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College Football: Cougars see no reason for their success not to continue - 2004-01-02
The greatest three-year run in Washington State football has ended in grand style Tuesday night when the Cougars knocked off No. 5 Texas 28-20 in the Holiday Bowl.

Surely, with 24 seniors departing and only eight starters returning for the 2004 season, the good times can't go on, at least temporarily. Can they?

WSU athletic director Jim Sterk is having supper when he's asked if the football program has reached a point where it can maintain high interest even if next season goes a little south. The chewing stops. The eyes glare.

Washington State coach Bill Doba "tells me he some good young pups. Now, he's a pretty good poker player, but he seems pretty confident," Sterk said. "We're approaching it as if we're going to be very competitive."
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2004 Rings in Safely Across The US - 2004-01-02
With police snipers situated on rooftops and helicopters flying overhead, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and guest of honor, former Iraq prisoner of war Shoshana Johnson, sent the 1,070-pound crystal ball on a 60-second drop that culminated at the stroke of midnight.

The raising of the national terrorism alert to orange, its second-highest level, induced cities throughout the country to increase police patrols, plan aerial watch and install equipment to detect chemical, biological or radiological contamination.

"Everything went off very well," New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said after the ball dropped. He called 2003 a good year: "Another year where we haven't had a terrorist attack here."

In a sea of glitter and confetti outside the MGM Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, sixth-grade teacher Bob Kelly cheered the new year and his newly won $1,000 from a video poker machine.
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