Word: dominions
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North Carolina then proceeded to post 100-point efforts in three of its next four games, including a 100-44 rout of Western Carolina. It also upset No. 17 Old Dominion, 95-85, when Teasley scored the last ten points to secure the victory. By this point in the season, Hatchell had moved Teasley to the point, where she flourished. The move also opened up shots for Brown, who led the team in scoring...
Lousiana Tech is ranked in the top 10 of both the AP and Coaches poll, but ranks just 20th in the RPI and has no wins over any team in the top 40 of the RPI. Old Dominion is in a similar predicament, ranked 17th in the RPI, but only one win over a top 50 team in the RPI—No. 26 Penn State. Both teams would have to win their conference tournaments to have a legitimate chance...
Southeastern-located possibilities include North Carolina, South Carolina, Old Dominion and Louisiana Tech. Florida International, a team with an RPI of 13, is an outside possibility, but the Golden Panthers have gotten minimal recognition from the polls and are unlikely to get much NCAA recognition because they only have two wins over Top 50 teams...
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart is looking for other markets to conquer. It would like to offer low-cost checking and savings accounts and other financial services in branches, managed by a division of Canada's Toronto Dominion Bank but staffed at least partly by Wal-Mart employees. Wal-Mart figures that perhaps 20% of its customers do not have bank accounts. It is trying to work its way around U.S. banking regulations that currently forbid entities such as retailers from running banks. That's where partner TD comes in. Who knows? Maybe K Mart will apply for a loan...
Such visions are not new. Omar's and Osama's are just as expansive, just as eschatological, and yet no more crazy than Hitler's dream of the Thousand-Year Reich or Napoleon's of dominion over all Europe. The Taliban and al-Qaeda, like Nazi Germany and revolutionary France, represent not just political parties or power seekers; they also represent movements. And a movement carries with it an idea, an ideology, a vision for the future...