Freman Hendrix eclipses Kwame Kilpatrick in Detroit mayoral race

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Challenger Freman Hendrix has upset incumbent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in the August 2 Detroit mayoral primary election. The top two contenders will face each other in the general election on November 8. Kilpatrick, the youngest mayor in Detroit history, is seeking his second term.

The Detroit Free Press reports that with 664 of the city’s 720 precincts reporting (92 percent), Hendrix had 44 percent of the vote, Kilpatrick had 34 percent, City Councilwoman Sharon McPhail had 12 percent, and state Sen. Hansen Clarke had 9 percent. Eight also-rans accounted for the remainder of the vote.

The results closely agree with an exit poll by local TV station WDIV and Mitchell Research, which had challenger Hendrix as the winner with 46 percent of the vote, Kilpatrick with 30 percent, McPhail with 11 percent, while state Sen. Hansen Clarke rounded out the top four with 9 percent. Mitchell Research & Communication’s pollsters interviewed 600 people who said they voted. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percenta … Read More

2007/08 UEFA Cup: Zenit St. Petersburg vs. Bayern Munich

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Zenit Saint Petersburg win 5–1 on aggregate.

Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg booked their place in the 2007-08 UEFA Cup Final with a victory over Germans Bayern Munich, 4-0 on the night and 5-1 on aggregate.

Pavel Pogrebnyak opened the scoring after five minutes, and Konstatin Zyrianov doubled Zenit’s lead six minutes before half-time.

Viktor Fayzulin made it three eleven minutes into the second half, and Pavel Pogrebnyak completed the rout with seventeen minutes left.

Despite scoring two goals, Pogrebnyak received a yellow card and, as a result, will miss the final.

Zenit Saint Petersburg will meet Scottish club Rangers in the final, which will be held in Manchester, England, on May 14, 2008. Rangers were formerly managed by Zenit’s current boss Dick … Read More

Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones dies at age 90

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Jennifer Jones, leading lady in two dozen Hollywood pictures and an Academy Award winner for her first major film, 1943’s The Song of Bernadette, died Thursday at her home in Malibu, California. She was 90.

Born Phyllis Lee Isley in Tulsa, Oklahoma on March 2, 1919, her pursuit of fame as an actress took her to New York City at the age of 19, leaving for Hollywood one year later. She changed her name to Jennifer Jones while testing for a part in a David O. Selznick movie; in 1949, Selznick, who produced Gone with the Wind, would become her second and perhaps highest-profile husband.

Jones broke into dramatic film roles in 1943 as the lead in The Song of Bernadette, a movie about a nun who saw visions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France in 1858. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, and became a star well in-demand, earning Academy Award nominations the next three years in a row for the films Since You Went Away, Love Letters and Duel in the Sun.

Jones was a popular movie actress well into the 1950s. She starred as a Eurasian doctor, Han Suyin, in the 1955 film Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, earning her a fifth and final Academy Award nomination. After a well-received turn in a film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in 1957, she started to take on fewer and fewer movie roles. She would make her final on-camera appearance in the 1974 disaster movie The Towering Inferno.

Jones was married three times and was survived by one of her three children, Robert Walker, Jr., from her first marriage to Robert Walker. She married for a third and final time in 1971 to industrialist Norton Simon, six years after the death of her second husband David O. Selznick. The couple’s collection of South Asian art, acquired while living in India, is now showcased in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. Jones was an active force behind the operations of the museum, serving as chairman from Simon’s death in 1993 to 2003, and as trustee emeritus until her … Read More