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While Coakley was an early front-runner in the polls, Brown tapped into residents’ discontent with the economy and frustration with the Democrats’ leadership in Washington...
...torch on Day 82 of the relay, which will last for 106 days as the Olympic Flame makes its way across Canada to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in February. According to Palfrey, the torch is engraved with a maple leaf that must be turned towards the runner's heart during the relay...
Clad in white suiting, Palfrey, the fifty-sixth runner of the day, was cheered on by her husband, John G. "Sean" Palfrey '67, their daughter, Katy Palfrey, and friends as she jogged through the streets of Calgary. As she rounded the corner, she was surprised to see a crowd of schoolchildren greeting her enthusiastically...
...scandal has shaken up the looming race to replace Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell, who is term-limited from seeking re-election. Attorney General Corbett has long been seen as the Republican front-runner, but his investigations have earned him enemies in both parties and led to criticism that he is grandstanding for electoral purposes. "This is a prosecution which has as its foundation the desire of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania to be governor," said Joel Sansone, one of Veon's attorneys, who asserts that his client is innocent. "The conduct itself is not illegal ... What they did is done...
There was no shame in the runner-up slot for Eli's directors, the twins Albert and Allen Hughes, or for the star, Denzel Washington, who in his first real action role enjoyed the second highest opening weekend of his career, after the 2007 American Gangster. Peter Jackson's dreamlike horror drama The Lovely Bones, about the afterlife of a murdered girl, ended five weeks of very limited playdates and earned $17.1 million in three days of wide release. Analysts credited the decent showing for this odd, no-star drama to a marketing campaign aimed at teen girls. (Think...