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...grinning Summers then approached the podium as a wave of applause swept through the room...
Shewchuk took the pass from junior co-captain Jennifer Botterill and swept past several defenders with a series of spectacular moves. She approached the net from the left side and shot a backhander five-hole on Quinlan for her first goal of the night...
...make the difference in the coming battle over Bush's tax cuts. A small handful of Republicans could defect and the President will need to peel off an equal number of Democrats to ensure passage of his program. Last week, after delivering his big budget address to Congress, he swept into Arkansas and Georgia, where Democrats Blanche Lincoln and Max Cleland felt the love. This week Bush will swing through Louisiana and North Dakota, two more states he won handily--and where Democratic Senators hang on to their jobs by hewing to local opinion. Even Tom Daschle, the Senate minority...
According to Fay Wray the characters of Denham and Driscoll are modeled on Cooper and Schoedsack, who as a documentary filmmakers would go anywhere for a picture. They scored big with "Grass" in 1925, its setting the wind-swept plains of Persia. They followed-up with the Siamese jungle picture "Chang" in 1927, their first foray into spectacle: a climactic (and staged) elephant charge decimates a native village. The more sensational scenes in the picture were projected in "Magnascope", a process which enlarged the size of the image to Imax proportions. (Cooper and Schoedsack went out the way they came...
...stage door, many clutched black-and-white photocopies of the face of the man they had gathered to hear: Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, who was sentenced to a year in prison the previous day by the hard-line judiciary for allegedly rigging last year's parliamentary elections that swept reformists to power...