Banged-up Teddy Bridgewater came off the bench to throw two-second half touchdown passes, and John Wallace kicked a 29-yard field goal with 1:41 left to send Louisville to the BCS with a 20-17 victory against Rutgers on Thursday night.Source: http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=323340164
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As Democrats push for filibuster reform in the Senate, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert weighed in on the matter during his program Wednesday night.
"Harry Reid's doing this because he claims Republicans are abusing the filibuster," Colbert said. "Three hundred eighty-six filibusters during Harry Reid's six years as majority leader. And given how little Congress works, some of that has to be Mitch McConnell stopping by Harry Reid's family dinners to block passage of the mashed potatoes."
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E.J. Dionne Jr. [?An example for the bishops,? op-ed, Nov. 26] was correct in holding up the example of the Catholic Church?s rich heritage in aiding those in need. The church was at the forefront of the university movement and has been at the fore in medical care and orphanages, etc. For example, about one-sixth of all hospital admissions each year in the United States are to Catholic hospitals.
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Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) is standing by his call to extend the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 a year, despite criticism from members of his own party who want to extend all or none of the tax cuts.
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CAIRO ? The Egyptian judiciary intensified its resistance Wednesday to a move last week by President Mohamed Morsi to greatly enlarge his power, as the country?s top courts joined a growing number of striking judges in expressions of dissent.
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Fox has ordered cement shoes for its ?Mob Doctor? in advance of tossing it in the drink.
The press had already figured out ?Mob Doctor? is probably not getting an additional order for the so-called ?back nine? episodes that would give the freshman drama a full season order ? and a future on the network.
As you know, GOP Rep. Tom Cole made waves today by urging Republicans to give in to the Dem demand that they extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone under $250,000. Cole argued this would remove the leverage Dems have and give the GOP more leverage to fight to extend the high-end tax cuts later, since Dems want the fiscal cliff averted and also want a debt ceiling hike.
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President Obama got a wake-up call this morning from an unexpected source ? the mainstream media. In multiple news and editorial pieces, the press took the president and the Democrats to task for intransigence and irresponsibility in the fiscal cliff negotiations.
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Rumors have been flying for many months over Julius Genachowski?s successor at the Federal Communications Commission. He hasn?t officially announced a departure, but industry experts are floating several contenders to replace him:
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President Obama?s public relations problems on the ?fiscal cliff? stand-off just got worse. The communications directors for the speaker and majority whip of the House have blasted out this from Marketwatch:
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Sir John Elliott is our greatest historian of 16th- and 17th-century Spain and the author of the magisterial biography ?The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline.? In ?History in the Making? this distinguished scholar ? now in his early 80s ? looks back on his career as a Hispanist and reflects on the developments in historiography over the past 60 years.
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Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite caught up in the David Petraeus scandal, is losing her ?honorary consul? title from South Korea because she used it for personal gain, reports the Associated Press. During the Republican National Convention, Kelley touted her connection with Petraeus and wanted a 2 percent commission for a no-bid coal deal with South Korea, said Adam Victor, president of TransGas Development Systems. Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kyou-hyun weighed in Monday: ?It?s not suitable to the status of honorary consul that [she] sought to be involved in commercial projects and peddle influence.? Kelley received the ceremonial honor ? a goodwill ambassador with no official privileges ? in August and really got into it: She had license plates with the title on her Mercedes and asked police for ?diplomatic protection? when reporters surrounded her house early this month.
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The name?s Abs. James Bond?s Abs.
I would like to say that the controversy brewing on the opinion pages of The Post and spilling over onto the rest of the Internet (see: Gawker) about James Bond and redefining sex appeal has some Higher Purpose for the National Discussion, but really it boils down to one question. James Bond?s abs: Approve or disapprove?
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That?s a relief. ?Good news: Traditional conservative doesn?t mean ?nativist??
That?s typical. ?The second-worst mistake the United States could make today would be to abandon the moderates; the worst mistake would be to cozy up to the Islamists and treat them as friends. It appears that we are making both mistakes right now, and that this will be a central feature of Obama?s policies in his second term.?
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Three supervisors of a Bangladeshi garments factory were arrested on Wednesday as protests over a fire that killed more than 100 people raged on into a third day.
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A source told ESPNNewYork.com that the Yankees are "hopeful" to sign Mariano Rivera before the Winter Meetings, which start next Monday in Nashville.
Four female service members filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Pentagon's ban on women serving in combat, hoping the move will add pressure to drop the policy just as officials are gauging the effect that lifting the prohibition will have on morale.
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Faced with the fiscal cliff and no hint of a grand bargain to solve the problem, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) suggested turning to a short-term "down payment" resolution that would combine just enough spending cuts and tax revenue to avoid the cliff and buy time for leaders to come up with a more permanent solution.
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The head of the CIA, a former Army general, has an affair with his biographer. No threat to security occurred. He resigns when it becomes clear the matter is going public.
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