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...Score: Florida State 38, North Carolina State 24Miami at Virginia Tech (-6.5)The Hurricanes are not the fifth-best team in the country.Miami’s schedule has to be one of the easiest in major college football. In a 14-day span, the Hurricanes played South Florida, Duke and Temple.On the other hand, the Hokies have looked very good all season against somewhat more difficult competition. They’ll look even better on Saturday, when they crush Miami to make their final statement for that last BCS spot.Final Score: Virginia Tech 27, Miami 14Tennessee at Notre Dame...
...States for it to be left dangling like a proverbial hanging chad. That said, I still rejoice in the restoration of narrative tension, and this fact alone makes Season 7 worth watching. On the cusp of a mud-slinging free-for-all, Santos and Vinick have finally agreed to duke it out, mano-a-mano. Stay tuned next week for “The Debate,” which, in proper network gimmicky fashion, will be broadcast as a live episode. And you thought they jumped the shark way back in Season 2 with that whole hurricane-strikes-Washington thing...
...percentage of international students and faculty at the institution. Two hundred universities worldwide were ranked by THES. Yale and Princeton, ranked seventh and ninth respectively, were the only other Ivy League institutions to crack the top 10, which also included Cal Tech and France’s Ecole Polytechnique. Duke University rose from 52nd last year to tie the London School of Economics at number eleven this year. Martin J. Ince, a contributing editor at THES and the coordinator of the rankings, said that does not foresee Harvard’s dominance of the list coming...
...newcomers, they find online teaching tools and free or low-stakes games appealing. At Bodog.com for example, new players automatically get a hefty $1,000 in play money and 50 poker points toward tournaments. "Online, you can get experience for a dollar," says World Series of Poker champion Duke. "When I started, I had to risk $100 a game...
...cyberspace, women can disguise their gender. At InterPoker.com six months ago, says site spokesman Peter Marcus, many women took on male identities, fearing they would be easy targets. Having gained confidence, many are now requesting changes to female user names. "Poker is the great equalizer," asserts Duke. "Whether you are 70 or 20, man or woman, there is no physical limitation." Still, the champ believes that to succeed at high-level poker, most women must overcome cultural conditioning against being aggressive...