As a junior, he was a peer helper. As a sophomore, he was on the chess team and a supporter of the fine arts program. "Fine arts was a way to escape reality, and at the same time they gave you new goals to reach," he was quoted in his sophomore yearbook. Catherine Manske of Palatine graduated a year ahead of Kazmierczak but said she hung out with him frequently in the two years they were on band together. She played flute while he was a tenor saxophonist. "Neither one of us were that good, so we would talk a lot. He liked to hang out with the older kids," Manske said. "He was one of the nicest kids at the school and really normal. I don't think he was on any medication when I knew him." She remembered one quirky thing. He signed her 1997 yearbook with "don't hit any old ladies crossing the road." "We thought that was kind of weird," said Manske, who graduated with Kazmierczak's sister.

Result: Ireland 16-11 Italy

I never thought it would happen at half-time. I should have had faith." Anonymous Welsh person on text 81111

80 mins: James Haskell makes a 20-metre break and pushes England to the half-way line. The clock is well beyond 80 minutes, but it's all over - Wales have won an absolutely extraordinary game of rugby. Just unbelievable.

79 mins: The Welsh pack are not letting the ball out of their sight, even though Hook is itching for a drop-goal. But Duncan Jones knocks on with 15 seconds left on the clock. Can England produce a moment of magic to level this absolutely enthralling encounter?

78 mins: BBC commentator Brian Moore names James Hook as his man-of-the-match - and rightly so. The fly-half has been absolutely inspirational. Wales' 20-year Twickenham hoodoo is just 90 seconds from being banished to the annals of history.

US Wants New Iran Sanctions Fast

Iran claims its program is peaceful and insists it has the same right to enrichment technology as nuclear nations such as the United States.

But it said Teheran had rejected as irrelevant some material forwarded by the agency that purportedly shows it working on tests of missile trajectories and high explosives, and research on a missile re-entry vehicle , activities that would most likely be part of weapons development.

Fred Thompson Surfaces, Resubmerges

We will also admit that we had no idea Fred Thompson had endorsed John McCain. Maybe it's because he released a stealth statement to the Associated Press on a Friday afternoon. That's what you do when you resign after appearing on some escort-service phone list—not when you're endorsing a presidential candidate.

McCain could have used a more public blessing, too. The conservative radio mouths calling for his head (Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter) might tone it down a bit if they knew that one-time GOP messiah Fred Thompson was backing him. A message from the ghost of Fred might also have blunted Huckabee's strength among evangelicals. But Fred has always done things his own way. It's as if he wanted to back a winner but didn't want to give McCain the satisfaction of a flashbulb handshake.

OfficeMax Unveils Top Gifts for the 2007 Holiday Season

NAPERVILLE, Ill., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OfficeMax(R) (NYSE: OMX) , a leading provider of office products and services, announced today that function, style and creativity are the key motivators behind many gift hunts for the 2007 holiday season. OfficeMax is featuring an expanded technology selection to include a new generation of digital photo cameras, printers, digital photo frames and new HP Notebook and Desktop holiday bundles, made exclusively for OfficeMax. In addition, OfficeMax ImPress(TM), OfficeMax's print and document services, has enhanced its selection of customizable calendars and holiday cards in keeping with the current trend of giving personalized calendars and holiday cards as keepsake items.

"This year our customers are looking for gifts that are useful and fun, so they are frequently used and appreciated and not just left to sit on a shelf," said Ryan Vero, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer for OfficeMax.

Production notes

Once again I apologize with all my heart to the staff of the Potawotomi Casino in Kansas."

Wherever Borat touched down, he left a shaken populace in his wake. In Washington, D.C., he rocked a Gay Pride parade -- "Many peoples friendly to me in America. In Washingtons, a guy in bikinis grab my busherka," Borat exclaims. But his travels through the South left an especially strong imprint on Borat and his "subjects."

Baron Cohen, as Borat, infuriated audience members at a Salem, Virgina rodeo by singing the Kazakh "national anthem" to the tune of the American anthem. After the rendition, a group of irate rodeo hands on horseback surrounded the filmmakers' van, demanding that they be lynched.

Also in the South, Borat tried to figure out the American art of shopping -- strangest of all, the practice of paying lots of money for old things called "antiques." At a small antique store, Borat is incredibly clumsy and manages to destroy hundreds of dollars of items.

Theatre of dreams pauses to relive a nightmare

After all the dark threats about what should be done to Manchester City supporters who were bound not to keep quiet during the Munich minute's silence, 3,000 turned up, crammed into the far corner of the East Stand and did themselves proud. Pipers led the two teams out, United wearing their 1950s-throwback kit, City a sponsorless version of theirs, the managers laid wreaths in the centre circle, and then the loudest sound came from City fans shushing one another to honour the remembrance.

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