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...lingering doubts I had over the true quality and strength of Eagles loyalty were dispelled this past winter break when, while out to dinner with my parents, we happened to bump into my godfather—a very successful private lawyer in Philadelphia. His first words to us were not “Merry Christmas,” but “Go Birds!” He then proceeded to elaborate how he was mandating that Christmas dinner would be served on the sole condition that the game—the Eagles played Dallas that evening—would...
...hopes for the evening, the nice round sum of 2,000, and the program’s record of 1,921, established in January 2004.There’s one factor in common to these four-digit fests, one element pertinent to all of these memorable winter nights: the opponent. In a word, Dartmouth. The Big Green have a way not just of bringing out the most, in terms of Harvard’s fans, but the best, in terms of Harvard’s performance. That was certainly the case on Friday night, when the two squads skated...
...students at Duke University were still adjusting to life back on campus after the winter break but that didn't stop them from spreading the news on Friday afternoon: Durham County D.A. Mike Nifong had just asked the North Carolina Attorney General's office to remove him from the case against three members of the school's lacrosse team. The information went out via instant messages, phone texts, e-mail and old-fashioned word of mouth. Duke, of course, is not a neutral spectator in the controversy. Several students have gone around wearing wristbands that declare "INNOCENT...
That's given Russia immense power to dictate terms for much of Europe. In one power play, the Russians briefly blocked gas last winter to Ukraine, leaving millions freezing. In December, Putin threatened to do the same to Belarus unless it began paying Western-level gas prices. Belarus agreed. Infuriated that Azerbaijan's new BP-operated pipeline to the West bypasses Russia, Putin has said he intends to double gas prices for Azerbaijan, which in turn threatened to stop exporting its oil through the Russian-controlled section of the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline to the Black Sea. "We want...
...bounce could be bigger. Midali notes: "Being the first, you can't expect perfection. We want to improve the design so others can use it too." Lodge owner Ragozza is more interested in p.r. than the science, suggesting the town could even start a Miss Mirror bikini contest each winter. We can only wonder how the mountain gods would react to that...