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...wins against MIT and Brown are crucial to the Crimson's playoff hopes. The top eight teams will meet at Brown April 24-26, with the top two teams going on the Nationals in Vienna, Va., and the Crimson plans on being one of those teams...
Significantly, country has achieved its new luster without abandoning its heritage: a heritage so stubbornly rooted in storytelling and simple melody that it has never quite left behind the farm in Poor Valley, Va., where a moody lumberman named A.P. Carter and his clan picked up guitars seven decades ago and invented the Carter Scratch. The new wave of country singers is dominated by artists who have succeeded largely on their own terms, consolidating an eclectic mix of contemporary sounds with old-fashioned catches in the throat, tinkles of the mandolin, sugary sobs and vertiginous swoops of pedal steel guitar...
They weren't the only ones. In Alexandria, Va., last week, a federal jury found that Jacobson had artificially inseminated more than a dozen patients with his own sperm, claiming that it came from anonymous donors. DNA tests linked Jacobson to at least 15 such children, and prosecutors charged he may have fathered as many as 75. Jacobson also fooled patients into believing they were pregnant when they were not through hormone treatments that simulated side effects of pregnancy -- then billed them for the conception...
...Rand Corp. report described the average security guard as an aging white male who was underscreened, undertrained, undersupervised, underpaid and underregulated. The only significant change in that profile, according to Hallcrest Systems of McLean, Va., which closely monitors the industry, is that today's private guard is more likely to be much younger and black or Hispanic...
...Buchanan has given up the protective cocoon of celebrity life, a world in which he traveled by Mercedes (so much for buying American) from his pillared mansion in McLean, Va., to the CNN studio where, as one staffer says, "he never actually had to come into contact with the bozos who think the way he does." He has taken up traveling by minivan, begging for donations, and bedding down at Holiday Inns. The speeches he used to give at about $10,000 a pop are being delivered free in overheated living rooms in New Hampshire...