Challenges In The News 04/24/08

“I’m not telling you it’s not a challenge,” Mr. LaNeve said, refering to finding the right balance in the brand portfolio. “I’m telling you we can manage it.”

But New Hampshire uses lethal injections, which would render Bourne’s heart useless for transplant. It’s up to the ACLU lawyer Maggie Bloom, working with the young priest who is Bourne’s spiritual adviser, to find a way to let Bourne save the girl – despite her objections – and challenge capital punishment.

As a search for candidates begins, hard times and a raft of challenges complicate the selection process. But UC officials and higher education experts say the position’s challenges are known around the nation and could make it tougher than in the past to find a willing person with the right scholarly, managerial and political talents.

After hearing Malcolm X, the Muslim minister, skewer Baptist preachers as little more than high-living pimps for a Europeanized Christianity, I found it difficult to sit through a Holy Roller sermon without chuckling. Here were men in robes, I thought, routinely mounting the pulpit with rote Scriptures, scant preparations, and no answers for the cerebral challenges of the agnostics – all in service of a supposedly blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus, who, after being born in the sun-baked, Middle Eastern town of Bethlehem, was hidden among the people of Egypt in North Africa.

Killings, many of them random and unrelated, are up sharply in the city. 'One death is one too many, but we think it's a bit of an anomaly,' a police official says. Homicides in Los Angeles have sharply increased in the first two months of this year, reversing nearly five years of decline and posing a puzzling challenge for Police Chief William J. Bratton.

LAWYERS for the condemned Bali heroin courier Scott Rush plan to lodge a fresh challenge against all executions in Indonesia, despite the overturning of three fellow couriers' death penalties offering hope for a final appeal.

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), a two-time presidential candidate, survived a challenge from several Democrats on Tuesday in his Cleveland-based district, becoming one of several incumbents to defeat primary challengers in Ohio and Texas.

AMBITIOUS frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull is not ruling out a challenge to Brendan Nelson after a horror week for the federal opposition leader.

Galway International Rally to host first ever Challenge event outside of UK.

NICK DOUGHERTY reckons this week's Malaysian Open is a huge mental as well as physical challenge.

Telstra's attempts to challenge the regulatory regime, which allows its rivals to access its network, were dealt a blow today, after the High Court dismissed a case brought by the telco -- but questions remain over whether the ruling will apply to any future fibre-to-the-node network.