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...definitely worked in our favor and shifted the momentum,” captain Schuyler Mann said. “The win is what we had always expected from our team since the season started...
After jumping out to a 2-0 lead in their opening game only to fall to Princeton, the Bears returned the favor in the opening round of the consolation bracket, coming back from a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Bison 6-5 in the first sudden-death overtime...
...been designed to give Republicans a veto against any probe of DeLay. The about-face by Republicans on the rules was so sudden that Alan Mollohan, the top Democrat on the ethics committee, was still reading the resolution as he went to the House Rules Committee to testify in favor of it. It passed the House...
...nature," says Maria Rita Lorenzetti, president of the Umbria region. However, Burri's wife did not share her husband's affection for Città di Castello. After the artist's death, she tried to gain control of all of Burri's works. But in 1998, Italian courts ruled in favor of Albizzini as the guardian of Burri's art. Right now, the only record of the missing work is a photo-catalogue. In addition to the art, the collection contained intimate pieces Burri gave to his wife. "Some of them were little gifts he used to give his wife...
...seem fairly relaxed about the prospect of same-sex marriages - even in a country that until three decades ago sent homosexuals to prison or had them committed to mental hospitals. A poll carried out by the Madrid-based Center for Sociological Investigation showed that 66% of people were in favor of same-sex marriages, compared to 26% opposed. "It just shows how far Spain has come in a relatively short time," says Madrid teacher Isabel Flores. "There was much more outrage when divorce or abortion were legalized. Now, it seems as if only the lunatic fringe [is] really against...