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A week after a broken television cable halted the Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, a Fox Sports executive apologized to drivers, crews and NASCAR officials. A cable broke and fell onto the track during the May 25 race, which had to be halted for nearly 30 minutes after it injured 10 fans and damaged several cars. Seven spectators were treated and released at the track and three at local hospitals. "It's a personal project for us, cause we work with these guys every week," said Artie Kempner, the lead director for Fox Sports NASCAR and the NFL, during a meeting before Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway. "We want to let them know we don't ever want to be the story. That's the bottom line." Kempner added an investigation continues into what caused the cable to come down on the track and in the grandstands. It is part of a system that provides overhead shots of the venue. There is no word yet on when it might be used again. COLLEGE FOOTBALL ---The Big Ten is expected to announce an agreement on Monday with the Pinstripe Bowl played annually in Yankee Stadium in New York, according to reports Sunday. The 3-year-old bowl had matched teams from the Big 12 and the Big East. The Big Ten will replace the Big 12, the Associated Press and CBSSports.com reported. ---Add Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis as a proponent of expanding the College Football Playoff beyond four teams. In recent days, Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson and Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds have said four teams is OK for now, but for the long term, a playoff should include at least eight teams. "I'm not so sure that four is the right answer," Hollis told SiriusXM College Sports Nation. "I think it's the right answer for the short term. I think you're going to have more teams feel slighted by not being a part of the process than when there were two. Being on the basketball committee, you kind of see that play out." NHL ---Goalie Tim Thomas may attempt a comeback next season, CBC's Elliotte Friedman reported. The New York Islanders traded for Thomas' rights even though he decided not to play this season. However, according to Friedman, Thomas, 39, may consider playing in Europe.

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NOT many people make you long for the charm and considered intellectualism of ex-government spokesman Jimmy Manyi.

There are many good government spindoctors. But for every silver-tongued Mac Maharaj or Jabulani Sikhakhane, theres a Lumka Oliphant soaking up your tax rands. If you havent heard of Lumka Oliphant, its your loss.

If youve ever had a parking place stolen, had a teller shut his till as you reach the front, or been rained on as you stepped out your car, Oliphant is there to shake her fists and cry racism.

By day, Oliphant is spokeswoman for Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini; by night, she is an ex-journalist, ready to lament how her passion has been poisoned by white thinking.

Now, sure there are still vestiges of racism. But Oliphants numbskull claim that racism lay behind our decision to question Dlamini spending tax rands on full-page adverts defending the (white-owned) Net1 over a R10bn tender in which bribes are said to have changed hands was particularly dopey.

Its not a bad tactic: every department mired in misspending and corruption claims needs a proficient racism-crier. Questions too tough, or your answers too thin? No problem: the answer is racism, whatever the question.

Ms Oliphant used to be a run-of-the-mill hack at City Press. One of the last articles she wrote was entitled Omo a tad too white, a scrupulously reported piece about apparent racism in washing powder advertisements.

Then in 2011, Oliphant wrote an article lamenting racial divisions at schools, called White South Africans have mastered the art of racism.

She talked of how whites have found strategic ways to prevent blacks from living in harmony with them because her child was put on a waiting list for a private school for three years.

The R20,000 acceptance fee and requirement that fees be paid upfront were clear evidence: I ended up telling the principal that he was deliberately keeping black children out of the school, she wrote, triumphantly.

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Last Wednesday afternoon, half-dozen cardboard boxes or so arrived at Millburn High School. They remained unopened until 2:32 p.m., when staff members poured in to Room 218 to celebrate the publication of this year's edition of WORD, Millburn High School's reputed literary magazine.

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The student staff of Millburn High School's literary magazine, WORD, celebrate the publication of this year's edition.

WORD has published student pieces that exemplify the creativity, writing-prowess and diversity of Millburn High School's student body since its founding in 2003. The magazine has won numerous awards since 2006, including National Council of Teachers of English student magazine awards and two coveted gold medals in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Critique program. That program, affiliated with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has given out prestigious awards and helpful advice for deserving student publications since 1925.

As the adviser for WORD's staff, Millburn High School AP English Literature and Composition teacher Minaz Jooma has helped guide the magazine towards success. When asked what makes WORD an award-winning magazine, she says, "our hard-working, talented students are nurtured by dedicated faculty in all disciplines; since these factors are combined with an administration and community that understand the intrinsic value of supporting creativity, our students excel!"

Josh Kimelman, a senior editor of WORD who will serve as its editor-in-chief next year, agrees that the magazine is "a product of hard-work, dedication, and talent." But he adds that "it's not the staff members who make it what it is. Every year, our peers at MHS surprise us again and again with the sheer brilliance of their writing."

This year's edition of WORD can be read at http://www.edline.net/pages/Millburn_HS/Clubs/Literary_Magazine.

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The term 'French kiss' is believed to have been brought to the English-speaking world by soldiers returning from Europe after World War I 'La galoche' is an ice-skating boot, so the new term riffs evocatively on the idea of sliding around the ice

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PUBLISHED: 08:23 EST, 30 May 2013 | UPDATED: 08:26 EST, 30 May 2013

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For centuries, there's been no official French word for the sloppy Gallic export 'to French kiss' though that certainly hasn't stopped any citizen from doing so.

Now the oversight has been rectified.

The one-word verb 'galocher' - to kiss with tongues - is among new entries added to the 'Petit Robert' 2014 French dictionary, which hit the shops Thursday.

Ooh la la! After centuries of lacking a French word for the sloppy Gallic export 'to French kiss,' the verb 'galocher' has finally been given its rightful place in the French dictionary

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Voulez-vous galocher avec moi? France finally gets an official word for the French kiss