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...mile/3k double is one that people normally try to avoid, because they’re the two longest races in the meet,” said senior Beverly Whelan. “[Castaneda] was very excited about doing it. She said the 3k felt easy, which is probably because she’s now used to running a lot faster around the track...
Leading the effort to avoid committing fouls were Stehle and Beal. The two—who each came in averaging an astounding 3.9 fouls a game—combined for only one foul...
This seems like a different man from the real estate and casino tycoon who tried to avoid the "barbaric" flesh-on-flesh greeting even when in 2000 he considered a Reform Party run for President. But that was just politics. Today he has a reality-TV show to promote, a show that--like his luxury high-rises encrusted in marble and gilt and christened with big gold Ts--he promises will be bigger and badder, brassier yet classier, altogether Donald Trumpier, than anything else out there. In The Apprentice (NBC, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.; premieres Thursday...
...almost every Democratic presidential candidacy. Senator John Edwards puts the case most elegantly: "This is an Administration that rewards wealth, not work." Dick Gephardt is the protectionist tribune of the antique industrial unions. Aristocratic John Kerry rails effectively against "Benedict Arnold" corporations that set up headquarters overseas to avoid paying taxes at home. Even mild, moderate Joe Lieberman has a tax plan to soak the rich and further reduce taxes on the middle class. There may be some desperation in all this. Bush has taken issue after issue away from the Democrats. He has "reformed" education and given a prescription...
...Each individual has to [avoid fouling] on his own,” Stehle said. “We’ve seen this team once now and we know its plays, so we should be able to do a better job of guarding without fouling...