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...We’ve had a really long week and a half,” Stone said. “We’ve had some really tough games and the kids have done well. We’ll just loosen up Thursday and tweak a few things strategically, and then we’ll be ready to go on Friday night...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 3 Women's Hockey Stymies No. 10 Providence | 12/3/2003 | See Source »

...course you do, you’re a Democrat!” It was clear that this debate would not die without an interruption—so the first round of drinks were ordered. These politicians-in-training obviously didn’t need any alcohol to loosen their tongues, but we anxiously anticipated what would be unleashed when Sam Adams and José Cuervo joined the roundtable. We gave the group what we imagined to be classic IOP drinking game selections: Do, dump or marry: Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Chirac and Ariel Sharon...

Author: By Arielle J. Cohen and Margaretta E. Homsey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Views and Booze | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...October 23 for substantial pledges of support. So far, however, the picture looks mixed: Japan has pledged $5 billion and Britain almost $1 billion, but Canada and the EU, between them, are good for only half a billion. The administration is hoping that a new UN resolution may help loosen the purse strings, although the constraints on many of the donor nations may be economic as much as political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Good News vs. Bad News | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

...could leap and touch a spot more than 11 ft. 6 in. off the ground. (The basketball rim is 10 feet high.) As Yi mastered new skills--the midrange jumper, the baby hook, the reverse slam--he attracted the attention of Adidas. Eager to loosen Nike's hold on Chinese basketball, the shoe company flew Yi to New Jersey for its ABCD Camp in the summer of 2002. He was the only Chinese player there. "It was an eye-opening experience for him," says Guangdong junior coach Zhang Zhenming. "He came back with a very clear vision of where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Yao Ming? | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

Populist outrage is threatening to undo a controversial effort by the FCC to loosen restraints on media megaliths. In the Senate last week, seven Republicans joined 28 Democrats to schedule a rare "resolution of disapproval" to overturn new FCC rules that would let companies like News Corp. and Viacom expand their media holdings in local markets. Then in the House, defecting Republicans fueled a 40-to-25 committee vote to reverse part of the FCC's action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FCC Under Fire | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

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