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When 15-year-old Charles Bishop commandeered a small plane on Jan. 5, his family's ghosts may have been seated beside him. In 1984, before he was born, his parents attempted twice to commit suicide together-once trying to stab each other-because they were denied a marriage license (his mother was then only 17). In 1986 they had Charles and got married, but divorced soon after when his father became an abusive husband. Charles and his mother moved around the country, and during the Gulf War she changed their name to Bishop to rid them of his father...
...enough delegates to qualify for the September primary, but that he was determined to fight. Reich needs to garner 15 percent of the delegates at the Democratic state convention in June to make it on to the ballot—but many delegates are expected to commit to candidates by the party’s caucus in just over three weeks...
...enough delegates to qualify for the September primary, but that he was determined to fight. Reich needs to garner 15 percent of the delegates at the Democratic state convention in June to make it on to the ballot—but many delegates are expected to commit to candidates by the party’s caucus in just over three weeks. Reich joins a crowded field of six Democratic candidates, including likely frontrunners state Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 and former national party chair Steve Grossman...
...unfinished business of the Afghan campaign has left the U.S. in an uncomfortable position. Washington is being forced to commit more of its own troops to ground missions in pursuit of both fugitive leaders and against pockets of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, which substantially increases the risk of American combat casualties. But casualties have been so few that there's no danger of an erosion of public support for the effort. And the U.S. military has moved nimbly to shift public expectations away from the idea that American forces are hunting fugitives - the mission is being firmly framed...
...down, Gellert collected five steals of his own, giving him 216 for his career and breaking the school record of 213 set by Mike Gielen ‘89. It was Gellert’s twentieth consecutive game with at least one steal; in fact, he has failed to commit one larceny in only one of his last 68 contests...