Word: swifts
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Should Dartmouth sweep, the weekend make-up games against Cornell would then determine the Ivy title. But the Crimson can't let that happen. It's time for Dartmouth women's sports to be dealt a swift reality check...
...punk-rock band might not seem like the proper training ground for a would-be country star, but it was just right for Neko Case (pronounced nee-ko). After several years of knocking around Seattle's punk scene, Case, 29, has released Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot), a turbulent, swift-flowing record that proves the two genres are closer than you might think. Her vocals often sound like a night at the Grand Ole Opry--spiked with punkish energy. "Country in its pure form is very punk," Case says. "They're both about passionate, poor people, and they're both very...
Like a Band-Aid being slowly, painfully pulled from a hair-covered forearm, tobacco companies in the past few years have faced a steady succession of product liability cases. Now a federal judge wants to pull the whole Band-Aid off in one swift tug. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein has ordered plaintiffs' lawyers and tobacco companies to discuss a single settlement to end all tobacco litigation in the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The so-called "tobacco wars" have been a piecemeal affair so far, with many different types of plaintiffs dealing with different laws in different...
...flew to Cuba and persuaded his client and Castro's inner circle that it would be better to let Juan Miguel come with just his new wife and baby, rather than wait for Washington to agree to play host to the circus. The Cubans wanted some assurances of a swift reunion. Craig told them that Reno's patience with the Miami relatives had run out and that the law was on Juan Miguel's side. INS officials were just waiting for Juan Miguel to set foot in America, and they would move to strip Lazaro of custody. Even...
Twenty-five years after wreaking havoc on the Empire, Lydon is still as piercing as a safety pin through the nostril. Ask about Bono's reworking Anarchy in the U.K. for a new sound track, and the response is swift. "It's horrible!" How about American rabble-rousers like shock jock Howard Stern? "He's one joke that's already tired." Post-punk diva Courtney Love? "Courtney Loves Kurt's money." Don't count on Lydon's accepting any Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honors either. "Never. I don't need accolades from boring old farts." Thankfully, Lydon remains rotten...