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...only a couple of months into the 2008 election cycle and already some things have the weight of cliche - the "Mormon question" about Mitt Romney, John McCain's precarious relationship with the Republican base, Hillary's and Obama's coyness about whether they're running, Joe Biden's complete lack of it. Viewed from almost any distance outside the Beltway, the current contest for each party's nomination seems less like a horse race than an awkward cocktail party, full of subtle maneuvers for better placement, coded messages of disapproval, blatant pandering, and a few uninvited guests...
...tons Estimated weight of the seized narcotics, worth roughly $25 million...
...freshman seasons due to injury. “The fastest way to getting there is to get wins, and a BC win might count for more than one win.”Perhaps more than any coach save George Mason’s Jim Larranaga, Delaney-Smith knows the weight of such non-conference triumphs against nationally recognized opponents. In 1998, her 16th-seeded Crimson team did the impossible, stunning No. 1-seeded Stanford in the NCAA Tournament with a 71-67 win in Palo Alto. Harvard was then led by First-Team All-American Allison Feaster, and the Crimson?...
When President Bush dumped Donald Rumsfeld after the midterm elections in November, many officers in the Pentagon were elated to be rid of the domineering Secretary of Defense. They looked forward to a day when their views on such crucial issues as the Iraq War might carry more weight with the White House. But as the Administration prepares to announce its latest new Iraq strategy, those same officers may no longer be so optimistic. Bush is widely expected to call for the so-called surge option: injecting some 30,000 new soldiers and Marines into Iraq. But many officers...
...Manhattan first celebrated the new year's arrival in Times Square in 1907 - with a 78,000-pound iron and wood ball - and except for two years during World War II, has done so every year since, though the ornament has lost a lot of weight, svelting down to a 150-lb. aluminum ball in 1955. In the old days the thing dropped through the efforts of six burly workmen and a guy with a stopwatch. Now it's all done by computer...