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...afford to worry about who we're playing," freshman net minder Tripp Tracy said. "All year long, we've played out best hockey when we've just played out game and not been concerned with the other teams...
...actual mechanism is less important than the reasons for what White House aides are already calling "the big switch." Chief among the problems is Bush himself: the President is an undisciplined campaigner who is prone to sloppy mistakes without a full-time minder. He continues to insist, for example, that Americans are wrong to think the economy is sputtering, even though his own Administration's statistics prove them right and him wrong. "Bob Teeter, Fred Malek and Sam Skinner are all too nice," said an official, referring respectively to Bush's campaign managers and chief of staff. "We need somebody...
...National Team member, Kathy Issel provided her net-minder with a little assistance. The freshman walked around two Harvard defenders at 8:27 to put Princeton in front, 1-0. Later in the second, Issel again capitalized on a Crimson mistake to boost Princeton's lead...
...lights suddenly come up. A military officer trailed by about eight armed soldiers strides onto the floor. As the soldiers hold their rifles at the ready, the officer rounds up several of the Shi'ite men in the club, checks their documents and arrests them. A Foreign Ministry minder tells foreign journalists that the men defected from the army. But as always when something happens that the government does not want people to see, the minder will not allow a photographer to take pictures...
...facts in Iraq, says Lara, is that even without censorship, most citizens remain fearful of speaking to reporters. "Many Iraqis refused to talk to me because I had no government 'minder' with me," she says. Officials were equally reticent, frequently glancing at omnipresent portraits of Saddam Hussein as if seeking approval of their statements. Still, there were flashes of honesty. At a hospital in Basra, Marlowe asked a mother with a dying infant what had happened in the city. "She can't answer a question like that with all these people around," said the government interpreter. "Look at the pain...