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New York Hopes to Win Olympics by Dividing Votes The people behind New York City's bid for the 2012 Summer Games think they have a chance to beat the four competing European capitals.
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Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic Voting Goes National Whether or not the machines are ready for the election - or the electorate ready for the machines - there is no turning back.
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Speed and Elegance in a Desktop Package With the iMac G5, Apple has pared the desktop computer down to little more than the parts that people look at and touch -- keyboard, screen and mouse.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Rob Pegoraro</b></font>
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Rebates Fuel Sales, Frazzle Buyers For retailers and manufacturers, rebates are a quick and easy way to adjust prices in a cost-conscious market.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>
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Reaching Beyond Google's Basics Amazon.com is trying to out-Google the king of Internet search with a new site, A9.com, that puts a fancy face on Google's plain-Jane search results. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</b></font>
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Speed and Elegance in a Desktop Package (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - With the iMac G5, Apple has pared the desktop computer down to little more than the parts that people look at and touch -- keyboard, screen and mouse.
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U.N. Demands Iran Halt Uranium Enrichment (AP) AP - For the first time, 35 nations in the U.N. atomic watchdog agency demanded Saturday that Iran freeze all work on uranium enrichment #151; a technology that can be used for nuclear arms #151; and said they would judge Tehran's compliance in two months.
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South Korea's Roh to showcase Russia's regional ambitions (AFP) AFP - South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun begins Monday a high-profile visit to Russia that is a chance for Moscow to showcase its role as a regional power in northeast Asia.
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No. 25 Memphis Rolls Past Arkansas State (AP) AP - Tim Goodwell forced a fumble and returned it 10 yards for a touchdown with 2:22 left and No. 25 Memphis scored 21 points in the final three minutes for a 47-35 comeback victory over Arkansas State on Saturday.
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AL Wrap: Lieber Dominates as Yankees Thump Red Sox NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jon Leiber carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning while Alex Rodriguez homered, scored three runs and drove in three more to lead the New York Yankees to a 14-4 win over the Boston Red Sox Saturday.
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NL Wrap: Padres Pass Giants Despite Bonds Homer SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jay Payton's three-run homer led the San Diego Padres to a 5-1 win over the San Francisco Giants in National League play on Saturday, despite a 701st career blast from Barry Bonds.
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Cheney: Terrorists Must Be Met With Force (AP) AP - Vice President Dick Cheney said Saturday the Bush administration is working hard to protect the nation from the gravest threat facing it #151; the possibility that nuclear weapons will fall into the hands of terrorists.
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Pouring It on, Yanks Cool Off Sox With the offense rumbling and Jon Lieber in command, the Yankees walloped Boston at misty, wind-whipped Yankee Stadium.
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For the U.S., a Big Deficit and Little Time to Come Back Europe will enter the 12 singles matches holding a 11-5 lead and needing to finish with only 14 points to retain the Ryder Cup.
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Oil-Rich Kazakhstan Votes, Poll Criticized by West ALMATY (Reuters) - Oil-rich Kazakhstan voted on Sunday in a parliamentary poll criticized by the West and all but written off as unfair by opposition parties.
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Argentina debe implementar las reformas del FMI Sir, After all of Argentina #39;s economic pain, one can understand Alfonso Prat-Gay, Argentina #39;s central bank governor, taking satisfaction from the stronger-than-expected bounce in the country #39;s economy over the past two years ( quot;How Argentina defied the
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Blair meets with Iraqi PM Their meeting comes after the British PM played down claims that he had been warned a year before the war to oust Saddam Hussein of the chaos that might follow.
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Deadline threat for Iraq hostages Militants have threatened to kill three Western hostages unless all female Iraqi prisoners are set free by Monday. The men - Briton Kenneth Bigley, and US colleagues Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong - were
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No. 13 Tenn. Stuns No. 11 Florida 30-28 (AP) AP - James Wilhoit kicked a 50-yard field goal with six seconds to go to lift No. 13 Tennessee to a 30-28 victory over 11th-ranked Florida on Saturday night.
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ChiSox Slip Past Tigers 9-8, 12 Innings (AP) AP - Joe Borchard scored from second base on Aaron Rowand's infield single in the 12th inning to give the Chicago White Sox a wild 9-8 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night.
