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...bitter-sweet week for the Harvard women's team, which went 1-4 on its spring break jaunt to California. The Crimson--ranked 35th nationally--defeated a higher-ranked opponent in Cal-Santa Barbara, 5-4, but dropped a disappointing 5-4 decision to Fresno State...
...Crimson heads to California during spring break for its second outdoor road trip. It will face North-western, San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, UCLA and Fresno State in an effort to strengthen its chances at a national tournament...
...those teams, only Fresno State--which is ranked 46th in the nation--is ranked behind the Crimson. The Bruins are ranked seventh, and they feature two of the top ten individual players in the country...
...provision wound up in last year's crime bill. The idea first took shape in California, where 18-year-old Kimber Reynolds had been murdered by a career felon. It was electronic from its very inception: the legislation was co- authored by talk-radio host Ray Appleton from Fresno who knew the victim's father and had fielded outraged calls after the killer's lengthy criminal record came to light. As the idea gained ground in California, it spread east. Its popularity was electronically catalyzed -- on talk radio, especially -- and electronically expressed in telephone polls, on the airwaves...
...face it: to most African Americans Newt Gingrich is one scary white man. "He's black folks' worst nightmare, a meanspirited bigot who thinks he's supposed to tear down everything we've built up," says Les Kimber, founder of the Fresno-based weekly California Advocate. Brooklyn Congressman Major Owens predicts that Gingrich's war on the welfare state will actually cause black children to starve. "These elitists under Gingrich will stop at nothing. They really don't care if people live...