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...spelled two words in a row correctly, ending the first annual Freshman Spelling Bee with a flawless spelling of “Planilla,” and netting 100 points for Mass. Hall in addition to $100 for herself. Alt, Smith, and Maheshwary tied for second place and will split the second place prizes for themselves and their respective dorms. After offering high fives to her co-competitors and accepting her reward, Lao said of her victory, “I feel great, I used to do spelling bees in middle school so I was hoping that what I learned...
...Corker of Tennessee has been sober in the face of outrage over the International Monetary Fund's use of currency reserves to stabilize the global financial system, a favorite Beck bugaboo. Johnny Isakson of Georgia has an unperturbably conservative view of the Executive Branch's authorities. Some may split the difference by grilling Koh, then voting for him on the principle that the President should get his pick...
...both its authoritarian past and its new democratic present. When it ruled Mexico as an elective dictatorship, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) accommodated but regulated the drug cartels. But after the PRI lost the presidency in 2000 and its quasi-control of the cartels broke down, those groups split into more vicious gangs like the Zetas, a band of former army commandos who now head the Gulf Cartel. Cities from Nuevo Laredo to Cancn were soon reeling from turf battles. The Jurez Cartel, once Mexico's most powerful, is better known today for its bloodthirsty enforcers...
...game plan was to split the game between Rachel and Jules, and we did that,” Crimson coach Jenny Allard said. “[Brown] went four innings, Jules went three...
...instability in Pakistan will only heighten regional tensions at a moment when the country is least equipped to deal with them. Already columnists in several Pakistani newspapers are warning of a return to 1971, when a separatist movement in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, ended with a civil war that split the nation...