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Vermont currently has a budding secession movement. According to a Zogby poll, one in five U.S. adults believe a state should be allowed to secede. So, could it happen?

At Stony Brook home games, we just show our student IDs and go sit in the student section and try to see over the cheerleaders and drown out the screaming frat brothers. This was a tad different.

It would take roughly 600,000 forces to be able to satisfactorily quell the tensions in Afghanistan. For perspective, right now there are roughly 65,000 troops in Afghanistan, and 140,000 in Iraq.

If Zurawik is correct, the choice could cause some waves at NBC News with some key players. Nobody can argue with the credentials of Koppel (25+ year host of ABC's Nightline), but many within NBC News thought they might become the next steward of the great Sunday morning news show.

As a little kid who spent most of his day in his room playing with either Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures or my Pirate-themed Lego sets, I feel like this new phenomenon of pirates being in the news on a regular basis should have been a development I welcomed.

The assassination of JFK still weighs so heavily on our minds because we want to make sure we know the truth about how a beloved president was killed. We need to know if our government duped us, or if Lee Harvey Oswald had accomplices. As Americans, we need to know how he was lost such a promisingleader with so much promise, why we had to watch the tragedy that befell his wife and kids.

Before we completely move on to an Obama presidency, Ed Hornick has an interesting take about President Bush. He takes a look at the Bush legacy, and how it could evolve over time.

The 2008 presidential campaign has carried on for nearly two full years now, and will finally end next Tuesday. I know that the end will be greatly welcomed by me.

I love watching politics, don't get me wrong. You will not find a bigger Politico/Rasmussen/cable news-watching junkie than me. I love thinking about what the candidates will do next, laughing at the latest dumb thing one of them has said and examining the countless daily polls that are released.

Not just Stony Brook. There are more than 60 SUNY campuses across the state, and the budget cuts being sustained by our campus are also being felt elsewhere. While Independent articles focus on the how the cut will impact Stony Brook, here are some examples of other campus newspapers elsewhere in the SUNY system who are covering the budget crisis. In this case The Lamron at Geneseo, and the Pipe Dream at Binghamton.

I came across this article on CNN, it was their headline this morning.

Army Sgt. Kristofer Goldsmith spoke Oct. 8 on campus, at an event sponsored by the Social Justice Alliance.

Here’s the argument for retiring his number; he is as synonymous with those ’98-’01 teams as the guys in our previous lists have been. And he made huge contributions to those teams.

Alright, so, when I wrote on Friday I’d be back tomorrow, I meant back after the weekend. So, let’s get into the Possible, But Not Likely players to get their number retired.

So, today we’re going to look at the players who are Likely to have their numbers retired. These players all have impressive career achievements, and are all players that most Yankees fans would love to see enshrined in Monument Park.

What happens if the Yankees run out of numbers?

I’d assume they couldn’t play games without numbers. And the Yankees keep churning out retired numbers (16, the most in MLB).