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...plea deal comes as the House Republican leadership faces trying times. DeLay was forced to step down as Houe Majority Leader after he was indicted on unrelated money laundering charges in Texas, and his temporary replacement, Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, has failed to corral increasingly fractious House Republicans. Leadership elections are expected when the House reconvenes at the end of January. And nervous incumbents worry that the Abramoff and DeLay scandals will hurt them in mid-term elections next fall...
...he’s a tough guy to box out.”Nwadike was able to single-handedly match the rebounding effort of Stehle, who had 10 boards, and Cusworth, who had six. Overall, the Blue Devils grabbed 15 of their own misses while Harvard could only corral 19 defensive boards, well below the team’s goal of 70 percent.“You’re not going to beat any team when they shoot over 50 percent [from three] and get almost 50 percent of our defensive rebounds,” Stehle said...
...junior tutorials with finesse). But how many of us have routinely had sections where TFs walk into class without a lesson plan or even a basic strategy for guiding conversations? How many have had TFs who do not know how to facilitate a discussion, to focus its inquiry, to corral its digressions? How often as a result have we had to suffer through sections dominated by classmates in love with their own voice and grubbing for grades? Too often we leave more confused and more turned off to the material than when we arrived. Too often there is too much...
Just minutes into the game, Shields was unable to corral a Central Connecticut direct kick and the rebound was fired past her—the first goal surrendered by Harvard all season—leaving the Crimson trailing early...
...made more than 150 films, but three of the best are in this package. Stagecoach, his first western with director John Ford, made Wayne a star. Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo was the most genial and communal of Wayne's films, as Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson help him corral the bad guys. In Ford's The Searchers--about a man obsessed by the ravages done to his niece by an Indian chief--Wayne is a cauldron of racial, sexual and violent impulses. It's a searing performance in a dark epic, perhaps the greatest of all westerns. --By Richard Corliss