On Saturday, Ohio State made a string of foul shots down the stretch to outlast Memphis, 92-76, while UCLA's choking defense was too much for Kansas in a 68-55 win.
Smith is the latest in a string of state politicians who have faced corruption prosecutions in recent years, prompting Cuomo's 2010 campaign vow to clean up Albany.
That is not good news for a government which faces a string of key state elections this year in the run-up to general elections, due in 2009.
By early 2008, Germany will be in a period of permanent campaigning: a string of important state elections will lead up to a federal election due by September 2009.
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Fox tackles the origins of the current thinking on the beginning of the universe starting way, way back with Plato, and moving her way through Ptolemy, the astronomical duo of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler (did you know that Brahe had his own castle for studying astronomy?), Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and the current state of the Big Bang, String Theory, and alternative theories for the origins of the universe.
There was talk of selling the state's remaining stakes in a string of big corporations, of privatising lots of companies owned by local authorities and even of abolishing the ordini (self-regulating associations that keep a stranglehold on entry into the professions, often to the benefit of the offspring of existing professionals).
The South Korean government ended up banning the Twitter account for national security purposes and U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley fired off a string of snarky status updates on Twitter.
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"Cases like this give the people of New York yet another reason to be troubled by the electoral process, " said Mr. Bharara, who is now prosecuting a string of public-corruption cases against city and state politicians.
State authorities received more than 1, 200 tips related to the string of suspicious fires that shocked the quiet, country county, Geller said.
Call it the return of Taxachusetts, the state's old moniker from the 1970s and 1980s before a string of GOP Governors were elected to hold the line.
And they would help deal with the "28 or more different state services that come calling at the door" so that rather than a string of "disconnected" officials, they could get a "clear hard-headed recognition of how the family is going wrong".
Tickets to Bruce Springsteen's upcoming string of concerts -- this time at Continental Airlines Arena in his home state -- went on sale over the weekend.
The leak of a string of highly sensitive internal documents from inside the Vatican's Secretariat of State, including personal letters to Pope Benedict XVI, are an evident embarrassment to the pope, our correspondent says.
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Having failed to win in Iowa, where he had camped out since 2004, and in South Carolina, his birth state and the only primary he won four years ago, Edwards was destined for a string of third-place finishes had he stayed in the race.
In the latest of a string of setbacks for Colin Powell's multilateralist approach, the secretary of state's attempts to keep negotiations going with Moscow over missile defence was abruptly brought to an end last week with the announcement that the United States would withdraw from the anti ballistic missile (ABM) treaty.
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