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There's nothing wrong with Jeff as a character; lovable stoners are a Hollywood fixture. But they're just tough to hang a movie on. Jeff is no exception: He gets little to do beyond drifting from one dysfunctional relationship to another, looking befuddled and offering advice like "go with your gut."
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Sweet and silly, Jeff begins with a hilarious homage to Signs, the M. Night Shyamalan thriller that posits that all events are predestined. It's a motif that rules Jeff the man and the movie. Jeff floats from toilet to bong to television, wondering what the universe has in store.
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It's in those moments, of all things, that Jeff finds its stride.
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She's not just a CIA agent, she's a mother!
Ashley Judd is on TV, y'all, and she is not messing around! The movie star is getting her Liam Neeson-in-Taken on in her new drama series, Missing (which premiered tonight on ABC). In other words, she's going to do anything necessary to find her missing son. Yes, this is one mom who isn't afraid to get her hands a little dirty.
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Becca Winstone (Judd) is a former CIA agent who retired 10 years ago after listening on the phone to her husband Paul (Game of Thrones' Sean Bean!) a fellow CIA agent, die a horrific death. Now, Becca must rely on her old training and contacts when her 18-year-old son Michael (Nick Eversman) is kidnapped in Rome. (Shows like this are the reason our parents never let us go on Spring Break and/or study abroad!) So it's so long normal life of running a flower shop, hello life of vengeance! Sounds like Becca and Revenge's Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) would get along famously, no?
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The study of the new frog species is published
A new species of frog has been found burberry ties hiding in plain sight in one of the busiest places on Earth: New York City.
For years, biologists mistook the frog for a more widespread variety of leopard frog. This one, however, prefers not to stray far from the Big Apple and has an unusual croak. The frog lives in the city's ponds and marshes — sometimes within view of the Statue of Liberty — so uncovering the frog's true identity was a surprise for scientists.
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The frog is an entirely new species, the scientists determined by using DNA data to compare the new frog to all other leopard frog species in the region. The unnamed frog joins more than a dozen distinct leopard frog species.
The newly identified wetland burberry beige handbag species likely once lived in Manhattan, but the amphibian's range has since declined. It's now only known from being identified in a few nearby locations: Yankee Stadium in the Bronx is the center of its current range.
Scientists began suspecting that the frog was unusual because of its strange-sounding calls, which differ from the calls of other leopard frogs. Instead of the "long snore" or "rapid chuckle" heard from other leopard frogs, this frog had a short, repetitive croak, said study team member Jeremy Feinberg of Rutgers University in New Jersey.
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The newly identified frogs have so far been found in scattered populations in northern New Jersey, southeastern burberry kids skirts cheap mainland New York and on Staten Island. Although they may extend into parts of Connecticut and northeastern Pennsylvania, and evidence suggests they were once common on Long Island, the frogs have since gone extinct in these areas.
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"For a new species to go unrecognized in this area is amazing," said biologist Brad Shaffer of UCLA. "This shows that even in the burberry handbags outlet largest city in the U.S., there are still new and important species waiting to be discovered."
The frog is an entirely new species, the scientists determined by using DNA data to compare the new frog to all other leopard frog species in the region. The unnamed frog joins more than a dozen distinct leopard frog species.
The newly identified wetland burberry beige handbag species likely once lived in Manhattan, but the amphibian's range has since declined. It's now only known from being identified in a few nearby locations: Yankee Stadium in the Bronx is the center of its current range.
Scientists began suspecting that the frog was unusual because of its strange-sounding calls, which differ from the calls of other leopard frogs. Instead of the "long snore" or "rapid chuckle" heard from other leopard frogs, this frog had a short, repetitive croak, said study team member Jeremy Feinberg of Rutgers University in New Jersey.
"When I first heard these frogs calling, it was so different, I knew something was very off," Feinberg said.
The results were clear-cut: the DNA was distinct, burberry scarves no matter how much the frogs looked alike.
"If I had one of these three leopard frogs in my hand, unless I knew what area it was from, I wouldn't know which one I was holding because they all look so similar," said study team member Cathy Newman of Louisiana State University. "But our results showed that this lineage is very clearly genetically distinct."
