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...tennis team split into three this weekend, but didn’t skip a beat from its previous strong performances, advancing three players into the final rounds of one tournament and two into the quarterfinals of another. The Crimson sent three players to the Seminole Invitational in Tallahassee, Fla., seven players to Dartmouth’s Big Green Invitational in Hanover, N.H., and it sent co-captain Dan Nguyen to ITA National Indoor Championships in Columbus, Ohio.The weekend’s matches were the team’s last before its long winter layoff, which continues until late January...
...Orona, NEW PORT RICHEY, FLA...
...rough-hewn former U.S. diplomat who grew up poor, Lucom inherited his fortune from his first wife, a Palm Beach, Fla., heiress. After he married Hilda in 1982, he bought a 7,000-acre (2,800 hectare) ranch once owned by the Ariases. The sale of that property, now valued at up to $50 million, would fund his charitable trust...
...financial institutions.“Jim always had good reasons,” Cox, the SEC chairman, said. “He didn’t always convince everyone he talked to, but he never lost an argument.”Former Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (R-Fla.), a House colleague of Leach for 26 years, said Leach’s quiet manner had helped him carry off disagreements with his Republican colleagues.“If he were some kind of firebrand with his voting record, there would have been tension,” said Shaw...
...Watching the Republican candidates in the debate in Orlando, Fla., I wasn't filled with dread about the general election. The Democrats are going to nominate either a one-term Senator (Clinton) or a half-term Senator (Obama), neither with much in the way of legislative achievements. Against that, the GOP will offer one of the following: a remarkably successful two-term mayor (Rudy Giuliani), a business leader as well as Governor (Mitt Romney), a four-term Senator and war hero (McCain), an effective two-term Governor (Mike Huckabee) or a Senator with as much experience as Clinton...