WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's designee for surgeon hybrid has a stature as someone with the tender-hearted of effective personality that would choose her effective as the people's health advocate. Dr. Regina Benjamin is a pedigree doctor from a southern Alabama fishing community (Bayou La Batre). A decade ago, the New York Times described her as an "angel in a corpse-like coat," a motherland repair who made building calls along the poverty-stricken Gulf Coast and was paid only what her patients could scrounge.
Benjamin's nonprofit clinic was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, then rebuilt by volunteers only to fritter away down months later. On receiving a half-million "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation model fall, she spoke of accepting a $7 provision from a the missis wretched for the clinic to be rebuilt again. Benjamin said, "If she can hit upon $7, I can suppose out the rest.
" She dedicated the distribute lettuce to finishing the job. Her nomination for surgeon common requires Senate confirmation.
Sorry, but I approve with Sam here. Clearly a off the record band is making specie by thievery the likenesses of athletes. The value of each correspondence is minimal, as there are over 10,000 athletes on the EA sports rosters. Still, EA Sports and the NCAA fundamental to a close exploiting the players.
By the way, "Keller is a Joke," the University of Nebraska paid for Keller's education, not EA Sports or the NCAA. Read the multi-part investigative surface on the NCAA done by the Kansas City Star. The NCAA is about as adulterate as they come.
NEW HAVEN - Jordan Linblad is 18 years lasting and that's how lengthy of a rap he was handed Friday in Superior Court, for shooting two other juvenile men terminal October. Judge Richard Damiani imposed the sentence, to be suspended after Linblad serves 14 years. He will then phiz three years of probation. Before he agreed to the sentencing structure and not seeking a trial, Linblad had faced charges of attempted slaughter in the shooting of Kyshaun Kendall and Darrell Gilmore on Dixwell Avenue. The shootings took state on Oct. 7, Linblad's 18th birthday.
Kendall, 19, of Newhall Street, Hamden, was critically injured by the bullets from Linblad's.22-caliber pistol. He was nip in the head, but survived. Gilmore, 17, of 60 Third St., Hamden, was snapshot in the arm and needed clinic treatment.
Linblad was sentenced Friday on one judge of first-degree assault. He also received one-year sentences on two counts of carrying a handgun without a permit. The weapons sentences will be served concurrently with the violation sentence. According to Hamden police, Linblad began shooting at 5:15 p.m. on First Street, but he did not hit anybody in that incident.
Police find creditable he was seeking repayment against another juvenile who allegedly stabbed him with a screwdriver a month earlier. Police said several people, including Kendall and Gilmore, approached the construct door of Linblad's billet on Dixwell Avenue at about 6:40 p.m. that same night, in retaliation for the earlier gunfire. That's when Linblad opened fire.
Linblad's MySpace foot-boy said at that time: "listen…i got bullets 4 each of u if nuttin else at least i no my dreams is reachable." The missive didn't spell out any individual target. The locale also had several pictures, including one of Linblad posed with his lift exhausted as if a gun. The caption said: "if u no me u no wat im packin n it aint my finger.
" Linblad and his two victims had attended Hamden High School. Randall Beach can be reached at or 789-5766. Reader Comments The following are comments from the readers. In no sense do they paint the hold of nhregister.com.
