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...COLUMBIA 3The worsening conditions did not faze sophomore Jennifer Francis, who contributed two key hits, knocking in half of the Crimson’s runs with five RBI. Three of those runs were scored in the second inning, when Francis tripled down the right field line. Entering the contest as the team leader for batting average and RBI, Francis turned the two-run second inning into a five-run rally.Struggling with a slippery ball and cold hands, multiple Lions walks and errors added to the Crimson’s offense, all of which came in the second and sixth innings...
Indeed, the contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination has provided black radio with several center stage moments. "When you need the black vote you deal with black radio, and that's what happening," says Ronald Walters, a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland at College Park. (See pictures of the Civil Rights movement from Emmett Till to Barack Obama...
Pennsylvania's Democratic primary on April 22 could be a win-or-go-home contest for Hillary Clinton--and a chance for Barack Obama to show he can compete in a big, industrial battleground state. How the pros see the fight shaping...
...debate over the future of golf, as in so many sports at present, excitement over progress competes with reverence for the past. At Augusta, though, it's no contest - nostalgia has been the driving force behind the changes to the course, and also explains the tournament's wider efforts to foster a throwback feel. Part of the appeal of any sport is the link it provides to previous generations. But because the Masters is the only major golf tournament to return to the same course every year, the notion of following in the footsteps of one's forebears is literal...
...should be kept out of the Games, it is not as though American boycotts of the Olympics are unprecedented. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In response, the United States and most other NATO nations boycotted the Moscow Olympics the next year. By reducing the Olympics to a contest between Communist nations, the West was able to express its anger at the Kremlin’s misdeeds. If a host nation’s aggression against a neighbor warrants a boycott, surely a host nation’s aggression against its own people warrants one as well...