Meet Your Neighbor: Prudence LaFargue Burns
Southwest Daily News
We had four children, two daughters, Flo Savant and Mary LeDoux, and two sons, Craig and Shawn Burns. All but the youngest live here in Sulphur. Shawn lives in Phoenix, Arizona. In fact, we just returned from a visit there. Our children gav...
Scooter's Coffeehouse to open in Kearney this week
Omaha World-Herald
Cafi Savant and Barista’s Daily Grind previously did business at the locations. "We are excited to get open," said owner Don Eckles of Omaha, who also is the company’s founder. "Things have moved a bit faster than expected. With Starbucks c...
Adam Godley On ... Portraying Autism
Whatsonstage.com
British actor Adam Godley stars opposite Hollywood’s Josh Hartnett in the world premiere stage adaptation of the 1988 Oscar-winning film Rain Man . Godley plays Raymond Babbitt, the autistic savant brother of Hartnett’s Charlie, the role ta...
How To Lose Friends & Alienate People
Shropshire Star
Sidney’s our very own idiot savant, without the savant,’ sneers Lawrence. Public relations doyenne Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson) is equally unimpressed, and wards him off her client, starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox). Trying to survive i...
Our Readers' Views October 12
Columbian
John Laird’s Oct. 5 column, “A most unlikely political savant,” demonstrated both his lack of a sense of humor and his “in the tank” for Barack Obama leanings. Laird writes, “And Biden was not the oratorical oaf that many had feared ...
Manny and the Dodgers: Just a fling or a long-term relationship?
CNN Sports Illustrated
But when the organ music stops, where does the hitting savant wind up? Manny has been essentially a sugar rush, a hit of adrenaline for the Dodgers that feels so good until it doesn't, until the reality of his age (36) and impatience over h...
Manny, Manuel meet again -- on different sides of field
CBS Sportsline
The elder hitting savant couldn't wait to lay his eyes on the man he figured was a kindred spirit. And he finally did, in the Instructional League that fall, and what Manuel saw was "a really good, tremendous, young-looking hitter ...
Technically Incorrect
CNET News
... allowing specific parts of your gray matter to blossom to their full potential. Scientists from the University of Sydney have studied brilliant people like Dustin Hoffman. Or, rather, brilliant people like the Qantas Airways-knowledgea...
Dallas Mavericks' offense shares few similarities
Dallas Morning News
I could pretend to be a basketball savant and detail the elements of the Princeton offense that will be unveiled tonight when these new-look Mavericks open the preseason against Washington. I could fake my understanding of the triangle offe...
Palin’s Troopergate scandal was fabricated by Bill Ayers — really ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The public is asked to believe Obama wrote “Dreams From My Father” on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I do not buy this canard for a minute, not at all. Writing is as much a craft as, say, golf. To put ...
