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...ESPN and Yahoo! Sports. He was fired from his last coaching position at St. John’s six games into the 2003 season, becoming the first basketball coach in the history of the Big East Conference to be fired during a season. He was let go in the wake of the arrests of two players and a poor 2-4 start.Last spring, the NCAA placed St. John’s men’s basketball on two years’ probation and docked the school one basketball scholarship for this season because of a financial violation under Jarvis?...
...list goes on, and Murphy keeps self-consciously adding to it. But what else can he do? These are the albums he owns; it’s the music he likes; and making more of it is what he does best. So all Murphy can do is wake up in the morning and turn that hangover throb into a disco pulse that will sustain another party, lead to another painful sunrise, and give everyone some more anthems. “We do what we’re programmed to do,” Murphy says simply...
Amaker appears to be the less controversial of the two prominent candidates, as Jarvis carries the baggage of being the first Big East Conference coach to ever be fired in the midst of a season. He was let go six games into the 2003 season in the wake of the arrests of two players, and it was later disclosed that a violation of NCAA financial regulations occurred under his watch at St. John...
...While the challenges are clearly daunting, some scientists complained in the wake of February's IPCC report that sensationalist media coverage painting an inevitable and apocalyptic picture of climate change paralyzes rather than galvanizes the public. But the unwritten word behind the IPCC's dire predictions, and its source of hope, is if. If we can limit and later eliminate carbon emissions, if we can make a rapid transition to cleaner energy, if we help poorer nations adapt to the changes underway, then the worst consequences will be averted. But that can only happen if we act globally...
...Lindh, now 26, converted to Islam and then joined the Taliban in the summer of 2001 in Afghanistan, where he was later captured by U.S. forces, becoming the first person charged in an American court on terrorism charges in the wake of 9/11. Lindh's lawyers have drawn a comparison between the treatment of their client and that of David Hicks, the Australian who admitted to fighting alongside the Taliban and training with al-Qaeda. Hicks's internment at Guantanamo amid allegations of torture and other mistreatment had become an issue in Australia, where Prime Minister John Howard - a strong...