," she said, adding that it has been pretty easy to find the latest version of Elmo this year. "He acts kind of scared of Elmo." .
SCHOOL NEWS
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BTH | Meet Emory's newest professor: The Dalai Lama
One faculty member in Georgia will not only be referred to as professor, but as "His Holiness."
The XIV Dalai Lama has been named Presidential Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, the first university appointment accepted by the 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate and leader of the Tibetan exile community.
The Dalai Lama, who has examined the interface between science and spirituality, was appointed as part of the Emory-Tibet Partnership, which brings together the best of Western and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual traditions.
One of the most ambitious undertakings of this partnership is an initiative to develop and implement a broad science education curriculum for Tibetan monks.
"Our science faculty will write a college-level curriculum to educate Tibetan monks about Western science - something to which they have not had a lot of experience," said Janice Love, dean and professor of Christianity and world politics at Emory's Candler School of Theology.
Eagle's Eye: Robbing our national heritage
Salarjung Museum houses the choicest collections of one man; Nawab Salarjung. It has been robbed many a time but the stolen artefacts have never been recovered- Syed Ali Mujtaba An ancient idol of Lord Sabranath was stolen from a Jain temple in Kurdi village of Baghpat district in UP. Unidentified men entered the temple and took away the idol. The idol was never recovered. A rare manuscript written by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb called 'Gulistan' was stolen by unidentified miscreants from a school library in Gaya district of Bihar. Police suspect some organized racket of international smugglers dealing in antiques to be behind this theft. The country's first Nobel Prize, won by Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 was stolen with his several other personal belongings from the safety vault of the museum of Visva Bharati University at Santiniketan.
Fugitives left trail of evidence
Criminal evidence needs to be tracked carefully because this often is pivotal to the outcome of a prosecution and must be legally and properly processed. The process involves not only carefully handling evidence, but thoroughly documenting its movement from one pair of hands to the next. Rio Rancho detective Rodney Montoya explains in a sworn statement how the suspects of a recent run of armed robberies in the city left a trail of evidence. On Oct. 8 at 6:28 p.m., the suspect, Urbano Gutierrez, is alleged to have entered the lobby area of the Days Inn at 4200 Crestview in Rio Rancho and pointed a handgun at the clerk. The suspect then jumped over the counter and ordered the clerk to hit the ground. He then opened the cash register and took about $1,400.
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