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...Crimson finished in fourth at 5:46.59, just behind third-place Wisconsin at 5:46.21. Brown won the race with a time of 5:43.18, followed by Princeton, which overcame a preliminary-race setback to Wisconsin...
...Beek serves under one legendary cowboy, Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) and must woo Joey Potter and simultaneously battle an army of renegade outlaws, namely John King Fisher (Alfred Molina) and Pacey Witter. The hype is good for this gun toting, rough riding drama set in Texas, 1875, the one setback being it threatens to diminish the number of syllables Dawson can intelligently use in a sentence to just under one. Seriously, in their quest for freedom, the Texas Rangers put it all on the line to protect their homeland, their country, their women and the Potter B&B-after...
...Indiana University with a 1-3 record. The weekend began with a loss to top-ranked Stanford, 17-6. The Crimson went on to lose its first two consolation games, with a 12-6 defeat at the hands of No. 9 Hawaii on Friday and a close 8-6 setback to 13th-seeded Loyola Marymount on Saturday. Harvard salvaged its weekend with a win in the 15th-place game against Michigan...
...Lankan army last recovered Jaffna after a bloody battle in 1994, but last week's setback wipes out years of painstaking territorial gains against the guerrillas. Now the government of Chandrika Kumaratunga, which has made taking a hard line against the guerrillas the centerpiece of its tenure, faces the humiliating prospect of having to negotiate a cease-fire with the LTTE in order to save thousands of its soldiers. And the rebels, who are fighting for independence for the mostly Tamil northern provinces they refer to as Eelam (the Hindu Tamil form about 20 percent of Sri Lanka's population...
...would hold off on efforts to reunite the boy with his father pending the outcome of the latest court battle, which the government expects will take at least three or four days. Although the Miami relatives lost a battle to bring the matter to a state court Thursday, the setback was overshadowed by their victory in the Atlanta appeals court, which once again moves the struggle over Elian's fate off the streets of Miami and into a courtroom...