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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Almost certainly, all four of these teams will probably not make it this far. There will surely be countless upsets and unpredictable finishes along the way. That's the sheer madness of college basketball in March, but I learned a long time ago that trying to predict upsets is a riskier proposition than going with the conventional wisdom...

Author: By Barat Samy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slammin Samy: Dissecting Duke's Dominance As An NCAA Tournament Dynasty | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

...point, right? If Duke could lose to UConn in 1999 despite being 15 point favorites, no sane person can predict with little more than a hunch who will be dancing on the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome court three Monday nights from...

Author: By Barat Samy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slammin Samy: Dissecting Duke's Dominance As An NCAA Tournament Dynasty | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

Barring any further mishaps, though, Duke remains the team to beat in the tournament. Like I mentioned earlier, I predict that the Blue Devils' will defeat defending champion Michigan State on April 2nd in an old-fashioned shootout and claim its third championship in the last 11 years...

Author: By Barat Samy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slammin Samy: Dissecting Duke's Dominance As An NCAA Tournament Dynasty | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

Female baboons' big red bottoms are not just showy ploys to attract mates, according to new research completed by Leah Domb through Harvard's bio-anthropology department and recently released in last week's issue of Nature magazine--the swelling during mating time actually serves to predict a female's fertility...

Author: By Dana M. Scardigli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Research Explores Baboon Mating | 3/13/2001 | See Source »

...Sharon. If Israel allows Palestinians to return to work, Sharon's plan will succeed. Arafat can't keep saying the intifada will continue when the main concern of his people is to feed themselves and earn some income. If the Palestinian leadership keeps operating in this way, I predict that Sharon will easily survive his three-year term. His best assets may be his enemies, both on the Israeli and the Palestinian side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Sharon May Outwit Arafat | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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