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...Backstreet Boys' new album rehashes track-for-track the pointless pseudo R&B and insufferable ballads of Millennium (cool drinking game: take a shot every time you can name the Millennium song that inspired a new album cut). Perhaps the only interesting thing about Black and Blue is its odd title (didn't you expect something like Jive-in' with the Homies?). The Boys prefer to leave its meaning ambiguous, perhaps because the label chose the title and they're as befuddled as we are, but the consensus is that the "black" refers to their transparent, futile attempts...
...Navel ROTC cadet will continue to clean blackboards in the Science Center and do odd jobs around Cambridge. But he said that doesn't mean that he didn't win money on the show...
...Beusekom was equally impressive in the other net, stopping an onslaught of Crimson odd-man rushes and point-blank shots. She kept Princeton in the game, though her team was outshot by a 2-to-1 ratio in the first two periods. Her performance was well-received by Springer who, having practiced with the Harvard forwards for three years, knew firsthand how tough it would be to stop them...
...week, they led with a more subtle claim. A problem with the Florida hand recounts, they said, was that by conducting them in some counties and not others, the state was depriving voters in counties that were not being recounted of equal protection of the law. It was an odd claim--the G.O.P. doesn't usually ask the federal courts to intrude in state elections--and an unconvincing one. As the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals noted in rejecting it, Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution expressly provides that each state may select its presidential electors "in such manner...
...That accounts for her caution and his incaution. She thinks she has to keep her life small and manageable, so she has little to lose. He believes that since life is full of mischance, you might just as well wander and risk. So he brings Rudy along on an odd job where he teaches him how to pound a nail straight, involves him in a game down at the pool hall and, riskiest of all, introduces the boy to his real father...