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...Fran Pavley, 57, a former middle school history teacher, doesn't seem like the sort to attract death threats. But as a freshman in the California Assembly she introduced a bill that would set strict limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from the state's cars and trucks-a measure that triggered a furious counter-attack. Whipped up by conservative talk shows and a $5 million ad campaign funded by the auto industry, angry calls flooded the legislature by the thousands. At one point, a menacing parade of SUVs circled the State Capitol and a man threatened to stalk Pavley with...
...trap game for the Quakers, but likely only if Penn already has the Ivy title sewn up.The Quakers have very little depth right now, as the squad boasts Ivy sixth man of the year Brian Grandieri and a banged up Friedrich Ebede behind its excellent starting five. Penn coach Fran Dunphy has stood pat with playing seven (and with Ebede’s injury six) despite the tremendous fatigue that it brings upon his squad.If the Quakers have clinched the outright league crown, take Brown and the points. But if there’s something left to play for, Penn...
...Quakers up three, but Crimson senior center Brian Cusworth answered with an offensive board and put back to pull Harvard back within one. “I feel like we’re in a position where everyone wants to beat us,” Penn coach Fran Dunphy said. “In all honesty, it’s an enviable position.” As the shot clock ticked down on Penn’s next possession, Quakers guard Brian Grandieri drove into the lane and crashed into a group of players as he let his shot...
...feel like we’re in a position where everyone wants to beat us,” Penn coach Fran Dunphy said. “In all honesty, it’s an enviable position...
...other looked to the market and the price mechanism to guarantee growth and allocate resources efficiently. But those days - when speakers at the Labour Party conference referred to their audience as "comrades," one of Brown's predecessors promised to squeeze the rich until they "howl with anguish," and François Mitterrand won the presidency of France on a manifesto red in tooth and claw - are long gone. As Osborne says: "We've all read Adam Smith now." With the triumph of the market revolution, European politics has been reduced to a choice between technocratic solutions to social problems...