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Former NBA Star Calvin Murphy Acquitted of Sexual Abuse HOUSTON (Reuters) - Former basketball star Calvin Murphy was acquitted on Monday by a Houston jury on charges he sexually abused five of his daughters.
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12 Years After the Riots, Rodney King Gets Along Rodney King, whose videotaped beating led to riots in Los Angeles in 1992, is out of jail now and talking frankly for the first time about the riots, himself and the American way of life.
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Spadea in semifinals Top-seeded Vincent Spadea beat qualifier Hugo Armando 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 Friday night to reach the semifinals of the Millennium International Tennis Championships.
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England advance to semi in rain-shortened match Andrew Flintoff scored 104 as England advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy yesterday with a 49-run win over Sri Lanka, the match a victim of persistent rain at the Rose Bowl.
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MLB: Cincinnati 6, Chicago Cubs 5 Wily Mo Pena hit two home runs Saturday to give the Cincinnati Reds a 6-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs. D #39;Angelo Jimenez also homered for the Reds, who snapped a three-game losing streak.
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Rain holds up Windies LONDON (CMC) - Only six overs were possible in West Indies #39; response before rain then bad light stopped play in their final ICC Champions Trophy Group-B match against South Africa yesterday.
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Rebels threaten to kill Briton The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad is looking increasingly perilous after his captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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Indonesians set to go to polls The bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta has elevated terrorism, as an election issue, from a shade above nowhere to a point just visible on Indonesia #39;s political horizon.
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Hopkins Stops De La Hoya, Retains Title (AP) AP - Bernard Hopkins suddenly ended a close fight with two left hooks to the body in the ninth round Saturday night to stop Oscar De La Hoya and ruin his bid to become the undisputed middleweight champion.
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Global Warming Fast Facts Global Warming is a hot topic that shows little sign of cooling down. Earth's climate <i>is</i> changing, but just how it's happening, and our own role in the process, is less certain. <b>Includes photo gallery.</b>
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Market sees another Fed hike this week, but future course unclear WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve is likely to lift key rates by a quarter-point this week, but a sputtering US economy is forcing policymakers to re-evaluate the outlook for future increases, analysts say.
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NCAA Game Summary - Notre Dame At Michigan State East Lansing, MI -- Brady Quinn completed 11-of-24 pass attempts for 215 yards and one touchdown, as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated the Michigan State Spartans 31-24 in a non-conference match up from Spartan Stadium.
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Nuclear monitors return to Seoul A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency travels to South Korea to investigate secret nuclear experiments.
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Fed watchers say benchmark rate to rise to 1.75 WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- The Federal Reserve will continue its baby-step approach to raising its overnight lending rate when the central bank #39;s policymakers meet next Tuesday, Fed watchers agree.
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PeopleSoft, Oracle jury trial delayed SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The starting date of PeopleSoft #39;s billion dollar damages lawsuit against Oracle in a California state court has been pushed back to Jan. 10 from Nov. 1. Free!
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Will Amazon #39;s A9 Search Engine Give Google Search Pains? Amazon.com has officially entered into the search engine market with the launch of A9.com, a search engine that Amazon claims will make organizing and managing search results easier.
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Yahoo to buy Musicmatch Yahoo Inc. is buying online jukebox provider Musicmatch Inc. for \$160 million in a deal designed to broaden the Internet giant #39;s appeal with the growing audience of consumers who buy songs off the Web.
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Griffith gives Monarchs shot at crown Yolanda Griffith picked the perfect time for her best game of the season. Griffith scored a season-high 23 points, helping the Sacramento Monarchs defeat the Houston Comets 68-48 Saturday
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No. 13 Tenn. Stuns No. 11 Florida 30-28 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Sept. 19, 2004 - James Wilhoit missed the easy one to tie, then made the tough one to win it. Wilhoit kicked a 50-yard field goal with 6 seconds left after missing an extra point that would have tied the game to give No.
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Sylvania 300: Gordon leads Chase pack As the 10-race Chase for the Nextel Cup begins with today #39;s Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson have got to like their chances.
