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...West Wing. He barred them from appearing on TV or in the Oval Office without his permission, and he conducted a none-too-private search for people to replace them. But Ickes had different ideas. In recent weeks he and his protege, newly appointed White House political director Doug Sosnik, reversed Panetta's decision. At a retreat in Virginia in early February, Ickes told a gathering of Democratic Senators up for re-election, "I have been tasked by the President to handle the political operation over the next two years." Ickes' colleagues at the White House and the Democratic National...
...days of being the darkhorse and taking inspiration from David and Goliath are over for the Harvard women's basketball team. The image of the underdog made famous by the Amazing Mets of 1969, NC State's NCAA basketball title in 1983 and Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass against Miami in 1984 are now images to fear for a team that has exceeded all expectations...
...Sloppy penalties. At 5:20 of the first, Doug Sproule was called for holding Vermont defenseman Pavel Navrat as the burly Czech was pressing goal-ward to Tracy's left. One should a) not get beaten by a one-goal-two-assists "marksman" on the year and b) not haul him down when there's one of your teammates between him and the goal...
...DIED. DOUG MCCLURE, 59; former broncobuster and star of TV westerns such as The Virginian and The Overland Trail; of lung cancer; in Sherman Oaks, California...
...Doug Painter managed to crawl back to safety, but then returned to the water to help his sister. After nearly an hour in which the pair were battered by surf, he climbed out again over sharp rocks that sliced his knees, hands and feet. Naked and bleeding, he was taken by a passerby to an area hospital. But, one tragedy compounding another, Debbie had been swept out to sea. On Friday police found her body about a mile up the coast. She leaves behind a husband and an 18-month...