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...Princeton has been at the top of the heap for the last few years,” Tucker said. “Radcliffe has finished second and third behind them. I’d say that’s what makes a rivalry; it’s purely the nature of the competition...
With the heightened competition amongst the players battling to be selected as the starting five at the season’s start in eight days, a unity and camaraderie have emerged that should propel whichever players ultimately emerge at the top of the heap as the year unfolds...
...They’ll be more vibrant in their mental acuity, in their accomplishments, and they’re going to be very restive about being resigned to the scrap heap, about being put off to the side as extra baggage or detritus,” he says. “They’re going to be looking at things like this...
...half a million unemployed soldiers, many of them expected to care for extended families, many of them having received no pay for two months and many of them with weapons. That's a combustible combination. On the road to Baghdad from the international airport last week, a twisted heap that had once been an Army humvee sat on the highway. Crouched behind a metal guardrail, an Iraqi had triggered a trip wire, detonating a charge. One American was killed. "The only person who knows how to do that is the Iraqi Baathist army," concludes a U.S. naval intelligence officer attached...
...overheard some people say, ‘When did they turn the Yard into a trash heap?’” he said. But even that response was satisfying “just because we’re creating conversation, creating something visible...