Mayor Anthony Williams, a black Democrat, attended a Morella fund-raiser this spring, and she has called on old friends in abortion-rights and gun-control circles.

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Kroenke, nicknamed Silent Stan by the fans, has been widely criticized for his lack of public involvement with the club and a perceived unwillingness to spend on big-name players since taking control during the spring of 2011.

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And the Christian Democrats no longer seem so confident of continuing their string of electoral successes next spring, when they had been hoping to wrest control of both Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from the Social Democrats.

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The Supercommittee (6 members of the House of Representatives and 6 Senators divided equally between Democrats and Republicans) was established by the Budget Control Act of 2011, enacted to end the debt-ceiling crisis of last spring and summer.

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