This is much truer,of course, in a place like Georgia, where the first elected president Gamsakhurdia was overthrown by a civil war, then the second Shevardnadze was overthrown from the street in the Rose Revolution and now Saakashvili, after losing his war with Russia, in fact, is now threatened by the street,".

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Cal (32-3) survived overtime games against South Florida in the second round and Georgia in the regional final to become the first team from the West other than Stanford to reach the national semifinals since Long Beach State in 1988.

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Three regions in Alabama finished above it: Huntsville and Auburn-Opelika ranked first and second, and Columbus-Phenix City, which straddles the Georgia border, ranked seventh (the state's two largest cities, Birmingham and Montgomery, ranked 83rd and 22nd).

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