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Auburn is unusual, Kaveney says, in that it plays the same 4-3-3 (four defenders, three center backs and three strikers) formation as Harvard does. Other teams shift to that style to counter the Crimson, but the Tigers are the only ones to use it as their primary system. Still, that doesn’t faze the Harvard players...
...Cure for What Ails Germany? Like characters in the TV drama ER, Germany's emergency-room doctors have a pretty tough life: work a day shift, spend the night in the hospital as the doctor "on call," and then work another day shift. Thanks to a complaint from a doctor in the city of Kiel, their life may now get easier...
...leukemia. That's the setup in Elisabeth Robinson's The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, a novel that's likely to be the first pleasant literary surprise of 2004. Robinson wisely chooses to tell Olivia's story through her letters and e-mail, allowing her to shift with unnerving speed from hilarious satire--in letters to Robin Williams and Danny DeVito begging them to look at scripts--to devastatingly painful accounts of Madeleine's decline. Robinson does both with the sad, sweet voice of experience, having been around the Hollywood track a few times...
...First, the world must recognize the provisional Iraqi Governing Council. The U.N. Security Council received delegates from this fledgling Iraqi government and then grudgingly welcomed its formation, but the council pointedly refused to endorse its legitimacy. The U.S. is genuinely trying to shift power to the Iraqis and establish Iraq's first truly democratic institutions. And yet the Security Council that accepted without question the legitimacy of the Saddam thugocracy gives lukewarm, hands-off treatment to the most representative Iraqi delegation ever to address that august body...
First, the world must recognize the provisional Iraqi Governing Council. The U.N. Security Council received delegates from this fledgling Iraqi government and then grudgingly welcomed its formation, but the council pointedly refused to endorse its legitimacy. The U.S. is genuinely trying to shift power to the Iraqis and establish Iraq's first truly democratic institutions. And yet the Security Council that accepted without question the legitimacy of the Saddam thugocracy gives lukewarm, hands-off treatment to the most representative Iraqi delegation ever to address that august body...