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...field for the first time this season today in the opener of a three-game set against Florida (11-6) in Gainesville. Coach Joe Walsh’s unproven Crimson squad is wasting no time in testing its mettle against the country’s best; the Gators currently stand at No. 15 in the new Baseball America poll, after finishing last season at No. 2 and ranking in the national Top Five as recently as last week...
...rock, the group proved as worthy of that title as ever.Touring in support of their third album, “First Impressions of Earth,” Manhattan’s favorite sons looked confident and sounded enormous. Dressed mostly in black, the Strokes concluded a three-night stand at the 3,000 person venue.The Strokes have clearly grown up since the release of their stripped-raw 2001 debut “Is This It.” Then, the skinny-tie-wearing partiers, barely beyond their teens, rejected million-dollar studio techniques for a bare, garage-rock sound...
...will be hard-pressed to find a leg to stand on in its criticisms of Iran—unlike India, a signatory of the NPT—when it attempts to do so in this month’s United Nations Security Council hearing. We hope the U.S. Senate roundly rejects this treaty, thereby reaffirming America’s moral legitimacy in global affairs...
...would like to see more interaction. The HRCF board feels the same way, but to date, contact between the two organizations has been largely informal. “On an individual level, there’s lots of interaction,” says Washington, but institutionally, the two groups stand apart. Their reluctance to join forces, even on an occasional basis, is all the more mystifying considering just how closely they work with other campus religious groups. The CSA interacts with other religious groups primarily through the Interfaith Council. Stein points to the group?...
...more the confrontation escalates, of course, the harder it will be to find a face-saving formula to allow Iran to back down. The regime in Tehran has wide popular support for its nuclear stand, and it is likely to offer to accept expanded IAEA monitoring of all its activities as a means of allaying Western fears. But right now the U.S. and its allies don't appear likely to accept anything short of a suspension of all enrichment-related activities...