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...player when he turned down all other offers to play at Notre Dame. Arriving on campus in a Hummer - a flashier entrance than the team was used to - he bragged that his goal was to win four national titles with the Irish. Now a junior, Clausen's single post-season win happened in something called the Hawaii Bowl...
Notre Dame is 6-6 this season, and Weis, 54, didn't do much better in his previous four seasons as coach. While the Fighting Irish have won 11 national championships in their storied history, the team has not won one for 21 years. And while some may point to the shortcomings of its coach or players, a more fundamental reason may lie in a crisis of the Catholic faith. (See a story about Bill Hancock, head of the Bowl Championship Series...
...Notre Dame. Weis ended up with the Notre Dame position only after another sought-after coach, Urban Meyer, showed little interest in the job and went to the University of Florida instead. There he has won two national championships and is in the running for a third this season...
...another Notre Dame season is gone, and so is another coach. In Weis' last game, on Saturday night, Notre Dame lost to Stanford, 45-38. Outlined against a black November sky, Weis, who'd had a botched gastric bypass procedure and hobbles on bad knees, seemed broken - another man who couldn't bring salvation to the Irish...
...muddy streets. There, another resident, Desire Kachepa, says town authorities are "letting them down" by not collecting refuse. Garbage has been uncollected for weeks. "Hence you are seeing us throwing it near the road," says Kachepa. "Water shortages have remained part of our lives here. With the rainy season now with us cholera is likely to come again because sewage is flowing into wells from which people get water for drinking when there is no tap water...