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...nationally ranked duel featured a scoreless first frame before an Ogunwole escape drew first blood at the outset of the second period. With 1:40 remaining, Feast then tied the score at 1-1 with another escape, taking it to overtime. In the first period of bonus wrestling, yet another escape gave Ogunwole a 2-1 advantage before Feast countered in the same fashion...
...There are about two million Americans involved in medical bankruptcies per year,” said David U. Himmelstein, Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS and an author of the study. “Most of these middle class people had insurance policies at the outset of their illness...
...There was a surge at the outset in the first few days and a steady stream of contributions since then,” Power added...
...home, said Attorney General Philip Ruddock. Given the "grave nature" of the allegations against them, it was felt that "seeking to return them (to Australia) would not be a desirable outcome ... in terms of our security." The Law Council's Southwood says "the government should have insisted from the outset that Hicks and Habib be either charged or released"; Ruddock says the government has "consistently" done just that...
...outset of her career Sontag produced two fairly bloodless novels, The Benefactor and Death Kit. Neither one made it seem that fiction was her natural milieu. But she went on to publish some fine and original short stories and eventually returned to the novel with new juices flowing. In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who sets up a utopian commune in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural critic that she made her lasting mark. "Sometimes," she once said, "I feel that...