Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from October 1999

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from October 1999

Immigration: An intrinsic part of America.
October 29, 1999... Today the United States is vastly different from the country of 100 years ago. Yet, in one important respect, each day we are more like turn-of-the-century America: We are becoming once again a nation of immigrants. History is repeating...

Whatever Cassie said, her legacy can still move us.
October 27, 1999... What if Cassie Bernall didn't say ``Yes, I believe in God'' that morning at Columbine High? Should we think any less of her if she didn't die for her faith? Or should we think less of ourselves because we turned a murder victim into...

Returning rebels keep nationalist cause alive in Puerto Rico.
October 25, 1999... SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ Freed revolutionary Carmen Valentin, until recently doomed to 98 years in a federal penitentiary, spent Saturday unnerved, taking her 8-year-old granddaughter to the doctor for a cold. Ricardo Jimenez, who also was...

A wrongful detention, righted victory for justice.
October 25, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Thursday, 10-21: X X X The federal judge who ordered a Palestinian man freed from a New Jersey jail last week upheld a constitutional right that, even in today's America, gets...

How to find archive art.
October 25, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Personal Finance Package Monday, October 25, 1999 KRT Business Editor: Leslie Lapides, 202-383-6093 llapides(at)krtinfo.com (See end of bjt for definitions of prefixes.) KRT News Desk:...

BUCHANAN WILL RUN AS REFORM PARTY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.
October 25, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Monday, October 25, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

Halloween evolving into expensive grown-up bash.
October 25, 1999... DALLAS _ A warning to children: Grown-ups seem to be taking over Halloween. Sorry, kids. Your little costumes sure are cute, and that ``trick-or-treat'' scam still has charm. But in the Halloween spending competition, the money is on...

Nasdaq, NYSE to begin reporting late trades.
October 25, 1999... DALLAS _ The push to extend stock trading beyond its traditional daylight hours has left the nation's two biggest stock markets mostly stumbling in the dark. While such nimble online brokerage firms as Datek Online and Discover Brokerage...

Lycos, AltaVista try to boost online shopping.
October 25, 1999... SAN JOSE, Calif. _ For many consumers, online shopping is like hopping from square to square in hopscotch. It might start with a stop at one Web site to research a product, a jump to another to compare prices and a leap to a third to actually...

Halloween is hip.
October 25, 1999... In the hierarchy of American holidays, there's no question now _ Halloween is hip. Long considered a children's holiday, Halloween has become much more of an adult celebration in the last four years. It now provides retailers with their...

GOLFER PAYNE STEWART, 4 OTHERS DIE AS SMALL JET CRASHES IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
October 25, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Monday, October 25, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

BUCHANAN WILL RUN AS REFORM PARTY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.
October 25, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Monday, October 25, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

Musharraf unlikely to put pressure on the Taliban or its Pakistani supporters .
October 25, 1999... PESHAWAR, Pakistan _ In this dusty city on the Afghan border, once the base for the American effort to drive the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, there's now an Osama poultry shop, an Osama Medical Centre (CQ), an Osama car repair shop and an...

Across Serbia, effort to create illusion of normality is obvious and surreal.
October 25, 1999... KRAGUJEVAC, Yugoslavia _ Over two nights in April, 21 NATO bombs slammed into the Yugo car plant, igniting the paint shop, demolishing the assembly line and crippling Zastava, Serbia's largest manufacturer. So this month, it was a shock to...

Examples of essay-application questions.
October 25, 1999... Here is a selection of essay-application questions posed to applicants to some colleges and universities: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: You have just completed your 300-page autobiography. Please submit page 217. ...

Colleges jazz up essays to show off a little of an institution's personality.
October 25, 1999... Folks who remember the college application essay as some variation of ``What person has influenced you, and why?'' _ a question that inevitably led to compositions that began with, ``My father (or mother) is the greatest person I know'' _...

On Capitol Hill, push for federal reinsurance plan to spread catastrophe risk.
October 25, 1999... WASHINGTON _ The natural disaster of our nightmares goes by different names. Along the Atlantic Coast, it's ``the big one,'' a hurricane far more vicious than Andrew in 1992. In California, it's the long-dreaded ``killer quake'' that would...

Mayor Alex in MIA's Wonderland.
October 25, 1999... Zoo. Hellhole. Miami International Armpit. Those are some of the kinder names by which Miami's airport is known to travelers. Overcrowded, chaotic and hostile, MIA is the most dreaded destination, the most loathsome layover in the...

