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That method would “take the randomness of the order out,” said school committee member Richard Harding Jr., one of the candidates to contest the November election and prevail in the recount...
...main reason for Brown’s recent success has been sophomore goaltender Yann Danis, who leads the ECAC with a microscopic 1.33 goals-against average and is a bona fide candidate for Player of the Year. Defense and goaltending often prevail in the playoffs, which certainly bodes well for Brown...
Harvard was more closely challenged by Tulsa but still managed to prevail. Chu, Lingman, Wagner, and Wan won their singles matches, as did the doubles teams of Chiou-Lingman and Riddell-Snyder...
...idea of an airline bailout--as long as it came with a mechanism to compensate victims. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate and a longtime proponent of tort reform, pushed hard to limit how much the victims' families could claim, but he did not prevail...
Ashcroft insists that he is a strong advocate for states’ rights but feels that there are circumstances when federal policy should prevail. One such circumstance would be where the actions in one state interfere with the actions of another state. For example, if the sale of marijuana were legal in Oregon, it would undermine the other states’ efforts to reduce drug trafficking. But the Death with Dignity Act has not attracted people from other states—the law allows lethal prescriptions to be given only to patients who are residents of Oregon...