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However plausible, the Apps’ stunning win made them instant media darlings, earning them a Sports Illustrated cover and votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, after a policy adjustment allowed them, despite their under-division status, to appear on the ballot. A record crowd turned out in Boone, N.C., this past Saturday to watch the de facto No. 33 Mountaineers (they’re eighth among teams “also receiving votes”) dismantle Lenior-Rhyne...
...example, the stock price of “The Da Vinci Code” rose $43.43 over its expected value with the news that Tom Hanks might appear in the film...
...Belgium has faced long political deadlocks before: it endured six months of coalition negotiations and caretaker governments from October 1978 to April 1979 before a compromise was agreed. But this time, the politicians appear to have reached new levels of mutual incomprehension. "The north and south don't know each other any more," says Peter Vandermeersch, editor of the Flemish daily newspaper De Standaard. "Old-guard politicians would meet, if not publicly, then privately. They would play the parts of the staunch Fleming or Walloon, but they would strike a deal...
...Still, opinion polls appear to show Flemish faith in Belgium deteriorating. In March this year, a survey found only 11% of Flemish backed independence. But after the coalition spat and months of government paralysis, that figure had soared to 39% by August and now stands at 43%. Unless Belgium's political leaders can rekindle their faith in each other - and revive some deft coalition-building skills - the sentiment that Flanders is better off alone could become a fait accompli...
...parents. Yet many Americans have only a vague sense of Madeleine's case and why it has mesmerized so many for so long. Only in the past few days, when it emerged that her parents might be charged with accidentally killing her, has Madeleine's image begun to appear with regularity in the U.S. media...