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...MARK THOMPSON: A lot of people in the Pentagon are a little nervous. The President and his advisers believe it's time for a major overhaul of the U.S. military, including its weapons system. And he wants to skip a generation of weapons - in other words, develop some entirely new systems rather than making small improvements on existing ones - in order to prepare the military for a new century. And that obviously makes a lot of people in the Pentagon nervous, because many of them are worried about whether their favorite hobby horses would survive a reallocation of priorities...
...MARK THOMPSON: It's not a red herring, but it's not really significant either. It simply looks really bad. The civilians may have been sitting at the controls during the emergency blow, but they were not controlling the vessel. Nobody controls a submarine's course during such an exercise. It's like a cork floating to the surface - nobody's driving it; it's driven by its own buoyancy. The issue is who gave the order to begin the surfacing procedure, on the basis that there was no danger on the surface. That was the ship's command...
...Kyle has really progressed as a player. He's a huge asset for us," Thompson said, though the coach did admit to thinking about bringing Bechtold into the game despite his injury. "There were times throughout the game when I really wanted to bring Mike in, but I knew it wasn't best for his health," Thompson said...
...ankle injury and a subsequent surgery limited Wente to 18 total minutes in his freshman year. Starting this season on the bench, Princeton coach John Thompson inserted him in the lineup when the Tigers' leading scorer, Mike Bechtold (10.4 ppg), went down two weeks ago with a foot injury. Since then, Wente has provided the offensive spark needed to guide Princeton...
...makeup of our team is that we can beat anyone in this league and we can lose to anyone in this league," Princeton coach Thompson said on Saturday. The same statement is applicable to the Crimson, who has so far split every Friday-Saturday Ivy weekend. It has defeated Penn, but lost to Columbia and Yale...