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...their causes. Emboldened by G.O.P. control of both houses and the fact that Jan. 22 marks the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, antiabortion activists want to move quickly to pass new restrictions on the procedure. Frist would rather defer that kind of bitter fight with Democrats until later, but if he angers conservatives, retribution "will be pretty swift and fairly severe," warns Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative think tank. It was conservatives critical of Lott's statements "who really drove him from office," Weyrich maintains. "Frist needs to understand...
...losses have put a bitter taste in the Crimson wrestlers’ mouths as they head into the exam period...
...keeping it open," she said. The students who eventually won declared they planned to be missionaries, doctors and lawyers. "I tracked them," she says. "And within a few months, not one of them was doing what they said." Then she laughs. "Yes, I've always been a little bitter." Denied the scholarship, Rowley relied on an Iowa tuition grant designed for future teachers. Rowley quickly became a French major because those students got a free year in France. "She said what she thought and always had a firmness of opinion," remembers Moira McCluney, her French professor at Wartburg College...
...profitability and size of Indian casinos have grown, so has friction between the gaming ventures and surrounding communities. Last summer tensions between the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians and its neighbors in the rural Northern California Capay Valley erupted into a bitter war of words when the tribe announced plans to double the size of its hillside gaming business. Highway 16, the narrow, serpentine road that winds past the Cache Creek Indian Bingo and Casino on its way into the tiny hamlet of Brooks, is already congested from round-the-clock traffic to the casino. In 2001, traffic to Cache...
...Crimson was unable to gain any respect, playing what Delaney-Smith called its worst game of the season, and left Conte Forum with a bitter taste in its mouth...