This afternoon was a mirage, the scoreboard an optical illusion. The result, not unlike attendance figures that alleged a sellout amid thousands of empty orange seats, was either creative math or an outright numerical lie.
2006 is a great year for Hawai'i's fashion lovers. Uncharacteristically, this fall is a season when we don't have to bemoan the trends, sighing over fashion magazines and complaining to beleaguered retailers, "It's great looking, but we could never wear that here!"
Sir - I think some of the recent remarks in your letters column about Maria Sharapova were sour grapes. She won the US Open, she won it fairly. I thought her dresses as scintillating as her tennis. Moreover, when auctioned, their proceeds will go to Sharapova's ''Children at Risk" charity fund.
If you are not currently living in a state of constant outrage, then you are not fully human. You may be a physically beautiful person, but if you are not frothing-at-the-mouth pissed-off, then you are closer to a petunia. You may be nothing more than a very kind person, in which case you are more puppy than human. You may simply be happy. If so, you possess the temperament of a head of
The home run is dead. OK, maybe not dead, but it's sure looking frail, emaciated and lacking the life it once did. A quick glance at what's been going on in Philadelphia is all that's needed to confirm that.