After film, Jodha-Akbar Saga now a TV show!
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:00:44 -0700

Mumbai, April 23 -- Star producer Ekta Kapoor has always longed to make a classic, period love story for television. Her first attempt the TV show Mahabharat in 2008 was a disaster. The show was supposed to revolutionise story telling on the tube, ...

Shooting from the lip
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:09:15 -0700

By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer Tampa Bay Times staff writer Tom Jones looks back at the best and worst from a weekend of televised sports . Bad break for ESPN and baseball fans Sunday when the series finale between the Red Sox and Yankees was rained ...

Jim Shelley bitesized: Matt Lucas Awards, Undateables, Grandma's House and more
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:47:44 -0700

If you'd ever longed to see Sue Perkins blindfold, identifying cakes (or not, as it turned out), this was the show for you. THE Matt Lucas Awards found guests demonstrating unique, secret talents. So, if you'd ever longed to see Sue Perkins blindfold, ...

Point After: King's wish granted
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:34:30 -0700

But instead of wishing something for himself like meet a famous athete or travel to a place he'd longed to travel to, he wanted was to do something for those who have supported him since his diagnosis in 2009. So on Thursday, Make-A-Wish will be coming ...

Former Competitive Swimmer Muses on Skills Gained in the Pool
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:55:33 -0700

You've been swimming a long time, haven't you? Yes, I learned to swim when I was about five at the ETHS [Evanston Township High School] Learn to Swim Program. I moved from lessons to a swim team around junior high, and then swam competitively in high ...

Big Baby's not all grown up
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:29:33 -0700

By Dan Duggan Glen Davis always longed for a greater role in his four seasons with the Celtics [team stats]. Although a contributing rookie reserve when the C's won the NBA title in 2007-08, the following postseason seemed to leave a greater impression ...

Smoke-free apartment will be first for Kitchener
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:50:24 -0700

Kitchener renters, have you longed to live in a nice, modern apartment building free of stinky, poisonous second-hand smoke? Well, you'll be able to by late summer or early fall. Drewlo Holdings is building Kitchener's first non-smoking rental ...

Small-town monotony pushes students to find unique fun
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:19:07 -0700

We're two city girls who, after four years spent somewhere between the fluorescent lighting of the Undergraduate Library and the back corner at Murphy's, have always longed for the nearest skyscraper. No matter how tempting the pole at Joe's was, ...

Wallace reads letter from woman who ended longed -for pregnancy
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:40:34 -0700

"(My baby) was so much longed for, and loved. Even though I never met her, I had her life planned from day one. I had hopes and dreams for her. To cope with all that being snatched away from me was difficult enough, without my own health system turning ...

Bedrock of Art and Faith
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:00:56 -0700

I wear it too, protectively: long -sleeved white shirt, tennis cap, Neutrogena sun block. A pilgrim? Why not? I'm here for something I've longed to see, Ethiopia's holy cities: Aksum, the spiritual home of this east African country's Orthodox Christian ...

After half a century, pen pals (one in Idaho, one in England) meet
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:07:49 -0700

I know we will keep writing as long as we both can, said Ann Farthing, the pen pal, not pictured. Every highlight of Ruby Menke's life has been scribbled down along the way. So have the quotidian, the disappointing. And the benchmarks, too, ...

Victoria shows off her two babies in China
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:49:33 -0700

Since the designer welcomed her longed -for daughter last summer, she and her little lady have been inseparable even despite Victoria's demanding work schedule. The latest pictures of the mum and daughter team come from China, where the former Spice ...

Exchanging vows ex-priest from Coast details love affair in new book
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:39:15 -0700

They longed to marry each other, but he was already married to the church. The Rev. Gene Clarke was 23 years old and fresh from the farmlands of Dublin when he came to St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Gulfport as an associate pastor.

Mini Micra offers maxi reliability
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:12:21 -0700

I had the pleasure of spending quality time with the 1.2-litre version and, having had a short fling with the bigger, and better, 1.5-litre engine, I must confess I longed for that little bit of the extra oomph. However, some kind of fondness grew ...

Will Power exceeds expectations
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:21:39 -0700

By John Oreovicz | ESPN.com long beach, Calif. -- Maybe Will Power should start from midfield every week. It seems to work better for him than pole position. Coming from 12th on the grid, Power drove his Verizon Team Penske car to a well-judged victory ...

Teamwork helps Troopers: Long -standing tradition remains with Cavalry earning ...
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:15:19 -0700

The 36-hour mission upheld a long -standing Army tradition as Troopers with the 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Third Infantry Division, strived for their chance to earn the coveted Silver Spur.

Utah Utes football: Sharrieff Shah doesn't regret trading in the courtroom for ...
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:27:23 -0700

It didn't take long for those close to Sharrieff Shah to render a verdict. salt lake city it didn't take long for those close to Sharrieff Shah to render a verdict. After more than a decade as an attorney, Shah was encouraged to accept an offer to ...

Levon Helm Remembered: When We Were Young Americans
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:39:07 -0700

Like many before us, we longed for an organic, unironic, and inspired connection to the country which current events and the increasingly divisive political climate made difficult. Particularly in the suburbs the experience required a reaching after ...

ASU launches campaign to return to Camp Tontozona
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:07:14 -0700

by Doug Haller on Apr. 19, 2012, under Arizona Republic Sports Arizona State on Thursday launched a campaign to return to Camp Tontozona, a mountain property near Payson that served as a preseason training site for the football team for 48 years.

Searching in vain for a style
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:19:13 -0700

DIARIES: A brilliant critic and cultural commentator, Susan Sontag longed to be what she called a 'real' writer a writer of fiction. The latest volume of her diaries reveals the conflict in her life between the conceptual and the sensual IN 1964 ...