Rhode Island Sen. John Chafee dies suddenly.
October 25, 1999... WASHINGTON _ Sen. John H. Chafee, a war hero, governor, Navy secretary and a leader of the Republican Party's moderate wing for 23 years in the Senate, died suddenly Sunday night at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Chafee will be remembered at a...

Zimbabwe, hard hit by AIDS, will impose a 3% tax to help health system.
October 25, 1999... HARARE, Zimbabwe _ In the best of times, the government here gives social worker Ernestine Wasterfall 13 cents a day to feed, clothe and care for each of the 96 children at her orphanage _ most of whom are infected with HIV/AIDS or have been...

PAYNE STEWART DIES AS JET GOES OUT OF CONTROL, CRASHES IN S.D.
October 25, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Sports Budget for Monday, October 25, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com Sports desk supervisor: Sports Editor Tom Peterson, 202-383-6088, tpeterson(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

Some newer jets can even land on autopilot.
October 25, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Monday, October 25, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

No doubt that Yankees are team of the century.
October 25, 1999... FORT WORTH, Texas _ I'm rooting for the New York Yankees to win the World Series. This is clearly a politically incorrect activity in North Texas, where the Bronx Bombers are considered aliens from another planet who periodically invade...

Stewart gave a gift from his heart.
October 25, 1999... EDITOR's NOTE: Golfer Payne Stewart discussed his faith with Sentinel columnist Larry Guest in a story that was published Oct. 18 _ one week before's Stewart's death in a plane crash. Here is that column. X X X ORLANDO, Fla. _ The...

Mariners select Pat Gillick as new GM.
October 25, 1999... The Seattle Mariners named Pat Gillick as their general manager Monday, ending a five-week search to replace Woody Woodward. In Gillick, the Mariners have landed one of the game's most respected and experienced executives, one with two...

Why do computers hate the Nittany Lions?
October 25, 1999... X X X TOP 15 1. FLORIDA STATE (8-0): Close win at Clemson was a game only Ann Bowden could love. 2. PENN STATE (8-0): Just keep winning, baby. So why do the computers hate the Nits, anyway? 3. VIRGINIA TECH (6-0): Hokies...

GTE sues Comcast, AT&T, Excite over Internet access.
October 25, 1999... The battle for control of Internet access over cable-television networks reached the federal courts Monday. Phone company GTE Corp. filed an antitrust lawsuit in Pittsburgh against Comcast Corp., AT&T and their affiliated Internet service...

Tyson suffers another blow to his prestige.
October 25, 1999... LAS VEGAS _ Muhammad Ali had the ``Rumble in the Jungle'' and the ``Thrilla in Manila.'' Mike Tyson, his prestige shrinking faster than a cheap T-shirt after four washings in scalding water, has the ``Battle of Wounded Knee.'' It could...

Another chapter in Tyson's farce.
October 25, 1999... LAS VEGAS _ Mike Tyson's enablers, who have considerable financial interests in the continuation of his increasingly farcical career, are saying what enablers invariably do. The latest Tyson-perpetrated stain upon boxing isn't really his...

Pat Buchanan, the pugnacious conservative populist, is back in the game.
October 25, 1999... FALLS CHURCH, Va. _ The ballroom rocked with raucous renditions of ``Go Pat Go.'' Hundreds of leather-lunged loyalists, grooving on every barb, sprung from their seats, and bellowed their allegiance. And the object of their affection grinned...

Harry Potter books are best thing to happen for kids in years .
October 22, 1999... ``Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't...

Head lice aren't a life-threatening problem, but they sure are a nuisance. Here's what to do.
October 22, 1999... It's not the end of the world, but it might feel like it by the time you've vacuumed every inch of your house and car, shampooed everyone's hair, combed for hours and washed 17 loads of laundry. In a day. Anyone who's been through...

Peter Warrick's remaining options could prove costly.
October 22, 1999... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ After days of legal wrangling and surprise setbacks, the course of Peter Warrick's college football future now rests in his own hands. The Florida State All-American is considering a series of plea-bargain offers...

Fall Magic line keeps color in your garden until winter months.
October 21, 1999... To keep your gardens, baskets, window boxes and planters alive and colorful for the fall and winter months, Proven Winners introduces its Fall Magic line with leaf patterns, shapes, textures and growth habits for companion planting with the...