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Report: Blair Warned of Iraq Chaos in '02 (AP) AP - The government was accused Saturday of misleading the British public over plans for postwar Iraq after a newspaper reported that Prime Minister Tony Blair was warned a year before the invasion that postwar stability would be difficult.
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No. 19 Fresno St. Beats Portland St. 27-17 (AP) AP - Wendell Mathis rushed for 123 yards and two touchdowns, and Bryson Sumlin added 127 yards in 19th-ranked Fresno State's 27-17 victory over Portland State on Saturday night.
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Hopkins Is the First to Knock Out De La Hoya Bernard Hopkins crushed Oscar De La Hoya with a paralyzing left hook to his liver, sending him to the mat with 1 minute 38 seconds left in the ninth round.
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From Zero to Hero After missing the game-tying extra point minutes earlier, Volunteers kicker James Wilhoit kicks a 50-yard field goal with 6 seconds left to give No. 13 Tennessee to a 30-28 win over No. 11 Florida.
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Airline experts agree on one thing: change Going into 2004, experts were pointing to this as a turnaround year for the airline industry after three years of misery. No more.
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A tax man laugheth at #39;simplified #39; code As a tax guy, I found myself chuckling quietly when President Bush said in his speech at the Republican National Convention that he would quot;lead a bipartisan effort to reform and simplify the
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Soldiers killed in border attack AN armed group killed six Venezuelan Army troops and an engineer in an ambush along the Colombian border, Defence Minister Jorge Garcia Carneiro said today.
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Panama state of emergency after fatal mudslides Panama declared a state of emergency on Saturday, a day after torrential rains and mudslides killed at least 14 people and wrecked or damaged the homes of about 10,000 people.
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DOT dismisses privacy complaint against Northwest The US Department of Transportation has dismissed a claim filed against Northwest Airlines that accused the carrier of violating its own privacy policy when it gave government officials passenger information related to the Sept.
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UN to consider Sudan attacks as genocide The UN Security Council passed a resolution Saturday establishing an international inquiry to determine whether systematic attacks on black African villagers in Sudan constitute genocide.
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IAEA Inspectors in S.Korea for 2nd Investigation (Reuters) Reuters - Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog\arrived in Seoul on Sunday to conduct a second inspection of\South Korea's nuclear experiments, a day after the South said\it had no plans to develop or possess nuclear weapons.
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China Plenum to End, Military Boss Jiang May Retire BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Communist Party is due to wrap up a four-day meeting on Sunday at which military chief Jiang Zemin is expected to give up his last post, completing a historic leadership succession.
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Enter your e-mail: Last week, Microsoft posted a notice about a new kind of vulnerability in Windows machines. The MS04-028 announcement states that merely opening a JPEG image (one that had been tinkered with by a hacker, of
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Wife of hostage held in Iraq pleads for release The wife of Jack Hensley, one of three Westerners kidnapped from their residence in Baghdad on Thursday, made a personal plea to the kidnappers to free her husband, saying he wanted to help the Iraqi people.
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Arizona St. Upsets No. 16 Iowa 44-7 (AP) AP - Andrew Walter threw for 428 yards and five touchdowns to lead Arizona State to a surprisingly easy 44-7 victory over No. 16 Iowa on Saturday night.
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Matthew Zemek / FOXSports.com Posted: 3 minutes ago How does one even begin to analyze the latest unforgettable installment of a rivalry that always seems to produce an indelible and searing memory?
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Boise St. Broncos EL PASO, Texas (Ticker) -- Boise State got the sort of breaks that come with being a ranked team. The 23rd-ranked Broncos scored a pair of touchdowns on fumble recoveries in the end zone as they rallied for
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Blair to meet Allawi for talks at No 10 Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to hold talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi at Downing Street. Their meeting comes after Mr Blair played down claims that he had been warned a year before the war to
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Bonds #39; place in history is sadly tainted He #39;s probably going to hit more home runs than anyone else who ever played, more than Henry Aaron, more than the Babe, more than Willie Mays, Frank Robinson and all the others.
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NCAA Game Summary - Florida at Tennessee Knoxville, TN (Sports Network) - James Wilhoit atoned for a missed extra point by kicking a 50-yard field goal in the closing seconds to lift No.
