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a 91-85 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night.
• Miami also won Game 3 of the finals last year, but that was its last victory as the Dallas Mavericks stormed to the title. It was a painful failure for James, who looks determined to prevent a similar collapse.
• "He had a game where he struggled and he kind of let that get into his mind a little bit and he was thinking too much. Now he's playing, he's on attack and being very aggressive," Dwyane Wade said. "He's playing very aggressive and that's the difference obviously from last year to this year, and the difference in our team."
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• Today is Monday, June 18, the 170th day of 2012. There are 196 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 18, 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain.
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• On this date:
• In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.
• In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium.
• In 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua (kan-an-DAY'-gwuh), N.Y., of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.)
• In 1908, William Howard Taft was nominated for president by the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
• In 1912, the Republican National Convention, which would nominate President William Howard Taft for another term of office, opened in Chicago.
• In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, "This was their finest hour." Charles de Gaulle delivered a speech on the BBC in which he rallied his countrymen after the fall of France to Nazi Germany.
• In 1945, William Joyce, known as "Lord Haw-Haw," was charged in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. (He

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