Word: coliseums
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...protect the American people, the basic rationale he will continue to use in defense of the surveillance program "You know, it's amazing when people to say to me, 'Well, he was just breaking the law,'" Bush told the K-State crowd, speaking in a basketball arena, Bramlage Coliseum, with his image popping off huge screens on the scoreboard suspended at half court. "If I wanted to break the law, why was I briefing Congress?" He delivered the line with relish, then leaned on the podium to accept the thunderous applause. The President didn't mention that some Congressional leaders...
...Meltzer] back,” Preston said. “He just wrestled really well and he is very important to our team.” The Harvard wrestling team, now 1-3 in dual matches, was at the top of its game in the South Grand Prairie Warrior Coliseum, as No. 14 Meltzer (141 lbs.), junior tri-captain Bode Ogunwole (No. 8 among the heavyweights) and freshman Louis Caputo (184 lbs.) each collected three victories on the day. The Crimson began the day by winning seven of the eight contested matches en route to defeating Utah Valley Sate...
...crowd. The arena has a concert capacity of 16,500, and tonight’s contest could easily shatter the old ECAC record of 7,460 fans. Coincidentally, Harvard had a hand in that mark as well: on Feb. 3, 1979, the Crimson faced Yale in the New Haven Coliseum for a game that set the current mark. “This is a good team,” Donato said. “It’s going to be an emotional game, a big game for them, and we’d prefer that they save their first...
...Jack Reall is briefing his 35-person FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team. "What you see is what you got. We have no idea what's going to happen," except that the promised roof to sleep under isn't going to work out. Nearby, McNeese State University's Burton Coliseum, most recently used to house those affected by Hurricane Katrina, is dark, with standing water and no working bathrooms, and is strewn with personal items from its last short-term occupants. Tomorrow, the team will drive, walk, wade and chainsaw its way through whatever stricken Lake Charles-area neighborhoods...
...Manila, however, the President and his wife appeared vigorous and eager for their fourth election in 20 years. Wearing a bulletproof vest under his traditional white barong tagalog after reports of an assassination plot, the President held forth for 90 minutes before 3,000 cheering supporters at the Cebu Coliseum. Marcos promised them that he would not take the election lightly: "I always run scared." Last week political observers were asking whether voters in the Philippines will once more offer Marcos their support on voting day. Many were also wondering when the election will be held, whether the opposition...