'Men Who Stare at Goats' has fuzzy vision
A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney s The Men Who Stare at Goats, and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: More of this is true than what you might imagine. This wry comment serves as a nod and ...
 3.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 112.0 Exhibit will honor veterans' service
The Bandon Historical Society Museum will offer veteran talks Saturday and an exhibit in honor of Veterans Day. The event will run from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, at the museum, 270 Fillmore and U.S. Highway 101 (by the downtown streetlight). Several...
0.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 71.0 Museum will host Veterans Day program
The Bandon Historical Society Museum will offer veteran talks and an exhibit in honor of Veterans Day. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the museum, 270 Fillmore and U.S. Highway 101 (by the downtown streetlight). Several veterans will tal...
1.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 71.0 Storm kills 23 in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 23 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said today. The death toll in the hardest-hit province o...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 CLUB NOTES
First Mondays Art Group noon-3 p.m., first Monday. Port Orford Library. Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 799 7 p.m., first Monday, Nancy Devereux Center, 1200 Newmark. (290-8680) VFW and Auxiliary Post No. 7488 6:30 p.m., Venture Inn Res...
1.3K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 71.0 Veteran talks about stress disorder
I didn t have issues. There were just stupid people around me doing stupid things, Eddie Black told about 50 people at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Tuesday night. That s how Black felt when he returned home from serving in Baghdad, Iraq,...
3.0K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 71.0 Current strategy is a loser
More and more, it looks as though President Barack Obama is going to adopt a split the difference policy on Afghanistan that will basically continue current strategy and likely lead to catastrophe. Obama told congressional leaders he does not int...
3.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 112.0 Cheers & Jeers
Energizer Whitty This commissioner just keeps on working. Cheers to Nikki Whitty for taking on three months of extra duties while the Coos County Veterans Service Office employees were out of action. When they return Monday, Whitty deserves a snappy ...
2.1K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 71.0 Cheers & Jeers
Energizer Whitty This commissioner just keeps on working. Cheers to Nikki Whitty for taking on three months of extra duties while the Coos County Veterans Service Office employees were out of action. When they return Monday, Whitty deserves a snappy ...
2.1K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 71.0 Contempt can't stifle protest
Mr. Walworth s claim that marching with signs is a dead end, and media isn t the target audience, (The World, Oct. 5) is a self-serving oracle easily rebutted by a review of the last 100-plus years of American history. The line of protesters from...
1.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 71.0 Vets visit 'war mom'
GREENACRES When the plane touched down in North Bend, the stewardess made an announcement over the loud-speaker. Instead of asking everyone to stay seated, she pointed out five soldiers on board and recognized them for their service, asking that th...
3.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 285.0 The general's war in Afghanistan
The Pentagon s pre-emptive strike came with the leak of Gen. Stanley McChrystal s confidential review of the Afghan war to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. McChrystal s painting of the military picture was grim. Failure to gain the initiative and...
4.2K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 71.0 Campaign rhetoric faces tough reality
NEW YORK (AP) As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama denounced the war in Iraq and U.S. strategy there, vowing if elected to draw down troops and send them to Afghanistan to address the growing threat from al-Qaida and the Taliban. There is no m...
1.2K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 71.0 HEALTHY LIVING
First Mondays Art Group noon-3 p.m., first Monday. Port Orford Library. Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 799 7 p.m., first Monday, Nancy Devereux Center, 1200 Newmark. (290-8680) VFW and Auxiliary Post No. 7488 6:30 p.m., Venture Inn Rest...
1.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 71.0 CLUB NOTES
First Mondays Art Group noon-3 p.m., first Monday. Port Orford Library. Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 799 7 p.m., first Monday, Nancy Devereux Center, 1200 Newmark. (290-8680) VFW and Auxiliary Post No. 7488 6:30 p.m., Venture Inn Res...
1.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 71.0 Asia storm leaves more than 300 dead
MANILA, Philippines (AP) One of the most destructive storms in years extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia, blowing down wooden villages in Cambodia and crushing Vietnamese houses under mudslides after submerging much of the Philippine cap...
5.4K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 474.0 Typhoon Ketsana roars into Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Typhoon Ketsana roared into central Vietnam today, killing at least 23 people as it brought flooding and winds of up to 90 mph, disaster officials said. Some 170,000 were evacuated from its path. After gathering strength over th...
0.6K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 797.0 New storms may hamper Philippine flood recovery
MANILA, Philippines (AP) The toll from floods in the northern Philippines rose to at least 284 dead or missing today as bedraggled victims queued up for aid and Typhoon Ketsana roared into Vietnam. Two new storms were brewing in the Pacific and thr...
4.1K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 71.0 William Safire, speechwriter, NY columnist, dies at age 79
NEW YORK (AP) William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79. The Pulitzer Prize winner died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The cause of death was pancre...
5.2K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 71.0 Modern serving
COOS BAY The phrase modern grocery shopping and dining may conjure images of organic produce and conveyer-belt sushi bars. But on Wednesday afternoons at the Nancy Devereux center, it looks like volunteers refilling iced teas for homeless people, w...
4.2K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 71.0 | 
