Pontiac Grand Am Owner Is Smitten With Mazda RX-7

Q. My son, who lives in Boston, has a perfectly good 1989 PontiacGrand Am that he bought new. However, he seems to have fallen inlove with the Mazda RX-7. He wants to keep the Grand Am to driveduring the winter months when there is salt on the road and wants usto store his spare car for him.

Now, is this a wise investment? Should I let him do this?Isn't this Mazda relatively new and untried? And isn't Boston thecar-theft capital of the United States? My son is 27 and earns agood salary. Perhaps you could talk some sense into him? My realconcern is that he wants me to help finance this car. He knowsbetter than to ask his father.

GAIL

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India's eunuchs demand access to welfare programs

KOLKATA, India (AP) — Eunuchs in India are demanding an end to discrimination against them and access to government welfare programs.

The term eunuch is used in India to describe transvestites, transsexuals and others who identify themselves as neither male nor female but as a members of a third gender.

Sobha Haldar, the secretary of a eunuch group, said around 3,000 eunuchs were …

Grizzlies beat Celtics for 1st time since '06

Rudy Gay scored 28 points to lead Memphis to a 111-91 victory over the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night and give the Grizzlies a franchise-record seventh straight road win.

It was the Grizzlies' first victory over Boston in seven tries since 2006.

O.J. Mayo scored 17 points and Zach Randolph had 13 points and 10 rebounds for Memphis.

Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo scored 17 points apiece, and Rondo added eight assists for the Celtics. It tied Boston's worst loss of the season _ a 20-point loss to Cleveland last month that was the worst loss for the Celtics with Kevin Garnett in the lineup.

The Celtics lost in Milwaukee on Tuesday night to snap …

Knoblauch helps Torre win No. 500 as Yankee

Chuck Knoblauch went 4-for-5 with a homer and three RBI to helpTed Lilly get his first career win Saturday as the host New YorkYankees beat the Oakland Athletics 7-6.

The win, the Yankees' second straight after losing eight of 11,was manager Joe Torre's 500th with the team. He's the sixth Yankeesmanager to reach that mark.

Knoblauch doubled in the first inning, singled and scored in thethird, had an RBI single in the fourth and hit a two-run homer in thesixth against Tim Hudson (2-3).

Ted Lilly (1-0), who didn't give up a hit in the first fourinnings of his fifth career start, allowed three runs, two hits andthree walks in 5 2/3 innings. Mariano Rivera allowed …

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By the time I get off the phone with my mother the police already have Carmen wrapped in a blanket and sitting next to the crumpled remainder of my car. The other car, a pickup, is still lying upside down in the intersection. Its driver is being loaded into an ambulance.

I sit down next …

Police order Sri Lankans from east to register

Police on Thursday ordered tens of thousands of Sri Lankans from the volatile Eastern Province, many of them minority Tamils, to register with police in a move heavily criticized by rights activists.

The demand came two weeks after police ordered the registration of tens of thousands of Tamils who came from the north, where the military is fighting a fierce war against ethnic Tamil separatists.

Human rights activists criticized those registrations as part of a campaign to intimidate Tamils.

The rebels have been fighting for an independent state in the north and east since 1983, following decades of marginalization of ethnic Tamils by governments …

Westwood win at last

TROWBRIDGE LEAGUE Westwood Social Club ended their 12-matchlosing run in the Trowbridge Windows & Conservatories TrowbridgeLeague Division 2 as they twice fought back from behind to defeatWorton & Cheverell 3-2. Visitors Worton, who went into the game onthe back of five successive victories and had won the reversefixture 6-3, took the lead through Ben Mason's early goal. PaulReynolds levelled the scores but Paul Sperrings restored Worton'sadvantage before half-time.

Matty Gurke grabbed Westwood's second equaliser and Dan Thornefired home the winner with 18 minutes to go.

Champions Seend United closed the gap on Division 1 leadersForesters to two points …