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...applies her interests to the city’s defining feature: the Red Sox. Youpee-Roll focuses her attention on Native American Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, whose mother is Navajo. “If Ellsbury is traded [to the Twins], I’ll have to move to Minnesota,” Youpee-Roll jokes. Wherever she lives, Youpee-Roll is sure to keep her home and her identity (and perhaps her Wii?) close to her heart...
...over then-No. 10 Clarkson that night, the Crimson beat three top 10 teams in a row, including St. Lawrence, an ECAC giant ranked third at the time. With that victory, the Crimson leapfrogged not only the Saints, but former No.1 Wisconsin and now-No. 3 Minnesota-Duluth as well, all the way into the No. 2 spot.Now Harvard looms ominously behind top-ranked New Hampshire while the mystery voter turned women’s hockey sage gains a following.That’s right—when the new national rankings were released on Monday, two more voters...
...retiring GOP Senators from Virginia, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Idaho are all planning to serve out their terms--leaving their seats open to challengers and, in many cases, divisive and expensive primaries. Republicans also have four vulnerable Senators running in purple states in 2008: New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and Oregon; some of them are trailing in polls. Senator Ted Stevens' corruption woes in Alaska may force Republicans to defend that once lock-safe seat. And Democrats have even vowed to go after Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, whose protg just lost the Kentucky Governor's mansion...
TROY WILLIAMSON, wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings, on being docked $25,588--one paycheck--for missing a Nov. 4 game to attend his grandmother's funeral. On Nov. 10, the team announced it would give the money back...
...Mariam O. Fofana ’06, a Quincy House tutor and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, is a member of the brain gain movement in its most classic sense. Originally from the West African nation of Côte d’Ivoire, she attended high school in Minnesota and concentrated in Biology at Harvard. Côte d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Technical Education and Professional Training provides scholarships to top Ivorian students like Fofana studying abroad, lightening the burden of the expensive tuition at elite universities in hopes that those students will later...