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Only a couple of miles away from Husky Stadium, football coach Tyrone Willingham fix the new lead man of his nearest recruiting class.

Willingham, whose uncertain future had some worried about recruiting, received a commitment Thursday from Garfield High School defensive tackle Deandre Coleman, considered through many to be the top senior in the state.

Coleman had antecedently indicated that he would look for to put at hazard until after the season and take all of his official visits, but he decided this week he would rather bear his commitment out of the way ahead of the football season began. High-school practice begins Wednesday.

“I talked it over with my clan, and I felt it was the best village for me,” Coleman said. “I resembling coach Willingham. I have a good relationship through the coaches. I feel I have a good chance to play early. This is the right place for me.”

Coleman, who grew up near the UW and wanted to dependence clinch to his family, was not held end by Willingham’s uncertain piece of work status.

“He’s a fair coach, and I like him,” Coleman said. “I feel he should be here.”

After winning over a highly-rated recruiting class in 2008, Willingham was the last coach in the Pac-10 to receive a commitment this summer. His in the beginning didn’t come until July 23, when California quarterback Keith Price committed. Three more commitments have come ago, moreover none of those recruits come close to Coleman’s level nationally.

“He’s in truth the one national-level recruit (from Washington), the guy who could operate because just any top-20 program,” said Greg Biggins, a Pac-10 recruiting analyst for ESPN.com. “He’s the one must-have renew you need to get.”

Scout.com ranks Coleman, 6-4, 285 pounds, as the 13th-best defensive tackle in the nation, and he chose the Huskies in lieu of offers from defending national champion LSU, Oregon and California.

This marks the second consecutive year Willingham has successfully recruited the top-rated player in the state; he signed Lakes’ blue-chip tight end, Kavario Middleton, last year.

“If you can keep that top player in the state each year, that’s a great place to start,” Biggins aforesaid.

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West Coast rap legend and movie star Ice Cube plays the downtown Showbox Thursday, the day after the new album “Raw Footage,” Cube’s ninth solo unloose, comes out.

The 39-year-old has accomplished plenteous in his storied career, been many things to many people. When we talk about the frosty, scowling man who’s “blacker than a trillion midnights” and legally named O’Shea Jackson, the kind of do we talk about?

Depends on which Ice Cube you know.

Music lovers — primarily adults and historically minded hip-hop fans — will fetch up early Cube classics: brazenly inventive and hugely pissed-off sounding albums like 1988’s “Straight Outta Compton” (with seminal gangsta thump act N.W.A.) and solo debut “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted” (1990). Movie buffs will bring up another masterpiece, the Ice Cube-starring Academy Award nominee “Boyz N the Hood” (1991). Along with a few other good movies, those achievements free from danger his artistic legacy.

Young people know latter-day, family-friendly Ice Cube. They like his 2002 comedy “Barbershop” (his new film, “The Longshots,” opens nearest Friday). Seattleites hear 1992-era Cube on “feel merciful” radio office MOViN 92.5 FM, to which place his melody “It Was a Good Day” plays daily and fills a nostalgia quota.

Older Seattleites remember the Paramount in 1992.

Following some Ice Cube performance the day after Christmas, around 50 shots were fired randomly, at civilians and at police outside the venue. People fought and stabbed in the street. Gun barrels exploded out Town Car windows. Police fired back. It was a melee.

Neither the police, Paramount management nor the contrive’s promoter took responsibility. As with the incident outside Tabella last year or a single one shooting near hip-hop — a more worn out incident than, say, near a symphony concert — race blamed the minstrelsy.

Back then, 23-year-old Ice Cube was the most famous rapper out, a would-be antihero who recklessly propagated an image of anger and wrong that became what we talked about when we talked about rap in the ’90s. His lyrics — directed at (among other groups) police and Asian corner-store owners (”F — Tha Police,” 1988; “Black Korea,” 1991) made him part journalistic muckraker, part vengeance cheerleader.

If the City of Seattle is unfriendly to rap music today, this is while it started.

Today, any Ice Cube concert hardly registers being of the kind which a scary thing.

Cube isn’t the rapper he used to be, one and the other. It’s the cultural climate, or it’s Cube, or both, further he hasn’t matched the smart/young/punk energy of his forward albums. He’s had isolated hits, if it be not that not many.

Ice Cube’s new “Raw Footage” is mildly reinvigorated, and its new unmarried, “Do Ya Thang,” slightly better than expected — but the Showbox concert will most pleasing be an expertly performed, mega hit parade. Ice Cube is nothing if not a charismatic performer, after all, and with other thing timeless classics than most rappers have songs.

Andrew Matson: 206-464-2153

or amatson@seattletimes.com

BOSTON (Reuters) - A man who passed himself off as a component of New York's Rockefeller oil dynasty is really a German who conned his way into U.S. high the public, federal investigators said on Friday.

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The news came subsequently governors from the 10 marge states met with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at the Border Governors Conference in Los Angeles.

