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Newly-appointed coach Robert Webster, will look to provide the missing elements that could push the program to its first ever NCAA tournament trip...
...Coach Webster not only brings experience of the game, but a motivating attitude that should put us over the top," Co-Captain Peter Richards said...
...Webster has experience and sports some impressive credentials. Graduate and player of UC Santa Barbara, he has spent the last three years as an assistant coach for the UNLV swimming team. Before signing on with the Runnin' Rebels, he assisted the current Olympic water polo coach, Bill Barnett...
...Director William Webster ordered a full-scale review of any agency ties to the bank following reports in TIME and other media that the agency had kept secret accounts at B.C.C.I. to finance covert aid to U.S.-backed insurgents in Nicaragua and Afghanistan. The scandal may further jeopardize President Bush's nomination of Robert Gates to head the CIA. Last week former Customs commissioner William von Raab named Gates, then deputy director of the CIA, as the source of a five- or six-page 1988 agency report on B.C.C.I., which Gates labeled "the bank of crooks and criminals." That raised...
...core, the Random House Webster's is a laudable achievement, the work of many excellent minds. It is in the core's wrapping that trouble lies and English suffers erosion, mainly because the editors choose to be "descriptive, not prescriptive." As a result, numerous entries and usage notes, wafting in the sociological winds and whims of the day, are inconsistent and gratuitous, undermining any pretense of rigor, let alone authority...