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Harvard's shooting woes were complicated by the loss of backup sophomore shooting guard Mike Causey. The TCU transfer who sat out last season due to NCAA transfer rules surprisingly quit the team last week for unknown reasons. Causey had been expected to provide a scoring punch from long range...
...Fighting for military ballots - and against dimples - every step of the way from now until Sunday. Win on the numbers then, and they've got a Monday-morning case for Gore to quit. Lose, and they can go back to court, to the U.S. Supremes, to the Florida legislature...
That is precisely the kind of hubris that drove some people out of the Green Party, says Seattle city councilwoman Judy Nicastro, who quit the Greens two weeks before the election. "What was all this work for?" Nicastro wonders, saying the Nader candidacy became an egomaniacal crusade that failed in every one of its objectives. Nader did not get the 5% of the vote needed for the party to get federal funding; the Green Party is splintered; Bush might be President. Says Nicastro: "It could overturn so many of the things Ralph Nader has fought for, which makes it perverse...
...This type of transformation isn't easy for hip-hop performers, RZA admits, noting, "We've had accountants quit on us saying, 'I can't take it. I don't know if I'm gonna get punched in my face if I f___ up.' It's not that we're gonna punch someone in the face; it's just that we talk different from them and they take it the wrong...
...sister Venus, who sits next to her in their Fundamentals of Pattern Making class, is able to offer no support, panicked herself about a tiny tear she has made, despite, or perhaps because of, her extreme caution in removing staples from her brown-paper skirt pattern. "I want to quit right now," Venus says, stamping her foot. Just then instructor Mariella Adrian, standing at the front of the small class, yells, "If you're sloppy in the beginning, it will be sloppy in the end, and all the blame will be with you." Venus freezes. Serena puts down the scissors...