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Cornell likes to hold the ball offensively and eat up time on the game clock. Senior attackman Sean Steinwald has been an offensive force for the Big Red, notching 20 goals and 8 assists thus far this season...
...Moscow is arresting an alleged U.S. "spy"; the next day the U.S. seizes a Russian oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on suspicion that it is carrying Iraqi oil. Anyone would be forgiven for thinking the clock had been turned back two decades to the height of the Cold War - and that's exactly the spin President Vladimir Putin's government wants to put on its relations with the West. The U.S. Navy announced Friday that its forces maintaining a blockade of Iraq were holding a Russian tanker pending tests to establish the origin of the oil on board, prompting...
...decline of the embargo and emboldening of home-based dissidents and institutions such as the Catholic Church - as well as the considerable hostility toward the Miami leadership displayed on Cuba's streets during protests over Elian - suggest that post-Castro Cuba may not simply turn back the clock and revert to the pre-Castro country from which the older generation of Miami exiles were driven...
...first place, academics at Harvard already operate a full seven minutes behind the rest of the Eastern Seaboard. As any undergraduate knows, a lecture, seminar or section which is billed to begin at three o'clock really kicks off at three-oh-seven. TFs and professors ignorant of the seven-minute phenomenon (more people who insist on living within their own time zones) succeed only in speaking to empty seats and causing embarrassment to those students who are actually in sync with the rhythms of their school. And because most Harvard students seem to be naturally late, the rule extends...
...Baseball's deepest problem is not attendance or ratings but silence. There is no talk. No interest. No buzz. On talk-radio sports, football and basketball are more talked about in their off-seasons than baseball is on-season. The ultimate humiliation is the sports networks' around-the-clock live coverage of the NFL and NBA drafts--right in the middle of the barely covered baseball season...