Word: openly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Earlier in the year, Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 and former mayor Sheila T. Russell had announced their impending retirements, leaving a wide-open field in the upcoming mayor's election...
...early in the second half. The stifling defense made Brown's guards hold on to the ball for long periods of time, and the Bears often got poor shots off with under seven seconds left on the shot clock. The shooting of Clemente and Long then helped open Harvard's largest lead of the night at 21 points...
...This is just a reminder that the league is wide open," Delaney-Smith. "It is a very competitive league. We say those words to the team all the time, but I'm sure that they were thinking, 'undefeated, undefeated,' and that's the wrong thing to think in this league, year in and year out. Only one team has ever done it. There are too many proud heads and hearts in this league. The student athlete in the Ivy League is a very special athlete...
Those opposed to the death penalty saw a door open in Alabama, and they tried desperately to stick their collective foot in it. But on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court slammed the door in their faces by refusing to hear the case of death row inmate Robert Lee Tarver, whose February 3 electrocution was suspended when his lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that death by electric chair, Alabama's sole mode of execution, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. In addition to saving Tarver and others facing electrocution, anti-death penalty activists had been hoping that if the Court...
...George W. Bush's early endorsement by John Engler, the Michigan governor who's hugely popular among the state's Republicans, was hailed as a backstop against any insurgent anti-Bush campaign. But as the Texas governor has learned the hard way, Republican support isn't everything in an open primary. John McCain won Michigan by turning out an unprecedented number of voters, with a majority of them being independents and Democrats. And, as it turns out, Engler's endorsement may have hurt Bush by helping mobilize Democrats who oppose the Michigan governor. "Shame on me for not being smart...