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Hawai'i golfer Michelle Wie finally won her first LPGA tournament four years after turning pro. Anybody who can bounce back from that many years of futility should run for lieutenant governor. • Gov. Linda Lingle wants to tap the state's $60 million rainy day fund to end "furlough Fridays" at Hawai'i public schools.  

It's not often you hear Elvis Presley and Monty Python mentioned in the same sentence, but apparently Elvis was a huge Python fan. It's a little-known pop cultural bombshell that even the Pythons weren't aware of, and when it comes up in this entertaining six-part, no-holds-barred series it sounds like a joke. Then we cut to Jerry Schilling, The King's best friend, calmly explaining how Presley loved Monty Python and the Holy Grail so much that when he broke his thumb during football practice he quipped  

The aliens in New Mexico were from space whereas I was a poor fatherless Jew in a Baptist area of Georgia. That made me the alien. You recently got into trouble for snorting coke 40 feet away from the President at some sort of Presidential dinner.  

Considering the sad state of the economy, one would think that most companies are desperately looking for ways to increase their business, but my experience this week with a certain wireless service provider with whom I have been doing business for many years convinced me that this company must have all the business it wants. Its web site appears to have been specifically designed to drive away customers. Now, I am willing to give smaller companies the benefit of the doubt when it comes to web commerc  

Nov. 13 and 20, 8 p.m.; Nov 14 and 21, 8 p.m.; Nov 15 and Nov 22, 2 p.m. The NYCA Repertory Company presents The Murder Room, a mystery comedy by Jack Sharkey.  

IT SHOULD have been a happy countdown to Christmas 1974 as we worked, shopped and enjoyed full employment in the then-prosperous Birmingham. Our city was booming, still proud of its description as a place of 1,000 trades. We reckoned that if you couldn't get a job here or earn a decent living then the fault must lie with you.  

THE All-Stars extravaganza tomorrow night is designed to light the wick of the international summer. The razzle, the dazzle, the frivolity of a more social than serious clash coincides with Australia's most prestigious team arriving in Brisbane before their attempt to put the West Indies to the sword in the Tests. This is where it all starts; this is when Channel Nine begins its live broadcasts ; this is where you're supposed to sit up and start taking notice.  

It's not often you hear Elvis Presley and Monty Python mentioned in the same sentence, but apparently Elvis was a huge Python fan. It's a little-known pop cultural bombshell that even the Pythons weren't aware of, and when it comes up in this entertaining six-part, no-holds-barred series it sounds like a joke. Then we cut to Jerry Schilling, The King's best friend, calmly explaining how Presley loved Monty Python and the Holy Grail so much that when he broke his thumb during football practice he quipped  

THINK of the maddest gig you have been to and double it. Or imagine if Monty Python did rock music, but without the deliberate laughs. Got it?

2032 is an extension of our mythology – the seventh instalment   -Steve Hillage