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...loss slides a team down, a quality win bumps a team up. Therefore, a stinky squad that had the good fortune to be ranked in the preseason lingers in the Top 25 for far too long, while an unheralded dynamo is forced to wait weeks to crack the list.This inertia mainly plagues the national rankings, but many of the same problems attend to conference polls. In the Ivy League above all, where there is no possibility of qualifying for the playoffs, where the only relevant title is the Ancient Eight crown, and strength of schedule and margin of victory...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Preseason Picks? No Help, Says Lehman | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...Worst Sound - That crack-boom off in the distance that means an IED or mine just went off. You just wonder who got it, hoping that it was a near miss rather than a direct hit. Hear it practically every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Letter From Iraq | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

Though Damon may not have needed a dialect coach, he did require assistance in becoming a believable double agent in the police force. As part of his training to play Colin Sullivan, he joined the Massachusetts State Police on a drug raid of a crack house...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Damon Returns With 'The Departed' | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...What’s the policy on bringing crack pipes to work...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Things Not To Say During A Recruiting Interview | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...proactive and decisive. He's making the right noises. The question is, how far can he really go? His main political support comes from the Sadr movement, which is connected to the militia that is doing a lot of the sectarian killing and infiltrating the police. He can only crack down on this so far before he crosses a line and loses his political backing. Dissolving a police could be window dressing. It looks good. But there's a lot more to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up the Iraqi Police | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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