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Imagine a video of a plane hurtling toward the ground - and then suddenly someone hits the pause button. That may be the best metaphor for the financial disaster that currently is Alitalia, the Italian carrier that is this close to bankruptcy...
...knocked an RBI double to center field and senior Danielle Kerper drove in two more runs with a two-out homer. The Crimson scored two more times in the fifth and pulled within one of the home team. The runs came from a Macadam homerun and a Francis RBI ground out that brought sophomore Lauren Murphy across the plate.In the top of the seventh Harvard came to bat trailing 8-5 with three outs left to work with. Henderson and Macadam, got the inning started with a pair of singles. With runners on first and second...
Burt says that rather than being about money, the case is about "sacred ground. I have friends buried in some of these churches," he says, as do other more liberal members of the 11 congregations who have decided not to depart Episcopalianism. He adds, "They have friends and children and husbands and mothers and grandparents baptized and buried in these churches." What would it mean if those dead were suddenly buried in a hostile churchyard...
...this week, according to an average of Pennsylvania polls by Real Clear Politics, a non-partisan website that tracks the election. Yet the latest Survey USA poll shows Clinton leading Obama 71% to 23% in the state's union-dense northeastern Rust Belt - the only region where she gained ground in that poll...
...easy to take a wrong turn in Bucharest's Palace of the Parliament," says Victor Micula, the Romanian official responsible for organizing this week's NATO summit. Ground was broken for the monstrous, labyrinthine structure, locally nicknamed the "Madman's House," in 1986 on the orders of Nicolae Ceausescu. Work had not yet been completed when Ceausescu was deposed and executed three years later. Indeed, says Micula, the job is still unfinished...