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Many will immediately point out an obvious yet easily avoidable impediment—that at any moment there are in all likelihood no more than 11 people on campus who can jam on a regulation-sized hoop...
...likelihood of a No. 2 seed would certainly improve, however, with a pair of wins this weekend, due to three of the factors considered by the committee: record against other teams under consideration, RPI, and performance against common opponents...
...longer-term impact could be for everyone. Will the U.S. be able to continue sucking in the savings of people around the world to finance its profligacy? What is the likelihood that President George W. Bush--or the financial markets--will take corrective action? And could America's twin deficits ultimately destabilize not just the U.S. but the entire global economy? The U.S.'s soaring budget deficit is expected to exceed $400 billion this year (not including the forecast $100 billion--plus costs of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan), and its record $617.7 billion trade deficit means that...
...most positive outcome of the past few weeks may be the Faculty’s increased willingness to speak out on issues that have long troubled many of them. But its flipside is the dangerous likelihood that this crisis of governance will distract from the underlying issues—unintentionally aiding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ attempts to bring Washington politics to an institution that needs anything...
...even assuming that no upsets in conference tournaments would force the committee to invite a higher-ranked school at Colgate’s expense, the bonus points awarded for quality wins would in all likelihood bump the Raiders off the playoff bubble...