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...Bush on Monday afternoon during an Oval Office meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, but left before reporters were allowed in for questions; Bush ignored any questions shouted his way about the incident. White House aides can be expected to say that the Vice President did not shoot Whittington, which suggests a bullet, but rather sprayed him with birdshot, a type of ammunition made up of tiny pieces of lead or steel...
...sticking with a politician and even if the vice president has indicated that he'll never seek office again, the birdshot episode is likely to be used by comics as a metaphor for a trigger-happy vice president who rushed us in to war-and can't shoot straight. These kinds of metaphors aren't usually fair. Gerald Ford was a talented athlete who was a star football player at the University of Michigan and coached at Yale. Still, he was lampooned as a clod because he tripped down a flight of airline stairs in Austria and was filmed falling...
...Saturday, one 20-minute explosion was enough to give the Crimson a hard-fought road win in Philadelphia. Harvard shot 71 percent from the field in the second half to overcome a seven-point halftime deficit and down the Quakers 77-65 at the Palestra. After a poor-shooting first half, the Crimson (8-12, 4-3 Ivy) came out hot after the break and sustained an offensive tear that buried Penn within the opening minutes of the second frame. “[That second half] definitely helps you swallow that kind of a first half,” freshman...
...summed up the way Cusworth’s season has gone since he returned from a fractured left hand for the start of the Ivy slate on January 13. Unable to rediscover the offensive rhythm that he had last season, when he averaged 13.4 points a game on 48% shooting, Cusworth has shot 27-of-66 (41%) in the six league games and has fouled out of both of the team’s losses, to Yale and Cornell.“I’ve just felt like my offensive rhythm and my confidence in my game has been...
...outside North America. They have contested the final of every significant international tournament since the International Ice Hockey Federation first sanctioned the women's world championships in 1990. Canada won eight consecutive world titles until Team U.S.A.'s 1-0 victory last April in Sweden, decided by an overtime shoot-out. The Americans captured the inaugural Winter Olympics tournament at Nagano, Japan, and Canada rebounded in 2002 to take the gold at Salt Lake City, Utah. Neither team has lost an international game to any contender but the other. "The rivalry makes women's hockey what it is," says Canada...