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...Lizzy Nichols and Mann ceased being rookies and became stars. “With our team, we had very few upperclassmen, so they were forced into the limelight right away, starting games and playing 90 minutes,” Odorczyk said. “It wasn’t ideal, because they couldn’t learn before they were thrown into the game, [but] they really stepped up to the challenge and that will be so crucial in the future,” she added. What did not hurt the team made it stronger. The freshman core is looking...
...Elliott overlooked one crucial point in summing up Blair's legacy: his lack of enthusiasm for a unified Europe. Blair adhered to the conservative ideal of splendid isolation, obstructing constructive ideas for bringing European countries together. His position helped create a Europe in crisis, searching for its identity as the constitution was rejected. So while I am sad to see Blair go, I am sad mostly for what he could have been: a founding father of a secular, democratic and prosperous union of European peoples. It was not to be. Steve Maertens, Ostend, Belgium...
...geography: 90% of the world's trade is still transported by sea, and the Baltic is the major marine waterway of Eastern Europe. At a recent meeting of Baltic states, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt joked that the region possessed in its various countries all the components of an ideal economy - the Baltics' pro-growth policies, Finland's gift for innovation, Norway's energy resources and Sweden's wealth of executive talent...
...minuscule compared with the $21 billion of the terrestrial-radio industry, more than 4 million people in the U.S. visit Pandora and Last.fm each month, according to comScore Media Metrix. That makes them the fifth and sixth most popular Web radio stations in the country. "It's the ideal middle ground between having an intact experience and being in control of what you receive," says Last.fm co-founder Martin Stiksel...
Beheadings and murders of police would seemlike ideal grist for opportunistic news organizations. So why are some parts of the Mexican press staying silent during the recent savage fighting between drug cartels? Because they themselves are in the crosshairs. The most recent victim was the newspaper Cambio Sonora, published in Hermosillo, the capital of the state of Sonora. Violence--including two grenade attacks on its offices-- caused the newspaper to announce on May 24 that it was temporarily shutting down. Seven journalists have been murdered in Mexico since October, mostly in retaliation for reporting on the drug cartels...