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Two is better than one, it’s safe to say, even for the upcoming Southern Section boys’ basketball playoffs.The teams expected to compete for titles in Divisions II-AA and II-A beginning today and Friday own a distinct edge in head-to-head competition over those in Divisions I-AA and I-A this season. When his wife tried to talk him out of buying more art, she testified, he complained: “You are like a cold, wet blanket spoiling my fun.”In what he described as a moment of “absolute stupidity and bad judgment,” Cooperman decided his financial salvation lay in faking the heist of a Picasso and a Monet and collecting on a $12.5-million insurance policy.His friend James P. Mobile ESPN will have 30,000 users by year’s end, she estimates, compared with the 240,000 she predicted when Disney started it in February. Also, according to the New York Daily News, the Internal Revenue Service is investigating Bonds’ financing of a Scottsdale house for Bell.Although he appears to have serious concerns about his knee, Bonds intermingled talk of his physical problems with that of the strain of recent months.He has been hounded by steroid rumors. Other contenders include Habsburg, Flashy Bull and Racketeer.One for the road: Dance Glory makes his first start for trainer Steve Asmussen in the third race today at Churchill Downs. Powell.Martin, a commissioner since 2001, takes on one of Washington’s toughest jobs, as new technologies and changing mores threaten to outpace the agency’s ability to regulate telecommunications and the media.Martin, 38, is widely viewed as a free-market conservative who supports tougher fines against broadcasters and does not oppose media consolidation. Somewhere, there is a baby named Paul, in his memory.Medic Michelle Chavez held Smith’s hand as he died under the hot Iraqi sun.
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