The day after the green paper was published, the Sun splashed criticism of the new prisons policy across its front page.

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On a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon at West Point, the Yankees revived an old tradition, traveling up the Hudson River to play Army, something they hadn't done since 1976.

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"This is pretty spectacular, " he said, craning his neck to gaze up at the rock faces after emerging from a narrow pathway into a sun-splashed plaza in front of the grand Treasury.

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But as he stood on the sun-splashed 86th floor of the Empire State Building, he was 1, 050 feet above ground level and had just led the U.S. to a snowy win over Costa Rica and a draw at Mexico that got the Americans' World Cup qualifying campaign back on track.

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