Word: saturday
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...Oakland, Md., was one of two closely watched amateurs to make the final table; the other was investment banker Steven Begleiter, 47, of Chappaqua, N.Y., who went out of this tournament early Sunday in sixth place. Both came to Las Vegas with a compelling backstory and made it to Saturday's "November Nine" final table with commanding chip stacks...
Harvard Square on Saturday evening for a filming of an upcoming episode of “Friday Night Lights,” a television serious about a high school football team in Texas...
...Saturday morning, about 12 hours before the House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation to expand health care coverage to almost all Americans, President Barack Obama did what he does best: he gave an inspirational speech meant to rally recalcitrant House Democrats. Many in the room credited Obama with swaying the last of the fence sitters. "A few members that were leaning no told me afterward that they'd been moved to vote yes," Representative Rob Andrews, a New Jersey Democrat, told reporters after the meeting...
...looking increasingly likely. But Dems don't feel they have much of a choice, having concluded that doing something is better than supporting the status quo. "It is the third anniversary of Democrats winning the House and Senate for the American people - Nov. 7, 2006," Pelosi told reporters on Saturday morning. "So it is appropriate that the new direction that we promised them at the time and that we have worked on since then, will be manifested today in the passage of this important legislation...
...military personnel stationed in Japan. The 2006 agreement was pushed along following a 1996 conviction of three American servicemen in a rape case involving a 12-year-old girl, and a U.S. helicopter crash in 2004 at a Ginowan university campus. Sunday's protest followed another on Saturday, when 2,000 demonstrated in the town of Kadena, near Ginowan, to oppose the proposal made by Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada to merge Futenma with the Kadena air base...