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...northeast, the Ivy League, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, the Northeast Conference, the Atlantic 10, the Big East, the America East and the Patriot League all have automatic qualifiers for the NCAA Regionals. The best of these teams will get to host the six-team regional, but at most only four teams will stay. One team will lose its spot to one of the national top eight. Another spot will be lost to a Pacific 10 team, so that none of the eight likely Pac-10 qualifiers will end up in the same regional...
...tourists were now linked to a crisis in the southern Philippines. A month earlier, Abu Sayyaf fighters had kidnapped 53 people, including 22 children, from schools on Basilan Island, 50 miles northeast of Jolo. They demanded that the Philippine government persuade U.S. President Bill Clinton to release Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, who is serving a life-plus-240-year sentence in Colorado. When Philippine President Joseph Estrada rejected the demand, the rebels announced that they had beheaded two hostages. Estrada ordered his military to launch an assault on the Abu Sayyaf camp...
...optic network that will encircle and crisscross South America, connecting with existing superfast cable lines to Europe, the U.S. and Asia by 2001. The lines will improve connectivity in the region tenfold. Starting this May the Americas II cable system will connect Brazil, the Caribbean and South America's northeast corner to the U.S. A region-wide $1.5 billion Telefonica system will be operational...
...Because of the early season experience, any chance of the Crimson players being intimidated by the opponents they may play has been greatly reduced. After all, how intimidating can a game against top-ranked Northeast team Notre Dame (37-12) be when Harvard has already played Fresno State (44-11), the 1998 national champion...
...terrible New England weather deserves part of the blame for Harvard's poor start. No team in the Northeast can find suitable outdoor playing conditions in March, so the softball season starts much later in this part of the country...