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...single entity. And though the agreement keeps the two editorial departments technically distinct, TIME Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury says it looks like Denver is not long from becoming, like nearly every other city in the country, just another one-newspaper town. "Historically, these agreements tend to eventually mean doom for the weaker paper, which in this case is the money-losing News," he says. "People here are already looking ahead fearfully to the day when there's only one distinct voice in the morning. We liked to feel that we were something special here." They were. New York, Chicago...
...while the Crimson (18-25, 10-10 Ivy) was able to overcome a shortage of runs to prevail in the first game, its offensive shortcomings spelled its doom in the second game, spoiling yet another strong pitching performance by a Harvard starter...
...They pick up counting skills from duck-duck-goose and learn strategy from checkers, card games and sports. So when they play violent video games, are they learning to kill and maim? Many parents began asking this question when they learned that the Columbine killers were avid players of Doom--a game that teaches killing skills so effectively that the U.S. military uses a modified version to train its soldiers...
None of this should be surprising. The latest versions of Doom, Mortal Kombat and Half Life feature realistic sound effects and depictions of violence that are close to motion-picture quality, as limbs are blown off and organs splattered. These games teach kids to connect gore and glory in a fantasy world in which the most vicious killers are the winners...
...lack of timely hitting spelled doom for the Crimson (15-20, 8-6 Ivy), who has now lost three of its four meetings with the Bulldogs (12-27, 3-13) this season...