Word: davenport
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Dean--and six other Democrats--will soon know whether all the time they have spent in Ottumwa and Council Bluffs and Davenport and Fort Dodge has paid off. Iowa's first-in-the-nation contest is only a week away, and most polls show Dean holding a narrow lead over Congressman Dick Gephardt, who won the caucuses in 1988 and whose candidacy will be all but finished if he doesn't eke out another victory this time. Gephardt is drawing most of his support from older, less affluent Iowans, Dean from upscale, educated and more socially liberal voters. The choice...
...expansive horizon, the sharp contrast between the sky and the ground and the striking features of the land makes each photograph an extraordinary tableau to behold. For most people, the obvious interest in the exhibition is the relationship between Wenders’s cinematic and photographic works. But Melissa Davenport, who worked on this exhibition for the Carpenter Center, explains that it has the potential to appeal to a wider audience...
...island where Jack has landed, the Governor (Jonathan Pryce) wishes his spirited daughter Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) to marry the local commodore (Jack Davenport). She has eyes for her childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). But the island is attacked by pirates more fearsome than the larcenous Jack. The notorious Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) kidnaps Elizabeth to help break a curse on his ship, the Black Pearl. So Jack and Will forge a wary alliance. One wants the ship; the other wants the girl...
...locale need not be so exotic. Last September, Tera Davenport, 25, a nanny, and Eric Donahoo, 30, a construction worker, traveled from Santa Clara, Calif., to Arizona to marry at Rainbow Bridge National Monument on Lake Powell. Thirty-eight guests joined them for a two-hour boat trip and a 20-minute hike to the site, where the bride changed from shorts and a T shirt into her wedding dress. The ship's captain performed the ceremony, after which the couple released butterflies, a local Native American tradition. The following day, Tera and Eric rented a houseboat with nine friends...
...HUPD officers, Michael Davenport, Fumicello, Gillis, Gonzalez, Sheldon Howe, John Monaco III, Michael Rea, Christopher Riccardi and Stanton, will now spend two months patrolling campus alongside HUPD field training officers...