Word: spans
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Former University of Tennessee golden boy Manning has been slightly less inept and much less flammable than the backward-hat-wearing Leaf. But his glue-horse Colts had empty oat bags after four games, and Manning's 11 interceptions were the most for a Colts team, over that span, since the Cuban missile crisis...
...Brian Lamb, Ariana Huffington and those loud British people from Prime Minister's Questions are your idea of celebrities, today is your chance to become a star. Get your big break into show biz by trying to squeeze in front of C-Span cameras as Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) speaks at the law school. Find out why he is considered one of the most (intentionally) funny people on Capitol Hill. Maybe you'll make it onto the Weather Channel next. 3 to 4 p.m., Austin North (behind the Science Center). FREE...
Indeed, it was as much for his words of literary and poetic wisdom as to hear selections from his Beowulf that drew such a large audience to Heaney's lecture, the first in a series of six by the poet which will span the month of October...
MacInnis scored the natural hat trick during a 12-minute span in the first period. With St. Louis on a power play, MacInnis scored at 4:56 on a slap shot from the right point that beat Rangers goaltender Mike Richter cleanly. At 11:49 MacInnis scored on a shot from outside the blue line that bounced off Richter's right pad and trickled into the net. Then at 16:48 MacInnis beat Richter with a slap shot from the left point after Pierre Turgeon won a faceoff in the Rangers...
Hassan's erudition and braininess can be handicaps. He is difficult to follow in dialogue, not just because of his high-speed, rumbling delivery but also because of the breadth of his conversational span. He bounces from one subject to another without pause. "You'll never get a superficial sound bite out of him," says an aide. "He immediately goes deep into substance." A longtime associate of Hassan's says he has not once managed to surprise the prince with a piece of news; Hassan has always learned it first, from an aide, the media or the Internet...