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Although only two games were contested in the Ancient Eight this week, there was still movement on the leaderboard of The Crimson's Ivy Fantasy Basketball League. Kevin Reyes' Kevdog's Ballers, with contributions from three Yale Bulldogs, ascended from fifth place to third. Ted Kirby's Chip and Dale remained in first place, though Caleb Peiffer's Naeve's Knaves is not far behind. Keep checking thecrimson.com for weekly updates...
...Chip and Dale (Ted Kirby): I. Jaaber (PENN), B. Grandieri (PENN), L. Dale (COR), A. Barnett (DAR), E. Harris (HAR), K.J. Matsui...
...brass isn't keen on a surge, they also know a bargaining chip when they see one. While Rumsfeld was in charge, the Joint Chiefs were muffled, too scared to say boo in public if it meant crossing the civilian boss. But in early December, once Rumsfeld had resigned, the Army and Marine Corps chiefs increasingly went public with their long-standing gripes that Iraq has stretched their forces to the breaking point, damaging recruiting and diminishing readiness. Bush moved quickly to quell this startling revolt: within days he hinted that he might ask Congress to enlarge the overall size...
...regime, whose financial operations have been severely disrupted by U.S. Treasury Department measures against banks used by the country in Asia. The financial pain those sanctions cause the regime might give the U.S. a measure of leverage, but only to the extent that they can be used as a chip in pursuit of a grand bargain. For the U.S., progress in the talks requires North Korea's moving quickly to implement some practical steps signaling its readiness to give up nuclear weapons - such as suspending its nuclear fuel production at Yongbon and placing its activities once more under international monitoring...
...story in computer games this year was HOW TO BLOW A HUGE LEAD, by Sony. Its PlayStation 2 was the champ in the last round of the console wars. This time Sony bet on a chip called the Cell and a disc format called Blu-ray. They're probably awesome, but how would anybody know? The PS3 is hideously expensive--it goes for up to $600--and Sony manufactured only a piddling few hundred thousand for the U.S., fewer for Japan. Plus it's hard to write games for; the launch titles were lame. You know you're in trouble...