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With one game left in the season, Doug Collins has a chance tocontinue the trend of an improved second season during his NBAcoaching tenure. His overall won-lost …

Historic vote on integration at Alberta sessions

A room full of upraised hands, each grasping a pink or blue slip of paper, was the sight of history in the making. This moment defined the reality of two Mennonite conferences coming together.

The occasion was the first joint vote in the first joint business session of the Conference of Mennonites in Alberta (CMA) and the Northwest Mennonite Conference (NWC) here February 26-28. After discussing programs already shared and the wider church movement toward integration, delegates of both conferences approved a motion toward more regional integration.

Nick Dyck (moderator of CMA) and Jim Miller (NWC moderator) opened the joint meeting with a visual warning--they exchanged …

Bills: Pro Bowl LT Peters joins team

Buffalo Bills Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters has ended his holdout and reported to the team.

Bills spokesman Scott Berchtold said Peters reported Saturday and that questions about his physical and roster status won't be answered until after Sunday's home game against Seattle. Peters …

We respond to market trends ; Britain's biggest footwear brand, Pavers, is a relatively new entrant in India but is ramping up aggressively.

Britain's biggest footwear brand, Pavers, is a relatively newentrant in India but is ramping up aggressively. Stuart Paver,President & Chairman, Pavers England Footprints Ltd, spoke to BT'SShamni Pande.

It's true that many footwear brands have gone back from India.This is because they have chosen to treat India as an outpost bydumping it with products that work in the European markets. Theresult is that Indian suppliers are saddled with stocks that don'tmove. Brands then do not ship new products until the old ones clearout.

We, on the contrary, have invested $3 million in our R&D plant inChennai to respond to and …

Election Results From the West

A glance at election results in the West:

ALASKA:

The governor's race was a three-for-all - Republican Sarah Palin and former Gov. Tony Knowles locked in a tough tussle complicated by independent Andrew Halcro. Don Young, seeking his 18th term as the state's congressman, barely acknowledged his opponent, Democrat Diane Benson.

ARIZONA:

No high-profile Republican candidate for governor, so incumbent Democrat Gov. Janet Napolitano won her bid for a second term easily.

In his quest to unseat Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, millionaire mall-builder Democrat Jim Pederson positioned himself as the protest choice and was giving the incumbent stiff opposition. …

Syria troops fire on protesters, killing 8

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters in several parts of the country on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding scores, while masked gunmen burst into an apartment in the predominantly Kurdish northeast and shot dead one of Syria's most prominent opposition figures.

Another leading opposition figure was beaten up by pro-government gunmen and rushed to a hospital in Damascus, activists said.

The slaying of Mashaal Tammo, a 53-year-old former political prisoner and a spokesman for the Kurdish Future Party, was the latest in a string of targeted killings in Syria as the country slides further into disorder, seven months into the uprising …

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