Fossils unearthed in Madagascar could unravel evolutionary history of reptiles and mammals.
October 21, 1999... PHILADELPHIA _ The jaw bones of what may be the oldest dinosaurs ever found have been discovered in Madagascar, along with a cache of other fossils that could help unravel the evolutionary history of both reptiles and mammals. The two...

Getting his kicks: Landeta to play in 200th game Sunday.
October 20, 1999... PHILADELPHIA _ Professional football's hardest-working punter will play his 200th regular-season NFL game Sunday in Miami, but Sean Landeta isn't complaining. Now in the 18th season of a career that has come full circle geographically,...

Couple finds animals can be good spiritual guides.
October 20, 1999... It's not unusual for Linda Anderson to be on a plane and, once people find out what she does for a living, hear animal stories. Same goes for her husband, Allen. Fact is, a few days ago at the post office, the postal clerk glanced at...

Jerry Falwell shows something I didn't expect: moral courage.
October 20, 1999... I thought I'd seen it all where gay-bashing Christian conservatives are concerned. I'd seen bigotry and fear, name-calling and lies, even a patronizing offer to ``cure'' homosexuality. But now I see something I never expected from those...

Silencing parents could help put the fun back into youth sports.
October 19, 1999... When my son began playing junior varsity football as a high school freshman, he gave me my game plan. I was to follow his team as closely and zealously as he followed the play book. But I was not to yell louder than anyone else. I was not to...

Takeover in Pakistan fraught with nuclear undertones.
October 15, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Thursday, 10-14: X X X Had Tuesday's military coup in Pakistan occurred in another era, the United States could pass it off merely as a deplorable development in a far-away...

LEADER OF PAKISTAN COUP NAMES HIMSELF THE COUNTRY'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
October 15, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Thursday, October 14, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Late News Editor Jim Goldschmidt, 202-383-6086, jgoldschmidt(AT)krtinfo.com ...

CLINTON ACCUSES GOP CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF `RECKLESS PARTISANSHIP' (2).
October 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Thursday, October 14, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

How to find archive art (2m).
October 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Business Budget for Thursday, October 14, 1999 KRT Business Editor: Leslie Lapides, 202-383-6093, llapides(at)krtinfo.com (See end of bjt for definitions of prefixes.) KRT News Desk:...

How to find archive art (2a).
October 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service KRT South Budget for Thursday, October 14, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com KRT South supervisor: Jill M. Geer, 202-383-6148, jgeer(AT)krtinfo.com KRT Photo Service:...

FPL parent to stop marketing electricity in Northeast (2).
October 14, 1999... The parent company of Florida Power & Light said Thursday it has pulled the plug on its efforts to sell electricity and related services to commercial customers in the Northeast. As a result, FPL Group expects to transfer and lay off an...

Hispanic: One term, many peoples.
October 14, 1999... Just who is Hispanic? Even Hispanics aren't always sure. This blanket term cannot fully encompass the diversity of people who fall into this category. These Americans come from different countries, different cultures and different...

Wilt's death is so hard to fathom.
October 13, 1999... WICHITA, Kan. _ Wilt Chamberlain dead? I sooner would have expected an announcement that, at 63, he had signed a five-year contract to play with the Lakers. Or that he was training to join the U.S. volleyball team for the 2000...

Wilt Chamberlain dead at age 63.
October 13, 1999... LAWRENCE, Kan. _ Wilt Chamberlain, a giant of a man who became one of the most dominant players in basketball history through his record-smashing career at Kansas and then in the National Basketball Association, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at...

`Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey,' by Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman; Warner (282 pages, $26.95).
October 13, 1999... She grew up in England during World War II, a child enchanted by nature and the Tarzan stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. One of her first toys, prophetically, was a stuffed chimpanzee. By the time Jane Goodall sailed for Africa at age 23,...

New commander believes the rising graduation rate is a good thing.
October 13, 1999... PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. _ Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney has learned a lot from competing in triathlons. For one thing, Cheney has an uncommon understanding of how muscles and tendons break. So the well-proportioned Marine Corps general recently...

Turn it down; turn it off; please, just hold down the noise.
October 13, 1999... When it's not 110 outside, when the mosquitoes aren't swarming for their next gallon of my blood, I sit on my back steps to read, write or just ponder. To my left is a dogwood, its red berries inviting birds; before me is a massive pecan tree...

