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Harvard jumped out to a one-length lead just a quarter-mile into the race and open water by the half-mile point, as it cruised to the impressive victory...
...appearance, Lukovic's attorney had promised his client would provide "irrefutable evidence" proving who was behind the killing. Instead, Lukovic, known to his friends as "Legija" for his time in the French Foreign Legion, merely protested his innocence. Dressed in a neat gray suit that concealed his garish, arm-length tattoos, he said that when he heard he was accused of the crime, "I told myself, Milorad, this must be some mistake. Sleep on it. Something has to be cleared up." He went into hiding that night, but turned himself in to Belgrade police last month. Far from clearing things...
...burning. Since a one-layer disc generally fits less than its promised two-hour maximum (owing to data taken up by the disc menu and variables of video compression), the double-layer discs are the only ones that can guarantee the room required for, uh, personal copies of feature-length films. But some players have trouble recognizing the new format, and the discs cost $12 each--more than many DVD movies on sale...
Even the winning jockey, Edgar Prado, seemed disappointed. "I'm very sorry that happened," he said after his horse, BIRDSTONE, beat Smarty Jones in the Belmont Stakes by a length, "but I had to do my job." Thoroughbred racing fans should be accustomed by now to that sick feeling, with six horses in the past eight years having lost the Triple Crown in the final stretch, but Smarty Jones, the country's sweetheart, was supposed to be different. There was one group, however, that went home happy: the folks who bet on Birdstone, whose odds were...
Potts, who lived across the hall from Zakrzewski freshman year, says she thinks of Zakrzewski’s floor-length, bright red coat as emblematic of her bold fashion sense—which she can carry off because of her petite figure and devil-may-care attitude...