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...level conspicuously worse than the Ivies. Until I saw the Hoyas facing Stony Brook. We were lucky to see two minutes go by without a punt. They were awful. Plus, Phil Estes’ Brown squad is eager to send a message to the Crimson before their Week Two showdown and defy the pollsters who slotted the defending champion Bears third in the preseason Ivy poll. If a 34-3 stomping in the nation’s capital last season is any indication, Brown should cover with room to spare.Prediction: Brown 41, Georgetown 7COLUMBIA VS. FORDHAM (1-1)It?...
Iran has defied the U.N. Security Council demand that it suspend uranium enrichment by August 31; now it must feel the consequences. That's the demand of the Bush Administration, as the Security Council powers met on Thursday to discuss the next steps in the showdown. Washington wants to see a series of sanctions imposed, the scope of which will expand as long as Iran remains defiant - and the Administration refuses to discount the possibility of military action if sanctions don't force Iran to back down. But even Iran's defiance of a Council ultimatum has not raised...
...dictate the terms on which it will observe the truce. The Lebanese government doesn't appear to have much enthusiasm for confronting Hizballah on the disarmament issue, mindful of the fact that the group has emerged politically stronger than ever, particularly among its Shi'ite base, and seeking a showdown over disarmament could provoke another ruinous civil...
...city showdown with Chicago?s ?big box ordinance,? Target announced today that it was scrapping plans to build a store on the city?s North Side. Big-box ordinances, a relative of living-wage laws, require large retailers like Target, Home Depot and Wal-Mart to pay a minimum wage closer to $10 an hour versus the Federal minimum of $5.15 and in some cases offer health coverage. The ordinances have become popular in big cities, a relatively unexploited market so far for big-box retailers. But are the ordinances ultimately hurting the very city residents they allege to protect...
Moreover, Hizballah times its attack on Israel to suit the needs of its Iranian patron, about to be subject to sanctions by the West for its nuclear ambitions. Those ambitions, in turn, are meant to serve Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's even larger Islamist vision of a cataclysmic showdown with the infidel West as a harbinger of the return of the 12th Imam and the End of Days...