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• Nicaragua festivities

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:30

  Youths wear colorful masks during the traditional dance, “El Güegüense,” in Diriamba City, about 30 kilometers south of Managua, Nicaragua, this past Sunday. Thousands of people participated in this festival honoring the pat...

• M.L. King embodied Nietzscheís ‹bermensch, author says

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:29

  BIll Branyon By JIM GENARO The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche might seem like strange bedfellows to many. But according to author and historian Bill Branyon, King was, ...

• Council approves design centerís I-26 plan

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:27

  Asheville City Council took steps on Jan. 15 toward getting the long-delayed Interstate 26 Connector project started, voting 6-1 to endorse a design plan put together by the Asheville Design Center and modified by Figg Engineers. Engineers with the...

• City Council rejects idea of creating panel to review police shootings

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:27

  Asheville City Council on Jan. 15 rejected a proposal to let a residents’ board review police shootings and allegations of misconduct by officers. The proposal was presented to council by the group Citizens Awareness Asheville, which include...

• Residents allege abuses, sanitation issues at bi-monthly Woodfin bluegrass music night

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:26

  By JIM GENARO WOODFIN — Though it was not on the agenda, the management of a regular music event at the Woodfin Community Center dominated discussion at the Jan. 15 meeting of the town’s Board of Aldermen. About half a dozen reside...

• Smithson-led UNCA flattens High Point 74-58 with late rally

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:18

  Following their win over High Point last Wednesday night, the Bulldogs moved to 2-0 in the Big South for the first time since the 2002-03 season. Photo courtesy of UNCA Bryan Smithson scored 27 points and delivere...

• ëDogs nip Keydets in OT thriller 90-87

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:16

  UNCA’s Sean Smith scored a career-high 17 points against VMI last Saturday afternoon. Photo courtesy of UNCA LEXINGTON, Va. — Kenny George only played for six seconds, but it was enough to put UNC Ashe...

• WCU receiver named 2nd-team All-America by The Sports Network

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:13

  Eddie Cohen (9) earned his second All-America honor over the weekend as he was tabbed second-team by The Sports Network. He was joined on the squad by junior Quinton Phillips as an honorable mention at linebacker. Photo courtesy o...

• Sport Shorts: Jan. 23, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:11

  Ex-WCU coach reassigned as P.E., health counselor CULLOWHEE — Kent Briggs, the former Western Carolina University head football coach, recently was reassigned within the university to the position of physical education and health counselor f...

• ëThe Great Debatersí ranks as one of yearís finest films

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:04

    Roger Ebert “The Great Debaters” is about an underdog debate team that wins a national championship, and some critics have complained that it follows the formula of all sports movies by lea...

• Advice Goddess: OK now, once more with fleeing...

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:01

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon This girl I’ve known for six years is visiting me. We live on opposite sides of the country, and once a year, have weeklong “dates” (the polite word for it). I th...

• Popeís speech cancellation proves ironic

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 18:59

  In a historical rarity, a pope has chosen to cancel a speech because of opposition to his views. Surely Galileo, who was condemned by the Inquisition in the early 1600s for arguing that the Earth revolves around the Sun, must be rolling in his grav...

• Hard news over fluff: Whatís going on at AC-T?

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 18:57

  John North Editor & Publisher The Asheville Citizen-Times c/o President & Publisher 14 O. Henry Street Asheville, N.C. 28801 Dear Randy Hammer: This is to express my extreme disappointment w...

• Bush really did unite U.S. in what we do not want

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 18:53

  Mark West In his own perverse way, George W. Bush has indeed proven to be a “uniter, not a divider.” The evidence of this, in the days coming up to the first caucuses, is that even the mainstream Republican c...

• Freedom, political correctness compete for American mind

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 18:51

  Selwyn Duke Last year’s scamnesty bill had widespread support among the powers-that-be, with the president, the Democrat majority and mainstream media all singing its praises. Yet it went down to defeat, sla...

• The little car that could; Nano symbolizes Indiaís growing middle class

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 18:49

  EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an editorial reprinted from the Jan. 16 edition of USA Today. • In the USA, $2,500 won’t buy some top-end bicycles. In India, soon it will be enough to buy a car. Granted that the new Nano, from Mu...

• Women voters show solidarity with world of emotions

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 18:45

    Janese Johnson In our culture, emotions definitely receive greater respect from women than they do from men —especially the emotion of sadness. We saw a recent example of this with Hillary ...

• Police Blotter: Jan. 23, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 18:29

  Man kills former employer before turning gun on self A man with a troubled job history went into Mountain Valley Spring Water early last Wednesday and gunned down his former employer before turning the gun on himself, police say. Gus Edward M...

• City moves to regulate flag displays; constitutionality debated

  Created: Tuesday, 15 January 2008 18:51

  From Staff Reports Businesses in Asheville will have to be more careful about how they fly the American flag, as City Council passed an ordinance on Jan. 8 that would require businesses to follow federal rules on how to display the flag. Howe...

• Airport secured in Buenos Aires following melee

  Created: Tuesday, 15 January 2008 18:50

  Argentine federal police patrol Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires last Monday, two days after angry passengers frustrated by two days of cancelled flights jumped over ticket counters, smashed computers, assaulted airport personnel and stormed...