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...there was "no connection" between the hostages and the prisoners held by Israel and that "it's important for us not to allow a group of terrorists to create a connection by asserting it," he laid the grounds for Reagan to claim he had not rewarded terrorism when the swap later came off. If this course was politically advantageous to Reagan, it was also part of a set of tactical understandings that were crucial to freeing the hostages. The press finds such unacknowledged arrangements hard to accept. It created a particularly sticky problem for shows such as Brinkley...
This time, though, Buckland native will swap his Husky purple for crimson...
...patch of Appalachian Virginia--a bucolic tangle of wooded mountains, steep hills and rolling pastures dotted with sagging barns and country churches--into a society plagued by pilferers. They swipe guns from unlocked cabinets and push motorcycles out of garages in the dead of night. They swap or sell stolen watches, lawn mowers and sneakers for potent painkillers like OxyContin...
...Mercyhurst as the two teams most likely to accompany them to the Mullins Center. But according to Wayne Dean, the tournament committee chair, Denver was seen as more deserving of the second overall seed than Colorado College—No. 2 in the PWR—a subjective swap that skewed the predictions slightly...
This arrangement was nearly replicated in the Pairwise Rankings—which aim to predict the method used by the NCAA Selection Committee—except for a swap of the Big Green and Badgers...