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...This year Obama chose a better race--for an open Senate seat. Then he got lucky. In the primary, his millionaire opponent, Blair Hull, was undone by media revelations that his ex-wife had sought a restraining order against him. In the general election, Republican Jack Ryan withdrew after reporters revealed that his ex-wife had complained that he took her to sex clubs. Finally, the state's straggling Republican Party gifted Obama with Keyes as an opponent. Though a powerful speaker, Keyes alienated even conservatives by calling homosexuality "selfish hedonism" and engaging in other such hysterics...
...weeks ago the original beer provider, United Liquors, withdrew from negotiations to supply the tailgate...
Mahan reassured HoCo chairs that the undisclosed amount was more beer than they had planned to purchase previously and that a new distributor had been secured after United Liquors withdrew from negotiations in late October...
...point scale). That score allowed the high school valedictorian to skip introductory biology at the university, but he found himself woefully unprepared for an upper-level course. "Pretty much as soon as I got in, I realized that there was no way I'd survive," says Rosenbaum. He withdrew from the course and wrote an essay for the college paper urging the university "to take a more skeptical approach in accepting AP scores...
...protection of a man." A center-left majority in Parliament threatened to reject the Commission unless Buttiglione was sacked or reassigned. Barroso declined. But last week, it became clear that Parliament wouldn't roll over for him. Just hours before the vote that would sack the entire Commission, Barroso withdrew his team - "the outcome will not be positive for European institutions," he said drily - and promised a new proposal within a month. On Saturday, once it was clear that Berlusconi couldn't save him, Buttiglione threw in the towel, saying he was "an innocent victim ... of a crude and superficial...