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Returning to hockey for a moment, the NHL has been underway for about two weeks. It feels like the New Jersey Devils just won the Stanley Cup. For all of hockey's numerous virtues, it needs to reconsider the length of its regular season. The extended playoff format already renders most of the previous play irrelevant, so knocking off 10 games couldn't hurt. Of course, I would also like Commissioner Gary Bettman to knock off at least 5 teams. Sorry, Nashville...
Students will spend the first hour of each session in a lecture format and the second hour working on projects. The computer resources will be available to Baker House visitors outside of class throughout the week...
...most mature-album yet and first since 1997's Nimrod, the Berkeley trio wasted no time in plugging the disc, opening with its first single, "Minority." From there, though, the band shied away from a greatest hits type performance, something eminently possible, in favor of a friendlier, all-request format. This slapdash approach was a stroke of genius-it drew the audience into the set and the interaction gave the group a reason to keep going...
...lost the heavy blush that made him look like the Corinthian leather seat from a 1979 Chrysler Cordoba. But the change also seemed to derive from the act of sitting down, literally getting off your pedestal. And here Gore, not Bush as expected, may have benefited more from the format, which may literally have saved him from himself...
...This was the debate format that was supposed to be most hospitable to Bush, the "Larry King"-style free-flowing exchange around a table that played to his down-home strengths. Bush did seem relaxed, perhaps too much so at times, as he fell back into a body language that suggested he might lean over and loose a stream of tobacco juice at any moment. In this respect, he may have been saved by the format too: Jim Lehrer, who ran a much tighter ship, rules-wise, than in the first debate, is not exactly a buddy-buddy moderator, which...