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NASCAR fans prepare for new homestretch Well, it may not be a typical playoff format, but NASCAR Nextel Cup #39;s 10-race championship chase officially begins today. The Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway is the first
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Iran to End UN Nuke Checks if Reported to Council TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will stop allowing U.N. snap checks of nuclear sites if the atomic issue is sent to the Security Council, its chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani said on Sunday.
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Fantino #39;s retirement party planned TORONTO -- It #39;s hush-hush, but people in the know are penciling in Feb. 24 to say goodbye to Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino.
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Markets Await the Fed #39;s Next Move Investors paid more attention to the weather than to Wall Street last week, and with good reason. Hurricane Ivan sent oil prices back to their highest levels in almost a month, grounded the planes of beleaguered
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Competition among telecom providers getting fierce Despite a recent court victory for the area #39;s largest telecommunications company, the battle for your home phone service isn #39;t about to end.
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Bernard Hopkins Leaves Calling Card Stops De La Hoya in Ninth Just four months shy of his 40th birthday, Hopkinswho appeared to be starting to wear De La Hoya down as the fight neared the championship roundsclosed the show with a lethal body shot in the 9th.
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Local hero Tamada wins Japan GP Makoto Tamada has recorded his second win of the MotoGP season with victory in his home grand prix in Japan. Riding a Honda in the warm and dry conditions, 27-year-old Tamada covered 24 laps in 43 minutes
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Sparks Prevail Down the Stretch SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (Ticker) -- The top teams in the Western Conference didn #39;t look like they had nothing to play for. Nikki Teasley scored 21 points to lead all five starters scored in double figures as the
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Progress is cited in N. Ireland peace talks Three days of talks aimed at breaking a two-year deadlock in the Northern Ireland peace process ended yesterday without a deal, but with officials
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Chirac to push for international tax to fight poverty (AFP) AFP - French President Jacques Chirac will put forward ideas for an international tax scheme that would help build a 50-billion-dollar war chest to fight poverty during a 55-nation conference on economic development opening Monday in New York.
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Iran Says U.N. Nuclear Ban 'Illegal' (AP) AP - Iran said Sunday that demands from the U.N. atomic watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment #151; technology that can be used for nuclear weapons #151; were "illegal."
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Iran Says U.N. Nuclear Ban 'Illegal' TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Sunday that demands from the U.N. atomic watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment - technology that can be used for nuclear weapons - were "illegal." Hasan Rowhani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, said at a news conference that his country would nonetheless continue with its voluntary suspension of what he described as "actual enrichment" - the injection of uranium gas into centrifuges...
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Loyalty study lists IT's top household names A report indicates that many giants of the industry have been able to capture lasting feelings of customer loyalty.
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Fidelity fee cuts all about strategy A lot of people got excited when Fidelity Investments announced recently that it was cutting fees on five index mutual funds. You heard talk about price wars with the Vanguard Group, of a new quot;low-cost leader quot; in fund investing and more.
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Comcast wins in Sony deal for MGM Comcast Corp. tried to break into the entertainment business as a star. But it #39;s looking as if its best role for now may be a cameo.
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Los Alamos crackdown imperils US, lab physicist warns A Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist charged Friday that quot;national security has suffered demonstrably quot; and the nuclear weapons lab #39;s reputation has been unjustly maligned because of director George quot;Pete quot; Nanos #39; decision in July to suspend work at
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Bush Accused of Blocking Arctic Report NEW YORK, 19 September 2004 - With a successive series of hurricanes ravaging the Caribbean and the southeast United States, US lawmakers and environmentalists met this week to examine if these climate changes are due, in part, to greenhouse-gas
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Charitable champ takes it easy on De La Hoya Coming into this middleweight title bout, which turned out to be more mega-event than mega-fight, Oscar De La Hoya called Bernard Hopkins a bully.
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After his disastrous first day, Mickelson takes a seat BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. You can say what you want about Hal Sutton and his pairing of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson on the opening day of the 35th Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills Country Club.
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Bruins learn how to grind, thanks to their Cable guy On days like yesterday, gloomy, gray late afternoons by the lake, UCLA used to come out and play the part of the powder-blue preppies from Westwood.
