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...G.O.P. primary Tuesday, beating out Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, and in the process overcoming anger from conservatives who oppose his stance on illegal immigration. Throughout the campaign, conservatives hammered McCain for his support of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants - a touchy issue here, where more people cross illegally than any other state along the U.S.-Mexico border...
...poverty-stricken comics were far less prepared for a long walkout than the relatively well-heeled writers today. Shore closed down her club, then reopened it, using the few loyalists willing to cross the picket line and some neophytes who saw an opportunity for some stage time. When she made a compromise offer to pay the comics $25 a set only on weekends, some of them, like Garry Shandling, thought it was fair and went back to work - a blow to the comics' shaky solidarity. "I think there was a lot of good that was accomplished by that strike," says...
...goals against, team could not convert the extra pressure into points.Despite the frustrating ending, it was a memorable day for at least one, as freshman forward Joe Smith scored the first goal of his college career at 12:50 to make the score 4-2. As Smith tried to cross the puck in front of the Bears’ net from the corner behind the goal line, it struck the back of Rosen’s skate and crossed the goal line. Although the Crimson would get no closer, after one of the most frustrating defeats of the year...
...because many diplomats see that offensive as just one part of wider patchwork of cross-border African conflicts, some are intimating threats of additional peacekeeping operations as a means of making life harder on troublemakers in the region. "We are not involved in this war," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said as he welcomed people airlifted from Chad to Paris Monday. "For now, there's no change in that. But if there's a [United Nations] Security Council resolution, or if there was another suggestion [for a more active role] during an African Union summit...
...Shelby’s course on Black Nationalism and is also one of his academic advisees, called Shelby “an excellent professor” who is “very enthusiastic” about the material that he teaches. Sorensen lauded Shelby’s ability to cross departmental boundaries, saying that he “is equally welcome in the Philosophy and African American studies department,” and that his breadth as a scholar had made him attractive to many other schools. “He had offers from other universities and for a while...