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...title game participants, Northern Iowa. Brown coach Phil Estes finished fifth in the voting, a year after Harvard coach Tim Murphy finished second in balloting for the award. Estes received six first-place votes. No Ivy coach has ever won the Eddie Robinson Award, though three Patriot League coaches have garnered the distinction (Pete Lembo, Lehigh, 2002; Bill Russo, Lafayette, 1988; Mark Duffner, Holy Cross, 1987). Jim Tressel won the award in 1994 with Youngstown State and rose to the I-AA ranks where he took home a national title at Ohio State. The I-AA postseason festivities will conclude...
...9/11 attacks but affirmed his support for the intifadeh, the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation--hardly a statement marking him as a terrorist. But U.S.F. president Judy Genshaft, buckling under pressure from conservative trustees, eventually fired al-Arian despite his being tenured. Congress had just passed the USA Patriot Act expanding federal powers to investigate terrorism suspects, which Attorney General John Ashcroft seized on as a tool to nail al-Arian. The act, which Congress is working to extend another four years, allowed FBI investigators access to FBI intelligence, which had been off-limits for building criminal cases. The intel...
...risky motivational gambit, Senate Democrats are planning to attack one of President Bush's pillars of homeland security--the USA Patriot Act. The legislation, passed weeks after Sept. 11 and set to expire at the end of the month, gives law enforcement broad authority to search everything from Internet usage to credit-card records--the kind of Big Brother stuff that fires up even the most lackadaisical lefties. And so, despite Republicans' granting some key civil-liberties protections last week, top Democratic aides tell TIME that minority whip Dick Durbin of Illinois plans to lead a filibuster this week. These...
...infamous communist witch hunter Joseph McCarthy--it had been turned down by every studio in Hollywood. "Once I started to learn about McCarthyism and about what Murrow did, the story struck me as very relevant to what's going on today with this Administration and things like the Patriot Act," says Canadian-born Skoll. Nonetheless, Skoll also passed on making the script, which George Clooney had originally cowritten as a four-part television show. But when Skoll spent time with Clooney in Dubai during the filming of Syriana, the two talked for hours about history. Clooney explained his vision...
Whatever shifts may be taking place within the inner circle, the Bush operation remains frustratingly insular to its Republican allies outside the White House. When Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter wanted to have a private word with the President last week about the extension of the Patriot Act, he put on a tuxedo and waited in line at one of the White House Christmas parties. But Specter denies any suggestion that Bush has been distant and says the President remains confident and sunny, needling Specter about his raggedy trench coat during a trip to Pennsylvania: "Arlen, we're going...