Too close to have any chance at all
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Rescuers in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar isles are struggling to assess the tsunami toll in areas untouched by the modern world.
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Each time I leave one of these championship games, I am not convinced that the right teams have reached the championship round. The current system needs to be fixed.
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TAMPA -- Perhaps it would be foolish to consider last night's match against the Tampa Bay Lightning a must-win game.
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LAS VEGAS -- In any arena, and most definitely in the boxing arena, close only means not close enough.
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Dead end? You bet. The game is going nowhere? Oh baby, you got it, and in a hurry.
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LOS ANGELES  - Some things just elude   prognostication. Middle East politics, Midwest weather patterns   and college basketball's March Madness tournament, for example,   are so unpredictable that to impose any set of expectations on   what the future might bring is futile.
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Alex Ferguson gave a prediction yesterday. It was a typically audacious, not to say defiantly arrogant. It was also almost a definition of self-belief - as in, you have to believe, because surely no-one else will.
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The team that few thought could contend for an Atlantic Coast Conference title less than two months ago is now one game away from winning it on its first try.
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The race to unveil amazing new gadgets sometimes turns ludicrous, but it could be worse. Much worse. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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These guys are doing what they can, but it just isn't enough.
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Perfection is the impossible dream in the NFL. No matter how hard you try, there will be some weeks when things don&#39;t go as planned.
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Each time I leave one of these football championship games, I am not convinced that the right teams have reached the championship round. The current system needs to be fixed.
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There simply isn't enough IT talent to go around, and the problem is only going to get worse. This generation is all about the application, and nothing about the infrastructure that supports it.
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The Yankees continue to struggle to qualify for the American League playoffs for the 12th consecutive year. And it may already be too late.
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When a financial opportunity seems too good to be true, it probably is.
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Rare it is that going into the final race we don&#39;t already have a Cup winner. Rarer still that we have more than one driver that could still pull it out.
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The Minnesota Twins once again made the most of their chances. Twice as much, really.