Word: oles
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...come out and executed in three years in the first quarter.”Although the Bears made a second-half push, pulling within two scores at 31-21, a failed onside kick ensured a solid Harvard win over last year’s Ivy League champs.GRAND OLE FLAGSIn Week One, Crimson penalties wiped out big plays.Against Holy Cross, Harvard senior linebacker Michael Berg sacked Crusaders quarterback Brian McSharry on a fourth and ten late in the game, only to have it called back due to a Harvard offsides penalty. Earlier on, the Crimson looked to have stopped the Crusaders...
...capital city. Her political roots lay with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party; she had supported the campaigns of U.S. Senator Ralph Yarbrough and Sarah Weddington, the Austin lawyer of Roe v. Wade fame. But late at night, she sat with - and learned from - the good ole boys...
...executive positions throughout state government and, in the process, laying down a marker for her successors. Her personal popularity rating went as high as 60 percent though her job approval hovered around 45 as she tackled thorny issues such as school funding with a staff short on good ole boys. When she ran for re-election 1994, her national presence boosted her coffers, allowing her to spend $2.6 million - more than Republican George W. Bush - but he beat her anyway, 53 to 46 percent...
...movie's success. Commentators on Warren's work often say that it's a study in how power corrupts, and that Willie is essentially a good man ruined by dictatorial depravity. Sean Penn strikes that note, playing him with a kind of bantam-rooster energy--and good-ole-boy charm. But something else is present, thanks in part to Zaillian's alertness to Warren's nuances. Willie has what Huey Long surely did not: a primitive sense of original sin. He believes the world is essentially dirt and that man is born of that filth. He speaks of man living...
Other polls have shown Bush losing security moms, NASCAR dads and plain ole Southern women--all groups that were tent poles in the coalition that re-elected the President. Voters cite a large stew of concerns, including gas prices and immigration. But political consultants say they find the sourness grounded in the war. "It's the only issue that matters," says a strategist working closely with the White House...