| W L OT Pts GF GA |
| x-Pittsburgh 46 26 7 99 242 210 |
| New Jersey 43 28 7 93 198 189 |
| N.Y. Rangers 40 27 11 91 203 191 |
| Philadelphia 40 28 11 91 241 229 |
| N.Y. Islanders 34 37 8 76 189 235 |
| Northeast Division |
| W L OT Pts GF GA |
| x-Montreal 44 25 10 98 253 220 |
| Ottawa 42 29 8 92 252 240 |
| Boston 40 28 11 … |
ALMOST ANY handicapping schoolboy within touting distance ofLaramie Avenue--Cicero/Stickney's Basin St. South--can rattle off WarEmblem's streak from Sports-man's anonymity to thoroughbredimmortality--allowance win, Illi-nois Derby win, Kentucky Derby win,Preakness win.
Bernie Flint isn't any handicapping schoolboy. He's one of themost savvy trainers in the Midwest. But Flint not only has takenanecdotal note of War Emblem's route from gulag-to-riches, he has sethis Lx Commander on the same arc. And with Saturday's $500,000Illinois Derby (Grade II) at Hawthorne the next stop on the horizon,Flint's prodigy is already one-fourth of the way home.
SAID FLINT: It's one of …
A class move from the Clerk of the Circuit Court
Applause and plaudits to Circuit Court Clerk Aurelia Pucinski for putting the best interests of the people above politics.
But shame on some Cook County GOP operatives for their backbiting and sniping at Pucinski for simply being -- as she put it -- "a responsible public servant" who wants only the best for her constituents.
Pucinski has been briefing Clerk candidate and probable winner in November Dorothy Brown, a Democrat, on the ins and outs and perplexities of the job.
She is also providing similar information about the post to GOP nominee Mary Mynard, but some Republicans are upset because they think Mynard …
Pope Benedict XVI will bless the sick at the shrine of Lourdes on the final day of his four-day visit to France.
Benedict is to anoint about a dozen ailing pilgrims at the close of Mass in Lourdes' basilica Monday.
The Roman Catholic shrine in the foothills of the Pyrenees …
An executive at the background-check company Intelius Inc. who recently promoted an iPhone application for weeding out sleazy dates has been charged with lying to a Seattle grand jury when he denied engaging in sex acts at a strip club.
John Kenneth Arnold, a co-founder and executive vice president of business development at Intelius, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court following his arrest.
The indictment alleges that Arnold, who is married, lied to a grand jury when he testified he had never engaged in sex acts with dancers at Rick's.
His testimony was part of the government's racketeering investigation of the club's owner, Frank …
Time was when furniture-and clothes, bed linens and table settings-were supposed to match. Black shoes and brown purse? No way!
But, like fashion, rigid rules about what goes with what in homefashions are increasingly obsolete. And now, it seems, the time hascome for an a la carte approach even to the once-uniform dining-roomchair.
"You don't have to have eight identical Hepplewhites around yourtable anymore," says Washington interior designer Steven J. Richards."With so many wonderful styles for dining-room chairs out there, it'spredictable and boring to limit yourself to only one."
Richards says some clients are so self-confident about shopping atflea markets …
| East Division | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | L | Pct | GB | |
| Philadelphia | 82 | 44 | .651 | — |
| Atlanta | 77 | 52 | .597 | 6 1/2 |
| Washington | 62 | 64 | .492 | 20 |
| New York | 60 | 67 | .472 | 22 1/2 |
