Mountain West Reprimands New Mexico Coach

Associated Press
  The Mountain West issued a public reprimand to New Mexico coach Rocky Long today for criticizing a late call that cost the Lobos a touchdown in last weekend's 21-3 loss at BYU. Mountain West deputy commissioner Bret Gilliland said in a news release it's against league rules to publicly criticize game officiating. He said the league would have no further comment. Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 (updated 4:35 PM MDT) Click Now To Continue

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Has Street Hit Bottom?; Paulson May Be "Running Out of Arrows in the Quiver" By Stevenson Jacobs And Joe Bel Bruno/ Associated Press   NEW YORK — Investors agonizing over whether the stock market is bottoming out or about to extend its precipitous decline face more uncertainty this week as they await action on the government's rapidly expanding effort to pull the financial system from the brink. Paulson Warns Leaders; Official: Isolationism Will Worsen the Crisis By Harry Dunphy And Tom Raum/ Associated Press   WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders on Sunday that isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreading financial crisis. With a new trading week dawning, U.S. lawmakers urged quick action by the Bush administration on measures to make direct purchases of bank stock to help unlock lending. Memorial Links Iraq War to 9/11, Detractors Say By Olivier Uyttebrouck/ Journal Staff Writer   A plan to etch the words and images of 9/11 on a monument to New Mexico's fallen soldiers has ignited a debate about whether a publicly funded memorial links the war in Iraq to the 2001 terrorist attacks.

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Brennan Case More Proof of Crazy World
By Joline Gutierrez Krueger/ Journal Staff Writer
  These past few days we've all been socked with a big bag of crazy, and it seems sometimes we really are just "fellow prisoners," as John McCain so bizarrely termed us, helplessly watching our world dodder off its axis.

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