Mom watches as son changes, matures.
October 12, 1999... For years I knew the top of his head as well as the palm of my own hand: the cowlick on the side, the thickness of the wave when it grew out, the hair color that was once a lighter shade of brown. Then overnight his eyebrows shot up to meet...

KRT offers OnePage and online tribute to Boris Yeltsin (2).
October 12, 1999... Russia's first popularly elected leader, Boris N. Yeltsin, always will be remembered as the man who climbed atop a tank to stop a Communist coup in 1991 and brought the Soviet system crashing down. An epic figure of the 20th century, he ended...

How to find archive art (2x).
October 12, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Business Budget for Tuesday, October 12, 1999 KRT Business Editor: Leslie Lapides, 202-383-6093 llapides(at)krtinfo.com (See end of bjt for definitions of prefixes.) KRT News Desk:...

ARMY SEIZES CONTROL OF PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT, FIRES PRIME MINISTER, CABINET (2).
October 12, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Tuesday, October 12, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

Kentucky meets South Carolina with offensive line on the line.
October 11, 1999... LEXINGTON, Ky. _ As Kentucky and South Carolina face off Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium, up front where it counts, on the offensive line, the two teams are a study in contrasts. South Carolina began the season with three regular...

New York resources.
October 11, 1999... _Time Out New York: Never go without this virtually indispensable weekly guide to activities in the Big Apple. Listed by day, by subject, by region, by sexual preference, by age category and more. $2.50 at newsstands. ...

Huge law firm elects woman as head of executive committee.
October 11, 1999... In a milestone for women in management, the giant Chicago-based law firm Baker & McKenzie said Friday it has elected Christine Lagarde as chairman of its executive committee. The election came by a near-unanimous vote Thursday afternoon...

Schools take closer look at dealing with bullies.
October 11, 1999... WICHITA, Kan. _ It's a problem that has existed ever since there have been school recesses and lunchroom lines. It can be calling a classmate with braces ``Metal Mouth,'' taking another's ham-and-cheese sandwich, or saying, ``We don't...

Latest shooting of teen reflects the real face of our gun crisis.
October 8, 1999... The first time Richard Peek Jr. was shot, you heard all about it. There were headlines across the country and days of anguish afterward as the nation struggled to understand. The second time, there wasn't much more than a wire-service...

Constitution protects good and bad art.
October 7, 1999... Hundreds of people lined up outside the Brooklyn Museum of Art last weekend and paid $9.75 each to ponder a piece of canvas splattered with elephant dung. The crowd came because New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had pitched a fit about the...

Ratify the treaty to ban nuclear testing.
October 7, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Wednesday, 10-6: X X X Rarely in the career of a U.S. senator does the opportunity arise to cast a vote that could literally make the world a safer place in which to live, now...

Depression screening can help everyone.
October 6, 1999... National Depression Screening Day this year is Thursday. On that day, you can get a free screening for depression in your local area. You won't be asked your name and no one will make any judgments about you. You will be given the...

Teacher hopes to change face of high school forensic competition.
October 5, 1999... LONG BEACH, Miss. _ It's not easy being a forensic expert these days. One has to be tough, fearless and really dig poetry. We're not talking about the medical kind of forensic here, but rather the debate and dramatic interpretation kind....

Whose job is it to protect me and mine?
October 4, 1999... Within hours after the shootings at the Wedgwood Baptist Church, a letter arrived at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram expressing the wish that I had been inside the church on that deadly Wednesday night. I wish I had, too, but for a different...

WASHINGTON.
October 4, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Add to News Budget for Monday, October 4, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Assistant News Editor Diane DeVore, 202-383-6157, ddevore(AT)krtinfo.com ...

Telecommunications mogul is in a world all his own.
October 4, 1999... BROOKHAVEN, Miss. _ There sat Bernard J. Ebbers _ telecommunications mogul, collector of corporations, deal-maker extraordinaire _ with his oversized frame atop a small tractor mowing the neighbor's grass. ``I guess,'' said Chester...

17 DAYS AFTER SURGERY, GINSBURG BACK AT WORK AS SUPREME COURT TERM OPENS.
October 4, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Monday, October 4, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Assistant News Editor Diane DeVore, 202-383-6157, ddevore(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

Some economists anticipating November rate boost.
October 4, 1999... WASHINGTON _ With most Fed gazers concluding that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan won't lift interest rates this week, some economists and bond market participants are now speculating that the next 0.25 point increase will come...

