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...launch with good humor and even civic-mindedness. The debut of more than 10 billion new bank notes, legal tender from Lisbon to Helsinki and from Dublin to Athens, has given 300 million Europeans their first true experience of union. (Britain, the most significant holdout, is keeping the pound for now.) An Austrian who stood in a long bank queue to get her first walletful of euros could go home and see Spaniards doing the same thing on TV. The much photographed lines outside some banks were strictly voluntary displays of euro enthusiasm, since in most countries the old currencies...
...Crimson scored three of its points when co-captain Dawid Rechul won a 6-2 bout against Joel Tapler, the beginning of Rechul’s undefeated day in the 285-pound weight class...
Sophomore Jesse Jantzen, fourth nationally in recent InterMat Wrestling Rankings, suffered a 6-2 loss to fifth-ranked senior Jared Frayer in the 149-pound class...
Crimson freshman Jon Mankovich set a tone for the match by winning the first bout 12-9 over freshman Ronnie Delk in the 141-pound class. Jantzen also made his mark, beating sixth-ranked junior Jerrod Sanders in a 4-0 bout...
...After Tenet briefed the team on his infiltrate-the-spooks operation, General Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, laid out four military options for Bush. A quick cruise-missile response was ruled out as ineffective; White House chief of staff Andy Card called this the "pound sand" alternative. Another was more or less a full-scale invasion. Two other options called for different combinations of cruise missiles, bombers, tactical air strikes and special forces, one heavier than the other. "It was pretty clear that cruise missiles and bombers we're gonna do," recalled someone who attended. "There...