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...Dartmouth football team, Saturday’s game against Harvard might have been like watching an old movie once again. Except this time, the flick would be titled “Gone in 34 Seconds,” which was all the time senior running back Clifton Dawson needed to score the game’s opening touchdown.On the first play from scrimmage, Dawson broke through on a handoff from the shotgun and streaked 74 yards for a touchdown, giving Harvard (6-1, 3-1 Ivy) all the cushion it needed in a 28-0 blowout of the Big Green...
...fall from grace. It was insulting to elephants, which are intelligent, sensitive and compassionate creatures. A better symbol for the G.O.P. might be the hyena. Opportunistic, hunting alone or in packs, it is ruthless and cunning. I'm confident that this proposed G.O.P. mascot could not possibly offend anyone except, perhaps, hyenas...
...shortened the name of the Democratic candidate in one of the tightest Senate races in the nation. In Charlottesville, Falls Church and Alexandria, James H. Webb's name will appear on the ballot summary screen page simply as "James H. 'Jim'"--with no last name. Sounds like a crisis--except that the same thing happened in the June primary and Webb still...
...planning to revamp the sport from day one--starting tourneys on Sundays instead of Mondays to gain more weekend fans. Those four-hour, five-set matches? Gone by 2008, except at the Slams, replaced by best-of-three matches, to reduce player injuries and increase fan interest. The most radical alteration is a round-robin format at smaller tournaments until the final rounds, which would revert to the traditional knockout. That setup would give spectators more opportunities to see marquee players. But the draws would be smaller to accommodate more matches, so fewer low-ranked players could compete. "As much...
...have owned five years ago. Currently, investors are pining for energy and commodities, but they should have owned them in the early 2000s, when they were cheap and unloved. Instead, investors coveted the high-flying tech and telecom stocks, which would have been smart purchases in the mid-1990s--except that investors were busy chasing bank stocks, which would have been shrewd purchases in 1990. You get the idea...