MIAMI (AP) — Two yards from a touchdown on third down, Tom Brady took the snap and fell to the turf curled around the ball, happy to settle for a field goal.
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MAINE COMPASS: Ultimately, our public budgets are moral documents
People of faith have an important perspective on the “fiscal cliff” budget negotiations going on in Congress — and an important stake in the outcome.
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ON BASEBALL: Red Sox have decisions to make
BOSTON — So the 40-man roster is down to 38, for now.
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VIEW FROM AWAY: Exciting for private company to have Mars goal
It’s exciting news that SpaceX, the private company that just sent a highly successful spaceship to dock with the International Space Station, wants to put a human on Mars in a dozen years.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Star power in BCS title game
NEW YORK (AP) — On one side, a blossoming dynasty from the college football capital of the Deep South. On the other, the sport’s most famous team, trying to reclaim its place among the elite.
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VIEW FROM AWAY: ‘Silent’ filibusters abuse hallowed tradition
Popular notions of the U.S. Senate filibuster, the practice of talking bills to death or delaying their passage, tend to come from film, such as “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” or from legendary past examples.
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MISS MAINE FIELD HOCKEY: Bernatchez takes home title
AUGUSTA — Everyone involved with the Messalonskee High School field hockey team knew senior Kristy Bernatchez has a hard shot. After practice on day, coach Katie McLaughlin decided to test Bernatchez’s shot against a radar gun.
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NFL: Chiefs owner: So many hurting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt offered his condolences Sunday to the families affected by the murder-suicide involving one of his players, calling it “an incredibly difficult 24 hours for our family and for our organization.”
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VIEW FROM AWAY: Debt ceiling inconvenient, but necessary
It would be wrenching for the country to be faced with another showdown over the federal debt ceiling. But the solution should not be, as Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner recently suggested, to dispense with the debt ceiling because it is an inconvenient impediment to ratcheting up the national debt.
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Republicans urged to specify savings
The Treasury secretary and the House speaker indicate serious ‘fiscal cliff’ talks haven’t started.