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...October, a few days before he will drop out of the race, Republican Senator Sam Brownback is lost and late, being driven around Iowa by a college intern in the Brownback family's Chrysler minivan. He is looking at a map, pumping his own gas, paying with his own credit card and then running into McDonald's. "$7.15? For a yogurt parfait and a small cheeseburger?" Brownback asks the cashier, who explains that the college kid got a Big Mac. "Oh," he says, and drags a $20 bill and a quarter from his pocket...
...think it’s awesome that he’s swimming and pursuing fashion,” captain Sam Wollner said. “We like to support people who branch outside the typical jock mold, and the whole team was really supportive...
...Roald Dahl’s book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:” There is nothing particularly spectacular about him, but the rest of the children vying for the grand prize are too insufferable to ever be chosen. To begin with, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, Sam Brownback and other ideologues on the fringe of the GOP are each excessive in their own ways, whether overzealous in hopes of a smaller government, more stringent immigration laws, or the criminalization of abortion. They are the Augustus Gloops of this election: Just as Gloop was eliminated from the contest...
...ranks third in points per game with 2.27, and the two players above her—Wayne State’s Melissa Boal and Sam Poyton—play on a team with few other scoring options and have padded their stats in blowouts against lesser squads such as Northeastern and Union while the Warriors are 0-4 against top-10 teams...
...Rudy Giuliani's name recognition and John McCain's chest full of medals, Huckabee has leveraged his opportunities like Archimedes on a good day. His steady, good-humored performances in televised debates gradually lifted him out of the second tier and helped smother his main rival for evangelical affections, Sam Brownback of Kansas. Meanwhile, Huckabee has never lost sight of the core fact of the Iowa caucuses: turnout is minuscule. Because of inconvenient scheduling (on a school night and opposite the Orange Bowl this year) and arcane rules for voting, candidates can look like giant killers here with about...