Word: downtowners
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...Minnesota G.O.P. has called Franken an opposition researcher's "dream." On the surface, he looks great next to the SNL alums who have been caught with a hooker or killed by drugs. Franken, 55, lives in a nondescript town house in downtown Minneapolis with his wife Franni and their dog. (They have a grown daughter and a son in college.) And while he has admitted to using cocaine in his TV days, his only real habit now is Diet Pepsi...
...Responding to the decision, some 3,000 Polish men and women waving national white-and-red flags and chanting prayers gathered on Wednesday around the 19th century St. Aleksander Church, a few hundred yards from the Polish Sejm, or parliament, in downtown Warsaw to demand that the government toughen its abortion laws. "A nation that kills its children won't survive!" read one banner, quoting the late Polish pontiff John Paul II. "Poland cannot kill its babies!" declared another. "Let the unborn see our Homeland." Not far away, in Constitution Square, a Stalinist cluster of 1950s social realism architecture, about...
...infrastructure projects - his so-called grands travaux include a new airport and a four-lane super-highway - don't fill bellies once their construction is finished. "I see the roads, I see the bridges, but I cannot eat them," says Malik Dioum, 25, who works part-time in a downtown Internet...
Strong inside play from Crystal Langhorne and dead-eye shooting from Shay Doron ignited the offense. Langhorne finished the day with nine rebounds and 12 points on 6-of-11 shooting. Doron was perfect from beyond the arc, going 3-of-3 from downtown, and 9-of-14 from the field to finish with a game-high 21 points...
Junior Jessica Knox came off the bench to spark some of these surges with deadly shooting from downtown. Knox landed all three of her attempts from beyond the arc en route to a career high 12 points. Sophomore Emily Tay led Harvard with 16 points, 14 of which came in the second half...