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...Sometimes, the best teams in the nation fail to win their conferences, so there should be a few spots left for “at-large” teams. Since everyone is enamored with the BCS computers, we’ll let the at-large spots be filled in order of finish in the BCS poll. Are teams still going to complain that they didn’t get a shot at the title? Yes. But the complaining will come from teams that have distinct profiles from the top five teams in the country, thus lessening the legitimacy of their...
Fans, not just children, have to ask one more question: Why must our stars fall so spectacularly and fail us so egregiously? The suspicion here is, Because we want them to. Indeed, it may be the prime instructive function of celebrities to show us, in their early radiance, what we could dream of being--and in the murk of their decline, what we fear, or know, we could become. --With reporting by Desa Philadelphia and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles and Jill Underwood/San Diego
...polite requests that they leave. Manpower is not the only problem. NATO, for all its wealth and might, has only three working helicopters at its disposal in Afghanistan. And the U.N. and other aid agencies, citing security concerns, have suspended operations in the impoverished south and east. "If we fail" to restore civil order in the country, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson told reporters at the NATO parliamentary assembly this month, "we will find Afghanistan on all of our doorsteps." Unfortunately, dire warnings alone will not win the Afghan peace. --By Tim McGirk
...Delinquencies are also soaring because banks and card companies frequently fail to properly assess credit risk, offering cards to just about anyone who cares to fill out an application. Privacy laws make it difficult for companies to share credit information on individuals in South Korea. Access to information is improving, but it's still not possible to verify applicants' incomes. A Seoul cosmetics salesman (who requested anonymity) applied for most of his five cards on street corners, and he says the only check was a phone call to him at his office. He's now $42,000 in debt. "Koreans...
...opposition. Russia's liberal middle class is largely represented by two small parties, the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko - both Western-oriented and led by somewhat faded boy wonders, Boris Nemtsov and Grigory Yavlinsky, respectively. Their rivalry has prevented them from establishing an alliance, so both parties may fail to reach the 5% mark needed to qualify for the Duma. If the elections are true to past form, there will be some vote rigging. "In Moscow or in St. Petersburg, they rig the vote by 2% to 5%," Yavlinsky told TIME. "In some regions, they fix 50% of returns...