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From the moment it became clear that John F. Kennedy Jr. and his two passengers had been lost at sea, Keeping Tabs--who was passingly acquainted with Kennedy--began to brace herself for the inevitable tabloid onslaught.
In the Midwest, 10 th -seeded Miami of Ohio reached the round of 16 by knocking off seventh-seeded Washington--behind a 43-point onslaught from forward Wally Szczerbiak--and second-seeded Utah.
A little farther west, Quarteira, once a quiet fishing village, is today virtually unrecognizable, subsumed under an onslaught of rows and rows of apartment buildings.
Newspapers' spin: They'll never get that far , since gun-makers can't withstand the federal onslaught.
This is the dilemma facing former education secretary and drug czar William Bennett, who this morning held a press conference in Washington to unveil the second edition of his book The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators . Bennett is battling the inconvenient onslaught of good news with three strategems-- retreat , partisanship , and dishonesty .