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Cornell placed steady pressure on the freshman all night, and Grumet-Morris responded by stopping 23 shots for his first career win. The next night against a weaker Colgate squad, he turned aside 20 shots...
...tougher draw is due largely to the tournament’s recent expansion from 48 to 64 teams, which necessitates that weaker automatic qualifiers play the higher seeds in the first round, rather than the best teams that fall short of 16 first-round byes...
...they refinance and use it to pay off credit-card debt or start a home improvement. The jobless rate, while a point higher than it was last October, remains remarkably low--just below the 5% considered "full employment" only a few years ago. Inflation remains tame. And the dollar, weaker last week against the yen and the euro, will make U.S. exports more attractive...
...Short term, these are knee-jerks, and besides, a slightly weaker dollar may actually speed the U.S.? recovery by making its exports cheaper abroad. But now America has been violently jolted into the company of nations that must spend their days thinking about terrorist attacks - company that used to be "the rest of the world." And America may be even worse off than that - there?s only one Great Satan...
...When the Secretary jumped out front on Iraq, pushing to "toughen" crumbling U.N. sanctions against old nemesis Saddam Hussein by making them "smarter," conservatives scoffed that meant weaker. But Powell persuaded the President?because, say aides and rivals alike, he's very effective when he "marshals his facts." The Administration?and Powell?was embarrassed later, when Russia rebuffed the plan...