High Fives & handshakes - Leitrim Observer
28 May 2012, 2:10 am
Boys and girls from the Annaduff, Dromahair, Gortletteragh and Glencar/Manorhamilton Clubs shared the GAA county grounds on Friday May 11, with the members of the Leitrim team and management personnel. The occasion was the first ever Championship Open ...

A Doomed Romance With a New Orleans Newspaper - New York Times
27 May 2012, 10:57 pm
We are like Shriners, once a proud, powerful bunch who now meet in little rooms and exchange secret handshakes. Nothing gets print romanticists more dewy-eyed than The Times-Picayune, which we learned last week will no longer be a daily presence ...

PDA Showcase: Teams make playoff push - ESPN
27 May 2012, 10:28 pm
Following Sunday’s 3-1 win, the under-16 team from Maryland simply traded handshakes with top-seeded Slammers of California, well aware that business was far from complete. This weekend’s Elite Clubs National League national event at the PDA ...

Raiders' big risk pays off with spot in NCAA finals - Athens Banner-Herald
27 May 2012, 8:27 pm
“They like playing with each other. They have fun out there.” That was evident Sunday as the pair exchanged animated high-fives and handshakes between points and jumped into each other’s arms after defeating Ole Miss. It also doesn’t ...

BJP tries to paper over dissensions - Deccan Herald
25 May 2012, 3:36 pm
Unlike last year’s Delhi executive meet where the bubbling inner tensions were disguised beneath the veneer of smiles and handshakes, the proceedings at the Mumbai meet made it clear that the party had three distinct centres of power led by Lal Krishna ...

Report: No discipline for Kings' Brown - United Press International
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
There was acrimony during the ensuing ceremonial handshakes as Phoenix captain Shane Doan exchanged heated words with Brown and other Kings members. Brown told reporters after the game the hit was a legitimate one because it also involved upper ...

Cash-Strapped Europe Slow To Commit In Afghanistan - NPR News
21 May 2012, 3:26 pm
JACKIE NORTHAM, BYLINE: There was a lot of smiling and handshakes and warm regards when NATO members gathered here. But this two-day summit came at a critical juncture for the alliance. It's trying to redefine its overall mission and its long ...

College football: Is the Big 12 targeting Notre Dame? - Oregonian
21 May 2012, 12:34 pm
The seven college football topics that will dominate our week: 7. Far removed from the hubbub surrounding Big 12-SEC handshakes and ACC insecurity—and a metaphorical million miles from any talk of BCS playoff formatting—are Idaho and New ...

Carlson: Obama wants this dead cop to go away - Des Moines Register
21 May 2012, 12:45 am
There were photographs, handshakes and speeches. Then there’s Brian Terry, a cop who didn’t get much attention last week. The U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in Arizona a year and a half ago by gangsters working for Mexican drug cartels.

From Hand-outs to handshakes: The Time Has Come for the African Farmer - Huffington Post
18 May 2012, 11:40 am
Considering that it boasts 60 percent of the world's potentially available cropland and will represent 40 percent of the global workforce by 2040, it's hard to believe that Africa is not yet the world's breadbasket. A continent that 50 years ago was a net ...