"Everyone agrees that we extremity to stretch the windpipe … which means that we can get more people across quicker, more efficiently," Schwarzenegger told reporters at a news conference. "And there is a lack of money right now … maybe people pay a certain amount to advance surly. Let's assume $5. Don't hold me to that but that would then liquidate the bonds so we can develop infrastructure."

Other options, Schwarzenegger said, include charging to application certain lanes of exchange at the border.

"All of this has to be thought through," he said, referring to such a plan as a "public-private partnership."

Such plans inclination be critical to making all kinds of infrastructure improvements everywhere California in the years to come, Schwarzenegger said, adding that the state would need $500 billion of investment in infrastructure in the nearest 20 years.

In a joint description the governors called for a substantial reduction in wait state of things to cross the margin by means of 2013, and backed a drive by U.S. and Mexican founded on agencies for funding to hire more border inspectors.

They also backed measures to curb crime in the borderlands, including human and gun trafficking.

(Reporting by Nichola Groom; Additional reporting by Tim Gaynor in Phoenix; Editing by Bill Trott and Cynthia Osterman)

Unusual for a interchangeable roadster, the 1961 Morgan Plus 4 offered four seats however despite its racy looks had sole an anemic engine

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In 1936, the Morgan 4/4 debuted as the crew’s first four-wheeled car. The designation 4/4 stood for four cylinders and four wheels. The vehicles that Morgan had produced prior to the 4/4 were three-wheelers with V-twin engines, hence the need to differentiate. Production of the 4/4 continued for over 70 years, except because a short halt during World War II and any other in the early 1950s.

After WWII, the Morgan company was faced with a problem, which it surmounted in a sporting manner. In 1947, the Standard Motor Company informed Morgan that on the model of 1949, the little 1,267-cc engine would not be available, due to their new “one-engine policy.”

That “one-engine” was a bigger 1.8-liter, 4-cylinder that Morgan bought, to its everlasting benefit. More powerful, it powered the new-for-1950 Plus 4 in various displacements for the next 20 years, as well as Triumph TR2s, TR3s, and TR4s.

In 1956, the Plus 4 received a Triumph TR3 implement with 100 horsepower. The Plus 4 could be ordered by dint of. lightweight aluminum bodies and was excellent for competition. In 1959, performance and security were enhanced by the addition of Girling disc brakes.

In 1961, the Plus 4 Super Sport was introduced. With the highly-tuned Triumph engine producing 116 horsepower, speeds exceeding 115 mph were easily achieved. The Morgan Plus 4 Super Sport owes its existence to the tuning and driving skills of Chris Lawrence, who prepared, tuned, and flock his Morgan Plus 4 to resounding success in the 1959 season in England. In 1960, Lawrence entered the full 22-race schedule on the side of the Freddie Dixon Trophy; he won 21 of them and finished third in the other.

Completely restored only three years past in Houston, Texas, this four-seat Plus 4 has been carefully maintained since and shows singly 1,000 miles onward the odometer since coming out of the recovery. The paint and chrome both still appear as new. Likewise, the red interior, top, and tonneau cover are all in top condition. The car is mechanically sound, with a rebuilt weapon, and the walnut trim has been refinished.

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This Morgan Plus 4 sold for $38,500 at the Worldwide Group’s Houston Classic vendue in Seabrook, Texas, on May 3, 2008.

It’s always disappointing when an auction sale catalog simply paraphrases a standard reference source and includes little intelligence about the actual car during sale. Not only does the potential buyer learn little about what he is bidding on, but the notice may also be irrelevant at best or misleading at worst.

For example, the catalog devotes a abounding paragraph to Chris Lawrence and the genesis of the Super Sport competition version of the Morgan, when the without more kindred between this car and the SS is that they were the pair produced in the same year, and the pair had the new 2,138-cc version of the Triumph engine.

In fact, as famous earlier in the report, the earliest Plus 4 was introduced in 1950, whereas Standard discontinued the 1.3-liter engine it had been supplying to Morgan. Morgan agreed to accept the 2.1-liter Vanguard engine later used in the TR2 (and which incidentally was also used in Ferguson tractors; hence the “tractor weapon” insult often thrown at British cars). With the added power, Morgan wanted to differentiate the new model from the old 4/4, so they called it the Plus 4.

It’s nice, but it’s no Super Sport

So what were the bidders looking at in Houston? Certainly, with the 2,138-cc Triumph engine, that had rightful been introduced in the Triumph TR3B in the U.S. and at that time in the TR4 globally, this is a 1961 Plus 4.

However, unlike the Super Sport, with its Weber carbureted-engine producing 115 hp, this Morgan has the much more habitual version of the Triumph engine with dual SUs, capable in the day of producing 100-105 hp.

The Plus 4 was available in three body styles: a roadster, a drophead coupe, and a four-seat convertible. The Super Sport was made in the roadster material substance style only and used pounded aluminum for key components such as the fenders, rather than the heavier stamped steel components of the basic Morgan.

