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Baseball fans might be able to relate. Pete Rose is remembered as (among other things) baseball's all-time hit leader, not the player with far more unsuccessful at-bats than any other in history. The same rule goes for dating...
Ditto for Princeton (12-7, 4-3) on Saturday, which has represented the Ancient Eight in NCAA play for five straight years. Although Pete Carril and his Tigers probably won't get an invitation to the ball this year, they still command considerable respect...
...interesting note: both Princeton Coach Pete Carril and Penn Coach Fran Dunphy said after the game, "We had trouble guarding [Campbell] early but we tightened up on him as the game went...
...made it clear that the U.S. would not tolerate any opposition; indeed, the Security Council resolution suspended the rules that usually limit U.N. peacekeepers from shooting first. The Pentagon was not certain what kind of reception to expect from Somali gunmen, armed mostly with $ rifles and mortars, but spokesman Pete Williams said the U.S. was "not looking to go in with guns blazing...
LOOK OUT, CALIFORNIA. WHEN GOVERNOR PETE WILSON AND the legislature finally closed that huge budget gap two months ago, they employed a bit of creative bookkeeping, including borrowing from anticipated revenues. But those optimistic assumptions collapsed as the economic slump persisted. Already more than $2 billion in the hole, the new California budget may come up short a stunning $6 billion by Christmas...