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...commish Roger Goodell made a veteran call in deciding to let NBC and CBS simulcast Saturday night's New England Patriots-New York Giants game. That game, in case you never get past Discovery Channel, could produce the NFL's first 16-0 season if the favored Pats dispatch the Giants, who have already qualified for the playoffs. "We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of our fans," Goodell said...
...wife Christine, 35, and their four children--Sadie, 11; Maxwell, 8; Lily, 5; and Jackson, 1--he hunts far and wide for lodgings that will accommodate them all together at a reasonable cost. Franck, who lives in Jefferson City, Mo., and covers state government for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has taken to sneaking everyone into one motel room, where they sleep three to a bed and partake of the complimentary breakfast in shifts...
...first game at No. 2 to win, 9-7, 9-2, 9-3. By the time she had finished her match, the Crimson had already taken a 4-0 lead. Sophomore Johanna Snyder was off the No. 4 court in a matter of minutes, using excellent shot placement to dispatch her opponent in convincing fashion, 9-3, 9-0, 9-0. Sophomores Sandra Mumanachit and Charlene Neo also gained early victories playing in the No. 6 and 8 spots, respectively. Neo dropped only two points in her match and has now outscored her Cornell opposition 54-2 in the past...
Turkey for its part has stressed that any incursion would seek only to attack the PKK and that Turkey had no designs on Iraqi territory, as some Iraqi Kurdish leaders have claimed. Foreign Minister Babacan said that if Turkey does dispatch troops "it would not be an invasion" but instead would consist more of commando raids on PKK positions...
With foreign journalists locked out of the country by Burma's military government, this dispatch was written by TIME staff based on eyewitness reports. [NOTE: The junta that runs the country imposed a systematic name change several years ago, decreeing that Burma was to be called Myanmar and the capital Rangoon was to be Yangon. The opposition has never accepted these changes; neither has the U.S. government. TIME continues to use Burma and Rangoon...