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...games of its existence. If history is any indicator, neither team will win: the Rays and the Phillies will be swept from the field in a freak hurricane, and Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz will have a home-run derby to decide the title, as Abner Doubleday no doubt would have intended...
...bizarre 24-22 loss at Brown in which it took a combination of torrential downpours, a plethora of fumbles, and a missed extra point to get the Bears past Harvard may hurt the Crimson in its quest for a second straight Ivy League title, but there is little doubt that Harvard is in championship form right now.Prediction: Harvard 24, Princeton 14PENN (3-2, 2-0 Ivy) AT YALE (3-2, 1-1 IVY)If you’re wondering why Yale has been so mediocre this season, you need not look further than running back Mike McLeod. Last year?...
...prosecutor is played by Jimmy Smits, who after “The West Wing” is surely accustomed to being cast in dying shows. After escaping the police last season, Dexter seems more confident than ever in his murderous pursuits, and the show lacks most of the doubt and paranoia that made his character fascinating in the first place.So what is to be done about these failing antihero dramas? First of all, if a series wants to maintain quality over several seasons, writers need to show some patience. Having a vigilante murderer come within spitting distance of the death...
Entering the endgame of a presidential election, gloves come off and campaigns often resort to less-than-honorable tactics to energize supports or sow doubt among an opponent’s potential voters. The McCain-Palin ticket has epitomized this fourth-quarter retreat into murky tactics, for example, with its use of Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, as political ammunition. Appealing to the worst of voters’ prejudices, such tactics are particularly fiendish for their ability to degrade even those who speak out against them. A friend of mine, stalwart of the Republican information network that...
...says Jorge Pinon, an energy fellow at the University of Miami and an expert on Cuba's oil business. "I think they're feeling a lot of pressure right now to accelerate the development of their own oil resources." Benjamin-Alvarado gives Cuba's geologists more benefit of the doubt; but he calls the 20-billion-bbl. estimate "off the charts." "I trust them as oil people, and their seismic readings might be right," he says, "but until we see secondary, outside analysis, this is going to be suspect...