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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The probe into North Carolina's football program added another prong. Along with it came another batch of question marks to cloud a promising season.

The school's announcement that the investigation of the Tar Heels' program has expanded into possible academic misconduct – one involving players and a woman who coach Butch Davis previously hired to tutor his son – seemed to raise as many questions as it attempted to answer.

How many players may have been involved? Which ones? What were the possible acts of misconduct? And what effect will this uncertainty have on a team expected to challenge for Atlantic Coast Conference supremacy?

"We are looking into improprieties that existed outside the classroom," athletic director Dick Baddour said Thursday night when asked about the specific actions that led to the probe. "That's about as close to that as I can get."

Baddour would not identify the players or even estimate any numbers, saying "to put a bracket around it could be misleading." He declined to get into many specifics, saying only that they involved "a student tutor and student-athletes on the football team."

The announcement came nine days before the 18th-ranked Tar Heels' opener against No. 21 LSU in Atlanta, and roughly two months after the NCAA began an investigation into whether two key players – defensive tackle Marvin Austin and receiver Greg Little – received improper benefits from agents.

Defensive line coach John Blake's longtime friendship with California-based agent Gary Wichard also has drawn the NCAA's interest.

Joint interviews conducted by NCAA and school investigators during that probe led them to a player who "raised an issue that we felt like deserved further consideration on our part.

"It led us down a road that brought us to what we're talking about," Baddour said.

Lindsay Lohan Hits Baby Stroller, Nanny With Her Maserati

Fresh from her stint in jail and rehab, Lindsay Lohan could find herself in more legal jeopardy.

Two eyewitnesses allege to have spotted the 24-year-old pulling her high-powered Maserati out of her West Hollywood apartment building, running a red light, making a left, and then running straight into a stroller being pushed by a nanny.

“It was full impact, a major hit,” the eyewitness paparazzo, Bryan Jaime, told TMZ, adding that the bumper struck the nanny in the leg as well as the stroller.

But instead of filing a police report, Jaime reportedly sold the footage to RadarOnline.com.. Allegedly shot seconds after the incident, it features the baby crying and the nanny “in shock” and continuing to push the stroller.

A vehicle resembling Lohan's Maserati, said to be driven by Lohan, can be seen in the video leaving the scene.

When asked about the incident by RadarOnline.com, Lohan said: "I don't know what you're talking about."

The West Hollywood Sheriff's department said no report had been filed.

"No claim has been made with the West Hollywood Sheriff's station, so if it did in fact happen, and I don't know if it did or not, but if it did, no one called to report it to us," said the department spokesman.

Calls to Lohan by FOX411.com were not immediately returned.

Teachers Are The Root Of The Problem

GROWING up Peranakan, the languages I learnt were English and the Malay-based Peranakan patois. Instead of learning Malay as a mother tongue, my mother felt it would be better if I studied Chinese.

While I started out eager and enthusiastic, I found myself floundering because my teachers spoke no English, which in effect meant they could not teach me.
They 'translated' Mandarin words into Mandarin, assuming that I should be able to get it. Little has changed since, judging from my nephew's experience.

Enrolling in expensive tuition and learning by rote were how I managed to pass. Like many of my peers of my background, I expended most of my studying effort on Chinese. The O-level distinction I got was due to luck rather than a true grasp of the language because by no stretch of the imagination am I competent in Chinese.

By contrast, my friend's six-year-old daughter is topping her class in Chinese in a British school. She loves the language because her teacher is effectively bilingual and imaginative.
The bilingual policy is not the problem. Its implementation is. My IQ was not deficient because I aced my subjects and was a Humanities scholarship holder. But the study of Chinese as taught in our schools almost defeated me. Without my excellent and dedicated private tutor, I would not have survived our system. How many of our Chinese teachers are bilingual in English and Mandarin? The failure of generations of Chinese Singaporeans to master Chinese is not the failure of students, but of the teachers.

Josephine Chong (Ms)

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W.G.M Lion

The lion used in the original MGM movie logo killed its trainer and two assistants the day after the logo was filmed ?

Hmmm....

- This is untrue, they were actually killed by an orca in the next studio, while the poor lion watched. Traumatized, the lion never roared again.

McDonald Today

What's the connection between McDonald's and starvation in the 'Third World'?

THERE's no point in feeling guilty about eating while watching starving African children on TV. If you do send money to Band Aid, or shop at Oxfam, etc., that's morally good but politically useless. It shifts the blame from governments and doesnothing to challenge the power of multinational corporations.

HUNGRY FOR DOLLARS

• McDonald's is one of several giant corporations with investments in vast tracts of land in poor countries, sold to them by the dollar-hungry rulers (often military) and privileged elites, evicting the small farmers that live there growing food fortheir own people.

  The power of the US dollar means that in

  • • order to buy technology and manufactured goods, poor countries are trapped into producing more and more food for export to the States. Out of 40 of the world's poorest countries, 36 export food to the USA - thewealthiest.

ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM

• Some 'Third World' countries, where most children are undernourished, are actually exporting their staple crops as animal feed - i.e. to fatten cattle for turning into burgers in the 'First World'. Millions of acres of the best farmland in poor contries are being used for our benefit - for tea, coffee, tobacco, etc. - while people there are starving. McDonald's is directly involved in this economic imperialism, which keeps most black people poor and hungry while many whites grow fat

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latest : MCDONALD'S Corp said on Tuesday it named Steve Easterbrook, current CEO of its UK division and president of Northern Europe operations, to the newly created role of global chief brand officer.

The world's largest burger chain said Mr Easterbrook will oversee marketing, menu innovation, consumer insights and other brand assets. Mr Easterbrook, a 16-year McDonald's veteran, assumes the post Sept 1.

Jill McDonald, current chief marketing officer for Northern Europe, will succeed Easterbrook in the UK and Northern Europe roles

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