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...NCAA Selection Committee will try to rank teams more objectively than the seemingly-arbitrary NFHCA poll. In the off-season, the committee approved the use of a ratings-percentage index as part of the selection criteria for the first time. Head-to-head contests and records versus common opponents should also be major factors under consideration...
...selection process for the Frozen Four works somewhat like the men's. Dividing the country into two halves, East and West, the committee, which uses the mathematical RPI system to rank schools, will have one champion from each region and one at-large team from anywhere in the Union...
...rein in Palestinians confronting the Israelis with rocks and assault rifles, it's an open question whether he'll muster the necessary political authority. Never mind the Islamists who've always opposed the peace process and declared Thursday that they're not bound by any cease-fire; even the rank and file of Arafat's own Fatah organization now appears to favor struggle over negotiations as a means of dealing with the Israelis. The Jerusalem bombing highlights the fact that in order to keep his agreement, Arafat will need his security forces to once again turn their guns on fellow...
...That idea applies neatly to "Men of Honor." It is one of those dramas of peacetime military service in which a determined individual attains what he wants - in this case, master-chief rank and to be a master diver in the U.S. Navy - and in the process surmounts his own shortcomings and the completely predictable prejudice and near deadly hostility of the brass...
...Could this financial fissure lead to rifts in the guilds? The SAG commercials strike suggests otherwise: Stars like Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey and Nicolas Cage put big bucks in the union's treasure chest and the spotlight of glamour on the little people. That doesn't mean the rank and file is itching for more picket-line time. "The actors just went through the longest strike in their history," says Ira Shepherd, who was lead negotiator for the advertisers. "That will have a moderating effect on their desire to do it again next year...