Word: eastã
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...actual placement of the teams was hardly coincidental. The nine schools who had men’s teams in ECAC hockey where all placed in the ECAC 9, while the ECAC 8 included the five programs with men’s programs in Hockey East??New Hampshire, Northeastern, Providence, Maine and Boston College—plus whatever teams were left, namely Niagara, UConn and Quinnipiac...
What is most disturbing of all is the fact that within the Middle East??where untold multitudes of people espouse beliefs that America’s now-familiar Muslim apologists insist are unrepresentative of mainstream Islam—there is a dearth of institutional voices condemning the fallacies of fanaticism. And yet such condemnations are precisely what is needed. The principled Muslim leaders of the West can do nothing to sway public opinion in Kabul or Karachi, Khartoum or Cairo. Absent a coordinated, concerted and continuous effort on the part of the Middle East??s clerics...
These calls to “stop our own violence and violence-supporting actions in Middle East??—including, presumably, support for Israel and sanctions on Iraq—shift the responsibility for the attack from the terrorists to the U.S. government. These policies can be questioned, but they must be maintained or dropped on their own merits, not merely because they are thought to encourage terrorists...
Only the CCHA has as many teams as the ECAC. Under the old system, with only 32 allowed games, the conference had only 10 slots open for non-conference games, since each team has to play each other twice for conference play. By contrast, Hockey East??home of NCAA Champion Boston College—has only nine teams and the WCHA—home of 2001 runner-up and 2000 NCAA champ North Dakota—has 10. This means that teams in the other conference can schedule more games against the elite from around the country, bolstering...