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DeLay, who was in Congress for 21 years, must still fight the Texas charges that cost him his post as majority leader last September. He will be long remembered for the big grin he struck in his mug shot when he was booked. "I said a little prayer before I actually did the fingerprint thing and the picture," he said. "My prayer was basically, 'Let people see Christ through me. And let me smile.' Now, when they took the shot from my side, I thought it was the fakiest smile I'd ever given. But through the camera...
...Josh Klimkiewicz groundout in the top of the 11th inning, the Crimson (9-9-1) rolled into Cambridge with a 3-2 victory, its sixth straight win. En lieu of his regular midweek practice bullpen session, sophomore Shawn Haviland worked through two hits and a walk and struck out two in a scoreless second inning. “I actually like getting into in-game situations, instead of throwing bullpens” Haviland said. “I feel like I can bear down, get guys out work on what I use in real games...
...individual refused to stop and struck both officers in the face and head,” he said...
...Take the Lead” struck a chord for me. I saw a clip on television of a gentleman in a suit [Pierre Dulaine] teaching kids in inner city schools how to ballroom dance. What I loved most about the story is that he paired them up by height. Kids who wouldn’t talk in the cafeteria had to touch each other, hold each other, respect each other. He was teaching them life skills. If a kid is hunched over with his pants hanging down, his self-esteem is affected, it’s different than...
...Pandemic Flu Seattle's King County could be struck at any time by an earthquake, tsunami or the eruption of nearby Mount Rainier. But the thing that has Eric Holdeman, director of the county's office of emergency management, really worried is the threat of a pandemic flu. "We expect to need 57,000 hospital beds," says Holdeman of a worst-case scenario. "We have 3,500. There's not enough ventilators, there's no vaccine, there's not enough Tamiflu...