When Beech is not making sure British lawmakers can do their jobs in a safe and efficient environment, she can be found doing her other job: serving as vice president of the British Methodist Church.

Last July, she was elected to a one-year term of office by the national church's annual conference. British Methodist vice presidents (always a lay person) and presidents (always a clergy person) represent the church at a range of events and undertake many leadership responsibilities within the denomination.

Thanks to A& M and a district attorney, two cadets escape punishment ...

If we stuck with "the law is the law", then women would still be little more than chattel and Blacks would not have the right to vote. 2. It's a security issue: Where was the only legitimate terroristic bombing threat since 9/11 from? The CANADIAN border. You see Canada has way more Muslims than Mexico. Now, the State Department lists the ELN, FARC, AUC and Shining Path as "Terrorist Organizations". http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2005/65275.htm They also list Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. http://www.state.gov/s/ct/c14151.htm. Is it possible that there are hundreds of Cubans, Peruvians and Columbians sneaking across the border illegally? Yes, it's possible. Is it probable that there are "hundreds" of ARABS, IRANIANS, EGYPTIANS & SAUDI'S (and other Middle-Easterners) sneaking across the border as many anti-immigrants like to INFER? In all their hysteria they have found ONE example of a Middle-Easterner being snuck across the Southern border: Mahmoud Youssef Kourani.

Siemens holding the key to Disney's Spaceship Earth

Visitors to the newly updated Spaceship Earth ride at Epcot might experience the ride and miss the show.

Or they might experience the 26-year-old ride with a few new updates and spins, and catch the bevy of interactive games in the post-show area. And still, they might neither notice nor care about the real significance of the deal behind them, a pact that ties Walt Disney World and the global technology company Siemens AG with the kind of multifaceted partnership that illustrates how Disney World sells itself not just as a theme park but also as a marketing venue for all sorts of companies.

Siemens is a German company that generated about 68.6 billion euros (about $102 billion in today's U.S. currency) in sales last year making medical-device, power-grid, information-communication, transportation and automation and control systems, and has more than 6,000 employees in Florida, including those at the company's power headquarters on Alafaya Trail.

Bulldogs a rare breed

Many elements have come together this season to create the magical story of the Drake basketball team.

Start with a downtrodden bunch of players, picked for a ninth-place finish in the Missouri Valley Conference. But they've overachieved beyond any of their wildest dreams. So far, it's resulted in a 23-2 record, a national ranking as high as 14th and the program's first MVC championship (clinched Saturday at Northern Iowa) since a tri-title in 1970-71.

Continue with a rookie head coach, 35-year-old Keno Davis, who arrived in Des Moines, Iowa, five years ago as an assistant for his renowned coaching father, Dr. Tom Davis, and had the foresight to tweak the system to best showcase the seemingly limited talent he had on hand.

And finally, hats off to the team's longtime supporters who have, since that championship season 37 years ago, endured 31 second-division finishes, including 11 seasons ending in last place.

'She Loves Me' is about romance

When the Bay Street Players opens the musical comedy at 8 p.m. today, younger audiences might think of the 1998 Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks film You've Got Mail. Older audiences might recall James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner or the Judy Garland movie In the Good Old Summertime, released in 1949.

But the romantic play, which debuted on Broadway in 1963, adheres closely to the original source of all the adaptations, the 1936 play Parfumerie by Hungarian Miklos Laszlo.