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Harvard's star forwards, senior winger Tammy Shewchuk, the conference's leading scorer last year, and junior co-captain Jennifer Botterill, last season's ECAC Player of the Year, were both absent from the game because of commitments with Team Canada, which is playing in the Four Nations Cup. Botterill and Shewchuk will not rejoin the team until after this weekend's two-game series at No. 10 Niagara...
...Details of the coming fee-music service were conspicuously absent, as was any sign of a standing-down by the other big labels. But that seems entirely appropriate - while everyone seems to agree that some alliance between Big Music and the Internet is an inevitable future, a business model has yet to emerge. Napster, apparently, will be the laboratory. "This is a call for the industry to wake up," said Middelhoff, adding that BMG "couldn't ignore" Napster's 38 million users. "They can't all be criminals...
...MCAS results are due to be released Nov. 15. When they are, absent a miracle, they will confirm what people should have known all along: Education is improved by encouraging, motivating and supporting teachers and students, not by putting a gun to their heads...
...descent into insanity and a recovery from it are both dramatically tenable situations, but the state of madness itself leaves little room for engaging action. Hence the emphasis on affairs of state and the line of succession which fills the later parts of Bennett's playelements which were absent in his early drafts...
...warped view, Gore fell within the margin of political error by scoring 95% for anecdotal accuracy, although I don't want to suggest for a second that his overall affect, especially the sighing, didn't make me want to shake him. He looked like Sylvester Stallone, absent the Uzi, as made up by Madame Tussaud. The format brought out the worst in him. Put him in front of a podium and out of his Dockers, and he reverts to his smartest-guy-in-the-class mode, impressing the teacher with factoids for extra credit, like Serbia plus Montenegro equals Yugoslavia...