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...Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun (Rhymesayers...
There’s also the distinct possibility that a team could finish undefeated and not be given an opportunity to become national champions. Non-BCS conference teams—those of Conference USA, the Western Athletic Conference, the Mountain West Conference, the Mid-American Conference, the Sun Belt Conference and the I-A independents—are getting closer and closer each year to closing out an undefeated campaign. This year, TCU threatened to storm the BCS party—posting a 10-0 record and reaching as high as sixth in the BCS—until its undefeated...
Conrad Black loves a good fight. The blustery press baron who owns the Chicago Sun-Times, Britain's Daily Telegraph and more than 140 other newspapers worldwide often writes letters to his own publications taking potshots at opponents. Two years ago, he even renounced his Canadian citizenship in a public battle with Prime Minister Jean Chretien in order to become a British peer, Lord Black of Crossharbour. As biographer Peter C. Newman put it, "He has the body language of a puma in heat...
...DIED. EUGENE KLEINER, 80, engineer and Silicon Valley pioneer whose venture-capital firm helped establish Sun Microsystems, Compaq and Amazon.com; in Los Altos Hills, California. Kleiner, who fled his native Austria in 1938, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, which developed a technique for mass producing silicon transistors. Fifteen years later, he helped establish the venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, which gave seed money to more than 300 companies, including many tech powerhouses...
...Land of the Rising Sun, Matsui is considered the best everyday player. The 28-year-old switch-hitter-who is not related to Yankees leftfielder Hideki Matsui (whose 1.88-m, 95-kg frame and status as Japan's premier power hitter led to Kazuo's being dubbed Little Matsui)-has won four Gold Gloves, batted better than .300 for seven straight years, hit at least 20 homers in each of the past four seasons and stolen 30 or more bases five times. In a millennium poll, fans voted him the greatest Japanese shortstop ever. He was 24 at the time...