Winston signs on as scout for agent

Fred Winston, a top talent on the air in Chicago for 20 years, isleaving radio behind to work for his agent.

Starting today, Winston will serve as a full-time consultant toSaul Foos and Associates, a Chicago-based media talent agency. Hewill coach clients on improving their skills as disc jockeys andrecruit new clients for representation by Foos.

"This is a chance to deal with talent without having to dealwith bureaucratic eccentricities involved in day-to-day radio stationlife," said Winston. "It's a chance to do something noble for thebusiness and elevate the caliber of talent on a national scale."

Winston, 45, started at WLS-AM (890) in 1971 - the same …

Air Force edges TCU 66-65 in OT

FORTH WORTH, Texas (AP) — Taylor Stewart's layup with 15 seconds remaining in overtime gave Air Force a 66-65 win over TCU on Saturday.

Stewart, who finished with four points, also pulled down the defensive rebound that set up the game-winning basket for the Falcons (12-8, 3-4 Mountain West).

Derek Brooks led Air Force with 18 points on …

Co-founder Samueli resumes work at Broadcom

Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli has resumed working for the chipmaker after a federal judge dismissed a criminal charge against him.

Company spokesman Bill Blanning said Tuesday that Samueli rejoined Irvine, California-based Broadcom in December as the company's senior vice president and chief technical officer.

Samueli …

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A holiday musical revue of Christmas favorites packed with song anddance is up and running at the Pheasant Run Resort's Theatre in westsuburban St. Charles.

"Cabaret Christmas" will feature a variety …

"Trauer"

VIENNA "TRAUER" ATELIER AUGARTEN ZENTRUM FUR ZEITGENOSSISCHE KUNST DER OSTERREICHISCHEN GALERIE BELVEDERE

Through the centuries, the theme of pathos has become rarer in art. Today it is almost taboo. At the Osterreichische Galerie in the baroque Belvedere Palace, one sees how in classical painting and sculpture death and loss leads to transfiguration and victory. But mourning in contemporary art? In "Trauer" (Mourning) their manifold contradictions have been productively addressed by the gallery's curator of modern and contemporary art, Thomas Trummer, who in his catalogue essay measures the representability of mourning and tragedy by way of such texts as Freud's "Mourning and …

11 microfinance groups agree to publish rates; Nobel winner says don't profit from poor

Eleven microfinance groups that together serve nearly 26 million people agreed Monday to publicly report their annual interest rates, a move many hope will empower the world's poorest borrowers as the once-charitable sector becomes increasingly commercialized.

"If you are making profits you are moving into the same mental mind-set as loan sharks," Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus said by phone from Bali, Indonesia, where he is attending the 11th annual Microcredit Summit Campaign conference, which opened Monday.

When Yunus began making US$27 loans to women in Bangladesh three decades ago, he hoped to rescue the poor from usury. The new …

Jefferson bank accounts will be consolidated: ; Officials to get training as part of agreement

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As part of a legal agreement, town of Jefferson Mayor Kathy Wolfeand a council faction that has opposed her have agreed toconsolidate town bank accounts. The two parties also have agreed toset aside time for mediation and instruction on how to run amunicipal government in an effort to improve relations.

"I hope this is the first step in the right direction," KanawhaCircuit Judge Jim Stucky said Friday.

He said the court shouldn't "baby-sit the town of Jefferson."

Ray Keener, an attorney for Councilman Owen Spradling, announcedthe agreement. Spradling, Councilman Robert Stalnaker, CouncilmanWilliam Meadows, and Town Recorder Cynthia …