The newly identified frogs have so far been found in scattered populations in northern New Jersey, southeastern burberry kids skirts cheap mainland New York and on Staten Island. Although they may extend into parts of Connecticut and northeastern Pennsylvania, and evidence suggests they were once common on Long Island, the frogs have since gone extinct in these areas.
Until scientists settle on a name for burberry bags outlet the frog, they refer to it as "Rana sp. nov.," meaning "new frog species."
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2012年3月13日星期二
Reinhart testified that after their conversation
Michael Hossack, the drummer for the Doobie Brothers during the band’s heyday in the early 1970s, died on Monday at his home burberry ties in Dubois, Wyo. He was 65.
The band’s manager, Bruce Cohn, said the cause was cancer.
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A trial pitting the creator of "Desperate Housewives" against a former leading lady on the ABC soap delivered jurors one final plot twist Tuesday in the form of a possible whistle-blower from within the show's ranks.
The last-minute witness, a construction coordinator responsible for building the show's Wisteria Lane sets, took the stand on behalf of actress Nicollette Sheridan and recounted receiving an email on his work computer that he said discussed a plan to wipe hard drives clean of information relevant to her wrongful termination lawsuit.
Michael Reinhart testified that he had no contact with the writers or actors on the show and believed he had been copied on the email in error. He said he immediately deleted it.
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But, he told jurors, he remain disturbed by the message and contacted a lawyer for Sheridan on Sunday as her trial neared its end.
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Jurors had been scheduled to hear closing arguments in Sheridan's case against "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry and Touchstone Television Productions on Tuesday, and the unexpected testimony from Reinhart sent a ripple of excitement through the packed courtroom. Summations are scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Reinhart told Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White that the email had been "gnawing at" him and that he was losing sleep over what he had described to Sheridan's lawyer as "a definite conspiracy." But he acknowledged that he could not burberry scarves recall the specific language of the email, its sender or the other recipients. He said he remembered only Sheridan's name and certain words including "IT" "delete" and "hard drive."
Asked by a lawyer for Cherry and Touchstone, Adam Levin, if it was "possible you misunderstood the email," the witness replied, "Yes, it's possible."
Levin had argued strenuously against allowing Reinhart's testimony. After questioning him outside the presence of the jury, the attorney said he believed that the email was actually one of several memos in which a lawyer for ABC instructed employees to preserve all their electronic records for the case, not to destroy them.
White said it was up to the jury to decide the significance of Reinhart's testimony, but added, "I admit he appears to be confused."
Complicating his burberry kids skirts cheap account was its tortured route into the courtroom. Reinhart left a voice mail on the office line of Sheridan's lead attorney Sunday afternoon describing the email and signing off, "There was definitely a conspiracy to cover up the correspondence … in regards to Nicollette."
Reinhart did not mention his name, but the lawyer, Marc Baute, tracked him down on his home phone Sunday night. Reinhart testified that after their conversation, he left his home to avoid a subpoena and subsequently spoke with his personal lawyer and tried to contact an attorney for Touchstone.
He said that he regretted describing the email as a "definite conspiracy" and that he was concerned about future employment for himself and his set-building team. Reinhart said that when he worried aloud to Baute about committing "professional suicide" by testifying against his employer, the attorney responded, "What if I get you a job if you testify?"
Outside the courtroom, Baute denied making the comment.
Both sides have forensic examiners trying to find the email on Reinhart's computer, but the judge said she would not stop the trial for the analysis.
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Mr. Hossack, who grew up in New Jersey, played in various drum and bugle corps as a youngster. He said the experience had prepared him for playing in a two-drummer group like the Doobie Brothers.
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The last-minute witness, a construction coordinator responsible for building the show's Wisteria Lane sets, took the stand on behalf of actress Nicollette Sheridan and recounted receiving an email on his work computer that he said discussed a plan to wipe hard drives clean of information relevant to her wrongful termination lawsuit.
