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...released.“Last year we were a young team, both of our skippers were sophomores and I was a sophomore too, so now three out of four of us are juniors,” Brants said. “Last year we were new on the circuit, so this is just a year to build and continue on the successes from last year.”—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...Senate has approved Bush's nominees for district-court judgeships at a clip that equals previous confirmation rates. Not so his nominees for the U.S. circuit court, only three of whom have been confirmed in 2007. In the spring, in an episode recalling the 2005 "nuclear option" showdown that required a brokered deal on judicial nominees, a tense fight broke out over Judge Leslie Southwick, Bush's pick for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats finally agreed to vote on Southwick after Republican leader Mitch McConnell threatened to bring the Senate to a standstill...
...talk-show circuit is fine, but the town meetings show you're willing to listen to people and take their questions.' MITT ROMNEY, Republican presidential hopeful, making an early jab at opponent Fred Thompson, who is expected to announce his candidacy on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Sept...
...Idiot tattooed, in Japanese, on his forearm, is the most talkative of the new crop. "Nobody in our country invested one dollar into any one of our players," he said. His tongue-in-cheek explanation for why so many Serbs are suddenly playing at the top of the circuit? "Depleted uranium," a reference to munitions dropped on Serbia and blamed since then for all manner of ailments. Radmilo Armenulic, a long-time coach of the Yugoslav tennis team (until 1990) told TIME that the players' performance has been "amazing," although he admits that it has yet to have a major...
Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has appeared often on Letterman's show, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and other shows, says the talk-show circuit allows the candidate a chance to open up to an audience outside of the bounds of a news interview. "I think it speaks for itself when the mayor is allowed to show voters a more humorous side," Comella said. "It happens on the campaign trail, but it isn't necessarily seen by millions of people at one time... More than anything it allows voters...