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...most salient question of the campaign now becomes, then: is this obstacle destructible? Can the Republicans regain control of the House...
...Government's deal with the Sicilian Mafia in 1943, allowing the Mafiosi to regain their positions of power in return for help during the Allied invasion, sickens me. It is worse than the Mafia's barbaric custom of chopping up bodies...
...quickly as it had appeared, the Cantabs' cohesiveness vanished. UConn was able to regain control over the flow of the game and Harvard never had a chance to regroup. The result: Huskies...
...cast features some particularly good performances, most notable those of Patrick Bradford and Jim Caudle. Unfortunately, last Saturday's show was marred early in the second act by an actor who broke out of character and into unexpected laughter before making an unplanned exit from the stage. He did regain control, and managed to return to finish the scene (with some difficulty) and the remainder of the play, but the distraction had a disturbing affect on the tone and reception of the evening's performance. However that role has apparently been recast and the errant actor replaced, so no further...
...family, once rich in land, has recklessly lost all their wealth and I rank's ambition is to regain it--first physically, by selling his paintings and second spiritually, by recapturing on canvas the images of the lost land. In attempting to fulfill his ambition, however, he believes he must go against his own nature. His ambition to regain land goes beyond wishing to succeed to an obsession with punishing himself...