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...went to a small high school in Virginia so it’s a big change coming to play in the Ivy League,” new forward Kate Mannering explained. “Fortunately, the coaches and the upperclassmen have been really supportive in helping me take the step...
...Republican takeover of the Senate was close to two years in the making, the strategy hammered out by Rove and various high-ranking G.O.P. activists in secret meetings held everywhere from Capitol Hill brasseries to West Virginia golf courses. By the eve of the election, G.O.P. polls projected a big turnout by Republican voters energized by Bush's full-court press: he visited 15 states in the past five days. Democratic strategists, meanwhile, underestimated his pull. "Bush's coattails were far more effective than anybody on our side thought," says a top Democratic operative. "We thought his popularity numbers were...
Closeness of the kind Davis describes can be difficult enough to maintain when biological parents split. But when stepparents divorce, the ties that bind stepparents and stepchildren often stretch to the breaking point. According to a 1998 study by researchers at the University of Virginia, 75% of divorced men and 66% of divorced women remarry, but these remarriages have a notoriously high casualty rate, especially when children are brought into the mix. Remarriages with children at home are half again as likely to fail as those with no stepkids. This multiple-married and redivorced demographic means that many Americans...
EXECUTED. MIR AIMAL KASI, 38, Pakistani man jailed since 1997 for gunning down two CIA officers and injuring three others during a bloody shooting spree outside the agency's Virginia headquarters in 1993; by lethal injection; at the Greensville Correctional Center in Virginia. Warning of a global backlash against Americans if Kasi was executed, Pakistani politicians lobbied U.S. authorities to spare Kasi's life. In his hometown of Quetta, protesters demonstrating against Kasi's execution took to the streets, chanting "Aimal is our hero." Before losing consciousness, Kasi's final words were "There is no god but Allah...
...lifters will convene again this year. A competition in Virginia this spring will include about 20 participants. They mentioned another possible New England competition in February. Lifters organize each event themselves, usually over the Internet...