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...Young Republican branch, a staid gathering where some two dozen fresh-faced professionals and students met up, also on Super Tuesday, in a central London bar. One of their number, banker Allison Bruneau, 28, says she's encountered a view among Britons that supporters of President Bush "drive pick-up trucks" and pine for slavery. "One of the things that's really frustrated me is this feeling that to be at all interested in international affairs or be open-minded you can't be a Republican," she said. "Sometimes I feel like I'm an ambassador...
...Rebel forces, however, accused the French airlift of expatriates of providing cover for Chadian army attack helicopters operating out of the same base. By firing rockets at rebel formations, those helicopters allowed Déby loyalists to drive insurgent troops to the outskirts of N'Djamena on Monday. Regrouping outside the capital, rebel leaders began blaming the hundreds of dead and wounded civilians discovered in their wake by aid groups on alleged bombing raids by French warplanes on insurgent positions. France flatly denied those charges, and insisted that French troops had confined themselves to protecting foreign nationals...
...Tensions between the strikers and the nonstrikers grew. One night, the bad blood got out of hand as one of the antistrike comics tried to drive a car through the picket line, brushing some of the comics and knocking Leno to the pavement with a loud thud. Dreesen ran over to him, panicked that he had been seriously hurt. Leno gave Dreesen a wink; he was only feigning an injury and had thumped the car with his hand. But he got hauled off to the hospital in an ambulance anyway, and the incident seemed to sober up both sides...
...Crimson, Lin finished with team highs of 17 points and nine rebounds, keeping Harvard close with multiple runners in the lane before Princeton’s final run. Lin gave the Crimson its final lead, at 49-48, on a nice baseline drive. He converted the reverse lay-up and was fouled, but he missed the free throw...
...disgust. During the epic fourth quarter that saw three lead changes and a heroic performance by Manning, the emotional rollercoaster the spectators in the room were riding was twisting and looping at full speed. After the Giants took the lead for the first time since their opening drive, a new hope sprung up in New York fans, while those backing New England seemed to realize for the first time that these Giants were a serious threat to the Patriots’ pursuit of a perfect season. After Brady engineered a drive that gave New England a 14-10 lead with...