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...confidence that they could improve on their second-place performance last year. Though it is still shaking off the rust in a season that feels like it has just begun, the Crimson will come into Trenton on a roll and with last year’s individual title to defend. “We are challenged with this every year in the spring with the sort of weather we’re going to have this week,” Rhoads said. “We’re going to have to fight the weather this week...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Third Straight Win for Golfers | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

...significant part of any Pope's job is to manage questions of doctrine and discipline. Benedict's "no wiggle room" approach is increasingly seen in the context of his great battle to defend Catholicism on its historical home turf of Europe, where he sees a kind of cult of secularism. The Pope's response is not simply to reaffirm the Christian values of the old continent, a goal also expressed by the continent's more liberal leaders and theologians like Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Cardinal Godfried Daneels. In addition, Benedict professes a very specific kind of Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Step Backward for Pope Benedict? | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...only upside in all this has been the chivalry with which black men have rushed to defend us. Thank you, brothers. You've made me feel like a lady again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Makes Me Wanna Holler | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...would work towards a Soldiers Bill of Rights that would clearly spell out what any solider, sailor, marine or airman could and would expect for the honorable service they had rendered for their country. It is inconceivable that we would ask men and women to make promises to defend our freedom and then we would break our promises to the very ones that sacrifice the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Questions with Mike Huckabee | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

...acquitted, he will never be able to travel anywhere in the European Union nor to any country with an extradition treaty with Italy. The American military says Lozano is not to blame for the death of Calipari but it has no plans to send an American lawyer to defend him in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showdown at a Baghdad Checkpoint | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

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