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...sure-fire NCAA tournament season turned grim for Notre Dame last year, but the return of starting center Torin Francis—the McDonald’s National High School Player of the Year in 2002—has the Irish primed for a return to the Big Dance, a journey it will begin tonight against the Crimson in its season opener...
...competition, we Harvard students simply can’t help that preeminence comes naturally to us. And with an undefeated football team this year—not to mention the only undefeated team in Division I-AA—the prospects for losing with dignity look especially grim for our dogged visitors. The powers of the universe must have forgot to throw our New Haven friends a pity bone this year, leaving them fittingly with a “mediocre” 3-3 Ivy League record...
...whom God renamed Israel and made father to the Jews. "We had erev rav 5,000 years ago, and we have them today." In these dusty hills, the Old Testament is closer to Yehoshafat and his friends than the government in Jerusalem 25 miles away. So is its logic--grim, brutal, absolute. --By Matt Rees. With reporting by Aharon Klein/Avigail
...David Mepham, head of the international program at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London: "I think I'm going to be depressed for the next four years. Bush is going to feel like he has a mandate to do whatever he wants." Can it really be so grim? Is there any chance Bush can return to his first-term pledge to be "a uniter, not a divider," even across the ocean? The good news - at least from Europe's viewpoint - is that Bush's second-term program may be chastened by his first-term failures. As long...
Despite the grim conditions, nearly 1,500 boats and 7,000 rowers zipped down the 2.3-mile stretch of the Charles through Boston and Cambridge to the cheers of fans...