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...women’s national championships. Moving out of obscurity and into the national spotlight, the Bucknell Bisons won their first-ever national title, winning the lightweight Grand Finals with a 3.5-second victory over Princeton. The Bisons’ unexpected victory proved just enough to bump the Black and White off the medal stand, dropping Radcliffe to a fourth-place finish behind Bucknell, Princeton, and Wisconsin. Only a year after Georgetown vaulted into national prominence with a second-place showing at these IRAs, Bucknell did this and more on Saturday. Before this year, the Bisons’ best result...
...This is the law that Judge Walton will operate under Tuesday. He must review the guidelines, and if he believes that Libby's lies hid a probable violation of the law against outing covert agents, he can bump up the sentence to 30 months or more. The betting here is that he won't. It would give too much weight to a mere suspicion...
...candor has been part of Obama's campaign since his announcement tour in February. When a questioner at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wanted to know whether he would cut the military budget to make room for other priorities, Obama answered, "Actually, you'll probably see an initial bump in military spending in an Obama Administration" to replace the equipment that has been depleted by the Iraq war and build up the size of the active forces. When a teacher asked him about the No Child Left Behind law that is so unpopular with educators and their unions, Obama...
...Absent surprises, this looks on the Democratic side like a classic G.O.P. race, in which the Establishment candidate (in this case, Clinton) maintains a lead, is challenged by one or two slightly more exciting competitors and, after a bump or two on the road, ends up prevailing...
...with cramped passenger compartments and anemic 50-h.p. engines. That began to change in 1998, when government restrictions on maximum minicar size (owners are eligible for discounts in annual car taxes worth at least $200) increased to 3.3 m long and 1.5 m wide. The bump in dimensions gave manufacturers creative space to build better, roomier models-most now have four doors-and alleviated consumer concerns about safety and comfort. "I feel perfectly safe in a minicar," says Ayako Yamamoto, a 57-year-old housewife in Nagasaki prefecture whose family owns a kei and a minitruck. "The interior is very...