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Coach: John Thompson III, 2nd year...
...just happened to lead his team in points, rebounds, assists, and steals, to be in trouble. However, it’s also not normal to return six players with significant starting experience and still have two reserves earn starting positions. That, though, is exactly what has happened for Thompson, the son of the former Georgetown coach...
...starter last year, and Wysocki, the Ivy Rookie of the Year, return. Finally, Ray Robins, a sophomore starter two years ago before taking last season off, and Chris Krug, who started in the 1998-99 season as a freshman before taking two years off, have rejoined the team. Ultimately, Thompson seems to have settled on El-Nokali, the oft-injured Bechtold, Logan, Wente and Wysocki as his starting five, but Persia and Robins have both seen significant minutes off the bench...
...really about to change its winning formula - let the Northern Alliances fight the ground war while U.S. bombers provide safe support from the skies - and send in the Marines to fight a ground battle for Kandahar? TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson weighs...
...Mark Thompson: There?s certainly a lot of talk about it, but it doesn?t seem to make much sense to me, according to what I?ve heard. First, there?s only 1,200 or so of them there - not really the size that you?d expect to be a part of a vanguard assault on the city. As one official put it, "that?s enough to get into trouble, but not enough to get out." In other words, you don?t want to cross that Mogadishu line where you?ve got U.S. forces stuck in the middle...