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...last three games.Standing in its way is a reeling Lions squad. First-year head coach Norries Wilson showcased his aggressive defensive tactics early in the year, winning three of his first four games. Since then, however, the traditionally stagnant Columbia football program has been brought back down to earth, losing four in a row in league play while only averaging four points in each game.Despite the statistical shortcomings, Columbia still boasts a surprisingly strong defense, holding its opponents to an average of 14.9 points per game. “This is a different Columbia team,” Murphy said...
...places on earth deserve a break more than Nicaragua does. For most of the last century, it was devastated by natural disasters like the massive 1972 Managua earthquake, brutalized by the Somoza family dictatorship and then betrayed by the venal incompetents of the Sandinista Front even as it was scarred by the U.S.-backed ontra war of the 1980s. But as the Western hemisphere's third poorest nation goes to the polls this Sunday to elect a new president, it looks set to prolong if not worsen its misery - thanks, in part, to Washington's failure to give Nicaragua...
...Development, or USAID, to sack global health director Anne Peterson over her marginal support of condom usage, according to a Boston Globe investigative report last month. Dobson, known for heartily endorsing the corporal punishment of children and for once declaring, “homosexuality…will destroy the Earth,” is only one of several evangelicals who have forced the government’s hand on aid and welfare questions...
...look at it from a football perspective or not, The Game is unique in the world of athletics. It’s the only venue I’ve ever encountered that so beautifully brings together the most die-hard sports fans and the most athletically illiterate humans on Earth and every combination in between. It’s an atmosphere that you can’t capture via a highlight, from a story from your friend, or when you’re not there to see the end of the magnificence...
...creep out people, with features like wide rooms with low ceilings, elusive exits, crawl spaces, or uneven, shifting floors. Other eerie additions include lighting that comes from the ground, a high-tech sound system (allowing a variety of sounds to play at the same time), smells (like rotting earth) and the storyline. "A haunted house is like a horror movie and you are figuring out the story as you walk through it," says Pickel...