Word: frans
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...coming off an extended break for exams. Penn (8-5), meanwhile, stumbled through the first half of last year’s Ivy slate and has been inconsistent in the early portion of its schedule this year. Star forward Ugonna Onyekwe is coming off a demotion by Quaker coach Fran Dunphy. Onyekwe, whose underachieving has repeatedly drawn Dunphy’s ire, was left out of his team’s starting lineup for five straight games prior to Tuesday’s win over La Salle...
...healing the racial inequality that has existed in the U.S. for more than 200 years. Lott will still have a hard time overcoming the damage that was done by the likes of himself and Strom Thurmond, but maybe he will gain a better understanding of the insults he uttered. FRAN NETHERTON Corona, Calif...
...Fran Morgan, 58, who had not spoken to her daughter Ginger, 38, for nearly 15 years, it was the chance to help her child out of a financial bind that brought them back together. They stopped talking when Ginger, at age 15, moved in with her father after her parents' divorce. "My mom was an alcoholic at the time, and we just never got along," Ginger says. But Ginger, at 29, found herself alone in Dallas, unemployed, nearly broke and almost suicidal. To her surprise, the one person from whom she wanted help was her mother. She asked Fran...
Though mother and daughter now live separately, they not only get together for movies, lunches and shopping jaunts but also work side by side in Fran's copy-machine company in Houston. "Our relationship is stronger than I ever dreamed it could be, which means so much to me at this point in my life," Fran says. "We've become more than just mother and daughter; we're actually really good friends...
...higher expenditures on things like unemployment meant the government ran a federal budget deficit of 3.7%. This year, in order to comply with an order from Brussels to clean up its fiscal act, Germany has raised taxes. "It's stupid," says Jean-Paul Fitoussi, president of the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques, an economics think tank. "How can a country with zero growth implement a restrictive budget...