Michael Reinhart testified that he had no contact with the writers or actors on the show and believed he had been copied on the email in error. He said he immediately deleted it.
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But, he told jurors, he remain disturbed by the message and contacted a lawyer for Sheridan on Sunday as her trial neared its end.
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Jurors had been scheduled to hear closing arguments in Sheridan's case against "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry and Touchstone Television Productions on Tuesday, and the unexpected testimony from Reinhart sent a ripple of excitement through the packed courtroom. Summations are scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Reinhart told Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White that the email had been "gnawing at" him and that he was losing sleep over what he had described to Sheridan's lawyer as "a definite conspiracy." But he acknowledged that he could not burberry scarves recall the specific language of the email, its sender or the other recipients. He said he remembered only Sheridan's name and certain words including "IT" "delete" and "hard drive."
Asked by a lawyer for Cherry and Touchstone, Adam Levin, if it was "possible you misunderstood the email," the witness replied, "Yes, it's possible."
Levin had argued strenuously against allowing Reinhart's testimony. After questioning him outside the presence of the jury, the attorney said he believed that the email was actually one of several memos in which a lawyer for ABC instructed employees to preserve all their electronic records for the case, not to destroy them.
White said it was up to the jury to decide the significance of Reinhart's testimony, but added, "I admit he appears to be confused."
Complicating his burberry kids skirts cheap account was its tortured route into the courtroom. Reinhart left a voice mail on the office line of Sheridan's lead attorney Sunday afternoon describing the email and signing off, "There was definitely a conspiracy to cover up the correspondence … in regards to Nicollette."
Reinhart did not mention his name, but the lawyer, Marc Baute, tracked him down on his home phone Sunday night. Reinhart testified that after their conversation, he left his home to avoid a subpoena and subsequently spoke with his personal lawyer and tried to contact an attorney for Touchstone.
He said that he regretted describing the email as a "definite conspiracy" and that he was concerned about future employment for himself and his set-building team. Reinhart said that when he worried aloud to Baute about committing "professional suicide" by testifying against his employer, the attorney responded, "What if I get you a job if you testify?"
Outside the courtroom, Baute denied making the comment.
Both sides have forensic examiners trying to find the email on Reinhart's computer, but the judge said she would not stop the trial for the analysis.
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There is no reason to believe that Jonah burberry handbags outlet Hill and Channing Tatum would ever work well together in a movie, never mind become good friends.
One is short and stocky, the other tall and muscular.
One has the mouth of a sailor, the other the body of a god.
One made headlines by stripping weight, the other by stripping.
But make no mistake about it, the two actors maintain a surprising chemistry in the action comedy “21 Jump Street,” out Friday, due in no small part to their unlikely off-screen friendship.
“There was never really that moment of weirdness or awkwardness,” says Hill, 28. “It was just like, hey, want to be friends? Okay, cool, awesome.”
The two actors — clad in police T-shirts, shorts and shades — lounge around a room at a boutique hotel in SoHo. Tatum burberry beige handbag lies on the bed, staring out the window, while Hill sits at a table and sips a chunky green smoothie.
It feels like a fifth date where they each know everything about the other but are still genuinely interested in the conversation. They laugh a lot and speak in positive platitudes.
“I haven’t really gotten along with somebody that quick and easy and without a problem maybe, like, ever,” says Tatum, 31. “We just fell in step.”
And so begins Hollywood’s latest bromance.
There was Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in “Good Will Hunting,” then Brad Pitt and George Clooney in “Ocean’s Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen,” followed by Paul Rudd and Jason Segel in “I Love You, Man,” and now there’s Hill and Tatum in “21 Jump Street.”
But unlike previous bromances where both actors are handsome or funny or both, Hill and Tatum’s chemistry is unique because, well, the two actors are so incomparable.
A product of the South, the chiseled Tatum went from working as a stripper named Chan Crawford to dancing in Ricky Martin videos to modeling underwear to starring in romance and action movies.
Hill, on the other hand, grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a costume designer and the tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He never stripped (thank God) or modeled underwear or danced with Ricky Martin, but received his big break as a comic actor in Judd Apatow movies like “Knocked Up” and “Superbad.”
