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...Rosekrans and freshman Louise Laciny each lost in straight sets to the Eagles, making the score 2-2 with three matches going into a third set to decide the overall contest...
...rejoicing for being here, as a Thursday VOID begs to be forward-looking. You know what this weekend is about: spend some time brushing up on your St. Patty's history--its worth picking up a few random facts for conversation sake. Then move straight to getting in the mood. Oops...sorry about that last one, FlyBy just couldn't resist the temptation. One last note: St. Patty's is actually Tuesday, the 17th, so if someone tries to pinch you this weekend, consider it a rare opportunity to dish...
...thing nostalgic Democrats forget about Social Security is that it did not come in the first year of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency or even in the second. The major initiatives of the New Deal passed only after F.D.R. had convinced Americans that he had his priorities straight. His immediate attention to issues like the run on banks and sky-high unemployment gave him a congressional landslide in 1934 that ratified his 1932 victory. That's when he grew strong enough to pass his broader agenda. The best way not to "waste a good crisis" is to put the stress...
...after. "If we went to ESPN Zone - that's not our kind of guy," he says. "We want someone nerdy. Bookish. Probably wears Chuck Taylors. Can make jokes about the fact that he's listening to the new Fleet Foxes CD. Maybe a little fey. I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that." (See the top 10 movie performances...
...white boxes parked in California's almond orchards this time of year are easy to spot. Stacked in sets of four or six, they squat between dead-straight rows of trees awash in blossoms. (A walk through an almond orchard in early March is not unlike a stroll past a department-store perfume counter.) From afar, the boxes look as if they might provide a weary farmer a place to sit or store his tools. But get close enough under the right conditions--dry, above 55°, no more than a light breeze--and you can hear...