Posts Tagged ‘through’

Climbing our way through the Mara family tree

Years before Super Bowl XLVI or even Super Bowl I, the story goes that Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney met New York football Giants founder Tim Mara at Moore’s Restaurant in New York. Mara, a licensed bookie (according to his grandson, current Giants CEO and president John Mara) was selling Rooney on a horse.

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15 ways to chow your way through Super Bowl day

No gameday reservations? No problem. We’ve rounded up 15 bars across New York City who are still accepting bookings for the big day – from a Bloody Mary hub in Astoria to a major brunch party in Midtown.

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Student blogs and films his way through 365 backflips

When Sam Morrison won a $100 bet against his dad, he flipped. Backflipped. Morrison, a 21-year-old student at Syracuse University, won the cash over a bet his father made him that he couldn’t do a backflip on every single day of 2011.

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Front-runner Romney bumps through final day in NH (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, gives a thumbs up as he campaigns on primary election day outside of a polling station at Webster School in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – Mitt Romney, long expected to glide to a smooth victory in New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary, bumped through a rough patch on voting day, trying to deflect his rivals’ portrayal of him as a business vulture who enjoys laying off workers. When Romney reached out for a supporter’s infant daughter at a polling place, someone in the crowd shouted, “Are you going to fire the baby?”


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Toddler in stroller falls through sidewalk, swept away by sewage

Police in a provincial Russian city say an 18-month-old child was swept into the underground municipal sewage system when a sidewalk collapsed because of a ruptured pipe.

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In pursuit, GOP contenders rumble through Iowa (AP)

FILE - Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., signs an autograph during a campaign stop at at Tangleberries in Centerville, Iowa, in this Dec. 23, 2011 file photo. After a brief respite for Christmas, the Republicans in search of their party’s presidential nomination return to the campaign trail for a final push ahead of the Iowa caucuses.  (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)AP – Three Republican presidential candidates, each claiming to be the truly conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, are launching bus tours Tuesday through this early nominating state.


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Explosion rips through church near Nigeria capital (AP)

AP – An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria’s capital Sunday, causing unknown injuries amid a wave of sectarian attacks targeting Africa’s most populous nation.

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