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...third-down conversions today were not good at all,” Princeton coach Roger Hughes said. “They modified their blitzing package a little bit and that kinda threw that off balance I guess...
...worst-informed baseball audience on the eastern seaboard. Periodically, someone would ask which team had scored the last point; peering intently at the television, one of my roommates said, “Wait—there are Asian baseball players?” When the game ended, we threw open the windows and listened to the shouts echoing across the Winthrop courtyard. “Whoo,” we said, perfunctorily...
...parade of Kerry’s senate experience reads something like this: In 1994, Kerry was instrumental in finding the funds to put 100,000 police officers on the streets. In 1995, Kerry threw up legislative roadblocks to Republican attempts to undo much of the Clean Air Act. In 2000, Kerry co-wrote the legislation in a spending bill that provided funding for early childhood after-school programs, health care and parent education. In 2002, Kerry was one of the leading opponents against Bush’s plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The list goes...
...INDICATORS Risky Business Journalism A British court threw out an unprecedented $420 million claim made by stockbroker Collins Stewart against the Financial Times newspaper. The firm claimed damages based on the fall in its share value following the August 2003 publication of allegations of malpractice. Meanwhile, Russia's Alfa Bank won an $11 million claim for damages against Kommersant, after a Moscow court agreed the newspaper falsely reported financial difficulties at the bank last July...
...also a Crimson editor—marched from the Yard to play atop the T station for a pulsating crowd that at one point formed a conga line. Students undressed and streaked through the Yard as their classmates chanted “Yankees suck,” threw water balloons and dressed the John Harvard statue in Red Sox paraphernalia...