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Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 11:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Legalboxer a private message Print Post    
I truly thin Steve McNair would not of registered the new car in both their names and bailed her out of jail last week - thus making his name so publicly connected with her - if it was an "affair"... until we know more i dont want to jump to any conclusions but, at least right now, it really seems like Steve was already separated from his wife even if it was not publicly known....

the one thing i can say definitively is, this loss is hitting me much greater then any of the others the last 2 weeks, given the TOTAL shock of it...

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 11:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
How very sad. One of the articles I read said they were found by a friend that he rents the apartment with. So I was very confused why he's renting an apartment with a friend when he's still married. It sounds like a very strange arrangement for sure. Glad to hear it wasn't drugs. But I must say there's not a man around worth shooting oneself in the head over. Tragic.

Holly
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07-22-2001

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Too true, Brenda, too true!

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
When you shoot yourself in the head, you drop the gun before you fall. So yes, it's more likely that it was a murder suicide because the gun was underneath her.

Also, the apartment door was locked when his friend arrived (from the inside).

It's still possible that it was a double homicide, but it doesn't seem likely.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Apparently the friend who discovered them waited 35 minutes to call the cops. He said he didn't notice them (?!) when he came into the apartment.

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
Can you imagine?! Yikes. That would be so scary to stumble onto that.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
It would also be time enough to mess with the crime scene.. and he didn't call the cops, but he called someone else who then called the cops.

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 8:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gidget a private message Print Post    
Arturo Gatti, dead at 37.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 8:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
?

Mack
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07-23-2002

Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mack a private message Print Post    
Arturo Gatti was a professional fighter and once the junior welterweight champion. As I recall he retired a couple of years ago.

Erniesgirl
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06-26-2006

Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Erniesgirl a private message Print Post    
His wife has been taken into custody.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/box_gatti_death;_ylt=Al_qyN359aELlY_wXUyz5nQDW7oF

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 9:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Apparently she strangled Gatti with the atrap of her purse.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, July 17, 2009 - 5:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchorman, Dies
NY Times


Walter Cronkite, an iconic CBS News journalist who defined the role of anchorman for a generation of television viewers, died Friday at the age of 92, his family said.

“My father Walter Cronkite died,” his son Chip said just before 8 p.m. Eastern. CBS interrupted prime time programming to show an obituary for the man who defined the network’s news division for decades.

Mr. Cronkite’s family said last month that he was seriously ill with cerebrovascular disease.

Mr. Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening News” from 1962 to 1981, at a time when television became the dominant medium of the United States. He figuratively held the hand of the American public during the civil rights movement, the space race, the Vietnam war, and the impeachment of Richard Nixon. During his tenure, network newscasts were expanded to 30 minutes from 15.

“It is impossible to imagine CBS News, journalism or indeed America without Walter Cronkite,” Sean McManus, the president of CBS News, said in a statement. “More than just the best and most trusted anchor in history, he guided America through our crises, tragedies and also our victories and greatest moments.”

Mr. McManus added: “No matter what the news event was, Walter was always the consummate professional with an un-paralleled sense of compassion, integrity, humanity, warmth, and occasionally even humor. There will never be another figure in American history who will hold the position Walter held in our minds, our hearts and on the television. We were blessed to have this man in our lives and words cannot describe how much he will be missed by those of us at CBS News and by all of America.”

Mike Wallace, the “60 Minutes” correspondent emeritus, said simply in a statement, “We were proud to work with him — for him — we loved him.” [...]

RIP Mr Cronkite.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, July 17, 2009 - 5:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Very sad

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, July 17, 2009 - 7:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
:-(

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
I grew up watching Walter as we watched him every night at 7 PM after watching the Canadian News at 6 PM. I remember when he covered Neil Armstrong landing on the moon and Nixon as well as Watergate. He will be missed. I watched the CNN coverage last night.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
They just showed an interview with him where he was reminiscing about being in Pittsburgh for the opening of the first nuclear power plant which was in Shippensport, PA. He said he stood outdoors atop Mt. Washington for two hours doing his report. He was freezing to death. He said he was eternally grateful to a waitress from a local restaurant who kept bringing him coffee. He smiled and said that it was "laced with a little something." I liked him.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 6:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Last update: July 19, 2009 - 7:44 PM


NEW YORK - Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "epic of woe" about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer.

McCourt, who was 78, had been gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer and the cause of his death, said his publisher, Scribner. He died at a Manhattan hospice, his brother Malachy McCourt said

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 7:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Very sad, my thoughts go out to his family. I loved Angela's Ashes. It's a book that has stayed long with me after reading it.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 7:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
OG, Mamie, I am heartbroken over his passing. (I've seen the film, read his books, and even read his brother's book.) Yes, very sad. :-(

Wink
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10-06-2000

Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wink a private message Print Post    
May the road rise up to meet you Mr. McCourt. You were a treasure.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
I also loved Frank McCourt. He will be missed.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 7:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I am so very thankful I had the opportunity to hear him speak last fall, and I will always treasure my copy of Teacher Man that he so graciously signed.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 8:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Teach, I envy you, you are very lucky to have had that wonderful experience. I admired him soooo much. A true survivor who really lived to pay-it-forward.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 10:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
He was hilarious to listen to, and yet he was also extremely inspiring. His final story of the night was somehow both. This is the story (paraphrased):

"After teaching 30 years, you're bound to run into students. One afternoon I was walking in NYC and heard my name called. "Hey, Mr. McCourt - It's me, Petie - remember me?" "Yes, Petie, I remember you." "Yeah? I was in your class." "Yes, Petie, I remember." "You know, Mr. McCourt, it was because of your English class I became a writer." "Really, Petie? That's nice." "Yeah, Mr. McCourt, a writer. You know what writers make? Yeah, Mr. McCourt - F**K YOU!"

And he walked off the stage. It was hilarious! The man could say anything in that lovely Irish accent, and all the uptight mid-westerners would still laugh. :-) (I was ROFLMAO - but even more so because of the many gasps I heard around me!)