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Trent Edwards, Stanford’s starting quarterback in his sophomore season—he red-shirted as a freshman—joins our all-star team after taking No. 1 USC to the brink of defeat (31-28) a week ago. Coincidentally, Edwards formed one-half of a lethal Edwards-to-Edwards combination with The Crimson’s star wideout Brian Edwards in high school in Los Gatos, Calif...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BLO IT RIGHT BY 'EM: Breaking Ground On the Internet | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

...welcomed the government's decision to send troops to restore order in the Solomon Islands. In August, Foreign Minister Downer visited North Korea at Washington's request to urge the regime to continue talks on its rogue nuclear program. If the U.S. and China ever reached the brink of war over Taiwan, Australia - with its lucrative financial ties with China - would "be doing everything it could to negotiate a settlement," Edwards says. If that failed, it would face the "nightmare scenario" of having to side with its closest ally against one of its biggest trading partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brothers in Arms | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...Omega watch store. Gentrification has overrun countless college bars and eateries, forcing them increasingly out of our reach. The Grolier Poetry Book Shop—the oldest of its kind in the United States—was recently slated to close, though it seems to have retreated from the brink...

Author: By Jared M. Seeger, | Title: Big Yellow Taxi | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...that he didn't go to war himself, Bush states that his job is to be a "decision maker," as if to say that that's all the country needs in its President. If Bush wins, it will prove once again that politics is not moral. Pascal Gendreau Paris Brink of Destruction After reading Simon Robinson's World Watch item "Slow Going in Darfur" [Sept. 6], I was very discouraged that the international community continues to balk on responding to the crisis in Sudan. One would think that after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we would have learned something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/3/2004 | See Source »

Driving Characters to the Brink...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Self-Exposure of a Harvard Man | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

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