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Councilor Richard Conti, elected in 1997, is one of five senior Albany Common Council members who are not running for another term this year. A Haitian-American artist is among emerging candidates for Conti’s Sixth Ward seat.
Richard-Olivier Marius describes himself as a progressive Democrat as well as an anthropologist and social scientist, who has been involved with humanitarian work around the world. I am qualified to run, the Board of Elections has OKed my candidacy. So I think anybody who has a good idea, and good intentions to help the community should certainly run and not be intimidated by anyone or anything.
brent: you are looking live at a soldout stanford stadium. the setting for the pac-12 game of the year. unbeaten stanford against unbeaten oregon. a conference championship and a bcs bid are on the line. the headline story of the hour, boise state loses to tcu. stanford, the experts say, with a win tonight will jump ahead of alabama. oregon though hopes to derail the cardinal. good evening, everybody. welcome. with my partner kirk herbstriet, i m brent musburger. we talk about andrew luck but this stanford attack is much more than number 12. kirk: yeah, you re right. stanford is really about their running game. the power running game of taylor and the committee of backs they have. you ve got to load up to try to stop taylor. they will run this all night tonight. it makes the defense really get locked in on defending the run. the safeties start to get their eyes locked into the backfield. and fleener who might be the top tight end in the country can get behind coverage and
touchdown of the day. oregon still down by two. they need a two-point conversion here. darren thomas throws back across the field. wow! jeff mayo makes a nice leaping catch. game tied at 19 with 2:30 to play. michael dire seems to be tackling for a short gain. his body never touches the ground. he gets up. the coaches scream at him to keep running so he does. oregon thought the play was over. dire went 37 yards before being finally brought down. an incredible play. do we have the rest of the game here, t.j.? this is not good. okay. here s what happened. yeah, this is really bad. auburn won on a 19-yard field goal. t.j. get the tape fixed. incredible finish. that play led to the field goal that eventually won the game. auburn wins the national championship. here s some postgame reaction.