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...politics and policy (his official title is President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination) is a diplomat and an affable character, so when he speaks plainly the words carry weight. And his salvos launched at Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani were the warning shots in the evangelical primary: who has the strongest claim to the hearts and minds of the G.O.P. base...
...Individual Championships yesterday in Philadelphia. Grigg, the draw’s No. 1 seed, claimed the national title in four games against the seventh-seeded Lange, winning 9-5, 7-9, 9-3, 9-5. The Crimson star was playing in her third consecutive national title match after finishing runner-up the past two years. Although Grigg was the heavy favorite this time around, she said that it was anything but easy. “I had to work really hard that whole match,” she said. “There were no easy points...
...work on and improve on.” That improvement must come quick if Harvard plans to take any momentum into the conference schedule, which starts on March 24 against Penn. The Crimson’s home-opener comes this Saturday against Massachusetts, last season’s NCAA runner-up. “We’ve had a tough start, but we’re still really positive about the season,” Scholl said. “We haven’t played the Ivy weekends, so we just have to work hard. We?...
...presenting conservative views that centrists don't find threatening, and projecting fairly traditional values in a language that secular voters don't fear." Each has shown an ability to get independent and even Democratic votes. Democrats won the national vote in 2006 by about 8 points. Republican front runner Giuliani now beats Democratic front runner Clinton in polls by about that margin...
...swirls of color that is smeared and partially erased. Or a canvas in which cuddly cartoon characters frolic in the snow beneath the work's menacing title, maybe you should annihilate (1993), in large, blood red letters. Other paintings include cameos by Super Mario Brothers, Lara Croft, the Road Runner, the General Electric logo and a giant Nike sneaker...