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...3/16 mile race. At the far turn, Elliott stepped on the gas, then opened up a loping lead that looked almost too relaxed to be the blinding gallop it was. Can Smarty and Elliott do it again at the Belmont Stakes on June 5, or will they fold like Funny Cide, last year's darling, did? The man and his mount have done a lot of impossible things in the past month. One more would barely surprise anybody. --Reported by Pohla Smith/Baltimore
These concerns, I feel, are three-fold. First and foremost, I am concerned by the low turnout and extremely narrow margin of passage that the first question of the referendum yielded. According to the official results, only 35 percent of the student body voted in the referendum, and the fee increase from $35 to $75 was passed by the margin of 53.2 percent to 46.8 percent (1,189 votes for, 1,046 against...
...Administrator L. Paul Bremer reversed his year-old decree banning senior members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from holding any government jobs--a policy that gutted Iraq's military and police of most of their top leaders. The U.S. hopes that bringing unemployed officers back into the fold will improve the morale and professionalism of the security forces and begin to erode the core of support for the insurgency, particularly in the Sunni badlands...
...bizarro world here? Since when are Yankees pitchers psyched out by Boston? Jose, your team is the good one, remember? The one that doesn’t fold under the pressure. Theo didn’t end up signing you, buddy. You’re a New York Yankee. You’re supposed to be at your best against the Red Sox (see Ramiro Mendoza). Where is Mendoza, by the way? I’m convinced that if he and Kim come off the DL, the Red Sox will find their way back to second place in no time...
...refused to fold his blanket in the morning, wear an orange vest that was part of his uniform or respond when referred to by his identification number—K066—instead of his name, Fu said...