Albion W. Tourgee, a pioneer civil-rights activist in the late 1800s, once said, "Jesus Christ was a carpetbagger." If only he could have met Terrell Eldorado Owens. Owens is the ultimate carpetbagger. Much like the people of the Reconstruction Era that the term was used to describe, Owens invades teams as an outsider, infiltrates the organization and then tries to assume authority.
It has become the president's trademark, perhaps, to engage himself inside the comforting realm of The World That Should Be. In that world, the answers to America's conflicts with the Islamic world become easily resolvable, because we are one people with a shared destiny.
Megumi Yamamoto, a UNM graduate student, died in a helicopter crash Tuesday after she was rescued from a hike on Mt. Baldy near Santa Fe. The helicopter pilot was also killed in the crash. New Mexico State Police Spokesman Peter Olson said the bodies of Yamamoto and Sgt. Andy Tingwall were recovered from the crash site on Thursday.
For the first time in history, a Department of Homeland Security meeting was streamed to Web information centers for government officials across the southwest. The meeting, which took place at UNM on Friday, revealed the Obama administration's National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy.
Seven fresh faces and four wily veterans for the UNM track and field team will compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. "Sending a record 11 athletes to the NCAA championship is always a great thing," head coach Joe Franklin said. Senior javelin thrower Katie Coronado will try to top her second-place finish in the 2008 NCAA Championships, while Lee Emanuel will look to add another bullet to his résumé, which already boasts a first-place finish in the one-mile race of this year's NCAA Indoor Championships.
Twitter is bringing people together in unexpected ways and building the Albuquerque community in the process. Chroma Studios and Best Buddies New Mexico have come together to present Albuquerque's first charity Tweet Up on Thursday June 11 from 6 p.m. - 9 p.
Ty Singleton employed a not-so-common agricultural technique to softball this season. The UNM head coach slashed and burned much of the Lobos' roster at the beginning of the year. He knew it had to be done - even if it risked the immediate future of Lobo softball.
When is it justified for a juvenile's crimes to receive adult punishment? This is the question lawmakers and the UNM community are asking after the release of Mister Saunders. In 2002, when Saunders was 13, he raped and killed a UNM student. Saunders has been free since May 31 when he was released from custody at the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center.
Jerry Cena, a.k.a. 'Solar One,' said he didn't find success the first time he released a demo CD while he was in high school. "I kind of got more accepted in town when I got more accepted out of town," Cena said. "I got introduced to Grieves and Type and those guys are from Seattle so when they came into town they put me on their shows and I ended up doing some big shows that way.
Editor, I recently found out about the Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record Sale Act of 2009 (H.R. 45), which was referred to the House subcommittee on Feb. 2. This bill will amend section 922 of title 18 of the United States Code, which currently prohibits the sale of ammunition or firearms by those who are not licensed to a licensing program for everyone who owns a firearm.
The Albuquerque chapter of Food Not Bombs refuses to stop serving free food in front of the UNM Bookstore, despite numerous violation notices and, now, a court injunction. Judge Clay Campbell, district two, granted the New Mexico Environment Department's request for a preliminary injunction against Food Not Bombs on June 1, prohibiting the not-for-profit organization from serving food until they obtain a permit.
Looking for trilobites, authentic arrowheads and geodes? You can find them at Mama's Minerals, which will host its fifth annual arts and crafts fair on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. Owner Laura Randolph said Mama's Minerals had humble beginnings in Albuquerque 23 years ago.
Rural university students have turned to classes that focus on alternative and holistic health as a means to self-growth and healing, according to a UNM-Taos professor. Jean Ellis-Sankari, department head at the UNM-Taos Academy of Holistic Health and Human Services, published an article on the topic, titled "Higher Education as an Alternative Point of Access to Holistic Health," in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
Daily Lobo: Why are you going for your Master's in Business Administration? Casey Stephens: I actually had a job when I graduated in finance, which is what my degree is in. I had a job as a broker, and that was in December, which was not a good time for the financial industry, so I signed my contract to go to Phoenix, and they had to rescind the offer, because they just couldn't afford to hire people.
Special Olympics New Mexico held its largest-ever summer games last weekend. Some 1,035 athletes, up from 800 last year, participated in track and field, bocce, volleyball, cycling and gymnastics, said SONM spokesman Oscar Solis. There are more than 2,500 athletes involved in Special Olympics in New Mexico and three million worldwide, he said.
The Albuquerque Bosque's trash is an artist's treasure. Joshua Willis, the Open Space Visitor Center coordinator, helped find artists for Land/Art New Mexico, a collaboration with 516 Arts to showcase local artists who create land-based art. Willis said most of the exhibits will be finished by June 1, but some are still being constructed.
Superman's kryptonite is his mentor - oh, the irony. The Ewing Theory lives on - in Patrick Ewing's protégé, Dwight Howard. Howard isn't as great as he's hailed to be. As one of my favorite columnists, Bill Simmons, said, he's the "worst great player" in the NBA.
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