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After losing half its season to scandal, the Catamounts are "just happy to be alive," according to Head Coach Mike Gilligan. While Gilligan anticipates a reinvigorated Vermont squad finishing strongly enough in the ECAC to challenge for a chance at Lake Placid, the statistics just don't merit agreement...
Hockey season is here. Over the next few weeks, we'll begin to find out if the men can avenge last year's playoff loss at Cornell and qualify for Lake Placid. The women face an uphill battle to make up for last year's Frozen Four snub, with respective national teams claiming some of its best talent...
Quietly running the meeting is Josh Bolten, the Bush campaign's 45-year-old policy director. With iron-filings hair and the placid calm of a seminarian, the former investment banker seems oddly relaxed for someone in the thick of a pivotal battle. Gore's strategy is to do to Bush what he did to Bill Bradley--provoke the Governor into policy debates and then strangle him with details. Gore "distorts in a very detailed way," says Bolten. The policy shop must parry those criticisms, but if Bush spends too much time rebutting them, he'll look defensive and blot...
...countless weekend itineraries. Last month 28 million Americans, a 32% increase over last year, watched one of the least dramatic final rounds in the history of the British Open. They stayed for a glimpse of golfing puissance--and to see a reflection of themselves. In an era defined by placid prosperity and cross-cultural, NASDAQ-obsessed Generation Y geeks who went to Stanford, it is only a minor coincidence that the national icon is a 24-year-old multiracial golfer who "plays around in the market" and could be worth $1 billion by the time...
...along the river's banks to hold in the water and turned its rapids and ever changing sandbars into a more civilized staircase of 29 locks and dams stretching nearly 700 miles from St. Paul, Minn., to St. Louis, Mo. Now the upper Mississippi has become a chain of placid pools, each deep enough to allow barges calm passage before a lock lowers them toward New Orleans...