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...letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert imploring him to reverse recent revisions in the House rules that were apparently designed to shield DeLay from being investigated by the ethics committee. What's more, conservative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, while professing his confidence in DeLay's innocence, told his hometown paper that it's "probably not the worst idea" for DeLay to step down as leader until he resolves the ethical controversies that are springing up around...
...discovery of an unidentified woman's body in a reservoir near their home, investigators apprehended She, who said upon his release that he confessed to his wife's murder after being beaten and deprived of sleep during a 10-day interrogation. Zhang resurfaced in her hometown last month after a decade spent living in another province, where she had fled to escape her marriage. Lawyers say they plan to seek compensation from the state for She as well as for his brother and mother, who were detained for protesting his conviction-in his mother's case for about 300 days...
First, Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen rode the roar of the hometown aficionados to a 10,000-meter time of 30:59.42, a vast 14.36 sec. better than the old record. Next, Morocco's Said Aouita just out-dueled the U.S.'s Sydney Maree, shaving .01 sec. off the 5,000-meter record with his 13:00.40. Finally, Cram and Coe, 28, came onstage with eleven others for the classic confrontation to determine who would reign among the world's milers. Many experts, including Cram in his quiet, pleasant way, felt that the outcome was virtually certain. One possible question...
...catch my train. I have nowhere to stay tonight." The 53-year-old middle school teacher had seen the Pope twice while he was alive, once from his apartment overlooking St. Peter's square and once, in the early '90s, when he visited her hometown of Nocera Inferiore. As for seeing him before he is buried, Paolillo would have to settle for television. "I just wanted to see him. I don't know why I came all this way, but it wasn't for curiosity...
...Hometown: La Jolla, California