This year's Yankees might be beatable.
October 4, 1999... Baseball, maybe more than any other sport, is a game of numbers. There's 56, as in Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak; 70, the new home-run standard set by Mark McGwire, surpassing the formerly magic 61; 755, Hank Aaron's career homer mark;...

New categories make evaluating your mutual funds more accurate.
October 4, 1999... Another quarter gone by _ time to assess your fund performance. But this time, the benchmarks are a little different. Investors should look regularly to see how their funds are doing compared to others of the same type. If a fund doesn't...

Yankees' Jeter a throwback to their glorious past.
October 4, 1999... NEW YORK _ On a sultry afternoon at Yankee Stadium, a television crew stands near home plate, doing a pregame piece on baseball's majestic shortstops, then and now. The examples, of course, have mostly worn pinstripes. Stretching...

Astros have come a long way just to get this far.
October 4, 1999... With one last gasp of energy, the Houston Astros slipped into the playoffs on the last day of the season. It seemed to take all their energy and a little help from the Milwaukee Brewers, who opened the door for the Astros by knocking off...

An all-Texas World Series? Why not?
October 4, 1999... FORT WORTH, Texas _ First came the Dallas Stars, who validated their tremendous talent and regular-season success by winning their first Stanley Cup. Then came the San Antonio Spurs. Led by Tim Duncan and David Robinson, and helped in no...

Triple play puts all playoff games on TV.
October 4, 1999... The remote control has fresh batteries, the foot rest on the recliner is oiled, the extra-large bowl is full of party mix, and the cooler's full of the favorite cold beverage. Baseball fever is in the air, and there's only one cure: Park...

Andy Reid's big picture is a horror show in the making.
October 4, 1999... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - It was my call. Cover the Phillies' final game of the millennium. Rock . . . Or cover the fourth Eagles game of the Andy Reid Era. Hard place . . . I chose hard place. For good reason, I thought. Ever since...

17 DAYS AFTER SURGERY, GINSBURG BACK AT WORK AS SUPREME COURT TERM OPENS.
October 4, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Add to News Budget for Monday, October 4, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Assistant News Editor Diane DeVore, 202-383-6157, ddevore(AT)krtinfo.com ...

As Sierra Club rates suburban sprawl, experts say it decreases pollution.
October 4, 1999... WASHINGTON _ The population hubs of the United States are oozing outward, gobbling up more and more land, but experts say that's not entirely bad, despite the warnings of environmental activists. On Monday, the Sierra Club released its...

17 DAYS AFTER SURGERY, GINSBURG BACK AT WORK AS SUPREME COURT TERM OPENS.
October 4, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Monday, October 4, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Assistant News Editor Diane DeVore, 202-383-6157, ddevore(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

Ever the vigilant voters, senior citizens hold prominent place in electorate.
October 4, 1999... WASHINGTON _ When Miriam Pelot joined the senior center in Rohnert Park, Calif., she quickly realized that many of her new friends there shared her love of politics. They are not alone. Senior citizens, those 60 and above, are far more...

Millennial religious pilgrimages could mean big business for entrepreneur.
October 4, 1999... JERUSALEM _ Andrzej Gasiorowski wants to sell you a piece of eternity for $10. That's what he says he will charge for a stake in his scheme to build an ecumenical prayer garden on the Mount of Olives, where many Christians and Jews...

Jury dismissed in mid-trial in diet-drug case.
October 4, 1999... PHILADELPHIA _ The jury was dismissed Monday in mid-trial in a key New Jersey diet-drug case against American Home Products Corp. as a settlement of nationwide litigation appeared imminent. Superior Court Judge Marina Corodemus said if no...

Nuclear accident stirs up Japan's anxiety over the power of the atom.
October 4, 1999... NAGASAKI, Japan _ The fallout from Japan's worst nuclear accident last week goes well beyond a criminal investigation and national fury over the government's clumsy response. On a deeper level, the incident stirred the nation's collective...

Potvin takes charge as Seawolves open camp, prepare for ECHL title defense.
October 4, 1999... BILOXI, Miss. _ It was a day full of firsts Monday: The Mississippi Sea Wolves' first day on the ice as Kelly Cup Champions. The first day of training camp. Coach Marc Potvin's initial practice in charge. Potvin was pleased...