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NCAA Game Summary - Southern California at BYU The Cougars turned the ball over four times...The Trojans made their first ever visit to Provo...Bush posted his first career 100-yard rushing game.
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Buckeyes #39; 5 FGs trip Wolfpack RALEIGH, NC Compared to the kick he made last week, these field goals were easy for Mike Nugent. He certainly made them appear that way.
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NFL #39;s stroke of genius can be fleeting It wasn #39;t long ago that Coach Chucky was the most powerful man in football, able to freeze Al Davis with the flash of a cobalt glare.
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Iran rejects UN call on nukes Iran has rejected a resolution from the UN nuclear watchdog that it should freeze uranium enrichment and threatened to end snap checks of atomic facilities if its case were sent to the UN Security Council.
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Can You Fear Me Now? (TechWeb) TechWeb - Multipurpose cell phones, data-storing pocket knives: Can you fear me now?
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Aces square off in rubber game NEW YORK -- Now it falls to Pedro Martinez to help keep the Red Sox in the race for the division title. And where better for him to square off against a longtime rival, Mike Mussina , than the Big Apple?
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Cardinals clinch title in Central The St. Louis Cardinals became the first major league team to clinch a playoff spot this season, winning the Central for the third time in five seasons.
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Heaps happy with central role FOXBOROUGH -- Jay Heaps started 21 games before losing his position with the Revolution. But Heaps returned to central defense last night as the Revolution took a 6-1 victory over Colorado, their highest goal total in a Major League Soccer match.
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Gophers are golden again FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Marion Barber 3d ran for 201 yards and two touchdowns and running mate Laurence Maroney added 132 yards, lifting No. 22 Minnesota to a 34-16 victory over winless Colorado State last night. Bryan Cupito hit Matt Spaeth on a pair of TD passes and the Golden Gophers (3-0) scored on four of their first five drives, ...
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Utah puts it away early LOGAN, Utah -- Alex Smith threw for one touchdown and ran for another, and Utah converted three Utah State turnovers into touchdowns to rout its rival, 48-6, last night.
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Late strikes lift Memphis JONESBORO, Ark. -- Tim Goodwell forced a fumble and returned it 10 yards for a touchdown with 2:22 left and No. 25 Memphis scored 21 points in the final three minutes for a 47-35 comeback victory over Arkansas State yesterday.
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Point taken AUBURN, Ala. -- The ball finally got to Courtney Taylor, the flag rescued John Vaughn, and No. 14 Auburn proved itself a Southeastern Conference contender.
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Harvard wastes no time CAMBRIDGE -- Last year, it took Harvard nearly the entire game to beat Holy Cross, 43-23, as the Crusaders hung tough until the fourth quarter.
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There's room at the top It was never about whether they deserved it. It was about how to get it done.
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Gators get booted KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- James Wilhoit kicked a 50-yard field goal with six seconds to go to lift No. 13 Tennessee to a wild 30-28 victory over 11th-ranked Florida last night.
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Banks reimbursing ATM fees to compete with larger rivals Middlesex Savings Bank of Natick is taking a shot at the banking big leagues by offering its best customers a hefty dose of convenience to go with the customer service and good rates the mutual bank prides itself on.
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Broncos run streak to 14 EL PASO, Texas -- Jared Zabransky threw for 392 yards and two touchdowns to lead No. 23 Boise State to a 47-31 victory over Texas-El Paso last night, extending the nation's longest winning streak to 14 games.
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BC's game plan: Improve daily The Eagles are off to one of their best starts in five years, undefeated after their first three games for the first time since opening the 1999 campaign with a 4-0 record.
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Firms target trial lawyers WASHINGTON -- The billionaire chairman of an insurance company describes members of the group as quot;terrorists. quot; To the head of a national wholesalers group, they seem like quot;predators. quot;
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Breaks go Buckeyes' way RALEIGH, N.C. -- Ohio State made up for a shoddy day offensively by forcing five turnovers, and Mike Nugent tied a school record with five field goals to give the ninth-ranked Buckeyes a 22-14 victory over North Carolina State yesterday. The Buckeyes (3-0) managed only 137 yards of offense -- 35 coming on their first drive -- and converted only ...
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