Northwestern is ranked. According to the Associated Press and the cabal of harried graduate football video coordinators who fill out the Coaches' Poll, Northwestern is one of the top 25 teams in these United States. And now they have a looming showdown with a good Duke team in Durham that will be broadcast on the Internet to Northwestern fans, Duke fans, and people involved in football betting pools so degenerate that they spend halftime betting on nineteenth-century horse races by looking up the result in microfilmed copies of Gentleman's Magazine.
squinting), who craftily evaded a ban on parliamentary reporting by inventing the country
of "Magna Lilliputia" and helpfully explaining that parliament's debates, which bore eerie
similarity to the actual Parliament.