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...versatile player, Byrnes is a threat to reach the endzone in various ways. The former Cardinal Ritter High standout tailback has not only caught several touchdown passes and rushed for scores, but he has also returned a kickoff for a touchdown and thrown a pass to the endzone as well...
...Senate Republican Conference staff, under Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum, decided early on in the hearing planning process that they wanted a noticeable showing by The Right in the room. "We went to (judiciary committee staff) and said we don't want the nomination hearing to be like the Christian thrown to the lions with all the Romans around the outside going thumbs up or thumbs down," says a Senate Republican staffer involved in the planning. The GOP staffers feared a repeat of the Bork and Thomas hearings where the audience was predominantly hostile. So in addition to the skyboxes, there...
...decision is something of a turnaround from earlier in the preseason, when O’Hagan was thought to have an advantage. Though O’Hagan—the No. 3 signal caller last year behind graduated seniors Ryan Fitzpatrick and Garrett Schires—has never thrown a collegiate pass, he has experience with the complex Harvard offense, performing well in the Crimson’s spring game...
...cocktails and red crocodile bar top. The host of the upcoming event, according to an e-mail obtained by TIME, is a lobbying firm co-founded by Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman's brother and Senate majority leader Bill Frist's former chief counsel. FedEx has thrown a similar shindig, as has the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Attendees get to mingle below the radar at the publicity- free events, which are billed at less than $50 a head to comply with Senate ethics rules. "Why have a lobbyist pay for it?" asks a senior Republican's top staffer...
...Gross finds the evacuation too hard to talk about, but he has nothing good to say about the way Israeli authorities treated his family: "We were thrown to the dogs." The family was sent to the southern city of Beer Sheva, where, he says, "They wanted to put us in a hotel which was encircled by barbed wires." Help came from a family from Ofra, a West Bank settlement, that invited the Gross's to stay with them for the time being. "They are good people," Gross says. "Unlike the Israeli state, they treat us like human beings". When night...