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...think she’s got an excellent chance. She’s got name recognition. She was a popular governor,” said Smith, also an associate professor of political science at the university. Other than Shaheen, “nobody on the Democratic bench has the name recognition or political experience to take on Sununu,” Smith said, adding that “the national party will not want to invest a lot of money on an unknown candidate.” But Smith said that winning the general election...
...criminal trial on charges of soliciting a $150,000 bribe two years earlier in a deal to provide favorable treatment for defendants in a racketeering case before him. Despite his being legally cleared, Congress determined that the evidence against Hastings was still powerful enough to remove him from the bench, which the Senate voted to do in 1989 - even though Senators Arlen Specter and Jeff Bingaman, the top Republican and Democrat who supervised the proceedings, voted against expelling Hastings from office. The impeachment proceedings were later invalidated by an appeals court judge in 1993, although that ruling was itself later...
...rough game against the pressure of the quick, agile Wolverines backcourt, committing eight turnovers against just two assists.“We knew that they were very quick—coach warned us about it,” said freshman guard Jeremy Lin, who played 13 minutes off the bench. “We were expecting it, but we didn’t handle it the way we wanted to. We weren’t able to establish a flow in our offense, and they really swarmed our players on defense.”Harvard also could not get much...
...killing or capturing bin Laden isn't likely to break the Taliban's and al-Qaeda's grip in the remote region. "The loss of a series of al-Qaeda leaders since 9/11 has been substantial, but it's also been mitigated by what is frankly a pretty deep bench of low-ranking personnel capable of stepping up to assume leadership positions," General Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, on November 15. "Though a number of these people are new to the senior management, they're not new to jihad...
Tanner’s taunt was so unremarkable—and the resultant penalty so unexpected—that the students behind Harvard’s bench began to mercilessly heckle cornerback Steve Williams. The Tiger faithful thought that it was the junior, not Tanner, who had committed a personal foul...