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LAHORE – Nothing new has emerged form the national energy moot as the federal government has come up with the same old measures it adopted during last couple of years in the name of energy conservation.After the Second National Energy Conference held at Chief Minister’s Secretariat here Monday, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced five-day a week work in public departments, closure of all commercial sites by 8pm and some other measures to ‘conserve power’ throughout the country. The only mentionable exception was his announcement of doling out power outages equally among the provinces.The first energy conference was held in 2010 which had recommended a thrust on generating additional electricity apart from adopting the steps to conserve 2,000MW of power to overcome the electricity crisis. However the target by and large remained short of achievement.And the hurriedly called second conference, to a large extent, replicated the old steps. It was held in the background of an acute power shortage, reaching up to 6,000MW, wherein Punjab grouses, it was the major victim in terms of non-availability of electricity to its industrial and consumer sector.After about five-hour long discussion at the conference, the prime minister announced its decisions to media in the presence of chief ministers Shahbaz Sharif (Punjab), Amir Haider Khan Hoti (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Qaim Ali…………… continues on The Nation, Pakistan

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Carmelo Anthony finished with a season-high 43 points, including 17 in the final 17 minutes.

The meeting was brief, just a few hours on a lazy weekend afternoon, but long enough for impressions to be formed and memories embedded for a potentially momentous reunion in the near future.

The Knicks and the

As host of the Masters, the Augusta National Golf Club takes pride in preserving traditions, even to the point of anachronism: pimento cheese sandwiches selling for $ 1.50 at the snack venues, caddies in white overalls, nostalgic music and minimal ads on the tournament telecasts.

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And then there’s that other throwback – exclusion of women from the club’s elite, CEO-studded membership. It’s retro, but not necessarily in a way that inspires warm-and-fuzzy nostalgia.

“They’re clearly living in a time warp,” said Lisa Maatz, director of public policy for the American Association of University Women, who evoked the sexist mindsets of 50 years ago on…………… continues on Christian Science Monitor

AUGUSTA, Ga. – In 1999, at the age of 19, Sergio Garcia hit a spectacular shot off a tree root at the PGA Championship that caused him to sprint up the fairway and leap in the air to get a glimpse of it rolling onto the green. He wouldn’t win that tournament – he finished second – but he was young and fresh, and if not the future of golf then at the very least the expected rival to Tiger Woods.

Rory McIlroy was 10 years old, a golf prodigy in Northern Ireland, and Garcia, the Spaniard, not surprisingly was a role model.

“Yes, Rory was a big fan of Sergio’s,” Gerry McIlroy, Rory’s father said Friday as he watched his son at the Masters. “Sergio was a young guy and was very good. All the kids looked up to Sergio and Tiger.”

Sort of the way they now do to Rory and Tiger.

It’s McIlroy, 22, that’s the next big thing in golf, the likely successor to Woods as the most dominant and charismatic star. Sergio never got much higher than that day in 1999, his promise never fulfilled. Seventeen times he finished top 10 in a major yet never won. Tiger, of course, kept being Tiger.

“Sergio … could’ve won many, many majors,” Rory McIlroy said.

He could win this one. Yet so could…………… continues on Yahoo! Sports

(AP) ROME – Pope Benedict XVI encouraged those threatened by unemployment and other economic woes to draw courage and strength from the suffering of the crucified Jesus Christ as the pontiff presided over a Good Friday candlelit Way of the Cross procession at the ancient Colosseum.

Benedict, who turns 85 on April 16, didn’t carry the cross during the hour-long procession itself. Instead, he listened intently to meditations on suffering that he asked an elderly Italian couple to compose for the traditional ceremony. Then, as the final reflection was read aloud, the pontiff was handed the slender, lightweight wooden cross, which he held steadily for a few minutes.

Thousands of tourists, pilgrims and Romans jammed the boulevard outside the Colosseum and the ancient Roman Forum to pray with him on a mild, cloudy night and listen to hymns.

Faithful clutched candles and prayer books. A few held palms or olive branches they had saved from Palm Sunday, which opened solemn Holy Week ceremonies in the Catholic church.

“The experience of suffering and of the cross touches all mankind. It touches the family, too,” the pope said in a brief homily at the end of the procession, which he observed from an elevated landing.

Dressed in red robes to symbolize the blood shed by Jesus, the pope added that “these days, too, the situation of many families i…………… continues on CBS News

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Lee Westwood is ranked No. 3 in the world and owns 23 career wins between the PGA and European Tours.

But the one glaring thing missing from the Englishman’s resume is a major championship, and it was hard not to think about that fact as he took the first-round lead at the Masters on Thursday with a five-under 67.

However, Westwood doesn’t seem to be worried about getting that breakthrough victory. He wants to win a major, surely, but he’s not too concerned about how it will define his career.

“I prefer people to remember me as the person I am rather than the golf,” Westwood said. “Obviously if I sit down at the end of my career with no major championship wins, I’ll be disappointed. If there’s five, six, I’ll be delighted. At the end of the day, that won’t change actually that much, will it? It’ll be the impression I’ve had among people, and whether I’ve basically gone away having done more good than bad.”

Westwood’s best finishes at any major came in 2010, when he was runner-up at both the Masters and British Open. Additionally, he has finished third — tied or solo — at both the U.S. Open and PGA Championship.

But his failures to win a major haven’t haunted him. Rather, on Thursday, he indicated that he treats those finishes like any other.

“When you’re in contention and you don’t finish it off, you go home and assess what y…………… continues on Fox News

This just in: Eva Perón is still dead.

Anyone questioning the veracity of this assertion need only visit the Marquis Theater, where a lavish, worshipful wake is being held for Mrs. Perón (1919-52), the onetime first lady of Argentina. Michael Grandage’s revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Evita,” which opened on Thursday night, is from beginning to end so stately and sober-sided that you may feel out of place if you’re not wearing your best black.

As it did when it was first staged on Broadway in 1979, this bio-operetta begins and ends with the funeral of its title character. But unlike that earlier incarnation this version by Mr. Grandage (the terrifically talented director of “Red” and

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In the final round of last year’s Masters, Rory McIlroy found his errant tee shot on the 10th hole amid a cluster of white cabins.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy was talking Tuesday about how hard it was for him to remember his final round at last year’s Masters — the bad drive on No. 10, the three-putt on No. 11 and the four-putt on No. 12 that plunged him from the top of the leader board like a bird shot in flight — because the whole day was such a blur.

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About 100 students protesting a plan to offer high-priced courses at Santa Monica College this summer tried to storm into a meeting of the college’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday evening.

A handful of protesters suffered minor injuries as campus police tried to prevent dozens of students chanting, “Let us in, let us in” and “No cuts, no fees, education should be free,” from disrupting the meeting during a public comment period.

[Updated, 10:06 p.m.: Campus police confirmed late Tuesday that two people suffering the effects of pepper spray were taken to a hospital. It was unclear if they were students.]

Several were also overcome when pepper spray was released just outside the meeting room as officers tried to break up the crowd. Police are investigating the circumstances of when the pepper spray was used and by whom.

Cameron Espinoza was outside the board meeting in the back of the crowd when she heard screams. “I saw all these students rushing and they were crying,” said Espinoza, 19, who is director of outreach for the student government. “I couldn’t stop coughing.”

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