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Ex-driver Dick Trickle dies of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound

...caution flags flew."He always kept a cigarette lighter in his car," Bodine said in a telephone interview. "It's all just sad. We don't understand why he would do this. Hopefully we will all learn why he would do that. There was something that triggered...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/nascar/2013-05-16/ex-driver-dick-trickle-die
Byzantium

Opens Friday, Jun 28, 2013 Synopsis: Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan star in Interview with the Vampire director Neil Jordan's lavish yet decadent tale of a bloodsucking mother-daughter duo whose dark 200 year history threatens to catch up with them in a run-down hotel on the English coast. Their story begins during the Napoleonic Wars, when young Eleanor (Ronan) was abandoned as Clara (Arterton) fell into a passionate love affair. Two centuries later, demure Eleanor and extroverted Clara are on the run when they seek sanctuary in a dilapidated coastal resort. There, Clara sets her sights on a lonely soul named Noel (Daniel Mays) who has just inherited the Byzantium Hotel, a once-thriving inn that has fallen into a sad state of disrepair. Before long, the elder vampire has transformed the Byzantium into a makeshift brothel where she and her young companion can quench their thirst for human blood while maintaining a low-profile. Meanwhile, Eleanor falls for Frank (Caleb Landry Jones), a charming young waiter who unwittingly draws out the natural storyteller in her. Amidst a string of mysterious disappearances in the sleepy coastal town, Frank realizes that Eleanor's extraordinary tales are much more than simple fantasy. As Clara and Eleanor's sanguinary past slowly comes into focus, it's only a matter of time until the two succubi will be forced to flee once again, or remain to face their fates with a sense of dark courage. Jonny Lee Miller and Sam Riley co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Caleb Landry Jones, Daniel Mays, Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Riley Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

Suffocating

...didn't have anything to do with pushing the Georgia Regents name. Evidence to the contrary is flowing in.But perhaps the saddest part of this complete disregard for the community is the arrogant, heavy-handed way it's been carried out. There is such...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2012-08-21/suffocating
Rants & Raves

Comments from readers: THE TERRORIST ATTACK in Boston was a tragedy; however, the saddest part of the story is that many people believe that the taxpayers should nurse the suspect back to health and provide him a multimillion-dollar...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-24/rants-raves
Decline of the American family

...poised to leave our children and grandchildren with two very sad legacies.The first is an unconscionable and immoral amount...single week of federal court over which I recently presided. The sad reality is that I regularly encounter individuals with similar...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-14/decline-american-family
A more inconvenient truth

...truth.So, naturally, they chose titillating over tormenting. It's better for ratings, and for guilty consciences.How sad. They could have opened the nation's eyes to the Frankenstein's monster that is the media's beloved abortion. Merely...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-05-14/more-inconvenient-tru
Film sugar-coated civil rights struggles

...feel better" several decades later.Let us pause and face the fact that we are addressing one of the most dramatic and saddest years of our history, an incomprehensible episode in a civilized country.We became a better nation because of the NAACP...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2011-08-27/film-sugar-coated-civil-
Is our image of Santa Claus a Coca-Cola creation?

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. -- Erma Bombeck Merry Christmas. No holiday has more traditions...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/12/25/kir_178055.shtml
Bill Kirby
Senior player hooked again 10 years later

It's doubtful that anyone was sadder to see the Regions Cup golf tournament season end Sunday at Jones Creek Golf Club than Augusta's Carl Pilcher. Pilcher has been...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/08/27/wes_470979.shtml
David Westin
Sad for innocent bystanders

...admit to being surprised. I am saddened, however, and I mean that sincerely. I am sad for President Bill Clinton, sadder for Hillary Rodham Clinton and sadder still for Chelsea Clinton. If there is an innocent bystander in this whole mess...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/08/29/op_237446.shtml
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