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...pinned to the hot seat. As they see it, the Governor is just bowing to another set of special interests--hospital and insurance companies--that want to keep profits up by employing fewer nurses than California law requires. And so the nurses have produced a Hollywood caper of a showdown, putting unrelenting public pressure on Schwarzenegger to back down. In two protests, thousands of uniformed R.N.s stormed the steps of the capitol in Sacramento, shouting, "Arnold, Arnold, you can't hide--we can see your corporate side!" Nurses have buzzed his fund raisers with "Air Arnold" planes that drag banners...
That leaves Penn three games clear of everyone in the loss column with just five to play. With a weekend sweep over Cornell and Columbia and a loss by Yale to either Dartmouth or Harvard, the Quakers could punch their dance ticket with a full Ivy weekend and the showdown with Princeton still left on the docket...
...often get a second chance to knock off the No. 1 team in the country. But after trouncing Brown 9-0 and then edging Trinity 6-3 in the semifinals of the Howe Cup, the No. 2 Harvard women’s squash team was set for a Sunday showdown with top-ranked, defending champion Yale...
Leak investigations in Washington usually fizzle and die within days of being launched. But one leak probe, now in its 14th month, is rapidly approaching a showdown. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has ordered two reporters, including TIME White House correspondent Matthew Cooper, to tell a grand jury who might have disclosed to them the identity of a covert CIA officer during a tangled political dustup in the summer of 2003. TIME sought to quash the subpoena through most of 2004, but last week a federal appeals court ruled that Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times must testify...
...charge, they were cheered on by large sections of the approximately 250 professors in attendance. Monthly faculty meetings typically draw less than half that number, but at this meeting, professors found themselves sitting on the floor, standing in doorways, and spilling out into the halls to watch the anticipated showdown with Summers...