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Cal wins!
Fairly accurate synopsis of the game:

A slew of penalties by both teams made the game ragged, and several times the teams came close to fights, particularly late in the game. But Cal did enough to demonstrate dominance.

Go Bears~!

Stephen Barr has compiled a concise list of what it takes to become a foreign service officer.
Fingers crossed.

Shorter David Brooks.

Most Republican congressmen would like to do without Tom Delay, but they themselves are only marginally less corrupt.

President Clinton on the investigations.

“You never had to live in a time when people you knew and cared about were being indicted, carted off to jail, bankrupted, ruined, because they were Democrats and because they would not lie,” he said. “So, I think we showed a lot of moral fiber to stand up to that. [...]

Rather than fix the obvious problem with election exit polling, 0 for 3 is all that bad, the exit pollers have struck a different solution. Hide the data longer.

Exit poll data will not be distributed until after 4 p.m. EST to the organizations that have paid for it: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel [...]

Carl Lewis Music Video.
No possible comment possible.

Irshad Manji is a liberal, Canadian muslim woman. She has set upon freedom,a travelling, reform Islam, world tour.
In a New York Times Op-Ed Mrs. Manji explains her reception in Europe.
Most Europeans she meet cannot parse the compound “liberal muslim”. They see an oxymoron where she finds herself. They cannot understand why she would cling [...]

Apparently, Brad Delong’s son is on the Campo Cross Country Team.
It all about Coach:

So the Fourteen-Year-Old turned in his fall sports uniform today, and in exchange got his team picture–a picture of all of them, all 130 of them. All 130 members of the Campolindo High School cross-country team.

1…2…3…Cougar Pride~!

Michael Schaub comments on a plagarism scandal.
The offense:

(Sharp’s) suggestions included the following, which reportedly appeared in a 1996 letter to Patterson: “With graceful moonlit choreography, he rocked her back and forth, then forward, to and from then forward, forward, forward — a sensuous cha-cha-cha to the window.”
Patterson’s version: “We slowly rocked back and forth, back [...]

Wired’s Lore Sjöberg comments on the just released Halo 2:

Master Chief — the most poorly named video game character since Punky Skunk

Agreed.