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Ideally, the ECAC ought to drop two more teams from the tournament and make its playoffs an eight-team affair. This would make the first round ultra-competitive. Harvard saw just how good an eight-seed could be when it eliminated Jeff Hamilton and the good ol’ Elis this year in the first round. Lake Placid then becomes an elegant four team, mini-Frozen Four, for the ECAC Championship and the right to advance to the NCAA Tournament...
...There are better ways to run a postal system, people. Granted, I don?t happen to know what any of those ways are at the moment. But I can offer this advice. As the Bush administration looks for a replacement Postmaster General, I think they ought to consider one important screening device: For heaven?s sake, find someone who?s capable of simple math. Maybe even long division - or, heck, fractions, if we really feel like pushing our luck...
...Westmoreland, the commander of the U.S. forces from 1965 to 1968, maintained that "life is unimportant to Asians." His fatuous, racist observation ignored the reality that our adversaries were engaged in a sacred crusade, while we were caught in a quagmire that swallowed up our blood and treasure. He ought to have remembered the warning that Ho Chi Minh, the communist leader, voiced to a French diplomat on the eve of his war with France in 1946. "You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, but in the end I will...
...bomb blast--and new questions about whether Aristide is still the populist hero the U.S. saved seven years ago or a Creole caudillo who may send another tsunami of Haitian boat people onto beaches run by Bush's brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. "Americans," says Aristide, 47, "ought to know that I am the democrat they remember...
Aristide has always been the Third World leader the U.S. thinks it ought to like but can't. He was the priest who helped topple the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986--and then the elected President whom thousands of U.S. G.I.s restored to power after a military coup a decade ago. Yet he is also seen as a mystic demagogue whose Fanmi Lavalas Party allegedly committed electoral fraud in last May's Senate races. Bush, as a result, sent no one to Aristide's inauguration...