Having set a cracking pace, Kamps is still on a roll: profits and sales were on course in the first nine months of the year.

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This comes despite not even cracking the top 100 in July when Vick was still penciled in as the back-up quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Still, Laimbeer wouldn't rule out either rookie cracking the starting lineup.

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Many still ask whether Rio authorities, who have succeeded in cracking down on much of the city's drug violence, are up to the task of protecting the waves of tourists expected to flood the city during the upcoming double-header of mega-events.

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Two years after acknowledging "shame" over the "evils" of abuse, Benedict issued a statement in 2010 saying the church had not been vigilant or fast enough in responding to the problem -- one of the most forthright admissions to date, though it still did not placate some who criticized then-Cardinal Ratzinger for not cracking down sufficiently.

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