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...novel these days. But Koizumi's visit to the shrine raised a bigger question at a time when North Korea's nuclear gambit has threatened the entire North Asian security arrangement: Is Japan spooked enough to start rattling its own sword, one that's been carefully sheathed since its defeat in World War II? The U.S. made Japan demilitarize and democratize, and wrote a new constitution forcing its leadership to "renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation." And yet last December the Japanese destroyer Kirishima set sail for the Indian Ocean to support Washington's war on terror...
Losses—each over 23 points—to nationally-ranked Vanderbilt, Minnesota and Boston College and a disappointing 79-40 defeat at Rutgers earlier this season indicate that there is still room for improvement...
...Colonels brought the Crimson to a 6-0 defeat, its first since 1916, led by quarterback Alvin “Bo” McMillin, who singlehandedly carried the ball on a 32-yard dash...
Inspired by the story, actor Matt Battaglia now says he plans to turn the story of Harvard’s defeat to Centre into a major-league movie...
...political capital than at this time in 2001, he also has less votes. With the midterm-bruised Democrats looking to firm up the battle lines for 2004, don't look for any of the old Breaux-led defectors to be there this time around (especially the ones Bush helped defeat this fall). On the GOP side, 2001 heretics John McCain and Lincoln Chafee are already off-board again, and Senate Finance Committee chairman Chuck Grassley is already predicting a rough and transformative Senate ride...