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Jakus, Rose, Austin and Stinetorf all qualified with top performances in the NCAA Northeast Regional at NYU on Sunday...
...managers - five of whom remained in custody last week - have given fresh focus and energy to Basque feelings of martyrdom. A crackdown meant to weaken Basque national solidarity may have done the reverse. For decades, just over 50% of the 2 million residents of the Basque region in northeast Spain have wanted greater autonomy from Spain; others are content with the considerable freedom they already enjoy under an autonomous government with its own police force, tax authority, and health and education ministries. The spectrum of opinion stretches from espanolistas who scorn autonomy to the estimated 200 active commandos...
...been able to practice outside the echoing confines of its makeshift indoor training facilities—save for a few hours on the frozen tundra of O’Donnell Field. For this weekend’s season opening series, the squad will finally leave the arctic Northeast for the sun-dappled diamonds of Bradenton, Fla. and six games against a host of generally weak opponents...
...have no evidence to show that they knew in advance where we were going, except a relatively short time. When you go out of Baghdad in any direction, of course they can say, They're going north, or northeast, etc. Of course we are very much aware of the risk of being infiltrated. This room [at the U.N.] is not a secure environment. They may very well be listening, or the CIA may be listening...
...support necessary to pass the reforms more quickly, Lula took the risky decision to back former President José Sarney for president of the Senate. Many in the PT view Sarney as a crony of the oligarchs who control the country's impoverished northeast. But the votes to be mined inside the progressive wing of Sarney's Brazilian Democratic Movement Party were too much to resist. Either way, Lula insists that what also leaves a third of Brazilians in poverty, and an estimated 46 million hungry, is gross inequality: 20% of the population receive 70% of the nation's income...