Yet it is these disparate backgrounds that make their friendship work.
“We are from different parts of the world and experienced different upbringings and things like that,” says Hill, “but we are going after the same thing and we want to do it in the same way. That is rare.”
What is even rarer is a remake that is actually funny.
In the “21 Jump Street” movie, which is a raunchier, funnier version of the ’80s television series that launched a young Johnny Depp’s career, Hill burberry ties plays Schmidt, an adolescent dork who is constantly picked on by Jenko, a jock played by Tatum. The two eventually become cops and are sent back to high school to infiltrate a drug ring.
Not known for his comedy skills, Tatum displays surprising acumen as the straight man to Hill’s outrageous humor.
“When we first started getting into this movie we used to say, ‘Don’t try to be funny,’ ” says Tatum. “ ‘Just be honest.’ Now that’s something I can do.”
While others might be surprised by Tatum’s comic chops, Hill, who helped write the script, saw his co-star’s talent all along.
“It is dumb people who think in terms of categories,” he says. “If you are talented and truthful, you can do anything you want. Your talent doesn’t depend on a genre and Chan proves that.”
That’s right, Hill constantly refers to Tatum by the nickname “Chan.” Needless to say, these two guys are close. How close?
“We are totally huggers,” says Tatum, who first met Hill three years ago at a Hollywood restaurant. “Now, Ice Cube [who plays the police captain], he’s not the most huggable guy, but Jonah and I hug it out all the time. There’s no tiptoeing around it, this is a full-fledged bromance.”
On cue, they slap five and hug.
Tatum’s experience in action movies was also a big help on the set of “21 Jump Street,” which Hill describes as “Bad Boys” meets John Hughes.
“This is an action burberry scarves comedy and I’ve made a lot of comedies and he’s made a lot of action movies,” says Hill. “We pretty much had everything covered. He taught me a lot about stunts and guns.”
Apparently Tatum didn’t teach his co-star well enough.
“This person next to me has the worst gun safety that I’ve ever been around in my entire life,” he says of Hill, who admitted that every time he was handed a gun he would point it at a crew member’s crotch and pull the trigger just to make sure it wasn’t loaded.
Behind the seeming differences between Tatum and Hill, who are both executive producers on the movie, there are also similarities, mainly a shared work ethic.
“I don’t think people become successful by accident,” says Hill, the more talkative of the two. “You have to work really hard. A lot of people wanted to peg both of us when we started out. Chan was in a dance movie [‘Step Up’] and I was in a teen movie [‘Superbad’], but we are both not those people and we’ve had to work really hard to advance our careers.”
“People think that Jonah is the character he burberry kids skirts cheap plays in ‘Knocked Up,’ this guy that smokes weed all day and plays ping-pong,” he says. “Sure, he probably plays ping-pong, but he also has 20 projects he is working on at once and he doesn’t stop.
“He is just like a white Puff Daddy. If he told me tomorrow that he had a start up an Internet thing, I would be like, yeah, that makes sense. Even if he said he had a line of jeans coming out, I’d buy them.”
Cue more bro hugs and laughter.
But even best friends fight every now and then.
“The only time I ever saw Chan get pissed off is when we wouldn’t let him get hit by a car for the movie,” says Hill. “It was his idea, something he and his friends used to do, but it was too dangerous and he got mad and sad.”
According to Tatum, “Sometimes, I’d get pissed off at Jonah for being too awesome. He would just go off on a crazy tear, just doing all this improv, and I was just like, dude, what am I supposed to do?”
Part of their chemistry relies on Hill making a conscious effort to not anger his co-star, who is a half foot taller and a whole lot stronger than him.
“Don’t let him fool you, Jonah is a verbal assassin when he wants to be,” says Tatum. “He can kill you emotionally.”
Jonah disagrees burberry bags outlet vehemently.
“Who cares about emotions?” he practically screams. “You would literally kill me. Even when we’re just messing around, it’s still painful. I’d like to see someone try to pick on this guy. It would not be funny at all.”
