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Harvard’s outstanding regular season ended when Princeton pulled the plug on its championship plans, sweeping the first two games of the Ivy League Championship Series last May at O’Donnell Field. Just like that, Vance’s stolen time had run out, and the time came to face the looming shoulder surgery. While his teammates were playing in the nation’s top summer leagues, Vance was at home in California, recovering from the operation and working at Staples—“the worst job ever,” he jokes...
...cross hairs is Sampson's former boss, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. On Tuesday, Bush said Gonzales "has got work to do up there," pacifying lawmakers, and though some read that as a possible prelude to Gonzales' forced resignation, most Administration watchers doubt the President would ever pull the plug himself on a Texas loyalist such as the Attorney General, who has been with Bush for years...
...York Senator Charles Schumer, looking forward to a series of hearings and resolutions. "We are going to continue this discussion ... and we believe the more [the war] is debated and discussed ... the less flexibility the President will have in maintaining his course." Why not just try to pull the plug? Maybe Schumer has read about...
...Clearing this sort of hurdle has become an art form in Northern Ireland, but the efforts are complicated by a deadline. The British Government has given the parties until March 26th to strike a deal. If it doesn't happen, they say they will pull the plug on the newly elected Northern Ireland Assembly and start looking at other arrangements for governing the region. Paisley thinks they're bluffing, in part because the deadline is being dictated by Tony Blair's desire to see a decade of effort on Northern Ireland rewarded with a settlement before his impending retirement. British...
...spoke ominously of rumors that China's government was planning a crackdown on stock speculation, including a possible tax on capital gains. Over the past 18 months, Chen's small portfolio had almost doubled in value as the Shanghai market shot straight up. So she decided to pull the plug, suddenly afraid it would all go sour. "I sold everything just before the holiday," she says, and was blithely unaware that the Shanghai stock index plunged 8.8% on Feb. 27, its biggest one-day drop in a decade...