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Hall also praised the play of freshmen Audrey Duboc and Lydia Williams, who were bumped up to No. 2 and 3 on the ladder, respectively, with the Crimson’s usual No. 2—junior intercollegiate No. 8 Lindsey Wilkins—absent from the match at a job interview...
Glaringly absent from both singles and doubles play against the Crimson Tide was junior co-captain Courtney Bergman, who remains sidelined by a debilitating knee injury that has kept her out of competition since late October. Bergman—who is ranked No. 25 on the collegiate singles circuit and teams with classmate and co-captain Susanna Lingman for the No. 49 doubles team in Division I-A—regularly draws the toughest opponent while playing in the No. 1 position and provided a bright spot for a squad that struggled to recapture last spring’s success...
...from Earth's surface to low-Earth orbit are so fantastically expensive that merely launching the 1,000 tons or so of spacecraft and equipment a Mars mission would require could be accomplished only by cutting health-care benefits, education spending or other important programs--or by raising taxes. Absent some remarkable discovery, astronauts, geologists and biologists once on Mars could do little more than analyze rocks and feel awestruck beholding the sky of another world. Yet rocks can be analyzed by automated probes without risk to human life, and at a tiny fraction of the cost of sending people...
...Republic wrote that he was too secular, and he immediately found religion. In the past week reporters and pundits have started raising eyebrows about the near total absence of his wife, Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean, in the primaries. She has probably been the most absent spouse in the history of presidential campaigns. And he would probably like to change that...
...modern era of presidential campaigning, no candidate's spouse has been so purposefully absent from the scene as Howard Dean's wife, an internist and mother of two in Vermont. Some laud her independence and nonpolitical bent, while others see these as a liability. The other candidates' wives have played more traditional roles in the campaigns. A look at how involved they have been. --By Nadia Mustafa...