Does Hill ever get annoyed hanging out with someone who is so good-looking?
“I did my last movie with Brad Pitt so I’m used to it,” he says. “But what attracts people to Chan is his sincerity. You can have people that are good-looking and can say things that sound cool but you can’t fake what is behind someone’s eyes. Chan is real.”
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One is short and stocky, the other tall and muscular.
One has the mouth of a sailor, the other the body of a god.
One made headlines by stripping weight, the other by stripping.
But make no mistake about it, the two actors maintain a surprising chemistry in the action comedy “21 Jump Street,” out Friday, due in no small part to their unlikely off-screen friendship.
“There was never really that moment of weirdness or awkwardness,” says Hill, 28. “It was just like, hey, want to be friends? Okay, cool, awesome.”
The two actors — clad in police T-shirts, shorts and shades — lounge around a room at a boutique hotel in SoHo. Tatum burberry beige handbag lies on the bed, staring out the window, while Hill sits at a table and sips a chunky green smoothie.
It feels like a fifth date where they each know everything about the other but are still genuinely interested in the conversation. They laugh a lot and speak in positive platitudes.
“I haven’t really gotten along with somebody that quick and easy and without a problem maybe, like, ever,” says Tatum, 31. “We just fell in step.”
And so begins Hollywood’s latest bromance.
There was Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in “Good Will Hunting,” then Brad Pitt and George Clooney in “Ocean’s Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen,” followed by Paul Rudd and Jason Segel in “I Love You, Man,” and now there’s Hill and Tatum in “21 Jump Street.”
But unlike previous bromances where both actors are handsome or funny or both, Hill and Tatum’s chemistry is unique because, well, the two actors are so incomparable.
A product of the South, the chiseled Tatum went from working as a stripper named Chan Crawford to dancing in Ricky Martin videos to modeling underwear to starring in romance and action movies.
Hill, on the other hand, grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a costume designer and the tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He never stripped (thank God) or modeled underwear or danced with Ricky Martin, but received his big break as a comic actor in Judd Apatow movies like “Knocked Up” and “Superbad.”
Yet it is these disparate backgrounds that make their friendship work.
“We are from different parts of the world and experienced different upbringings and things like that,” says Hill, “but we are going after the same thing and we want to do it in the same way. That is rare.”
What is even rarer is a remake that is actually funny.
In the “21 Jump Street” movie, which is a raunchier, funnier version of the ’80s television series that launched a young Johnny Depp’s career, Hill burberry ties plays Schmidt, an adolescent dork who is constantly picked on by Jenko, a jock played by Tatum. The two eventually become cops and are sent back to high school to infiltrate a drug ring.
Not known for his comedy skills, Tatum displays surprising acumen as the straight man to Hill’s outrageous humor.
“When we first started getting into this movie we used to say, ‘Don’t try to be funny,’ ” says Tatum. “ ‘Just be honest.’ Now that’s something I can do.”
While others might be surprised by Tatum’s comic chops, Hill, who helped write the script, saw his co-star’s talent all along.
“It is dumb people who think in terms of categories,” he says. “If you are talented and truthful, you can do anything you want. Your talent doesn’t depend on a genre and Chan proves that.”
That’s right, Hill constantly refers to Tatum by the nickname “Chan.” Needless to say, these two guys are close. How close?
“We are totally huggers,” says Tatum, who first met Hill three years ago at a Hollywood restaurant. “Now, Ice Cube [who plays the police captain], he’s not the most huggable guy, but Jonah and I hug it out all the time. There’s no tiptoeing around it, this is a full-fledged bromance.”
On cue, they slap five and hug.
Tatum’s experience in action movies was also a big help on the set of “21 Jump Street,” which Hill describes as “Bad Boys” meets John Hughes.
“This is an action burberry scarves comedy and I’ve made a lot of comedies and he’s made a lot of action movies,” says Hill. “We pretty much had everything covered. He taught me a lot about stunts and guns.”
Apparently Tatum didn’t teach his co-star well enough.
