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While her lines were not scripted, Child would usually plan the opening and closing segments to sustain the show’s excitement. It’s a philosophy she says she learned early in her television career: “You go on with a bang and you don’t want to go out with a whimper...
...normally have had a minority of the School Committee, and the liberals do vote to sustain that,” she said...
Despite standing just 5’6”, miniscule for a college hockey player, Capouch consistently holds his own against much bigger forwards with superior technique and toughness. Capouch also adds an offensive presence, tallying seven goals and 14 assists last year. His ability to sustain such effective play amongst an inexperienced corps of defensemen is why Mazzoleni calls him the most underrated player in college hockey...
...Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office recently dropped all charges against Davis, as well as his high school friend Trombly, after determining that “sufficient evidence does not exist to allow the Commonwealth [of Massachusetts] to sustain its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.” Trombly and Davis were originally charged with drinking in public and resisting arrest, among other counts...
...ghosts of Vietnam. The Taliban plainly are unlikely to be destroyed from the air, but Afghanistan is a wild and untamable land, and there is little reason to believe that U.S. ground troops would have greater success in subduing it than the Soviets had. Moscow, remember, was willing to sustain a far higher level of casualties than Washington might - indeed, for years the U.S. media referred to Afghanistan as the "Soviets' Vietnam...