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When he offered up 11 nominees to the federal bench last week, President George W. Bush urged Congress to confirm them swiftly and without rancor. That won't come easily. Democrats are itching to pick off at least one conservative from the batch. For the moment, they're holding their fire to see what kind of horse trading they can do with the White House. But they already have a No. 1 target: U.S. District Court Judge TERRENCE W. BOYLE, 55, a protege of North Carolina conservative Senator JESSE HELMS. Bush has tapped Boyle for the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court...
...NICK OREDSON: INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST The taxi deposited me at Newark International with an impossibly large pile of stuff. Multiple pairs of skis, poles, clothing, waxes and a portable ski bench only rounded out half the load. The other half included various shooting accessories including, of course, my rifle. During my years of working summers in Alaska I transported firearms regularly during travels to the last frontier. However, no matter how many times you do it, there is nothing like walking through a crowded airport with a fully functional firearm and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in your bags. It never...
...Thoke was resilient to the end, playing through a line drive that deflected of her knee in the top of the eighth. But then sophomore Kelli Larsen-who has been mostly a bench player to this day at Cornell-delivered a clutch, pinch-hit, two-run, and two-out RBI double to put the Big Red up 3-1. The Harvard bats could not answer. Cornell clinched the Ivy title with a sweep of Dartmouth the next...
...azaleas of late May. Spring love propels that special pair at the House formal, the duo that dips and swirls with such fluency and grace, untouched by the surrounding sea of stumbling black ties and dresses. Spring love brings peace to the elderly man sitting silently on a bench facing the river’s edge, whose wife has long since passed away. On days like these the warm air is filled with such energy and life that, when he closes his eyes, he knows she is sitting right there beside him. Spring love can be fleeting...
Unlike the Minutemen, who took full advantage of their visit to the Fenway clubhouse, Harvard’s players never really settled into the dugout. Instead, as always, they were several steps away from the bench, cheering on the guy at the plate or on the mound...