“This person next to me has the worst gun safety that I’ve ever been around in my entire life,” he says of Hill, who admitted that every time he was handed a gun he would point it at a crew member’s crotch and pull the trigger just to make sure it wasn’t loaded.
Behind the seeming differences between Tatum and Hill, who are both executive producers on the movie, there are also similarities, mainly a shared work ethic.
“I don’t think people become successful by accident,” says Hill, the more talkative of the two. “You have to work really hard. A lot of people wanted to peg both of us when we started out. Chan was in a dance movie [‘Step Up’] and I was in a teen movie [‘Superbad’], but we are both not those people and we’ve had to work really hard to advance our careers.”
“People think that Jonah is the character he burberry kids skirts cheap plays in ‘Knocked Up,’ this guy that smokes weed all day and plays ping-pong,” he says. “Sure, he probably plays ping-pong, but he also has 20 projects he is working on at once and he doesn’t stop.
“He is just like a white Puff Daddy. If he told me tomorrow that he had a start up an Internet thing, I would be like, yeah, that makes sense. Even if he said he had a line of jeans coming out, I’d buy them.”
Cue more bro hugs and laughter.
But even best friends fight every now and then.
“The only time I ever saw Chan get pissed off is when we wouldn’t let him get hit by a car for the movie,” says Hill. “It was his idea, something he and his friends used to do, but it was too dangerous and he got mad and sad.”
According to Tatum, “Sometimes, I’d get pissed off at Jonah for being too awesome. He would just go off on a crazy tear, just doing all this improv, and I was just like, dude, what am I supposed to do?”
Part of their chemistry relies on Hill making a conscious effort to not anger his co-star, who is a half foot taller and a whole lot stronger than him.
“Don’t let him fool you, Jonah is a verbal assassin when he wants to be,” says Tatum. “He can kill you emotionally.”
Jonah disagrees burberry bags outlet vehemently.
“Who cares about emotions?” he practically screams. “You would literally kill me. Even when we’re just messing around, it’s still painful. I’d like to see someone try to pick on this guy. It would not be funny at all.”
Does Hill ever get annoyed hanging out with someone who is so good-looking?
“I did my last movie with Brad Pitt so I’m used to it,” he says. “But what attracts people to Chan is his sincerity. You can have people that are good-looking and can say things that sound cool but you can’t fake what is behind someone’s eyes. Chan is real.”
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2012年3月9日星期五
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Authorities, however, said they're still reviewing additional medical information that will be used in their final ruling on her cause of death, and Houston's toxicology report should be complete "on or around March 23rd," the sources told CNN.
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More official details on the investigation haven't been released because the Beverly Hills Police Department was granted a "security hold" on the case, the coroner's office said. Common in high-profile cases, the hold restricts the release of information in a case.
Authorities have said that police and fire officials were called to Houston's room at the Beverly Hilton after her unconscious body was found in the bathtub, just hours before she was to attend a pre-Grammy party at the hotel.
Houston won six Grammys and sold 170 million burberry kids skirts cheap albums, singles and videos over her career.
A Los Angeles County coroner official last month downplayed the suspicion that drugs had played a major role in her death.
Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said that "not many prescription bottles" were found in the singer's hotel room after her death. The amount of medications recovered by investigators was less than usually present in deaths attributed to overdoses, Winter said.
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The report cited anonymous sources and said the FBI began an investigation in late February centering on losses to Alabama on Feb. 7 and Arkansas on Jan. 25.
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Yahoo Sports reported that other Auburn players were questioned about whether Ward tried to get them to participate in the alleged point shaving.
Ward, a Texas transfer, has averaged 9.0 points a game and leads the Tigers in assists.
Ward scored three points and had six turnovers in the 68-50 loss to Alabama, playing 17 minutes. Vegas Insider said Alabama was favored by five points.
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In between those games, Ward had his hottest streak of the season. He scored 53 points in a three-game stretch, including 24 against Mississippi State.
Ward has not commented publicly since burberry bags outlet his suspension. His last Twitter post was on Feb. 24 when he tweeted, "Can't win for losing smh'' (shaking my head). It was the last in a series of posts that day, the first saying that his knee was "hurting bad.''
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