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...with legislators from the conservative GNP to oust him. Knowing they would lose a vote, members of the pro-Roh Uri Party?which holds only 47 of the Assembly's 273 seats?tried to block the March 12 balloting by forming a human shield around the Speaker's podium, hoping to prevent him from taking his seat and calling the vote. It didn't work. Security guards physically carried out the barricading legislators, and the ruffled Speaker took his seat to call a secret ballot on the motion, which passed overwhelmingly because the Uri lawmakers refused to vote...
...Ballinger Ridge, either to win or lose. The Jockey Club's John Maxse said it would investigate that, and any failure by Fallon to get the best possible place, saying: "The matter is our No. 1 priority." Racing's Rubber Match Was that a fat lady singing on the podium after the very first Grand Prix of the Formula One season? You might have thought so, given the stunned looks on the faces of the drivers who got blown out by Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello's one-two finish for Team Ferrari on March 7. But with 17 races...
Just after five Britons were released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and returned to England, British Home Secretary David Blunkett took the podium at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday and told an audience that being liberal and taking security measures are not contradictory aims...
...course, this cool demeanor fits a man who has already won the EIWA championship—twice. This third trip to the podium set a record for the Crimson program, which has never had a three-peat league champion or sent some to the NCAA tournament on four occasions...
...conductor at the podium, Gelmetti, 58, is a master at eliciting strong emotions - from his musicians, who he'll admonish to play al dente when he wants short, crisp notes. And from his fans, who adore this mini-Pavarotti with an almost pantomime performance style. "Some people think that he milks it a bit, but he's got this great warmth as soon as he steps on stage," says former SSO artistic administrator Tim Calnin, who helped bring Gelmetti to Australia for the first time in 1993. "He waves and smiles at the audience like he's greeting friends...