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...going to let the presidential campaign start full-bore two years before the election. And every cycle the campaign starts earlier. This one has been going on for more than a year, with a year and a half still to go. Every day added to the length of the campaign is a day's worth of political stories that need to be conjured up or older stories that need to be stretched just a bit further, like adding water to the soup...
...acquaintance of Cho's called to say he was "concerned that Cho might be suicidal."(One of Cho's suite mates said last night on CNN that he told police that Cho IM'd him, "I might as well kill myself now.") Again, officers met with Cho "at length," Flinchum said, and asked him to speak to a counselor from a local mental-health service. "Based on that interaction with the counselor, a temporary detention order was obtained and Cho was taken to a mental health facility ," Flinchum said...
...Flinchum and other campus officials refused to give more information about the length of Cho's stay at the mental health facility, St. Albans, or about his diagnosis or treatment. The local judge's temporary detention order, filed in court on December 13, 2005, declared that Cho was mentally ill and either a threat to himself or others, or so incapable of caring for himself that involuntary evaluation was necessary. This is legal boilerplate language supporting detaining Cho in the psychiatric hospital, although a state police spokesman said today that technically, Cho went to St. Albans voluntarily. Court records show...
...although the varsity race was tense, the biggest thrills of the morning came from the first freshman crew, who, after falling back by over a length, not only made up the gap but then pushed almost half a length ahead of the Bears in the last 600 meters...
...worst conditions, and it took us a little while to settle into it,” Lin said. “Brown handled it better than we did and kept their stroke rating up higher than ours, and after the first [25 strokes], they were about a length...