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...made a gold-silver-bronze sweep of it, but by and large the skullduggery inherent in cheating makes handicapping the favorites in most events difficult if not impossible. At Salt Lake City even the old stereotypes--nobody can cork a curling stone like a Canadian, the Swiss have a lock on clock slowing, don't even try outfoxing the French when it comes to slipping small animals into the luge run--promise to be severely tested. Blame escalating commercialism and its henchman, dollar power. Item: tiny Hindu Kush hires away the legendary snowshoe-warping coach of a major European cheating...
Trumpler said she recommends students lock their computers to something immobile, save files on disks, and e-mail important documents to friends’ computers to ensure a back-up file...
...Admittedly, my expectations were pretty high, considering that even the bathroom at the media center has a security guard in front of it. "Does that mean you don't even have to lock the door?" asked Leavitt. "Is there someone in there with you already?" His questions about the men's room were making me uncomfortable, so I asked Leavitt what John Ashcroft had been expecting last Wednesday when he put the Olympics on extra-super-high alert. "We were already on a heightened level," he said. "But that was the day we put security in front of the rest...
...aren't eager for tax rebates if it means pilfering from Social Security or Medicare. So Democrats are pointing out, as loudly as they can, that Bush and Capitol Hill Republicans are breaking the blood oath they all took last year to keep Social Security and Medicare in a lock box. Bush's budget "raids every trust fund in sight," complains Conrad...
...halftime at Lavietes Pavilion, the Crimson (11-7, 4-2 Ivy League) appeared to be well on its way to taking a critical step toward mounting a challenge for the Ivy League title. The Crimson led the Elis 38-22 and, having beaten Brown the previous night, seemed a lock to take sole possession of second place...