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...match, Rechul defeated Jason Cooley of Oregon State in a 2-0 decision. With the win, Rechul was given a second wrestleback match, and he responded with a close 3-2 win over Kevin Hoy of Air Force. That win propelled Rechul into a third wrestleback match against Billy Blunt of Fresno State. Rechul ended up losing that match 16-7 and was eliminated from the tournament...
...down during her vigil. A writer by trade, she thought she might make one short piece of them. "But then I started typing," she recalls, "and finally a sentence came out where I knew I'd found my voice, and then I had 150 pages." That voice--unsentimental, breezy, blunt--never wavers as she takes us first to her parents' deathbeds and then back to their earlier, happier years...
...Dark Angel," occasionally lets a mere man help her save the world, after which she suavely extracts herself from his adoration. "What's the plan?" asks her enraptured swain of the moment, who doesn't deserve to be in her car pool, let alone her gene pool. Max's blunt reply: "I'm the plan...
...course, happens to be the year that the economy figures to do the bulk of its sputtering. Bush, who rightly says he has "great faith in the economy" over the long haul, backloads the bulk of the benefits in the second five years of the plan - too late to blunt even an extended slowdown, and if he's making some Keynesian argument about cutting taxes in far-off times of plenty, he's not articulating it very well...
...suggests that it's now unlikely that the U.S. will pursue with any seriousness international negotiations over a treaty to curb global warming. For many European governments who've had to deal with the Clinton administration's evasion and avoidance on the issues despite proclaiming itself environmentalist, the more blunt recalcitrance of the Bush administration may even prove easier to engage with. President Clinton may have signed the Kyoto treaty, but he never had any intention of presenting it to Congress, and sent his negotiators to Europe to try and pull the teeth of the agreement - to the point...