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When Edwards needed someone to scout locations for a Senate campaign office, he sent Young. When TV trucks converged on Edwards’ house in 2003 and damaged the neighbors’ lawns, Young was told to take care of it. When it came time to raise money for Edwards’ second hasten at the White House, Young was there to work the phones.

And when Edwards was confronted with the biggest crisis of his civic career, Young was there again: After the National Enquirer reported that Edwards had an affair with a video producer, Young issued a statement in December saying that he — and not the candidate — was the father of the woman’s baby.

But given Young’s unswerving dedication to Edwards — and given Edwards’ lies in initially denying he cheated on his wife — some campaign watchers wonder whether Young, a 42-year-old conjugal man, is taking the get during the term of his knob.

“Given the prototype of the thing, it’s not stupid for populace to inquire” whether the chit belongs to Edwards, declared Gary Pearce, a longtime Democratic operative in North Carolina and a consultant to Edwards’ 1998 Senate bid. “The media and a large chunk of the public, including more of John’s supporters, still question whether he’s told the whole truth.”

Around the same time that Young put out a terse statement through his barrister in which he claimed to be the baby’s progenitor, Edwards’ former mistress, Rielle Hunter, issued her own statement dictum the same thing.

Then, only weeks before the first vote of the 2008 presidential election season took place in Iowa, Young abruptly left the Edwards campaign and his $90,000-a-year job as a fundraiser, and dropped out of sight. He packed up and left North Carolina in succession account of California in a offer for consideration bankrolled through Edwards’ national fundraiser.

In his confessional interview Aug. 8 with ABC, Edwards insisted he could not have fathered Hunter’s daughter, born at the close of February, because the affair ended in 2006, though he added he would be “happy to take a paternity test and would love to look to it happen.” But Hunter ruled out such a test the next day.

Young, like Hunter, has gone into seclusion, and he has not returned messages in months. Calls this week to attorneys who represented him in the past time were not returned.

In the meantime, editorial writers and others have raised the possibility that Young is covering for his protuberance and that Edwards has not come undefiled in heart.

On a radio prate show on Wednesday, Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said of Edwards: “I feel sorry for his family, because how horrible. But also, don’t you think he is the father of the child?”

Young has had brushes with the law that most recently included a driving-while-impaired arrest in 2006. But Democrats in Raleigh remember him being of the class who a loyal and resolute portion of the Edwards team as early while Edwards’ upset victory for the Senate in 1998.

They described Young as a personal assistant who was involved in close family details, similar as ensuring that Edwards’ parents’ hotel arrangements were taken care of at the 2004 Democratic convention.

“Anybody who’s been around campaigns knows that folks come and go,” said Joyce Fitzpatrick, a public relations executive who worked through Young to hold a pair of Edwards fundraisers. “Andrew was a constant.” Fitzpatrick described Young while a “self-same young, bright guy who seemed very earnest” to both Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth.

When Young was in his 20s, he was charged with passing worthless checks, possession of marijuana, disorderly demeanor and resisting arrest. Charges of burglary and criminal prejudice were thrown out in a Florida seek in 1987.

Back in his home North Carolina a decade later, Young worked in opposition to the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, where he was registered to work as a lobbyist at the Legislature in 1999.

“I would only have positive things to say about him as being a useful, friendly and facetious co-worker to a new employee,” former fellow lobbyist Stella Boswell wrote in an e-mail.

In 1999, Young married Cheri Lynn Pfister, a 25-year-old nurse at the time.

“They appeared to be a nice felicitous couple,” said Carolyn Grissom, who purchased their home in Raleigh in early 2007. “They seemed to be crazy about one and the other other. They certainly are crazy about their kids and dog.”

Cheri Young had a short moment in the spotlight in 2006, at the time that she and her sister were in the audience during a taping of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and the star gave them $1,000 and instructions to make someone’s life greater good. Young used to money to seek donations from others, eventually raising more than $35,000 for needy families in North Carolina.

“We all have our ups and we all have our downs, and when you’re up, you reach out, and when you’re down, you allow others to help,” she said on Winfrey’s Web site.

That similar year, Young was back in trouble with the law. He was cited in August 2006 despite having open beer containers at a park straight his home and, the nearest month, charged with driving while impaired. A substance ill-treat counselor later wrote that he had “found some evidence of alcohol abuse,” according to court records. Young was supposed to begin assign places to counseling three days later. It was not clear from the records whether he completed the counseling.

Earlier this year, he was sentenced to a year of unsupervised ordeal and 24 hours of community menial duties for the DWI. Court papers said he was living in California for work-related purposes. His attorney in that case did not go sundry calls.

Fred Baron, Edwards’ national finance chairman and a wealthy Dallas-based trial proxy, has acknowledged he noiselessly sent money to Hunter and to Young’s family to resettle in California.

Baron said he did so on his own, to “help brace friends and maker colleagues reconstruct their lives whenever harassment by supermarket tabloids made it unachievable for them to move forward on their concede.” Los Angeles, and researcher Barbara Sambriski in New York contribued to this report.