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...Division I athlete in two sports, and his hobbies include long-distance running. But the fact that he is at a preeminent university makes it all the more spectacular. Though Davis has “doubles” four times a week and “triples” twice a week (he guesses practice totals about 25 hours a week), he says maintaining his academics is not the hardest part of being an athlete. “It’s trying to fit in a social life that I’ve had more trouble with...
...Much also depends on how you define "firm." To be enacted, the principle of non bis in idem requires that the sentence in the first case be "firm" - that is, that it can no longer be appealed through normal judicial routes. In his sentence, Bermúdez referred twice to the firmness of the Italian conviction, justifying the acquittal in part on the assertion that the sentence that Osman received - 10 years in prison - could not be changed. However, two days before Bermúdez presented that verdict, an appeals court in Milan did just that, reducing Osman's sentence...
...today,” Stone said. “We just kind of beat the puck up today.” The Crimson also hurt itself with penalties, committing seven over the course of the first two periods. The Bobcats took advantage, getting to sophomore goalie Christina Kessler twice on the power play to take the lead. “Early in the season when you’re still working on your penalty kill you don’t necessarily want to test it that much,” Stone said. But Kessler held her own between the pipes...
...Many Americans would naturally assume Gore follows the green lifestyle he widely promotes, and they would be wrong. Gore and his wife Tipper, whose children all live elsewhere, reside in a behemoth 20-room mansion outside of Nashville that used nearly 23,000 kilowatt-hours last August, more than twice the annual—yes, annual—energy usage of a typical American home. Gore’s preferred mode of transportation between stops on his international publicity tour is his private jet, which spews out CO2 emissions at the rate of a small army of SUVs...
...cold blue waters of the lower Khabour river looked like a beautiful place for an invading army to die. Turkish incursions into northern Iraq are unlikely to have much effect on either PKK fighters hiding there, or on those inside Turkey - where the PKK claims to have twice as many fighters as it does in Iraq...