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...years past, Byrd rule meetings have lasted weeks and even months. Negotiators, usually the parliamentarian and the secretaries of both parties, Lula Davis for the Democrats and Dave Schiappa for the Republicans, sit cloistered in the parliamentarian's tiny office off the Senate floor in sessions that have come to be called Byrd baths. The provisions and amendments they rule nongermane have likewise come to be called Byrd droppings. (See pictures of the health care debate...
Rhode Island started the scoring with a big fifth inning. Sophomore Jared Trout led off with a single. A Nick Carter error on a Matt Sullivan grounder advanced Trout to third. Senior Mike Schiappa was intentionally walked to load the bases for fellow senior Matt Jackson. Jackson hit a sacrifice fly to right field, giving the Rams their first run. Sophomore John Blaze singled, driving in Schiappa and Sullivan to give Rhode Island the 3-0 advantage...
Center fielder Jared Trout, catcher Mike Schiappa, and shortstop Justin Lamboy had two hits apiece in the URI victory...
...23rd time since King Manoel was driven from his throne in 1910, revolution flared. The igniting spark was the removal from office of Minister of War Col. Schiappa de Azevedo. who had refused to sign deportation orders against the army officers accused of participating in the last Portuguese revolution, the ruckus in April on the island of Madeira (TIME, May 11). Immediately two raggle taggle bands of soldiers, officers, civilians rushed the third artillery in Lisbon garrison and Sao Jorge fortress on the heights above the city, seized cannon and machine guns, pasted up proclamations defying the Government, dug themselves...
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