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...preseason media poll, released at the event, picked the Crimson to win the Ivy League, awarding it nine of 16 first-place votes and a comfortable margin over defending champion Brown and perennial favorite Penn...
...there that he might find recent editions of U.S. basketball, champion underachievers. In 2002 the U.S. finished an astounding sixth place - mighty New Zealand finished ahead of us - at the World Championships, held on home turf in Indianapolis. The' 04 Olympic team team was uninspired from the start at times; even the classy Tim Duncan, three-time N.B.A. champ, looked like he would have preferred, say, a skin rash than to march in the opening ceremonies. The U.S., an ill mix of green young players and testy vets like Allen Iverson and Stephon Marbury, never recovered from a 19-point...
...Once the cease-fire starts, both sides will surely claim victory. Nasrallah will declare himself a new champion of the Arab world for having survived the Israeli onslaught and terrorized 1.5 million Israelis with his blindly flung rockets. (In Palestine's West Bank, recordings of his speeches and ballads of Hizballah warriors are hot sellers.) The Israelis can argue they pushed back Hizballah from the border, killed hundreds of their fighters and replaced enemy militiamen along the border with regular Lebanese army troops and tough international forces. Israel may even be able to exchange its own Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners...
...were simply following the idea. But it may also be a sign that the events of the past five years have changed the dynamics of the Muslim world in ways that have marginalized it, so much so that Bin Laden now faces more compelling contenders for the mantle of champion of jihadist rage...
...preseason media poll released yesterday, Harvard received nine of 16 first-place votes. That gave it a comfortable margin over perennial favorite Penn and defending champion Brown, predicted to place second and third respectively...