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...Blagojevich brought him over because he thought with a guy like Harris, maybe Blagojevich would be able to govern like Daley," Simpson said. "City hall, I doubt, is the main thrust of this current investigation, but they may be able to backtrack into city hall if Harris starts to trade information. He certainly knew about the scandals at city hall...
...great bed had broken beneath the weight of its energetic occupants. Felicity now snatched up a thick splinter of wood and thrust it into the fireplace. Holding her torch aloft, she sprang upon Zalathal’s back. For a moment she hesitated, looking around her at Roxanna’s chamber. It had to burn. Almost delicately, she touched the flaming tip of the torch to the vanity table. The wood curled slowly away and then burst into flames. Felicity dug her heels into the stallion’s flanks...
...Delaney-Smith said. Marist took the lead for good just three minutes into the game on a layup from forward Lynzee Johnson, but Harvard stayed within single-digit striking distance throughout the half. With starters Niki Finelli and Katie Rollins on the bench with two fouls apiece, Alemany was thrust into action and sparked the Crimson’s offense to keep things close. Her three-pointer with 1:50 to play in the period pulled Harvard within two at 24-22.“It didn’t have enough emotion for me until we put the subs...
...That's new. Until recently, the idea of Japanese values conjured up little more than a picture of workaholic company drones. But throughout the world - even in places where Japanese colonialists once unleashed brutal wartime campaigns - the world's second largest economy has suddenly been thrust into the unfamiliar position of exemplar. Developing countries such as Vietnam are studying how Japan refashioned its war-ravaged economy into a technological powerhouse that still maintains its cultural identity. Industrializing nations are looking for ecological guidance from a place that has managed to become an economic giant while still embracing a conservationist ethos...
...sharp words Huckabee has for his fellow Republicans, score-settling is not the major thrust of the book, Huckabee's sixth. Rather, Huckabee, who now hosts a weekend show on Fox News, spends most of the pages celebrating the grass-roots success of his surprisingly successful campaign and laying out, again, his vision for the future of the Republican Party, which includes instituting a national sales tax to replace the income tax and renewed focus on health-care prevention and education. He mentions McCain only in passing, and with praise, calling him a "true statesman and a man of honor...