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Each of the top three teams returns a strong squad that will have to adjust to the loss of key player. Penn, which tied for second last year, features two-time Ivy League Player of the Year Diana Caramanico, a threat to Allison Feaster's '98 conference scoring record. Defending league champion Dartmouth returns last year's Ivy Rookie of the Year Katherine Hanks. But the graduation of Penn's Mandy West, Dartmouth's Courtney Banghart and Harvard's Sturdy leaves the automatic NCAA tourney bid up for grabs...
...going to take a while for an information-addicted people - and their dealers, the media - to adjust to this pace. With a reporter working every one of Florida's 67 counties, as of Thursday night the Associated Press had nailed them all down. Their unofficial Recount count, sans absentee ballots, was George W. Bush...
...Critics sometimes dismiss Sade's music as being too soft, too bland, too lovelorn. Sade says her critics should adjust the volume on their stereos, that her music sounds better when it's "played loudly." She lets tiny fluctuations in her music carry emotional weight, and she wants listeners to hear the particulars. After all, isn't love best measured in miniature? - a look across a breakfast table, a forgotten anniversary, a hug that lingers past hello...
Growing up as a woman of African descent in Ireland, Mumba says, "I never felt different. There's been a little twang of racism recently, because all of a sudden a lot of [Third World] refugees have come to Dublin, and it has been very hard for Ireland to adjust. But people are getting used to it now." Mumba's own adjustment, from relative unknown to international pop star, should be no problem...
...PRESS IS ON DEFENSE By that I mean, a campaign knows which move it's going to make, while reporters just react and try to figure it out. It's like in basketball - the guy with the ball always takes the first step; the defender has to adjust. Let's suddenly send the candidate to South Dakota. Why? Well, we're not exactly sure; let the press figure it out. Yes, there is more science to it than reporters think, but there's also a lot more guesswork masquerading as knowledge. And speaking of basketball, here's my final rule...