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...This past spring he hailed Florida's lowest crime rate in 30 years - no small feat given the peninsula's population explosion. But even as he spoke, the legislature was shutting down the state's "boot camps" for juvenile offenders, get-tough facilities Jeb had long supported, because a black teen had died in January after a beating by camp guards. Says Mitch Ceasar, head of Florida's Broward County Democratic Party, "This is still a very centrist state, and Jeb Bush is very often out of step with most Floridians and, I think, most Americans...
...playact a Q&A on the war in Iraq was asked if the recent capture and killing of terrorist al-Zarqawi showed that the Bush war was, in fact, working. Reviewing the tape afterwards, one of the workshop leaders complimented him on his quick recovery. He allowed that the feat was all the more impressive considering that he didn't even know Zarqawi was dead until he was asked about it just then...
...Murphy said. “They play hard all the time and they never give up, and it really was a tribute to our senior class.”It was a senior class that never lost to Yale, the second consecutive graduating class to have accomplished the feat.“As a senior you’re always going to remember the Harvard-Yale game for the rest of your life, and a triple-overtime victory, you can’t beat that,” captain Erik Grimm said. “Winning all four years...
...problems from the beginning.” With those disappointing finishes behind it, the Black and White went into Eastern Sprints and rowed as well as it had all season. Radcliffe finished fourth overall, and every boat reached the Grand Finals in its class, a feat no other crew except Brown was able to accomplish. The second novice boat finished second and the second varsity finished third, while the first varsity finished fifth, one spot higher than its seed. “We had a really good race at Sprints,” Martin said. “Apparently...
...most important natural resource," which now generates $83 billion per year for Venezuela compared to $53 billion in 2000. OPEC ministers will probably decline to cut back output much, if at all, especially since the record revenues they're enjoying would make it a difficult public relations feat. Still, Ram?rez says he doubts the cartel will ever again allow prices to sink as low, or outputs to rise as high, as they did at the end of the 20th century, when Venezuela was even considering dropping out of OPEC shortly before Ch?vez's election...