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With Caputo ranked 4th in the nation and O’Connor at 5th, the co-captains will undoubtedly make their marks on the mat throughout the winter. But, as he has insisted from the outset of preseason O’Connor stresses team focus before individual goals...
...Diane and Michael Maher Assistant Curatorship of American Art will be established through the generosity of Diane and Michael Maher of Winter Park, Florida...
Vegas, Baby. THEhotel Las Vegas, a boutique luxury hotel within the Mandalay Bay hotel, is offering two promotions. Winter Wonders offers rooms for $129 per night with the third night free on select dates from Nov. 23 to Jan. 6. Exotic Escape offers rooms at $119 on select dates through Jan. 6 and includes discounts for resort services and events (TIME's Joel Stein raves about the Mandalay Bay's shark reef and pool), as well as a $150 "fly back free" certificate that can be used with major airlines. See the hotel's promotion page for details...
Black support of Obama soared after he won last winter's Iowa caucuses. But there were moments in this campaign when Obama was forced to manage the issue of race deftly and explain the unexplainable to a largely white electorate. Consider the case of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. Obama joined Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the 1980s, when Obama was an obscure community organizer. Trinity gave Obama an entrée to the city's thriving black middle class, and Obama came to view Wright in particular as a mentor...
...ironies of Fawkes' legacy is that he was a late addition to the infamous "Gunpowder Plot." Born a Protestant in 1570, Fawkes enlisted in the Spanish army in the Netherlands around 1593, shortly after converting to Catholicism. Co-conspirators Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy and John Wright enlisted Fawkes as a ringer, reasoning that his military skills - he had participated in the 1595 capture of Calais, France - and his anonymity as a foreign soldier made him an ideal candidate to help execute their plan...