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This year's match-up was no different, as the two teams battled amidst raucous fans. However, Harvard was not able to keep up with the powerful UMass squad, as the Minutemen handed the Crimson its lone loss of the weekend...
Harvard got a slight scare when B.C. won at No. 4 singles and was threatening to do the same at No. 6. Down a set, however, junior Julia Kim elevated her game, amidst cheers of her teammates, to defeat her tiring opponent 2-6, 6-0, 6-2. This, in effect, assured victory for the Crimson, but the remaining matches were all played well into dusk...
However, those who started smoking amidst the anti-smoking campaign made that decision fully aware of many of the dangers of cigarette smoke. For the past 24 years, "Surgeon General's Warning: Smoking is hazardous to your health" has appeared on all cigarette boxes and in cigarette ads. As adults who knew the risks associated with tobacco, smoking was their prerogative. Why should states waste time and money battling tobacco companies in the courts over smokers who made a poor, but autonomous and informed, decision...
...trial, a possibility bitterly rejected by victims and their relatives. Matsch says he changed his mind because of legislation signed last week by President Clinton that would allow the trial to be broadcast via closed-circuit television to an auditorium of survivors and victim relatives in Oklahoma City. Speaking amidst a growing national debate over victims' rights, Clinton said that "when someone is a victim, he or she should be at the center of the criminal justice process, not on the outside looking in." Matsch said that his reversal is intended to avoid a lengthy debate over...
...puts it, is the window, or windows in this case. 26 bubble-shaped holes in the wall, each with a small constellation sketched onto it, invite the viewer into the small forest scenario at twilight located inside. A ceiling of oak leaves, with an enormous wasp nest nestled snugly amidst them, shelters a large tea-stained book with various letters printed upon its thick pages. To the left, a small skeleton made of grapevine branches twirls slowly in circles...