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Though the team kept quiet in the first half, out-shooting the Bears by a slim margin of 4-2, it exploded in the second to the tune of an 18-6 shot differential...
...jumped out of a Jeep, claimed they were former FBI agents, blocked his vehicle and demanded he come with them to sign documents granting him "immunity" from lawsuits in exchange for cooperation. "Think about your wife Wanda and family," Rehberg says he was told, and "keep quiet about all this." A father of 8-year-old twin girls, Rehberg, 44, a former hospital CFO, had never faced anything like this. Phoebe admits it sent the men but denies trying to strong-arm Rehberg...
...Holyoke, their rooms are deceptively quiet, as a crew of devoted conservators labor at tiny prints, broken books and stained manuscripts...
...agreements. Regional cooperation on Iraq - pursued, at least in the case of Syria, by the Bush administration, and also championed by the Kerry campaign - may be Washington's best hope of withdrawing. Cutting deals with some of the regimes the neocons love to hate would not only signal a quiet surrender on the plan to make Iraq a beachhead for the U.S. export of democracy to the Middle East; it would actually leave some of those very same regimes in an even stronger position due to Washington's newfound dependence on them for Iraqi stability. That was never the desired...
Between meetings at local A.A. chapters or the campus support group, resident coordinator Joe Veliz, a social-work grad student, provides an empathic ear and makes sure that students stick to their plans. The only non-negotiable house rules: no drugs or alcohol, of course, and the observance of quiet hours between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. "I am not their parent," Veliz says. "But we know that people in recovery stay sober longer when they build connections." Given the fragile nature of recovery, Veliz is prepared for the possibility of a relapse but says residents won't automatically...