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...Green wouldn't miss its next shot 20 seconds later. With Jonas out of position, tri-captain Michael Byrne swung back towards the net and tucked the puck over the line. Rookie winger Tyler Kolarik tried to clear the puck from the net before crossing the line, but officials ruled in favor of the home team, giving Dartmouth an unnecessary insurance goal...
...hours, nervous anticipation filled the air as the match scores swung back and forth like a pendulum. The jubilation of an individual win was tempered by the realization that every match counted--in what is usually an individualistic sport, each player felt that the team was all that mattered on this...
...mountain Alonzo Mourning. It wasn't his finest moment, but he escaped unharmed. This time, he wasn't so lucky. On Martin Luther King Day, Van Gundy tried to make peace between warring Knick MARCUS CAMBY and elbowing Spur DANNY FERRY. Camby, 6 ft. 11 in., swung at and missed Ferry, 6 ft. 10 in., but slipped and knocked heads with Van Gundy, spilling little-man blood all over the Madison Square Garden floor and sending the coach to the locker room for 15 stitches. "Last time I got their guy, this time I got my guy," said Van Gundy...
Ashcroft defenders say it was this decision that swung moderate Republicans against White and led them to reject him for the federal court. They dispute the charge that Ashcroft is a racist, noting that as Missouri Governor he appointed the first African-American judge to the court of appeals and signed into law the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. But he also accepted an honorary degree in 1999 from Bob Jones University, which until recently forbade interracial dating, and defended Confederate leaders as "patriots" in Southern Partisan magazine, a pro-Confederacy publication that he praised for helping...
...believe he'll drive a harder peace bargain, not because they want to return to war. Everything from international and domestic public opinion to the demographics of the region demands that Israel remain engaged in some sort of peace process. And on the Palestinian side, while public opinion has swung against the peace process, Arafat and the men around him know that letting go of the peace process altogether is an admission of defeat, which would inevitably see the mantle of Palestinian leadership wrenched from them by younger and more radical forces...