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...National Collegiate Athletic Association, the most well-known organizing body that sponsors national championships in collegiate sports, did not yet hold a women's ice hockey championship. Beginning in the 2000-2001 season, the NCAA will sponsor a Collegiate Championship...
...deciding to sponsor a National Championship that draws from all three divisions of collegiate women's hockey, the NCAA process looked at evolution of the sport. A sub-committee of the Championship and Competition Cabinet scours the nation for sports that are popular on the youth and high school level...
...Council, which has not hesitated to jut its moral yardstick into national issues such as police brutality, has not issued any kind of statement regarding this conflict. The council, indeed the school, is quick to pass resolutions of sentiment condemning contentious issues like homophobia. And it is quick to sponsor panels on difficult questions like diversity. But the moment the campus actually could use a body to provide a forum for free discussion, the council doesn't say a word...
Nelson noted that at the end of 1999, Hong Kong hosted a tea party for 5,000 people. But, he said, Guinness did not sponsor that event, and the organizers still have not supplied Guinness officials with supporting evidence like video footage...
...high-tech group, well funded and selectively high profile, especially on Capitol Hill. But as America's law-enforcement and intel network struggles to adapt, the terrorists too are changing, becoming more diffuse and better armed. As the U.S. has brought more pressure to bear on nations that sponsor terrorism, terrorists have become more elusive, avoiding alignments with any single mentor. These traits apply not only to the fanatical anti-Western cells associated with Osama bin Laden (pictured), which have emerged as possible suspects in the Cole bombing, but also to groups opposed to Middle East peace like Hizballah...