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This year’s official draft party has been cancelled by the Sonics ownership group by-the-way. The legal case of forcing the out-of-state Sonics ownership group to live up to their Key Arena lease should be open-and-shut. Key Arena was renovated with public funding, in good faith, during the early 1990s with the expectation that a major [...]

Mary’s hockey era began in the early 1990s when former NHL defenseman Craig Norwich was hired to start a hockey program at the elite prep school. Parise on board a few years later. Louis Blues coach Andy Murray (Jordan’s father) also coached there. The current coach is Tom Ward. Throughout the years, top players like [...]

Though the prognosis is uncertain, this is truly bad news both for the Kennedy family and for Massachusetts. Obviously it’s way too soon to tell whether Kennedy might be able to return to a vigorous and effective Senate career, but it’s a real possibility. Arlen Specter, for one, has served while battling various forms of [...]

If he succeeds, he will beat the current record held by American Rosalie Bradford, who reportedly lost 52.5 stone in the early 1990s. It made a change from years of eating pizzas, burgers, chips and fizzy drinks when he worked as a computer repair man in America. Back in Mexico, he only added to his [...]

On Wednesday, the Russian foreign ministry ratcheted up the pressure on Georgia by establishing legal ties with the two republics, which have been quasi-independent entities since the early 1990s. Georgia’s leaders are predictably apoplectic over what they see as a Russian annexation of one third of their territory. Putin claims he wants to take steps [...]

For the size and stature of HSBC, it’s absolutely punching below its weight, said Louise Cuming, head of mortgages at price comparison site Moneysupermarket.com. This will buy them market share very quickly … Lenders have withdrawn thousands of products and raised rates as their funding costs have jumped and as the housing market and economy [...]