Curtain To Go Up On Big Time
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on December 26, 2008
THE young players of the fledgling Gold Coast Football Club will experience big-game atmosphere as early as next year.
They will host the Gippsland Power at Gold Coast Stadium on May 9, ahead of the Carlton-Fremantle clash.
And on May 30 the Coasters will play the Oakleigh Chargers, before St Kilda and Melbourne take centre stage.
Gold Coast [...]
Curtain falling on Cantab stalwart
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on August 20, 2008
The days in a Canterbury jersey for former All Blacks prop Campbell Johnstone are numbered but the veteran is determined to see the red-and-blacks stay on the winning trail before he leaves to play for Biarritz.
Johnstone, Canterbury’s most capped player in the 2008 squad with 66 appearances, has been given an early release by the [...]
High-class 13 vie for Grand Prix glory
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on July 18, 2008
A high-class field of 13 will clash for glory in Longchamp’s Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris on Monday.
The race will feature a fascinating renewal of rivalry between Alessandro Volta and Curtain Call, who finished fourth and fifth respectively in the Irish Derby.
That day, the Aidan O’Brien runner was demoted from third, while Curtain Call was [...]
Curtain call for game 150
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on June 11, 2008
And Curtain will enter the record books at the Demons because he will be the youngest to achieve life membership when he runs on to Bellerive Oval for the second versus third clash against Clarence.
Debuting as a 16-year-old in 2000 in the Statewide League, the now 24-year-old has been a regular midfield cog in the [...]
Bowing out of curtain raiser Cotchin takes centre stage
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 17, 2008
Trent Cotchin was on the MCG, wearing a Coburg jumper, warming up and running through his plans for the VFL match.
About a month ago, as the teenager played his first football for the year after a summer full of injury, he was told to aim for Richmond’s round-nine clash with Essendon as a possible AFL [...]
Israel backs Palestinian security force
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on March 29, 2008
ISRAEL will allow up to 600 members of a Palestinian security
force trained in Jordan under a United States program to be
deployed in a West Bank city once considered a hotbed of militant
activity.
Israel hopes the Defence Ministry decision, announced before a
weekend visit by the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, will
help blunt Western and Palestinian complaints [...]
Windies to raise curtain on Champions Trophy against host
Filed Under Curt Flood | Posted on March 25, 2008
West Indies will open this year’s International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy tournament in Pakistan when they clash with the host in the curtain-raiser at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, the International Cricket Council announced Saturday.
The regional side, who captured the 2004 edition in England when they beat the host in a thrilling final, already [...]
living Now starring in their own home
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 15, 2008
This Valentine’s Day, actors Gabriel Hogan and Inga Cadranel will be enjoying their newly decorated master bedroom.I wanted red and purple, although those two colours typically clash, Cadranel says. I thought it had the French brothel feel to it. The two have known each other since childhood, and played together while growing up in [...]
Business Ford, Chrysler up the stakes on pickup rivals
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 18, 2008
DETROIT%26ndash;Ford and Chrysler clashed yesterday in the battle for the lucrative pickup truck market.The two auto giants introduced new generation models of their pickups, which are also their biggest and most profitable models, at the North American International Auto Show. Competition in the [...]
Militants Draw New Front Line Inside Pakistan
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 1 %26#x2014; For much of the last century, the mountainous region of Swat was ruled as a princely kingdom where a benign autocrat, the wali, bestowed schools for girls, health care for everyone and the chance to get a degree abroad for the talented.
Now the region is the newest front line in [...]