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...writing on the wall. The final blow came when a panel of seven current and former judges from the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals lined up to praise their colleague on the bench. Vermont's Senator Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the committee, effectively conceding defeat, declined even to ask them a question...
Schwarzenegger is crossing his fingers that the massive public-works plan will help rescue him from political disaster. His approval ratings are well below 40%, his re-election day is just 10 months away, and he's still recovering from the defeat of his pet ballot initiatives by voters who thought he had become too conservative and combative during the special election last November. The Republican Governor is trying to rally by championing levee restoration and a host of other largely nonpartisan programs in a concerted attempt to recast himself as the consensus-building centrist he promised to be when...
...mile, he ran the 800, and he came back and tried the 1000, which was the event right after the 800, and then he ran a mile relay.” Saturday’s loss for the men was closer than the 80-63 defeat at Boston College over a month ago, but the team hoped to enter its next meet, a January 28 dual-meet against Cornell and Brown, with a bit of momentum. “It would have been really nice to win that baby, real good for the guys,” Haggerty said...
...says Haltzman, "not only do their marriages improve but they are happier and more fulfilled than at any other point in their lives. "Divorce is ugly, says the author, but not inevitable. MOTTO: "When the marriage falters, it's our job as guys, who innately hate to admit defeat, to revive...
...That seemed to be the intended message in November?s parliamentary poll. As the liberal Nour was suffering his defeat, Egypt?s Muslim Brotherhood, a party that seeks to reestablish an Islamic caliphate, was given unprecedented leeway by the regime to field its candidates. It captured nearly 20 percent of the seats, a sixfold improvement on its previous best showing, making the fundamentalists the largest opposition force in parliament. Egypt?s future has thus become a polarizing struggle between Mubarak and Islam, a contest that liberals, with Nour in jail rather than in parliament, have little hope of winning...